The Late Howard Beale

@ambereyes69 @genesimmons @Emassey678 Tongue envy too.

@genesimmons @Emassey678 Timmay is suffering from penis envy

Timmy, i’ve paid more than $100 million in taxes. I’ve created thousands of jobs, which enabled thousands of people to feed their families. I’ve contributed millions to wounded warriors, pediatric aids and support 1400 African children. And what have you accomplished in life?

@CynicalPublius Ditto Doug MacArthur.

George B. McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker, John Pope, Irvin McDowell, and John C. Frémont were unavailable for comment.

@SH8Model @Sword__Dance @Cernovich My other question about @Tesla FSD involves winter driving in the mountains (where I live). Will it drive on the wrong side of the road (as people do here) when there is no opposing traffic, and one side of the street is iced over, but the sunny/wrong side has thawed?

@HowardBeale_RIP @Sword__Dance @Cernovich There are 5 different driver modes: Sloth, Chill, Standard, Hurry and Mad Max In a 65: Sloth 65mph Chill 67-69 Standard 72-75 Hurry 78-80 Mad max 83-85 So yes, it’ll break the law. I usually do hurry, the only downside to it is that it shifts lanes a bit more than I like.

Last time I was in a Tesla, FSD was so-so and no Grok. Feel like I time traveled.

@NolteNC 71/95 on Rotten Tomatoes. I added it to my viewing list based on a strong recommendation from @RandyEBarnett.

Nuremberg (2025) with Russell Crowe is terrible. The acting is terrible. The script is terrible. The movie gets worse as it goes along. I’m embarrassed for all involved.

@USMustBeBetter @PerellClips @grok What screenplays did William Faulkner write?

@PerellClips Faulkner’s movie scripts were 10x better than his turgid novels.

"The greatest piece of American art ever made is Absalom, Absalom." Wright Thompson says: "Faulkner gets something so essentially right about the South. It's a place where the conflict that exists inside the hearts of every human being is played out on the landscape in an external way that almost never happens. The South is one of the few places in the world where the interior becomes manifestly exterior. You know how they have energy vortexes in Sedona? Likewise, the South is one of those places where the thing cracks open and the big subterranean human ideas — the conflict in the heart of every human being burst into physical action on the actual physical land. William Faulkner could see that. He had that Sixth Sense. One of the reasons that book resonates with people across generations is that he's describing something you've instinctually felt but never had the vocabulary to describe."

@StolenDans The horror! You’ll also be alarmed to know another famous Mark repeatedly used the n-word in Huckleberry Finn. Did they tell you about satire in your 10th grade English class?

you sorta forget until it's playing at a party but mark knopfler says that word THREE times in money for nothing

@CynicalPublius Bullseye, CP.

If you are a non-elected member of the US federal government (i.e., civilian GS employee, career SES, contractor, military) and you are “resisting” or “slow-rolling” lawful initiatives of the Trump Administration, let me tell you what you are actually doing. You are not “resisting” Trump. You are not “resisting” Cabinet secretaries (Pete Hegseth, e.g.) You are not “resisting” a policy you find politically unpalatable. NO. You are not “resisting” any of that. Instead, you are resisting THE CONSTITUTIONAL WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EXPRESSED VIA THEIR ELECTORAL CHOICES. You claim to value democracy, yet you resist democracy. You claim to value institutions and standards, yet you resist those institutions and standards when the American people chose a path you disagree with. HOW DARE YOU? How dare you place your own ego over the will of THE PEOPLE? (You know, those big letters at the top of the Constitution?) Who, exactly, do you think you are? THE PEOPLE are the sovereign in this nation, you are not. If you cannot accept this and gladly internalize it, you should resign or be fired. (This also goes for four-star generals and admirals.)

@RefuseWokeness @TruthHurtsTKV Roger that. I was never a fan of Trump until he won me over with a flawed but earnest first term. I used to be a loyal Republican, but now that it’s become so clear how @LeaderJohnThune and his cabal have relentlessly sold us out, that loyalty is far from certain going forward.

