"Of everything that never happened, this never happened more than anything."

[BWdem4life]

[Aristus]

1. Of course.

The urge to distrust anything and everything blurted out by a self-described "Alpha Male" is very nearly insurmountable.

And really, if you have to advertise it, does that really mean you are one?

[Iggo]

25. In my experience, it tends to indicate the opposite.

Not always. Sometimes a six and a half foot hulk walks into the room spouting “I’m the man!” and I believe him straight away!

[liberalla]

45. But, but, but - he looks so totally, absolutely and completely ALPHA!

I believe him!

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NOT!

[Xipe Totec]

53. He looks more like Alpo than Alpha. nt

[liberalla]

58. :snicker:

[fierywoman]

59. mushroom dick energy.

[Scrivener7]

70. Revisiting this thread. So glad I came back to see this!!!

[Farmer-Rick]

63. There's no such thing

It was a mistake made by a researcher. He mistook fathers and mothers for alpha wolves.

"Wolf packs don’t actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding
The researcher who introduced this term tried to clear the confusion up."

https://sciencenorway.no/ulv/wolf-packs-dont-actually-have-alpha-males-and-alpha-females-the-idea-is-based-on-a-misunderstanding/1850514

What he thought was a complex hierarchy was merely a hierarchy developed by family ties.

So is this guy the father to the other beta males? He would be in a wolf pack.

[Aristus]

64. Exactly.

A contractor doing some work for my neighbor recently boasted to me about being an "alpha dog". I thought about telling him the truth of the subject, but decided not to. Talk about not being worth the effort.

I kind of wish I had told him that chimpanzees, for example, do have an alpha-beta hierarchy, and see what he made of that.

[Farmer-Rick]

69. Yeah, it was first observed in chickens

Their pecking order is basically the same thing.

"In a dive into the history of the term, anthropologist Monika Sumra found that one of the first academic uses of an “alpha” label appeared in 1921. A researcher discussing chicken hierarchies, otherwise known as a pecking order, gave the top chicken the first letter of the Greek alphabet."

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-science-of-alpha-males-in-animal-species

It's like he's claiming to be top chicken.

[plimsoll]

77. Best line in Slow Horses

It’s like explaining Norway to a Dog.

[Scrivener7]

2. I suspect that Kinzinger unbound will be an interesting guy to watch.

[Shrike47]

3. Have to agree: didn't happen.

To begin with, nobody actually listened to the speech except a few reporters paid to do so.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Hell, half the people in the room tried to leave early...

[Scrivener7]

11. And now they're chained in the basement.

[Wounded Bear]

12. LOL!!! nt

[grantcart]

17. They can leave when they finish sorting the classified documents.

[Scrivener7]

24. .

[yardwork]

38. I love this thread.

[Higherarky]

66. Me 2!

[Qutzupalotl]

4. And he can tell they're college-educated and live in the suburbs.

Yeah, no.

[inthewind21]

14. That's what

I was thinking. In a random coffee shop, eaves dropping, and you have the ability to KNOW the education level and where these women live? That's some clairvoyant shit right there. I bet he's been in line behind a woman and her 9 kids, all wearing Air Jordan's at the grocery store buying 50 steaks and 3 cases of Cristal Champagne using an EBT card too!

[gratuitous]

5. Why does Nick Adams look like the piss boy?

Does he think the "Alpha Male" thing is fooling anyone, or worse, impressing anyone?

[Scrivener7]

9. In some circles "Alpha" stands for, "Ahhhhhh, no. I would rather eat my own foot

than date you."

No, for real.

[Iggo]

27. 'Member a while back when those guys called "pickup artists"....

…were preying on them fellows who’d soon be calling themselves “incels”?

Yeah. Nick was the second kind.

Paraphrasing my Pops: “If ya gotta tell people, then ya ain’t.”

[smb]

43. I See A Scenario Like This In Nick's Future

Pickup Artist

[Iggo]

56. Ugh. Perfect.

[progressoid]

7. Yes, and he knew they were colleged educated suburban women because they wore special badges

from their suburban college.

[Scrivener7]

10. Badges AND tiaras.

[Coventina]

8. This trope is so laughably tired

"I overheard two millennials at a coffee shop this morning talking about how 'wokeism' is so over...."

[Wounded Bear]

13. Indeed! nt

[SCantiGOP]

15. If what he said were actually true

How stupid does that make Trump and his party for not having the announcement two weeks earlier? They would have had a beautiful huge red wave, the most beautiful wet wave ever people are saying. Truck drivers would have had tears in their eyes. etc etc

[yardwork]

40. They would have said, sir, may I shake your hand?!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

16. lol... like those anti black comments made by rightwingers pretending to be african american

[smb]

44. At Least One Of Whom Got Caught When He Screwed Up And Posted From His Real "White Guy" Account nt

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

49. ha ha!

[brewens]

18. Never happened to infinity! LOL n/t

[Biophilic]

19. This guy's actually a parody, right?

Nobody could be so stupid as to advertise his alpha maleness. Come on. Parody, right?

[plimsoll]

78. We could google to find out,

But there is a significant probability we’d find a big load of stupid.

[CaptainTruth]

20. I swear I think Nick Adams is a troll account.

That account tweets so much utterly ridiculous stuff that to me it sounds like it's being run by someone on the Left who's trying to make folks on the Right look dumb.

[BWdem4life]

23. Could be. Not difficult.

[LakeArenal]

35. It's not like it takes magic to make them look dumb...

[patphil]

21. Yeah, right! Trump was sooo eloquent...NOT!

He sounded like a 1AM barfly.
Even if I was a Trump supporter (never!), I would have found it painful to listen to.
No wonder they had to block the doors to keep the "faithful" from leaving.
Is he on meds?

