I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
The owner of Vauxhall will decide whether to close its UK plants within 'the next few weeks'.
Stellantis, Europe's second-largest car maker, has been weighing up its options for months amid a row with the Government over quotas for electric vehicles (EVs).
Tavares urged the Government to 'help to stimulate the demand' if they want firms such as Stellantis to sell a higher proportion of electric cars. He said the government threshold for green sales was about double 'natural' levels of demand.
No, that one's been a long time coming.
If we really wanted a serious EV industry in this country, we probably wouldn't start with Stellantis anyway. Their parent just gave up on battery manufacturing - and that's the essential part of the industry.
I believe it is very important that Kamala Harris pass a test on Cognitive Stamina and Agility. Her actions have led many to believe that there could be something very wrong with her. Even 60 Minutes and CBS, in order to protect Lyin’ Kamala, illegally and unscrupulously replaced an answer she had given, which was totally “bonkers,” with another answer that had nothing to do with the question asked. Also, she is slow and lethargic in answering even the easiest of questions. We just went through almost four years of that, we shouldn’t have to do it again! https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1845847872287424732
You know what would be a good test for cognitive stamina and agility, guy who writes Trump's social media posts ?
Somebody just pointed something out. This mass use of Ozempic and similar on unemployed people to get them to return to work raises two questions
1. Is the enforcement of drug use by the state to obtain benefits ethical? My initial reaction is "no", but I'm wondering if precedents exist, eg COVID vaxxes? 2. Is Ozempics and similar actually licences in the UK for weight-loss, or is this an off-label use?
Genuine questions both, if some kind PBer can provide info.
Mr. Eagles, a swift end without suffering is better than most of the alternatives.
I want to die like Chrysippus of Soli who died laughing at his own joke.
A donkey eating figs was his joke. Doesn't seem a rib tickler to me.
Perhaps it was better in the original Greek. Or perhaps it was better in the classical period. Humour doesn't really travel well through the ages - look at Max Wall. Or perhaps he was just easily amused.
It’s an interesting experiment. What is the oldest joke/line in English that still makes you laugh
It might be Byron. Some lines from Beppo and maybe Don Juan can induce a genuine chortle
Unlike Shakespeare
Personally, perhaps something from Chaucer or Pilgrim's Progress, if I can't have translations.
Checking, this is Anglo-Saxon (10C):
"What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? Answer: A key."
Appropriately my resource for the research into old jokes is dave.tv.
I don’t mean “witty” as in you “internally smile at the cleverness or humour or wordplay” - I mean actually make you laugh out loud. A little chuckle. Maybe even a guffaw
Somebody just pointed something out. This mass use of Ozempic and similar on unemployed people to get them to return to work raises two questions
1. Is the enforcement of drug use by the state to obtain benefits ethical? My initial reaction is "no", but I'm wondering if precedents exist, eg COVID vaxxes? 2. Is Ozempics and similar actually licences in the UK for weight-loss, or is this an off-label use?
Genuine questions both, if some kind PBer can provide info.
1. I don't think this scheme will be compulsory. Enforcement of drug use is rare. There are cases related to infectious diseases, as you mention. If you're sectioned, they could enforce drug usage.
2. Yes, Ozempic is licensed for weight loss in the UK.
Mr. Eagles, a swift end without suffering is better than most of the alternatives.
I want to die like Chrysippus of Soli who died laughing at his own joke.
A donkey eating figs was his joke. Doesn't seem a rib tickler to me.
Perhaps it was better in the original Greek. Or perhaps it was better in the classical period. Humour doesn't really travel well through the ages - look at Max Wall. Or perhaps he was just easily amused.
It’s an interesting experiment. What is the oldest joke/line in English that still makes you laugh
It might be Byron. Some lines from Beppo and maybe Don Juan can induce a genuine chortle
Unlike Shakespeare
Personally, perhaps something from Chaucer or Pilgrim's Progress, if I can't have translations.
Checking, this is Anglo-Saxon (10C):
"What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? Answer: A key."
Appropriately my resource for the research into old jokes is dave.tv.
I don’t mean “witty” as in you “internally smile at the cleverness or humour or wordplay” - I mean actually make you laugh out loud. A little chuckle. Maybe even a guffaw
I still haven’t found anything earlier than Byron
I remember having a few laugh-out-load moments over some lines of Pope.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
No, we're past the deplorables stage. She's got women because girl, and she's got Black women because of her racial mix. But she's coming up short with Black men and Hispanics, so this is her flailing attempt to fatten a pig on market day: it might work but she's left it rather late.
The owner of Vauxhall will decide whether to close its UK plants within 'the next few weeks'.
Stellantis, Europe's second-largest car maker, has been weighing up its options for months amid a row with the Government over quotas for electric vehicles (EVs).
Tavares urged the Government to 'help to stimulate the demand' if they want firms such as Stellantis to sell a higher proportion of electric cars. He said the government threshold for green sales was about double 'natural' levels of demand.
Those targets were introduced by the previous government I think after lobbying by car manufacturers who wanted government to force people to buy eVs.
Somebody just pointed something out. This mass use of Ozempic and similar on unemployed people to get them to return to work raises two questions
1. Is the enforcement of drug use by the state to obtain benefits ethical? My initial reaction is "no", but I'm wondering if precedents exist, eg COVID vaxxes? 2. Is Ozempics and similar actually licences in the UK for weight-loss, or is this an off-label use?
Genuine questions both, if some kind PBer can provide info.
1. I don't this scheme will be compulsory. Enforcement of drug use is rare. There are cases related to infectious diseases, as you mention. If you're sectioned, they could enforce drug usage.
2. Yes, Ozempic is licensed for weight loss in the UK.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
Have you seen Bob Monkhouse's "The Business of Comedy"? It's fascinating watching him in his "chat show/LE" persona but asking questions that he and his interviewee have clearly discussed "seriously" in the green room.
I saw him at a corporate event
His off TV show would probably be banned these days
the clown should be banned for being teh unfunniest comedian in the country ( joint top when saddo Corden gets back ).
I must admit, I didn't have Bob Monkhouse down as today's target for Malc's fury.
Put your specs on cookie , I was talking Carr
Agree; I don't Carr at all funny.
Carr can be an acquired taste, and like food and drink we all have our preferences. Where he is interesting is on the edges of how far you can push humour. Can you make jokes about the queen dying on the day she dies, or do you need to wait (how long?). Billy Connolly was pulled up by a heckler at a gig over a joke about an Isis hostage being decapitated. I'm not going to say right or wrong, but everyone has a line.
We've seen multiple cases in recent times of the police behaving in ways we, as a society, don't agree with. Lacking respect for victims of murder etc. And yet none of use (or few at any rate) have to deal with the things that the police sometimes do. My father, the ex-policeman, says that the humour can be very dark, as a way to cope. What's happened in some cases is that the humour is no longer down the pub, but on WhatsApp and that then becomes an issue. Personally I think police should be able to post whatever shit they want on personal WhatsApp groups, as long as their behaviour at work meets acceptable standards. But not everyone will agree.
Inc photos of murder victims?
No. That's too much. But arguably jokes about it, I'm ok with that. The issue has become the use of social media for the banter.
Have you seen Bob Monkhouse's "The Business of Comedy"? It's fascinating watching him in his "chat show/LE" persona but asking questions that he and his interviewee have clearly discussed "seriously" in the green room.
I saw him at a corporate event
His off TV show would probably be banned these days
the clown should be banned for being teh unfunniest comedian in the country ( joint top when saddo Corden gets back ).
