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Right Angle: Backstage (07-12-2022)

Stephen Green masters a new skill, as Scott Ott tries an underhanded method and Bill Whittle tries not to embarrass himself — on another highly-competitive episode of Right Angle Backstage.

Right Angle: Backstage (07-12-2022)

Stephen Green masters a new skill, as Scott Ott tries an underhanded method and Bill Whittle tries not to embarrass himself — on another highly-competitive episode of Right Angle Backstage.

https://youtu.be/PJjvH-StRIY

51 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (07-12-2022)”

I’m wondering if that glitch you had at the end…was Scott having internet bandwidth issues. Because he seems more blurry than usual. More so than the other two guys on either side of him. lol

I actually figured as much…I just blamed it on the internet so as not to embarrass Scott for dropping the ball. lol

I literally couldn’t care any less about Marvel or anything Hollow-wood. I’m just glad that this new class of Liberals eventually eat their own. By pushing their even more insane world view, they sabotage their own careers, their own world views, etc.

I’m tired of Europeans complaining about Americans’ lack of global traveling. I can travel for 6 hours and not leave my state. Their point of view is small.

The old saying is that Americans think 100 years is a long time and Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance.

If anyone’s interested in “The Great Courses,” check your public library for either direct access or for access through a streaming service they provide called “Kanopy.” The latter is full of woke garbage, but they do have The Great Courses. (You have to hunt for them, as they’re not really promoted on the channel for some weird reason.) I think they have classic opera and ballet too, but not Shakespeare. (That’s on BritBox.)

Anyway, your tax dollars are paying for these public library services, so go ahead and enjoy them. If your local library doesn’t have them, check your state library and also large city and county library systems in your state, because in many states the major libraries grant access to anyone who lives in the state, not just in the city or county where the library is physically located.

(And BTW I commend Scott’s endeavor, and studies back him up. The brain is a muscle like any other, use it or lose it! I am currently studying estate planning and theology.)

What made Thor interesting to me was how much they continually took away from him. In Infinity War, he lost EVERYTHING–his hammer, Heimdahl, Loki. He lost so much it even brought out the humanity in Rocket. That was good story telling. And at the end, he lost again by “not going for the head.”

Hi Gents,
You guys are describing perfectly why it is that I rarely watch a movie or TV show made since about 2010. It’s become all about CGI shoot-‘em-ups & explosions. Nothing is left to the imagination anymore & the art of storytelling has been all but forgotten. About the only time I see something “new” these days is when I’m traveling & I’m looking to kill time on the flight.

I know this new Thor movie was uneven, but it didn’t bother me that it was a mix of very silly and very serious with action and romance thrown in. I go to comic book movies for the sheer fun of watching good looking men do amazing things and ultimately succeeding in defeating bad guys. The story lines and dialog are usually silly or frustrating. But I like seeing them any way. My husband knows if a new Thor movie comes out we’ll be going to see it. The Thor movies have shown him to be a superhero with a mix of all kinds of characteristics from the start. This last movie was uneven, but I already knew that the actor had fully encouraged and embraced going toward the humorous, even the ridiculous, side of things. He was Fat Thor in the final Avengers movie, which should have been a clue to everyone. I was very disappointed when they didn’t let him get in shape for the final battle because part of my enjoyment of the character, yes, is because he looks good in the role. I wanted to see Love and Thunder in part to get to see him restored to his former glory. Thor’s character in this movie is a kind of spoof of modern adulthood. Not very bright at times, making dubious choices, focused on being his version of a good person, trying to make sense of a world that doesn’t make sense. It’s just a comic book, after all.
We on the Right want movies to have a ‘message’, too, we just want it to be our message and not the Woke message. We need to support our team as they produce content to tell the story, with a Reaganesque twinkle in our eye, steel in our spine, grace, humility, hope, honest truth and integrity. I think that’s what we see on this website, and support the wonderful work being done by our intrepid team.

This is a beautifully-written rebuttal.Thank you.
Fictional characters are, after all, just fiction; and fiction is primarily for entertainment.

When someone says to me, “We have to do SOMETHING!”
I say, “Well, have you tried standing on your head?”
They say, “What good would that do?”
I say, “Precisely.”

President Trump was not “trying to spell coffee”, COVFEFE was the Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act (COVFEFE Act), House Bill H.R. 2884

But, the lame stream media would not talk about it, so he posted it himself to get it to the people. Of course the left and their pea brains took off with the “he was trying to spell coffee”.

Yes sir, you can look it up. I saw it when it came out. There was a “person” on amazon selling mugs making fun of President Trump about the “spelling” and I sent them a message with the link to all this. They actually messaged back, said they were wrong and took down the mugs. Score!

This is a suspicious conclusion given the timeline of the events:

  • May 31, 2017 – Trump tweeted, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”. He deleted the tweet six hours later for reasons not publicly-known.
  • June 12, 2017 – U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL 5) introduced H.R.2884, “The Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act (COVFEFE Act)”.

Your conclusion presumes that Trump (a reviled Republican president) had foreknowledge of a Democrat-sponsored bill primarily-designed to require the archiving of Presidential social media communications.
Perhaps Donald did know about the COVFEFE Act nearly two weeks before it was introduced, but we are left to wonder and speculate about such things. However, Spicer’s WH Briefing response on May 31, 2017, “I think the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant”, lends some credence to your claims. Unfortunately, none of this may ever be provable.

