Work has the better of me so I’m going to keep the analytics you don’t read anyway short and get to the video of strong men picking things up, setting them down in slightly different places, hugging, and ripping each others’ shirts off. Bonus points for those who find burly fellows attractive, one of the men is Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, aka The Mountain, who is not only strong, but adorable. The other is British strongman Eddie Hall who is large in a way I find somewhat unappealing, but the man is impressive both in picking things up and putting them down again in slightly different places, but also swimming.
Warty sent me a link to a paywalled video of this event which is much better, but–you know–paywalled, so you’ll have to make do with the potato-quality one here. I highly recommend watching to the end:
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225 responses to “Manly Monday”
It takes a real man to pick up four chicks at once.
See, this is what quality commenting looks like folks. He’s actively proving he clicked the links.
The mountain getting man handled.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IkkL-bAH8H4
More like HAND MANDLED! AM I RIGHT!
He’s even adorable when he’s being trounced by someone just over half his size.
I think I am seeing the plot of Jessies next fap session coming together…
That’s the different between “strong AF” and “Swoll”.
I was just assuming they were training strength for different tasks, Bjornsson has repeatedly proved he’s a champ at picking things up and putting them down.
Was it just me or was the small guy in the first round using his weight to win the competition in my day that would have been cheating.
I don’t really follow arm wrestling, but I have seen “Over the Top” a dozen times, so I’m going to call it fair.
Well I don’t follow it either or know the official rules. But according to the ‘street rules’ growing up that would have been called cheating.
Ya, I thought you had to keep your body over the table.
But did you turn your cap backwards before arm wrestling in the streets?
I rarely wore a cap. They mess up my hair. Can’t be having hat head when arm wrestling. duuh.
Duh!?! When I do that, I’m like a machine.
The short dude pulled a Sonny Liston, fake sport, Sad!
But did you see his legs? They’re yuuuugge!
You’re right the Trumpisming is hackneyed but ,seriously, the little guy totally bottled it.
The Warty-lympics?
I’m starting to understand homosexuality.
‘Cause it’s like being Canadian, except not as lame?
Ha-ha! I very much enjoyed that.
The unnecessary hostility made me laugh.
FWIW, these guys don’t do anything for me.
How about with a handlebar mustache and a few other modifications?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5b/a6/33/5ba633dbce5db6b81e1845ce00badee3.jpg
Getting colder…
says you. That’s one stash I would definitely put my dick under.
No man is THAT gay.
-Ray Gillette
FWIW, these guys don’t do anything for me.
This is my shocked face.
Yes there is a certain freedom associated with never having to actually interact with a female biped mammal…. Female reptiles can be just as troublesome. although if you can survive the initial onslaught of an argument they tend to wear out faster, and promptly get over shit.
RGTOW?
Like I said, our females get over shit faster than your pedantic ovarians. So aside from the ocassional clawing damage and bite wounds, my mate interactions are much easier to deal with than mammals.
I have met some female snakes that very much did not get over shit until the other party was dead or physically separated from her reach. So I’m calling shens, Lizbro. Not to mention the various species of snakes that frequently eat their male hosts instead of fucking them.
“Instead of”? That seems a terrible waste.
It happens. Imagine if instead of simply getting turned down for a second date you were killed and eaten for your unsuitability as a mate. Sort of puts ‘first world problems’ into focus doesn’t it?
I still think Eurasure sucks
Forklifts were invented for a reason, weirdos.
Yeah. They were invented for beta-cucks. Obviously.
Oh man, I literally snorted beer out of my nose on that one and it hurts.
As someone explained to me and I have personally verified: There is no woman alive on earth that does not enjoy being picked up, thrust against a wall, and raw dogged by a ripped dude*.
*The dude might be a bull dyke, but the argument stands.
Unfortunately said ripped dudes are attracted to weird centaur shit.
Would you rather satyr chicks?
At least they’re bipedal.
Reasons why humanity is fucked number 458971: Inventing better ways of doing things gets you less laid than the brute force method, no matter how intelligent or efficient it is.
