#pundits

[giffypudding]

The president isn't looking well

[lastpositivist]

Seeing people do "here's the savvy take on how and why the US should acquire Greenland" and just feeling so *embarrassed* for them. Have some dignity. You don't need to be an apologist for the world's dumbest autocrat, you're not somehow sophisticated for seeing The Smart Play on imperial vainglory.

[thealanwrightblog]

What is wrong with football? Where do you start? I’ll pick six, off the top of my head.

1. VAR. Completely ruined football. Decisions being made from 100’s of miles away. Makes the game stop/start with constant interruptions for totally unnecessary decisions that could easily be made by the on-field officials. OK, so they’ll get it wrong from time to time. So what? Don’t players and managers make mistakes?

2. Simulation. Contributes to the stop/start and is now being used as a tactic by coaching staff to delay the game, especially towards the end of games and very often by goalkeepers.

3. OK, the picture shows women commentating on a women’s tournament. Now show me a picture of commentators for a men’s tournament that doesn’t include women. You can’t.

4. Millions taken out of the game in the pockets of average players.

5. Incompetent officials. It’s the main reason VAR came into existence. There’s plenty of money sloshing around the game - put some of it into proper training of officials.

6. Gambling in shirt sponsorship. Should be banned - like smoking was. Children are up and down in their clubs’ shirts, advertising betting companies in Asia. It’s totally unacceptable and governments should step in.

[zingaplanet]

The only thing I got from Gary's stick to football episode was that him and Carra had countless nights walking home batshit drunk to their sky hotel doing random fitness exercises on the streets of London

[mannyblacque]

I'm already tired of reading and hearing all these "here's where democrats went wrong" or "here's what Kamala Harris did wrong" talk. It's bullshit.

Kamala Harris did nothing wrong! Nothing she did or did not do justifies voting for the sexual abuser, bigot, serial liar, con man.

[ahab99]

It's 2025. Do you know where your pundit round table is?

[lovesinistra]

[twiststreet]

 In truth, Paul has devoted many books and much of her editorial work to the idea that child-centered heterosexual marriage is the fundamental social institution. Clearly, she does not object to traditionalism; what she does object to, quite strenuously, is the thought of herself as the kind of person who would believe in it. [...] The working-class Trump supporter is meant to see his own supremacy rapturously reflected in his leader’s innate grasp of power. Of reactionary liberalism, we might say the opposite: It is a populist movement of the elites, an explicit bid by the intelligentsia to defend its bourgeois way of life on the grounds that its exceptional moral sensibility gives it unique access to the human experience. The conservative says, “You too can be superior.” The reactionary liberal says, “I alone am average.”

-- NY Mag on Pamela Paul. OR:

One gets the sense that politics has gone off, like a cell phone, in the darkened theater of Pamela Paul’s mind. It is worse than wrong: It is rude.

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