I must admit, I didn't have Bob Monkhouse down as today's target for Malc's fury.
Especially as Monkhouse has been dead these past ten years.
Monkhouse was great, it is that unfunny clown Carr I was talking about , and threw in the equally bad and unfunny Corden for good measure.
Corden has a talent for physical theatre unmatched in anyone else I've seen. I saw him in One Man Two Governors and I'd say his was the funniest performance I've ever seen on stage. Jimmy Carr though is certainly not to my taste, I just don't find him funny, although I've not seen him live. Stewart Lee is probably the funniest stand up comedian I've seen live.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
The policies are not just for black voters. Anyway you cremated the alleged Columbus Day deplorables moment yesterday which went nowhere, so we’re now onto crypto gate !
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
The owner of Vauxhall will decide whether to close its UK plants within 'the next few weeks'.
Stellantis, Europe's second-largest car maker, has been weighing up its options for months amid a row with the Government over quotas for electric vehicles (EVs).
Tavares urged the Government to 'help to stimulate the demand' if they want firms such as Stellantis to sell a higher proportion of electric cars. He said the government threshold for green sales was about double 'natural' levels of demand.
No, that one's been a long time coming.
If we really wanted a serious EV industry in this country, we probably wouldn't start with Stellantis anyway. Their parent just gave up on battery manufacturing - and that's the essential part of the industry.
Try my suggestion.
Offer a subsidy X per Wh of storage in ZEV delivered to an actual customer. X scaled to the UK content of the storage - nothing for 100% imported.
To start with - that will only need actually paying out long after the next election. So a cheap promise.
No picking winners. Just rewarding actual working, delivered solutions. Note that it would be applicable not just to every kind of battery technology, but any other way of powering a vehicle that is Zero Emissions.
If his rallies are going so poorly and recent polls have Harris ahead how do we account for his 1.79 price on bf? Too short surely?
It's baffling. People who reasonably pointed out "Sleepy Joe" getting past it appear not to notice Donald Trump's obviously demented behaviour to the extent he's not functioning properly any more.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
But I was the PBer who went and did the research and I was the first PBer who pointed out the Columbus video is old. So, no
This is definitely new and it definitely feels bad
If nothing else, it smacks of desperation. As @Andy_JS says, it feels like it’s from the losing candidate’s playbook
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
True , Trump could blow up a school bus and all we’d get from Leon is a shrug !
Have you seen Bob Monkhouse's "The Business of Comedy"? It's fascinating watching him in his "chat show/LE" persona but asking questions that he and his interviewee have clearly discussed "seriously" in the green room.
I saw him at a corporate event
His off TV show would probably be banned these days
the clown should be banned for being teh unfunniest comedian in the country ( joint top when saddo Corden gets back ).
I must admit, I didn't have Bob Monkhouse down as today's target for Malc's fury.
Put your specs on cookie , I was talking Carr
Eh? How on earth was I to infer that from the chain above?
Excuses, excuses. Once you are in a hole don't keep digging Cookie!
I was dry as dust in terms of market confidence, and balanced the budget by 2025, by 2p on income tax, scrapping the triple lock etc I don't think the oldies will love me but at least they will get their hips done.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
The policies are not just for black voters. Anyway you cremated the alleged Columbus Day deplorables moment yesterday which went nowhere, so we’re now onto crypto gate !
But where is the catwomen moment? If Trump does lose then Vance’s cat women comment may become the iconic moment.
Of course in reality these single comments don’t win or lose elections, any more than Brown’s bigoted woman or Kinnock’s we’re all right.
Have you seen Bob Monkhouse's "The Business of Comedy"? It's fascinating watching him in his "chat show/LE" persona but asking questions that he and his interviewee have clearly discussed "seriously" in the green room.
I saw him at a corporate event
His off TV show would probably be banned these days
the clown should be banned for being teh unfunniest comedian in the country ( joint top when saddo Corden gets back ).
I must admit, I didn't have Bob Monkhouse down as today's target for Malc's fury.
Especially as Monkhouse has been dead these past ten years.
Monkhouse was great, it is that unfunny clown Carr I was talking about , and threw in the equally bad and unfunny Corden for good measure.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
True , Trump could blow up a school bus and all we’d get from Leon is a shrug !
Er, I continually point out that Trump is a mad dangerous clown
But unlike most of PB I am also willing to point out bad news for Harris
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
True , Trump could blow up a school bus and all we’d get from Leon is a shrug !
Er, I continually point out that Trump is a bad dangerous clown
But unlike most of PB I am also willing to point out bad news for Harris
I look forward then to reading your further critiques of Trump . And yet you seem to want the bad dangerous clown to win.
Have you seen Bob Monkhouse's "The Business of Comedy"? It's fascinating watching him in his "chat show/LE" persona but asking questions that he and his interviewee have clearly discussed "seriously" in the green room.
I saw him at a corporate event
His off TV show would probably be banned these days
the clown should be banned for being teh unfunniest comedian in the country ( joint top when saddo Corden gets back ).
I must admit, I didn't have Bob Monkhouse down as today's target for Malc's fury.
Especially as Monkhouse has been dead these past ten years.
Monkhouse was great, it is that unfunny clown Carr I was talking about , and threw in the equally bad and unfunny Corden for good measure.
Corden has a talent for physical theatre unmatched in anyone else I've seen. I saw him in One Man Two Governors and I'd say his was the funniest performance I've ever seen on stage. Jimmy Carr though is certainly not to my taste, I just don't find him funny, although I've not seen him live. Stewart Lee is probably the funniest stand up comedian I've seen live.
And I have little time for Stewart Lee.
Comedy is extremely subjective. My wife doesn't like Stewart Lee either.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
A wish is not a claim upon reality. Predictable from you though.
The owner of Vauxhall will decide whether to close its UK plants within 'the next few weeks'.
Stellantis, Europe's second-largest car maker, has been weighing up its options for months amid a row with the Government over quotas for electric vehicles (EVs).
Tavares urged the Government to 'help to stimulate the demand' if they want firms such as Stellantis to sell a higher proportion of electric cars. He said the government threshold for green sales was about double 'natural' levels of demand.
Those targets were introduced by the previous government I think after lobbying by car manufacturers who wanted government to force people to buy eVs.
Other way round - government had targets, working backwards from Net Zero dates. The existing car manufacturers kept dragging their feet - they really don't like having to invest in the battery plants. They kinda assumed that they could just buy from China - despite people with calculators pointing out that each car plant needs a battery plant, basically.
So if you turn up in China and ask to buy EV batteries in useful quantities, you are really asking someone to build an entire factory. Which really brings you back to being better off making your own.
Have you seen Bob Monkhouse's "The Business of Comedy"? It's fascinating watching him in his "chat show/LE" persona but asking questions that he and his interviewee have clearly discussed "seriously" in the green room.
I saw him at a corporate event
His off TV show would probably be banned these days
the clown should be banned for being teh unfunniest comedian in the country ( joint top when saddo Corden gets back ).
I must admit, I didn't have Bob Monkhouse down as today's target for Malc's fury.
Put your specs on cookie , I was talking Carr
Agree; I don't Carr at all funny.
Carr can be an acquired taste, and like food and drink we all have our preferences. Where he is interesting is on the edges of how far you can push humour. Can you make jokes about the queen dying on the day she dies, or do you need to wait (how long?). Billy Connolly was pulled up by a heckler at a gig over a joke about an Isis hostage being decapitated. I'm not going to say right or wrong, but everyone has a line.
