War Room Lounge V43: STEM is Overrated

[Trotsky]

Yeah someone just made a thread on this. I'm not going to pretend that I knew who Neil was before the clip, but I looked him up after Shapiro called him a leftist that nobody had ever heard of, and his conservative credentials are.....robust. Rupert Murdoch hire, supported every major war including Iraq, climate change denier, supported the Thatcher/Reagan AIDS denial, longtime contributor to conservative magazines, Tony Blair and George W. Bush fan.

 

[Jack V Savage]

I desperately need a Google Alert for Dinesh D'Souza Dunking. For real, it's my favorite thing.

Also, the USPS is a national treasure.

It's not satisfying when you consider that he knows he's posting idiocy and is just running an (extremely lucrative) grift.

 

[Trotsky]

It's not satisfying when you consider that he knows he's posting idiocy and is just running an (extremely lucrative) grift.

You can say that about pretty much every conservative talking head at this point. Although Dinny is one of the worst. But he does seem to really still cling to delusions of intellectual grandeur, so it's nice seeing him regularly getting pantsed by random tweeters.

 

[Trotsky]

It's not satisfying when you consider that he knows he's posting idiocy and is just running an (extremely lucrative) grift.

Also, these killed me.

fake mett camp‏ @mattiecamp 4h4 hours ago
Replying to @KevinMKruse @skipbidder
What's it like having the full title and deed to Dinesh?

Kevin M. Kruse‏Verified account @KevinMKruse 3h3 hours ago
Eh, it's like having the title to a rusted-out Buick sitting on cinder blocks in your yard. You don't want it, but no one else does either.​

Amanda of House Stark‏ @HTLHellcat 1h1 hour ago
Replying to @DineshDSouza @AOC
One of these days, you're gonna say something that Kevin M. Kruse doesn't have to correct. Seems today is, once again, not that day.

 

[Sketch]

Is it weird that I go to ikea for lunch?

 

[HockeyBjj]

Book Bronn also had a child with mentally deficient daughter of the lesser house and named the child Tyrion. Cersei in the books suspects this is his way of mocking her (and let's be honest, with book Bronn it probably is).

That's not actually Bronn's child. She got pregnant from getting raped during the riots where Sansa almost got raped and was saved by the Hound.

Since now literally no one else would marry her, Sir Bronn of the Blackwater was a better match than they could have hoped for (at least on paper). And yeah, rape baby named Tyrion is definitely mocking Cersei.

 

[Gregolian]

Playoff hockey is the best.

That's not actually Bronn's child. She got pregnant from getting raped during the riots where Sansa almost got raped and was saved by the Hound.

Since now literally no one else would marry her, Sir Bronn of the Blackwater was a better match than they could have hoped for (at least on paper). And yeah, rape baby named Tyrion is definitely mocking Cersei.

It's been years since I read the books so I had forgotten that.

Like, show Bronn exudes that original NWO (I'm the bad guy but COOL" vibe. Book Bronn is a straight up asshole. I remember in the show when Tyrion asks Bronn to fight the Mountain for him Bronn almost straight up is like "I want to help you but I am not putting myself out there like that"

From what I remember from Book Bronn is response was akin to "I've got what I want, I'm a minor noble, I have my castle, I stand nothing to gain"

Show Bronn is the Netflix version of Punisher whereas Book Bronn is the "Slavers Arc" Punisher.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Is it weird that I go to ikea for lunch?

Nope.

The weird part is when you take dates there and call it your apartment

 

[Quipling]

Like, show Bronn exudes that original NWO (I'm the bad guy but COOL" vibe. Book Bronn is a straight up asshole. I remember in the show when Tyrion asks Bronn to fight the Mountain for him Bronn almost straight up is like "I want to help you but I am not putting myself out there like that"

From what I remember from Book Bronn is response was akin to "I've got what I want, I'm a minor noble, I have my castle, I stand nothing to gain"

Show Bronn is the Netflix version of Punisher whereas Book Bronn is the "Slavers Arc" Punisher.

That scene is actually pretty close:

From the book:
"I like you well enough, ugly little whoreson that you are . . . but if I fight your battle, I lose either way. Either the mountain spills my guts or I kill him and lose Stokeworth."

