THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ROOM RATER PINEAPPLE
A Thread For The Benefit Of The Public
Please feel free to post it any time someone asks "What's with all the pineapples?"
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IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE PANDEMIC. Suddenly everyone on TV was remote, usually live in their own homes.
It took about five minutes for us to start noticing their furniture and decor...and since we were all quarantined, we had nothing else to keep us busy.
Room Rater launched on April 11, 2020. Some of the early critiques were tough, but subjects always could earn bonuses for non-decor-related factors...and the opposite was also true.
Audiences anxious for more immediately began submitting photos and making suggestions
The first subjects to dispute their ratings were Cynthia McFadden and Jane Mayer; both were successful
J.Heil's kitchen received its first rating on April 14. Note the bias in favor of plants, which became a hallmark of the ratings, and the attention paid to the fruit bowl.
Steve Schmidt came on the scene a bit later, due to Room Rater's missing photo ops. Steve posted his own, however, and they rated high.
Meanwhile, Heilemann's kitchen reappeared. Perhaps cued by the comment that the oranges helped, he had expanded a bit. Interest was high, and he has time to reply to comments, which helped. Photos of his dogs foreshadowed ratings to come.
More comments about JHeil's kitchen. Again, you have to remember this was during the initial lockdown, when we weren't used to having time on our hands π
[If you're starting to wish we would hurry up and get to the pineapples, you're not alone. But you're not reading the entire timeline of this account that tweets even more than I do, so there's that π]
There's no better way to end than with Paul Rudd.
Here's his rating from April 26th. You'll notice there's no pineapple. But he wasn't done. Just one more tweet and we'll be finished here, as the pineapple reaches its zenith of fame.
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Thread of the best post-CNN-town-hall advice on handling Trump
1. Know his psychological profile and emotional needs.
2. Get out of your own emotional gratification cycle. You should know that fear is the top motivator for voters. Don't let him create and stoke it baselessly. There's also no excuse for asking questions whose answers will entertain. stonekettle.com/2023/05/caveatβ¦
This was AMAZING. @SenPizzo gave a fantastic explanation of the latest Florida GOP grift. It starts at the 4:15 mark. I'm attaching a transcript if you'd prefer to read.
PIZZO: "Lawrence, if I told you that there's a scheme being devised where there's a pot of five million dollars with no actual attendant costs associated with it. Today I asked what's the cost per investigation, couldn't get an answer, they didn't know.
"Material terms in the bill are not defined. One of the exemptions is an 'anticipated pregnancy' and yet that'll be defined AFTER the bill is signed, we're told by the Florida department of health.
That's just a light-hearted title. We're all fine.
Some of you may remember that I help my parents run a food pantry. I thought I'd entertain myself by blogging our pandemic-preparedness efforts.
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Let's start by introducing the food pantry. It's located in a luxurious suite of rooms in my church basement, furnished with shelving you might charitably call 'assorted,' and a herd of freezers and fridges, the oldest of which is about 50 years old.
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Clients can visit once a month. They get about 30 items, each given in amounts to serve their whole household. Hhld sizes vary from 1 to 10. The most I remember was 15: a lady took in her aging mom and her divorced daughter/kids, + then the neighbor's furnace broke.
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For your entertainment, we present this
Three-Part Fake Argument
STEP 1:
Blue-check account posts about any Trump-related issue. Notice the thousands of likes and retweets; our bot will be reaching a percentage of those very big numbers
ARGUMENT, PART 1:
Whataboutism is a favorite Kremlin debate technique. (I use the term 'debate' loosely, as it implies actual give-and-take.)
ARGUMENT, PART 2:
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