I dont think ICE being there is the problem. Doing their jobs like goons is the problem. There is a way to do this appropriately.
Celebrity Politics - The Official Thread
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I can bring a different perspective to this - by which I mean THE SAME but with a little more data.
Back around 2012 when I was being tested by the memory institute at UCI via Skype, they gave us a test. First, they spent the better part of an hour frustrating us by showing words VERY QUICKLY on the screen and then repeating them and we had to click when we saw that word on the repeat showing. It was similar to that glaucoma test where if you see the "spasm," you click the controller (or the hearing test). Anyway, this was to set us up for the REAL test - I later learned.
The REAL test was this:
they told us there was a ground home video of United 93 crashing in Shanksville, PA on 9/11 that had aired "only once on CNN." After sorta walking us through it a bit, they began interviewing us. I got frustrated because I had never seen it or heard of this or anything. I even noted, "Look, I was in medical school at the time, even if it did air, it's unlikely I saw it." They kept pushing and prodding like a smart shrink, and asked me to describe it. I began thinking for a moment, "Well there was a video of" and then I stopped and said, "No, that was the scene in the movie United 93." They kept goading me into "describe what you had seen" and I couldn't and wouldn't do it, and they didn't seem to be listening to me. Finally, I just said, "Look, I've already told you I haven't seen this, I don't know anything about it." Then they said, "OK, we have to have read through the end to close out the test."
The panels then carried me through the fact NO SUCH VIDEO ACTUALLY EXISTS...that this was a test to see if high memory folks could distinguish between "false memories" and "true" any differently than "normal baseline" people. As it turns out, the guy who sat next to me on "60 Minutes" was one they fooled - and his memory blows mine away in the daily recall.
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Here's the study, and I met Aurora when I went to UCI for the MRI and the TV broadcast.
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For the record, Ronald Reagan BOTH:
a) clearly confused scenes from his movies with actual historical events
b) did so intentionally from time to time as well
This has been well-established even by pro-Reagan researchers.
In Pam Grier's case, she has probably seen so many videos of movies portraying this stuff that she actually believes she was there. Then again, she IS an actress -and part of the whole gig is convincing yourself that fantasy is actually reality.
This is the best assessment I've heard.
We've got a Senator from Alabama who doesn't even know the branches of government.
Having said that, your assessment is correct and people really don't realize it.
In 1992, Paul Tsongas won the New Hampshire primary over Bill Clinton. Clinton and some of the media dismissed Tsongas's win as "well, he's from neighboring Massachusetts," but the wise old liberal Jack Germond ("McLaughlin Group") said that that was preposterous, first because Tsongas had not even run for office in Mass in eleven years but secondly, "people don't even know who THEIR OWN Senator is," and then he pointed out when he was a University of Missouri student in 1950, he had taken a poll of everyone in a Missouri town (when Missourian Truman was President) and OVER HALF did not know that Alben Barkley was the VP of the US.
He further pointed out two comically bad errors:
1) Polls in 1998 actually showed that 11% of people thought George H.W. Bush was the guy they were supporting for the upcoming GOP primary rather than George W. Bush
2) some of Eugene McCarthy's voters in the 1968 New Hampshire primary thought they were voting for JOSEPH MCCARTHY, the bane of Communists from 1954, which is laughable both because Tail Gunner Joe was a Republican AND because he was DEAD.
Yeah, the false memory thing is real. I had a room full of people remembering watching a super bowl with me in 2008. I was not there. I am 100% sure of it and I have proof. My appendix ruptured about a week before. I had just been released from the hospital the day before. This group of 5 people argued with me and then tried to say I was mistaken. Pretty sure I remember almost dying. This was a year after it happened. I was still on meds and barely remember the game at all. I know I was watching but now I don't remember if I actually saw the helmet catch live or I am just remembering the replay that has been shown a million times.
NEW: American tennis player Learner Tien shuts down liberal reporter who asked him a question about Trump and ICE at the Australian Open.
Reporter: In the context of everything that's happening at the moment with Trump & ICE, like what does your heritage mean to you...?
Tien: I don't really want to talk about that right now.
That's how you do that. These dumb celebs and athletes who willfully abandon half the country are only hurting their own pocketbooks. Michael Jordan was right.