We've seen multiple cases in recent times of the police behaving in ways we, as a society, don't agree with. Lacking respect for victims of murder etc. And yet none of use (or few at any rate) have to deal with the things that the police sometimes do. My father, the ex-policeman, says that the humour can be very dark, as a way to cope. What's happened in some cases is that the humour is no longer down the pub, but on WhatsApp and that then becomes an issue. Personally I think police should be able to post whatever shit they want on personal WhatsApp groups, as long as their behaviour at work meets acceptable standards. But not everyone will agree.
Inc photos of murder victims?
No. That's too much. But arguably jokes about it, I'm ok with that. The issue has become the use of social media for the banter.
There have always been things that you would say, privately to people who share your sense of humour, that you wouldn't write down.
The thing we're still struggling with is that people use social media as though it's ephemeral and private, when it's actually permanent and public.
On comedians, I’m of the view that they must all be there because they are very talented. Some may be more to our taste than others but this is another case of that British cult of amateurism where we all reckon mastering a skill is easy and anyone can do it.
Standup comedy must be one of the most punishingly difficult skills to master in the whole entertainment industry.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
Low IQ Leon probably struggled to comprehend the erudite responses.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's slightly odd. His contributions on the US election are not at all what you would expect from someone who'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it.
Have you seen Bob Monkhouse's "The Business of Comedy"? It's fascinating watching him in his "chat show/LE" persona but asking questions that he and his interviewee have clearly discussed "seriously" in the green room.
I saw him at a corporate event
His off TV show would probably be banned these days
the clown should be banned for being teh unfunniest comedian in the country ( joint top when saddo Corden gets back ).
I must admit, I didn't have Bob Monkhouse down as today's target for Malc's fury.
Especially as Monkhouse has been dead these past ten years.
Monkhouse was great, it is that unfunny clown Carr I was talking about , and threw in the equally bad and unfunny Corden for good measure.
Corden has a talent for physical theatre unmatched in anyone else I've seen. I saw him in One Man Two Governors and I'd say his was the funniest performance I've ever seen on stage. Jimmy Carr though is certainly not to my taste, I just don't find him funny, although I've not seen him live. Stewart Lee is probably the funniest stand up comedian I've seen live.
And I have little time for Stewart Lee.
Comedy is extremely subjective. My wife doesn't like Stewart Lee either.
I think you need to work on a better punchline.
Comedy is extremely subjective. It's nothing to laugh about.
Have you seen Bob Monkhouse's "The Business of Comedy"? It's fascinating watching him in his "chat show/LE" persona but asking questions that he and his interviewee have clearly discussed "seriously" in the green room.
I saw him at a corporate event
His off TV show would probably be banned these days
the clown should be banned for being teh unfunniest comedian in the country ( joint top when saddo Corden gets back ).
I must admit, I didn't have Bob Monkhouse down as today's target for Malc's fury.
Put your specs on cookie , I was talking Carr
Eh? How on earth was I to infer that from the chain above?
It started here cookie ,
His one funny joke. Well to me it is.
"A guy came up to me the other day in the street wearing a hi-viz and with a clipboard and he said "Sir, have you got ten minutes for medical research" to which I replied "we won't get much done in that time"
The Sumerian version of this is
A man with an ankle-length robe asks have you a gesh to consider the will of the gods. I replied "we won't influence them much in that time."
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's slightly odd. His contributions on the US election are not at all what you would expect from someone who'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
Leon makes a habit of them. But we put up with him.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
Have you seen Bob Monkhouse's "The Business of Comedy"? It's fascinating watching him in his "chat show/LE" persona but asking questions that he and his interviewee have clearly discussed "seriously" in the green room.
I saw him at a corporate event
His off TV show would probably be banned these days
the clown should be banned for being teh unfunniest comedian in the country ( joint top when saddo Corden gets back ).
I must admit, I didn't have Bob Monkhouse down as today's target for Malc's fury.
Especially as Monkhouse has been dead these past ten years.
Monkhouse was great, it is that unfunny clown Carr I was talking about , and threw in the equally bad and unfunny Corden for good measure.
Corden has a talent for physical theatre unmatched in anyone else I've seen. I saw him in One Man Two Governors and I'd say his was the funniest performance I've ever seen on stage. Jimmy Carr though is certainly not to my taste, I just don't find him funny, although I've not seen him live. Stewart Lee is probably the funniest stand up comedian I've seen live.
And I have little time for Stewart Lee.
Comedy is extremely subjective. My wife doesn't like Stewart Lee either.
It's also hysterical, like yawning - if you are around a bunch of people who are laughing themselves silly you're much more likely to find something funny than if you're alone or with people with straight faces.
And I think it's age dependent too - teenagers and young adults are more likely to laugh at stuff than older people.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
Low IQ Leon probably struggled to comprehend the erudite responses.
Just as long as you all keep talking about me. Which you do. Endlessly, even when I’m not here
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
Low IQ Leon probably struggled to comprehend the erudite responses.
Just as long as you all keep talking about me. Which you do. Endlessly, even when I’m not here
Have you managed to get the GPS working on your GPS watch yet?
I meet the fiscal rules with a 1p income tax cut and £3bn off various business taxes balanced by a £3bn rise in CGT. Fun little game, my budget would forecast a 2% current budget surplus by 2029/30 but involves big cuts to current spending an a fairly big increase to investment.
On comedians, I’m of the view that they must all be there because they are very talented. Some may be more to our taste than others but this is another case of that British cult of amateurism where we all reckon mastering a skill is easy and anyone can do it.
Standup comedy must be one of the most punishingly difficult skills to master in the whole entertainment industry.
"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”
Not uproariously funny, but it has farting in it, so relatable. The site also identifies the oldest 'walked into a bar' joke, which has definitely lost something in the translation or over the years:
“A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’”
We also have a fourth century BC Greek joke book, which contains things syntactically recognisable as jokes, including this one which has endured to the present day and which may possibly be the world's oldest extant joke:
“Asked by the court barber how he wanted his hair cut, the witty fellow replied: ‘In silence.’”
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
Low IQ Leon probably struggled to comprehend the erudite responses.
Just as long as you all keep talking about me. Which you do. Endlessly, even when I’m not here
Have you managed to get the GPS working on your GPS watch yet?
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
Low IQ Leon probably struggled to comprehend the erudite responses.
Just as long as you all keep talking about me. Which you do. Endlessly, even when I’m not here
Have you managed to get the GPS working on your GPS watch yet?
I’ve been on a plane for << checks smartwatch >> 17 hours
The owner of Vauxhall will decide whether to close its UK plants within 'the next few weeks'.
Stellantis, Europe's second-largest car maker, has been weighing up its options for months amid a row with the Government over quotas for electric vehicles (EVs).
Tavares urged the Government to 'help to stimulate the demand' if they want firms such as Stellantis to sell a higher proportion of electric cars. He said the government threshold for green sales was about double 'natural' levels of demand.
No, that one's been a long time coming.
If we really wanted a serious EV industry in this country, we probably wouldn't start with Stellantis anyway. Their parent just gave up on battery manufacturing - and that's the essential part of the industry.
Try my suggestion.
Offer a subsidy X per Wh of storage in ZEV delivered to an actual customer. X scaled to the UK content of the storage - nothing for 100% imported.
To start with - that will only need actually paying out long after the next election. So a cheap promise.
