I would give her the benefit of the doubt, as she is generally a great commentator. One of the more effective communicators on Team Trump. Perhaps she is taking the high road where it costs her nothing, or just trolling Harris.
I find this supremely annoying, schoolmarmish at best and gaslighting at worst.
Do they teach Girl Boss politicians to use this simplifying, bullying, argument-ending language to sound more confident? Men with leadership abilities speak clearly. I guess women who think they have leadership abilities tell everyone how clear and obvious their points are. They have to tell everyone how right they are instead of demonstrating it.
If you assert that what you are saying is obvious, it makes your opposition seem like simpletons for not knowing it, or malicious for pretending not to. It's a bad faith effort to assert your authority over other people. Since women's natural talents lend them to caring for and corralling children, they use techniques reflexively, because that's how you handle unruly children
Its also a freudian slip/projection. When someone says "clearly" or "let me be clear" in conversation or in writing, its usually because they are trying to obfuscate something and then lie about obfuscating it.
A legal writer once said that a good lawyer never uses the word "clearly" in his arguments because, if the answer were clear, it would never have become a legal argument.
"Here’s a question I don’t really understand: Why are San Francisco politicians like Kamala, Nancy, and Gavin so dominant in this century? Not to mention recently retired San Franciscans like Jerry Brown, Diane Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer."
SF Democrats perfected the new left machine politics pioneered by Jim Jones, who personally mentored Willie Brown. Jones's vision and method have come to dominate the Democratic party, and SF is where it all started.
Satan's demon-hench, Baalzeebub rules from S.F. Those in the know call Baal, the demon of head. Lotta head give-n-took in the streets of old San Fran. Good luck, campers. Yer gonna need it...lol
In the late '90s I was in my optometrist's office when a disheveled woman came in with her 14 year-old son, a freshman at Berkeley High who was as spergy as anyone you'd ever seen. I started talking to him about school and he was withering about blacks. It turned out he was Hallinan's illegitimate son, and Mom was upset Hallinan never paid any support.
Likely story... By the 90s she could have sued him for back support with interest and short of disproving paternity there isn't a thing Hallinan could have done to fight it.
Steve, you've pulled multiple seemingly-unrelated threads into an informative and amusing account of the goings-on of a coterie of B-list and A-list celebrities. Did you know that one of them was just crowned as the formal Democratic nominee for President!
Have you considered writing for a mainstream news or entertainment outlet? For instance, the enthusiasm of NBC's Chicago-based on-air personalities seemed a bit forced as they strove to meet last night's tongue-bath quota. I'm certain that this and many other media organs would love to showcase your refreshing perspective.
The 1991 Time Man of the Year for founding CNN, which had a remarkable year covering the Gulf War. Amazingly, this might be the least of his accomplishments. He is 85 and is out the limelight, but he has had a remarkable life that almost sounds made up. The man was thrown out of Brown for having a girl in his dorm room and then took over his father's billboard business after he unalived himself!
T.T. came from a long line of old-time Ohio Democrats. When Ted was coming up, Georgia was still a Democrat stronghold. Newt broke the spell of the Solid South. Ted moved west.
There's a entertaining and funny anecdote by Tom Beringer on Youtube. He was a guest panelist for the 30th anniversary of the "Gettysburg" movie release (if you are not familiar, he played Confederate General James Longstreet in the movie). Anyway, the series of panel discussions took place near the National Battlefield Park last year, and are posted on Youtube as part of the American Battlefield Trust channel. In his anecdote, Tom tells the story of how he and Ron Maxwell (director) entertained Ted Turner on Hilton Head (Ted was one of the principal financiers of the movie); long story short, Ted convinced them to let him make a cameo in the movie; if you look close enough, you'll see him leading a regiment over a rail fence during Pickett's Charge and getting shot down.
When Turner took his outdoor board biz into television it started out as SuperChannel 17, WTCG. In the early days it was funneee. Here's a taste. "17 Update Early In The Morning with Bill Tush." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZEh4atOli0 Every once in a while Tush brought out a dancing chicken, like Col Tom Parker had working on the Fairground Midway before he found Elvis.
