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47 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Okay, time for a story that may be funny only to me, but was hilarious in person. 

In a previous job, my VP (bosses boss) was a pretty hot GILF who split time between a house in Houston and a house in Florida. We had a QBR in Dallas and we're all making small talk in the conference room over breakfast and someone askes her if she flew in and she says "no, I went to Houston first and then drove up". So over more small talk she mentions she has the same Lexus in Florida and Texas, and she drove up in her "Texas Lexus". One of our degenerate drunks walks into the middle of the conversation and says "Wait, what?....oh, I thought you said Alexis Texas" and realized he'd fucked up before he even finished saying it. 

Boss: "Who's Alexis Texas"

"Bob": Looking around the room nervously..."Uhhh...Pescado, you know who that is, right?"

Pescado: "Never heard of her...is she a singer or something?" 

Boss...Who has figured out something embarrassing is going on with "Bob" and has decided to play along. "Is her stuff on iTunes?" Starts to open her phone

Bob is dying. He's beet red and looking around the room for help, but none is coming. The rest of my team has been filtering out of the room so they don't laugh and blow it. 

Pescado: ""let's look her up" Opens browser because his computer is connected to the projector because he's presenting first. Starts typing into google A-L-E-X

Bob "SHE'S A PORN STAR!!"

Everyone still in the room totally loses it laughing. 

Boss Lady: "Oh Bob...tsk, tsk. Be careful you don't go blind. 

Room goes completely nuts laughing and Bob almost cries. 

I guess the punch line is that Bob got fired a few months later for something unrelated, ended up at Nutanix, and made enough money in their IPO to retire early. Fucking Bob. 

What company was this with?

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oh, and to add, let's offer up a 'comparable' analogy reversal and see how it fits.  who's the aoc of the right?  jim jordan?  matt gaetz? this is basically like if there was a huge earthquake he

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some people see 99% and consider that absolutism.  i am one of those people. this is not your wife grabbing your cell phone that you left in the other room.  this is not a quick favor.  this is a

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Yes, of course. She is the only woman or woman of color the left right (edit) focuses their ire on. There are no other examples. Great point. It's really all intellectual and rational. And usually ver

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I thought this was an interesting read and touches on AoC at the Met Gala. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/activism-now-fashion/620073/

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A viral tweet rounded up the four most notable examples: the model Cara Delevingne’s peg the patriarchy vest, the soccer star Megan Rapinoe’s in gay we trust purse, U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney’s suffragette gown, and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tax the rich dress. “Think we can all agree that activism is kinda over and generally embarrassing tbh,” declared a commentator who goes by @thomasfreeboy.

The backlash was stoked by a wider disenchantment with performative, corporatized activism. The Met Gala occurred only days after Deadline reported on the existence of a new CBS reality show called The Activist, in which the hosts Julianne Hough, Priyanka Chopra, and Usher will lead teams competing to advance their causes. The prize will be a chance to go to the G20 summit and get ignored by world leaders, as Greta Thunberg does. The inevitable blowback to this announcement led to the producers releasing a statement declaring, “This is not a reality show to trivialize activism. On the contrary, our aim is to support activists everywhere, show the ingenuity and dedication they put into their work, and amplify their causes to an even wider audience.” The wounded-professional tone of this statement is peak 2021. How dare anyone think a reality-TV show would fail to do justice to the gravitas of an important subject? Somehow, I was reminded of the British reality series The Farm, which promised insight into the challenges of rural life, but is now mainly remembered for the scene in which David Beckham’s former personal assistant masturbated a pig. That’s edutainment.

Inevitably, the most divisive Met Gala outfit belonged to Ocasio-Cortez, because the right loves to hate her—and she is therefore the kween of the Twitter left. How can anyone bear to jump into this Discourse when the positions are already staked out so clearly in advance? On one side, you have the dismissive argument that wearing a dress won’t solve poverty, sweetheart; Soviet communism did not begin with Lenin wearing designer trousers embroidered with collectivize the farms. On the other, AOC’s defenders bristled with the sure knowledge of patronizing dunk tweets to come, and were ready to argue that catchy slogans have always been an important part of politics.

