Lurker > Kradek

She was banned from MSNBC by like Monday, if not Sunday. This is her getting ousted from the parent company, NBC.

CableZL posted...

A McDaniel is now the new measure of time for a short tenure

Part of me wants to say, "Scaramucci rejoices!", however then I remember how much he enjoyed the meme and played into it, so he may actually be saddened to lose the title.

ShotOJameson posted...

If everything is racist than nothing is

I can imagine how edgy this sounded in their head.

"Crazy" how Republicans are the ones accusing the other side of thought/tone policing, trying to correct and control everybody's speech, and yet they create legislation that forces them to be present or makes it to where we can't escape their speech, and essentially cannot escape them.

Sick control freaks.

I wish Indiana is a state that would care about such blatant hypocrisy. Unfortunately, that requires Republicans to do the right thing.

BombermanGold posted...

I actually am curious, and someone can probably answer for me.

Has MTG ever done ANY interviews in front of anyone? I figure by now she would have gone in front of someone who would have questioned her on the lot of the things she's said and done...

She did one with Leslie Stahl that pissed a lot of people off because her biggest condemnations are things like "you don't really believe that do you?" "Wow" as a follow-up to Greene saying she does. Iirc that was in regards to Greene saying Dems are wanting to allow abortion up to the day of birth for any reason.

She largely let Greene just spew her bullshit and couldn't keep up with fact-checking.

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

He latched on to every culture war nonsense topic he could on the various entertainment boards. Sometimes he would go through 4 or 5 accounts on one topic (also, he made these topics himself).

That's a lot of dedication for something so superfluous. Imagine focusing that energy towards something useful lol.

I think there's likely to be more selection of online women from Reddit than CE, so I think that's the obvious choice.

He Mixed a little too close to the Sun.

Knowing him mostly from the Politics board, we referred to him as SHAL, or Sir Hates-A-Lot, because he was so hateful, racist, and otherwise bigoted.

FolkenRawr posted...

Mr and Mrs Smith?
The Runaways?

I never saw those, though I get the gist of what you're saying.

It was my first exposure to that trope and because Korean cinematography is amazing it was an amazing experience.

Typical "ardent assassin has change of heart because of sad child" storyline, still amazing.

NatsuSama posted...

I love how certain people only want to talk about the real or hidden numbers of the economy or crime, only when a Democrat is president.

When a Republican is president, and the economy or crime is doing great, crickets on those hidden numbers. There isn't talks about unreported numbers.

The moment a Democrat is president, all of a sudden the numbers are sus, and we should be talking about unreported unemployment or crime.

Likely stems from the Republican narrative of "we're tough on crime and Dems are weak on crime", even though we know that's not the case in the grander scheme of things.

It's astounding how deeply ingrained Republican propagandist narrative are within this country's populace. The average person still thinks they're the "party of fiscal responsibility", unless that's finally started to change.

One of the first Korean movies I watched is called A Company Man, and it's about a group of assassins that operate as an international construction company as a front. They all report to a typical office in a suit and tie, use the same lingo as corporations stereotypically do, while also having an assassin undertone.

Good shit.

mybbqrules posted...

The actual story was a news report from a Nascar race where the sore loser chuds in the crowd started chanting "Fuck Joe Biden", because God forbid they go 5 minutes without making something political.

The news reporter tried to cover by saying that that they were actually chanting "Let's go, Brandon." because there was a driver named Brandon in the race.

Also a detail about this is that it was a live interview she was having with the "Brandon", so she was pretty quick on her feet to cover since it was the driver who asked what they were chanting.

MAGA is mad at her for not getting fired in the name of their shitty "Fuck Joe Biden" meme, which assuredly would have happened if she told the truth on live TV.

I do miss the "it's actually about ethics in sports/NASCAR journalism" jokes.

It's almost like regulations exist because of past exhibited industry behavior or valid future concerns based off said behavior.

Nah, surely it is only to make the rich people annoyed and lose out on money.

DrizztLink posted...

He actually had words about exactly this.

Republican Christians be like "they're trying to turn my Den of Thieves into a House of God >:("

Tyranthraxus posted...

A few state GOPs are broke. The RNC isn't "broke" but the money is basically going to be siphoned off by Trump and Manafort and most national candidates won't see much of it. The Democrats are going to absolutely destroy them in spending.

When McDaniel left they only had 8m, that's pretty broke for a political year.

darkace77450 posted...

Because we're focused on Hunter Biden five million off his father's name.

5m which is a figure that solely comes from a Russian asset currently arrested for lying to the FBI about everything.

When Smirnoff got popped it pretty much killed the Huntington Buden investigation. They ran on that narrative for what feels like almost a year.

chitown82 posted...