Guess what? The guy that invents the better way ends up with a larger wallet than the guy with the larger biceps.
Guess which one gets more and better pussy.
‘Better pussy’ is questionable, as Gates’ wife illustrates.
I dunno… how fat of a wallet are we talking about?
Fat enough to hire a dumb but well endowed and well built pool boy, I’m sure.
*counts bills*
I don’t know. If the goal is to lift those heavy round things quickly, I am thinking the fork lift is going to lose.
Agreed. Nothing short of a precision shaped charge or some very expensive custom robotics is going to beat those times.
It goes with out saying that if the choices are: lift it yourself, build a robot, or use explosives, the answer is always going to be use explosives.
The price of the explosive charge is directly proportional to the required precision of said charge and inversely proportional to the acceptable level of collateral damage.
Is this your favorite film?
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0111255/
+ 1 Get behind that, watch this shit, here hold my beer.
I am thinking the fork lift is going to lose.
We’re getting very close to a dead baby joke if we change that to pitchfork
So I just got an email about a massage therapist that will be on site at our work this Thursday. Would it be in bad taste to reply all and inquire about the happy endings?
Be careful what you wish for.
Ah, the 90s… when making a negative joke about homosexual arousal didn’t get you burned at the stake. The good old days.
We’ll ask him after if it moved.
I can’t see any way that would blow up in your face.
Phrasing?
Are you the sysadmin who can do that anonymously?
Reply all is one of the most dangerous things known to humankind at this point.
Doesn’t BP know it.
I do!
Oh, wait.
Lol. I worked for a company once, I just happened to be in the email admin’s office when this guy comes bursting through the door, red faced and panting. He was a big guy and when I say big, I mean obese. He had apparently ran all the way from his office up there, which was one hell of a long ways, it was a huge facility. So he’s panting and can’t say anything for a few moments, and me and the email guy are just looking at each other. So finally he says ‘is there anyway you can stop an email I just sent?’. The email guy looks at me, then looks at him, and says ‘nope’, it would already be gone. I thought the guy was going to start crying. He apparently replied to someone saying a lot of nasty things about the VP of the company. Problem was he replied all and the VP was on the CC.
Definitely fire that email off. But you have to word it classy and in a way to show you are a team player. I would suggest, “RE the massage therapist cumming to the office next Thurs. How much is the going rate for a happy ending with this masseuse? I only ask this to inform the office how much cash they should have on hand. I would also recommend that anyone taking advantage of the happy endings bring their own clean up towel to not inconvenience other office personnel.”
*cuts and pastes western’s post for future use*
Thank you for giving me a reasonably legitimate excuse to dredge up one of the funniest things ever posted to the computerwebz.
http://streetcarnage.com/blog/serious-poppers/
(TW: casual racism)
Over at TSTSNBN, they find some weird stuff. But now they’ve found a ‘libertarian feminist’ and I don’t know how you can find anything more weird than that.
My bullshit meter just blew up. When is she hosting the cocktail party?
Those guys have really grown the libertarian population, by making almost everyone right of Castro one.
Wasn’t ENB a feminist libertarian?
I am not sure how you could be allowed into the “feminist” parties if you think it is ok for a woman to “sell” her services so to speak.
Depends on the ‘feminist’ party. The descendants of Dwokin uphold that it is the foul, dirty, and evil thing while the more open feminists view it as a ‘meh’. Amusingly the feminists have their own ‘yokel vs. cosmo’ divide.
Do the yokel feminists wear daisy dukes while berating men for being a shitlords?
I just have this feeling that you DO NOT want to see any modern day feminists in that.
77 Plus Size Babes Share Their Most Unapologetic Outfits Of 2015 — PHOTOS
I am not clicking on that.
If you scroll down, there are a few that are not bad. The rest are globs. I sometimes do thankless jobs.
The world needs mopeds.
I like a lot of ENB’s articles. Not sure about the feminist libertarian label, but I guess the cosmos might think that’s an actual thing.
