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Today Jeffrey Toobin is very happy Rudy Giuliani exists in the world.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) October 21, 2020
not sure what they were expecting here, this sounds like a perfectly accurate simulation of John Roberts’ tenure as Chief Justice. https://t.co/XzpfdJvlii
— Zoomcock Archivist (@canderaid) October 19, 2020
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I know I can’t throw the first stone on appearance, but he looks like his 14 words are the Big Mac jingle pic.twitter.com/e5KhU1a0Q1
— SellOffPuertoRicoHat (@Popehat) July 11, 2020
Some of you may have seen that Tucker Carlson’s head writer got busted last week for posting approximately the same stuff he writes for Tucker Carlson (and also the Daily Caller), but without the all-important reputation-protective asterisks.
I genuinely, unironically, do not understand why the red line is posting racist things online under a pseudonym and not turning in equally explicit racist things as work product for the country's big cable new show https://t.co/gA6XIOhs8f
— Climate Doomer (@MenshevikM) July 11, 2020
shocked to learn that an 8chan poster was at least at one point employed https://t.co/tvyEKG21S4
— The Online-Normie Complex (@canderaid) July 12, 2020
Since Faux News advertisers have been abandoning Carlson’s show in droves, the immediate outcome was predictable:
Tucker Carlson responds to his head writer being a white supremacist ghoul by threatening the people who exposed him pic.twitter.com/FBb02PmpUn
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) July 14, 2020
“Shock twist!”
Late Night Open Thread: Tucker Carlson, Fisher of TroutPost + Comments (68)
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Not you, Boris — you’re just not welcome under any circumstances:
This on a London street: Yes, it’s come to this. pic.twitter.com/s6iAu7KbYr
— Samuel R Delany (@SamuelRDelany1) July 12, 2020
Everybody needs a haircut, right now…
A toad that looks like it will sell you psychedelics rather than one that looks like you need to lick in order get psychedelics https://t.co/cGA7nNt5tQ
— The Cyberpunk Landsknecht (@cakotz) July 10, 2020
Possum loves his box like Repubs love doing crimes!
WATCH: A Virginia opossum scent-marks a cardboard box at Atlanta Zoo in Georgia pic.twitter.com/VNSnfvUoLf
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 11, 2020
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these leaks are lies designed to impress the Morning Joe green room, republicans don’t actually believe this https://t.co/lnWNQShZkh
— local jack please ban the nazis person (@pleizar) April 25, 2020
Oh, I’m pretty sure the mainstream GOP believes their reality-show clown squatting in the Oval Office could damage The Brand beyond hope of cheating their way into another asterisk’d “win”. They’re just hoping to throw him off the sledge so the wolves won’t eat the rest of them, IMO.
Dutiful beat-sweetner, from the NYTimes — “Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him”:
… The scale of the G.O.P.’s challenge has crystallized in the last week. With 26 million Americans now having filed for unemployment benefits, Mr. Trump’s standing in states that he carried in 2016 looks increasingly wobbly: New surveys show him trailing significantly in battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, and he is even narrowly behind in must-win Florida…
Perhaps most significantly, Mr. Trump’s single best advantage as an incumbent — his access to the bully pulpit — has effectively become a platform for self-sabotage.
His daily news briefings on the coronavirus outbreak are inflicting grave damage on his political standing, Republicans believe, and his recent remarks about combating the virus with sunlight and disinfectant were a breaking point for a number of senior party officials….
Glen Bolger, a longtime Republican pollster, said the landscape for his party had become far grimmer compared with the pre-virus plan to run almost singularly around the country’s prosperity.
“With the economy in free-fall, Republicans face a very challenging environment and it’s a total shift from where we were a few months ago,” Mr. Bolger said. “Democrats are angry, and now we have the foundation of the campaign yanked out from underneath us.”…
If jingoism and xenophobia can’t help us, how can we be expected to ‘win’?
This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, All Too Normal
Reporter: Could you clarify your comments on injections of disinfectants?
Trump: I was asking the question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen…
Reporter: But you were asking your medical experts to look into it pic.twitter.com/T0hzizjgpN— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 24, 2020
The Oval Office Occupant’s meds have been re-adjusted again. Or else his handlers have figured out that he starts sundowning by 5pm, these days.
He was not being sarcastic, last night:
Donald Trump used Thursday’s daily coronavirus briefing to suggest disinfectants and UV light could treat #COVID19 – doctors and experts disagree. pic.twitter.com/w2L9K7d27n
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 24, 2020
And thanks to the miracle of widely-distributed social media, there is no efficient way to memory-hole it, either. Sorry, Mr. Orwell!
Early clinical trials underway. pic.twitter.com/qTfNhi8RPY
— Cathedral Engineer ?? ? (@owenrumney) April 24, 2020
It’s something I routinely give out during pediatric visits, but it seems the entire country needs it now.
The phone number to Poison Control is 1-800-222-1222.
— Mona Hanna-Attisha (@MonaHannaA) April 24, 2020
The good news: Your medical insurance likely does not require a "pre-authorization" to purchase Lysol or Clorox.
The bad news: Your life insurance would consider it suicide, hence, under most policies, not an insured death.
