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  1. The news station has the full segment up. It’s a bog standard political question. All the other candidates manage to get through it. The journo does phrase it slightly differently based on the flow of conversation (expected, as a media coach would tell you) although more than one of them get the same ā€œthat you needā€ clause which sent Porter spiraling. All she had to do was deliver her prepped answer. It’s clear that upset her, and it’s because she had the questions in advance. She at one point directs the reporter to ask them ā€œas written.ā€ She takes the same approach to this reporter that she does to House witnesses, trying to rake her across the coals. It’s just not going to play as well (or at all) in front of a pretty congenial interlocutor. She’s trying to ā€œwinā€ the exchange and that’s just bad media prep or ignoring the prep. Many such cases with smart lawyers who are used to asking the questions.
  2. These are different because they have a defined topic and are presenting well-researched information to go with the yuks. It’s not just riffing on bullshit and asking dumb questions because you don’t prepare. And I even can get a bit bored when Dan and Jordan meander too long without a great Alex sound bite. I do have a WWI history podcast and I can listen to the full story of U-boar warfare ans counter-warfare with rapt attention for hours.
  3. What if your girlfriend is Jody Foster?
  4. The reporter isn’t a troll or idiot, she’s pushing on Katie because of the possibility (not necessarily probability) that two Ds advance to the general. This has happened in statewide races in CA, and the field is crowded for governor. Katie doesn’t want to explore this possibility and then gets super snitty and evasive when pressed even though she walked into it by saying ā€œI don’t intend to let that (two Democrats in the general) happen.ā€ Because in her senate run she threw a tantrum about Schiff helping to elevate an R to the general over her and called the election ā€œrigged,ā€ and now that shes the presumptive top D vote getter in the primary she may need to do something similar to guarantee a D-R general she can win. This is all a perfectly legitimate place to probe. Katie is upset and tells you why— ā€œI wanted to come have a pleasant conversation.ā€ LOL. I WILL fully concede that the reporter sees the flailing and terrible optics and decides to needle and see where it goes. There’s not a journalist on the planet who won’t press when an interviewee for a big race seems to be on the verge of crashing out. It’s really their job, and it’s the candidate’s job to be media trained and poised and not crash out. Because at some point you’re gonna get asked to justify something that you’d rather not talk about. All she has to do is get out a decent answer ā€œWell Julie, what we plan is to make our case and tell the democratic voters of California how a Katie Porter governorship will benefit them, their families, and the entire state. We plan to win on values and policy and I am the candidate who reflects the Democratic electorate. And once they hear our message I’m confident that I’ll be the decisive Democratic vote-getter and move on to put away a GOP opponent easily in a general election.ā€ Instead she comes in hot and bothered with some word salad about being from Orange County, argues over the question wording like a too-smart lawyer, and spills blood in the water. And yes— this is a double standard because Trump can do all this stuff and is Teflon with his voters. He also has a legit talent to be the one who makes reporters feel defensive and flustered and off-center and that works for him.
  5. She was famously unpleasant even by DC standards and she was an only a two term D rep from California and so didn’t have the clout to get away with it. There are plenty of data point here and her sometimes appealingly pugnacious style for the cameras wasn’t an act; conflict follows her around professionally and interpersonally. And that shit will catch up to you in politics. You need to make some allies. Again, unless you’re so juiced that everyone will just tolerate you.
  6. Steering this back to real world impact, Russ Vought has determined that furloughed feds aren’t entitled to back pay, although Congress and nearly everyone else believed they passed a law in 2019 which says exactly that. I FULLY expect the Supreme Court to rule that the move is likely illegal, but unfortunately the people who miss paychecks don’t have standing to sue for them. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/white-house-furloughed-workers-00596231
  7. You could tease that out based on St. Paul calling all bodies temples, I’m just laying out what canon law would describe violence against clergy. Although the guy is just a Presbyterian so you can also call the photo ā€œheresy.ā€
  8. Violence against clergy is sacrilege.
  9. I am violently anti-bevel. It’s peak early PC graphic design, ā€œlook what this program can do,ā€ with no ā€œwhy.ā€ Tech’s bevel was probably the best but even it was inferior to the clean design that a kid can draw from memory on his notebook. Most are awful, especially A&M’s.
  10. Almost all comedy podcasts are unlistenable slop. Lots of other podcasts, too. I only want that much of a deep dive from someone who is an actual expert on something but almost no one is talented or interesting enough to just riff on shit for three hours. Honestly this is part of the issue with Rogan: even if his guest is knowledgeable or interesting, he’s too stupid to guide the conversation in a focused way. (The other part being that he is in fact a malicious disinformation agent).