And Robby’s “not so sure” about her bona fides
he literally writes about the godawful side effects of the OCR’s every single day for 3+ years, and he still can’t seem to muster an unqualified opinion about anyfucking thing to do with it.
‘2nd wave’ feminist & libertarian? Okay, not incompatible.
‘3rd wave’? Contradiction.
I’ve noticed a lot of so called feminist women, I guess maybe the first wave type, writing articles distancing themselves from the current feminists. There was one today, I can’t remember the source, but she was basically calling them nothing more than a pro-abortion movement.
But I must disagree, today’s feminists are perpetually aggrieved malcontents who apparently hate everyone because they themselves are hopelessly miserable. And they’re leftists because they want to use the power of the state to beat you down because that’s somehow going to make their miserable existence better.
Wait, I thought second wave was the hard marxist interpretation of feminism and third wave was a diffuse set of reactions to second wave ranging all over the map. Isn’t Camille Paglia third wave? Or am I really mixing things up?
The first wave was some Victorian ladies, ranging from prim and proper prohibitionists to commie carnies – they shared a commitment to women voting. Or even wearing clothes that didn’t burn them to death in a fire.
It wasn’t that they weren’t weird, it’s that they had actual injustices to confront.
The subsequent waves have kept the weirdness, but they ran out of good causes and took up bad causes instead.
I can’t keep it straight, I just know they think the government should do something to fix what ever their grievance is and the answer is always government.
sometimes the answer is MC Hammer pants.
That is where he got that idea? The stuff I learn here.
I thought it was this:
1st wave – women should vote and alcohol is bad
2nd wave – women should be allowed to work and have promiscuous sex
3rd wave – women are men with boobs, and abortion isn’t evil
4th wave – men are degenerate women, and abortion is more sacred than any other right.
My interpretation:
1st wave: womminz should vote, be able to have jobs.
2nd wave: womminz should have the same rights as menz.
3rd wave: SOCIAL JUSTICE DEMANDS EMASCULATION! TRANS PEOPLE SHOULD BE ELEVATED! ISLAM IS BETTER THAN ANY OTHER RELIGION DESPITE HOW IT TREATS WIMMENZ!
Weren’t the 2nd wave mostly all anti- porn while the third wave are OK with ugly, fat, tatted-up, tackle-boxed, baldheaded bitches scissoring each other porn?
She’s just a placeholder for OCR head at Education until they find someone else.
Here’s her book.
My guess: If she’s for the Paula Jones lawsuit she’s at least open to a broad construction of the sex-discrimination laws.
They said they found a libertarian presidential candidate who held a lot of unlibertarian policy positions so…
re: the Troll men
I think = its cool that people can lift very very heavy things.
I also think = hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
I associate that more with chagas than athleticism. I wasn’t aware of any connection. I just assumed many non-athletes have the condition undiagnosed and dont die because of overexerting.
Was it you who mentioned the “97%” number being arbitrary but intended to look like actual data crunching? Anyways:
Eight Ways You Can Support Sexual Assault Victims On A Daily Basis
According to most universities these days, I thought that everyone is raped all of the time, so shouldn’t that number be higher?
C’mon, guys. In the very next paragraph?
Is this called the Rolling Stone hypothesis? Or maybe the Grab it by the Fucking Leg hypothesis?
It is SOP for them. It is what they are doing right now with the ‘Putin raped Hillary’ canard. Not one shred of evidence, not even a specific or verifiable accusation, just TRUMPUTIN!!! and you aren’t allowed to questions it. Never mind that there are no facts, never mind that their narrative doesnt add up. Hear them out and believe.
Kelly Tunney is honest and generous enough to spell it out for us. Facts dont matter, Narrative does.
I did not see “Eat the tasty sandwiches they should be preparing for you”
Sammiches… mmm…
Titties… mmm…
Guess what’s on tonight.
Soz for the suspect upload site, I don’t feel like making an imgur account.
Looks yummy!
What do you call it? /obligatory
that actually looks great. put a beer in the picture now. I am getting psychic-nom-vibes from it.
Damn, that does look good.
