TSN Open Mic for the week of 5/8/2023

24 thoughts on “TSN Open Mic for the week of 5/8/2023”

1. On the new turn of Liz Holmes:

   Been thinking on it and she really is the greatest Girl Joker of all time, there isn't a competitor. This is an insanely Joker move. Wear normal person makeup and talk in a normal voice and getting journalists to say you should be let go from Arkham https://t.co/eKk3F1GWrx

   — Jingleghost (@JeremyMonjo) May 8, 2023

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2. Not quite news but an essay on Americans/Anglosphere eaters having a limited palate for eating for texture: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/t-magazine/food-texture-eating.html

   FWIW, I am one of these Americans. I don’t understand the point of eating something tasteless or that tastes bad because of the texture it produces in your mouth.Report

3. Some things happened today…Report

   1. Indeed they did. And as usual one side of the political aisle stayed silent about the messes in their own house while trying to gun up fake crises on the other side.Report

4. George Santos has been indicted with a bunch of crimes: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/10/nyregion/george-santos-charges-news#santos-had-been-under-investigation-for-his-campaign-finances-and-other-activitiesReport

5. McMegan has a great thread on the Bud Light thing:

   I wrote about the Dylan Mulvaney/Bud Light fracas a few weeks ago, but I confess I'm surprised how durable the backlash has proven; a month in, sales still seem to be down about 20%. https://t.co/OSLh7sNXkq

   — Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 10, 2023

   And if you are inclined to say “BUT WHAT ABOUT CONSERVATIVES”, I have good news. Check out her conclusion:

   Conservatives who actually want to make political or social change would be well advised to conduct a similar exercise as my fictional marketing exec: making sure that people understand this is about the brand, and winning elections, not what you, personally, find fun to say.

   — Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 10, 2023

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   1. Not a bad piece and definitely a decent little illustration of why conservatives underperform in the woke wars. Obviously she can’t be too pointed in the WaPo and just say that the basic problem people have with wokeness, DEI, trans politics etc. run amok is because it demands people to say and to some degree live as though things that obviously aren’t true are. Mulvaney has the right to express herself how she wants but she isn’t a woman or even a remotely defensible representation of one anymore than turning in homework on time is white supremacy, and people resent being pressured to act as though they are. That doesn’t mean though that they want the dour, mean spirited, thinly veiled return to a more overtly religious, socially conservative society or that they are suddenly all on board with the larger, hollowed out husk of a conservative policy and culture war agenda.

      Actually fighting back would require conservatives to do some hard, hard soul searching, pay the massive bill they’ve run up on their cynical deals with populism and crazy media personalities, and yes, drop a bunch of the priors they’ve had a rigor mortis like grip on since the end of W’s term. Until that time the best they can do is make tactical gains against totally unforced errors coming out of the wilder reaches of neurotic, upper class progressive culture but not much else.Report

6. The Trump infomercial on CNN is going like everyone thought it would go: https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1656458568290246657?s=20Report

   1. Interesting if true:

      Note: The CNN Town Hall was a 90 minute broadcast, though the network expected the actual event to go as long as 75 minutes. They stopped less than 70 minutes in. In other words, they could have gone longer if they wanted—which is usually what executives do with big ratings draws

      — Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) May 11, 2023

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   2. In a perfect world this would disabuse corporate legacy media if any notion that it needs to “both sides” this campaign. But they just don’t seem to be able to help themselves.

      I’m Not declaring the fourth estate dead just yet, but this shows they are in life support and crimping their own oxygen hose.Report

      1. I don’t think they’re thinking about that at all. They’re thinking about ratings.Report

      2. Based up my experience “corporate media legacy” has never really “both sides”. It’s always been left of center and any time given to the other side has been “one sided” and had an agenda.Report

7. According to Politico, Biden’s reelection campaign has dropped New York City Mayor Eric Adams as a national surrogate.

   It has to do with how Adams is criticizing Biden on the whole “border” thing. Hey! Read the poem!Report

8. In strange bedfellow news, Gorsuch, Thomas, ABC, Sotomayor, and Kagan rule that California’s animal welfare Prop 12 (related to pigs and the amount of space they need to sell their meat in California) does not violate the Dormant Commerce Clause.

   https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/supreme-court-california-bacon-law-dismissed-18093919.phpReport

   1. What’s amusing to me is how the whole thing is a jigsaw-puzzle of concurrences and dissents and concurrences with the dissents and dissents with the concurrences.Report

9. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

   NEW: The city of Baltimore has filed a federal lawsuit against car manufacturers Kia and Hyundai, joining a number of cities who say the companies created a public nuisance by making cars that can be easily stolen. https://t.co/Umw51lBMyu

   — The Baltimore Banner (@BaltimoreBanner) May 11, 2023

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10. The lickspittles are pathetic https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1656837643349417986?s=20Report

    1. Would you say that “CNN is fake news”?Report

11. All you have to do is want it badly enough:

    We ended on May 10, 2023, with 0 homicides nationwide.

    With this, it's 365 days without homicides, a full year. pic.twitter.com/SlupO8vN6J

    — Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) May 12, 2023

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12. Climate Defiance is Speaking Truth to Power:

    BREAKING: we just made the pro-oil Senator Amy Klobuchar flee the stage at her book launch party.

    Her book title? The Joy of Politics pic.twitter.com/ss6RLTqoGJ

    — Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) May 12, 2023

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13. Twitter is now at the openly promoting animal cruelty stage: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1657070606687297536?s=20Report

14. From ABC: South Shore residents take legal action over migrant respite center plans amid Chicago crisis

    A week ago, hundreds of South Shore neighbors packed into an auditorium and pilloried city officials as they attempted to explain plans to open a respite center for incoming migrants in the former school building.

    “There is also a due process issue,” said attorney Frank Avila. “We want the refugees and the asylum-seekers and migrants t come in, but we have areas across the city where they can go. Not centralized in one community.”

    …

    “Why not Pilsen, Belmont Cragin, Logan Square, Little Village, South Chicago, South Deering, or Hegewisch? Communities that have a supportive cultural infrastructure?” wondered resident J. Darnell Jones.

    It’s like being a NIMBY, but for people.Report

15. The Good News: We’re not going to be talking about DEI anymore.
    The Even Better News: We’re going to be talking about DAB.

    Some companies are now saying "diversity and belonging" instead of "diversity and inclusion" — a changing terminology that reflects new thinking among some consultants, who say traditional DEI strategies haven't worked out as planned. https://t.co/5rNTCGFw4a

    — The New York Times (@nytimes) May 13, 2023

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16. It might be time to boycott HSBC.

    HSBC downgrades Anheuser-Busch InBev as it deals with a ‘Bud Light crisis’

    “Is ABI’s leadership getting the brand culture transformation right? It’s mixed,” Laboy wrote in a Wednesday note. “At Ambev, we think the answer is ‘yes;’ in the US, we think it’s ‘no.’ The way this Bud Light crisis came about a month ago, management’s response to it and the loss of unprecedented volume and brand relevance raises many questions.”

    Anheuser-Busch InBev reported a spike in profit for the first quarter, but the analyst cited a Beer Marketer’s Insights note that showed a steep drop in beer sales — of maybe more than 25% — in April.

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