I DOUBT MANY KNOW THERE ELBOWS FROM THEIR BUTTHOLES: How many of this lot know their Net Zero from their elbow?
Archive for 2024
October 17, 2024
FULTON COUNTY BUSY PREPARING BATTLE SPACE: Fulton County judge decides seven Georgia State Election Board rules are ‘illegal’.
AN UPDATE ON THE BERENSON VS. BIDEN TWITTER CENSORSHIP CASE: Your response to yesterday’s post about Berenson v Biden has been overwhelming – and heartening. Now, an update on the key facts of the case. Not the law, just what we know happened.
THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY IS HOSED: The Russian Debt Thread: Part 1
OKAY, THAT IS THE STUPIDEST TRIGGER WARNING YET: I’ll show them ‘triggered’.
Next up: contains humans. Might contain depictions of mammals. Terrestrial fauna might be mentioned….
FOLLOWING PARTY DIKTATS, OF COURSE: Where Were These 230 Doctors Wanting Medical Records Four Years Ago?
STRANGE FOR SURE: Dancing Queen.
WELFARE STATE COMBINED WITH OPEN BORDERS. YOU CAN’T AFFORD FERAL CULTURES COMING FOR HANDOUTS: A Parable of the Welfare State?
I OFTEN HAVE THIS KIND OF TIMING PROBLEM IN THE FIRST DRAFT OF MY NOVELS. BUT AT LEAST PEOPLE KNOW THEY’RE FICTION: Harris: We’re ‘Turning the Page From’ a Decade of Donald Trump.
October 16, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD DOING STRAIGHT-UP REPORTAGE ONCE AGAIN:
THE NEW SPACE RACE: How countries can increase their participation in the global space economy.
CAPTAIN QUEEG FOR PRESIDENT: Harris Ducks ‘Responsibility’ (and Fact Checks) in Fiery Fox News Interview.
JOHN NOLTE: Mark Halperin Says Trump Victory Will ‘Cause Greatest Mental Health Crisis in History.’
“I say this not flippantly,” Halperin explains before adding: ”I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country.”
He believes, “Tens of millions of people will question their connection to the nation … to other human beings … to their vision to what their future for them and their children could be like. And that will require an enormous amount of access to mental health professionals.”
“Are you being serious?” asks Carlson.
“I’m being a hundred percent serious,” answers Halperin, who then goes on: A Trump victory will “lead to trauma in the workplace [and] alcoholism [and] broken marriages.”
Halperin adds that Democrats were able to dismiss Trump’s 2016 victory as a “fluke” caused by disgraced former FBI Director James Comey re-opening the email investigation against Hillary Clinton. But this time, if Trump wins, it will be in a normal environment and a clear victory will mean “America chose by the rules pre-agreed to [and if] Donald Trump [wins] again, I think it will cause the biggest mental health crisis in the history of America.”
“And it will be sustained, unprecedented, and hideous.”
“Mental health crises often manifest in violence,” Carlson says.
“Yeah,” Halperin agrees. “I think there’ll be some violence. I think there’ll be workplace fights, fights at kids’ birthday parties … protests that will turn violent.”
Exit question: Is It Time to Invest in Plywood? “A recent insurance company alert was a good reminder for me not to hold the naive belief that political riots and attacks on property are only in faraway countries. Should Donald Trump be elected on Nov. 5, among other election outcomes around the world, the money boys at the insurance home offices are warning business owners to take precautions — be prepared!”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A friend writes: “Haha, apparently Halperin missed the mental health crisis of the last 8 years of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Compounded by that lockdown bullshit. Someone please explain how the mental health of lefties has ever been a matter of serious concern in this country. Help me out here. I thought trauma in the workplace, substance abuse and broken marriages were lefty mainstays…”
UNEXPECTEDLY: Tim Walz Called To Eliminate Spending on National Missile Defense.
Perhaps even more terrifying is Walz on the campaign trail:
The Trump campaign cooked with this lmao pic.twitter.com/T1w57YKg9l
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 16, 2024
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: The Most Devastating Moments of Kamala Harris’ Train Wreck Fox Interview.
Related: Ben Shapiro Reacts: Kamala’s DISASTER Interview with Bret Baier.
UPDATE:
Turn the page? Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. https://t.co/ggf3xgL05N
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) October 17, 2024
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: NASA Confirms Solar Maximum: Brace for Massive Flares and Epic Geomagnetic Storms.
CAN’T THINK, CAN’T TALK:
IT’S OVER!
Kamala starts SHAKING and SCREAMING when asked the most basic interview question
Total DISASTER for Team Kamala.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 16, 2024
That was the worst presidential performance in an interview in my lifetime.