Amazing. That pizza fits exactly in that pan.
I didn’t see any pizza. /obligatory
Is there a crust under that, or is it a cheese and pepperoni soufflett or quiche sort of a thing?
Funny you ask, this started out as a quiche until I decided if I’m baking mozzarella and sausage into something I may as well make it a cheat day. So there’s a crust under that, uh, tomato casserole.
It’s like a pizza casserole. I’d try it.
I think we’re gonna need a catbutt here. this spittoon fellow is trolling.
Kidding, looks tasty. What did you use for crust?
Pillsbury dough. I don’t touch baking. One of these days I’ll learn.
Ah, if you had a sourdough starter lying around I’d recommend the King Arthur Flour pizza crust. There’s a commercial yeast only one someplace too, but this one wows people.
That better be a stack of 4 real pizzas.
I LOL’d
Draws faces on the boxes. “Look. Thor’s a teabagger.”
I really miss that term. Back then, the left were still sort of amusing. Deplorables is just so meh.
I support this.
Teabag is the movement!
I don’t know, Twitler ain’t bad.
My contribution
https://68.media.tumblr.com/1d58bbad67505b83d2ebfd3c231f5506/tumblr_o5ynousqCT1qzsq0xo2_500.gif
Retro cheesecake. I like it.
Dang, I thought those were guys! I don’t remember girls being that hairy and ugly back then. Maybe I was just really horny and not so picky like most teenage boys.
I just think of them as cheesy beefcake. Wasn’t aware that’s a girls-only club.
Cheesecake and Beefcake are specific terms, dammit! (If you click, scroll down).
When I think I’m hot shit at the gym, I watch this guy – squating 705 for reps.
Holy shit, that guy seriously does not look like he could squat 705 lbs.
He must be on that angel dust. /cops
He competes in a league that test for roids – so he doesn’t look like a roid monster. The next video he does a 925 single. I’m still trying to get the third plate on mine without blowing up my knees.
That’s fucking unreal. I have never seen anyone squat that much. I used to be into weights a lot, in my 30s. I wasn’t into heavy lifting at all though, I was into high reps and getting ripped. I weighed about 175 and at my peak, I could bench 125 lbs more than 30 times. And I’m sure I was benching 225 several reps. I have no idea how good that is. But I remember one of the guys I worked out with, a big guy, like 260 and not fat at all was making fun of me over the 30 reps of 125 and then he couldn’t do it, lol. I think he got to like 18-19 reps and he was shaking like a leaf and we had to spot him. And I know he could bench 300 or more for one rep. Not sure how much difference training for high reps or heavy makes.
Wait, you mean white suburban nerd boys don’t fantasize about being black or girl superheros?
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/03/who-could-have-guessed-that-diverse-characters-would-tank-marvels-sales/
Maybe they need to branch out and give the fans a choice? Like a lot of games give you these days, so you can choose your own character? Forcing ‘diversity’ on people in general is not going to work, but do not try to tell that to the left.
Comics are all about the reader identifying with the superhero. You want to give other demographics an opportunity to do so and expand your fan base? Great, smart move . You want to basically dump almost your entire existing fan base? You deserve to go out of business.
So videogames?
There’s this new thing they call ‘visual novels’. It’s basically the game plays you. So it would sort of be like that, but letting you create your own character like with RPGs. Not sure it would be viable to just print a bunch of different versions of the same comic, but digitally it might make sense.
It’s an interesting concept, but think about how important the tie-ins are for comics. Will there be infinite representations in movies and merch? Marvel needs canonical characters for their cross promotions to work. The other problem would be origin story. How fleshed out can a character be if his origin story has to be as wonderbread as possible to work with every possible interpretation of him? Kid’s stories often work around this by having “parents died young, raised by whatever in a modest environment” to allow readers to connect but how do you do that with every hero? Someone needs to be from the hood or an unrelentingly emotionally constipated WASP family.
Well, that’s a good point. And admittedly, I’ve never been into comics. So I have not much of a sense of reference here. Maybe I’m trying to fit my gaming experience into a mold where it doesn’t work.
