“Testy” is this week’s “sharp as a tack” https://t.co/DoQgTOxKRN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 17, 2024
Why "testy"? Of course, I don't believe these writers independently arrived at the same word. I presume they got the same message. But still, the message-writer chose that word, so the word is important, albeit not as important as it would have been if these characters had all determined on their own that "testy" was the mot juste.
"Testy" might make you think of testicle, but the etymology is a word for head — "teste." Think "headstrong." An obsolete meaning — I'm reading the OED — is "Of headstrong courage; impetuous; precipitate, rash." But the current meaning is: "Prone to be irritated by small checks and annoyances; impatient of being thwarted; resentful of contradiction or opposition; irascible, short-tempered, peevish, tetchy, 'crusty.'"
That's not very presidential!
Not everyone decided she was testy. Mark Cuban wrote (on X): "The beautiful thing about the @BretBaier interview is that @KamalaHarris understood and responded to each question. She used examples of policies. She gave real world context. When Brett went hard after her. She didn’t call him names. She didn’t quit the interview. She didn’t make things up. She never once complained the questions were tough. She never played the victim card. She didn’t lose her temper. She didn’t take the bait to diminish or talk down to Trump supporters. She stood up to him with force and never backed down.... She is everything her opponent is not and will never be. Strong, Smart and Measured."
Why is it "beautiful" that the candidate "understood and responded to each question"? That's an awfully low standard. It describes the most basic interview. So patronizing. Of her and of us. And I didn't think she answered the questions at all. I'd say she avoided each question. She didn’t call him names? An absurdly low standard. She'd better keep her cool. She's offering to stand up to Putin. Bret Baier should be child's play. And as for "She didn’t quit the interview" — she did quit the interview!
AND: Cuban got testy recently:
Release it today. Right now. I never met the guy. Never went to a Diddy party.
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) October 9, 2024
Donald on the other hand … https://t.co/n3eS0IsoAu
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Cuban is not a serious person but he’s the new Musk since Musk dumped them…
Seminar callers
Seminar commenters
Seminar journalists
Kamala evaded questions by dumping a family-style sized word salad on Baier’s head and running out the clock. The Kamala handlers describe that as testy…
"She used examples of policies. She gave real world context. "
No, she didn't, Mark!!
‘And as for "She didn’t quit the interview" — she did quit the interview!’
How would you know, you said you quit halfway through?
"understood and responded to each question"?
Isn't that the praise that dr. Jill heaped on President Silver Alert after his disastrous debate?
Responded to? That’s like saying she put something down for every question on the test, even though she got no correct answers.
Testy is a good word here.
She took a test and failed.
On to joe Rogan!
John Henry
They're not saying Kamala was testy, they're saying the interview was testy.
I thought “testy” came from testosterone or testes. Though it seems to be characteristic of female presidential candidates. Hillary didn’t like being challenged either.
It's the headline in the talking points memo distributed by Kamala Harris' handlers. Testy could also mean not quite a test... a quiz, perhaps?
She talked far more about Donald Trump than herself.
Testa is the Italian/Sicilian word for head.
Modern Romance languages evolved from the local dialects of Latin rather than the Classical Latin we are tought in school. The local dialects were called Vulgar Latin. "Vulgar" simply meant of the common people, and only later aquired the meaning it has today.
The word "testa" meant a type of cooking pot in Latin. It was a slang word for the head at first before becoming the literal word for a head later.
As another example, "equus" was the standard Latin word for a horse. But most people back then were more familiar with a "caballus", which was a working horse used to pull carts, etc. That became caballo/cavallo in Spanish/Italian.
She also said she watched the rest of it later.
I did end up watching the second half of it just now. Everything she said was something I have heard her say before, and it was nonresponsive to Baier’s questions so there was no value to having a good interviewer. It merely exposed her as someone who has absolutely no intention of answering serious questions.
"I presume they got the same message
Yes. They get it off "Journolist," a private Discord where a group of about 400 media members (all Democrats) get together on-line to determine how best to advance a narrative that helps the Democrats rig our elections. Many of them are Deep State operatives within the CIA\DOJ\FBI.
Oh, by the way, they've all agreed that Kamala Harris will be announced as the winner of the 2024 election whether she wins or not and then they'll see what Trump does and classify any moves as "Fascist" attempts to "overturn" election results.
Just like they did for Biden in 2020.
"How would you know, you said you quit halfway through?"
When I wrote my post, I had quit halfway through, but I did later watch the rest of it... some parts more than once. And I have half a mind to blog the transcript.
