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Baconzgood's avatar

OT just told someone what scrapple is. It is defined as food dish as:

"Scrapple is typically made of hog offal, such as the head, heart, liver, and other trimmings, which are boiled with any bones attached (often the entire head)"

It is as yummy as epicac. I dated a girl from Harrisburg PA that loved it. Each time she ate it I refused to kiss her for 48hrs.

JustPixelz's avatar

OT: AP: "The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity."

Musta been pretty damning.

https://apnews.com/article/civil-rights-education-bullying-data-gender-nonbinary-f1b23fb6b03ed500f0bf02d1c8c8724f

Antifa Commander's avatar

Wonkette is like NPR in that our readers support us, but we can say “fuck.”

I want a fuckin’ tote bag!

TerseNurse's avatar

Wonkette is what NPR would be if they didn't suck.

PrimerGray's avatar

"Coming up on Wait, Wait, Don't Fuck Me..."

chascates's avatar

"Maria Bartiromo is disputing reports that she was terminated from her longtime gig as a host of various segments for cable TV networks Fox News and Fox Business.

“The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false,” her attorney said in a Friday statement. “Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise. Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth.”

A Fox News representative didn’t immediately respond to comment on Friday about Bartiromo’s statement."

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/maria-bartiromo-fox-news-termination.html

R. Riddle's avatar

Maybe Mike Lindell will help her legal team find evidence her job was stolen.

Marty Smit's avatar

She’s going to sue Fox? Like her boy Trump would do? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

swmnguy's avatar

She may still be under contract.

They might do that, to keep her under her NDA and non-compete. They'd have to keep paying her at least something, maintain her benefits.

Depends on what's buried in the fine print.

My daughter works in TV news, for a local station. Her Producer contract, for a 26 year-old kid nobody has ever heard of, is about 50 pages long and has some incredibly intrusive clauses. Standard in the biz.

RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

I met an intrusive Claus once. Prick climbed right down the chimney and ate my cookies!

swmnguy's avatar
1mEdited

"I'M STANDING MY GROUND!!! I'M STANDING MY GROUND!!! BACK AWAY FROM THE COOKIES, FATSO, OR SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!!!"

Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

Another reason I’m glad I never worked in TV.

chascates's avatar

Plus those non-compete clauses . . .

swmnguy's avatar

My daughter is in Minnesota, which just outlawed them. Her contract does contain one. It may just be academic but it may not be. Plus, a station hiring her would know about it and take that into consideration, whether officially or not.

It's a weird business, very archaic in many ways but with all the value of a TV station being public perception, there are reasons it's the way it is.

TerseNurse's avatar

curiouser and curiouser

chascates's avatar

'Fox News host apparent suicide, found outside first-story window.'

goCatgo's avatar

I thought she did good at CNBC. Too many talking haircuts and Cramer there. Too bad what she really turned out to be.

Marty Smit's avatar

‘Money honey’? More like Money Skank.

MRK's avatar

'Error loading post.'

SkeptiKC's avatar

That's all I can access as well.

weejee's avatar

I accessed it, FWTW

SkeptiKC's avatar

I can't get at it, unfortunately.

RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

So, there is this barn, and the sign says Grim and there is a cat in the rafters and a horses ass in the sunshine and the cat jumps down onto the horses ass and stretches out and takes a sunbath.

it is fun.

SethTriggs's avatar

LOL this is what happens when you are professionally credulous for $$$ but are doing it for the benefit of a 34x felonious conman sex predator. You get a specially made bus undercarriage just for you!

Ah well this lady is going to have plenty of money to kick back and relax on. She offered all the "Things I wish I were true" codswallop to purposefully credulous cultists drunk on sadopopulism. I'm sure she'll land on her feet somewhere else in the rightwing media human centipede. And ultimately if not, she can always go back home to bottles of whisky.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

OT: NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

My three-year-old was watching CNN when she turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why does the funny-looking man with the beard and the eyeliner hate the Pope so much?” And when I told her “Because the Pope is a woke beta cuck,” she started crying.

Stanta Knows's avatar

I like this from yesterday:

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20h

A wild ferment pizza place in Rochester’s deep blue Browncroft neighborhood might seem like a strange place to meet Trump supporters. But over the dance-punk sounds of LCD Soundsystem, you can hear whispers that DEI is the reason the charred rapini is $8.

R. Riddle's avatar

"I was a lifetime Democratic Catholic until JD Vance revealed that the Pope is a woke socialist"

josephebacon's avatar

When it comes to the Bartiromo allI I have to say is that liar got what she deserved!