Games can solve it by giving you a couple of quick origin story options and then tossing your into the main game.
I don’t doubt that more flexible/tailored story telling will be big, but I just don’t know how you do it for a comic universe.
Interesting enough, my son is a comics fan and I’ve never discussed this with him. He’s also a gamer, but where I’m mostly an action RPG fan, he likes adventure games and also the visual novels. I’ll have to bring this up the next time we talk.
I think the better question is why you would do it for a comics universe. Somehow, I managed to become a big Batman fan despite not being a white billionaire whose parents were murdered in front of me by Joe Chill.
You’re special, HM. When I was a kid I was also able to become a huge fan of Kato, sidekick of the Green Hornet, despite not being Asian. I’m sure there must have been some mysterious racist force working in the background, I just don’t know what it was because I’m not aware of my privilege, or something.
No, it was just the power of Bruce Muthafuckin’ Lee.
Well, yeah, there’s that.
Yeah, this is less about diversity qua diversity and more about the ham-fisted way they insist on shoehorning it in. Hey, guess what, people in the main don’t enjoy being lectured to, unless they’re social justice twerps, and those twerps aren’t buying comics.
The left are all fucked up in the head. While they talk about ‘resisting’ and don’t even know what it is they’re resisting, they at the same time have this crazy belief that they can force their own ideals on everyone else and somehow magically no one is supposed to ‘resist’ that.
Yes, it’s not enough to be ‘diverse’ anymore – the ‘old guard’ must be put in its place.
Are You Weird if You Play as the Opposite Sex?
No. But most of the time, I don’t do it because it kills immersion for me. I don’t really like games that insist on ‘female protagonist’ and at the same time understand why women are disappointed when a game won’t let them create a female character. Fortunately for them, MEA will for the first time, not force them to be Cap’n Sheepherder.
Look, if I need to stare at a butt for forty plus hours, it may as well be a nice butt.
I bet Peter McCuckerman eats that shit up.
I’m still holding out for Bruce Wayne having a post mid-life crisis and becoming BatTrans
So, I’m not trying to make anything of this, a contest or anything like that. I still visit TSTSNBN every day. They have a lot of great articles between the TDS and I look back on my years there fondly. But their comments have really went to hell. There are 42 comments on the morning links compared to more than 350 here. Only 65 comments on afternoon links. Really, it is sort of sad. It makes me wonder still if it’s intentional on their part.
I’m there every day because this site is blocked at work. Although I am much busier at work lately. But during my few quiet periods I’m like “make with the comments already”.
“I’m there every day because this site is blocked at work”
Ok, don’t blame that solely on HM, it’s only 97% his fault.
I just gave up. I don’t have the patience to post something 5 or 6 times to get it to work.
I had given up last week but I didn’t have any problems posting today.
I must work harder.
Keep up the Lord’s work, Dr. Thiccness.
They have a lot of great articles between the TDS and I look back on my years there fondly.
I’m sure they do. Unfortunately for them, their inconsistent and declining quality made reading their site something like walking through a minefield.
Last time I was there the squirrelz either ate my comments or doubled them up.
It isnt ‘sort of’ and yes, it is.
There is more than a little contempt over there for commenters who were loyal for over a decade. Make no mistake about it, they see themselves as part of the anointed and we are the deplorables.
I occasionally glance at their headlines. This morning I did and realized how much I enjoy not reading Chapman.
Honestly I think we were upstaging them, or some of us were. It is no accident that the commenters brought a lot of attention to themselves with comments about woodchippers…something some conservative TV bobbleheads are repeating these days…no accident that some of the comments showed up in Trump speeches (coincidence?) etc.
The commenters were becoming the face of TSTSNBN in a lot of ways. I asked around for several years trying to get people to the site and what I got was “I hate those people” or “I love those people! I read it all the time.” and they were talking about the commenters. They mostly didn’t read the articles. If I mentioned Welch or Gillespie I got “Who?”