This is why women make horrible politicians. They can't take the back and forth and they turn into mindless vicious people like Hillary whenever they're caught in a lie, or forced into a corner where they reveal they don't have the chops to run with the big dogs.
Notice how he never says what those policies are, though?
Now THAT sounds juicy! Please do. (This next sentence exists merely so that blogger will print my comment.)
We need a good Althouse fisking of Harris.
Obviously, she and her team knew the topic of illegal immigration was going to be big in a Fox interview. Since Joe was the one who signed the executive orders on Day1 that undid all the Trump ones that were making the border so much more secure, why didn't she calmly and forthrightly answer the question of "how many" and admit the undoing of the Trump policies resulted in an invasion. That was a big opportunity to show she is not a Biden clone. Frankly, border security should NOT be sacrificed on the altar of fixing our immigration system and I have no respect for politicians that use the security part as a bargaining chip.
As to Cuban’s comments, she also didn’t pull out her Glock and shot Brett dead on TV.
Sure, gahead…
Daily Mail, quoting Baier:
'I'm talking like four people waving their hands like "it's got to stop,"' Baier described to his panel about how the interview ended after it wrapped up. 'I had to dismount there at the end,' Baier shrugged.
What this shows is just how fake and scripted these appearances are. Brett Baier played a role here. Or he would just have said to Ms. Harris, on camera ... "Why are all your staff over there trying to wave this interview to a close?"
But of course he never said that, did he?
She doesn't own a Glock. Just like she's never worked at McDonalds. EVERYTHING about Kamala Harris is faked.
Baier also explained in the follow-up panel that she came in 15 minutes late for a 20 minute interview to be aired at the top of the hour, and said his awkward outro was due to 4 of her handlers calling time after 15 minutes.
Wm. Empson taught Eng Lit in China
I remember a Chinese student who put in an essay on the Scotch ballads "The ballad must be simple and vulgar." Most of the essay was spent in laborious praise of the Scotch ballads, which he felt to be required of him, but I gather he felt they were like popular works in China which a proud scholar would despise. That is, he knew the word had two meanings, and wanted to use it to drop an insinuation. The mistake was, therefore, an extremely marginal one; it was merely that he took "of the common people" to be the head sense, under which "coarse" could insinuate itself as an Implication (equated to the head sense, perhaps). But this is a definite mistake; whatever the political or literary views of the reader, he will feel that there has been a ridiculous collapse of an attempt at tact.
_The Structure of Complex Words_, p.404
and don't get testy there, Lefty
Harris wasn't part of the interview?
Fox News are Beltway insiders just like the rest of em. They play the game, too. They play ball…
they got the same message..
that's the Neatest Thing of ALL!
EVERY mainstream media person, ALWAYS speaks the Same Words.. With the Same Mouth.
It's ALMOST LIKE.. They're ALL the Same Person!!
Meanwhile, over on "X"..
But of course he never said that, did he?
If you watched the interview, he did.
She simply can not answer a question - I was tempted to yell ‘shut up’ many times when I watched the interview - although it wasn’t really an interview or discussion because she never answered anything he asked. She started her ‘answer’ to the first question before he actually asked a question. She is good at talking without saying anything. There is no way she could make it 2-3 hours on Rogan - while it would be fun to watch it would also be extremely painful.
She simply can not answer a question - I was tempted to yell ‘shut up’ many times when I watched the interview - although it wasn’t really an interview or discussion because she never answered anything he asked. She started her ‘answer’ to the first question before he actually asked a question. She is good at talking without saying anything. There is no way she could make it 2-3 hours on Rogan - while it would be fun to watch it would also be extremely painful.
Quote EXACTLY what he said, please. And then I will deconstruct it for you to show how what you are claiming is FALSE.
Someone so brat wouldn't have been testy; she would've been salty.
I guess journolist thought "salty" would look too obviously coordinated.
Kamala Harris has been told, explicitly, NOT TO ANSWER any questions. If she answers a question, that's a GOTCHA. And they know it. There are no questions she can answer because the answer is a trap. No matter what answer she gives.
You know what else are salty? Balls.
They don't want Kamala Harris and balls in the same sentence because of how she got her start in politics fondling Willie Brown's.
It's a strange word choice, because it comes across as effete and weak.
Why is it "beautiful" that the candidate "understood and responded to each question"? That's an awfully low standard·
We've seen this before: "Joe, you did such a great job! You answered every question, you knew all the facts!"
How could a candidate for President of the United States not have a prepared answer for ANY questions about immigration--which is obviously one of if not the most important issue in the view of voters? As Harris would say--"C'mon!"
How would you know it was false if you don’t know what he said?