No picking winners. Just rewarding actual working, delivered solutions. Note that it would be applicable not just to every kind of battery technology, but any other way of powering a vehicle that is Zero Emissions.
China would have one up and running before that, if we included them in the offer, I suspect.
GM/Stellantis has pressed the brake pedal on its battery plans, and it looks as though they'll be relying on other manufacturers for quite a lot of their battery supplies.
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's slightly odd. His contributions on the US election are not at all what you would expect from someone who'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it.
Well look, I'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it. But Donald Trump's failings are well known. It's sadly no longer particularly interesting to say 'look at what terrible thing Donald Trump has said now' because he can't actually appear any more unhinged than he already is. If he came onto stage and held his finger horizontally on his lips and flickered it up and down going 'bibibibibibibibi', grinned and pointed at his audience, then walked off, it would no longer particularly surprise us, would it? Whereas Kamala becoming more awful - like the clip from 2021 yesterday, and this tweet today - is new news. I don't want Trump to win. But Kamala is going to blow it by being an identity-obsessed lunatic who appears to disapprove of the concept of her country and most of the people in it. Isn't she? All she had to do was appear the reasonable centrist, but she can't, because that's not where her instincts lie, and she thinks the views of the weird identity-obsessed crowd she hangs round with are the views of the whole country. It's kind of frustrating. And worthy of comment.
If his rallies are going so poorly and recent polls have Harris ahead how do we account for his 1.79 price on bf? Too short surely?
I have a suspicion that some of the polls and betting sites are being manipulated by the Trump campaign to set up the narrative that the election was stolen.
They have the money to distort the betting and partisan polling outfits that hide their methodology, and they have the motive and ability.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
Low IQ Leon probably struggled to comprehend the erudite responses.
Just as long as you all keep talking about me. Which you do. Endlessly, even when I’m not here
That’s because you’re the best anti-tipster on the site.
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
Low IQ Leon probably struggled to comprehend the erudite responses.
Just as long as you all keep talking about me. Which you do. Endlessly, even when I’m not here
That sounds a bit insecure if you need people to talk about you. I'd rather meld into the background, which, before you say it, I do rather successfully, particularly if people were going to make fun of me.
"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”
Not uproariously funny, but it has farting in it, so relatable. The site also identifies the oldest 'walked into a bar' joke, which has definitely lost something in the translation or over the years:
“A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’”
We also have a fourth century BC Greek joke book, which contains things syntactically recognisable as jokes, including this one which has endured to the present day and which may possibly be the world's oldest extant joke:
“Asked by the court barber how he wanted his hair cut, the witty fellow replied: ‘In silence.’”
Isn’t the dog one just a version of:
“Man walks into a bar. Ouch. “
I doubt it - because it seems unlikely that the ancient Sumerian word for 'bar' was the same as their word for 'bar'. I'm with @mwadams - understanding this joke is the key to understanding that culture. Tantalising.
"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”
Not uproariously funny, but it has farting in it, so relatable. The site also identifies the oldest 'walked into a bar' joke, which has definitely lost something in the translation or over the years:
“A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’”
We also have a fourth century BC Greek joke book, which contains things syntactically recognisable as jokes, including this one which has endured to the present day and which may possibly be the world's oldest extant joke:
“Asked by the court barber how he wanted his hair cut, the witty fellow replied: ‘In silence.’”
Isn’t the dog one just a version of:
“Man walks into a bar. Ouch. “
A few months ago I heard a joke which I told here and it still makes me giggle each time I think of it so here is a second outing:
I have become a fruitarian. I only eat things that fall from trees. So far today I have had 2 apples, a pear and a squirrel.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
Low IQ Leon probably struggled to comprehend the erudite responses.
Just as long as you all keep talking about me. Which you do. Endlessly, even when I’m not here
That sounds a bit insecure if you need people to talk about you. I'd rather meld into the background, which, before you say it, I do rather successfully, particularly if people were going to make fun of me.
I’ve never exactly hidden the fact I’m an exhibitionist. In fact, I’m quite exhibitionist about it
Not always a positive trait - by any means - but generally quite useful in the arts and journalism given that they both require you to put yourself out there
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If his rallies are going so poorly and recent polls have Harris ahead how do we account for his 1.79 price on bf? Too short surely?
I have a suspicion that some of the polls and betting sites are being manipulated by the Trump campaign to set up the narrative that the election was stolen.
They have the money to distort the betting and partisan polling outfits that hide their methodology, and they have the motive and ability.
It might be a betting opportunity.
Remember not to bet more than you can afford to lose.
It feels like a core vote strategy from Kamala recently. Is private polling showing huge Trump leads?
It's annoying that we care so much. It's a foreign country. If we're going to get our knickers in a twist about it so much, perhaps we shouldn't have handed them de facto control over our country. I'm sure they think Trump is a bit of a joke in France too, but I doubt they're having meltdowns about it.
"Penny Mordaunt has distanced herself from Robert Jenrick’s campaign after the Tory leadership contender featured her in a social media post without her permission."
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it
Feels a bit weird though.
It is really really weird. It’s so obviously counter productive and she’s tweeted it to her 20 million followers. So no one needs to “amplify” it she is amped to the max anyway
It basically says “if you’re a white man I don’t want or need your vote” - unless you are a white man who is exceedingly woke and well disposed to her. For a anyone else - for a floating white male voter it’s seriously off-putting
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
It feels like a core vote strategy from Kamala recently. Is private polling showing huge Trump leads?
It's annoying that we care so much. It's a foreign country. If we're going to get our knickers in a twist about it so much, perhaps we shouldn't have handed them de facto control over our country. I'm sure they think Trump is a bit of a joke in France too, but I doubt they're having meltdowns about it.
Actually I think they are. The whole world is looking at this election
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it
Feels a bit weird though.
It is really really weird. It’s so obviously counter productive and she’s tweeted it to her 20 million followers. So no one needs to “amplify” it she is amped to the max anyway
It basically says “if you’re a white man I don’t want your vote” - unless you are a white man who is exceedingly woke and well disposed to her. For a anyone else - for a floating white male voter it’s seriously off-putting
Maybe she genuinely believes the majority of white people want to see black people prioritised like her little clique of the left does, so will approve of this. If you were a politician in a tight election, you probably wouldn't be tweeting things unless you thought a) your followers, and b) your potential voters would approve. She must genuinely think this will make her look a more appealing candidate than had she not tweeted it.
Mr. Eagles, a swift end without suffering is better than most of the alternatives.
I want to die like Chrysippus of Soli who died laughing at his own joke.
A donkey eating figs was his joke. Doesn't seem a rib tickler to me.
Perhaps it was better in the original Greek. Or perhaps it was better in the classical period. Humour doesn't really travel well through the ages - look at Max Wall. Or perhaps he was just easily amused.
It’s an interesting experiment. What is the oldest joke/line in English that still makes you laugh
It might be Byron. Some lines from Beppo and maybe Don Juan can induce a genuine chortle
Unlike Shakespeare
Personally, perhaps something from Chaucer or Pilgrim's Progress, if I can't have translations.
Checking, this is Anglo-Saxon (10C):
"What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? Answer: A key."
Appropriately my resource for the research into old jokes is dave.tv.
I don’t mean “witty” as in you “internally smile at the cleverness or humour or wordplay” - I mean actually make you laugh out loud. A little chuckle. Maybe even a guffaw
I still haven’t found anything earlier than Byron
I think that gets trickier the further the warp and weft of the culture becomes distant - so explanations become needed. "Laugh out loud" is dependent imo on underlying shared assumptions / understandings / experiences, so needs more closeness.