I don’t think there’s any question that it was the greatest commentariat in the history of the intertoobz. And I know that Reason knew this. Of course I’m biased. I’m also 100% sure that they’ve stolen stuff invented by the commentariat, such as the term ‘Trumpocalypse’ and used it for their own. And that’s ok, just sayin. They must have some huge ‘lefttarian’ donors or something.
So, was pondering the contest as to who can pick up more cat dressed Furies, and I have questions:
How do you know it’s even a chick? How do you know shes not hideous? And, if the answer is “it doesn’t matter because we keep our costumes on”, then what’s the difference between that and just humping stuffed animals?
And what is wrong with humping stuffed animals?
Yes, curious reptiles would like to know more…
Study this carefully and report back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9zAMyjp7Gw
This is actually a rather prolific genre on youtube.
Until I searched just now I had no idea. Hilarious.
Yeah, I will study that alright
Because being a plushie is fucking disgusting perversion.
Methinks someone is bi-cat-fur curious.
*steely narrow Reptillian gaze*
Don’t look at me, I’m not the one who spent all day pondering this.
Dennis: Now, hold on a second there, Frank. Before you go sticking anything through that hole, you might want to consider that on the other side of this wall, more often than not, there’s a dude.
Frank: But you can’t see through the wall, so how do you know it’s not a girl? I mean, I could just picture a girl, and then, it’s good.
Dennis: Right, well, some might find that method effective, but it’s a dangerous game you’re playing, Frank.
Frank: Supposing the other guy is picturing a girl, also.
Dee: How’s he going to do that with a dick in his mouth?
Frank: I don’t know. That’s his problem.
LOL what is that from?
You otter know by now I’m usually quoting It’s Always Sunny.
Ah – still haven’t got around to checking that out
It’s not funny. The commercials always pull me in but then I watch it and I’m like why?
I haven’t laughed that much in a long time.
Which is wrong, because that wasn’t funny at all.
The entire glory hole thing to me has always seemed stupid. How crazy do you have to be to just go stick your dick through a hole where you have no idea what’s on the other side? Some maniac with a butcher knife? Fuck that shit.
Honestly, I’m willing to chalk it up to urban legend as much as anything.
Glory holes?
Is it not?
I’m in Hyperion’s shoes. Except what bugs me even more than the possibility of a cleaver-wielding psycho is the burs in the stall partition. Those things are aluminum, I imagine. You don’t just drill bit hole saw through that sort of thing without getting rough edges.
Not a myth. The edges are usually packed by something. Paper or tape depending on how likely maintenance crew is to care about repairing them. Not really my bag, but I’ve seen them in the wild a few times.
It speaks to a certain amount of faith in humanity which, let’s face it, is sorely lacking in today’s society.
Denver, if you want to fuck people in dog costumes, just tell us and we’ll give you the full rundown.
Someone want to wake me up when there is 8 minutes left in this game.
Baseball?
Yo, dude. Wake up.
Saw it thanks:)
FUCKIN G SHIT RIGHT HERE
NIGGAS BEST CHECK THIS SHIT
HONEY COCAINE GO TOO HARD IN THIS ONE
Crack open a Heinichen.
Thank you.
I was not aware of Heinichen before. I will investigate his work more. I tend to like Classical and Romantic-era composers more, but it’s nice to find new Baroque music to listen to.
Wow, someone liked one of my links, I’m honored.
Wow, that was truely terrible.
“It is ironical that effective birth control methods were developed primarily by secularists, and that these methods are serving to slowly diminish the proportional representation of secularists in forthcoming generations”
When I get a chance, I’ll get the full article through my institution’s library, but two things immediately caught my eye. First, that Helmuth Nyborg was the 4th author of the paper. Yes, that Helmuth Nyborg. Second, I always hate studies that overgeneralize from limited samples with self-reported data. “Based on large samples of college students in Malaysia and the USA, religiosity, religious affiliation, and parental fertility were measured using self-reports.” So while n might have got them the statistical power they wanted, from the abstract it seems that they are making wide claims based on samples of only two societies (albeit two religiously diverse societies). It is an especially odd argument, considering that the PI is based in Malaysia and only needed to look north past ol’ Siam to observe the phenomenon of the endlessly copulating atheist Red Chinese. Though, that might be dealt with in the authors’ discussion.