Anybody know what interview he was watching? If the same interview I saw, then what drugs was he on?
as Dixcus said.. Kamala Harris has been told, explicitly, NOT TO ANSWER any questions. If she answers a question, that's a GOTCHA..
it's NOT that she was not prepared to have an answer..
it's that she was prepared NOT to have answer
More seriously, I think she had a couple objectives in the interview. To the extent her objective was to win over Trump skeptics in the audience, it was probably a failure. But her other two objectives were probably (1) do a "hostile" interview so people will shut up about her being too scared to do one, and (2) avoid saying anything that will end up getting used against her. From her perspective, (1) was achieved. And (2) was a mixed bag, but responding to every question with canned talking points, whether they were responsive or not, helped avoid the worst case scenario, which is splitting her fragile electoral coalition by picking one side over another. If she directly repudiated her 2019 positions (as opposed to having the plausible deniability of random anonymous aides claiming she's repudiated them), she'd run the risk of dampening enthusiasm among the fringe who support her extreme positions from 2019. But if she embraced those extreme positions, she'd be throwing the election to Trump. Her team has clearly judged that it is better to keep things in a state of uncertainty than articulate a clear position. I don't think the failure to respond is (entirely) a result of laziness or incapacity on her part. I think it's a deliberate strategy. They haven't loaded up her teleprompter with a clear position either, after all.
She won the argument, she lost it, such fun to see the two sides pitching their utterly opposing visions of reality. Shame it all has to stop on 5th November.
Maybe not. Will it be just chads left hanging?
Oh journolist...never change.
Herman Rorschach smiles.
Why is it "beautiful" that the candidate "understood and responded to each question"? That's an awfully low standard. It describes the most basic interview. So patronizing.
With all do respect, I don't understand why people have such a difficult time understanding this. They believe women will vote for them because of abortion. That everything else is irrelevant. They believe you are an idiot.
The only game Kamala has is to whine about Donald Trump in that preachy tone of hers. She is truly nails on a chalkboard. I don’t see how that motivates the low-level voter she’s looking for.
I wonder if she’d take it to her testa to make some $$$ ?
“fisking”? After that performance, a fisting would be much more appropriate.
Harris was all Schweddy.
The surname Mezzatesta likely has interesting origins...
"Testy" might make you think of testicle, but the etymology is a word for head — "teste." Think "headstrong."
So I learned something today. Given the modern meaning I had associated it with someone who lets their testosterone get in the way of their cognitive function — and hence inappropriate to apply to a woman.
Donald Trump might be sui generis, but it seems to me that their policies are so disliked by ordinary citizens that people like Harris have no choice but to demonize their Republican opponents. The mud they’re throwing at Trump is mud that they have to throw at all Republicans.
A fisty fisking of a testy tasty word salad !
How would you have done it then, knowing that you would like the opportunity to interview other professional politicians and notable public figures at some point in the future? 'Scorched earth' works once when you're a journalist.
When things get testy, Kamala gets flunky.
I think that's accurate. My impression was that she maintained the gibberish-level answering that is the hallmark of her campaign. Her supporters will interpret this consistency as a success, whereas her detractors will see the consistency as a reinforcement of their criticism.
Pshh. Whatever. That was the easiest softball interview I ever saw. The answer to every single question was (obviously) "but what about Trump"? I thought he would as a least one question that didn't have the same obvious answer. When will Kamala face a real interview?
Also, Kamala seems to be the type of woman that tears up when she gets angry. It's bad optics. There's no crying in baseball.
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The problem isn't simply that she doesn't answer questions. A lot of politicians never quite answer the questions that are put to them. The issue with Harris is that she refuses to offer any rationale for voters to ignore the record of the B-H administration or the extreme leftwing/woke positions she's previously staked out on various issues. Anything having to do with the B-H record, she immediately changes the subject to the "real issue," which is Donald Trump. Anything having to do with her past position, she brushes off with a "That was five years ago" and/or a really vague allusion to her values, e.g., her being from the middle class.
Remember when GWBush lacked gravitas, and supposedly chose Dick Cheney as his VP to get some much needed gravitas on the ticket? Nobody seeks gravitas in current candidates, or bemoans lack of gravitas, anymore. Trump hasn't got gravitas, he's got mere "showmanship" at best. Harris hasn't got gravitas, she's got a braying donkey laugh and the depth of an oil sheen on hot pavement, all the reason she needs to be testy when challenged in the least.
Musk's SpaceX thwarts gravity, but that's completely different.
Heh, I was screaming BULLSHIT - ANSWER IT at the screen.
"Donald on the other hand …"
I've been wondering why they burned a major asset and went after Diddy and why now? I haven't been following the story, but...