I'm reminded of Usonian "reactions" Youtubers watching Al Murray, whether as himself or as the Pub Landlord, and commenters needing to explain the other half of it to the person making the video.
Compare that to the Misheard Lyrics sketch from Peter Kay, where because it is pop music is far more a shared experience.
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it.
Feels a bit weird though.
It looks a perfectly legit tweet to me and nothing out of the ordinary. It would look weird in a British election campaign but remember American daily life is much more racially demarcated than here and this seems fairly run of the mill. Nothing on the tweet is particularly controversial.
The British equivalent would be something that listed the candidate's policies for working class people, or indeed something from a Scottish politician that listed policies that were good for Scotland.
The idea that having good policies for black men or acknowledging historical wrongs visited on native Americans means she hates her country suggests, well, a rather ethno-centric idea of what "her country" should look like.
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it
Feels a bit weird though.
It is really really weird. It’s so obviously counter productive and she’s tweeted it to her 20 million followers. So no one needs to “amplify” it she is amped to the max anyway
It basically says “if you’re a white man I don’t want your vote” - unless you are a white man who is exceedingly woke and well disposed to her. For a anyone else - for a floating white male voter it’s seriously off-putting
Maybe she genuinely believes the majority of white people want to see black people prioritised like her little clique of the left does, so will approve of this. If you were a politician in a tight election, you probably wouldn't be tweeting things unless you thought a) your followers, and b) your potential voters would approve. She must genuinely think this will make her look a more appealing candidate than had she not tweeted it.
It’s a also a gift to Vance and his “they don’t care about whites, especially working/ordinary white guys” shtick
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it
Feels a bit weird though.
It is really really weird. It’s so obviously counter productive and she’s tweeted it to her 20 million followers. So no one needs to “amplify” it she is amped to the max anyway
It basically says “if you’re a white man I don’t want your vote” - unless you are a white man who is exceedingly woke and well disposed to her. For a anyone else - for a floating white male voter it’s seriously off-putting
Maybe she genuinely believes the majority of white people want to see black people prioritised like her little clique of the left does, so will approve of this. If you were a politician in a tight election, you probably wouldn't be tweeting things unless you thought a) your followers, and b) your potential voters would approve. She must genuinely think this will make her look a more appealing candidate than had she not tweeted it.
Had a quick look. Seems to be addressed to black men. I think there is some anxiety that Trump's faux big man schtik is peeling them off from the Dems. Obama specifically addressed this in a recent speech. I guess they are a key constituency for Harris and she can't afford to lose many of them. Whether this is a sensible approach, I dunno.
It feels like a core vote strategy from Kamala recently. Is private polling showing huge Trump leads?
I've not been following it 'too' closely, but this doesn't seem of a confident Harris strategy or mood music.
I think a lot of people, especially in this country (looking at you Ali Campbell and Rory Stewart) just can't get their head around Trump and a Trump win that they see everything through a prism.
It feels like a core vote strategy from Kamala recently. Is private polling showing huge Trump leads?
It's annoying that we care so much. It's a foreign country. If we're going to get our knickers in a twist about it so much, perhaps we shouldn't have handed them de facto control over our country. I'm sure they think Trump is a bit of a joke in France too, but I doubt they're having meltdowns about it.
France should be because America is very important to the rest of the world (probably more so than any other country) and therefore Trump getting elected should be a big issue to the rest of the world if he turns out as bonkers as many (including me) think he is.
I'm interested in one of your phrases 'we shouldn't have handed them de facto control over our country'. How have we done that? The USA have tremendous influence, but we didn't hand it to them. They acquired it through their strength. The nearest I can come to in terms of handing them control is weapons. Can't think of anything else.
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it.
Feels a bit weird though.
It looks a perfectly legit tweet to me and nothing out of the ordinary. It would look weird in a British election campaign but remember American daily life is much more racially demarcated than here and this seems fairly run of the mill. Nothing on the tweet is particularly controversial.
The British equivalent would be something that listed the candidate's policies for working class people, or indeed something from a Scottish politician that listed policies that were good for Scotland.
The idea that having good policies for black men or acknowledging historical wrongs visited on native Americans means she hates her country suggests, well, a rather ethno-centric idea of what "her country" should look like.
I dunno about that. Remember all the squealing from pensioners when the Tories cut NI that they weren't benefitting? I don't think people in Britain particularly like to see policies that benefit people other than themselves either.
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it.
Feels a bit weird though.
It looks a perfectly legit tweet to me and nothing out of the ordinary. It would look weird in a British election campaign but remember American daily life is much more racially demarcated than here and this seems fairly run of the mill. Nothing on the tweet is particularly controversial.
The British equivalent would be something that listed the candidate's policies for working class people, or indeed something from a Scottish politician that listed policies that were good for Scotland.
The idea that having good policies for black men or acknowledging historical wrongs visited on native Americans means she hates her country suggests, well, a rather ethno-centric idea of what "her country" should look like.
If that is the case then why have thousands of Trumpites gleefully seized on it and retweeted it with such eagerness?
THEY clearly think it is a major gaffe. Even in the “American context”
I’m sorry. It’s just a stupid tweet to put out when you are in the closing weeks of a very tight and epochal election. The potential downside is clearly much greater than the potential upside
It’s also just mad.
“I will protect black men from their own mad crypto Investments”
“I will legalise weed so black men can deal drugs”
It feels like a core vote strategy from Kamala recently. Is private polling showing huge Trump leads?...
Define "huge". There have been:
* rumours saying that she was behind with Blacks and Hispanics * arguments developing about the role of her Super-PAC concentrating on broadcast media and the electorate generally, whilst neglecting social media targeting sub-groups specifically * somebody said she was "underwater" in one of the rust-belt states * the Teamsters split * they have moved from attacking him to defending her, which is not good and feeds to his strengths
So although there still is a case for arguing she is in the lead (greater recruitment, bigger GOTV, bigger postal votes), it is becoming less convincing
I am also what the hell Trump was doing in Colorado, which is IIUC not a low-hanging fruit. Is he doing an end-run again around the Dem states, like he did in 2016?
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's really odd that Leon never focuses on the more shocking stuff that Trump comes out with.
Yesterday he asked whether Trump is racist and lots of people provided answers as to how Trump is racist, but he never responded to any of them.
Low IQ Leon probably struggled to comprehend the erudite responses.
Just as long as you all keep talking about me. Which you do. Endlessly, even when I’m not here
Have you managed to get the GPS working on your GPS watch yet?
I’ve been on a plane for << checks smartwatch >> 17 hours
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it
Feels a bit weird though.
It is really really weird. It’s so obviously counter productive and she’s tweeted it to her 20 million followers. So no one needs to “amplify” it she is amped to the max anyway
It basically says “if you’re a white man I don’t want your vote” - unless you are a white man who is exceedingly woke and well disposed to her. For a anyone else - for a floating white male voter it’s seriously off-putting
Maybe she genuinely believes the majority of white people want to see black people prioritised like her little clique of the left does, so will approve of this. If you were a politician in a tight election, you probably wouldn't be tweeting things unless you thought a) your followers, and b) your potential voters would approve. She must genuinely think this will make her look a more appealing candidate than had she not tweeted it.
Had a quick look. Seems to be addressed to black men. I think there is some anxiety that Trump's faux big man schtik is peeling them off from the Dems. Obama specifically addressed this in a recent speech. I guess they are a key constituency for Harris and she can't afford to lose many of them. Whether this is a sensible approach, I dunno.
