The New Coffee Room

@Doctor-Phibes said in Anybody have an automatic espresso machine?:

@Horace said in Anybody have an automatic espresso machine?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Anybody have an automatic espresso machine?:

Incidentally, I simply cannot believe that people spend three FUCKING grand on a coffee machine in order to drink a rather unsophisticated alternative to tea.

We got it through a friend who has a big discount on retail.

Oh, it fell off the back of a lorry. That makes more sense.

How dare you.

That would be too generous I think. Maga media pushed that hard. The original authors I assume knew they were lying. But most who just heard it repeated over and over probably assumed it was true. I suspect he’s in the latter category.

@Horace said in Acting Secret Service Director:

All government career climbers are politicians, and vice versa. This was an amusing interaction with the acting chief of the SS.

Link to video

I knew a policeman who said 'Never trust a man who dyes his hair.'

Hubris. These past 4 years they thought they were immune, untouchable. Now it's "Oh, shit..he won!".

I've enjoyed it before. Would try again.

That's brilliant

Love it.

Hey @George-K does she still work for WaPo?

@jon-nyc said in Cormac McCarthy's secret muse:

See what you’re missing for $20 a month?

Hay I'm retired and I gotta save money for (cheap) Scotch watch where the money goes.

@LuFins-Dad said in Democrats have an empathy problem:

Democrats Have An Empathy Problem of Their Own
It's time for Dems like me to do the hard work of actually listening to Trump voters..

So let’s start here. I can read this two different ways. The author could mean that it’s hard to accept our own culpability and shortcomings, and that’s the hard work… Or they could mean the very act of listening to Trump voters is onerous.

I think he meant the former.

I also question why nobody is addressing the 35% of registered voters that chose not vote this cycle or chose to vote 3rd party/independent. It seems to me that there is a quite large segment of the population that is not involved in the process and maybe we should ask why?

I guess he's addressing what is under his control, which is the messaging and attitude of his own tribe. If he can improve that, the improved messaging will speak to that 35%.

@taiwan_girl

In the signature spot on the back of the credit card, I used to write "please ask for ID" rather than a signature. In some places, credit card stealing is a big deal, so tried to avoid that happening.

You have now jogged my memory…

come to think of it, that is exactly what the bank’s were advising and I accordingly did when I received the new card. That instruction on the back of the card is what triggered the clerk and his supervisor.

And I think that's why Jan 6 did not stick politically. It was a riot. It was bad. It was not an insurrection and democracy was not in danger.

People saw the kabuki theater which was the Jan 6 commission and they looked at what was done to rioters in the BLM and Antifa riots, and they knew that justice was not evenly administered.

Lol

@Horace said in Monday afternoon musical interlude:

My post was meant to target the young latino demographic of TNCR readership.

You meant LatinX you racist.

@Horace said in Our authoritarian default:

The forum software now makes titles out of text with ---------------------------- under it

like this

That's new.

This is me talking.

This is me yelling!

Oh cool, you only need one "dash" under the line to make it work.

Where's Vance's teleprompter?