— David Reiss, M.D. (@DMRDynamics) April 24, 2020
Reckitt Benckiser, manufacturer of Lysol, to @NBCNews:
"As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)."
— 😷 David Gura 🏡 (@davidgura) April 24, 2020
(You’d hope these were all from reporters, dutifully following up, but... )
ALERT🚨: We have received several calls regarding questions about disinfectant use and #COVID19.
This is a reminder that under no circumstances should any disinfectant product be administered into the body through injection, ingestion or any other route.
— Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MDMEMA) (@MDMEMA) April 24, 2020
Aaaaaand there goes Tennessee. https://t.co/a0JbqAeofj
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) April 24, 2020
This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, All Too Normal
Like most NASCAR viewers, I'll just be watching in hopes of seeing a crash. https://t.co/OSjeInXiao
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) February 16, 2020
I like that the car is comically distorted as if Trump was a character in a Tim Burton movie. https://t.co/JYpn20U2nG
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 16, 2020
Highly efficient president fits his workout into his campaign rally. https://t.co/RjtxuiO0hK
— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@UROCKlive1) February 16, 2020
You get a Big Mac and you get a Big Mac and YOU get a Big Mac… https://t.co/ohon2iz8bs
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 16, 2020
He needs it written down whenever he’s not talking about himself and his list of grievances. https://t.co/95bKFa8Zkg
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 16, 2020
This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Popular Culture, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Assholes, Riveted By The Sociological Significance Of It All
I keep looking at this piece of shit thinking only part of the photo is downloaded https://t.co/g4ugbKrQLM
— kilgore trout was in the loop (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 22, 2019
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Tesla Truck, for when you gotta move these refrigerators. You gotta move these color TVs. pic.twitter.com/5lI7wJO9dl
— Gator MaClunkey (@Zeddary) November 22, 2019
RIP my menchies, as the kids say, but this was too good *not* to share. Bryan Feldman, at NYMag, “We May Not Want the Cybertruck, But We Deserve It”:
… The Cybertruck is a truck that Elon Musk unveiled last night. It is a Humvee-ish vehicle that looks like it was made for a direct-to-video Starship Troopers ripoff called Spaceship Soldiers. It looks like a secret car you unlock if you get a high score on every Cruisin’ USA track. It looks like one of those first-pass shots on a visual-effects highlights reel from 1992. It looks like it has a physics system completely separate from every other object on this earth and if you hit a curb at the wrong angle, the truck will glitch out and clip through an entire city block, causing untold devastation. It is the Cybertruck.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking “Ah, a Cybertruck. A truck that is computer-y.” Wrong! Cybertruck should be said in the exact same way that one might pronounce the word “cyberpunk,” a sci-fi genre all about how technology will completely ruin us once we start jamming chips into our brains. Just look at the Cybertruck logo. It’s not some coder font — it’s graffiti. It’s the Official Truck of App-Catalyzed Urban Decay. This a Blade Runner-ass truck for the end times. It is not a utopian, idealistic creation — and in that sense, it is refreshing. Elon Musk is not selling us the world we want; he is selling the world we have (starting at MSRP $39,900). The Cybertruck is, in a sense, practical. Everything about this truck screams, “This is the car you will drive through overgrown suburbs full of decaying houses, searching for potable water. This is the car the next three generations of your family will be born in the trunk of. When the feral wolves attack, this truck will protect you.”
But the truck will not protect you. In its unveiling last night, Musk tried to show off the vehicle’s “bulletproof” windows. He asked an employee to throw a rock at the window. The window fractured. They tried it again on a second window. That window also fractured. It was a pure, perfect distillation of what Elon Musk’s whole, like, deal is. He has spent years pouring his billions into projects that make science fiction into science fact, in order to sell people and governments expensive stuff that maybe half-functions. A demonstration of the dent-proof doors went off more successfully.
Many of Musk’s products are self-indulgent, but this might be the most self-indulgent. Like, you know how there are people who design their living rooms to look like the bridge of the Enterprise, or have rooms dedicated to baseball paraphernalia? The Cybertruck can then be read as Musk’s attempt to shape not just his own life, but the lives of others, to mimic the media of his youth. The whole thing resembles a low-poly model — a 3-D asset made of a limited number of polygons based on the limited computing power of older devices. Musk doesn’t just want a Cybertruck for himself, he wants to see thousands of Cybertrucks roaming the streets, sticking out like sore thumbs, parts of the world that quite literally haven’t fully rendered to the level of everything else around them. The notion might not be as far-fetched as it seems. Silicon Valley is full of newly minted millionaires with more money than they know what to do with. The Cybertruck looks very stupid, but so do AirPods…
They're taking reservation money for it, so it's both, apparently.
— Artisan Loaf (@ArtisanLoaf) November 22, 2019
The Cybertruck is literally just the parody in-game billboard for the civilian Warthog from Halo 2.
An H3 Hummer for VCs who spent their adolescence shouting racial slurs on Blood Gulch. pic.twitter.com/7k13jkeVmh
— Gator MaClunkey (@Zeddary) November 22, 2019
Saturday Night PopCult Nostalgia Open Thread: CYBERTRUCK!Post + Comments (113)