When Ted Turner bought the Atlanta Braves, one of his pitchers was Andy Messersmith (17). Ted was able to convince Andy that not only was his nickname Channel, but he should wear it on his uniform so that his back would read CHANNEL 17
Spent a single day on a golf course in the company of the afterbirths of some world famous men. I was recollecting some relationship to TT, but it turns out to have been Edward Redstone (brother of Sumner) and a Dreyfus Fund relative unfortunately not named (Julia Louis). All in all not a very interesting bunch. They were hoping to impress me by their wealth and connections but I always let people down in this regard.
My host for the day to this $60,000/yr membership (in 2001) is actually the first name bleeped in my recent video/audio podcast https://youtu.be/qKAV4Q96qvQ
He's a good enough guy. Some oddities, some tragedies, some exiles, but overall, his biggest problem was that he was too young and rich for Palm Springs (also that he hated the *second* person bleeped in that video. A problem which has since resolved itself as second-beep lady is now prison-besties with Ghislaine Maxwell (till they moved her for being a bad influence or something).
I remember the movie Nine to Five for having a very long segment pushing marijuana, by having the three feminists smoke marijuana while they fantasize about different ways to kill their boss, the fantasies turning into on-screen stories. Marijuana being the drug that shrivels brains and turns Whites into Blacks, the Hollywood socialists have been campaigning for it methodically until they could convince enough people to turn against their country. Glad I don't live in the U.S.
As for the homosexual Lily Tomlin, she's a Jew so she would be the one orchestrating the firing of the White woman with blond hair. Then claim she's being discriminated against, somehow.
Speaking about facts for kids, I was in the library the other day when I saw a book about Sailer favorite, Glenn Burke, the man who invented the "high five."
Interest piqued (because I associated him with other forms of high spirits) I looked inside, though I am far past the age range of the book, and verified that this Glenn Burke was indeed the one you've written about several times.
No detail was spared.
The target demographic looks to be about seven or eight.
Ted Turner, envious of the late 1990s tech-stock boom, exhorted his fellow Time-Warner board members to purchase AOL, resulting in one the worst value-destroying acquisitions of all time.
Last week Time-Warner Discovery announced an awesome $9 billion write-down of assets. (CNN may currently have negative equity value.)
Business historians will someday look back at the merger of AOL and Time Warner with great befuddlement. The whole house of cards on which AOL was built was dial-up internet. Once ethernet became a thing, they were dead in the water, but by then Steve Case already cashed in his chips.
I remember the day of the AOL-Time Warner merger. I was in NYC, at an absurd dotcom startup that had begin with some people sub-leasing office space from us, aimlessly thinking about The Environment for a couple years (I called them "the eco-terrorists") then getting $105M from Viacom to do something like Spotify over dial-up.
I was literally training Bruce Springsteen's former manager how to use MS Outlook, when the news broke. I finished the session, then walked alone into their conference room and looked out over Central Park. I just took in the moment and told myself:
"This is it. This is the peak of the bubble, RIGHT NOW. The madness of Madness. Tulip time. And you're here to see it. And it's STUPID."
I'm glad I had that moment, I will always remember.
BTW, the company spent $XX million on their launch party, renting out all of Chelsea Piers and hiring Sysquo ("The Thong Song") as the entertainment. Three years later, some girl I didn't know came to Thanksgiving dinner in LA wearing one of their t-shirts she bought at a thrift store because the logo was weird and orange, she liked orange. That's their whole legacy.
And the Kamala-Guilfoyle rivalry also passes the DEI test: plainer Kamala is Indian/black and the more beautiful Guilfoyle is Puerto Rican/white! Its perfect for primetime in the 2020s. Of course, its more telenovela than Dynasty but whatever.
N.B.: SF pols are huge these days thanks to all the Silicon Valley money and gay mafia influencers. They are taking over for Massachusetts pols, who for a long time also outkicked their coverage in terms of national influence v. size. I mean, has there ever been a decade in the last 100+ years where a Massachusetts pol wasn't either (1) a presidential/VP candidate; or (2) a powerful, leading member of Congress? JFK, Tip O'Neill, John Kerry, Mitt Romney, Elizabeth Warren, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, RFK, Henry Cabot Lodge.....Heck, if you include the Supreme Court, you get a heavyweight like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the 1920s.