Will this be the October surprise? Trump was at a Diddy party?
I read that lots of posh people went to the Diddy party's, but the decent among them left at midnight, unless they wanted to participate in the freaky stuff.
I doubt they have anything serious about Trump along those lines or they'd have used it by now, but all it would take to change the election outcome would be one male "victim" making an accusation. Kinda like Brett Kavanaugh.
"Testy" might make you think of testicle…
A Ferrari Testarossa does not mean “Red Testicle” in English.
Mark Twain said that experience is a hard teacher but that a fool will learn from no other. Twain was also a careful student of American politics and history.
Twain also said the American people get what they vote for — usually good and hard.
That would be a quizzy, not a testy.
"why didn't she calmly and forthrightly answer the question of "how many" and admit the undoing of the Trump policies resulted in an invasion."
Because they intend to keep doing it. If she wins, you ain't seen nothing yet.
That's as accurate as most of the stuff you post, Bich. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken
Head as in "headstrong." Or head as in, "I got my start giving a married politician head."
Here is a pretty funny take
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/10/16/now-we-all-know-why-kamala-would-only-do-softball-interviews/
In the post, these are all links to parts of the interview.
- Her & Biden’s bad record is Trump’s fault
- What are you turning the page from?
- It would have allowed 1.8 Million illegal immigrants into the country every year and much more
- This is a Democracy!
- When did you first notice Biden wasn’t stable?
It didn't, but I'm sorry -- now that you've said it that's always going to flicker through my mind when I hear "testarossa."
Who are they kidding? There's nobody on the Democrat side with testes...
Probably one of the dumbest decisions in my life was not to go to work for Cuban back in the early 90’s when his little start up, Broadcast.com was poaching talent from the satellite (the really, really big dishes) content delivery and he was doing it over this new thing called the “internet”. I thought satellite was where the real money was.
Ohhhhh… wait! Well, I was 30 years premature!
He had god status in Dallas, much like Musk now does and still has it to a degree due to his ownership of the Dallas Mavericks, his charitable works and local business ventures. But there’s also an “other” side to him that flitters through the chattering class in the high society class and business community. Which is really irrelevant given his own body of work and generally over looked because he says the right things and aligns with proper political thought.
I kinda wish both he and Musk would lighten up a bit on that stuff but both certainly have the right their opinions as well as their choices to broadcast what they think. As long they keep making stuff work, live and let live!
I just learned on YouTube that there were Latin speakers on the Dalmatian coast up through the Middle Ages.
The collective left is a hivemind.
It's quite easy to abandon fringe positions: most Western politicians do it effortlessly. Donald Trump is committed to reducing immigration, which the oligarchy hates, therefore it is "fringe." But Kamala is implementing her fringe policies in the Biden regime, while trying to run away from them in the campaign. Few politicians are that stupid, but then the illegitimate abortion occupying the White House is trying to make its Vice President defend her record while promising "independence."
Apparently, it does mean red head.
He's rich and obedient leftist. All the left need.
HT for the correction CB
I saw parts of the interview. I wouldn't describe her as authentic, but, on the plus side, she's not as patently phony as Kerry. I also wouldn't describe her as likable, but neither is she quite as off putting as Hillary. It's difficult to see where she differentiates herself from Biden, but she's quite vehement and outspoken in her position that she's not Donald Trump......She looked like the woman who won only a scattering of votes in the Democratic primaries four years ago. This time, however, she;'s not running against Democrats but against Trump. I can't see any reason to vote for her, but she's got a good chance of winning. The interview didn't do her any harm among the faithful who believe that the more important thing in politics is to be against Trump.
They've exhausted their lawfare bag, and most of these have been fizzles that will be overturned after the election, so it wouldn't surprise me to see the Progressive War Machine dredge up something like this. I think the problem is, though, that it will only harden positions that are already established: Republican voters know Trump well enough, to know that the Stormy Daniels myth was disproven and resolved in his favor, that the other suit, that old fossil, was a case of laws being fabricated in order to prosecute on a trivial, and likely untrue, matter. Lawfare, like the Kavanaugh matter. And finally, they believe that Trump really is a pretty good family man. Of course, the other side will continue on their spittle-flecked, ranting path.
But Independents? I think it's likely they'll see this is as more-of-the-same, from Democrats. The Dirty Game. I don't think it will help Independents decide for Kamala.
It’s been almost a day since Harris last had the courage to sit down with a biased MAGA right-wing cable outlet.
Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claims ~ AP
A "scattering" or a "smattering"?
Here her hope is to cash in on the ten year unrelenting firehose of lies, half truths, and out of context smearing misquotes of Donald Trump. Remember that repetition does not strengthen the truth value of an argument, but it does increase the belief on the part of the listener that they are hearing the truth.
"Mark Twain said that experience is a hard teacher but that a fool will learn from no other."
I am pretty sure that that was Ben Franklin, and well, we have had four years of Trump, which, prior to the pandemic cooked up by Fauci over in Wuhan, were pretty good years, and four years of "Fire Marshall Joe" Biden, who has set the world ablaze with his beloved little wars.
The question is was Gore Vidal right in his book "The United States of Amnesia," or are we going to simply forget what the world was like before Biden got hold of the reins. If Americans "dare to remember," then Harris has no shot. If they simply believe the lies, and not their own "lying eyes," well Harris wins.
Since Althouse raised the subject, a little discussion on word origins is appropriate. Fake etymologies are almost as common as fake news on MSNBC. I once heard someone confidently declare that a witness in a Roman criminal trial had to cup his balls in his right hand whilst giving his evidence. Everything said by a drunk is said confidently, but this guy wasn't drunk, just absurdly credulous. This same person also said that George Washington died of syphilis, which he claimed was "common knowledge".
Yes, testify and testicle are related but not through such a risible gesture. Testify does come to us indirectly from Latin, specifically testificor ("I bear witness") the pro forma preamble to evidence given before a magistrate. Testicle come from testiculus, the diminutive of testis, in other words, the little witness of manhood.
Why 'testy'?
Because I used the word here a few days ago.
Duh.
What you don't understand is how unconvincing your little jibes are. That never went to trial, did it? The billionaire owners of Fox simply stuck their wet finger to the wind, and figured that it would be worth a billion dollars for them to suck up to the Democrats and settled, before discovery, even.
Why they booked her on FOX is a good question. The better question is why did they intentionally open the border for all of 2021, 2022, and 2023 and invite an unprecedented flood of unvetted migrants. Neither Bill Clinton nor Barack Obama in their primes could sell/defend such lunacy.
If there is ever a 2nd bona fide interview, Kamala should be made to defend two try-breaking votes to borrow-and-spend trillions of new spending that predictably caused the highest inflation in over 40 years.
But then again, every Democratic incumbent seeking reelection should be asked to defend these two pillars of shame of the Biden years.
G-Pub
Testy is a way to dimminish what happened. I read it as "annoying" or low-level hostile. You have "Testy" interactions with the Hotel clerk, or someone at the DMV.
As for Cuban, I find him boring in the same way I find so many Leftists and MSM figures boring. They don't give you an honest opinion. There is no "I've looked at this from an independent perspective and come up with X". There are consistent beliefs.
Cuban starts with an objective: He wants to help Harris, she's a Leftist. So he sits down and writes his most persuasive defense of her. The truth is irrelevant. Because Cuban and other Leftists are smart they'll often POSE as being objective. But they aren't.
Its the same reason why the writings of the Leftwing SCOTUS judges are so boring. They start with the decision they want, the best thing for the Left. Then they write their opinion. It doesn't matter is its nonsense, or has nothing to do with Constition or Law being considered. Or condridicts what they just wrote last year in another opinion.
I dislike BB, but I was shocked he brought up the border and immigration and asked tough questions. Thank God, that Fake Leftist Chris Wallace left for CNN.
"You answered all the questions, Joe!" The gold standard for Dem candidates
""The beautiful thing about the @BretBaier interview is that @KamalaHarris understood and responded to each question."
I have to admit, it would be fairly impressive if kamala Harris were to understand and respond to a question.
"Of course, I don't believe these writers independently arrived at the same word." Right. No one believes that. Yet they do it openly, shamelessly. As if they are members of a team. As if their priority is to help the team. As if nothing else matters.
"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."
- Edwin Edwards during a successful election campaign for governor of Louisiana in 1983
As numerous people have pointed out, Harris won NOTHING in the 2020 primaries. She ended her campaign in December 2019 before any votes were cast in either primaries or caucuses.
Question for Joe Biden: "When did you first notice Kamala Harris' mental faculties appear diminished?"
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Balfegor said…
“It didn't, but I'm sorry -- now that you've said it that's always going to flicker through my mind when I hear ‘testarossa.’”
I’m sorry that happened, Balfegor. Here’s some links to get your mind back on track:
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Quaestor said…
“This same person also said that George Washington died of syphilis, which he claimed was ‘common knowledge’.”
I have heard speculation that syphilis is why George Washington never fathered children of his own. But I haven’t heard any serious historian actually state that he even had syphilis.
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