InevitableSwing

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

I think there are too many wild cards.

• Israel is capable of anything at any time.
• I assume that Hezbollah could finally go to war with Israel. I assume there’s a number of dead (the number put out the health ministry) where Hezbollah will have reached its limit and war follows. I could be all wrong but then again - nobody knows for sure what Hezbollah could/would/might eventually do.
• Unexpected events in/near Israel could occur.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

“Joe, listen here, Joe. Are you listening?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Until you discontinue arm shipments to Israel - no more sliced dogs.”

“C’mon! The doggy-dog-dog-dog-doggy-dogs are right here on the plate. Waiting. I could have somebody else do it but it won’t taste the same. It never does.” And he almost tears up. “It never does.”

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

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Are we sure it’s not a bit? Even a moron could google What is the biggest thing to ever be 3D printed?

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Ninja edit

This google result five years old but other results seemed like a lie.

In 2019, the Center printed 3Dirigo and earned two Guinness World Records — the world’s largest 3D printed boat and the world’s largest 3D printed object. The 25-foot, 5,000-pound boat was printed in 72 hours.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

Here’s the deal, jack. I’ll send Kamala to meet with the Mohammads in Dearborn. Michigan’ll be fine. It’ll be fine. Trust me - I’ve been doin’ this a long time. A very long time. I know what I’m do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-doing. That’s my stutter. Not a microstroke. Let be me clear. Not a microstroke. Stroke. Stroke. Stroke-stroke-stroke.

Anyway - this reminds me of a story when I lived in Scranton, Pee-Ey. There was this Mohammad who had a - whatchamacallit it - koshlal butcher shop. Me and my dad went in there and said “Hello, Mohammad! Inshallahmahamahbat!” He always liked that…

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I know. I know. Not realistic. The chance of a halal butcher shop in Scranton, Pee-Ey ~100 years ago is very, very tiny.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

Bill Gates is on stage with Ari Melber in a two hour long MSNBC “special broadcast” that was actually created just for him. He has an inscrutable expression and his tone of voice seems almost to be one of exasperation. He says “Look, it is bad and tragic that all mammals on earth appear to be dying off but…”

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

95+% of people on American tv news: “I got an idea here. Biden should move to the right…”

oxjox: “I’m a liberal socialist and I got an idea here. It’s something to consider. Maybe you guys haven’t thought about it. Biden should move to the right…”

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

stop pretending the asparagus are walrus tusks

Some people do not understand what true humor is all about.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

I hope that’s pure fiction.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

if you’re a civility-brained lib you can just mash your head against the keyboard and hit send.

That reminds me of this…

Media is like:

Freelancer, $35,000/yr: “I self-funding a three month reporting trip to a warzone to capture the untold stories of the war crime victims”

Columnist, $300,000/yr: “China’s foreign policy is like an egg roll”

Tweet

I’m not kidding that for a second I wondered if the tweeter was going to follow up with “Thomas Friedman actually wrote that.” I read it in my mind in his voice. I was almost disappointed that it wasn’t the case.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

you imagine Kamala

I think I can.

“America… America… America… America the beautiful is what they call it! Oh, my goodness! I got carried away because I love America so very much! I mean it’s what we call it!…”

And starting just seconds after that - she begins to get roasted on social media and the memes and parodies bloom. Normies even discover r/WhatDrugsIsSheOn and it doubles in size overnight. She keeps ad libing and free styling throughout the speech. After her speech as she’s walking around doing the smiley-gob plus meet-n-greet that pols do in that situation. She can tell from people’s expressions, gestures, and tone of voice that her speech was awful by a measure of biblical proportions.

That morning - although she was 100% responsible for her own problems - she fires five low and mid level people. She lies and spreads rumors about them “undermining” her in various ways and that the speech was just the “final straw of such shameful - truly shameful behavior”. She figures they won’t defend themselves and they won’t speak to the media. And even if they do - they do it anonymously. But that afternoon she gets a shock. Her smack down spectacularly backfires in a Streisand effect fashion. Three of the fired people will appear live together in the studio on CNN that night with their side of the story.