Reporter: In the context of everything that's happening at the moment with Trump & ICE, like what does your heritage mean to you...?
Tien: I don't really want to talk about that right now.
That's how you do that. These dumb celebs and athletes who willfully abandon half the country are only hurting their own pocketbooks. Michael Jordan was right.
I almost bought it with an appendix also, in September, 1957. My brother had a place over on Pine Island (actually on the shore; it's just a name) on Guntersville Lake. On Friday, my belly started to hurt. Finally, the next day, they decided it was an emergency. It was a Saturday, so the wrecks started coming in to HH, which, at the time, was a little three story red brick building. I got a hall bed. While they were putting people back together, they piled my belly high with ice. Finally, my turn arrived. A gentleman, who identified himself as a former navy corpsman came in with a basin, forceps and two double-edged razor blades in soapy water. When I asked, he said "I gone prep you, so you be real still." Believe me, I was. I had to go back to UA. I made the mistake of trying to drill with ROTC two weeks after surgery. Standing at attention, I noticed the sky had turned green and the trees purple. I remember thinking how odd that was as my nose smashed into the ground...
And she’s saying that she didn’t even have to pay the $1 million for her Trump Gold Card. I wonder why that is?Seems like many of those who complain about celebrities are now changing their tune because of Nicki Minaj.
Seems like many of those who complain about celebrities are now changing their tune because of Nicki Minaj.
I wonder if Rugg is going to put out a tweet blasting Minaj for alienating half the country with her politics.
How did you ever come to that conclusion? I haven't seen or heard anyone "changing their tune" on her. She's still the talentless "rapper" (or stripper, whichever term you prefer) she was before she decided to be a MAGA member.Seems like many of those who complain about celebrities are now changing their tune because of Nicki Minaj.
Scott Bessent: Wait until you see the TikTok of me with Nicki Minaj. Marco's going to be jealous
Seems like many of those who complain about celebrities are now changing their tune because of Nicki Minaj.
This doesn't mean we have to like Rosie O'Donnell now does it?
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I still like that I'm supposed to care what any celebrity thinks about any political issue.
I've always thought - ALWAYS thought - the whole 'I have a platform' is beyond dumb (it didn't just become dumb when dumber than a sack of hammers Colin Kaepernick discovered the lucrative career of protest activism to cover up for the fact he was a lousy football player). Colin identifies with his black brothers, he just doesn't want to live with them, which is why his house was in a community in San Jose that was 2% black at the time. And THAT kind of two-facedness oughta be called out but it never is.
I never tuned in to Chris Berman to hear his commentary on our troops in Afghanistan or the ease with which me managed to buy an AR-15 or why privacy is an unenumerated right in the Constitution. Good thing because I don't recall him ever saying. Bob Costas, by contrast, somewhere along the way decided he'd been given a microphone not only to call sports but to spout politics while talking sports (I'm not talking about his late night show, where that was what they could do).
Of course, Gregg Popovich (and I don't even disagree with much of his assessment of Cheeto Jeezus) spent years putting a non-champion b-ball team on the court but he could still whine about the President. And since Steve Kerr was touched by tragedy, somehow HIS position on gun control is to be respected but mine is to be impugned, even if I have a story about where my uncle is only alive because he was carrying and killed the robber.
I look forward to the NBA players giving a substantial portion of their salaries to the money pit that is the WNBA players so that we can have women "making the same as men" for "doing the same job."
Don't hold your breath, folks.
Look, I don't mind the holding a contrary opinion to mine but believe it or not, I never "liked" Tim Tebow "more" because he was a Christian, and I never "liked" Kaepernick "less" because he became an activist after getting benched. (Use any name with any political position...I literally don't care, although I wouldn't go as far as the "shut up and dribble" by whichever Fox News commentator it was that said that (Ingraham? Kelly? Honestly don't listen to them, either).
Good grief...I don't particularly like her or her music but she's the highest grossing female rapper of all time. Insinuating she is nothing more than a stripper is gross
My bad. I always get her confused with Cardi B, who BTW did start her career as a stripper.
You don't have to have talent these days to be famous. The Kardashians are proof of that.
It still makes me laugh watching Star Trek and everyone saying what awful beings they are.
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