This happens everyday in Illinois. Biggest shithole in the country.

Kids dying for heroically defending their mom from an abusive ex? That just makes it sound like IL has a lot of budding heroes, may they RIP.

ClayGuida posted...

You can't not know who Chris Klein is.

Looking up his IMDB and having only seen one American Pie sequel, whose name I can't even remember, that's the only thing I would have seen him in and I clearly don't remember his role.

Kajagogo posted...

Not even Lili Taylor? She was in Mystic Pizza, The Haunting, Ransom, The Conjuring, High Fidelity, as well as a bunch other of stuff.

Ok, I do recognize her from The Conjuring. Never knew her name, so I guess I should have been more specific in that I recognized none of those names, which is what I thought was understood by my post. My bad.

So hearing Mark Joseph Stern explain this situation, the 175m bond does not free Trump from the 400m judgment. That bond only prevents the city from seizing his properties. He still has to pay the full amount at some point, though I guess we won't know that until he either pays the bond or the 10 days are up.

MJS is the court reporter whose staff pointed out to him (as I heard him personally credit them) that Kagan had actually intended to dissent on the case involving CO throwing Trump off the ballot. His court insight and analysis is great, especially on the USSC.

I recognize none of those names, however I greatly enjoyed the first 3 and am glad my friend recommended them to me. So I'm looking forward to it.

Water or beer.

mystic_belmont posted...

Remember, Ronna was central to the fake electors plot. She assured people breaking the law that she would get them lawyers.

She tried to overthrow the government and install Trump as a dictator.

Yeah, facts like this is why the public was so pissed. It wasn't just outrage, it was outrage with receipts justifying their outrage. Straight up told them not to certify and she'd get them lawyers to help out.

TheGoldenEel posted...

Oh just $300k? The full amount it was announced they would pay her to be a contributor?

Yeah 300k is way more than she deserves, however she's not going to be doing anything further with NBC beyond her interview with Welker on Meet The Press, so it makes sense they wouldn't pay her anything beyond the established 300k.

Takuya_Lee posted...

It wasn't just the public. It was their own on air staff too. Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to be fired.

Their staff did that because of pushback. Scarborough, I believe, talked about how he was inundated with calls from viewers as were his coworkers. The MS pundits/hosts were only so vocally against it because the public was so vocally against it with them.

If their viewers, IE their source of money and "stock go up/down" behaved as they normally do, sighed with exasperation to themselves, we wouldn't see this pushback.

NBC hiring of Megyn Kelly is an example of this. She ruined her own career there because she is a trash human being who turns everything she touches into shit, so after like 3 episodes they paid her millions per her remaining contract time to gtfo. Their audience largely just grumbled to themselves over the hiring, the pushback with McDaniel is unique because she is such a unique sack of shit insurrectionist.

TheGoldenEel posted...

How much money are they going to end up paying her anyway?

From what I've heard just the 300k, they paid Megyn Kelly millions when they fired her because she was part of a contract and that was the remaining she was supposed to make for a specified amount of time.

McDaniel was brought on as a paid contributor, not as an actual anchor.

One of my radio progressive pundits is a paid contributor for MSNBC/CNN, so she definitely wasn't being hired in the same capacity as Kelly was.

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It's reminiscent of a meme I saw from a popular account on IG with a guy frantically deleting all the Kate Middleton memes after it was revealed she's been absent from the public due to cancer.

I see late night hosts are also apologizing for the jokes.

TomClark posted...

That is absurdly optimistic. He won't even make it to bedtime.

He did pretty ok with recent protection orders, however his lesson of barely being fined for violating it twice in regards to one of the NY cases is likely to have stuck with him for the wrong reason.

Solid_Sonic posted...

It's not but mounting frustration causes rational responses to become secondary...

I get that, however the law is not going to be on your side. People giving into violent urges isn't protected unless it's some bullshit like "fighting words", which this wouldn't be.

ClayGuida posted...

https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1772695181508124722?t=4k_cKluf1sU1o3CrlMehfg&s=19

Ronna already out at NBC.

Oligarchs controlling the media is never a good thing for American democracy.

Wow, it seems like public blowback really did freak them out. Good, how fucking dare they do this almost immediately after she got fired from the RNC to help rehabilitate her image. It was insulting that they didn't even wait years for people to forget/move on. McDaniel was instrumental in the fake elector scheme and even with Kristen Welker was still casting doubt on the electoral process while trying to say "she's finally allowed to speak freely".

She is criminal trash and how dare NBC think hiring her in any context is ok.

Accept that that's assault and likely a felony. Being called out on your shit isn't justification for violence. And even if they're maliciously lying about you, that's what libel laws are for.

Physical violence should be a last resort and only when a necessity.

