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Tesseraction posted:Oh hey, Truth Social actually works without needing to go via an iPhone app now. Guess Nunes is worth his salary after all.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Wasn't that his Twitter feed besides retweeting random cranks/bots? It's self aggrandizement, ego stroking, bragging, finger pointing and childish name calling all the way down with Donald and always has been. As horrible and lovely as Biden and whatever you call this administration has been, one thing the 1/6 hearings have me reminded me of is how much I hate listening to or reading Trump say or write pretty much anything. He could read Moby Dick and somehow make it where he personally killed the whale and that no one had ever even heard of or seen a whale, let alone a vessel, until he was the first person ever to buy a boat and discovery the ocean. Or a great boat anyway. The best boat in history many people tell him with tears in their eyes. And also how very few people know it but a whale is not a fish but actually a mammal and he single handedly figured that out. Actually, he'd probably insist it WAS a fish since it lives in the water and the fake news media calls it a mammal.
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BiggerBoat posted:It's self aggrandizement, ego stroking, bragging, finger pointing and childish name calling all the way down with Donald and always has been. As horrible and lovely as Biden and whatever you call this administration has been, one thing the 1/6 hearings have me reminded me of is how much I hate listening to or reading Trump say or write pretty much anything. Call me Ishmael, or don't, a lot of people are talking about me and when they do, they call me Ishmael, it's a great name Ishmael, I like it a lot, it's from the Bible you know, I love the Bible, it's my favorite book, right up there with the Art of the Deal, and god what a deal that I made, you see it was seven, maybe eight, or, aw who cares how many years it was but the point is I didn't have any money back then, I was soooo broke, so broke folks, you wouldn't believe it, and I said get me the hell off of this land, I can't stand it, hate the land, it's so dry, so terrible, I'd rather be on a boat, this big beautiful boat, the biggest boat anyone's ever seen before
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Quee…queg? Queequeg. Whatever happened to normal sailors? Where’s Ahab? [wild applause] I like the Ahabs. Not so much the Queequags. I’m gonna bring back the Ahabs, folks. We’re really going to go somewhere now. [pantomimes simultaneously jerking off two guys while “Macho Man” plays over the PA system]
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bird food bathtub posted:Propaganda works. This is an entire thread dedicated to the evidence. I remember at the height of the Apprentice show, before his Presidential run, my mother once during dinner conversation starting go off about what a genius business man Trump was. I started listed the all the failed Trump named business I could think of. She denied them all and just went on about what an amazing business man he was. Today she can't remember that conversation, or won't.
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Burning_Monk posted:I remember at the height of the Apprentice show, before his Presidential run, my mother once during dinner conversation starting go off about what a genius business man Trump was. I started listed the all the failed Trump named business I could think of. She denied them all and just went on about what an amazing business man he was. Today she can't remember that conversation, or won't. Which is funny, because the show actually went out of its way to portray Trump as a cartoonish villain torturing a bunch of poor simps with a fake job opprotunity for the sake of TV hay. Like serious, I don't know how any media literate person could watch a single episode of the Apprentice and come away liking Donald Trump or thinking he was the hero of the story, but then again I just sank the ship of thought right up front by using the words "media literate", so I've answered my question.
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nine-gear crow posted:Which is funny, because the show actually went out of its way to portray Trump as a cartoonish villain torturing a bunch of poor simps with a fake job opprotunity for the sake of TV hay. Like serious, I don't know how any media literate person could watch a single episode of the Apprentice and come away liking Donald Trump or thinking he was the hero of the story, but then again I just sank the ship of thought right up front by using the words "media literate", so I've answered my question. "Main character therefore good" is as far as most people get. The entire point of Scott Pilgrim is that Scott's an rear end in a top hat who hosed up the lives of a lot of people and refused to admit it until a moment of epiphany, but a lot of people still think he was a cool and quirky guy.
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Neito posted:"Main character therefore good" is as far as most people get. The entire point of Scott Pilgrim is that Scott's an rear end in a top hat who hosed up the lives of a lot of people and refused to admit it until a moment of epiphany, but a lot of people still think he was a cool and quirky guy. Scott Pilgrim gets even worse when you realize that Scott and Ramona are Bryan Lee O'Malley and Hope Larson, and the real end of the story is that they get divorced and want nothing to do with each other anymore.
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nine-gear crow posted:Scott Pilgrim gets even worse when you realize that Scott and Ramona are Bryan Lee O'Malley and Hope Larson, and the real end of the story is that they get divorced and want nothing to do with each other anymore. I can't say I paid much attention to post-Seconds O'Malley. I've heard Snot Girl... exists?
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Neito posted:"Main character therefore good" is as far as most people get. The entire point of Scott Pilgrim is that Scott's an rear end in a top hat who hosed up the lives of a lot of people and refused to admit it until a moment of epiphany, but a lot of people still think he was a cool and quirky guy. Most people I talk to unironically think The Wolf of Wall Street is just about a bold, quirky fun guy trying to make money and be a boss. And the people who got in his way were just jealous boring squares. Pretty much the entirety of the crypto/NFT/gamer communities think the same of the REAL Jordan Belfort.
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Neito posted:I can't say I paid much attention to post-Seconds O'Malley. I've heard Snot Girl... exists? I just remember going to check out some of Larson's comics a few years back and in the process I read that her and O'Malley divorced in 2014, and I thought that given how much he professed that Scott Pilgrim was just a very dressed up version of the story of his courtship of her, the fact that they ultimately broke up after barely a decade together made me go "Yeah, that sounds about right."
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"And he's against the world, folks, everyone is out to get him, just like your favourite president."
