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- ooooo! -- nm - mud Jan 22, 11:02
If most of us had a time machine, we know what we would do. Not what David Ayer would do. -- (link) - Spawn Jan 22, 10:57 1
- I'd go back in time and convince young David Ayer to stay in school. -- nm - TWuG Jan 22, 11:00
Go Northwestern! Futile Five represent! -- nm - Dano Jan 22, 10:49
Power watched The Good Place this weekend. David is right. All opinions to the contrary are wrong. -- nm - Baron Zero C Jan 22, 10:36 1
- First Law of ST. -- nm - David's iPad Jan 22, 10:38
*laughing* Quick! Look at Sean Spicer's Wikipedia page! -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 10:25 19
- Did everyone see what happened to his predecessor in the Trump campaign over Christmas? -- (link) - budice Jan 22, 10:43 1
  - I just read about once I noticed this schmuck Spicer is doing two jobs. -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 10:48
- And it's gone. -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 10:35 5
  - It will live on in the history, no? -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:36 4
    - It's back. And I do believe you'll be able to see it in the history. -- nm* - Krusty Jan 22, 10:39 3
      - Unless Wikipedia has memory hole. Not sure, but likely higher admins can outright purge vandalism. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:44 1
        
        Usually they lock the article down so only approved editors can touch it? -- nm - Z2G2 Jan 22, 11:49
      - heh still there -- nm - Beaker Jan 22, 10:43
- that's the first thing i said yesterday....nm - x Jan 22, 10:31 1
  - I missed that. But you are prescient, sir. - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 10:35
- Who is that in the picture? -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 10:30 7
  - Thanks, all! I'm not up on my dictatorial ministers of information. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 10:34 1
    - It was a very big thing in 2003. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 10:40
  - Spoils - znufrii Jan 22, 10:31
  - Baghdad Bob. Iraq' Minister of Information. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:31 2
    - Sorry, "former". -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:32 1
      - Not according to him -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 10:40
  - Baghdad Bob -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Jan 22, 10:31
- Omg that is amazing. -- nm - znufrii Jan 22, 10:28
We got some garbage Smores Girl Scout Cookies. The ones on the site are chocolate and marshmallow filled graham cookie sandwiches. What I have is -- (edited) - Krusty Jan 22, 10:21 5
- I blame Trump. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:22 4
  - Of course but also their ridiculous decision to have different cookies depending on where it's made. - Krusty Jan 22, 10:25 3
    - I know everyone is focused on RL shit but this is important. - Krusty Jan 22, 10:26 2
      - Srsly. We need to keep our priorities in order, people. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 10:27 1
        
        Thank you! -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 10:37
NFL Conference Championships: Who you got? - Strongbad Jan 22, 10:19 9
- Confident on the Falcons. NE's soft schedule raises some concerns but this is a game they always win. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jan 22, 11:39
- Pats/Falcons -- nm - Beaker Jan 22, 10:43
- PIT/ATL -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 10:40
- What I want: Steelers and Falcons. What I expect: Patriots and Falcons. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 10:23
- NE/ATL from the looks of it. Rooting for NE/GB -- nm - budice Jan 22, 10:23
- Pats....*flips coins* Atlanta??? -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Jan 22, 10:23
- NE, Atlanta. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:22
- That's my Super Bowl pick as well. -- nm - David's iPad Jan 22, 10:20
- Can we just make Atlanta vs packers the Super Bowl instead? -- nm - TRuMaN Jan 22, 10:20
For every article I see in my Facebook feed about the "alternative facts" I feel like some of my family -- (edited) - TRuMaN Jan 22, 10:17
I'm happy with CNN's choice to consciously uncouple from live coverage. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 10:16
Conway misspoke. It wasn't "alternate facts." It was "doublethink." -- nm - Dano Jan 22, 09:52 30
- I wonder if any of them have ever read Orwell. -- nm - mud Jan 22, 09:57 29
  - I'm fairly convinced that a lot of what they're doing right now is boundary testing. -- nm - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Jan 22, 10:02 24
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    - yup. -- nm - Remlik Jan 22, 10:13
    - I think you're right. Whatever they're doing, it is intentional and directed according to some strategy. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 10:09 21
      - I think you're giving them too much credit. I wouldn't trust that group with a lemonade stand. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:15 19
        
        I don't question their intelligence at all. These are people who -- quite literally -- beat the best political strategists and thinkers in America. - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 10:22 14
        
        There was a guy on TT ages ago who made a big deal about Rush Hour becoming a huge hit. -- (edited) - David's iPad Jan 22, 10:31 4
        
        I agree that the election was more about Sec. Clinton than Trump. - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 10:44 3
        
        Agree. Not pure luck, but I don't think even they knew how the campaign would coalesce perfectly as it did. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 11:03
        