MAGA is your next door neighbor who works 5 days a week at his dead end middle management job, mows his grass on Saturdays and attends Church with his family on Sundays and is just trying to keep his bills paid, his family provided for and some money left over to retire before he dies. MAGA is an hourly operator at a local manufacturing plant working 55 hours a week hoping for more so he can take his boys hunting next season and buy his family of 5 the minivan they desperately need. MAGA is the owner and operator of his own contract trucking business driving on the road 16 hours a day for as many days as he can each week just to keep his family clothed and fed which he can barely do after cutting his rates low enough to compete with illegal drivers who aren’t even literate in their own language never mind English but somehow they are able to get their trucks paid for by others because Americans last. MAGA is the long retired Sergeant Major who spent years overseas watching his military brethren die one by one only to return to a country full of uninformed overly indoctrinated spoiled twats calling him a murderer but he carried on still lives in the same small town, still gets the news paper, lives on his minimal VA benefits, social security, flies 🇺🇸 in his yard, and still drives his old fixed up 67 Ford in every holiday parade. MAGA is the 6th generation farmer who’s had to sell off most of his family’s land just to keep his stock fed and watered each year while being undercut by the corporate owned illegal cheap labor hiring land striping industrial farm just up the road. MAGA is the house wife who spends her whole day keeping her house together, picking kids up and dropping them off to and from school, sports, and recitals, then cooks dinner and prepares the next day lunches for her family before going to bed each night praying to God for her family’s safety and that her kids will grow up to be everything she knows they can be in the country she loves. MAGA is a 24 year old Engineering grad student who’s been competing with foreigners for internships who already have their entire college paid for by NGO’s floated by the taxes her parents have been paying their whole lives but have been siphoned off by emotionally manipulative political class power hungry criminals. MAGA is America, not the GOP, not internet influencers, podcast bros, or even President Trump. MAGA is the blood, sweat, and tears, that make this country great by living our lives, providing for our families, chasing the American dream, fighting for our country when called to do so, and showing up to the voting block when it’s time to make our voices heard. We are and always will be America First because MAGA is America. 🇺🇸

I didn’t vote for Alex Jones I didn’t vote for Candace Owens I didn’t vote for Tucker Carlson I didn’t vote for Nick Fuentes I didn’t vote for Traitor Greene I didn’t vote for Thomas Massie I didn’t vote for Ron Paul I didn’t vote for Rand Paul either I VOTED for Donald Trump and don’t regret it at all! I’m MAGA all the way!🇺🇸 Who’s with me?

@SamaHoole People with idealized visions of what governments and employers should be accomplishing for them fail to realize that this is the alternative capitalism lifted us out of.

Robert is thirty-six years old. In 1247, this is not young. Robert knows this. His knees know this. His back has known this since approximately 1239. Robert lives in a village in Worcestershire with his wife Agnes, three surviving children, and two chickens he is not allowed to eat because the chickens produce eggs and the eggs matter more than the chickens. Today is a Tuesday in March. Robert will describe it as a Tuesday in March. The concept of a 'week' as a unit of leisure is not yet something Robert has access to. 5:00am - Up. Pottage on the fire. The pottage is oats, leeks, and some dried parsnip from the autumn store. There is a small piece of salted pork in it, approximately the size of Robert's thumb. It is mostly flavouring. Robert eats around it for as long as possible, then eats it, then thinks about it for the rest of the morning. 6:00am - Field. Robert works the lord's strip first, then his own. The ground is still cold. His boots have a hole. He has had the hole since October. He has packed it with rags. The rags are wet. They will remain wet until June. Robert is technically eating a plant-based diet. He is not doing this by choice. He is doing this because meat belongs to the lord, the deer belong to the king's forest, and the last man in this village who was caught with an unlicensed rabbit spent a period in the stocks that his family still doesn't fully discuss. 10:00am - Brief rest. Rye bread, hard. A small onion. Robert thinks about the pig that was slaughtered in November. He thinks about this often. The memory of fat is a specific and enduring thing when you don't have much of it. 1:00pm - Back to the field. Robert's average daily calorie intake is somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 calories, the majority from grain. He is doing agricultural labour that modern exercise scientists would classify as extremely high intensity. He is, measurably, running on insufficient fuel. He is aware of this in the way that you are aware of things that cannot be changed: completely, and without drama. 4:00pm - Home. Agnes has made more pottage. It is similar to this morning's pottage. Robert eats it. Robert's teeth hurt. They have hurt for two years. There is no dentist. There is a barber-surgeon in the market town seven miles away. Robert cannot afford the barber-surgeon and cannot take the day from the fields. His teeth continue to hurt. 7:00pm - Sleep. Robert will be awake again at five. He is thirty-six. He will probably not see forty. The leading cause of death for men in his position is a combination of infection, injury, and the slow arithmetic of malnutrition across a lifetime. Somewhere, eight hundred years from now, someone will describe Robert's diet as "ancestral," "plant-forward," and "aligned with the earth." Robert would have a great deal to say about this. Robert does not have the energy.