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Tesseraction posted:"And he's against the world, folks, everyone is out to get him, just like your favourite president." And just like Scott, Trump is also hot for and dates/dated teenagers 
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I got some bad news when I was picking up snacks for my cat this morning.  When did the national enquirer stop being a comedy rag?
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J-Lo nooooooo! Oh you mean the civil war, yeah that seems pretty bleak. Why is it reporting on the Jan 6 insurrection a year and a half later though?
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:I got some bad news when I was picking up snacks for my cat this morning. I imagine you will find the contents disappointing. The Enquirer is a right-wing rag owned by donald trump’s old friend, if I’m remembering the right tabloid.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:I got some bad news when I was picking up snacks for my cat this morning. IDK they got a pretty big joke right there on the front cover.
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The National Enquirer has gone through a lot of changes editorially and ownership-wise over the years. It was the premiere celebrity tabloid sold at the supermarket checkout counter starting in the 1970s, and eventually bought up all of the other ones (Star, Globe, Weekly World News) and that portfolio covered all the bases of celebrity gossip, credulous UFO/Satanic Panic style stories, blatantly made up for laffs poo poo, etc. The company got sold after the founder died, and got acquired/spun off several time before ending up with its current owners, who have repeatedly declared bankruptcy and then somehow came out the other side to acquire even more dying magazine brands, though they announced a few years ago that they were selling the Enquirer and the other tabloids to Hudson Group, who mostly just run shops in airports and bus terminals. That does not seem to have ever happened. The guy who was friends with Trump is former CEO David Pecker, who got his break in publishing editing Trump Style, the official magazine of Trump hotels and golf courses back in the 1990s. They stayed friends, and Pecker was doing "catch and kills", paying for exclusive rights to scandalous stories about Trump that he would never publish, for years before Trump even ran for President. Between that and the weird extortion attempts he made on Jeff Bezos and Ronan Farrow, he was asked to resign but is still nebulously "an advisor" to the magazine. I don't know who the current publisher/EIC is, but it doesn't look like the regime change/aborted sale really changed things that much, though the CIVIL WAR cover feature feels more political/less gossipy than is their tradition.
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Thanks for the great write-up! I had it confused with World Weekly News and the exploits of Bat Boy from my childhood.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Thanks for the great write-up! I had it confused with World Weekly News and the exploits of Bat Boy from my childhood. Don't forget the page 5 girl, mmmmrow. Yes please I will take 1 grainy b and w picture of a woman dressed more conservatively than the underwear models in the sears catalog.
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World Famous W posted:he is drat near forty, when can we call him bat man? Do you wanna be sued by Warner Bros.? What the gently caress is wrong with you?!
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I recall my jug-of-wine aunt would get every tabloid rag the grocery store had in stock and then hand them off to my folks who would sit around laughing at them. Lots of really silly poo poo in those, stuff you couldn't make up without some level of buying into crazy.
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Edge & Christian posted:The National Enquirer has gone through a lot of changes editorially and ownership-wise over the years. It was the premiere celebrity tabloid sold at the supermarket checkout counter starting in the 1970s, and eventually bought up all of the other ones (Star, Globe, Weekly World News) and that portfolio covered all the bases of celebrity gossip, credulous UFO/Satanic Panic style stories, blatantly made up for laffs poo poo, etc. One little clarification on this. Weekly World News wasn't purchased by the Enquirer. It was designed in-house to use the Enquirer's old black and white printing press after the flagship paper moved to color. But it was fun since it was just unhinged craziness rather than celebrity gossip.
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:Thanks for the great write-up! I had it confused with World Weekly News and the exploits of Bat Boy from my childhood. I like how Men in Black portrayed that the tabloids were actually the best journalism going and space aliens like Bat Boy could hide in plain sight on their front page.
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Killer robot posted:One little clarification on this. Weekly World News wasn't purchased by the Enquirer. It was designed in-house to use the Enquirer's old black and white printing press after the flagship paper moved to color. Their website suggests that things have stayed pretty much the same, including leaning very heavily into the "Bat Boy" IP.
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Alex Jones is going to be taking the stand tomorrow in his defamation trial. I can see this going well.
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ryde posted:Alex Jones is going to be taking the stand tomorrow in his defamation trial. I can see this going well. He had a full on meltdown under cross-examination during his deposition. Him being in an actual courtroom in front of a jury would be somehow even worse.
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nine-gear crow posted:He had a full on meltdown under cross-examination during his deposition. Him being in an actual courtroom in front of a jury would be somehow even worse. When was it that he ripped his shirt off and ran screaming from the room, his divorce proceedings or the subsequent custody hearing (where I'm pretty sure he tried the chili-amnesia gambit)? Regardless, I seem to recall that got brought up early on in his current suit and one of his lawyers responded something to the tune of, "oh that's just something he does from time to time, ignore it."
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World Famous W posted:he is drat near forty, when can we call him bat man? we used to call him Crazy Joe
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Captain_Maclaine posted:When was it that he ripped his shirt off and ran screaming from the room, his divorce proceedings or the subsequent custody hearing (where I'm pretty sure he tried the chili-amnesia gambit)? Regardless, I seem to recall that got brought up early on in his current suit and one of his lawyers responded something to the tune of, "oh that's just something he does from time to time, ignore it." Chili amnesia?
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World Famous W posted:he is drat near forty, when can we call him bat man? I think it's "junior Senator from Florida" now
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Neito posted:Chili amnesia? Oh you missed one of his worst lies in court? https://twitter.com/jtilovetx/status/854350731415105537?lang=en-GB
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Tesseraction posted:Oh you missed one of his worst lies in court? https://twitter.com/jtilovetx/status/854350731415105537?lang=en-GB I somehow did miss that. What.
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Neito posted:I somehow did miss that. What. It's Alex Jones. Don't think about the lie too hard your brain will dribble out your ears.
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