        It wasn't pure luck. It was Comey. - David's iPad Jan 22, 10:58 1
        
        As directed by Putin. (Mostly kidding) -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 11:05
        
        Broken clock? Scarily, I think they actually buy into their own BS and have disconnected from the real world. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:24 7
        
        Kellyanne Conway graduated Trinity College, went to Oxford, earned a law degree from George Washington University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 10:35 5
        
        Jessica Simpson is a genius. I realize they are smart, well educated people, but I have met and dealt with moronic Ph Ds. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:39 3
        
        I have, too. Hell, I used to work with a ton of them as a patent attorney, and many of the people I interact with are bumbling fools when it ... - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 10:48
        
        Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon and a moron. -- nm - mud Jan 22, 10:43 1
        
        Not like W didn't have a prestigious sheepskin. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:47
        
        agreed....nm - x Jan 22, 10:39
        
        I am also not convinced they won because of their strategy. My thought is a lot of people swung Trump based on their own - VMan Jan 22, 10:29
        
        Werd -- nm - TRuMaN Jan 22, 10:23
        
        Children acting out are still capable of boundary testing. -- nm - David's iPad Jan 22, 10:21 2
        
        have you been spying on my house today? -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 10:24 1
        
        In hindsight, she had too much spaghetti too soon in life. -- nm - David's iPad Jan 22, 10:27
        
        agreed. -- nm - mud Jan 22, 10:17
      - Fortunately our media institutions have the backbone to hold them accountable for their rhetoric and not let them walk this back. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 22, 10:13
  - If so, probably as a how-to guide. -- nm - znufrii Jan 22, 09:59 3
    - "Ignorance is strength." -- nm - mud Jan 22, 10:13 2
      - America has always been at war with Daesh. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 10:16 1
        