 

[Gregolian]

That scene is actually pretty close:

From the book:
"I like you well enough, ugly little whoreson that you are . . . but if I fight your battle, I lose either way. Either the mountain spills my guts or I kill him and lose Stokeworth."

I felt like he was more blunt in the book for some reason. I know in the books he's far more straightforward than he is in the show and isn't nearly as sarcastic too.

 

[Trotsky]

Ever notice that like every major left-wing politician was a stud athlete in their youth?

Off the top of my head, Biden was a star HB/WR, Bernie and Obama were star PG's, Cory Booker was a DB at freaking Stanford, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were both star soccer players, Fred Hampton (who may well have been the first black president someday if he weren't assassinated by the FBI) was a star center fielder.

Something, something, leadership qualities

 

[Gregolian]

Ever notice that like every major left-wing politician was a stud athlete in their youth?

Off the top of my head, Biden was a star HB/WR, Bernie and Obama were star PG's, Cory Booker was a DB at freaking Stanford, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were both star soccer players, Fred Hampton (who may well have been the first black president someday if he weren't assassinated by the FBI) was a star center fielder.

Something, something, leadership qualities

Wasn't Harry Reid an above average boxer in his youth? Though to be fair towards the end of his time in office you could see the after effects of that to a point.

 

[Trotsky]

Wasn't Harry Reid an above average boxer in his youth? Though to be fair towards the end of his time in office you could see the after effects of that to a point.

I didn't know that. Pretty neat.

IIRC Nancy Pelosi was an all-state offensive tackle.

 

[Gregolian]

I didn't know that. Pretty neat.

IIRC Nancy Pelosi was an all-state offensive tackle.

Since Searchlight had no high school, Reid boarded with relatives 40 miles away in Henderson, Nevada to attend Basic High School,[2] where he played football, and was an amateur boxer.

Per Wiki. Just amateur but still.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Ever notice that like every major left-wing politician was a stud athlete in their youth?

Off the top of my head, Biden was a star HB/WR, Bernie and Obama were star PG's, Cory Booker was a DB at freaking Stanford, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were both star soccer players, Fred Hampton (who may well have been the first black president someday if he weren't assassinated by the FBI) was a star center fielder.

Something, something, leadership qualities

Never heard of Fred Hampton before this post. Given that he died at 21, that seems to be a really bold claim. But he seems interesting.

 

[Trotsky]

Never heard of Fred Hampton before this post. Given that he died at 21, that seems to be a really bold claim. But he seems interesting.

Whoa, seriously? Given your breadth of knowledge, I am legitimately shocked that you've never heard of Fred Hampton.

Anyways, prodigious doesn't even do him justice. He was deputy chairman of the entire Black Panther Party by the time he was 20 years old. Of all the figures in history whose lives were cut short by right-wing US forces and whose transformational potential was unrealized, my heart breaks for Hampton the most. Then Patrice Lumumba and Che Guevara. Then Thomas Sankara (although the US wasn't really a party to his death). It's really sad thinking about how he'd still only be 70 years old today.

 

[BarryDillon]

Yeah someone just made a thread on this. I'm not going to pretend that I knew who Neil was before the clip, but I looked him up after Shapiro called him a leftist that nobody had ever heard of, and his conservative credentials are.....robust. Rupert Murdoch hire, supported every major war including Iraq, climate change denier, supported the Thatcher/Reagan AIDS denial, longtime contributor to conservative magazines, Tony Blair and George W. Bush fan.

AKA a leftist.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Dinesh is getting dunked on again

I will never, ever tire of watching Kruse beat him to an absolute pulp.

 

[luckyshot]

I'm so glad Delta has the best interest of their workforce at heart. Delta’s CEO (paid $13 million last year), must have woken up in a cold sweat one day and said, “Oh god, I don’t want my employees to miss out on a video game system with the latest hits! That would be so much fun for them. I better design an expensive ad campaign to spread the word!”

Gross.

 

[luckyshot]

Is it weird that I go to ikea for lunch?

They also have the self busing system there. People put their trays on the racks with tons of perfectly good food left over all the time. You can go any day of the week at lunch time and eat for free if you are so inclined.

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#bumlife
#areyouemployedsir