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  1. Exactly. My New England boss/team peppered me with cultural questions last week, "tell us about this charlie kirk guy and how everyone down there is freaking out" to paraphrase it. I have people in my life who were literally moved to tears and heartbroken by all this because they followed him so dearly. These were people I was close or semi-close and we'd never had a conversation about this guy previous to his death. Maybe it's a personal thing for them. I do think, though, that to a lot of normies and Christians, as you have called them, the Christian Father lane is how they know his work and youtube shorts, and maybe some of the college campus stuff, but the really politicized stuff I think was not as well known. To the extent that it really matters though I don't know, because if you believe in the same vein as Charlie Kirk, it doesn't seem like he's stretching too far out of the normie comfort zone in recent years (e.g. sounds like he's walked back a lot of the MAGA and J6 stuff and was more on about how abortion is awful and homosexuality is a sin-- all pretty standard stuff for those Christians who don't believe a woman is a legitimate pastor and "love is love" is reductive, bad theology).
  2. i'd forgotten clowney played for South Carolina. I remember that hit though, wow.
  3. Ay yo, that was a JAM though. I thought Rae Sremmurd was gonna be a bigger star than he was, but in hindsight just a REAL nice vibey beat and Guwop carried. Especially when he said, "A yellow, yellow with green hair, a real weirdo" AYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
  4. In fact, you can make an argument this is the worst case outcome for Trump. He doesn't get to rail against his ops AND epstein file mania in the zeitgeist has not worn off completely and could be rekindled by this weekend.
  5. It is rare I will watch a full episode without falling asleep. In my defense, it's late and Saturday football wears me out.
  6. My wife and I were talking and if anything, this kind of thing we want to really get a full analysis and report on so we have the anti-blueprint of what NOT to let our collective kids/grandkids get into and get too deep into. I don't know about some of you, but after the first or second "level" of the internet, I get lost in the sauce (can I still say that? is it cool?) and so I know a lot of my peers have very little actual visibility into what the kids are doing online. Half because they don't care and/or are too busy and trusting and half because the kids are sneaky and online-clever. Anyways, need the anti-blueprint.
  7. I think in this case, disregarding the truth might be to move on from the topic and let other news cycle.
  8. You made his point because...who? Beck Bennett? Alex Moffat? Taran Killam? Might as well be Youtubers my grandkids follow because those guys have negative name recognition.
  9. Talk shows are going extinct. Endangered moose out front shoulda told ya
  10. @Bozo_Casanovanow that we have some level of detail, wanted to circle back on this and if it changes your initial comments about feeling like we are in a climactic situation. As @Chopper eloquently said, "Charlie Kirk was killed by a furry meme bullet fired by a 4chan-poisoned groyper while working a race-baiting dog whistle into an argument about trans mass shooters." If that is/are the facts, I don't see how this is the cataylst that brings anything to a head or makes things worse. In fact it's probably one of the few "soft landing" outcomes that could have splashed cold water on this whole thing.
  11. nah. no. nah. As for me and mine, our house calls them Ice Pops.
  12. It's amazing we went from that to this. It's like when a snowball starts rolling downhill or something.
  13. We don't really know, but an inference or deduction you could have as a first working profile hypothesis: Guy looks like a dork, pics of his gaming computer, probably deeply/chronically online. Radicalized one way or another online and into the weird part of twitter and sites that are front runners on the weird memes. Kid is decently smart (academic award for a bottom half school) but only manages one semester? Screams of undiagnosed/diagnosed mental illness. Kid doesn't look or act like his (likely) MAGA dad, usually those kids raised in that conservative environment either conform to it or rebel against it pretty hard. Seems pretty tragic all the way around but I agree with troph that I feel really bad for that kids parents.
  14. That Carson Beck fella gets around.
  15. The pic of him with his gaming computer and looking like a classic internet dork. I wonder if being chronically online and radicalized on the internet is going to be the answer.
  16. 940 sucks. Denton doesn't have a lot going for it from what I recall, but I remember being completely underwhelmed and annoyed with 940.
  17. Sorry had to do it:
  18. For those who are scrambling to get caught up to speed on Charlie Kirk and what all this means and get a primer, I just read this and it's a great 5 minute recap of his background, political adventures and the fall-out as we know it so far (spoiled because it's long-ish):
  19. Vegas64

    Brazil

    Sets Brazil up for even more tension with the Trump Administration which already cited this case when slapping 50% tariffs on Brazil.
  20. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness.” — Kamala Harris, in an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, on Democrats’ deferring to Joe Biden on whether he should run for re-election. Harris adds that she believed Biden aides failed to defend her against right-wing attacks and helped fuel negative narratives: “Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more.”
  21. I couldn't tell you because I actually wasn't aware of Charlie Kirk's specific opinions before all this. I thought of his name as a far right panderer who does social media and influencing and only heard his name. Like a Candace Owens type. It seems people thought of him as more legitimate about that and gave him fame/infamy. That said, I've always thought well and generally think people thought well of Andrew Ross Sorkin as a journalist, so maybe this colors opinions of him, that is for you to decide for yourself.
  22. SIAP, saw NYT made a comment-- Andrew Ross Sorkin who I've always respected (and his book TBTF was awesome):
  23. Name is not even vaguely familiar like a...Cheryl Miller, Sheryl Swoopes, or Sue Bird. Also assuming you surely meant WNBA not NBA...
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