Perhaps in history
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 16, 2024
BAIER: You said Iran was the biggest threat to America… But you relaxed and failed to enforce sanctions on Iran.
KAMALA: "Lets go back to Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/ZkWk96Bhxf
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 16, 2024
Kamala Harris is the opposite of unflappable. She is self imploding & getting visibly angry because for the first time in 4 years she is facing a few tough questions.
Compare this disaster to how @JDVance obliterates the leftwing media on a daily basis with a smile on his face.
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) October 16, 2024
Joe Biden coup leaders watching Kamala implode live on Fox pic.twitter.com/w1LHHNMs2L
— Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) October 16, 2024
‘I’M SPEAKING:’ Bret Baier Interviews Kamala Harris.
UPDATE:
HOLY SMOKES. Bret Baier just called out Kamala's campaign for pulling last minute stunts to shorten the interview and delay its air time.
"We were supposed to start at 5… We were going to do 25/30 mins… they said maybe 20. She came in around 5:15" pic.twitter.com/lTLGvCzgDY
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 16, 2024
The most telling part of this interview. If you’re undecided or thinking of sitting this one out, how do you watch this and come away with any other conclusion but she’s not equipped for this job? https://t.co/br0RCnR0qM
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) October 16, 2024
Kamala’s handlers tried to prevent a train wreck. They failed. https://t.co/gVENCkV29f
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 16, 2024
SATURDAY NIGHT CAPTURES THE SHOW’S CHAOS BUT LEAVES YOU DIZZY:
No need to wait in line in Midtown Manhattan for a front-row seat at SNL — Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night drops you right into the coked-up whirlwind of the show’s October 11, 1975, debut. The film is more than just a nostalgic trip back to the chaotic birth of a comedy institution; it’s a study of the age-old clash between unruly creatives and their corporate overlords, all unfolding within the storied halls of Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza while cultural shifts pulse through the bustling New York City streets below.
The movie effortlessly transports you to the 1970s, when television’s golden age was fading and a new generation — that was brought up on television but never truly saw itself on-screen — was rising to take its place. The opening scene flickers through a cathode-ray tube, as if you’re watching vintage SNL clips on your mom’s old TV. The attention to detail — from the haircuts to the line delivery — is impeccable. It feels less like a re-creation and more like you’re experiencing the raw talent that defined the show’s early days unfold in real time.
I’m not sure if “real time” is the right phrase here. I saw it over the weekend, and as someone who loved the show’s first five years, I enjoyed the film quite a bit. But it’s a comedy movie, not a documentary, and compresses the events of the months leading up to the show’s debut into a frenetic 109 minutes of non-stop insanity. For example, a comedy writer who in real-life had been with the show almost since its inception is found by Lorne Michaels in a bar about 15 minutes before SNL debuts. In the scene before that, Michaels is bombing as the would-be host of “Weekend Update,” and immediately decides to give the mock news segment to Chevy Chase. And according to Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad in the meticulously researched 1986 book, A Backstage History of Saturday Night, coke wasn’t that prevalent with the SNL cast and creative team until a year or two into the show’s run – marijuana was the drug of choice when the show first began. An early scene in Saturday Night depicts Billy Preston, who along with Janis Ian performed in the debut episode, handing Garrett Morris a vial of pharmaceutical grade coke. Those knowledgeable of the show’s history will make the connection that Morris is reported to have developed a massive addiction to freebasing coke by the show’s fifth season. (Although to be fair, most viewers will at least make the connection that almost everybody on SNL would soon have coke issues of their own.)
Dylan O’Brien, the actor who portrays Dan Aykroyd, absolutely nails the young Aykroyd’s voice and performing style. But the Saturday Night movie depicts him rehearsing sketches that were months, sometimes years away from debuting on SNL. Willem Defoe plays Dave Tebet, a grizzled real-life NBC executive who worked as a fixer to Johnny Carson, and had grave doubts that SNL could succeed. But Herb Schlosser, the NBC executive who conceived of a live show out of Rockefeller Center replacing Carson’s Saturday night reruns, and championed Lorne Michaels’ vision of the show that would fill that timeslot is nowhere to be found in the movie. And while, at first glance, J. K. Simmons is a very unlikely choice to portray Milton Berle, he does an excellent job – though in real life, Berle was actually nowhere to be found when SNL debuted, but he did host the show (disastrously) in its fourth season, in 1979.
The more inside baseball knowledge you have of Saturday Night Live’s brilliant first five seasons, the more you’ll enjoy Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night movie. It’s not entirely accurate, but to paraphrase the line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, when the legend becomes fact, film the legend – and add plenty of simulated mescaline, to boot.