[ShazzieB]

28. The little bit I heard of it (brief clips on a newscast) sounded like he was half asleep.

Or talking in his sleep (flip a coin). The usual drivel, delivered at a fraction of his past usual energy level. I can't blame anyone for trying to leave. Even to a Trump fan, it would have been soporific.

[onethatcares]

26. I'm willing to wager

the the same thing didn't happen more than once.

[catbyte]

29. Nick Adams (Alpha Male) is either delusional or he's a lying liar who lies.

And if you have to announce to the world that you're an "alpha male," it's a sure bet that you're far from being one. Unless it's a parody account. If so, it's a really good one.

[HardPort]

30. "Alpha Male" -- an early version before testing and working out bugs.

Unstable and fragile, and not suitable for the public.

[niyad]

32. you nearly owed me a keyboard.

[Sky Jewels]

31. The other day I was riding my unicorn in the Candyland Forest and

I happened across two Bigfoots having a similar conversation. They both said they were definitely back on the MAGA bandwagon! I gave them some magic beans and then we all went on our way.

[plimsoll]

80. That one made me laugh.

Should someone tell him about the tooth fairy.

[calimary]

33. OMG! Seriously?

I would think it’d go the other way. I guess trump can still fool some of the people all of the time.

[ancianita]

42. That's kinda the point. To make BOTH sides distrust everything about other Americans. Left or right.

No one's true to the truth. No tweet's real.

Trolls gotta troll. Corporate hype's gotta corp.
Now that corp dust has settled in the House, it's time to work the electorate FUD.
It's perception management of most of the people most of the time.

You whack your head cuz you're sane. Don't dwell on this.
Move on from the chewing cleverness at the edges of democracy.

[calimary]

73. "Electorate FUD"?

[ancianita]

76. Corporate messaging will work on "electorate Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt."

FUD is a more or less common acronym these days, used by corporate PR and perception management.

This mis-, disinformation and FUD are part of the corporate war on democracy.

[calimary]

79. Ahah! Thanks, ancianita!

I’m WAY into perception management. How did I not know this?

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.

[ancianita]

81. YW!

You're into perception management? Very cool! The more we know about that, the more we see through "news" and "polls," etc.

And we might see through, but to what -- the what/who are the murk and stealth part. The dark money part. That's what's killing democracy. So many sellouts, so much for the DOJ to do. https://www.justice.gov

[Emile]

34. and who in their right mind believe that bullshit?

Reminds me of CSpan Washington Journal right wing callers pretending to be democrats their entire life until Donald Trump entered the political arena. Uh uh, sure okay!

[Leith]

36. I've seen this guy's tweets before

He is quoted all over Reddit. They're as confused as we are about him.

If he's a magat, to hell with him. He's a weirdo.

If it's a satirical account, he's missing his mark. Again, he has carried his schtick too far for too long. Still a weirdo.

Nobody on either side should want anything to do with him.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

37. It's hilarious that nobody can tell for sure if this guy is a parody or not.

[live love laugh]

39. With the fake blue check ✔️

[smb]

41. ...And Then They Tore Off Their Clothes And My Clothes And Had Their Way With Me!

Sheesh, the letters in Penthouse Forum are more believable (...er... so I've heard...).

[jmowreader]

50. Do they still print that?

[Orrex]

82. Yes, but now it's called The Minutes of the RNC Meeting

[Ford_Prefect]

46. Oh My! How far around the bend is this guy? Off the planet I'd say! Which is where he belongs.

[COL Mustard]

47. This really sounds like a Freeper's "Bouncy Ball" story.

Follow the bouncy ball. I very much doubt there is any truth at all to this "story"...just too fishy.

[wryter2000]

48. Kinzinger is so funny

I'm going to miss him. I hope MSNBC hires him as a contributer.

[ProfessorGAC]

74. He's Actually A Pretty Funny Guy

In real life. Can make me laugh (in a good way), laughs easily, can take a joke.
I disagree with him politically about 99.999% but he's not a disagreeable nutjob.
Your "at a distance" sense of him is pretty accurate.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

51. Nick

do you wear a sign around your neck that says 'alpha male'? Wondering how alpha you really are..............

[TeamProg]

52. He's an "author", so we know he makes things up.. n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

54. And then

The two "College educated' (They were showing everybody their diplomas), "Suburban women" (and talking about their addresses) told "Nick Adams" if they would do a threesome if he could mansplain more about how badly they had voted.

Because that would complete the most never-happeness.

[SKKY]

55. If someone says they're an "Alpha Male", from my experience...

...they are definitely NOT an alpha male. Just saying...

[iemanja]

57. He looks like a dweeb.

[Cha]

60. Yeah, File that Under Extreme

Bullshit!!

[IronLionZion]

61. Maybe he's hearing voices in his head

A lot of Republicans could do with some mental health treatment

[tanyev]

62. Hey, he's stealing Jacob Wohl's schtick!

Did they hammer out a territorial agreement, or will they duel for trademark ownership?

[DET]

65. Wayne?

He looks like a low rent Wayne Newton.

[Faux pas]

67. Yeah Sure Ya Betcha

[Yavin4]

68. How could he tell from their conversation that they were college educated

and from the suburbs.

[llmart]

71. I just had to rec this post...

for all the laughs this morning. DU'ers have the best humor.

As for Mr. Self-described Alpha Male, I'd drop that moniker if I were you. As my mother would have said, "what an exaggerated sense of self-importance he has".

[Mad_Machine76]

72. From what I heard

Trump's announcement was hardly one of his usual barnburners

[Grins]

75. How would he know they were college educated?

Or suburban vs. city?
(Or even women!!)

[Gore1FL]

83. They could have been rehearsing for a play or it could have been opposite day. nt