N.B.2: Guilfoyle is just such a wonderful powerful-man-chasing beauty its unnerving she actually exists. I mean, switching from communist Gavin to right-wing DJT jr. doesn't make sense to most men, but it does make sense to women, since both are good-looking aggressive rich men who take what they want. Newson's marriage to Guilfoyle ended when Newsom slept with his best friend's wife and he never bothered with COVID rules himself while enforcing them endlessly on the peons, while DJT jr. is DJT but younger. To a girl enthralled with powerful men, she went from one fantasy lover to another.
N.B.3: Gavin McInnes used to say that Guilfoyle was one of those women who were stunningly hot in person, and that when he was allowed on Fox News she was the hottest chick there, and he had a massive crush on her.
Kimberely makes sense when you realize she's a spy, the Matahari of San Francisco. At this point in her life she's an operator. To quote a line from a relevant 1970s movie: "No need to believe in either side, or any side. There is only yourself. The belief is in your own precision." Kimberely is a pro.
That rug really tied the room together.
Don't get too attached to it. By the looks on their faces, the two are mid-micturation.
BTW, YDYDY, does anyone else think that David Huddleston resembles Tim Walz?
https://youtu.be/_3TtMa97apY
😂
"a good speaker"? Is Guilfoyle semi-retarded? Given her marriage to Newsome, probably. But that comment about Kumquat removed all doubt.
I would give her the benefit of the doubt, as she is generally a great commentator. One of the more effective communicators on Team Trump. Perhaps she is taking the high road where it costs her nothing, or just trolling Harris.
I was asking why Guilfoyle thought Harris was a "good speaker." Maybe I misread the article. Thanks, Michael.
"-- of that, I'm very clear."
You can just hear her grating voice. That black lesbian WH Press Secretary uses the words "clear" or "clearly" an average of twice per sentence.
For example, I found her most recent press briefing: "And what I will say is it’s clear — it’s clear that that message has broken through and majority of Americans see and feel that optimism and [blah blah blah]." (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2024/08/12/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-67/)
I find this supremely annoying, schoolmarmish at best and gaslighting at worst.
Do they teach Girl Boss politicians to use this simplifying, bullying, argument-ending language to sound more confident? Men with leadership abilities speak clearly. I guess women who think they have leadership abilities tell everyone how clear and obvious their points are. They have to tell everyone how right they are instead of demonstrating it.
If you assert that what you are saying is obvious, it makes your opposition seem like simpletons for not knowing it, or malicious for pretending not to. It's a bad faith effort to assert your authority over other people. Since women's natural talents lend them to caring for and corralling children, they use techniques reflexively, because that's how you handle unruly children
Its also a freudian slip/projection. When someone says "clearly" or "let me be clear" in conversation or in writing, its usually because they are trying to obfuscate something and then lie about obfuscating it.
A legal writer once said that a good lawyer never uses the word "clearly" in his arguments because, if the answer were clear, it would never have become a legal argument.
They need voice training, otherwise they sound either like 12YO girls, or they lower into vocal fry & sound like 12YO girls imitating bossgirls.
Markle puts a little H in Megan...nudge nudge wink wink.
Why am I not shocked that SF would elect inmate Hallinan for DA of the asylum?
Celebrity gossip site CDAN implied that Markle buttered up Newsom and a Getty to try to get DiFi's Senate seat.
> "At age twelve, he fell off his horse, fractured his skull, and spent five days stranded outside Yosemite before being rescued by helicopter."
That must have been the first helicopter rescue in California history.
I mean, if it actually happened that way.
I've heard whispers that he actually fell off the helicopter and was rescued by horse.
Still, a California first.
"Here’s a question I don’t really understand: Why are San Francisco politicians like Kamala, Nancy, and Gavin so dominant in this century? Not to mention recently retired San Franciscans like Jerry Brown, Diane Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer."
SF Democrats perfected the new left machine politics pioneered by Jim Jones, who personally mentored Willie Brown. Jones's vision and method have come to dominate the Democratic party, and SF is where it all started.
Brown really drank the Kool Aid
Silicon valley money.