        "there are five lights" -- nm - mud Jan 22, 10:21
I woke up to a text that my flight was delayed - reminded me of my last trip. Heh. - Beryllium Jan 22, 09:27 2
- but that means you have a delay later... -- nm - colin Jan 22, 09:50 1
  - But I'd rather chill at SeaTac than YYJ. Plus, it eases the stress of getting to the departure gate. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 09:57
Diego Costa, still a whiny bitch. -- nm - znufrii Jan 22, 09:24
I guess there'll be no farmers market today. I was planning to walk down there and to Office Depot - guess not :/ -- nm - Meg Jan 22, 09:21
Feistier version of Hull City than I expected. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 22, 09:19 2
- i heard *lots* of moaning on the bbc about how the coaching job didn't go to a brit.... - x Jan 22, 09:23 1
  - Of course I jinxed it. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 22, 09:23
How long until Trump tweets criticism of D.C. police for not making any arrests at the protests yesterday? -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 22, 08:55 19
- Meanwhile, here's that psycho Milwaukee sheriff laying bare that he tries to incite violence against him -- (link) - Reagen Jan 22, 09:12 2
  - That guy is nuts.. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 22, 09:28
  - Saw that earlier. Insane. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 22, 09:16
- How long until Trump says the DC police are so ineffective they need to be replaced with his hand-picked private security contractors? Or worse ... - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 09:06 8
  - Ugh. -- nm - znufrii Jan 22, 09:28
  - well, she wasn't that specific but this mrning kelly ann conway already said.... - x Jan 22, 09:20 3
    - If it actually happens, my sense of existential dread, worry, and trepidation (a la' pmb's post the other day) will turn into actual fear. - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 09:35 1
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    - see. terrifying. -- nm - Andie Jan 22, 09:34
  - Trumptorean Guard. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 09:13 2
    - And if they dress in brown shirts, I'm going to totally freak the hell out. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 09:19 1
      - Trump Pee D. Gold uniforms. -- nm - VMan Jan 22, 09:35
- At the march here, our police had to block off two lanes of traffic in front of the US Consulate. The march bottlenecked there -- (edited) - Andie Jan 22, 09:04 6
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    - We still like you. We are having the same difficulty as the majority of the US understanding how it came to this. - VMan Jan 22, 09:28
    - I think it is closer to we are terrified what damage this could do to the world. But noone was - Andie Jan 22, 09:15 2
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      - Pic. The street that is empty there was part of the route and it got blocked for the consulate. You can see it's not a tense situation though. -- (link) - Andie Jan 22, 09:24 [flickr]
    - Most people are definitely of the opinion that you're under occupation, as it were. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 09:14
That "alternative facts" line is so bonkers, Conway threw Spicer under the bus and then jumped in after him. - Mop Jan 22, 08:32 5
- "is that an alt-fact?" can be the new "is that right?" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 22, 10:26
- I remember when my parents used to ground me for alternative facting. -- nm - David Jan 22, 09:06 2
  - damnit I just had that same thought. -- nm - Remlik Jan 22, 09:21 1
    - Joke thief. -- nm - David's iPad Jan 22, 09:29
- Whether intentional or the result of bumbling mistakes, they are following a political strategy that works with extremely conservative folks. - ReluctantCynic Jan 22, 09:04
Here's an amusing anecdote from trivia night yesterday. - Baron Zero C Jan 22, 08:27 3
- Well, we all know it's an alt-fact that it was JRR Tolkien, so I can understand the rage.. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 22, 09:02 1
  - *rage* -- nm - Tolkien-fans Jan 22, 09:19
- 55 tables? Was this TriviaCon? -- nm - Volnelk Jan 22, 08:53
As a human, this made me laugh. As a teacher, it made me cry. -- (link) - Volnelk Jan 22, 08:25
Box Office: Split with a $40.2M weekend -- (link) - budice Jan 22, 08:14 3
- dammit, HSX. I went ripping through my port on a bunch of things and sold Split before remembering there's no adjustment. -- nm - Max Jan 22, 08:30
- Neechay. -- nm - Baron Zero C Jan 22, 08:30
- Split success helped by broad appeal across race/gender/age barriers. 52/48 female/male, 52% under 25, 50/50 split for white & non-white. -- nm - budice Jan 22, 08:21
Bonkers ending at the Emirates. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 22, 08:09
Hell of an ending to the Arsenal game. -- nm - znufrii Jan 22, 08:09 3
- what happened? -- nm - mud Jan 22, 08:40 2
  - Spoils - znufrii Jan 22, 08:46 1
    - thanks (I overslept) -- nm - mud Jan 22, 08:49
Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura Dead at 25 after fatal car accident earlier today, confirmed by Dominican police force. -- (link) - budice Jan 22, 07:58 6
- Damm. -- nm - TRuMaN Jan 22, 10:18
- Oh man, what crappy news to wake up to. -- nm - ML Galaxy Jan 22, 08:51 1
  - Andy Marte too? Ugh. -- nm - ML Galaxy Jan 22, 08:53
- That sucks. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Jan 22, 08:21 1
  - Alcohol is suspected. - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Jan 22, 08:41
- Damn. :-( -- nm - Krusty Jan 22, 08:09
I find it fitting that the estimated number of people who protested yesterday is about equal to the difference in the popular vote. -- nm* - znufrii Jan 22, 07:54
Geek Deal: 50in 4K Hisense LED TV for $299 w/free 2-day ship at Best Buy -- (link) - budice Jan 22, 07:49 1
- now all we need is some content. -- nm - colin Jan 22, 08:52
So... about my Australian Open predictions - Dano Jan 22, 07:44 3
- (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ -- nm - budice Jan 22, 07:47 2
  - So, you used my predictions to make actual wagers? -- nm - Dano Jan 22, 08:20
  - This always looks like a ref calling the extra point good. -- nm - TWuG Jan 22, 08:09
So tone deaf. All he should say is 'America is a great country. I look forward to working hard to bring people together.' But no. -- (link) - Volnelk Jan 22, 07:43 17
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  - So odd. So is his insinuation that only celebrities were marching? Only celebs organized? -- nm - Volnelk Jan 22, 08:11 5
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    - It's the "Hollywood/Media elite" vs. "regular people" -- nm - Dano Jan 22, 08:17 3
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        I think you mean "Disturbing!" (I like when posts sound trumpy. Makes him seem even more childish.) -- nm - Amanda Jan 22, 09:13
        
        AND he was/is a celebrity. He chased fame more than anyone I have ever seen. -- nm - Andie Jan 22, 09:07
- Considering he hasn't been saying what he *should* say for the past 24 months, this doesn't surprise me. -- nm - Strongbad Jan 22, 07:52 3
  - the way to spin this is astoundingly easy, which tells me all the tinpot stuff is on the nose. -- nm* - Reagen Jan 22, 07:54 2
    - Right. He doesn't have to 'actually' appease the masses, but it would be so easy to calm people down just a little bit. - Volnelk Jan 22, 07:58
    - He's a bully in every since of the word - Strongbad Jan 22, 07:57
- Keep it up people. You drew blood yesterday. -- nm - Reagen Jan 22, 07:46 2
  - He could so easily be baited into literally whipping out his dick at a press conference. -- nm - TWuG Jan 22, 08:03
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- my favorite thing i read this morning is this tidbit from the times piece... -- (edited) - x Jan 22, 07:46 1
  - "during his first full day as president"? What about during them all? (NM) - Marlowe Jan 22, 08:01
- *double-checks the popular vote totals* - znufrii Jan 22, 07:45

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