  11. I think instead of talking about woke/non-woke language the takeaway needs to be that candidates and party proxies need to avoid talking like they did in their grad school seminars whether that was in the sociology, economics, polisci, or whatever department. They ALWAYS fucking do this.
  12. I think it’s fair to say based on early returns that the money is necessary but not sufficient. Not really that surprising of a conclusion.
  13. Cross posting from the uniform thread: this is an excellent decision by Tech. Logos, font, all of it is exactly what it should be.
  14. Best branding decisions Ive seen in decades. Awesome to see an institution back off of a decision they invested in that just wasn’t as good.
  15. I’m exhausted with comedians. I’m tired of the schtick of the brave and unfraid truth-teller, when the consequences for telling jokes that don’t land or behaving poorly is a canceled Netflix series or ostracism. Guess what, if I tell edgy jokes at work or harass people I might get fired or excluded too. I do appreciate the ability to wrap difficult truths in humor but guess what: that’s actually a defense mechanism, you can always hunker down behind ā€œI was joking, I’m a comedian.ā€ There are people who make a pittance and put their livelihoods and sometimes lives on the line to tell difficult unvarnished truths; they are called investigative journalists. Offensive/provocative and dangerous to power are two different things and the Venn overlap isn’t that big. Bill Burr, who can be funny, can get fucked. It takes zero courage to be funny and also non-misogynistic and racist. And I like that he is those things and I’m glad our society has rewarded talent that doesn’t shit on others with lucrative renumeration. But that wasn’t enough, he also needed to be remunerated by a bloody, woman-hating, racist, theocratic nightmare family and then he tells me in Variety why this is cute cultural exchange. Actual truth tellers about Saudi get cut up into little pieces. Oh, it’s actually not that bad, you say? The only rules are ā€œno jokes about the royals or about religion,ā€ and that sounds reasonable. Here, let me translate: ā€œyou can joke about anything except the pillars of our rapacious and oppressive system of power.ā€ Vladimir Putin has similar rules to appear on his TV. That’s….not really a concession.
  16. Was coming to post. Fantastic stuff. Save the biker shorts.
  17. Trump is an anti-establishment figure, even though he often works in favor of (some parts of) the establishment. That’s partly the genius of the Larry David skit— wearing a MAGA hat is far more off-putting and upsetting to the established order than nose piercings and wild hair. Trump is the person who affirms that you don’t have to eat vegetables or say thank you. For people who spent their youth bucking social norms not because of a deeply held sense of injustice, but because they are oppositional and have difficult relationships with authority (this is most young people who act out or get hyper-involved in causes)— he’s a perfect vessel for frustration.
  18. Extremely surprised to learn that people who spent their youth visibly acting out, showing poor impulse control, and having unhealthy conflicts with authority figures grew up and gravitated towards Donald Trump when they got older. Gonna have to mull over how this happens.
  19. Because regulating things like inheritance, child custody and responsibility, and property division (and modern similar concerns like social security, military benefits, insurance coverage, immigration benefits, medical decisions, etc) is one of the most ancient concerns of social authorities; and having every single person create sets of customizable personal contracts that lawyers and courts must then try to untangle and that will likely be grotesquely inequitable is not at all a tenable solution.
  20. Bernie Sanders 2028! He’d be 87 on Election Day and turn 88 three months after inauguration. Are you fucking kidding me? How about we run Diane Feinstein’s corpse? It’s not just likely it’s more than probable he keels over in office. Also, Sanders is— not a Democrat! He’s not! How’s this for an idea, maybe we don’t have people who aren’t Democrats stop spending primary season convincing the country to not vote for Democrats? Maybe try that? The country has to move past anyone who remembers the 1960s as their youth, it just does. Biggest most selflish and foolish generation we have ever seen and because they are so big they’ve been fucking things up for close to 40 years now.
  21. Opposite of eye candy and today’s Seattle-TB game: Arizona and Tennessee. Especially rage-making when you think about what this would look like as Arizona vs. Houston. These are dog shit all around.
  22. Wyoming’s bucking cowboy is one of the best logos in all of CFB. Perfect for the state, school, colors.
  23. I think there’s honestly a bit too much neurotic overthinking it (Dems! No!). I think the bigger danger is rigged/legal fuckery. MAGA is not governing like there will be another election. A five years younger Joe Biden probably wins in 2024. An unselfish Biden who is comfortable being Cincinnatus and announced early to allow an open primary probably gets a D who can win. Unbelievable personal selfishness and institutional harm there. Trump is historically unpopular. The GOP has won two popular elections since 1988, and one of them required a summer candidate switcheroo. No one behind Trump captures the morons like he does. Find someone who can talk like a normal person who comes off like he (it’s probably a he) likes the United States and then—this is the critical part— resist the urge to shit all over him and ask for stupid tests to make him earn your vote over JD Fuckin’ Vance.
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