Hiii! Hope everyone had a good weekend. My trip out west was pretty fun, but it was a lot of schmoozing and a lot of work. And naturally I caught a cold on the way home so now I feel like crap.
Pentagon pick left Guard after being reported as possible ‘insider threat’ due to tattoo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/11/16/pete-hegseth-tattoo-national-guard
Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/17/haitian-immigrants-springfield-ohio-trump-election
Srsly?
Netflix said a record 60 million households worldwide tuned in for Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson fight
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/15/jake-paul-mike-tyson-fight-record-boxing-gate.html
As one does
They said a bear attacked their cars. It was a human in disguise, officials say.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/11/14/fake-bear-attack-video-california
AWWWWW
They married at 98 and 96: ‘Who doesn’t love a great love story?’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/11/16/love-story-marriage-senior-retirement
Have a good Monday!!
I suspect that it was because most folks wanted Iron Lung Mike to bust Jake Paul’s face, but the guy’s not fighting anyone who is in their prime and has top notch pugilistic skills.
I know Jake would kick my ass, so let’s get that out of the way, but Mike Tyson is 60+ years old, more than twice his age. Instead boxing took a page from the WWE. Oh the injuries and stuff is real, but the outcome was already predetermined. And like Jake Paul is going to fight anyone with real talent and in their prime.
Jake Paul, The Great White Hopeless.
I read a skeet that said something “The only thing the Paul/Tyson fight proved was that you can kick your father’s ass, so go ahead and mouth off all you want now.”
Streaming numbers are also BS. There’s no auditing and they claim things like Fool Me Once had 100 million. The fact that they self-report 60 million worldwide is a bad sign.
Springfield and the majority of US Murrica picked the Monorail.
I don’t blame the Haitians for fleeing. I’d do the same thing. Leave the country if you can, head for a blue state if you can’t.
And so it begins.
Trump confirms he will declare national emergency to carry out mass deportations
He will deploy troops on American soil and they’ll be smashing into people’s houses.
A lot of folks who thought they were safe are going to horribly surprised that the White Power Leopard is going to eat their face.
I read some interviews with undocumented folks a couple weeks back and they were unconcerned with being rounded up. “He won’t deport me. I’m a hard worker.” Uh, sure. Problem is there are very few undocumented people who aren’t hard workers. And they’re not going to check your references when they toss you in a cage.
It’s a sign of just how broken Axios is that their entry under “Why It Matters” is a bloodless statement that he’s fulfilling a campaign promise.
They can’t possibly mention the human tragedy, abuse of civil liberties, or economic crisis, of course.
They dug deeper into real life impacts when writing about a short term spike in egg prices. But the DC press only gets its cues from the GOP, and it’s going to get worse.
They’re Trump supporters from way back. I check it regularly to get the “calm” right-wing take on things, but don’t ever lose sight of the fact that they are biased.
SHOCKING really. White Power tattoo? No shit. Thanks W, for putting the US into a pointless war and allowing a lot of white power dumbshits access to top secret intel and/or firepower.
Best People: Part Two. Bester and bestest.
Thank congress, too, for suppressing that whole repot during the Obama years, regarding the white supremacists & neo nazis who were infiltrating the military back the, too!🙃🫠
That bear story is hysterical. The costume looks like it was bought off Temu. And the kicker is that they did the same scam like two times previously and insurance paid them.
I guess there is hope for us single olds.
My mom used to freak out when I joked about how I was the OG prototype of the Korean male millennial because I played a lot of video games, wasn’t married at 25 (or later) and no kids.
I gotta say the Tyson/Paul fight seeming to be so popular — and I never totally trust any streamer’s numbers so big grain of salt, YMMV, etc, but I saw it talked about plenty — sure had some big fucking bread and circuses at the Coliseum as the empire fell energy. A little too on the nose, I guess, is all I’m saying.
The followup buzz is how bad it was. People at least went back to see Leopards vs. the Visigoth Women parts II, III and IV. Nobody wants to restream this, or watch a rematch.
If Trump gets bad enough, I would not be surprised if the unexpected consequences mean sports stadiums and arenas struggle to operate or even shut down. People don’t want to think about how much they depend on immigrant labor directly and indirectly.
The followup buzz is always like that, though, and people still keep coming back. Boxing’s a great example of this — it was THE biggest event sport for decades and it’s been a mess of corruption and nonsense and lousy fights and 37 belts … and millions of people still tuned in for good celebrity boxer vs. 30-years-past-his-prime former champ. Because reality TV still sells no matter how bad it is!
Boxing’s audience has shrunk like crazy. It used to broadcast on network TV. Then when big matches dried up, it used to headline on HBO. But even that’s rare now. It’s just not drawing those numbers anymore.
This is the best they could do, and there’s nobody with Tyson’s name recognition left for any followup fights. This really wasn’t what they wanted.
It’s going to hit the food chain and construction industries here. Once people start getting rounded up, the rest will scatter. Farmers have already been complaining they can’t harvest crops.
I personally plan to price a new roof and see if I can make it happen before Trump takes over. The roofing industry will be decimated.
I’m gonna be saying this a lot: You voted for him.
Farmer’s Buyer’s Remorse
And the thing is that the businesses which should know better are actually clueless about just how screwed up things can get.
You see Trump signs in front of auto dealers, and the owners just can’t get their heads around how many dependencies they have on warehouses and just in time manufacturing and delivery. There’s no way to know how immigration crackdowns will reverberate, and none of it is precise.
Today in “why the hell would you believe him”?
Trump’s pro-Israel cabinet picks upset Muslims who voted for him
People are fleeing Elon Musk’s X for Threads and Bluesky. Welcome to the era of social media fragmentation
Xitter trolls are also flocking to Bluesky, only to be stymied by the mute and block tools. Then of course they shriek about censorship.