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I think it's referencing this freedomtoons video.

Which I think is referencing Superman putting villains in a crystal prison called the phantom zone.

No, Freedomtoons was refering to the original meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trump-trapping-liberals-in-crystals

This is where it started and just took off from there. 2016 era organic meme magic.

 

[mlanguishi]

That's a stenomask, modern court recorder stenography equipment. Speech-to-text transcription, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenomask

That's so retarded. Having a good stenographer still has a bit of life left to it that can use the old shorthand machines. Before long though, all that caption and recording stuff should be done by computers with maybe a low paid person to correct a few times (Marzgurl thinks this is some important career for prerecorded vids lol)

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

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Why the fuck didn't we get this as a PPV.

 

[Not Really Here]

Apologies for the lateness, I was hit by a sudden, unintentional, case of bulimia, combined with a surprise explosive colon cleanse.

Hey! That is an extremely racist and insulting comparison. Monkeys are peaceful and commit little crime.

Primates engage in revenge murder, war, and genocide.

Gombe Chimpanzee War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-08-op-55155-story.html

https://nypost.com/2021/12/21/monkeys-who-killed-250-dogs-for-revenge-captured-in-india/

At the end of the day, you admit you want a king as an American citizen.

The chief executive of the US was always a limited, temporary king.
Please review literally any history on the creation of the American system of government.

 

[Flan Handler]

Canada sucks dude.

100 percent correct. But the food is slightly less corn syrupy.

Just pointing out that the giant brands will respond to incentives.

 

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Just wait until a few more years of Ozempic and all the related blood sugar problems and early deaths it'll cause.

What makes you think Ozempic will cause blood sugar problems and early deaths?

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

That's so retarded. Having a good stenographer still has a bit of life left to it that can use the old shorthand machines. Before long though, all that caption and recording stuff should be done by computers with maybe a low paid person to correct a few times (Marzgurl thinks this is some important career for prerecorded vids lol)

The purpose of that mask is to do just what you suggest, let computers do all the work. The mask eliminates outside noise from the courtroom and allows a single monotone voice to be recognized/recorded by the speech-to-text engines specifically trained for it that do all the rest of the work. I bet it's more accurate and a lot quicker than the old-school shorthand typists as well.

 

[UncleAdolf]

Had a good chuckle seeing what Biden's state department is blowing money on.

"Trans women" are the same as monkeys.

 

[GunCar Gary]

The customer "is always right" is an outdated motto from over a century ago.

Businesses actually more use the mantra "The customer is always the customer".
It's all about the perception.

i know the phrase is often misused, especially by 40 year old managers wielding what little power they have over their younger wage slaves. but i've always taken it to mean that the customer knows what they want and the onus is on you to provide what they want, or they will go somewhere else to get it. it seems appropriate for a president since there's always another option for the customer to choose

"Sexual misconduct" means flirting with a female (hopefully) politician or secretary. It's the most bullshit thing ever. Let humans be humans and have normal human interactions and relationships.

sexual misconduct means this happened somewhere in an office and women are abusing their recently gained social power to go on a witch hunt

 

[AllieKat]

Dumb question but what is this clerk putting against her mouth during he trial? Is this how they translate Spanish for the defendant? Source https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1857446905992618260
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I just found it interesting because I didn't think we had a device that would let someone talk aloud and silently. Seems like it would be a great tool for people doing calls in loud public settings.

She's a part of the Harkonnen mentats.

 

[Kovachs]

>carrots
>limited
When's the last time someone asked for broccoli cake or bread?

I don't like carrot cake.

 

[LurkTrawl]

the people currently abusing it, and believing that there is such a thing as a "free lunch" (heh) in biology are fucking retards.

The irony that a few literally free lunches would achieve the same effect with no possible side-effects is pretty great.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

100 percent correct. But the food is slightly less corn syrupy.

I think just getting rid of the corn subsidies would be an unbelievable QoL improvement for the entire US. No more corn syrup as industrial waste that gets shoved into food rather than thrown away, other vegetables will get cheaper as farmers diversify, and more energy goes into the corn->ethanol pipeline than comes out so it's a net negative to energy prices. I read once that more diesel goes into the actual farming than ethanol comes out and that doesn't include the shipping or processing, though I'm not sure if that's all corn or just corn destined for the forbidden moonshine vats

 

[Waifu Denier]

Primates engage in revenge murder, war, and genocide.

I'd feel safer in the orangutan jungle than the urban jungle of Baltimore.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Looks like The Hill's butchers are obsessed with Matt Gaetz. All the top stories are about him and the ethics report.

Slowly, though, they're moving towards Tulsi: "Gabbard selection flummoxes national security experts" (archive). The article is longer than average, so the spooks are very unhappy with this nomination.

Tulsi Gabbard’s expressed support for national security leakers and her elevation of Russian-backed narratives are coming under renewed scrutiny after President-elect Trump nominated her to the highest intelligence post in the country.

If confirmed as director of national intelligence (DNI), Gabbard would be responsible for wrangling the information collected across all 18 intelligence agencies.

The DNI aids in the creation of the president’s daily intelligence briefing, and Gabbard would play a key role in advising Trump on national security decisions.

“The DNI has access to every single secret that the United States has, every single bit of information that we know. … It’s the keys to the intelligence community kingdom,” said Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.), a former CIA officer who now sits on the House Intelligence Committee and who described herself as “appalled” by Gabbard’s selection.

Gabbard’s nomination surprised many in the national security world who expressed alarm over has past controversial comments and lack of high-level national security experience.

