Monday, July 16, 2018
Sunday, July 15, 2018
A Rudimentary Knowledge of Mortars
The Kinder Guardians program is a fake program Borat invented to weed out politicians who will say anything for money #whoisamerica look at what these idiots read voluntarily off of a TelePrompTer when asked by who they thought was an Israeli tv host pic.twitter.com/369qwCfXWJ
— VeritasChicana (@VeritasChicana) July 15, 2018
Daddy
I am sure all of our intimate correspondences would be embarrassing, but what is with "Daddy"?
(this is worse than that, of course, but...mens are weird)
(this is worse than that, of course, but...mens are weird)
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Friday, July 13, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh Did Not Steal My Bicycle
We've had the predictable hot takes about how Kavanaugh is such a nice, normal guy and good Dad and all that crap. The obvious point is: so what? But the second point is... why should this be surprising? Oh, wow, he's a good Dad and hasn't, as far as we know, killed anybody, and also he drinks beer and likes baseball. Isn't that basically...most dudes? Aside from the irrelevance, why is this type of stuff presented as "wow what a good guy" instead of "well he meets the lower bar for being an ok human being, at least in his personal life."
Indictments
According to my deep sources on twitter, new Mueller indictments:
12 Russian intelligence officers for DNC hacking.
12 Russian intelligence officers for DNC hacking.
Trump Jokes
Maybe I am just old and humorless but I tend to cringe at most of the humor directed at Trump. I don't mean all of it - a clever joke is a clever joke - but just the general not especially witty juvenile humor. I was fine with similar when directed at Bush.
Wow Who Could Have Predicted
Decades of blaming everything on public school teachers while tons of money gets poured elsewhere in the education system and...
Or you could just pay them more. But, nah, grants for programs for training for..
Pennsylvania used to license more than 14,000 new teachers annually. Now, it issues certificates to fewer than 5,000. The state is aiming to do something about that.
Gov. Wolf announced grants Thursday to eight universities around the commonwealth — including Drexel, Cabrini, Lehigh, and the University of Pennsylvania — to develop and implement residency programs for educators.
Or you could just pay them more. But, nah, grants for programs for training for..
Thursday, July 12, 2018
All Hail The Mighty Whistlepig
America's greatest species.
House Speaker Paul Ryan explained Thursday that a family of woodchucks moved into his Chevy Suburban recently, eating the wiring, and rendering the car useless.
"My car was eaten by animals," Ryan said, to laughs from an audience at an event hosted by the Economic Club of Washington D.C. "It's just dead."
The finest specimen you will find
Of Rodentia: Sciuridae
Our own uncanny whistle-pig
The ground-est hog that ever lived
The Classiest Guy In The World
He's on an official state visit to her country and had dinner with her this evening.
lol
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 12, 2018
lol
Sounds Exciting
Maybe I've been wrong about all of this.
Very cool!
Oh so more of a bus. Well, ok.
And not for another year or more...
Daimler's Mercedes-Benz, Bosch to launch self-driving car service in Silicon Valley
Very cool!
Daimler and Bosch will begin their service as a pilot project offering rides for free on "selected routes" to a limited number of customers, said Uwe Keller, head of autonomous driving for Daimler.
Oh so more of a bus. Well, ok.
Daimler and auto components maker Bosch will start a self-driving vehicle shuttle service in one of the cities south of San Francisco that comprises the heart of the nation's tech industry beginning in the second half of 2019.
And not for another year or more...
Validation
The Right is good at making any issue into the issue of the day. There isn't one single reason for that, though the why/how isn't the point of this post. The point is that they make an issue a thing, and then there's a tendency by too many Democrats (electeds and pundits) to agree that the issue is actually an issue. Then they've already lost. For example, when Trump says we need to build a wall, and Chuck Schumer comes out bragging that some bipartisan bill is a much better way to achieve needed better border security because of all the wonky rea[zzzzzz...] all voters hear is "we need better border security" and what they conclude is "wow I guess we need that wall."
This is a bit of a caricature, of course, but the point is that once Democrats start telling voters that they're better at delivering what the Republicans say they want, they've lost. The Republicans have already made it their issue, the Democrats have agreed the Republicans are correct but we're just arguing about the details, and voters who think that issue is important know who to vote for.
And voters who disagree don't have any champions. It isn't true that if you give the voters a choice between a Republican and a Republican they'll vote for the Republican every time. Plenty just won't vote at all.
This is a bit of a caricature, of course, but the point is that once Democrats start telling voters that they're better at delivering what the Republicans say they want, they've lost. The Republicans have already made it their issue, the Democrats have agreed the Republicans are correct but we're just arguing about the details, and voters who think that issue is important know who to vote for.
And voters who disagree don't have any champions. It isn't true that if you give the voters a choice between a Republican and a Republican they'll vote for the Republican every time. Plenty just won't vote at all.
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