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This is well worth the read, with a good paragraph at the end:
We should not waste our time or imaginations trying to reconfigure Trumpism to explain why all of the “good people” supported him. It is more important to see it for what it is and resist. Hopefully, they will join us. If not, it will not be necessary to call them names, they will have named themselves.
Sometimes, there’s no need to rationalize.
Happy New Years, my fellow scaly ones. Sorry I’m late with that, ended up getting scheduled to work last night and so had to watch the ball drop from the hotel lobby. Then enjoy the entertainment of watching multiple drunks try to make it to their rooms under their own power.
Good times.
re: #4 retired cynic
Love this group. Sooooo tight.
Snarky Puppy keyboards…and others from Puppy.
They all stay busy and put out a lot of material.
Edit…he’s the keyboard player. My mistake.
re: #5 ObserverArt
Snarky Puppy drummer…and others from Puppy.
They all stay busy and put out a lot of material.
Oh, I know! I have yet to hear anything from them I didn’t like, and I’m a real “Sput” fan.
The Circle of Derp in complete
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) January 1, 2017
So GG is a far-right fascist all this time. My surprise, etc.
We’re flying over Chicago now. I can distinctly see downtown Chicago & the Willis Tower.
re: #10 The Vicious Babushka
So GG is a far-right fascist all this time. My surprise, etc.
No, no, he was vilely misquoted, he never said that, he said something totally different, and if you give him 2,500 words he’ll prove it to his own satisfaction if no one else’s.
Shorter: Yup.
Longish thread…
Trying to make it a little more manageable…
4 things that were supposed to happen by 2017 because Obama was reelected https://t.co/6Ii9AEhxNE pic.twitter.com/G3bQR77jpW
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 1, 2017
1. Senator Mike Lee predicted that if Obama was reelected gas prices would be $6.60 by January 2017
2. Gingrich predicted that if Obama was reelected gas would reach $10 gallon.
Current average price is $2.33.
3. Mitt Romney predicted unemployment would be stuck at 8% if Obama was reelected. Unemployment is currently at 4.6%
4. Romney ran on a pledge to reduce unemployment to 6% by January 2017 by reversing Obama’s economic policies
5. Trump predicted that the stock market would crash in Obama’s second term. It’s up 46%. https://t.co/6Ii9AEhxNE pic.twitter.com/YEFq2oV9gq
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 1, 2017
6. Rush Limbaugh predicted the economy would “collapse if Obama is reelected.” https://t.co/6Ii9AEhxNE pic.twitter.com/t7iW80D8BD
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 1, 2017
7. Limbaugh said the collapse would be driven by California declaring bankruptcy. The state now has a 2.6B surplus
re: #13 FormerDirtDart
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7. Limbaugh said the collapse would be driven by California declaring bankruptcy. The state now has a 2.6B surplus
So maybe just maybe conservatives aren’t as economically literate as they claim to be.
re: #13 FormerDirtDart
The California prediction is particularly amusing, and of course my state is very solidly Dem. Unfortunately, these assholes kept on saying “the sky is falling” and a lot of people believed their ears over their lying eyes.
re: #13 FormerDirtDart
And it means absolutely nothing to about 40 some % of USA citizens. Because. You know.
re: #8 The Vicious Babushka
The Circle of Derp in complete
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Everyone’s elbowing for a place at the trough.
re: #15 petesh
The California prediction is particularly amusing, and of course my state is very solidly Dem. Unfortunately, these assholes kept on saying “the sky is falling” and a lot of people believed their ears over their lying eyes.
I like the Romney unemployment one. Mitt was so smug shitting on Obama’s unemployment record.
And Nugent is neither dead nor in jail. Damn.
re: #19 Barefoot Grin
And Nugent is neither dead nor in jail. Damn.
Limbaugh never moved to Costa Rica either.
re: #13 FormerDirtDart
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7. Limbaugh said the collapse would be driven by California declaring bankruptcy. The state now has a 2.6B surplus
Fear & lies got us trump
re: #16 nines09
And it means absolutely nothing to about 40 some % of USA citizens. Because. You know.
I’m doing my usual stuff on new years day. Work will be extremely busy on Tuesday (thank DOG one more day before I have to face it)
But.
This is not normal.
I am full of dread.
re: #19 Barefoot Grin
And Nugent is neither dead nor in jail. Damn.
Where’s Chuck Norris? Huffing toupee glue again?