The palace intrigue fire adds to the SOTU shitshow disaster to the point the very next day Kamala totally loses her shit in front of the media. She rants in a drug-fueled rage at them for a full three minutes. One her complains shoots skyward in virality faster than any other. She says “Why is no one loyal to me? I hate disloyal people!” which creates a brand new round of roasting, memes and parodies comparing her to Trump.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

/thread

I think that’s going to be very hard to beat.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

Chris Rock-Will Smith slapping incident

I started reading the Wikipedia page but it was a bit dull. I did like this bit about Kevin Costner though…

This exchange caused the local audience and journalists to realize that Smith’s reaction was genuine. Kevin Costner, who waited offstage to present the Academy Award for Best Director, said: “Oh, that was real.”

I realized the page kept going and going and going. It’s 5,000+ words long. So that was enough of that.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

I want to go on record that if Trump suddenly says “I AM YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR OUR BIG WET BOY!” - I had nothing to do with it.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

Buttigieg did it to up his profile. He’ll be at the wreckage site in a hardhat with look of revolve and he’ll opine “Well, let me say this. It’s not a sizzling, glamorous issue, but the shape of our infrastructure is the issue that affects every other issue.”

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

I saw this at a comment at a different site…

1. North Korean hackers, with the aid of the DNC, made the ship lose power because Agenda 21 Year Zero NWO the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
2. Somehow Mexicans did it by existing in large quantities in Baltimore.

InevitableSwing, 1 month ago

because of Woke

That’s the perfect three word explanation for anything right-wingers don’t like or that is a bad situation.

InevitableSwing, 2 months ago

A reddit comment

West Virginia, where you can make five gallons of moonshine but any amount of recreational marijuana can result in 90 days in prison.

InevitableSwing, 2 months ago

What do they even think “woke” means at this point?

Decency, empathy, tolerance, equality, reproductive rights, etc - it’s a very, very long list.

InevitableSwing, 2 months ago

I disagree. In the Texas immigration law ruling the GOP majority did not even bother to explain its reasoning. I think they will now routinely, proudly, openly give a middle finger to the nation.

InevitableSwing, 2 months ago

I’ll leave this 2015 WaPo article here.