But the Met Gala red carpet is now an arena where people go to make statements, which inevitably robs those statements of their power. No one here is rebelling against the Man. The Man loves the extra publicity; it helps sell more $35,000 tickets to socialites who love a frisson of revolution as long as it’s safely divorced from the threat of actual tumbrels. In 1970, Tom Wolfe famously used the term radical chic to describe a New York party held by Leonard and Felicia Bernstein to fundraise for the Black Panthers. (Wolfe’s account of the party in New York magazine included a photo of the snacks. The accompanying caption asked: “Do Panthers like Roquefort morsels?”) The Met Ball is now the heir to this tradition, a safe space for political statements that all attendees will applaud, regardless of whether they truly believe them. In a decade’s time, the wheel will turn again, and this Met Gala will look as outdated as fashion’s previous attempts at social commentary via the medium of clothes affordable only to the 1 percent. (John Galliano’s “Haute Homeless” collection, I’m looking at you.)

But no one gets booed, or thrown out, or shunned by their peers for wearing an ensemble supporting any progressive cause to the Met Gala. Everybody there would probably pay lip service to “taxing the rich,” for example, even as they do absolutely nothing to address the legislative gridlock that makes progressive tax reform politically impossible. So what is the risk of wearing a sloganeering outfit to the Met Gala—giving Tucker Carlson more palpitations with which to fill his airtime? For Ocasio-Cortez, that’s just a day ending in a Y.

 

 

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On 9/14/2021 at 2:21 PM, MNLonghornFUKM said:

 

 


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Negged for being irony deaf. And a weakling.

She says what she means in clear terms. She demonstrates how little she allows comments about her looks to affect her emotionally. She makes strong points about women.

You, having no other response in face of a truth and strength, go all in on classic dismissal using a tired (thoroughly exhausted)meme.

I can hear you and the boys yukking it up in your man caves. You are indeed the first ones to squeal when it's suggested you have some duty as a citizen. You're the face of entitlement, anti-wokeness, and scorn for the social justice warrior. You dismiss all that, too. Otherwise, you'd have to be some sort of what used to define a man.

Your time is passing. You'll possibly take a once great republic with you, but you are going down. The winners will toss a little violin in your figurative grave along with whatever roadkill was in the area. They'll be too refined to actually follow that with urine.

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On 9/14/2021 at 4:40 PM, Pescado_Rojo said:

Okay, time for a story that may be funny only to me, but was hilarious in person. 

In a previous job, my VP (bosses boss) was a pretty hot GILF who split time between a house in Houston and a house in Florida. We had a QBR in Dallas and we're all making small talk in the conference room over breakfast and someone askes her if she flew in and she says "no, I went to Houston first and then drove up". So over more small talk she mentions she has the same Lexus in Florida and Texas, and she drove up in her "Texas Lexus". One of our degenerate drunks walks into the middle of the conversation and says "Wait, what?....oh, I thought you said Alexis Texas" and realized he'd fucked up before he even finished saying it. 

Boss: "Who's Alexis Texas"

"Bob": Looking around the room nervously..."Uhhh...Pescado, you know who that is, right?"

Pescado: "Never heard of her...is she a singer or something?" 

Boss...Who has figured out something embarrassing is going on with "Bob" and has decided to play along. "Is her stuff on iTunes?" Starts to open her phone

Bob is dying. He's beet red and looking around the room for help, but none is coming. The rest of my team has been filtering out of the room so they don't laugh and blow it. 

Pescado: ""let's look her up" Opens browser because his computer is connected to the projector because he's presenting first. Starts typing into google A-L-E-X

Bob "SHE'S A PORN STAR!!"

Everyone still in the room totally loses it laughing. 

Boss Lady: "Oh Bob...tsk, tsk. Be careful you don't go blind. 

Room goes completely nuts laughing and Bob almost cries. 

I guess the punch line is that Bob got fired a few months later for something unrelated, ended up at Nutanix, and made enough money in their IPO to retire early. Fucking Bob. 

I have a similar story totally unrelated to this thread.

I started off in Journalism at Texas. In an undergraduate class on journalistic writing, the instructor shared an article with the class that he had written about attempts to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel. I think one guy finally survived an attempt.

Anyway, I read the article which he'd distributed photocopies of that didn't reveal the name of the publication. He had the publication in his hand with the cover hidden from the small class.

"I like this article. I know I've read it," says RomaVicta. "Where was it published?"

"It's a men's magazine," he repies. "I'm sure you haven't seen it."

I persist. "No. I'm sure I've read it."

This goes on for a while. 

Now everyone is looking at him.