One unacknowledged factor might be misogyny among that group.
Mr. Eagles, a swift end without suffering is better than most of the alternatives.
I want to die like Chrysippus of Soli who died laughing at his own joke.
A donkey eating figs was his joke. Doesn't seem a rib tickler to me.
Perhaps it was better in the original Greek. Or perhaps it was better in the classical period. Humour doesn't really travel well through the ages - look at Max Wall. Or perhaps he was just easily amused.
It’s an interesting experiment. What is the oldest joke/line in English that still makes you laugh
It might be Byron. Some lines from Beppo and maybe Don Juan can induce a genuine chortle
Unlike Shakespeare
Personally, perhaps something from Chaucer or Pilgrim's Progress, if I can't have translations.
Checking, this is Anglo-Saxon (10C):
"What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? Answer: A key."
Appropriately my resource for the research into old jokes is dave.tv.
I don’t mean “witty” as in you “internally smile at the cleverness or humour or wordplay” - I mean actually make you laugh out loud. A little chuckle. Maybe even a guffaw
I still haven’t found anything earlier than Byron
I think that gets trickier the further the warp and weft of the culture becomes distant - so explanations become needed. "Laugh out loud" is dependent imo on underlying shared assumptions / understandings / experiences, so needs more closeness.
I'm reminded of Usonian "reactions" Youtubers watching Al Murray, whether as himself or as the Pub Landlord, and commenters needing to explain the other half of it to the person making the video.
Compare that to the Misheard Lyrics sketch from Peter Kay, where because it is pop music is far more a shared experience.
Comics are under constant pressure to come up with new material and most run out of inspiration sooner or later. This compares unfavourably with rock bands whose fans just want to hear, for the nth time, familiar old tracks from the 90s/80s/70s or 60s.
Also, they have to avoid conversations like:
"What do you so?" "I'm a comedian." "Say something funny." "..." "What do you really do?"
It feels like a core vote strategy from Kamala recently. Is private polling showing huge Trump leads?...
Define "huge". There have been:
* rumours saying that she was behind with Blacks and Hispanics * arguments developing about the role of her Super-PAC concentrating on broadcast media and the electorate generally, whilst neglecting social media targeting sub-groups specifically * somebody said she was "underwater" in one of the rust-belt states * the Teamsters split * they have moved from attacking him to defending her, which is not good and feeds to his strengths
So although there still is a case for arguing she is in the lead (greater recruitment, bigger GOTV, bigger postal votes), it is becoming less convincing
I am also what the hell Trump was doing in Colorado, which is IIUC not a low-hanging fruit. Is he doing an end-run again around the Dem states, like he did in 2016?
She has outspent Trump on social media recently by massive amounts.
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it.
Feels a bit weird though.
It looks a perfectly legit tweet to me and nothing out of the ordinary. It would look weird in a British election campaign but remember American daily life is much more racially demarcated than here and this seems fairly run of the mill. Nothing on the tweet is particularly controversial.
The British equivalent would be something that listed the candidate's policies for working class people, or indeed something from a Scottish politician that listed policies that were good for Scotland.
The idea that having good policies for black men or acknowledging historical wrongs visited on native Americans means she hates her country suggests, well, a rather ethno-centric idea of what "her country" should look like.
I dunno about that. Remember all the squealing from pensioners when the Tories cut NI that they weren't benefitting? I don't think people in Britain particularly like to see policies that benefit people other than themselves either.
There's quite a lot in that last sentence .
I've been arguing amongst friends for a 15% increase in our Council Tax, since last year. Taxes on "me" are not very popular.
• Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business • Support education training, and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, including pathways to become teachers • Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe • Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately impact Black men • Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry
This has got to be a spoof, right?
"Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe"
Is probably the most insane policy I've seen. Are they going to have a race bar on an investment value protection scheme?
More likely it was an email to a subset of voters where they took a handful of her policies and added “for black men”
If it's a spoof account it's a very successful one - 21 million followers.
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it.
Feels a bit weird though.
It looks a perfectly legit tweet to me and nothing out of the ordinary. It would look weird in a British election campaign but remember American daily life is much more racially demarcated than here and this seems fairly run of the mill. Nothing on the tweet is particularly controversial.
The British equivalent would be something that listed the candidate's policies for working class people, or indeed something from a Scottish politician that listed policies that were good for Scotland.
The idea that having good policies for black men or acknowledging historical wrongs visited on native Americans means she hates her country suggests, well, a rather ethno-centric idea of what "her country" should look like.
It’s weird how the ‘Trump knows how to reach the US clitoris in ways we uptight Brits can’t understand’ guys have an insight into how Kamala is fckng up how she connects to sections of the US electorate.
It feels like a core vote strategy from Kamala recently. Is private polling showing huge Trump leads?...
Define "huge". There have been:
* rumours saying that she was behind with Blacks and Hispanics * arguments developing about the role of her Super-PAC concentrating on broadcast media and the electorate generally, whilst neglecting social media targeting sub-groups specifically * somebody said she was "underwater" in one of the rust-belt states * the Teamsters split * they have moved from attacking him to defending her, which is not good and feeds to his strengths
So although there still is a case for arguing she is in the lead (greater recruitment, bigger GOTV, bigger postal votes), it is becoming less convincing
I am also what the hell Trump was doing in Colorado, which is IIUC not a low-hanging fruit. Is he doing an end-run again around the Dem states, like he did in 2016?
She has outspent Trump on social media recently by massive amounts.
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's slightly odd. His contributions on the US election are not at all what you would expect from someone who'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it.
Well look, I'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it. But Donald Trump's failings are well known. It's sadly no longer particularly interesting to say 'look at what terrible thing Donald Trump has said now' because he can't actually appear any more unhinged than he already is. If he came onto stage and held his finger horizontally on his lips and flickered it up and down going 'bibibibibibibibi', grinned and pointed at his audience, then walked off, it would no longer particularly surprise us, would it? Whereas Kamala becoming more awful - like the clip from 2021 yesterday, and this tweet today - is new news. I don't want Trump to win. But Kamala is going to blow it by being an identity-obsessed lunatic who appears to disapprove of the concept of her country and most of the people in it. Isn't she? All she had to do was appear the reasonable centrist, but she can't, because that's not where her instincts lie, and she thinks the views of the weird identity-obsessed crowd she hangs round with are the views of the whole country. It's kind of frustrating. And worthy of comment.
That clip wasn't part of the campaign it was from 3 years ago. Hardly new news. And this today is a targeted pitch to a voter segment (young black men) who Donald Trump has been making gains with. It's nothing more or less than you'd expect her to be doing.
As for the content it's generalities given a boilerplate to suit. Eg on the bitcoin it's about better regulation (ie protection) for all investors. It doesn't mean indemnification against losses and it doesn't mean it only applies to black men. That's obvious and I'm surprised anybody on here would think otherwise. Course how many genuinely got the wrong of the stick vs how many pretended they did in order to become outraged by an example of Kamala Harris' "wokeness" is another matter.
You say all she has to do is appear a reasonable centrist. Well this has been the thrust of her campaign. She's doing that. But it's not 'all' she has to do. She also has to turnout all key sections of the core DEM coalition, some of whom will be looking for more than 'reasonable centrist', and many of whom are not as irked as PB right wingers are by 'identity politics' (which is what Trump's whole thing is btw, except it's not called that because the ID in question is white).
