ChiGoose

Just a Chicago thing. When I first moved to Chicago, my first job while in law school was security at a bar. Their tradition was that at the end of your first night, you’d have to do a shot of Malört. If you showed up to your next shift after that, you were part of the crew. Since then, I’ve acclimated to the taste. I’ll never have it on my own, but I’ll always have a shot if others are doing it. Especially to see a newbie’s Malört Face. A couple years ago, some friends were visiting from out of town and my buddy’s wife was legitimately mad that I didn’t have any Malört for her to try since she had heard so much about it. Since then, I’ve always made sure to have a bottle on hand. This is maybe my favorite Malört bit:

This would be great. The more unfiltered live Trump before the election, the better.

Joe Biden isn’t dead. He’s just been refilling all of the tampon dispensers in Minnesota boy’s bathrooms.

Well now, I had been assured by the people who believe that Joe Biden is dead that Walz mandated tampons in boy’s bathrooms…

Fun tip for anyone coming to town:

Agreed. I don’t expect they will hold the territory for long, but it’s shaken up that status quo a bit and provided a morale boost for the good guys.

What in the world are you talking about?

Agreed. Well before the debate, polling showed that most Dems didn’t want Biden. But there were no serious challengers to him in the primary, so they voted for him. Now that Harris is the nominee, the polls are swinging in her favor, the electorate is engaged, and the donations are flowing in. Hard to argue that the Dems “chose” Biden given all of that.

GOP pollster on Trump-Harris: ‘I haven’t seen anything like this’ "Republican pollster Frank Luntz appears stunned at the current state of the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump matchup and this year’s presidential election. Luntz, who’s been called “The Nostradamus of pollsters” and conducts focus groups, had been bullish on Trump defeating Joe Biden and returning to the White House. Now, he says, he can’t believe what he’s seeing among his focus groups and in the polls. “She’s bringing out people who are not interested in voting for either Trump or Biden, so the entire electoral pool has changed and if it continues in this direction you have to start to consider Democrats winning the Senate and Democrats winning the House,” Luntz said Wednesday on CNBC. “She’s got intensity now. She’s got an intensity advantage. She’s got a demographic advantage and I haven’t seen anything like this happen in 30 days in my lifetime,” he said. “Now my groups are broken up by young women saying, ‘I’m not voting for him anymore.’” He added: “The people who are undecided have all collapsed towards Harris. The people who are ‘weak’ Trump have all collapsed towards undecided.” Luntz told hosts of “Squawk Box” that he’s attempting to hold a focus group of undecided, younger female voters, but is having trouble finding enough people who fit that category. “You shift the demographics and you shift the entire outcome,” he said. “There are issues, attributes and the condition of the country. The issues and the conditions favor Donald Trump. He should be winning this election. But the attributes are so much in Harris’ favor that he’s not.” (emphasis mine)

You can certainly try, but once people peg you as "the other" (depending on which side they are on), they tend to just ignore any nuance and paint with a broad-brush based entirely on their own beliefs of what the "other side" stands for.

Either there was a massive DDOS attack on X that somehow didn't impact most of X or the infrastructure that struggled to handle the spaces launch of Pudding Ron's campaign rollout was also unable to handle the load for the Trump conversation. Seems like the latter is far more likely than the former. Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not. "Eighteen minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned. The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was lying about an attack."

It’s kinda sad that you still think I said something I never said. You’re so defensive of your overlords that you cannot remove your lips from their sphincters long enough to do basic reading comprehension.

Apparently not believing Elon Musk over my own eyes is a mental illness. A DDOS attack would have crippled the entire site, not just a single spaces broadcast. Simplest explanation is that there was an internal infrastructure issue that they were able to eventually resolve. But that would mean questioning the word of Dear Leader. And according to some, that would constitute a mental illness…

It’s too bad the Olympics didn’t have an event for Missing the Effing Point because you would have brought us home the gold to put us ahead of China for gold medals

OH MY GOD. You saw the classic Simpsons steamed hams bit and your takeaway was that there definitely was aurora borealis completely localized in the kitchen. If anyone knows this guy personally, they are ripe to join Amway.

I haven’t changed my position at all. The fact you think I have gives more ammo to my theory that you can’t actually read. Get help.

Can you read? Are you actually capable of reading? Or is that too far past your cognitive abilities? Because I’m really starting to wonder. I was on Twitter when the spaces started. I was not trying to join it because I do not hate myself. But I had absolutely no issue with Twitter during the time that the world’s biggest losers were complaining that they couldn’t hear their Dear Leader. I did not claim that Twitter was working for everyone. I did not claim that everything was perfect for all. I simply said that I wasn’t experiencing an issue and the history of big Twitter spaces lead me to think it was more likely an infrastructure issue than a DDOS. Dear lord man. Find some self-respect.

“I see you broke every record in the book with uhh stho many millions of people. And tshat’s an honor. We view that as an honor. And then uhhh you do want shilencshing of shcertain voices”