“What is unusual here is you’ve got somebody who’s had such a long and vociferous track record of saying things that are factually incorrect, that seem to give aid and comfort to U.S. adversaries and that undermine the very people they should be representing at the principals committee,” said Jamil Jaffer, a former Republican House Intelligence Committee staffer and national security prosecutor.

“That’s what makes her an unlikely candidate to be nominated for this job, and to be an unlikely candidate to be confirmed to this job.”

Gabbard, a four-term Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who officially became a Republican this year, has at various turns espoused pro-Russia talking points, writing as Ukraine was being invaded that President Biden failed to take into account “Russia’s legitimate security concerns” in trying to head off the war.

She has also praised Edward Snowden, who leaked troves of classified national intelligence material in 2013 and has spent the past decade living in Russia, pushing for Trump to pardon him during his first term in office.

She also secretly met with Syrian leader Bashar Assad, who was accused of using chemical weapons on his own citizens during the country’s civil war. When she ran as a Democrat for president in the 2020 primary, she declined to label the Syrian leader and Russian ally a war criminal.

“Some of the statements she has made through the years that sound like they came right out of the Kremlin’s talking points paper are a little bit alarming. Her cozying up to Bashar al Assad and being an apologist for him as well just raise questions in my mind. Is that really the best person to put in charge of this very complicated, very sensitive operation that is the U.S. intel community?” said Larry Pfeiffer, who previously served as senior director of the White House Situation Room and was chief of staff at the CIA under the George W. Bush administration.

Gabbard has also nodded to disinformation, expressing alarm in 2019 over “U.S.-funded biolabs” in Ukraine she feared could spread “deadly pathogens,” later walking the claim back after saying she was “not convinced” there were biological weapons being developed in the country.

Her comments came as the State Department at the time noted the Kremlin was pushing “outright lies that the United States and Ukraine are conducting chemical and biological weapons activities in Ukraine.”

Her flirtation with disinformation has raised questions both over whether she can be trusted with intelligence and whether allies would continue to share key information with the U.S.

Spanberger noted that throughout her CIA career, she had to pledge to sources she would protect their information and identity.

“The core element of concern relates to how much she will or won’t protect our sources and methods, our collected intelligence, our raw intelligence, the people who collect the raw intelligence. And so at its core, I have a concern that she would protect what we produce. And so how could a foreign country not have a concern as to whether she would protect what they produce?” she asked.

“It’s absolutely outrageous. And you know, many of my colleagues are concerned about Matt Gaetz, for obvious reasons,” she added, nodding to the former Florida House Republican who Trump said Wednesday would be his attorney general nominee.

“But in that circumstance, it will be within the public sphere, all of the potential ways that he could do egregious damage to the Justice Department. With the DNI, we’ll never even know the scope and depths of damage that a bad choice could make to the intelligence community, to our national security — all of it,” Spanberger said.

Other voices expressed concern over Gabbard’s lack of experience leading large agencies.

“She’s never managed anything larger than a congressional office or maybe like a brigade. That’s a lot different than trying to orchestrate and coordinate this wild consultation of intel elements that we call the U.S. intelligence community. I think she isn’t really prepared for that,” Pfeiffer said.

While Gabbard is a U.S. Army reservist with a rank of lieutenant colonel, Pfeiffer noted picks to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence typically have “spent decades working on these issues.”

One Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee also vented over the pick.

“I think there are 10 other people that are more qualified than her, and I don’t think she has the requisite background or experience for the job. So, I think she’s going to have real trouble in the Senate and I don’t know what qualifies her to be DNI,” the Republican said.

“She served what? As a police officer in the National Guard? That’s it. I mean, just look at the lack of qualifications. I don’t think she’s ever had an intelligence briefing. I don’t think she understands 702 or FISA,” the lawmaker said, noting the section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that covers foreign intelligence collection.

Still, figures on both sides of the aisle have expressed support for Trump’s pick.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said her military background means she “understands the threats as well as anybody.”

And Obama-era Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said skepticism of intelligence can “be a good thing.”

“I’m going to surprise you a little bit: I don’t think that it is an absolute prerequisite that the director of national intelligence be someone of the intelligence community. I also believe that on occasion it’s a good thing to be skeptical of the intelligence that we’re provided,” he said during a Thursday appearance on CNN.

But Spanberger urged her Senate counterparts to be wary of advancing Gabbard.

“Anybody who serves on the [Senate Intelligence Committee] cannot, in good conscience, vote for her,” she said.

“They just — they can’t. They can’t.”

 

[Not Really Here]

I'd feel safer in the orangutan jungle than the urban jungle of Baltimore.

"I feel safe" is a great way to die.

The most dangerous aspect of the bughive isn't the ferals roaming around, it's the innate ideology of the bughive.

 

[GunCar Gary]

and more energy goes into the corn->ethanol pipeline than comes out so it's a net negative to energy prices

i want to Make Cars Healthy Again and get rid of the ethanol poison in our gas supply

 

[Pampered Degenerate]

I'd feel safer in the orangutan jungle than the urban jungle of Baltimore.

This should be the new 'man or bear?' question. Let's get it trending.

 

[Not Really Here]

i want to Make Cars Healthy Again and get rid of the ethanol poison in our gas supply

But what would we do with a shitload of cheap grain???

 

[Absolutego]

when was the last time dems actually fixed anything? I'm pretty sure flint Michigan still doesn't have clean water

Democrat governments above a certain level of average melanin percentage have a bad habit of using the local infrastructure budget as a piggy bank to pay off their homies