@SharylAttkisson And then the bicycles, buses or crosswalks usually include third-world versions that might or not be the actual item, with one stray piece slightly in one corner of a square, displayed w the resolution of a distant pre-cable TV station.

Pet peeve: Proving you're human (to a robot) by "checking the boxes with bicycles" (or another item). Technically, none of the boxes has bicycles (plural). Some of them have parts of a single bicycle, but not multiple bicycles, which is the question. But if you answer correctly, as a human, the robot will decide you aren't human. So you have to answer the question incorrectly. More problems when the verification asks about boxes containing "bridges" (again, plural) or "motorcycles." And I find myself wondering, "Does it think an overpass is or is not a bridge?" "Does it think a scooter is a motorcycle?" Another issue: I frequently fail to pass ID verification tests by answering factually. If people who are real can't prove they're real by answering questions accurately-- then isn't there something wrong? How can there be so many successful fraudsters when I can't even get access to my own stuff? How do they find it so easy to get in? Lastly: Everything requires verification with a code. But when they send the code, it always says: "Do not share this code with anyone." But that's the whole reason you had to get the code: To share it with someone asking for on the phone, or to type it in a security site to advance. If you don't "share" it, you won't be able to get any of your business done or access what you need to access. 🤷‍♀️

@Sword__Dance @Cernovich This prompts a key question I’ve had. Will FSD break traffic laws, when it’s less safe to rigidly adhere to them? Did your Tesla truly “go with the flow” (moderately above the speed limit), or was it locked in at 65?

Drove from Philly to Long Island last Sunday on the Jersey Turnpike. 65mph speed limit. Tired from reveling all week-end. No one went 65mph. Average speed was 75-85mph. Many cars zigging and zagging 90-100mph. Absolutely nuts. I drove on FSD❤️ and went with the flow. It was perfect. Epic. Watching everyone else driving as if their lives depended on it was something I’ll never forget.

@tishagiraud @traceyh415 I have not gone back, either.

@HowardBeale_RIP @traceyh415 Same here but I was sick for about a week. Never went back for the 2nd shot.

Anyone get the shingles vaccine? I keep putting it off but I feel like it is time.

@SharylAttkisson Okay, no peeking, so try not to laugh too hard if I'm way off base. I feel like one the characters in Alias Smith & Jones had a wonky first name like that.

Without searching, who remembers the weekly TV program from a long time ago that had a main character named Artemis? Maybe there’s more than one, but I’m thinking of one in particular…

@DearS_o_n Life is wonderful when you exercise, eat healthy and get the rest you need. Turn notifications off on your phone. Deal with life on your terms and timeline, not every time some acquaintance feels the need for social gratification.

To all men who survived rock bottom, what’s one piece of advice would you give a man who feels like giving up right now?

Trump’s next AG needs to be ruthlessly efficient at inflicting maximum legal violence against the left-wing terrorists, hoaxers, and coup plotters who are actively attempting to destroy this nation and anyone who defends it. That’s the sole job qualification.

@MikeBrennan330 @SouthernKeeks @charlescwcooke That’s a fact! I had one hanging on my wall!

@SouthernKeeks @charlescwcooke In 1969, every boy under 12 had this poster.

I was talking to my 9-year-old about space exploration ahead of Artemis. I told him about Apollo 11 and how our astronauts walked on the moon. It was a delight to see his face get so excited at the thought. Him: "America is the best country." Yes it is, buddy. Yes, it is.

@AaronQuinn716 Two byes per team is the obvious play to expand time-slot inventory without adding games, but the league is saving that as an inducement to get the union to sign off on 18 games. They may need to guarantee every player is inactive one or two weeks per season to get buy-in.

There is an unfair layer of data in this stuff where the NFL thinks they can just expand and grow and add more, and it will work because we are addicted to this thing and consume all of it as much as we can. But I don't think MOST fans want more of it. And we don't want it all over the world. And we don't want it on Thursday nights. My 2 cents.

@ThrillaRilla369 Nah. My life has been what it is because of this wife for 30+ years. If/when the great coin flip ends up with me living on a few years, I'll just be happy with hobbies and grandkids.

If you lost your spouse, do you think you could ever marry again?

@TGrammie2 Nope. I've also seen enough bits and pieces of Seinfeld episodes to know who all the characters are, but never once sat down to watch an episode end to end. I worked in TV news, and was bombarded with a dozen monitors blaring all day long. Did not want to go home & watch more.

Am I the only one who’s never watched a single episode of Grey’s Anatomy?