Califan007 The Constipated

Not a moment but this opening (and Mad magazine) kinda introduced me to irreverent humor as a kid, and that humor has stuck with me ever since.

Pretty sure it's CGI lol...

"a cocoon with something about to emerge" alone is creepy...especially when it's on your livingroom wall and is the size of a throw pillow lol...

As a kid...honestly, this one from Bewitched lol:

Ah, got it...👍

"goofs too" lol...

My assumption (and it could have been wrong) was that the $140M loss included the $100M gain...make $100M from bitcoin, then lose $240M, leaving you with a $140M loss from investing in bitcoin.

If $140 million is a "rounding error", making $100 million is finding change in the couch seat cushions lol...

He invested $1.5B...lost about 10% (that's one helluva rounding error)...sold off a bunch and lost money doing so. The story isn't about how well or poorly Tesla overall did in 2022, it's about Tesla's investment in bitcoin and how that investment performed. It's also indirectly about "Dude, you're supposed to be a billionaire genius...you should have known better."

has nothing whatsoever to do with PR...has everything to do with Republicans having way too much success with their base by waging culture wars and knowing their voters care more about narratives than facts. Asking Republican politicians questions like the one you posed would simply be met with asinine spin (which their base would believe) and a heavy dose of Whataboutism (which their base would cheer on). From what it seems, the goal of a vast majority of Republican voters is to vote for politicians who will advance certain ideals (abortion=murder, period, end of story), defend against imagined enemies (drag queens and brown people are taking over and need to be stopped), validate their fears by making up evidence that those fears were warranted (CRT is indeed teaching your kids to be anti-white), and uphold the Republican party at all costs. So, yeah, asking a question like "Why didn't you do anything when you were in charge" won't make a dent...to be fair it never has.

My opinion? **** the narrative. And these are AP classes, not standard high school history classes. They’re prep for college.

Lord, this show is sooo good...

Brock Purdy and Josh Johnson as your QBs...this feel like an alternate reality Washington team...

Unfortunately this doesn't really answer my questions lol...

You purchase cryptocurrency through an account that is your son's?...Trying to make sure I understand lol... *************** Also (for anyone): I take it there are numerous types of cryptocurrency...if so, what makes you gravitate to a certain type? And I also take it that each type has a different value (like stocks do)...what makes crypto values rise and fall? Again, I know jack **** about any of this lol...

The Specter of 2016 McGonigal, Trump, and the Truth about America We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for how we understand the Trump administration, our national security, and ourselves. https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-specter-of-2016?r=f9j4c The whole article is informative and actually an easy read. A few snippets: On 23 January, we learned that a former FBI special agent, Charles McGonigal, was arrested on charges involving taking money to serve foreign interests. One accusation is that in 2017 he took $225,000 from a foreign actor while in charge of counterintelligence at the FBI's New York office. Another charge is that McGonigal took money from Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch, after McGonigal’s 2018 retirement from the FBI. Deripaska, a hugely wealthy metals tycoon close to the Kremlin, "Putin's favorite industrialist," was a figure in a Russian influence operation that McGonigal had investigated in 2016. Deripaska has been under American sanctions since 2018. Deripaska is also the former employer, and the creditor, of Trump's 2016 campaign manager, Paul Manafort. [...]For me personally, McGonigal's arrest brought back an unsettling memory. In 2016, McGonigal was in charge of cyber counter-intelligence for the FBI, and was put in charge of counterintelligence at the FBI's New York office. That April, I broke the story of the connection between Trump's campaign and Putin's regime, on the basis of Russian open sources. At the time, almost no one wanted to take this connection seriously. American journalists wanted an American source, but the people who had experienced similar Russian operations were in Russia, Ukraine, or Estonia. Too few people took Trump seriously; too few people took Russia seriously; too few people took cyber seriously; the Venn diagram overlap of people who took all three seriously felt very small. [...]The reason I was thinking about Trump and Putin back in 2016 was a pattern that I had noticed in eastern Europe, which is my area of expertise. Between 2010 and 2013, Russia sought to control Ukraine using the same methods which were on display in 2016 in its influence operation in the United States: social media, money, and a pliable candidate for head of state. When that failed, Russia had invaded Ukraine, under the cover of some very successful influence operations. (If you find that you do not remember the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, it is very possibly because you were caught in the froth of Russian propaganda, spread through the internet, targeted to vulnerabilities.) The success of that propaganda encouraged Russia to intervene in the United States, using the same methods and institutions. This is what I was working on in 2016, when a similar operation was clearly underway in the United States. To this observer of Ukraine, it was apparent that Russia was backing Trump in much the way that it had once backed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, in the hopes of soft control. Trump and Yanukovych were similar figures: nihilistic, venal, seeking power to make or shield money. This made them vulnerably eager partners for Putin. And they had the same chief advisor: the American political consultant Paul Manafort.

Dude started glitching up a storm lol...then pivoted to the DoJ.

Son of a....I HATE YOU PEOPLE!!! lol... I was fine with it just being somewhat laughable speculation, and braced for some ridicule aimed towards me for even posting it lol. But, nooooo,,,,you guys have to go and add sound logic and reasonable takes and now I'm doing this: