Philip Bump: “The aggressive hallucinating lady agrees with our politics” is an odd flex but OK.

“The aggressive hallucinating lady agrees with our politics” is an odd flex but OK.

“Remember that bonkers woman who got kicked off the plane? Well, I’d like you to consider her opinion on trans issues.”

Her speech at the RNC will be the inverse of Clint Eastwood's empty chair speech.

I literally think about them every time Eastwood comes up

That stunt was not the career booster he thought it would be.

The last few election cycles have been so over the top that I think we all forgot that 2012 was also supremely weird. Big bird and bayonets. Romney dog. Binders full of women. It wasn't as in-your-face as Sarah Palin's nonsense in 2008, but in some ways it was much weirder.

Makes you wish for the good old days of the Hanging Chad battle.

You're just frightened of the awesome power of the Intellectual Dark Web! Oy vey

- The Atlantic, a few days from now, I assume

Well hold on, before I decide whether to listen to her, does she look good in a bikini?

Everyone looks good in a bikini.

i guarantee you i would not

Well not with that attitude

I most certainly do not

Asking the serious questions.

it’s so boring. pivoting to transphobia is the fascist equivalent of kenny powers signing baseballs at ashley schaeffer bmw

“While you check out her tits” The right wing is fucking weird, man

Their party is a big tent. They have the crazies, the racists, and the crooks.

And all the pedophiles. ALL of them.

Oh, she's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore her. They think she's a righteous dude.

I went and saw that movie in the theater a second time when it came out JUST to write down that list in the correct order!

Most of the geeks I know don't adore her. Of course the geeks are divided into the rank and file IT workers, and then the Tech CEOs (plus the Tech CEO bootlickers). Many Tech CEOs don't even know how to do anything with modern tech and are busy investing in NFTs and AI while simping Musk.

To be fair, over the last year-plus of reports of CSA cases, they can only claim about 75-80% of arrests. Which is roughly their share of domestic terrorism, too; FBI statistics place them as the least investigated and least prosecuted group despite acting more than all other ideologies combined.

Bar none

Big tent/small bathing suit.

That Venn-diagram is a circle

If she disagreed with their politics and posed in a bikini, these same people would be furious about it.

Remember when Republicans were all anti-pornography and pro-religion? "Worship our corporate sponsors with the aid of this woman in a bikini."

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I’m honestly surprised there’s no Golden Calf corporation selling maga merch.

Umm...

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Trump would never name any of his business entities after anything but himself.

True, but he does paint himself the right colour.

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Yes, you could argue he IS the golden calf.

Well, slightly off, but that's on brand for him. Lol

It's less of an actual paint and more of him waking up in the morning to coat himself in olive oil and cheeto dust

That's more Golden Ankle, rather than Golden Calf...

Remember when Republicans were just greedy and corrupt -- not greedy, corrupt, treasonous and insane?

Sorry, my memory doesn't go back that far.

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Oh! Mine does! I was born in '72 and... [remembers Reagan administration]... and... [no direct memories of Nixon because I was a toddler, but close enough]... nevermind. I thought I had something to say, but I'll just sit down now.

I think most of these folks are perfectly in their right minds. The contradictions are a feature of power.

So like ... Before Nixon technically?

They still are, which is what makes it all so confusing until you realize it's all basically a front for white ethnonationalism with a side dish of prosperity gospel.

She’s seen the book deal offers Uri Berliner is getting and wants some of that action.

She won't even have to write the book!

This is why Tech bros are trying to get us to accept AI generated writing.

Yeah, except when you don't do proper editorial work it comes out awful. The process of PROPER AI writing is actually harder than regular writing and it is STILL prone to plagiarize whole paragraphs on you without your knowledge.

You basically have to take a very aggressive editorial roll by first handing the AI an outline, then going through the whole piece, selecting the parts that need to be rewritten and tell it how to rewrite it. Rinse, and repeat a few hundred times. It is NOT an improvement.

The only valid way to use AI in writing is you have it review your writing and suggest improvements. It works MUCH better as an editor than a writer. However, with the current ethics in AI, I'm not letting AI touch my writing.

A women’s judgment doesn’t matter to making her opinion worthwhile, it’s how hot she is.

Hot is in the eye of the beholder, and fortunately not the beerholder.

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