Classic Conversation Thread

[Eric Prime]

 

[dudalb]

1 hour ago, Eric is a furry said:

 

I was surprised at how damn good Drew Barrymore is as a talk show hosts.

[Napoleon]

13 hours ago, AJG said:

I've won.

 

 

 

What if he's leaving the show to focus on his rising movie star career? 

[filmlover]

Naomi Judd, Matriarch of the Judds, Dies at 76 https://t.co/IDfmsuYCOV

— Variety (@Variety) April 30, 2022

[dxmatrixdt]

imagine you have a salad, and you are going to drizzle some dressing on it.  You drizzle lightly over the salad, then move to one end and squeeze real hard sending about a quarter cup to the side of the salad.  Then you go lightly again over the salad, and on the other end you squeeze real hard sending about another quarter cup of dressing onto the other side.  You eat the salad ignoring the squeezed dressing on the sides and throw it away.  Think of a pigeon eating bird seed on a bird feeder and jerking its head quickly side to side splashing bird seed onto the ground.  

[Morieris]

 

[filmlover]

A friend just told me he's going to be at Disney World for Memorial Day weekend when the new Guardians of the Galaxy attraction opens at Epcot. Can't claim I'm not jealous since there will almost certainly be celebrity appearances for the grand opening heh.

[AJG]

This shit had a hold over my house I cant explain. If you haven't seen it yet you must

 

 

 

[dudalb]

On 4/29/2022 at 5:12 AM, Napoleon said:

What if he's leaving the show to focus on his rising movie star career? 

I have no doubt that is what he is doing, but not sure he has a a big future aa an actor....

[Eric Prime]

 

Those How I Met Your Mother reruns were the blueprint lmfao

[CJohn]

58 minutes ago, Eric Strange said:

 

Those How I Met Your Mother reruns were the blueprint lmfao

This reminded of the exact same thing. They were ahead of everyone else.

[Porthos]

No matter how inflamed one might have thought USA politics was, it's about to get a LOT WORSE.

 

Like, very very historically inflamed worse.

 

 

(and I do not say that lightly)

[Eric Prime]

6 minutes ago, Porthos said:

No matter how inflamed one might have thought USA politics was, it's about to get a LOT WORSE.

 

Like, very very historically inflamed worse.

 

 

(and I do not say that lightly)

Fuck America

[Porthos]

Most of me is upset about how this is going to affect countless women and their families across the nation.  This is going to be horrific and a dark dark day when that ruling is delivered, and I don't say that lightly, either.

 

But I do admit a very small (and not at all nice) part of me is... smirking isn't the right word, so instead I'll just use the phrase "sadly shaking my head and saying 'I told you so'" at all of the oh-so-smart intellectual takes that swore up and down that the cultural right in the US would never actually succeed at having Roe overturned, as that would de-fang one of their greatest tools at mobilizing voters.

 

This is something the religious right has been working toward for literally decades and they ain't stopping at "just" overturning Roe.  Next stop is full-scale nationwide ban via SCOTUS, and that'll be a lot easier than some folks seem to think it might be.

 

The only glimmer of a fig leaf of a not-absolutely-worst-case-scenario is that this was deliberately leaked in an effort to torpedo the decision and defang it somewhat.  Can't see much other of a reason for it to have been leaked, as something this major has ****NEVER**** been fully leaked in the history of the "modern" Supreme Court (whisper campaigns/allusions to decisions are another matter, ftr).  That it leaked might be a last ditch effort to get a swing vote to change their mind.  I won't hold my breath at that happening, though.

 

Anything else I have to say is probably too political and deserves to be in the Politics section.

Edited May 3, 2022 by Porthos

[Eric Prime]

 

Republicans are a fucking disease.

[grim22]

45 minutes ago, Porthos said:

Most of me is upset about how this is going to affect countless women and their families across the nation.  This is going to be horrific and a dark dark day when that ruling is delivered, and I don't say that lightly, either.

 

But I do admit a very small (and not at all nice) part of me is... smirking isn't the right word, so instead I'll just use the phrase "sadly shaking my head and saying 'I told you so'" at all of the oh-so-smart intellectual takes that swore up and down that the cultural right in the US would never actually succeed at having Roe overturned, as that would de-fang one of their greatest tools at mobilizing voters.

 

This is something the religious right has been working toward for literally decades and they ain't stopping at "just" overturning Roe.  Next stop is full-scale nationwide ban via SCOTUS, and that'll be a lot easier than some folks seem to think it might be.

 

The only glimmer of a fig leaf of a not-absolutely-worst-case-scenario is that this was deliberately leaked in an effort to torpedo the decision and defang it somewhat.  Can't see much other of a reason for it to have been leaked, as something this major has ****NEVER**** been fully leaked in the history of the "modern" Supreme Court (whisper campaigns/allusions to decisions are another matter, ftr).  That it leaked might be a last ditch effort to get a swing vote to change their mind.  I won't hold my breath at that happening, though.

 

Anything else I have to say is probably too political and deserves to be in the Politics section.

They are going for gay marriage next

 

Although, I think that might need an additional Justice since, of all people, Gorsuch believes the right to marriage for all people is in the Constitution.

 

No use blaming RBG, although she does shoulder some of the blame. More the people who sat out 2014, 16 and of course McConnell.

[filmlover]

Whoever leaked that clearly has a beef with our SC with multiple stolen seats by the G(aslight)O(bstruct)P(roject).

 

I saw this tweet earlier today and really can't disagree with it tbh:

 

 

 

 

The fact that I know more about Johnny Depp’s and Amber Heard’s relationship than I do about the crimes committed by Ginni and Clarence Thomas shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) May 2, 2022

Edited May 3, 2022 by filmlover

[Porthos]

17 minutes ago, grim22 said:

They are going for gay marriage next

 

Although, I think that might need an additional Justice since, of all people, Gorsuch believes the right to marriage for all people is in the Constitution.

 

No use blaming RBG, although she does shoulder some of the blame. More the people who sat out 2014, 16 and of course McConnell.

 

Unlike Roe, which had a ton of passion behind it, I'm not gonna lay any bets on Obergefell being overturned, as the passion and drive just isn't there.  But the speed in which this current court (is about to) tossed Roe overboard means I ain't gonna lay on any bets on it being upheld, either.  Chip chip chip away though?  Very much so.

 

The main thing protecting Obergefell is the speed in society accepting it.  There just isn't the same level of animus against that decision as there was with Roe and that matters at least a little.

 

No, I think there's something far more worrying in this draft:

 

 

I don't know if they have five votes for "fetal personhood", as I think that might even be a bridge too far for some of the Justices (we don't know what the concurrences might say, after all).  But a two step like:

 

1] life/personhood begins at conception

2] 14th amendment gives equal protection under the law to all people

 

is the just how close this country might be to abortion being outlawed by fiat by this SCOUTS.

 

I don't quite think they have the votes to do it yet.  But I also think they might only be one or two short.

Edited May 3, 2022 by Porthos

[filmlover]

BUT, on a lighter note, the Met Gala was tonight and we all need to bow the fuck down to this certified Queen of both the silver screen and the red carpet:

 

[YM!]

1 hour ago, Porthos said:

No matter how inflamed one might have thought USA politics was, it's about to get a LOT WORSE.

 

Like, very very historically inflamed worse.

 

 

(and I do not say that lightly)

Yep. Voting rights, Roe v Wade, civil rights and gay marriage are next on the chopping block.

 

Fuck this country.