I’ve read this 1950 article though it was quite a while back. It’s pretty good, actually a response to some of the hysteria being spread at the time. Coniston concluded that a large scale attack would not be possible for several years, because of the small number of warheads the USSR was likely to have at that point ( less than 20) and the lack of delivery systems. The only aircraft they had that could reach the US from Soviet occupied territory was the Tupolev TU-4 (Boeing B-29) and even then just one way. The conclusion was that we had time, but we should use it wisely.
He could not have anticipated, of course, that they could destroy us with corrupt media and sleazy politicians.
We’re over Ann Arbor now so I’m shutting down, landing in a couple of minutes.
Time for me to get ready to go over the river and through the woods up the freeway and over the San Mateo bridge to go to DD’s house. Christmas in January as it were.
Enjoy the rest of your day, everyone.
Blackeyed peas, rice, sweet potatoes, ham and cornbread all done, or in progress.
House smells delish right now!
Happy New Year to my Lizard friends!
President visited his grandfather’s grave at the “Punchbowl” - the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Stanley Dunham fought in WWII
— West Wing Reports (@WestWingReport) January 1, 2017
James Rowen has been doing a great job keeping tabs on the WiGOP especially as it pertains to the environment. Here he has a collection of his reporting on the scrubbing of climate change from .gov website.
Documenting WI Gov. Walker’s attacks on science, climate change
On December 22nd, this blog carried the first disclosure that WI GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s “chamber of commerce mentality” Department of Natural Resources, (see part five of a recent series about his redefining the agency, here), had again deleted from taxpayer-paid, public web pages wording and information about climate, climate change and its human causation.
re: #8 The Vicious Babushka
If you look real close you can almost see Putins strings hanging from his back.
A headline I hate: “One U.S. Citizen Injured in Nightclub Attack.” Seriously, CNN?
— Mike Godwin (@sfmnemonic) January 1, 2017
25 reasons why we love Scotlandhttps://t.co/Rqi4oRdx4v pic.twitter.com/mU2i2rmlxx
— The Poke (@ThePoke) January 1, 2017
Happy New Year.
Incoming WH strategist Bannon appears on Breitbart year-end show and applauds the Breitbart comments section. https://t.co/NegypBB9En pic.twitter.com/1jbPKnkKUg
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 1, 2017
*blink*
Obama treads on Trump’s Twitter turf to reflect on presidential achievements https://t.co/6OM9VjCdJ6
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) January 1, 2017
“Trump’s Twitter turf”? https://t.co/iabZGuTvvZ
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 1, 2017
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
He should have to start at the beginning of a thread, and read them on the air. Live.
I think I’m already sick of 2017.
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 1, 2017
Me, too, Jim…me, too…
Greenwald’s fulsome praise for Breitbart’s plucky, truth-telling outsiders is not marred by words like “white supremacy” or “anti-Semitism.”
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) January 1, 2017
The Trump Organization made $420,000+ on NYE selling access to President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago #kleptocracy https://t.co/ZBEPfJNfAp
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 1, 2017
re: #8 The Vicious Babushka
The Circle of Derp in complete
I’ve never cared for that smarmy bastard, even getting roasted at Kos for saying so. Greenwald is no fucking liberal, he’s a libertarian piece of shit that the far left fell in love with because he went after Bush. Print one of his stories out, line the bottom of a bird cage with it and watch birds refuse to shit on it.
I wish he would come sockpuppet here like he used to do to other sites…lol
re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth
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How long has ‘Reichbart’ been out there? I like it. A cross between Pepe the Frog and Bart Simpson. ‘Underachiever and proud of it!’
Morning Joe’s hosts partied with Trump last night at Mar-A-Lago. Last year, Trump publicly thanked them for support. https://t.co/gLHtsOloph pic.twitter.com/6znKSoNf67
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 1, 2017
Does @CBSNews know that you just make shit up on your twitter feed? https://t.co/mCe0EYghRB
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) January 1, 2017
We got a live one folks https://t.co/qR0W7NBU1f
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 1, 2017
Newsflash @JoeNBC if you go to a NYE party, you partied. #NeverTrump
— Phil Kessler (@pjk54) January 1, 2017
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
Joe Scarborough ✔ @JoeNBC
Does @CBSNews know that you just make shit up on your twitter feed?Morning Joe’s hosts partied with Trump last night at Mar-A-Lago. Last year, Trump publicly thanked them for support. https://t.co/gLHtsOloph pic.twitter.com/6znKSoNf67
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 1, 2017
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The Joey doth protest too much!
