I mean it’s working for them so far

Pretty interesting also, at the botttom of the article:

What readers are saying

The comments overwhelmingly criticize the House Committee on Ethics for focusing on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s minor ethics violation while ignoring larger alleged ethical breaches by Donald Trump and other political figures. Many commenters express frustration over perceived double standards, highlighting Trump’s acceptance of a $400 million plane and other significant gifts. The sentiment is that the committee’s focus on Ocasio-Cortez is disproportionate compared to more substantial ethical concerns involving other politicians.

This summary is AI-generated.

Press: Fails at their vital duty to protect and inform the public, also lies a lot

Public: Stops giving a shit

Gov’t: Hey we’re coming for you now, hope that’s cool

Press: Hey wait

Public: Oh cool we don’t like those guys anyway

Press: Wait hold on

There’s a reason why, in a criminal trial, when they’re trying to figure out what actually happened, they don’t put the defendant in the most vulnerable situation in the world and then get them in to sit in front of 300 of the worst people in the world and have them take turns with 5 minutes each of yelling at her and trying to twist up the truth. I’m not hopeful about it either, but who knows.

The other option is that they bring her in and make it clear that she better say it was always Bill Clinton, Obama, Hilary Clinton, James Comey…

What? Trump? No, he was never involved, why do you ask?

No, he shot his own eye out.

Not joking. He dropped a loaded pistol and when it hit the ground it shot him in the eye.

Because Americans are louder and tend not to confine their activities to the country-specific forums

Yeah, dealing with people is the absolute worst. Just put me in the back with people who are working for a living. Just way better.

I forgot this one: One of the customers said she loved our house-made whatever dip. I said no, it comes from a tub. She said no, it’s definitely house made, it’s so good. I went to the back and got one of the tubs to show her where it came from.

There’s a reason some of the managers hated me 😃

I worked in a restaurant. I spat in the trashcan in the kitchen right by the food line. I bummed cigarettes from customers. I also worked my ass off, working doubles or picking up shifts, because combination of 0 money and just my general nature. I practically knocked down a waitress one time just because I was sort of rushing around not looking where I was going. I stole food sometimes. I was a menace. I frequently called out. I was the only white guy who would work busing or dish room without whining about it, and also I would genuinely try to do a good job. The managers were sort of evenly divided with most slightly in favor of me and some with intense bad feelings about me, but in general I was perpetually semi-close to getting fired. Eventually, I quit because too dysfunctional and was moving to another city, and was too generally disorganized to even pick up my last check for some reason.

I also hated waiting tables because of dealing with customers, and would try to avoid it in favor of even other less valued positions when I could afford to.

Does that count?

From the article: They cannot (or not without creating significant legal issues for themselves). The military doesn’t work that way.

Almost as if they’re part of a class of people that doesn’t give a shit about the average American person.

Honestly, if you’ve ever spent time in Washington, it starts to make sense why a lot of them are so bizarre and incompetent with these things they are trying to do. The people are just odd on a personal / judgement type of level. Well… I mean, what they’re trying to do is pull down six figures doing stuff that’s really not very difficult that they don’t have to be all that good at. At that, they’re succeeding. Winning elections or helping the country, they are failing.

Honestly, I read it as kind of similar to Putin’s “outlandish lying on purpose to show dominance” strategy.

They are to someone’s face telling them that they’re so dumb that they think living wages aren’t as important as being able to buy a new game system and play their stupid games while they shovel burgers into their fat working-class faces. It’s negging as a way of emphasizing that they’ll never be capable or organized enough to play at the big people’s table, so go play your games, loser.

That’s how I read it. Maybe they think the people seeing this poster are dumb enough that they’ll think “You know, he’s right, I do want a new game system.” But I feel like it’s a deliberate insult to remind the underlings of their place. That’s how I read it.

“In the amount of time it takes to vote, you could play three games of pool. Three! Now dat’s fresh.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0OwIMsQ4_4

I mean they could have had it analyzed, probably found out some pretty fascinating things about Roman wine, and then if they wanted to drink it after before it went bad, maybe they could just save some out when they were delivering it for study. Or they could have sold the thing to finance a whole other expedition probably.

I get it. You can’t live your life just saving it all in the right file folders. At the same time…

Fun fact: Jacques Cousteau and his team once discovered a shipwreck with some intact jugs of 2000-year-old Roman wine. For whatever reason, they broke one open and drank some of it. They said it wasn’t all that tasty at that point.

Except, after they had their party and were working on recovering the rest of the wreck, they realized that the intact one they’d found right at the beginning was the only one that had been intact. Literally the singular one. They searched extensively to try to find another, and couldn’t.

Oops.

Yeah bo

I know my share of history
How hard it is to be free
From wearing masks that turn to skin
Hiding what you could have been

Man… it’s so weird.

They want to have Friday beers in the office. They want to go to the game together. They want to organize little events after work that I’m semi-obligated to go to. I went to one, reluctantly, and one of the executives more or less made it clear to me that he had been against hiring me in the first place (for understandable reasons).

No I don’t like you people, you’re pod people, why the fuck do you do this with your lives

Edit: It wasn’t just me, either. They all would get excited for sandwiches from this one place, and I went with them one time and they all clearly thought it was a treat, and the sandwich was foul. Just a big stinky wad of toppings and condiments. I never went again, and every so often with some fanfare they would go there again. I literally don’t know what’s wrong with them.

True, but the news is freaking out about it a lot less, and spending a lot less time interviewing people about what percent of them might feel like it’s personally the president’s fault and he should definitely lose the next election because of it because people are hurting right now and he doesn’t care.

It is, as the man said, notable. In fact it seems like they’ve totally moved on from feeling like inflation is an important issue to pay close attention to and freak out about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5mlx_DnIEo

*Sweet Home

Seriously.

I can hear directly from the horse’s mouth from someone who went through World War 2, fought in a trench and saw all the tanks, saw their friends die, had all these crazy experiences.

I watched Dunkirk and I didn’t like it because it was all a bunch of crap. Roald Dahl already told me how it was (not in France, in Greece, but sort of the same situation) and it just wasn’t like that. He watched German fighters buzzing around and picking off ships in the bay, from up on the hill, he went up in the air and flew around with bullets whizzing all around him, and then he showed them to me. Even if someone’s not an expert writer, if they were there, then they can tell you. Someone who just works in an office in Hollywood probably can’t tell you shit.

I can hear from someone who worked in a hospital ER, someone who survived a concentration camp, someone who lived in the boonies in Africa and got out and yelled at the giraffes and had scares with lions and poisonous snakes. Redmond O’Hanlon took me up the river in Borneo and we ate cooked worms together and the guides had a little celebration because they thought we’d never make it through the jungle because we’re old and fat and white. I saw Gene Kranz walk outside the building and cry, because in one of the simulations he fucked up and killed the whole crew, and he couldn’t handle thinking of it if it had been real. I was there the night that Elie Wiesel’s father died in the camps.

JRR Tolkien learned the secrets of life and death in the worst places in the world and he told them to me, the best he could put them together. Richard Adams too, and Harlan Ellison.

Is it the same as being there? Not even close. Is it better than just going to the store and talking with my coworkers? Fuck yeah it is.