Well, Jesus did enjoy the company of whores and prostitutes, I guess lol.

FL81 posted...

the good name that got us into a war in Vietnam
the good name that lobotomized JFK's sister
the good name behind the Chappaquiddick incident

Talking about the "good name of Kennedy" doesn't mean the bad ones don't exist, it means that RFK Jr. helps besmirch the name of the good reputation that makes the family so popular among the people is based off of.

Sheiky-Baby posted...

Surely you jest, or grossly uninformed.

I know he's a Putin propagandist and caused a measles outbreak in Guam due to his anti-vaxx horseshit as well as spreading anti-COVID disinformation and propaganda. Dude is a menace to society and should not be anywhere near political power.

My friend's Christian parents wouldn't let him play the series as a kid so out of our high school friend's group he was never exposed to it until he borrowed our games. They weren't that way with his little brother and let him play the series.

Starks posted...

Trump believes he has no self-worth unless he's constantly promoting something or grifting.

Well he's not wrong.

I always thought it was just a meme that he had no idea what the OP was, however it seems that was legitimately the case.

I know he's confirmed it's not going to be friendship and will be tangible, so there's that at least.

Working, I assume.

ellis123 posted...

Ye, it's pretty good. While it's still a bit buggy (well, last I paid attention... no clue if they've improved since I actually looked) versus just Morrowind proper in terms of gameplay and the like unless there is a mod that you explicitly need to enjoy Morrowind I would say it's pretty much the definitive way to play Morrowind at this stage.

I mostly do console so no mods, just DLC/add-ons. I'm sure a lot of people will give me grief for that lol, however it's how it is. So no essential mod I'd need to enjoy it.

I'd obviously be using PC for something like this.

Guide posted...

We are of like mind. Hopping around as permacrouched invisible jerks. Basically ghosts that can stab you.

Lol yeah, though I am partial to the stealth archer playthrough when not intentionally working melee skills. However once I get chameleon to where I want all bets are off.

ellis123 posted...

There is also Morroblivion, which they have long since put out as a product.

Just learned of this. Was watching some playthrough, looks decent.

masterpug53 posted...

In the old days I remember basically halting game progress around level 20 and taking an hours-long hike into the mountains to grind out my Acrobatics as well as all my magic schools. IIRC it's highly beneficial to have all magic schools mastered before making multi-school custom spells, because said spells can get forever saddled with high casting costs due to sub-optimal skill levels.

Yeah, the higher your skill the less magicka it costs. I barely learned through my last playthrough about using drain skill so you can get 150-200 (not 100% sure on the max) for skills, a strategy I never thought to use back in the day.

masterpug53 posted...

I'm definitely not looking forward to that this time around. But custom spellmaking is the major draw of Oblivion's gameplay, so I have no intention of skimping on that. I have been using / leveling magic more naturally throughout the playthrough so far than I used to, so hopefully it won't be such a chore.

Yeah the custom spellmaking is definitely one of the things that makes the game what it is. Gaining access to the mage's guild imperial city section is one of the first things I try to do aside from closing the Bruma Great Gate at a low level to mitigate NPC losses.

masterpug53 posted...

In the old days I remember basically halting game progress around level 20 and taking an hours-long hike into the mountains to grind out my Acrobatics as well as all my magic schools. IIRC it's highly beneficial to have all magic schools mastered before making multi-school custom spells, because said spells can get forever saddled with high casting costs due to sub-optimal skill levels.

I'm definitely not looking forward to that this time around. But custom spellmaking is the major draw of Oblivion's gameplay, so I have no intention of skimping on that. I have been using / leveling magic more naturally throughout the playthrough so far than I used to, so hopefully it won't be such a chore.

I also became painfully aware after installing the game that the GotY Version does NOT include the small-potatoes DLCs like the custom houses, Mehrunes Razor, etc. Biggest kick in the ass is that the game won't even let me re-purchase the Wizard's Tower for some reason (that and Spell Tomes are the only small DLCs I was interested in re-buying at this point) - keeps citing some kind of software malfunction on their end when I try to purchase it.

Fortunately I still have credit from way back in the day for those. Or I bought them a long time ago while on sale.

Recently did Mehrune's Razor for the first time. That was a fun, and lengthy dungeon due to all the leveled loot and enemies with their respawn rate. Was also super cool how they were building a like town down there.

Don't think I've ever finished the Wizard's Tower, that's on my to-do list this time around. Just got the vampire lair in the southern niben bay for the first time. Finding spell tomes is wicked useful, especially early into the game.

Since I got the Battlehorn Castle add-on that becomes my go to base because I like being Lord of a castle and I use those stairs for leveling acrobatics. Chorrol is also my favorite Oblivion city so I like the proximity to it.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

From what I hear, El Paso is Texas if it wasn't run like shit

It definitely has its problems, sometimes it feels like our Democratic-elected city government betray us and because it's such a Dem heavy voting city they are unlikely to be punished for it. Especially Oscar Leeser.