Why Benjamin Netanyahu is so tough: He's from PhiladelphiaWhy Benjamin Netanyahu is so tough: He’s from PhiladelphiaBy Justin Wm. Moyer
March 3, 2015 “I’m glad to be in Philadelphia,” Benjamin Netanyahu said when addressing a graduating class at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. “A pretty good portion of my intellectual capital was developed in this city.” Few are aware that Israel’s prime minister — due to address Congress in a historic joint session today — spent four years in the City of Brotherly Love as a teenager. Netanyahu’s father Benzion moved from Israel to Cheltenham, Pa., in 1963 to teach at Dropsie College, America’s first center for post-doctoral Jewish studies, now the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. With Benzion came his children, including Yonathan and his younger brother “Bibi,” the future prime minister. And, just like “The Addams Family,” these fish out water had to go to school: Cheltenham High School in Cheltenham, then a Jewish enclave in suburban Montgomery country. The school had no shortage of Jews, but the Netanyahus’ intellectual capital was out-of-step. These teenagers came from a desert where their people were fighting for survival to a world of high school plays and sock hops not far removed from “American Graffiti.” It was a world they questioned. “My school has about 1,500 students who don’t know what they’re doing there,” brother Yonathan — later killed fighting for the Israel Defense Forces during their celebrated 1976 hostage-rescue mission at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport — wrote in a letter home to Israel in 1963. “It looks more like the Tel-Aviv Sheraton than a school (beautiful even by American standards, brand new, and it cost 6.5 million dollars to build). My house is ‘terribly’ nice, surrounded by lawns and trees and empty, meaningless life.” While the prime minister has left few sound bites about his high school years, some who knew Netanyahu said he was not interested in the Summer of Love. “He was completely counter-counterculture,” Deborah Lefco told The Washington Post in a telephone interview in 2010. Lefco graduated from high school with Netanyahu in 1967. “It was the Vietnam era and we were all against the war in Vietnam because we were kids,” she said. “He was the lone voice in the wilderness in support of the conservative line in those days.” One article about Netanyahu’s life as an American high school student even compared the contrarian to a certain rebel without a cause. “He kept his hair short at a time when most boys wore their hair in a big swoop over their eyes,” the New York Jewish Week wrote in 1996. “He was cool in his own way, proud to love his parents when that was unfashionable; friendly, yet intense, like James Dean, never smiling in photographs, but comfortable with strangers.” Though occasionally portrayed as the class grump, Netanyahu made a go of it. He joined the chess club. He played, ahem, left wing on the soccer team and, as one former teammate told the Jewish Exponent in 1996, showed “anger when he wasn’t playing well or the team wasn’t playing well.” But he may have felt like he was from another planet. While there was enthusiasm for Israel in Cheltenham, before — or even after — the young country’s Six-Day War with Egypt, Jordan and Syria in 1967, the stakes were perhaps not apparent to the average debutante. “There was no question that he thought most of the kids in our school were living superficially,” said Thomas Stretton in a 2010 interview with The Post. Stretton had the curious experience of teaching Arthur Miller to a boy who would become a right-wing Israeli ideologue. "I think we were talking about ‘Death of a Salesman,’ " Stretton said. “He made the point that he thought there was more to life than adolescent issues. He saw the world differently from the suburban, fairly prosperous population that made up the school at the time.” Even shul offered no escape. Perhaps because of a family connection, the Netanyahus ended up worshiping at Temple Judea, a reform synagogue in North Philadelphia. “It was a reform congregation with very liberal leanings,” said Harvey Porter, the synagogue’s former president, in 2010. “The interior was like a Quaker meeting house.” Perhaps not eager to remain a member of a congregation likened to a Christian pacifist sect, Netanyahu left Cheltenham to join the Israeli Defense Forces shortly after graduating high school. According to one account — from Cheltenham High’s former yearbook editor — Netanyahu didn’t even bother showing up for his diploma. “I’d see Benjamin everyday in class,” Zelda Rae Stern told the New York Jewish Week. “He was my friend. And then one day in 1967, he just wasn’t there anymore. No messages, nothing. And then I started reading about troop movements in Sinai.” Though he returned to the United States to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s, he was just visiting. America had welcomed him — but his family wasn’t interested in staying. “I keep aloof,” Yonathan wrote. “And I do so not because I dislike them, but because I feel I belong to a different world.”

InevitableSwing, 2 months ago

“Lotsa people don’t know this but I invented the German language. It’s true. It’s true. Believe me. Believe me.”

InevitableSwing, 2 months ago

Earlier - Cookie Monster: "Me learn genocide. Me no like genocide. Genocide bad. Make Cooke Monster very sad.

This hour - Biden: “I’m making a surprise announcement in my speech tonight. Here it is… We are asking for Republican support to create a Democrat and Republican blue ribbon panel to investigate the politicization of Sesame Street.” The president goes off script like his aides feared he would. “Children should not be exposed to toxic ideas at such a young age. They’re just children for gosh sakes. Look, Israel has a right to defend itself…”

InevitableSwing, 2 months ago

Uh, oh. What was the vote? Do I want to know?

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Edit

While the decision was unanimous, the liberal justices wrote a sharp concurrence that accused the conservative majority of going further than needed

Oh! A sharp concurrence!

InevitableSwing, 2 months ago

Is packing the court even mentioned in passing? All such “fixing the court” articles by lib writers seem very dumb to me. Biden and the dems won’t pack the court so there’s no hope.

InevitableSwing, 2 months ago

The packages will “coincidentally” be nearly identical to the US aid packages. Israel will publicly make non-apology apologies. In private they’ll snicker and laugh. And some of that will leak out. But Israel won’t even bother to make non-apology apologies to those unofficial private comments.