“And while the two official governmental Twitter accounts of @POTUS [President of the United States] and @WhiteHouse are both subject to National Archives records since their creations during the Obama Administration, the “covfefe” tweet came from Trump’s personal account @RealDonaldTrump, created in March 2009 years before he even ran for office. As president, Trump has preferred to use that account for communications with its 32.2 million followers more so than the two governmental accounts with their far fewer followers.”

It’s about archiving Trumps personal tweets as “official communications” While and after he was president. Were as the media and others, more or less said Trump was not worthy of this.

Here’s the link: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr2884/summary

After all, Trump was a democrat (still may think like one on occasion) and changed parties a few times till 1987 when he joined the GOP

Well, you’ve lost me with this latest within the context of your initial post, to which I replied. I just don’t understand your point with this last one in that context.

My point is lots of democrats didn’t want anything to do with Trump yet, some democrats sided with him that he is worthy of the archiving of his personal tweets as “official communications” since he was the POTUS at the time.

In a digital age now, these things should be updated. As we all know he was fighting every step of the way for anything while he was in office. The left was continuously belittling him and telling the people he’s a liar.

So, COVFEFE was not a lie, not a misspelling or “my conclusion”, Trump got the word out to more people via his twitter account than the white house account.

Also I wasn’t aware that he deleted that tweet, hard to believe. I’m not on twitter and haven’t research it yet but, wikipedia and fb don’t count.

I think David’s point is that Pres. Trump “coined” covfefe about 12 days before the house bill was introduced, and dubbed with that word as an acronym. The Member of Congress was trying to be funny.

I think one of the reasons the Left has to fake it when talking to real voters (besides the “they see everyone as a member of a group” and stereotype them) is that they don’t have anything in common with the general public. How many of them actually have kids? How many worked in a real business, much less ran one? The politicians who make these kinds of gaffs are the older, elite, well off types living in mansions with drivers and maids and other “help” that they get caught under paying, mistreating and have no way to actually relate to us.

There are many New Yorkers who would would love to exercise their God-given rights to self defense, and cannot leave for many reasons.

Heh, gotta agree with that. All my sports involve lethal projectiles and/or nasty barbed hooks. I don’t give a fig for men playing with their balls on a manicured lawn or a climate controlled polished floor. You wanna get your ticker thumpin’, lay a 12 point buck in your crosshairs or set a hook into a 50 lb striper.

*waves*
If anyone who is interested in the whole writing process whether as a writer/author, a beta reader, an editor, or who would just like to get better at the craft of writing wants to get into the forum, just post saying “hey, I want to join” in the “Any sci-fi/fantasy writers here?” thread over in General and I’ll ask Scott to add you to the usergroup.
— G.K.

That CERN scientist probably read a biography on Admiral Ernest King AKA Semper Iratus.
His short list of enemies were (not necessarily in this order):
Imperial Japanese Navy, The Royal Navy, US Army and Congress.
Congress was usually the odds-on favorite.
Then the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor and the Kriegsmarine and
Naval Bureau of Ordnance was added to the list.

Growing up we used to have international food night every couple of weeks. We’d have to look up a recipe and make it. Good fun.

Still, never had a gyro until I was a Freshman at Rutgers. Got it at a grease truck. I liked it so much, I bought four more and brought them home for the family (I commuted).

Going to have to disagree with Bill that one is supposed to take Thor seriously, or that he’s not supposed to be a joke – What makes Thor so fun, especially in the Taika Waititi movies, is that they’ve taken him all the way back to his original Norse mythology roots. He’s strong, noble, capable of incredible feats of heroism, but not a thinker, and in unthinking arrogance he never bothers to learn things that seem incredibly basic.

The Thames River (pronounced Thayms) is in Connecticut.

The Imperial War Museum is in the old Bedlam mental hospital, and is by far my favorite place in London

A Passport is considered a superior form of I.D. over anything else in this country superior to Driver’s License and must be taken as such anywhere in this country and yes I have traveled most of the world.

Wonder if they’d hold that out as a reason to not issue one?

Because I too am not on any social media.

My passport expired during the Obama administration and I didn’t get another one in part because they were just starting to weaponize the IRS against Tea Party groups and I (with a slight paranoiac streak) didn’t want to get on anyone’s list. But I should have realized it was only going to get worse.

I still have a FB account, but haven’t posted anything there in five years. I might have a few others that I have completely abandoned for much longer than that, though probably never affirmatively deleted. So before answering that question I’d want to know how the law defines “social media account.” (E.g., does this site count? Or only public, “free” ones?)

I have no other “current” social media accounts.

Unfortunately, just asking the your proposed question will open you up to invasive inspections, which may include very private body parts. “Don’t ask … don’t tell” is a universal concept.

For the record, I broke my personal rule about not posting until I’ve watched the whole video. I thought your comment was about passports, perhaps because the preceding comment was about passports and I thought yours was in response to it. So I’m sorry about the non-sequitur.

I have no intention of applying for a conceal carry permit, either.

I have no intention of applying for a conceal carry permit, either.

Very wise.

I finally get to dust my passport off and go back to the US for a couple of weeks. Looking forward to seeing family and friends not using Zoom.
When my school was traveling overseas for the school trips, students would always want to see my passport because of the pictures on the pages.

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