A day without stupid?

[Worldtraveller]

Your annecdote doesn't belong in this thread, and frankly, it doesn't belong anywhere near the broad brush fallacy you have pinned it to. You are better than this, Jason. Come on.

No. No he's not.

 

[Patooka]

If we're going to sink to tarring entire ideologies with the same brush, here is an interesting comment on a far right forum I frequent:



Joe Biden is unfit to be President because he can't put together a coherent complete sentence. Said without any self-awareness whatsoever.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

If we're going to sink to tarring entire ideologies with the same brush, here is an interesting comment on a far right forum I frequent:

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Joe Biden is unfit to be President because he can't put together a coherent complete sentence. Said without any self-awareness whatsoever.

Biden has taught America that it is best to keep movie references to within the last 20 or 30 years.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Biden has taught America that it is best to keep movie references to within the last 20 or 30 years.

20-30? I tried to illustrate a point about the weapon system with a reference to Crimson Tide (1995).
Most of the people in the audience were too young to remember the movie, the ones old enough hadn't seen it in 20 years and were just as lost.
I would say 'Classic' movies up to 30.
Part of a franchise, up to 20.
And selected scenes used as Memes for the last 15. (Exception, Captain America saying, 'I got that reference!' will be apropos for the next 120 years).
Oscar Winners for 10 years.
Oscar Nominated for 7.
Trendy quotes for 5.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Biden has taught America that it is best to keep movie references to within the last 20 or 30 years.

20-30? I tried to illustrate a point about the weapon system with a reference to Crimson Tide (1995).
Most of the people in the audience were too young to remember the movie, the ones old enough hadn't seen it in 20 years and were just as lost.
I would say 'Classic' movies up to 30.
Part of a franchise, up to 20.
And selected scenes used as Memes for the last 15. (Exception, Captain America saying, 'I got that reference!' will be apropos for the next 120 years).
Oscar Winners for 10 years.
Oscar Nominated for 7.
Trendy quotes for 5.

Yeah, that makes sense. I should note, it probably wasn't the best quote either to use.

 

[ZiprHead]

Twitter User Changes Name To “Bernie Beats Trump” After Trump Retweeted Him

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I'm impressed with how bad America was in 2016, and how Trump turned in around in 3 years, and now we are super awesome.

 

[ZiprHead]

‘We Knew They Had Cooked the Books’

Their collaboration was historic. Even as SUVs, crossovers, and pickups have gobbled up the new-car market, the rules have pushed the average fuel economy—the distance a vehicle can travel per gallon of gas—to record highs. They have saved Americans $500 billion at the pump, according to the nonpartisan Consumer Federation of America, and kept hundreds of millions of tons of carbon pollution out of the air. So as the call connected, Alson and the other EPA engineers thought it was time to get back to work. Donald Trump had recently ordered a review of the rules.

Speaking from Washington, James Tamm, the NHTSA fuel-economy chief, greeted the EPA team, then put a spreadsheet on-screen. It showed an analysis of the tailpipe rules’ estimated costs and benefits. Alson had worked on this kind of study so many times that he could recall some of the key numbers “by heart,” he later told me.

Yet as Alson looked closer, he realized that this study was like none he had seen before. For years, both NHTSA and the EPA had found that the tailpipe rules saved lives during car accidents because they reduced the weight—and, with it, the lethality—of the heaviest SUVs. In 2015, an outside panel of experts concurred with them.

But this new study asserted the opposite: The Obama-era rules, it claimed, killed almost 1,000 people a year.

“Oh my God,” Alson said upon seeing the numbers. The other EPA engineers in the room gasped and started to point out other shocking claims on Tamm’s slide. (Their line was muted.) It seemed as if every estimated cost had ballooned, while every estimated benefit had shrunk. Something in the study had gone deeply wrong.

It was the beginning of a fiasco that could soon have global consequences. The Trump administration has since proposed to roll back the tailpipe rules nationwide, a move that, according to one estimate, could add nearly 1 billion tons of carbon pollution to the atmosphere. Officials have justified this sweeping change by claiming that the new rules will save hundreds of lives a year. They are so sure of those benefits that they have decided to call the policy the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Rule—or SAFE, for short.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Biden has taught America that it is best to keep movie references to within the last 20 or 30 years.

20-30? I tried to illustrate a point about the weapon system with a reference to Crimson Tide (1995).
Most of the people in the audience were too young to remember the movie, the ones old enough hadn't seen it in 20 years and were just as lost.
I would say 'Classic' movies up to 30.
Part of a franchise, up to 20.
And selected scenes used as Memes for the last 15. (Exception, Captain America saying, 'I got that reference!' will be apropos for the next 120 years).
Oscar Winners for 10 years.
Oscar Nominated for 7.
Trendy quotes for 5.

