U.S. Politics January 2023: Kevin McCarthy's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life

The Washington Post story on Zients was a fluff piece where he was referred to as Obama's Mr Fix-It , and little to no critical takes on him were included.

Progressive criticism of him has been hidden in less noticed websites

https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-jeff-zients

is she good? I haven't heard of her

come on, it's not horrific. I think they're most focusing on the idea that with Zients' contacts he could help them corral some republicans into compromising on the coming debt crisis

Zients agrees with Republicans (and Manchin) on cutting non-military spending .

But Zients past (at Bain and elsewhere) plus his recent time as Covid directr is shaky

Over the span of two decades, the health care companies that Zients controlled, invested in, and helped oversee were forced to pay tens of millions of dollars to settle allegations of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. They have also been accused of surprise-billing practices and even medical malpractice.

https://prospect.org/power/corporate-past-of-jeffrey-zients/

is she good? I haven't heard of her

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 24, 2023 5:34 PM

I recall her being famous on Twitter for getting mad and making bad posts back in the day

Kendzior can be a bit dramatic , but there's plenty of other folks out there that have been critical of Zients

Kendzior played the Cassandra card a lot in the early years of the Trump administration, lots of overheated "I told you so" tweets. She wasn't always wrong, but I found it hard to take after a while.

technically if she was Cassandra she was right and just nobody believed her

republicans are crediting tucker carlson with coming up with a committee that is a hollow parody of the Church committee from the 70s

And don't believe me re: Tucker Carlson. Just ask @RepThomasMassie (via @NBCNews.) pic.twitter.com/cnUzcswc6t

— Derek Martin (@dmartkc) January 25, 2023

Aw @ Tucker's spirit of public service

sorry for culture war bullshit, but it's striking that

- i don't think anyone knew what the A&W mascot was in the first place
- if you add pants to a bear, it's woke police cancel culture
- if A&W were to remove pants from a bear, that would definitely be unacceptable
- the only acceptable conservative move is to not change at all

Fox Business responded to this news by lamenting the "woke police cancel culture" https://t.co/qQVR7BLeiT pic.twitter.com/BlJ4ZVuJtA

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 25, 2023

Winnie the Pooh could not be reached for comment

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I muted Sarah Kendzior a while ago, she's hyperbolic

the M&Ms statement is clearly a viral marketing campaign that will result in an explosion of spokescandies everywhere, likewise I assume this A&W announcement is tongue in cheek. Is conservative media this fucking dumb?

I mean who has given A&W a second thought in the past 40 years until now, they are a brand that hardly exists

Is Mr. Peanut still dead?

Is conservative media this fucking dumb? If it fuels the 24/7 outrage machine there is no dumb too dumb.

I drank A&W root beer for years as a child before ever finding out they had physical locations.

I have a distinct memory of going to an A&W restaurant in the midwest in the 1970s and they had phones at each table so you could order stuff.

It's possible I imagined it. But I think about it every time I go someplace like Red Robin or Olive Garden where they have tablets at each table - or Green Turtle, where every table has its own television, or Silver Diner which used to have a separate jukebox on each table. When I was a child, novelty restaurants were a rare treat. At the Spaghetti Factory in St. Louis, they had booths where the seats were things like bathtubs and cars and vintage canopy beds.

Terrible idea: a chain restaurant where every seat is also a toilet, so you can just keep eating without getting up to go to the bathroom.

It's all about the outrage. Any event that transpires, however trivial, must have an angle about the maleficent influence of WOKE LIBS that will inspire max outrage. Even decisions made by multibillion dollar corporations. Just look at that Fox anchor's sour face as she's reporting this devastating A&W news. So much palpable disgust in that sneer.

This is what happens when you have literally nothing else in your life worth living for, I guess.

The A&W thing is 100% a bit, lots of brands doing it today. Does Fox New not understand that a.) it is a joke b.) inspired by the M&M thing c.) which was itself caused by outrage on Fox News?

I remember diners with separate jukeboxes in each booth. Mercifully, hardly anyone ever used them. Can you imagine if everyone was playing a different song at the same time? Horrendous.

Unperson, no - your choice went into a diner-wide queue. You had an individual volume knob for when you didn't like the song.

A favorite prank of my college days was to put in eight quarters and request something obnoxious like "Monster Mash" over and over again, then leave.

i worked at an A&W for a while, after it was combined into a Long John Silver's I had worked at for a couple years. worst part about the A&W addition to the restaurant was how they made us put pants on

(didn't darlene love do backing vox on monster mash?)

Doesn't Waffle House have a jukebox at every booth filled with songs about waffles?

i worked at an A&W for a while, after it was combined into a Long John Silver's I had worked at for a couple years. worst part about the A&W addition to the restaurant was how they made us put pants on

Before this low moment: boxers or briefs?

frosted glass shorts

I can't tell if Waffle House has a mascot, but apparently IHOP has a mascot named "Susie Pancake." She's a pancake.

I assume the Waffle House mascot would look a bit like Yosemite Sam, or like a fat Civil War re-enactor with suspenders.

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https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mrs-mets-rear-end-a-photographic-appreciation/

i googled "mrs met" to find out if conservatives complained about there being a mrs met in addition to a mr met. found this old article from cbs. america is a stupid place.

mr met(oo)

thinking about this reporter telling his parents that he has been hired by cbs as a sports reporter, how proud he was. imagining him telling his editors that he is happy to churn out human interest or cultural pieces for the website. three a day? sure, yeah, web traffic, seo, got it. i'm a reporter.

Some stories you email to your mom; some stories you just post and go outside for a smoke.

Reports of Mr. Peanut's death were highly exaggerated.

Barely Remembered Food Mascots

We went to Sambo's as a kid, I don't even want to get into their branding

The nearest Sambo's quietly turned into a Denny's in the early '80s. Hm.

The first & last one in Santa Barbara (?) kept the brand going for a really long time.. and then reluctantly changed it to Sam's or something

There was a Sambo's where Sherwin-Williams is now... Sambo's used to be there... Sambo's was farther up on the parking lot, more where the paint store is now... I know Sambos was where the paint store is now... I think Sambo's was actually about where Sherwin Williams is now... Sambo's where paint store is... Sambos was where the Sherwin Williams paint store is... Sambos was never on the corner. It was behind it on the hill. It was were Sherwin Williams Paint is now... Sambos was where the paint store is right behind... Sambo's is where the paint Store is now that's next door... There was a restaurant called Sambos... Above where Sherwin Williams is now was Sambo's... Sambo's Restaurant was on the hill behind Lindsey's Steak where Sherwin Paint is now... Sambos was up the hill where the Sherwin Williams store is now...

THESE ARE ALL FROM THE SAME GODDAMMED THREAD.
― pplains, Wednesday, January 20, 2016 8:31 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

from Facebook neighborhood groups are the worst thing ever

lol

Dying

our sambo's had a mascot / greeter / clown in a furry tiger suit. my parents still make fun of me for being scared of the tiger at age 3

Wow, the Santa Barbara location held on until the bitter end:

In late May 2020, George Floyd protests against racism in the United States began in cities across the United States, including Santa Barbara. A petition drive asked the owner to change the name of Sambo's. In June 2020, the name on the original Sambo's sign was temporarily changed to the motto "☮ & LOVE" ("Peace and love"). In July 2020, the restaurant was officially renamed to "Chad's"...

Should be Chodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMZpq5C401M

the chad not sambo's vs the virgin racist