Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "David Pakman Show" channel.

  1. Trying to eat minestrone soup for this guy must be a terrible strain
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  2. This is just how Cornel West talks. It's always this kind of word-salad. Has been all his life. He learned very early on that he could snow his professors, graders, and even other academics with it.
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  3. “It is possible to commit no mistake, and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life!” —Captain Picard
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  4. “Irregardless” is not a word.
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  5. One of the doormen in my building is a very sweet guy, always pleasant. Everybody likes him. He’s from the Dominican Republic, but I’m pretty sure he’s an American citizen, just because he’s been working here for such a long time. He didn’t like Trump at all; Used to crack jokes about how Trump was going to end up in prison. Then, when it looked like Biden was going to be Trump‘s opponent, this Doorman shook his head and said he’s too old. And then when Biden dropped out, and Kamala Harris became the nominee, I asked him what he thought Was gonna happen now and he said “I don’t like her she’s a woman.“ He said this without meaning to give offense, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
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  6. Dr Campbell cited the spike in reports to VAERS as reason to worry about “dangerous” vaccines. But VAERS says themselves, on their own website, that they do not even try to verify their reports, and that no inference or conclusions can be made or supported by the number of reports they get. The obvious reason for the spike in reports is that anyone who has a computer can file reports, and when Fox News made its viewers aware of VAERS, they all started filing reports.
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  7. Ok if he doesn’t describe the diet in the next 30 seconds I will leave
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  8. You are taking a rational approach. This is what the voters rejected in 2016. Yes, Joe Biden gave a fact-based answer, but he also spelled "billion" "b-i-l-o-i-o-n".
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  9. Re: Fox is even admitting that their policies are not popular Of course! Their goal is to make the base anxious and willing to donate.
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  10. Jaws, the Next Generation
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  11. This election has some unique features which may compromise the validity of the keys. Has there ever been an election between two candidates who have both been president?
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  12. It seems a bit too early. Biden's strategists should wait a few more months before the big roar-back.
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  13. Errors like writing “tarriffed” instead of “terrified” are a dead giveaway, a “tell”: it’s someone shouting into their phone, and not bothering to edit the transcription.
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  14. Monica Lewinsky? The President said to the Ms., "Your mouth is a nice place for jizz, And whether it's moral For you to give oral Depends on the meaning of 'is'."
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  15. But I read that Biden is also seeking to massively increase tariffs on steel and aluminum- same as trump’s but bigger.
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  16. He's speaking in tongues. <i>"...durch Mitleid wissend, der reine Tor,..."</i>
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  17. There once was a man from Calcutta Who spoke with a terrible stutter . “For breakfast,” he said, “I’ll have buh-buh-buh-bread, And some buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-butter.”
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  18. All big-shot-level successful professional people are arrogant pricks. (Think about it. Have you ever known or worked with one who wasn't, at least under the surface?) -- although some of them learn to hide their arrogance and prickishness. It's because they need every second of their time, to promote themselves and become (or remain) big-shot level, and this leaves them no time to be polite except to other big-shot members of their profession (whatever it is) whose goodwill and support they need. For a spectacular example, go review what happened to President Biden's science-advisor (Biden created this new cabinet-position), the great Eric Lander. He was canned for abusing and bullying his subordinates, which he did just because he had never before worked with anyone who didn't think he was God, so it never occurred to him to care about his subordinates' feelings.
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  19. The "blood" could just be from his face-makeu;p! Notice his face is darker-than-usual orange.
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  20. Yeah, this (PASSAGE OF ARMS) is Ambler's best. It has everything which made Ambler so special: culture-clash between very parochial exponents of different cultures, each only minimally aware of the others' norms; also, the standard Amber every-man-type protagonist, who gets caught up in intrigue out of his league; also, the gradual increase of tension to a smashing climax. And the very appealing, knowledgeable, direct narrative style, detailed but not florid. Second best (IMHO) is the most comedic of Amber's novels: THE LIGHT OF DAY, and third is DOCTOR FRIGO. The latter - DR. F - is particularly beautiful, and mature: the tension builds steadily from the beginning, but no actual act of violence occurs until very close to the end of the book! That's right, the narrator doesn't actually face immediate physical danger - doesn't have to duck and cover or fight or run - until you have read more than 90% of the novel. (I counted the pages and did the math.) But it's still un-put-down-able, because the first-person protagonist's personality and tone are so engaging, and because so many interesting not-yet-violent-but-still-disturbing things happen, and so many unanswered questions gradually sharpen and clarify. Surprisingly, the more famous ones - A COFFIN FOR (The MASK OF) DIMITRIOS, and JOURNEY INTO FEAR and BACKGROUND TO DANGER kind of bore me! I mean, they're fun, but they're not deep or superbly crafted the way the three I listed are. I have no desire to read them over and over as I do with the top-level ones. UPDATE: I have to give a shout-out to his novel DIRTY STORY even though it's not his best, just because the story teaches the reader how important the rare-earth metals are to all kinds of industries including electronics and synthetic organic chemistry. This was written in 1967 and it anticipates all the fuss and international conflict over control of the rare-earths we are having now! Eric Ambler was an engineer, and was chemically literate.