He shows us the cover. I think it was High Society, the titty magazine I favored in my lonely youth. The cover was pretty racy for the times. It was quaint porn by today's standards, not the gynecological spelunking that Hustler was celebrating.

I was mortified. The instructor was embarrassed. The class just laughed. 

Later, I recall thinking that I had, at least, proven that I did sometimes read the articles.

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Gross. Go be a pervert on a different thread. There is a “reach out to the other side of the aisle” thread for you and pervert DDDdad to ogle and objectify women. This thread should be about the politician and politics.

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4 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

It was a fantastically written neutral analysis. That you still yet have a problem with it is telling. Either be a sunshine pumper or you are an enemy of the state, got it.

The fact that you think that was fantastically written is one reason we will never see eye to eye. I can't get down to your level.

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OK, where did you get this?!

It's my own. It's a merging of earlier separate comments of Hustler turning girly magazines into gynecological manuals and a later comment that looking at one felt like spelunking.

We weren't accustomed to the kind of images so common today. In Hustler, it appeared that they were reflecting a square of sunlight on to the target. I still find it to be rather gross. I'm straight, BTW, nttawrt.

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53 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

It's my own. It's a merging of earlier separate comments of Hustler turning girly magazines into gynecological manuals and a later comment that looking at one felt like spelunking.

We weren't accustomed to the kind of images so common today. In Hustler, it appeared that they were reflecting a square of sunlight on to the target. I still find it to be rather gross. I'm straight, BTW, nttawrt.

Gamer-brain. Respect.

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1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

“Present” shouldn’t be an allowable thing. Yes or no you fuckers. You think you were elected to say “present”?  People you are supposed to represent have actual opinions. No one elected you to duck issues. 

I’ll disagree. “Present” means you can’t support something but won’t stand in the way. Compromise is a good thing. Failure to abide compromise is what gave the USA the current GQP.

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I’ll disagree. “Present” means you can’t support something but won’t stand in the way. Compromise is a good thing. Failure to abide compromise is what gave the USA the current GQP.

Doesn’t that just mean you have no spine?

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6 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Doesn’t that just mean you have no spine?

I can see why some folks might think that. I don’t, but I understand the rationale. 
 

If I were voting, I would want to support Israel, but not necessarily their New Right government. So, I’d be thinking about what I could gain by withholding my no vote.

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Asked about her emotional response after the vote, Ocasio-Cortez told The Independent, “What we saw is a disappointment of just a willingness to rip our communities apart and put member safety at risk.”

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There have also been reports of death threats that the congresswoman has received after Israel-related votes, which may have been on her mind while casting her decision on Thursday.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/aoc-seen-visibly-shaken-after-casting-vote-to-abstain-on-iron-dome-funding-bill/

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35 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

AOC keeping her political options open by not voting her conscience wrt Israel and the dome funding. I don’t blame her one bit, but blame this fucked up thumb we let a foreign country hold over our politics.  

Video seems to show she changed her vote after being consoled by AIPAC stooge Pelosi. The rest of The Squad voted no.

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39 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

I can see why some folks might think that. I don’t, but I understand the rationale. 
 

If I were voting, I would want to support Israel, but not necessarily their New Right government. So, I’d be thinking about what I could gain by withholding my no vote.

American tax payers funded the Iron Dome yet they refused to give us the source code. They have healthcare yet we 'can't afford it'. 

 

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Iron Dome?  Israel?  Same week as MGT is doubling down on her attack on AOC?  And what of Jewish Space Lasers penetrating said Israeli Iron Dome?  
 

There's a long game here, I assure you.  

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35 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Not when it’s not the first time and your division VP sees you

oh. shit. when i was 23 i got hammered on a business trip and told a vp everything that was wrong with how the business was run. she says to me "why are you telling me this? I'm a vp"  to which i responded "why do you think I'm telling you this,  because you're a vp"

did not get fired. 

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oh. shit. when i was 23 i got hammered on a business trip and told a vp everything that was wrong with how the business was run. she says to me "why are you telling me this? I'm a vp"  to which i responded "why do you think I'm telling you this,  because you're a vp"

did not get fired. 

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40 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

She’s so good at this kind of stuff.
 

No shit. Almost everything she listed was directed at serving her local constituents and spelling out exactly how she and her office helped.

As a Texan, I do not -- and will not -- forget how she also helped raise $5 million for our state as the result of the Big Freeze while our own senator ran off to Cancun:

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