Nuke from Orbit is more than 30 years old.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Biden has taught America that it is best to keep movie references to within the last 20 or 30 years.

20-30? I tried to illustrate a point about the weapon system with a reference to Crimson Tide (1995).
Most of the people in the audience were too young to remember the movie, the ones old enough hadn't seen it in 20 years and were just as lost.
I would say 'Classic' movies up to 30.
Part of a franchise, up to 20.
And selected scenes used as Memes for the last 15. (Exception, Captain America saying, 'I got that reference!' will be apropos for the next 120 years).
Oscar Winners for 10 years.
Oscar Nominated for 7.
Trendy quotes for 5.

Nuke from Orbit is more than 30 years old.

Yeah, my kids are familiar with the phrase. They think it originates on a t-shirt.
It's a pervasive pop culture reference, like 'handle the truth' and 'here's johnny' where in many cases, i think people are often referencing pop culture itself, rather than the movies, or the Tonight Show.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Nuke from Orbit is more than 30 years old.

Yeah, my kids are familiar with the phrase. They think it originates on a t-shirt.
It's a pervasive pop culture reference, like 'handle the truth' and 'here's johnny' where in many cases, i think people are often referencing pop culture itself, rather than the movies, or the Tonight Show.

Or Hamlet’s second soliloquy. Talk about run down to death!

 

[funinspace]

Biden has taught America that it is best to keep movie references to within the last 20 or 30 years.

20-30? I tried to illustrate a point about the weapon system with a reference to Crimson Tide (1995).
Most of the people in the audience were too young to remember the movie, the ones old enough hadn't seen it in 20 years and were just as lost.
I would say 'Classic' movies up to 30.
Part of a franchise, up to 20.
And selected scenes used as Memes for the last 15. (Exception, Captain America saying, 'I got that reference!' will be apropos for the next 120 years).
Oscar Winners for 10 years.
Oscar Nominated for 7.
Trendy quotes for 5.

INCONCEIVABLE!

 

[Keith&Co.]

And as non-anecdotal support for my thesis:

If it weren't for god's power how do you think a swallow could carry a coconut hundreds of miles during migration? Hmmmm?

Actually, that is a good question. How did they evolve the ability to do that? Did the earliest birds only carry the coconut a few miles and it gradually increased over time? Seems unlikely they woud have the ability to carry it hundreds of miles in the first generation.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

And as non-anecdotal support for my thesis:

If it weren't for god's power how do you think a swallow could carry a coconut hundreds of miles during migration? Hmmmm?

Actually, that is a good question. How did they evolve the ability to do that? Did the earliest birds only carry the coconut a few miles and it gradually increased over time? Seems unlikely they woud have the ability to carry it hundreds of miles in the first generation.

Half-Life is an outlier.

 

[ZiprHead]

Not the Onion.

President Donald Trump has rehired his former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former press secretary Sean Spicer almost three years after both men unceremoniously departed the White House.

This article was originally published at Salon

Priebus and Spicer will each join the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, according to a White House announcement Tuesday. As a part of the commission, the pair will interview and recommend to their former boss national finalists for appointments.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

What in the heck would Spicer know about such things? Also, I thought he was going to Newsmax.

 

[blastula]

Spicer is qualified for that job since he has been on a reality TV game show.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Herr Shitgibbon tweeted:

Last week the Fake News said that a section of our powerful, under construction, Southern Border Wall “fell over”, trying to make it sound terrible, except the reason was that the concrete foundation was just poured & soaking wet when big winds kicked in. Quickly fixed “forever”.

How powerful is a wall that can be crossed with a rope ladder, penetrated with a saw?

And, you know, the wall DID fall over. It's not fake news that the wall fell over. he even admits that the wall did indeed fall over. So why is it fake news?

And i thought competent construction would brace the wall until the 'soaking wet' concrete was dried? Even without 'big winds' you need to make sure it doesn't sag during drying.

And, really, i gotta wonder why 'forever' is in scare quotes? What is he even trying to say?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

George W. Bush's trip to Daytona in 2004 cameo'd in disguise as Trump's trip to Daytona in Twitter by the White House.

President Donald Trump's campaign manager deleted a tweet featuring a dramatic photo of Air Force One at the Daytona 500 after users pointed out that the shot was from President George W. Bush's visit to the NASCAR race in 2004, not from Trump's visit on Sunday.

Brad Parscale tweeted the 2004 photo, which shows Air Force One rising above packed stands at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida, and wrote, ".@realDonaldTrump won the #Daytona500 before the race even started."

Yeah, the Tweet was deleted when people noticed the issue. Was it a mistake? I'm not certain how it could possibly be a mistake.

Here are a couple of other images from Trump's Presidency.

Trump in England


Trump at an event in The Finger Lakes, New York

 

[Worldtraveller]

Where is he, in the back?