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  1. It’s not real, a while back Peterson posted a screen-shot from some weird “man miking” kink porno and alleged it was a real thing that the Chinese were doing. This is making fun of him. He did that because his brain is all moldy.
  2. Imagine suggesting this to the creator of maybe the greatest TV series of all time.
  3. I’m ready for the daily two minute hate instead of the quarterly hour long rant.
  4. I think the best part of that DM turned public post is that he uses the nicknames in private messages to cabinet officials.
  5. The defense of this behavior and interview is really odd. California is the state that sent Boxer, Fenstein, Harris, Waters, Pelosi to Congress— all of them tough, serious, smart women who faced tons of unwarranted shit for being women and/or black. It’s honestly kind of insulting to women like them to compare what they went through to deserved criticism for on-camera meltdowns and cursing at employees.
  6. She had a horrible staff turnover rate in DC. Several dragged her on Dear White Staffers and in the press in 2023 (and some defended her). She got thrown off a committee for beefing with Maxine Waters She’s on camera cursing out one of them. She’s on camera having a meltdown with a reporter. Her divorce papers are filled with mutual allegations of abuse, restraining orders, and the judge ordered anger management. Her latest live-in boyfriend relationship ended with requests for restraining orders. She could be getting rat-fucked. Or she could just be a high-conflict person.
  7. I think her comms people are sabotaging her lol.
  8. Great stuff happening here. Absolutely killing it as a serious country. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tell-us-crazy-lauren-boebert-153446084.html
  9. That was for a stadium and facility, not operations. Also, I suck at internet, this rocket money guy is joking and the gift came from a PE guy.
  10. The founder of Rocket Money comes in hot with $50 million for tree football. Needless to say, this is program-trajectory altering money. Or, you could get not quite one Jimbo. I think I’ve seen around 65 million for Tech’s entire collective and this will be only football and not softball. I also have to think that this will prompt some less splashy but still serious donations from other Stanford alums. I am a bit surprised as on other threads I’ve been skeptical that most billionaires will want to fund college NIL. In any case: the Stanford name, the presence of Andrew Luck, and a weak ACC mean that we may be seeing a juggernaut born.
  11. As I said. She was famously unliked in DC. She churned through staff and several of them went to the media. The complaint of not getting a photo op at the White House is telling. There’s been a historical issue of allowing men to be “tough bosses.” At some point , though, everyone has control over how they act on camera. Same vibes:
  12. Really like Tom Nichols and he is accurate about the arrival of a civil-military crisis (new to America) and why the admin is stoking it. The military remains the sole power source outside of personal political control.
  13. Super surprised that hiring a famous old asshole who lost his fastball and has his sugar mama handle his personal affairs didn’t work out.
  14. THIS TIME if the Republicans fuck everything up, they won’t be able to pin it on us!
  15. She got upset that the question was slightly rephrased from the list shared in advance and her lawyer brain couldn’t let it go. She had to “win” rather than deliver her points. Everyone else managed to deal with this without issue.
  16. The news station has the full segment up. It’s a bog standard political question. All the other candidates manage to get through it. The journo does phrase it slightly differently based on the flow of conversation (expected, as a media coach would tell you) although more than one of them get the same “that you need” clause which sent Porter spiraling. All she had to do was deliver her prepped answer. It’s clear that upset her, and it’s because she had the questions in advance. She at one point directs the reporter to ask them “as written.” She takes the same approach to this reporter that she does to House witnesses, trying to rake her across the coals. It’s just not going to play as well (or at all) in front of a pretty congenial interlocutor. She’s trying to “win” the exchange and that’s just bad media prep or ignoring the prep. Many such cases with smart lawyers who are used to asking the questions.
  17. These are different because they have a defined topic and are presenting well-researched information to go with the yuks. It’s not just riffing on bullshit and asking dumb questions because you don’t prepare. And I even can get a bit bored when Dan and Jordan meander too long without a great Alex sound bite. I do have a WWI history podcast and I can listen to the full story of U-boar warfare ans counter-warfare with rapt attention for hours.
  18. What if your girlfriend is Jody Foster?
  19. The reporter isn’t a troll or idiot, she’s pushing on Katie because of the possibility (not necessarily probability) that two Ds advance to the general. This has happened in statewide races in CA, and the field is crowded for governor. Katie doesn’t want to explore this possibility and then gets super snitty and evasive when pressed even though she walked into it by saying “I don’t intend to let that (two Democrats in the general) happen.” Because in her senate run she threw a tantrum about Schiff helping to elevate an R to the general over her and called the election “rigged,” and now that shes the presumptive top D vote getter in the primary she may need to do something similar to guarantee a D-R general she can win. This is all a perfectly legitimate place to probe. Katie is upset and tells you why— “I wanted to come have a pleasant conversation.” LOL. I WILL fully concede that the reporter sees the flailing and terrible optics and decides to needle and see where it goes. There’s not a journalist on the planet who won’t press when an interviewee for a big race seems to be on the verge of crashing out. It’s really their job, and it’s the candidate’s job to be media trained and poised and not crash out. Because at some point you’re gonna get asked to justify something that you’d rather not talk about. All she has to do is get out a decent answer “Well Julie, what we plan is to make our case and tell the democratic voters of California how a Katie Porter governorship will benefit them, their families, and the entire state. We plan to win on values and policy and I am the candidate who reflects the Democratic electorate. And once they hear our message I’m confident that I’ll be the decisive Democratic vote-getter and move on to put away a GOP opponent easily in a general election.” Instead she comes in hot and bothered with some word salad about being from Orange County, argues over the question wording like a too-smart lawyer, and spills blood in the water. And yes— this is a double standard because Trump can do all this stuff and is Teflon with his voters. He also has a legit talent to be the one who makes reporters feel defensive and flustered and off-center and that works for him.
  20. She was famously unpleasant even by DC standards and she was an only a two term D rep from California and so didn’t have the clout to get away with it. There are plenty of data point here and her sometimes appealingly pugnacious style for the cameras wasn’t an act; conflict follows her around professionally and interpersonally. And that shit will catch up to you in politics. You need to make some allies. Again, unless you’re so juiced that everyone will just tolerate you.
  21. Steering this back to real world impact, Russ Vought has determined that furloughed feds aren’t entitled to back pay, although Congress and nearly everyone else believed they passed a law in 2019 which says exactly that. I FULLY expect the Supreme Court to rule that the move is likely illegal, but unfortunately the people who miss paychecks don’t have standing to sue for them. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/white-house-furloughed-workers-00596231
  22. You could tease that out based on St. Paul calling all bodies temples, I’m just laying out what canon law would describe violence against clergy. Although the guy is just a Presbyterian so you can also call the photo “heresy.”
  23. Violence against clergy is sacrilege.
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