DavidGC's avatar

i heard it was because Rupert doesn't like italians

/s

Cincinnatus's avatar

When you're at the end of the fiscal year in a "use or lose" situation . . .

aktlib101's avatar

Grifty McGrifter

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/4/800093573/news/trump-lake-america-rebrand-grift-hat/

Who could have guessed? Donald Trump’s family is cashing in on yet another one of his moves as president, this time his wildly unpopular push to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

The Trump Organization is now selling “Lake America” hats for the low, low price of $55 a pop.

gallbladder's avatar

So, he's gone from fleecing his flock to flensing them.

They deserve nothing less.

Antifa Commander's avatar

Whoa, literally?

*goes to check*

God damn it!

BosGrl's avatar

I only know that word because of Judy Blume. Reading!

SethTriggs's avatar

ABG - Always Be Grifting!

Kid 'n Nipple-Play's avatar

Anyone who buys one of those is probably gullible enough to buy an "I'm with stupid" t-shirt that has an arrow pointing up.

Richard S's avatar

We should sell them.....

Hirightnow's avatar

Considering who would buy one, and the near-zero collector value, I say let wm buy as many as they want.

SkeptiKC's avatar

That is fucking highway robbery.

This entire regime is a psychopathic shit show that's becoming progressively more expensive and a helluva lot more dangerous.

JanuaryClaire's avatar

The government has become their family grifting mechanism.

SethTriggs's avatar

I will say, if anyone gives this fucking conman any money, they get what they get!

SkeptiKC's avatar

History repeatedly and damned grimly details that such arrangements do NOT end well.

Kid 'n Nipple-Play's avatar

So . . . not because she refused to go blonde and she aged out? Progress!

MRK's avatar

If they were going to let her go just for that, they'd have done it a couple of years ago.

But that still played a role.

aktlib101's avatar

Elect a clown, expect an economic circus

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/trump-threatens-to-stop-trading-with-countries-that-have-a-trade-deficit-unless-the-fed-cuts-rates-150838488.html

"Touting Friday's blowout jobs number, President Trump used the opportunity to weigh in on a new spike in the US trade deficit, threatening embargoes on unfavored countries.

Trump posted on Truth Social, in what appeared to be a directive to the Federal Reserve, to "LOWER THE RATE OR I'LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT."

Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

The trade deficit grew BECAUSE TARIFFS MADE AMERICAN PRODUCTS LESS COMPETITIVE BY PRICE IN THE WORLD MARKET.

Antifa Commander's avatar

He’s making tariff threats to the Fed? Okay.

What’s next, screaming at the Fed if Iran doesn’t open the Strait?

BosGrl's avatar

LET ME PLAY OR I'M TAKING MY BALL HOME!

Rags's avatar

Not blowout jobs numbers by any measure of recent years. Also the numbers come from TFG's sycophants.

SethTriggs's avatar

Like asylum, this idiot doesn't understand what a trade deficit means. But fortunately for him as he's not a Democrat, he's not responsible to know anything about ANYTHING.

gallbladder's avatar

You could do us no greater favour at this point in time.

Love,

Canada

nodak.   where's the beef?'s avatar

editor's note-

it's a blowjob numbers report.

MRK's avatar

What blowout jobs number are we even talking about?

SethTriggs's avatar

Whatever the frayed wires left in cranium shorted together. The numbers may as well be eleventyflurble and twosixtynoonan.

nodak.   where's the beef?'s avatar

No idea, but the media is running with that description.

It's half the average number Biden was doing.

even Bloomberg is being uncharacteristically stupid about this.

MRK's avatar

Americans are trained to not have any long-term memory. So a jobs report that's better than the last couple of months is all they need, I guess.

aktlib101's avatar

It's how propaganda works: repeat ad nauseam the point you want to make until an alternative reality sets in.

nodak.   where's the beef?'s avatar

The markets in general is mehing this off.

MRK's avatar

So, here's a thing: "The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false," her lawyer stated.

https://www.avclub.com/maria-bartiromo-says-not-fired

SethTriggs's avatar

Is she pining for the fjords then?

nodak.   where's the beef?'s avatar

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

TerseNurse's avatar

"or is no longer an employee"

??

MRK's avatar

If the lawyer just said 'she wasn't fired,' it might just mean her contract wasn't renewed. They want it made clear that they insist she's still a Fox News employee.

Aquaman, Real Estate Investor.'s avatar

As per my comment earlier, I think Fox's lawyers are running this.

The 90 days off air smells like a contract clause being run out. Like they might have to pay her for those three months, but after that she might still be "on the books" but they can rename her shows and not pay her because she's not got a show any more.

MRK's avatar

Still not sure where you're getting 90 days, but otherwise it makes sense.

SkeptiKC's avatar

The weird and obtuse generated by Faux never ceases.

A Tad Impatient To 86 47's avatar

She’s a total professional *what* though? I cannot comment, except to speculate that the brainworm may be spreading.

Kid 'n Nipple-Play's avatar

How much does it pay to be a professional idiot? Because I think I could do that job perfectly.