Wow, you’d think the Lifestyle section of the Independent would have done a more thorough vetting of these studies.
God is dying faster than Atheism
He’ll be back.
It’ll be HUUUGE!
Certainly this year. Western and Orthodox Easters are on the same date.
High schooler writes ‘#BlackLivesMatter’ 100 times on Stanford application, gets accepted
That’s funny, writing “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” several thousand times on *my* application didn’t work at all.
Kid’s possible college list:
StanfordJFC.
The Enlightenment is obviously over.
“In particular, this undermining of the concept of facts and the demonization of foreign enemies [by the Trump administration] really resonate in ‘1984’”
Demonization of foreign enemies? Are these guys serious?
Talk about cognitive dissonance
Is there no end to Emma Watson’s crimes against feminism?
Trigger warning: No exposed breasts.
I’m pretty sure Mark Few didn’t call a weak floater from the top of the lane against a double team as his tying-it-up play.
Of all the times for Gonzaga to completely come apart that was not it.
They shot horribly the entire second half. They weren’t setting their feet on shots and were rushing everything. Officiating was terrible. Neither team could get in rhythm. It’s not about you refs.
Spice Girls – Where Are They Now?
(autoplay ad)
The Josh Barro/ George Selgin story at the Liborangetarian place is exactly why journalists are total shit.
This Barro asshole has no idea of how banking worked in the past, no idea of the amount of scholarship that’s been done, and no idea how totally outclassed he will be in this debate yet he has the confidence of the completely incompetent.
I had a friend that is now a journalist and he acted exactly this way growing up. If he hadn’t heard of something it never happened. No amount of proof could persuade him otherwise. This Barro guy looks to be the same way.
I know George is going to slice and dice this guy but it will have no effect. Barro, being a mainstream shit-licker, will go on as if it never happened and will never mention it again. Never tell his readers about this wide expanse of knowledge that exists on the subject and will keep peddling his bullshit version of what banking is and needs to be.
Liborangetarian place?
Eli Lake, the Bloomberg View columnist who wrote the report, noted in his piece that “some intelligence value” is required for senior officials to request that U.S. persons’ names be unmasked, and that as a result, Rice’s alleged requests were “likely within the law.”
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A similar chorus erupted when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) first went public last month with claims that Trump staffers’ names were unmasked in intercepts unrelated to the FBI’s Russia probe. Conservative pundits and politicians seized on the purported unmasking as proof of Trump’s oft-repeated and baseless claim that he was surveilled by the Obama administration.
So…Susan Rice absolutely did not surveil Trump, and she had every right to do so.
I heard one on the TV tonight claiming that with all of the evidence coming forward now about TrumPutin *interrupted*
“Can you tell us what this evidence is? Show us just one piece of evidence”
So the guy goes off on a tangent about top super secret oaths national security sworn to *interrupted*
“So you they have evidence but we cant see any of it. We just have to take their word for it. People who want Trump gone, we have to take their word.”
Well you see even some republicans think if there is something here we need to get to the bottom of it and we are talking top democrats people who are beyond reproach *interrupted*
“Beyond reproach? Like Chuck Shumer? Nancy Pelosi?”
Progbot then starts ‘well you have to agree the ruskies tried to hack the DNC computers we know that fact you cant deny it *interupted*
“Actually, we dont really know any of that. We haven’t seen evidence for that either.”
This is where I started looking around for my pistol to shoot the tv. My wife recognized the look and changed the channel.
It’s like they’re trying to gaslight themselves.
And it’s working.
I’m A Tar Heel Born
I’m a Tar Heel Bred
And When I Die I’ll Be A Tar Heel Dead.
Go Heels! 2017 National Champs!
I have no feelings about UNC one way or the other, but I HATE Roy Williams. Hate hate hate that man.
I <3 Jesse