Satan's demon-hench, Baalzeebub rules from S.F. Those in the know call Baal, the demon of head. Lotta head give-n-took in the streets of old San Fran. Good luck, campers. Yer gonna need it...lol
In the late '90s I was in my optometrist's office when a disheveled woman came in with her 14 year-old son, a freshman at Berkeley High who was as spergy as anyone you'd ever seen. I started talking to him about school and he was withering about blacks. It turned out he was Hallinan's illegitimate son, and Mom was upset Hallinan never paid any support.
Likely story... By the 90s she could have sued him for back support with interest and short of disproving paternity there isn't a thing Hallinan could have done to fight it.
Steve, you've pulled multiple seemingly-unrelated threads into an informative and amusing account of the goings-on of a coterie of B-list and A-list celebrities. Did you know that one of them was just crowned as the formal Democratic nominee for President!
Have you considered writing for a mainstream news or entertainment outlet? For instance, the enthusiasm of NBC's Chicago-based on-air personalities seemed a bit forced as they strove to meet last night's tongue-bath quota. I'm certain that this and many other media organs would love to showcase your refreshing perspective.
> [Jane Fonda] married arch-capitalist Ted Turner
The 1991 Time Man of the Year for founding CNN, which had a remarkable year covering the Gulf War. Amazingly, this might be the least of his accomplishments. He is 85 and is out the limelight, but he has had a remarkable life that almost sounds made up. The man was thrown out of Brown for having a girl in his dorm room and then took over his father's billboard business after he unalived himself!
T.T. came from a long line of old-time Ohio Democrats. When Ted was coming up, Georgia was still a Democrat stronghold. Newt broke the spell of the Solid South. Ted moved west.
There's a entertaining and funny anecdote by Tom Beringer on Youtube. He was a guest panelist for the 30th anniversary of the "Gettysburg" movie release (if you are not familiar, he played Confederate General James Longstreet in the movie). Anyway, the series of panel discussions took place near the National Battlefield Park last year, and are posted on Youtube as part of the American Battlefield Trust channel. In his anecdote, Tom tells the story of how he and Ron Maxwell (director) entertained Ted Turner on Hilton Head (Ted was one of the principal financiers of the movie); long story short, Ted convinced them to let him make a cameo in the movie; if you look close enough, you'll see him leading a regiment over a rail fence during Pickett's Charge and getting shot down.
Even though Ted didn't directly take a credit on the movie, it was originally produced to air as a miniseries on TNT
When Turner took his outdoor board biz into television it started out as SuperChannel 17, WTCG. In the early days it was funneee. Here's a taste. "17 Update Early In The Morning with Bill Tush." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZEh4atOli0 Every once in a while Tush brought out a dancing chicken, like Col Tom Parker had working on the Fairground Midway before he found Elvis.
When Ted Turner bought the Atlanta Braves, one of his pitchers was Andy Messersmith (17). Ted was able to convince Andy that not only was his nickname Channel, but he should wear it on his uniform so that his back would read CHANNEL 17
Superchannel 17 featured "Live Midget Wrestling" on Saturday mornings. That was a hoot, too. Ted has a great sense of humor. Too bad he's one of THEM.
Spent a single day on a golf course in the company of the afterbirths of some world famous men. I was recollecting some relationship to TT, but it turns out to have been Edward Redstone (brother of Sumner) and a Dreyfus Fund relative unfortunately not named (Julia Louis). All in all not a very interesting bunch. They were hoping to impress me by their wealth and connections but I always let people down in this regard.
My host for the day to this $60,000/yr membership (in 2001) is actually the first name bleeped in my recent video/audio podcast https://youtu.be/qKAV4Q96qvQ
He's a good enough guy. Some oddities, some tragedies, some exiles, but overall, his biggest problem was that he was too young and rich for Palm Springs (also that he hated the *second* person bleeped in that video. A problem which has since resolved itself as second-beep lady is now prison-besties with Ghislaine Maxwell (till they moved her for being a bad influence or something).
https://youtu.be/BzHYd2Uar6s?feature=shared
Hallinen’s father ran for President in 1952 on Progressive Party ticket.
I remember the movie Nine to Five for having a very long segment pushing marijuana, by having the three feminists smoke marijuana while they fantasize about different ways to kill their boss, the fantasies turning into on-screen stories. Marijuana being the drug that shrivels brains and turns Whites into Blacks, the Hollywood socialists have been campaigning for it methodically until they could convince enough people to turn against their country. Glad I don't live in the U.S.