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's slightly odd. His contributions on the US election are not at all what you would expect from someone who'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it.
Well look, I'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it. But Donald Trump's failings are well known. It's sadly no longer particularly interesting to say 'look at what terrible thing Donald Trump has said now' because he can't actually appear any more unhinged than he already is. If he came onto stage and held his finger horizontally on his lips and flickered it up and down going 'bibibibibibibibi', grinned and pointed at his audience, then walked off, it would no longer particularly surprise us, would it? Whereas Kamala becoming more awful - like the clip from 2021 yesterday, and this tweet today - is new news. I don't want Trump to win. But Kamala is going to blow it by being an identity-obsessed lunatic who appears to disapprove of the concept of her country and most of the people in it. Isn't she? All she had to do was appear the reasonable centrist, but she can't, because that's not where her instincts lie, and she thinks the views of the weird identity-obsessed crowd she hangs round with are the views of the whole country. It's kind of frustrating. And worthy of comment.
That clip wasn't part of the campaign it was from 3 years ago. Hardly new news. And this today is a targeted pitch to a voter segment (young black men) who Donald Trump has been making gains with. It's nothing more or less than you'd expect her to be doing.
But spouting shite is not the answer. Her Tweet today was ridiculous, especially the bit about Crypto.
Alex Salmond died while opening a bottle of ketchup, an eyewitness has claimed.
The former first minister of Scotland collapsed and died aged 69 on Saturday, shortly after delivering a speech at a conference in North Macedonia.
Mark Donfried, the director of the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy, said attendees were having lunch at the meeting in the historic lakeside city of Ohrid when Mr Salmond died.
“He came together with Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, also from the Alba Party in Scotland, and they were eating,” he told Times Radio.
“Later on, Tasmina told me she was having trouble opening the ketchup and she reached over and said: ‘Hey, can you give me a hand?’ And he was helping her with that when literally he fell back in his chair, totally out of the blue, without warning.
“Next to him was the former chief executive of the stock exchange of Cyprus, and he basically took him in his arms. He was convinced, he told me later, that immediately he was unconscious. So we don’t think Alex actually suffered any pain, thank God. He felt his heart and he couldn’t feel the heart rate then.
Good way to go; no pain, no lingering. Hard on the relatives, and those around though.
That is surely the best way to go. Apart from dying in your sleep
Zero pain, in a convivial setting, bang
I suppose you could argue you might want time to say goodbye but - do you? Isn’t that just deeply distressing?
69 is too young but a lot of people would shake hands on a swift heart attack at 79, and health up to that point
Yes, I'm not sure the Salmond approach is worse on the relatives than them having to spend ten years visiting the gradually-declining shell of someone who no longer remembers them in a nursing home. Just a reminder to spend the time you want to with the people you love before it's too late.
I'd take the ketchup option every time, either for me or my parents.
Just remember to leave a note somewhere giving access to your computer!
If it’s not a very fancy modern one with disk encryption enabled by default, it would take me about five minutes to get into any computer without the password.
Your phone or iPad, on the other hand, is pretty much impossible to get into unless you’re MI5 or CIA.
Always a good idea to keep a printout of passwords in a safe place known to your partner, for emergency use. Especially things like Apple, Google, or other email account, for which the companies have a very long and convoluted process to get control of an account in the event of death.
At this rate the UK will soon end up as a liberal outlier on asylum/migration. Maybe we'll join the Italians and end up with detention centres in sunny Albania?
"At pace, the EU is drifting towards the most ruthless “Fortress Europe” approach in its modern history. As recently as 2018, the idea of externally located return centres was deemed by the European Commission to be incompatible with the EU’s values. But a very different consensus is emerging.
"This week’s European Council meeting will be a major test of that new balance of power. Through a quirk of the presidency rota, Hungary will be in the chair. Merely a coincidence, but one that nevertheless feels like a depressing sign of the times."
I think this insane Kamala Harris racist crypto bailout policy statement COULD be her “deplorables” - whereas the Columbus Day speech was bad but not dire as it was old. This is new
But yesterday you were saying the Columbus Day speech was Kamala’s deplorables moment.
*emits a wearied sigh* You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
It's slightly odd. His contributions on the US election are not at all what you would expect from someone who'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it.
Well look, I'd prefer Donald Trump to lose it. But Donald Trump's failings are well known. It's sadly no longer particularly interesting to say 'look at what terrible thing Donald Trump has said now' because he can't actually appear any more unhinged than he already is. If he came onto stage and held his finger horizontally on his lips and flickered it up and down going 'bibibibibibibibi', grinned and pointed at his audience, then walked off, it would no longer particularly surprise us, would it? Whereas Kamala becoming more awful - like the clip from 2021 yesterday, and this tweet today - is new news. I don't want Trump to win. But Kamala is going to blow it by being an identity-obsessed lunatic who appears to disapprove of the concept of her country and most of the people in it. Isn't she? All she had to do was appear the reasonable centrist, but she can't, because that's not where her instincts lie, and she thinks the views of the weird identity-obsessed crowd she hangs round with are the views of the whole country. It's kind of frustrating. And worthy of comment.
That clip wasn't part of the campaign it was from 3 years ago. Hardly new news. And this today is a targeted pitch to a voter segment (young black men) who Donald Trump has been making gains with. It's nothing more or less than you'd expect her to be doing.
But spouting shite is not the answer. Her Tweet today was ridiculous, especially the bit about Crypto.
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If we really wanted a serious EV industry in this country, we probably wouldn't start with Stellantis anyway. Their parent just gave up on battery manufacturing - and that's the essential part of the industry.
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1845847872287424732
You know what would be a good test for cognitive stamina and agility, guy who writes Trump's social media posts ?
1. Is the enforcement of drug use by the state to obtain benefits ethical? My initial reaction is "no", but I'm wondering if precedents exist, eg COVID vaxxes?
2. Is Ozempics and similar actually licences in the UK for weight-loss, or is this an off-label use?
Genuine questions both, if some kind PBer can provide info.
I still haven’t found anything earlier than Byron
2. Yes, Ozempic is licensed for weight loss in the UK.
*emits a wearied sigh*
You’re going to be finding a lot of deplorables moments over the next month, aren’t you?
Offer a subsidy X per Wh of storage in ZEV delivered to an actual customer. X scaled to the UK content of the storage - nothing for 100% imported.
To start with - that will only need actually paying out long after the next election. So a cheap promise.
No picking winners. Just rewarding actual working, delivered solutions. Note that it would be applicable not just to every kind of battery technology, but any other way of powering a vehicle that is Zero Emissions.
This is definitely new and it definitely feels bad
If nothing else, it smacks of desperation. As @Andy_JS says, it feels like it’s from the losing candidate’s playbook
I planned to sanction ‘extremist’ Israeli ministers, reveals David Cameron
Former foreign secretary expresses ‘concern’ that Sir Keir Starmer has not picked up his proposals, but criticises partial arms embargo
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/15/i-planned-sanction-extremist-israeli-david-cameron/
I was dry as dust in terms of market confidence, and balanced the budget by 2025, by 2p on income tax, scrapping the triple lock etc I don't think the oldies will love me but at least they will get their hips done.
https://ig.ft.com/chancellor-game/
If Trump does lose then Vance’s cat women comment may become the iconic moment.
Of course in reality these single comments don’t win or lose elections, any more than Brown’s bigoted woman or Kinnock’s we’re all right.