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  21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNC3OciAF3w&t=33s
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  22. I agree, for a lawyer to say openly that prosecutors extort guilty pleas by threatening to bring superseding charges, and to ask for harsher penalties, is bizarre. Everyone knows that they do - it's typically called the "trial penalty", and the main purpose is to save the government money (trials are expensive!) - but very few lawyers would acknowledge it in a public forum, and even fewer would complain about it being used against themselves. It's supposed to be an open secret.
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  23. Maybe he’s not getting enough sleep.
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  24. Point of presentation: I always urge people to avoid the tired, overused, clichéd phrase "abundantly clear". This phrase invites your reader/viewer to tune out, and does NOT add anything to your speech or essay. It does NOT lend emphasis, and it does NOT strengthen, and it does NOT make you sound more polished than you are.
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  25. Does the Fourth Amendment protect epileptics from unreasonable seizures?
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  26. No, Trump doesn't deserve a Nobel Prize for the mRNA vaccines. The Nobel Prize for the mRNA vaccines has already been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman (Physiology/Medicine, 2023), for doing the basic-science work which made the application of mRNA to COVID possible.
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  27. former writing tutor says: please, please, please do not use the tired, trite, cliché-phrase “abundantly clear”! Phrases like that don’t add anything to what you’re saying, and do invite your viewers, or listeners to tune out. Also, try to avoid phrases like “vast majority“ and “stark contrast“, please!
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  28. He also tried to use VAERS as evidence of vaccine injuries, which VAERS itself warns not to do.
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  29. There once was a man from Calcutta Who spoke with a terrible stutter. “For breakfast,“ he said, “I’ll have buh-buh-buh-bread, And some buh-buh-buh buh-buh-buh butter.”
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  30. Why didn’t Pierce ask Santos whether his parents Santos’s parents lied to him (or to each other) a lot? That Would be my first guess.
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  31. Can anything other than multiple indictments change the Republican nomination? Sure. Trump could have a severe stroke, or fall out a window, or choke on a bite of steak.
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  32. It’s obviously a phone transcription of someone shouting that’s why it gives the wrong your it’ll improve as the AI gets better
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  33. The second one (“Elaine“) is probably a transcription of a vocalized rant also, but in this case, the sender may have gone back and lightly edited some of the errors. Current phones make it much too difficult to do that. I was happy that speech could remove the need to poke these tiny little key symbols on the touchscreen, but correcting the software’s interpretation errors is even more difficult.
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  34. He has been feeling depressed ever since he learned that Daniel Arthur Mead used a prosthesis.
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  35. Phrase of the day: “breadcrumbs of criminality“.
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  36. I think that there’s something about the Trump cult, which exceeds explanation is that we have not previously had a cult with as much money as this one has. Don’t get me wrong Dash lots of colts have lots of money – but not like this and the reason it’s so uniquely destructive is that in this case the money is coming from outside the United States. When the. Citizens United decision came down from the Supreme Court, I greatly underestimated how consequential it was going to be. Eventually, someone will write a comprehensive history about who funded the Trump cult.
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  37.  @Unimpressionistic  No, it's just gobble-de-gook, technical words strung together in meaningless ways. Naomi Wolf does the same thing. So did Hegel.
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  38. The cult of Trump will go away when the Trumpies die off. Since 2016 millions of elderly voters have died and millions of teenagers have aged into the voting population, moving the majority further away from Trump. That's the trend which will end Trumpism as a force.
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  39. EPITAPH FOR A SPY is very good. But the top-level ones (IMHO) are PASSAGE OF ARMS, THE LIGHT OF DAY, and DOCTOR FRIGO.)
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  40. I don’t usually buy into conspiracy theories, but in this particular case, the alternative hypothesis — the hypothesis that what actually happened is what they are telling us — the “no conspiracy” theory — is many times more implausible and absurd than any conspiracy theory.
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  41. I’m not an expert, but I don’t think it’s right to call this conflict a conflict “between two sides“. There’s a lot more than two sides in this. We already have a hint about this which we display when we say things like “ordinary cousins are not evil; Hamas is evil!“ We’re already out admitting that there’s at least three sides: Israel, Hamas, and ordinary Gazans (or whoever, if anyone, represents the ordinary Gazans). Doesn’t this make the idea of solving the problem by having “both sides” make “binding commitments“ inadequate? If two sides agree to a binding commitment, some other active entity, maybe one we haven’t even heard of maybe one that doesn’t exist yet, will jump in and break the peace with some kind of attack or sequence of attacks, and it’ll take a very long time to learn who did it and why and meanwhile the agreement (whatever it was) will be destroyed, void or meaningless.
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  42. Oops, I see that my voice interpretation software wrote “ordinary cousins” when I meant to write “ordinary Gazans“. Sorry about that!
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  43. My mom is NINETY-three, and she's in better shape than I am. (Low bar, but even so.) She could handle the presidency easily.
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  44. Do you like gefilte fish and matzoh-ball soup?
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  45. Won't you have to mention her again to tell us how the appeal goes?
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  46. I think Trump will not do prison time. He will either go visibly mad and vanish into the elite-level mental-health system (like Jim Bakker), or, his legal team will delay the legal proceedings against him until he dies of natural causes. Remember, he's about four years younger than Biden, but Trump is also clinically obese (according to the medical charts used to classify patients by weight) and obesity adds about three years worth of danger.
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