As for the homosexual Lily Tomlin, she's a Jew so she would be the one orchestrating the firing of the White woman with blond hair. Then claim she's being discriminated against, somehow.
Speaking about facts for kids, I was in the library the other day when I saw a book about Sailer favorite, Glenn Burke, the man who invented the "high five."
Interest piqued (because I associated him with other forms of high spirits) I looked inside, though I am far past the age range of the book, and verified that this Glenn Burke was indeed the one you've written about several times.
No detail was spared.
The target demographic looks to be about seven or eight.
https://storieslikeme.com/products/glenn-burke-game-changer-the-man-who-invented-the-high-five
The plight of the country becomes clearer with each Sailer post.
Ted Turner, envious of the late 1990s tech-stock boom, exhorted his fellow Time-Warner board members to purchase AOL, resulting in one the worst value-destroying acquisitions of all time.
Last week Time-Warner Discovery announced an awesome $9 billion write-down of assets. (CNN may currently have negative equity value.)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/warner-bros-discovery-wbd-q2-earnings-report-2024-84f85759
Business historians will someday look back at the merger of AOL and Time Warner with great befuddlement. The whole house of cards on which AOL was built was dial-up internet. Once ethernet became a thing, they were dead in the water, but by then Steve Case already cashed in his chips.
I remember the day of the AOL-Time Warner merger. I was in NYC, at an absurd dotcom startup that had begin with some people sub-leasing office space from us, aimlessly thinking about The Environment for a couple years (I called them "the eco-terrorists") then getting $105M from Viacom to do something like Spotify over dial-up.
I was literally training Bruce Springsteen's former manager how to use MS Outlook, when the news broke. I finished the session, then walked alone into their conference room and looked out over Central Park. I just took in the moment and told myself:
"This is it. This is the peak of the bubble, RIGHT NOW. The madness of Madness. Tulip time. And you're here to see it. And it's STUPID."
I'm glad I had that moment, I will always remember.
BTW, the company spent $XX million on their launch party, renting out all of Chelsea Piers and hiring Sysquo ("The Thong Song") as the entertainment. Three years later, some girl I didn't know came to Thanksgiving dinner in LA wearing one of their t-shirts she bought at a thrift store because the logo was weird and orange, she liked orange. That's their whole legacy.
And the Kamala-Guilfoyle rivalry also passes the DEI test: plainer Kamala is Indian/black and the more beautiful Guilfoyle is Puerto Rican/white! Its perfect for primetime in the 2020s. Of course, its more telenovela than Dynasty but whatever.
N.B.: SF pols are huge these days thanks to all the Silicon Valley money and gay mafia influencers. They are taking over for Massachusetts pols, who for a long time also outkicked their coverage in terms of national influence v. size. I mean, has there ever been a decade in the last 100+ years where a Massachusetts pol wasn't either (1) a presidential/VP candidate; or (2) a powerful, leading member of Congress? JFK, Tip O'Neill, John Kerry, Mitt Romney, Elizabeth Warren, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, RFK, Henry Cabot Lodge.....Heck, if you include the Supreme Court, you get a heavyweight like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the 1920s.
N.B.2: Guilfoyle is just such a wonderful powerful-man-chasing beauty its unnerving she actually exists. I mean, switching from communist Gavin to right-wing DJT jr. doesn't make sense to most men, but it does make sense to women, since both are good-looking aggressive rich men who take what they want. Newson's marriage to Guilfoyle ended when Newsom slept with his best friend's wife and he never bothered with COVID rules himself while enforcing them endlessly on the peons, while DJT jr. is DJT but younger. To a girl enthralled with powerful men, she went from one fantasy lover to another.
N.B.3: Gavin McInnes used to say that Guilfoyle was one of those women who were stunningly hot in person, and that when he was allowed on Fox News she was the hottest chick there, and he had a massive crush on her.
Kimberely makes sense when you realize she's a spy, the Matahari of San Francisco. At this point in her life she's an operator. To quote a line from a relevant 1970s movie: "No need to believe in either side, or any side. There is only yourself. The belief is in your own precision." Kimberely is a pro.