But unlike most of PB I am also willing to point out bad news for Harris
So if you turn up in China and ask to buy EV batteries in useful quantities, you are really asking someone to build an entire factory. Which really brings you back to being better off making your own.
The thing we're still struggling with is that people use social media as though it's ephemeral and private, when it's actually permanent and public.
Standup comedy must be one of the most punishingly difficult skills to master in the whole entertainment industry.
Comedy is extremely subjective. It's nothing to laugh about.
A man with an ankle-length robe asks have you a gesh to consider the will of the gods. I replied "we won't influence them much in that time."
It may just be that he hasn't a clue.
But we put up with him.
And I think it's age dependent too - teenagers and young adults are more likely to laugh at stuff than older people.
So it's complicated.
*(yes, yes, I know)
“Man walks into a bar. Ouch. “
So not yet
GM/Stellantis has pressed the brake pedal on its battery plans, and it looks as though they'll be relying on other manufacturers for quite a lot of their battery supplies.
GM Will Dump 'Ultium' Branding, Rethink How It Does Batteries
https://insideevs.com/news/736598/gm-to-dump-ultium-brand-name/
Italy to reallocate EU funds earmarked for Stellantis battery gigafactory
https://batteriesnews.com/italy-to-reallocate-eu-funds-earmarked-for-stellantis-battery-gigafactory/
Whereas Kamala becoming more awful - like the clip from 2021 yesterday, and this tweet today - is new news.
I don't want Trump to win. But Kamala is going to blow it by being an identity-obsessed lunatic who appears to disapprove of the concept of her country and most of the people in it. Isn't she? All she had to do was appear the reasonable centrist, but she can't, because that's not where her instincts lie, and she thinks the views of the weird identity-obsessed crowd she hangs round with are the views of the whole country. It's kind of frustrating. And worthy of comment.
They have the money to distort the betting and partisan polling outfits that hide their methodology, and they have the motive and ability.
It might be a betting opportunity.
Your predictions make PBers money.
https://x.com/kamalaharris/status/1845993766441644386
Media in Afghanistan faces new restrictions, but the regime says the law will be implemented gradually"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/14/taliban-bans-all-images-of-living-things/
I have become a fruitarian. I only eat things that fall from trees. So far today I have had 2 apples, a pear and a squirrel.
Not always a positive trait - by any means - but generally quite useful in the arts and journalism given that they both require you to put yourself out there
"He's Winning This Right Now
And Harris' fawning media blitz didn't help much. It might even have hurt.
Andrew Sullivan"
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/hes-winning-this-right-now
Very poorly phrased, at best, positively crazy at worst
However unlike you I still think she will win this, but wow it is going to the wire, and she is making errors
Maybe it's a shitposting strategy?
You must know that if you put something like that onto twitter all of Musk's alt-right goons will amplify it.
Feels a bit weird though.
It's annoying that we care so much. It's a foreign country. If we're going to get our knickers in a twist about it so much, perhaps we shouldn't have handed them de facto control over our country. I'm sure they think Trump is a bit of a joke in France too, but I doubt they're having meltdowns about it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/10/15/mordaunt-distances-herself-jenrick-campaign-photo-posted/
It basically says “if you’re a white man I don’t want or need your vote” - unless you are a white man who is exceedingly woke and well disposed to her. For a anyone else - for a floating white male voter it’s seriously off-putting
I'm reminded of Usonian "reactions" Youtubers watching Al Murray, whether as himself or as the Pub Landlord, and commenters needing to explain the other half of it to the person making the video.
Compare that to the Misheard Lyrics sketch from Peter Kay, where because it is pop music is far more a shared experience.
The British equivalent would be something that listed the candidate's policies for working class people, or indeed something from a Scottish politician that listed policies that were good for Scotland.
The idea that having good policies for black men or acknowledging historical wrongs visited on native Americans means she hates her country suggests, well, a rather ethno-centric idea of what "her country" should look like.
Peculiar
I think a lot of people, especially in this country (looking at you Ali Campbell and Rory Stewart) just can't get their head around Trump and a Trump win that they see everything through a prism.
I think Trump may well win this.
I'm interested in one of your phrases 'we shouldn't have handed them de facto control over our country'. How have we done that? The USA have tremendous influence, but we didn't hand it to them. They acquired it through their strength. The nearest I can come to in terms of handing them control is weapons. Can't think of anything else.
If that is the case then why have thousands of Trumpites gleefully seized on it and retweeted it with such eagerness?
THEY clearly think it is a major gaffe. Even in the “American context”
I’m sorry. It’s just a stupid tweet to put out when you are in the closing weeks of a very tight and epochal election. The potential downside is clearly much greater than the potential upside
It’s also just mad.
“I will protect black men from their own mad crypto
Investments”
“I will legalise weed so black men can deal drugs”
I’m tempted to believe it’s sabotage
* rumours saying that she was behind with Blacks and Hispanics
* arguments developing about the role of her Super-PAC concentrating on broadcast media and the electorate generally, whilst neglecting social media targeting sub-groups specifically
* somebody said she was "underwater" in one of the rust-belt states
* the Teamsters split
* they have moved from attacking him to defending her, which is not good and feeds to his strengths
So although there still is a case for arguing she is in the lead (greater recruitment, bigger GOTV, bigger postal votes), it is becoming less convincing
I am also what the hell Trump was doing in Colorado, which is IIUC not a low-hanging fruit. Is he doing an end-run again around the Dem states, like he did in 2016?
Also, they have to avoid conversations like:
"What do you so?"
"I'm a comedian."
"Say something funny."
"..."
"What do you really do?"
As a get out the vote it's pretty effective.....
I've been arguing amongst friends for a 15% increase in our Council Tax, since last year. Taxes on "me" are not very popular.
As for the content it's generalities given a boilerplate to suit. Eg on the bitcoin it's about better regulation (ie protection) for all investors. It doesn't mean indemnification against losses and it doesn't mean it only applies to black men. That's obvious and I'm surprised anybody on here would think otherwise. Course how many genuinely got the wrong of the stick vs how many pretended they did in order to become outraged by an example of Kamala Harris' "wokeness" is another matter.
You say all she has to do is appear a reasonable centrist. Well this has been the thrust of her campaign. She's doing that. But it's not 'all' she has to do. She also has to turnout all key sections of the core DEM coalition, some of whom will be looking for more than 'reasonable centrist', and many of whom are not as irked as PB right wingers are by 'identity politics' (which is what Trump's whole thing is btw, except it's not called that because the ID in question is white).
Now that coal is gone, rubbish incinerators are the most polluting (per kWh generated) form of electricity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wxgje5pwo
Your phone or iPad, on the other hand, is pretty much impossible to get into unless you’re MI5 or CIA.
Always a good idea to keep a printout of passwords in a safe place known to your partner, for emergency use. Especially things like Apple, Google, or other email account, for which the companies have a very long and convoluted process to get control of an account in the event of death.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/14/the-guardian-view-on-eu-asylum-policy-orban-is-no-longer-an-outlier
"At pace, the EU is drifting towards the most ruthless “Fortress Europe” approach in its modern history. As recently as 2018, the idea of externally located return centres was deemed by the European Commission to be incompatible with the EU’s values. But a very different consensus is emerging.
"This week’s European Council meeting will be a major test of that new balance of power. Through a quirk of the presidency rota, Hungary will be in the chair. Merely a coincidence, but one that nevertheless feels like a depressing sign of the times."
https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/1845902914172150088?s=46&t=fJymV-V84rexmlQMLXHHJQ