It is nice not being a part of ERCOT, though.

Guide posted...

I gotta say, I love how the gameplay completely changed in unexpected ways once you got acrobatics and athletics high enough. Like, Oblivion gates turned into something closer to a first person Tony Hawk time attack mode. No point in fighting unless you need resources, you're faster than everything, and with the right angle and momentum, you can sometimes skip practically the entire dungeon.

Also your weight:total factors into speed. With the Cowl of the Gray Fox adding 200 feather I dungeon crawl at around 800 and with Beast of Burden adding 250 for 3 mins or so I max out at 1037 with gear also enhancing (this is gear I've found, not even made specifically for feather). Plus 100 speed and mounts before worthless because of how fast I naturally am. I love Shadowmere, but sorry, pretty irrelevant lol.

And yeah with a high acrobatics the game gets quite broken, especially if you keep the boots of springheel jack like I do which adds +50 acro.

There's Oblivion gates that you're meant to go through the side towers pulling levers/gates to open the proper path, however with a high enough acro you can relatively safely jump down to the bottom using the side flesh wall that makes a ring/ledges and once you're at the bottom just run through the main tower.

And finally, nothing in that game is as broken as getting chameleon to over 100%. With over 100% you can literally just run around, even into enemies, and it will never trigger them into combat. You become truly invisible while still being able to attack/activate things.

Gross that anybody would actually associate RFK Jr. with the good name of Kennedy.

Dude's a piece of shit and has no chance of actually getting in, just being a spoiler, which even then he doesn't seem like a huge threat for that at this point.

I remember when they proudly boasted that everything is a dollar.

masterpug53 posted...

I mean, I'm still enjoying it enough to keep at it for old time's sake. But like a lot of people I had a pretty rosy view of Oblivion in hindsight, especially when weighed against Skyrim's criticisms. Issues that I could look past fifteen years ago now make me wonder why I ever put up with this. Leveled versions of unique quest rewards are the effin' worst, for instance: "Hey, why don't you go fuck off in the wilderness until level 25 if you want the best rewards; then you can actually start having fun with the game!" Skyrim obviously has this problem too, but leveling is a lot quicker and far less tedious.

Fair. On both my recent playthroughs I've focused on leveling quickly for the reason you're mentioning. Especially before recreationally closing oblivion gates to make sure the sigil stones are transcendent.

radical_rhino posted...

Jumping to level up agility was so dumb

It's easier to level if you take fall damage and gain progress proportional to current level & damage taken.

I also like to cast magic while running up and jumping off stairs/balconies.

Shadow_Don posted...

Sorry, I meant weak as in relating to the severity of the crime not strength of evidence.

Obviously jan 6 was way more egregious of a crime.

Understood, it is definitely the weakest in terms of severity of crimes. Insurrection for one, espionage for the other, so yeah I agree on that.

VGAddict90 posted...

This is proof that red states are winnable.

Dems need to return to the 50 state strategy.

Certain states are. I've heard state representatives from both Missouri and North Carolina talking about how they have Dems running in seats they've never been in before or not for a very long time. It will ideally affect down ballot elections even in heavy Republican counties where the Dem will never win, however they'll at least have someone to vote for and the ability to vote for candidates outside of their district.

In NC, specifically, they have Dems running like 119 of 120 seats, if I'm not mistaken.

A reminder that Trump won NC by the least at like 77k.

masterpug53 posted...

This weekend I started replaying Oblivion for the first time in over a decade. That game was my first legitimate gaming addiction, but I quickly started to realize why I never went back to it after Skyrim released. The game has aged even worse than Morrowind imo.

That's a shame to hear. I've been replaying it and enjoy it a lot more than I did giving it a shot 5-6 years ago.

Joelypoely posted...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZeO7KWB8iYmhnKB53oY3pw

Other than the ogre that looked amazing.

luigi33 posted...

100% she gives me these vibes.

She's like that super hot girl who's completely fine with socializing at the nerd table.

Which is weird because she's politically left leaning.

Considering they're using her as an "anti-woke" prop, I imagine it's because she has a hot body and media is capitalizing on it, as well as "woke people", as they see them, who are attracted to her for the same reasons they are, thus "shattering their virtue signaling", or whatever.

I would be ok with them only being allowed to bet on them winning, however then I think about how they can still pay others to underperform.

Pororin posted...

She's the harbinger of death of anti-woke movement

Had to take a moment to figure out what you're saying, if I understand correctly then that just makes it even more hilarious that the Immaculate marketers are using that against them.