#saying that he can't compete against / have a full time seat / etc for a full year after 🤷‍♀️

[danthropologie]

My delusions are so strong that even in the face of the weirdness today (the streaming bait and switch, Helmut super talking up Checo, all of a sudden the reserve driver hierarchy getting “cleared up” by the big Red Bull News twitter to clarify it’s everyone and their mom before Daniel) I’m like hmmm what are they overcompensating for like what’s the sudden need? and thinking of the race service guy saying “stoked to see my friend stoked 🫠” as something bigger than just shooting an ad together maybe…….like reality is punching me in the face and I’m still like this is all part of Daniel’s Secret Plan.

no but here's the thing: australia is right on the horizon!! even if the daniel girlies are the only ones REALLY talking about or buying into the daniel back to red bull agenda right now, once that first race comes where he's back in the paddock and capturing the hearts and minds of every single person in the f1 sphere, EVERYONE's gonna be talking about him and EVERYONE's gonna be speculating about what his path forward in the sport is. so by rbr / helmut / christian / whoever hyping up checo and shutting down the idea of daniel getting that seat anytime soon now, i think they're hoping that they'll stave off a little bit of that speculation.

because at the same time, i think they're in a position right now where they NEED checo happy and performing with the team through, at very least, the rest of the season. i can't imagine letting speculation about daniel taking his seat run rampant would help with that so!! if they need to say some shit about how great he is and how well he's doing with the team or how his seat is Definitely Not Open, especially to daniel ricciardo, in order to placate him and his team, then they're gonna do what they need to do!!

[blamemma]

Do you think Christian regrets not siding with Daniel against Marko? We all know that if it was for Christian Daniel would've never left but the conversation that he and Marko had at the balcony must've been ugly if Daniel signed with Renault shortly after.

I just feel like Christian might feel a little bit of regret or maybe I'm reading too much into it🥲

I just hope Daniel finds his passion and love for driving again and that we can get epic moments like before

ahhhh that's such a difficult one....i think these men love to be like "i have no regrets, everything's a learning curve" etc etc, like you will never see daniel say he regrets leaving rbr....when like....come on.....surely there's a bit of regret

in christian's case, they spent two whole seasons incapable of finding a driver who could replace daniel, and then when checo came in in 2021 he wasn't stellar....he had good moments, yes, but he could not compete with mercedes like max could...and even 2022....2 vs. 15 :/ ....i think though as a team boss, you can't regret throwing your weight behind a driver like max. he deserves every one of the accolades that he has and i think christian knew they couldn't do that for both daniel and max....it feels more to me like one of those letting them go because you love them vibes....christian had to let daniel go because he knew he couldn't push both max and daniel....max is the prodigal son, the golden boy and daniel would have been miserable in that red bull team i think (he ended up being miserable anyway tho soooo)....if he gets back into a full time rbr seat he'll have a lot of retrospection from renault and mclaren that'll change that i think??

[virtuoso32]

George Carlin is known as being one of the funniest comedians in American history. I would dare say that most people agree that the late-great comic appealed to a vast audience because of his willingness to push the limits of comedy in a time when the "sexual revolution" was in full-swing (pardon the pun) and there was clearly a marketplace for his style of comedy (think Richard Pryor, early Eddie Murphy, etc.).  This video pretty much captures Carlin's satire on the 7 words that NEVER can be uttered on television.

Well, it seems that for comics in 2018, they're no longer satisfied with the "sensibilities" of one of the most profane comics of our time, George Carlin.

I think back in Carlin's heyday, most adults shared common ground that if a viewer was interested in the level of profanity enumerated so eloquently laid out in Carlin's famous bit, he/she could subscribe to a paid television medium called "cable" or "satellite." Yes, HBO, Cinemax (or as I liked to call it, "Skin-e-max) existed for people who wanted something more racy than broadcast television. To some degree, this is still true, but the lines are starting to get fuzzy, because broadcast television no longer competes in an oligopoly. UHF & VHF aren't a 'thing" anymore, and most households have access to every program on under the sun for either a low price or completely free.

Now, this puts us in a precarious position, because, obviously, where does the line of censorship get drawn nowadays?

Honestly, I don't think there IS a line anymore.

Case in point: Samantha Bee, her writers, directors, producers & network all decided it was a good idea to call Ivanka Trump the “C-Word,” one of Carlin’s list of forbidden words this week. Not only did TBS not fire her, they didn’t even say they were going to sanction her, scold her, write her up, warn her or anything similar. They have actually endorsed her show and refuse to take any action against her.

Full disclosure: I've NEVER watched “Full Frontal w/Samantha Bee” before, and I certainly never will, but the FCC used to regulate the airwaves enough to the point where Carlin's 7 forbidden words would never be heard on ANY network; certainly not a mainstream one like TBS.

TBS (for people who don't know) stands for Turner Broadcasting System, as in, Ted Turner, raging Liberal. Anyone from Greater Atlanta knows this as the go-to station to watch the Braves' baseball games. Not to get too "inside baseball" with ya'll, but millions of people adopted the Braves as their team, because they didn't have a local team (think rural Idaho, for example). From way way back, TBS was included in basic cable packages, therefore, by default; it found a seat at the table with CBS, ABC & NBC early on. It is now owned by Time Warner, but back to the story.

Here’s the thing: the FCC does not regulate stations like TBS. Its mandate is to regulate over-the-air broadcasters (i.e., ABC, NBC, FOX, etc.). But is it time to reconsider what is defined as “over-the-air?” Libertarians like me have a problem with government regulation, though, and we typically err on the side of liberty and letting the free market rule. If the public wants to reject that kind of profanity, they simply NEVER tune into any network connected to Time Warner. In fact, that’s exactly what I plan to do, but it’s getting harder and harder these days, because the entertainment industry has become an oligopoly of its own.

If I want to boycott ABC, for instance, because they cancelled Roseanne’s show because of her disgusting, bigoted Twitter rant about Valerie Jarrett, I have to relinquish any consumption of anything connected to the Walt Disney empire. That includes Star Wars. I’m not sure I’m prepared to do that! I’m a die-hard Star Wars Nerd.

Entertainment is so incestuous that boycotts pretty much can’t work anymore if consumers are truly consistent. That’s where I think everything falls apart. Consumers are fickle creatures. We are inconsistent and, most of all, too busy to keep up with mergers & acquisitions in the entertainment industry. Who the heck knows which company owns which, let alone all of the connected sponsors?

So what can we fall back on? One would hope that we could fall back on common decency, but even THAT is becoming a gray area. In my humble opinion, the only thing we have left is to use the power of self-agency. For instance, if I don’t ever tune into TBS, I’m never going to see the kind of rubbish they choose to broadcast, nor will I ever see their advertisers’ wares. If I choose to be an activist consumer, I’ll research who advertises on her show and boycott the purchase of those products for myself and my family. But if I’m not passionate enough about the subject, I won’t, and filthy comedy will continue to air with impunity.

Hopefully, our better angels will rule the day, and we’ll reject rank programming and embrace comedy that respects common decency.

The free market can still regulate without the government getting in the way if Americans do their homework, but most of all, stay consistent. That’s going to require discipline, and it will be interesting to see if anyone still has any of that!