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#334526: Oct 21st 2020 at 10:51:56 AM

[up][up][up]What do you expect from a reality show president?

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#334527: Oct 21st 2020 at 10:57:42 AM

What on earth is a "feral child"?

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#334528: Oct 21st 2020 at 10:59:05 AM

@Redmess Raised by Wolves or other animals. Mowgli, Tarzan, you get the idea.

This might theoretically happen in real life, but nobody's entirely sure. There are alleged cases that are somewhat dubious.

Edited by Protagonist506 on Oct 21st 2020 at 11:02:11 AM

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#334529: Oct 21st 2020 at 11:01:46 AM

So what's Borat? Some sort of evil Candid Camera?

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Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#334530: Oct 21st 2020 at 11:02:16 AM

Edit- A character played by Sacha Baron Cohen. Initially in a tv show, I think in the UK, and more recently in a well-publicized movie.

Edited by Hodor2 on Oct 21st 2020 at 1:09:21 PM

Voltron64 Since: Jul, 2016
#334531: Oct 21st 2020 at 11:02:23 AM

[up][up] In many ways, yes.

Edited by Voltron64 on Oct 21st 2020 at 11:02:35 AM

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#334532: Oct 21st 2020 at 11:25:58 AM

Got my early voting done today. Almost no one wearing masks or distancing, none of the poll workers wearing them, or if they were their noses were out. Trump supporters shouting and jeering inside the building right outside the ballot room and no one removing them. Another day in the Carolinas.

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#334533: Oct 21st 2020 at 11:33:05 AM

RE: "feral child"

1) There's also the Wild Child trope, which showcases a few genuinely heartbreaking cases, such as "Genie", whose father kept her locked in her room from the time she was a toddler until she was rescued at age 13 - and social workers initially thought her to be six or seven, and who never recovered from that abusive treatment.

2) How did that question come up to begin with?

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#334534: Oct 21st 2020 at 11:39:08 AM

CNN reports that Senator Romney did not vote for Trump. He refused to say if he voted for Biden, or if he went third party/write-in like the part time collaborator he is.

Edited by Rationalinsanity on Oct 21st 2020 at 4:31:54 PM

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Lost in Space
#334535: Oct 21st 2020 at 11:41:56 AM

Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma to plead guilty to federal criminal charges related to opioid abuse. AP News covers the story.

The company will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than 8 billion dollars, according to the U.S. Justice Department. These charges include conspiracy to defraud the United Sates and violating federal anti-kickback laws. The deal does not release any of the company's executives or owners — in particular the wealthy Sackler family — from liability and they are still under criminal investigation. The chairman of the company (who came aboard in 2018) admitted responsibility in a statement.

Purdue will enter bankruptcy proceedings, in which it is not expected that all of the money fined will be recovered, and will be transformed into a "public benefit company", operated by a trust that will oversee distribution of the settlement money to treatment programs. The Sacklers are handing over their interest in the company.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey says that the Justice Department "failed" to hold Purdue properly accountable and sees it as rushing to a settlement ahead of the election. Democrats in general oppose the structure of the deal as it would make the government responsible for selling oxycontin, the opioid at the heart of the crisis in America, even as it works to treat the harm done.

Edited by Fighteer on Oct 21st 2020 at 5:05:08 AM

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#334536: Oct 21st 2020 at 11:55:11 AM

Oh boy! The company itself and not any actual person involved in it is being punished for the sins of its owners. Thanks, Corporate Personhood!

They mention that criminal investigations into actual real people who exist and committed the crimes levied at Perdue are ongoing, but I'm not holding my breath. Corporate Personhood allowing the wealthy to go "Whoops, bad company! Bad!" and then just set up shop in a new company and keep doing what they're doing is the standard fare for this sort of thing.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 21st 2020 at 11:55:57 AM

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#334537: Oct 21st 2020 at 12:11:32 PM

@carbon

Damn that sucks but at least you got your vote in. I'm in NY and had the opposite experience where everyone had a mask on and the security guard pointed me to where the dropbox was.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#334538: Oct 21st 2020 at 12:59:26 PM

[up][up]

It is encouraging - even just mildly - that the deal explicitly does not absolve the Sackler's of personal or criminal liability in this matter. Compared to deals like this in the past, that's actually pretty good.

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#334539: Oct 21st 2020 at 1:01:29 PM

Except now it’s the government that’s selling narcotics...

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#334540: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:20:47 PM

If Giuliani can be led into a hidden-camera compromising situation that easily, I shudder to contemplate what the FSB has on him....

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#334541: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:24:47 PM

You'd think he would know better than to compromise himself like that in a Russian hotel room, where he is guaranteed to be filmed.

Not to mention doing it in front of an apparent reporter. I mean, really, what was he thinking there?

Edited by Redmess on Oct 21st 2020 at 11:25:35 AM

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#334542: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:33:04 PM

Implying that he thinks.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
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#334543: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:35:28 PM

People like that simply don't believe that rules and principles apply to them. It's a remarkable sort of blind spot but it's very real and documented.

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#334544: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:42:01 PM

Hold on, what exactly happened?

[down],[down][down] Thanks for informing me, but now I'm completely baffled as to how this situation even happens [lol]

Edited by astrokitty on Oct 21st 2020 at 5:49:30 AM

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Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#334545: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:45:17 PM

[up]Supposedly, Giuliani got himself caught stroking his junk in front of an (supposedly) 15-year-old girl, as part of the new Borat film.

If you ask me, it seems a little too much. This is, like, the plot of the worst episode of the worst sitcom.

Edited by Kayeka on Oct 21st 2020 at 11:46:17 AM

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#334546: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:46:22 PM

Basically, Giuliani thought he was giving some sort of interview to a journalist in a Russian hotel room, and was, for some insane reason, groping his crotch, when the film makers of Borat burst into the room and shot him a line about the reporter being 16 and too old for him, and it turned out that he was being filmed for a sequel to Borat. This film maker apparently loves to do this style of Candid Camera film making, where unsuspecting people are filmed and end up in his movie.

So now Giuliani is going to be in this foreign movie in an extremely unflattering performance as a paedophile.

[up] The woman was 24, the underage thing was just a line in the script. She is also the film director's daughter, if you're wondering how she got involved.

And I think this probably falls under Reality Is Unrealistic.

Edited by Redmess on Oct 21st 2020 at 11:49:03 AM

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smokeycut Since: Mar, 2013
#334547: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:49:27 PM

Not even a foreign movie. The whole conceit of it is that it’s a Western film series, in which an actor pretends to be from a (I believe) fictional eastern european country and punks people. And he punked Giuliani, though it was mostly Giuliani doing it to himself. They just got the cameras on him, but I’m sure he’s done this sort of thing before to actual journalists.

Alphatater Since: May, 2020
#334548: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:53:10 PM

The country (Kazakhstan) is real, but its portrayal in Borat has basically nothing to do with the Real Life country and actual Kazakh people hate it.

Edited by Alphatater on Oct 21st 2020 at 2:54:19 AM

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#334549: Oct 21st 2020 at 2:53:29 PM

Considering that they were basically able to ambush him, he must have done this sort of thing before.

New York's former hero, ladies and gentlemen...

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MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
#334550: Oct 21st 2020 at 3:07:28 PM

I mean, to me Borat is a foreign movie. It's American. But man, it came out so long ago that people don't know about it anymore? Damn, I'm old...


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