(Based on his tweet stream…)
New Resolution:
Get my Concealed Carry Permit. Enough is enough. #Istanbul #Terrorism #RadicalIslam #Terror pic.twitter.com/zbHQHdJUO6— Scott Presler VA (@ScottPresler) January 1, 2017
re: #50 electrotek
Obammer has 19 days left to take the guns, better be safe!
re: #50 electrotek
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Is he driving to Turkey? Or is he just gonna wait three months, then shoot his kids by accident?
re: #49 ObserverArt
The Joey doth protest too much!
(Based on his tweet stream…)
A party with trump, Howie Carr & Joe Scarborough?!?!
Pass me the smelling salts!
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Now he says he had a preset meeting with the yam at 7 pm in order to arrange a future interview, and that he and the sockpuppet were in casual clothes and didn’t “party.” Who the fuck sets a meeting at 7 pm on NYE?
re: #55 b.d.
A party with trump, Howie Carr & Joe Scarborough?!?!
Pass me the smelling salts!
Do you need smelling salts…or just something capable of covering the smell?
re: #58 ObserverArt
Do you need smelling salts…or just something capable of covering the smell?
Bath salts, lol.
“Trump Promises a Revelation”
Will he reveal who his real father is? pic.twitter.com/mcgV4mDr2l— The Tweetwit (@TheTweetwit) January 1, 2017
re: #50 electrotek
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This is what made a huge difference in the election.
People are irrationally TERRIFIED of terrorism. i.e. terrorism works.
re: #57 BeachDem
Now he says he had a preset meeting with the yam at 7 pm in order to arrange a future interview, and that he and the sockpuppet were in casual clothes and didn’t “party.” Who the fuck sets a meeting at 7 pm on NYE?
So Joe was there to kiss Trump’s ass, set up chairs, blow up balloons and grovel for an interview but not to party.
That sounds like him.
re: #57 BeachDem
Now he says he had a preset meeting with the yam at 7 pm in order to arrange a future interview, and that he and the sockpuppet were in casual clothes and didn’t “party.” Who the fuck sets a meeting at 7 pm on NYE?
Beyond bs, beyond disgusting.
Oh this year is going to be so full of puking.
Welcome to 2017, where for the first time, the new “first lady” will be a trashy whore! pic.twitter.com/WXUt3vevfP
— Winter Storm (@pamelapatrice) January 1, 2017
re: #50 electrotek
If he wasn’t afraid of something he would not be a Republican. All the guns you can carry, yet you still fear. Curious.
re: #65 gocart mozart
You will probably want to make that NSFW and private it. But Melania is the least of our concerns. She doesn’t even rank in the most dangerous Trump chart.
Who here lives in Austin?
Lazy memory, easier to ask.
Many Saudis discussing whether Turkey attack happened at a restaurant or a night club to decide whether it was justified. What a start, 2017
— Nora (@noraj27) January 1, 2017
FYI
Nothing left to really say here but…. https://t.co/DVoTPWiimS
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) January 1, 2017
re: #55 b.d.
A party with trump, Howie Carr & Joe Scarborough?!?!
Pass me the smelling salts!
I was familiar with Carr, but went to the Wiki page on him just to brush up.
Saw this:
For years Carr has had a feud with former Boston Globe and Herald guest columnist Mike Barnicle, calling him a “hack” and saying he (Carr) wanted to be the Herald’s “nonfiction columnist”[4] (Barnicle resigned from the Boston Globe over allegations of plagiarism and fabrication of stories.)[5]
I forgot all about Barnicle and his issues at the Globe. But it sure says a lot about why he is on Morning Joke.
And that they all hang out together is just more proof they aren’t journalists, but entertainers. Fuck ‘em all.
re: #70 Dave In Austin
Yes. Jonestown actually
May be there in March.
Will definitely set up a meeting.
Stand by
Before you remember how shit 2016 was, remember, Trump isn’t president yet. 😎
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) December 31, 2016
re: #75 Skip Intro
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We have time to prepare for him, though.
A question: How many organizations are there on the left equivalent to Judicial Watch? Are there groups ready to challenge Trump on his business dealings and his executive actions?
Holiday mechanic update:
Plug #3 has been removed! It took some ingenuity, including a torch…
He was able to slide down the rubber boot on steering column. Gave him just enough room to get the 5/8 plug socket that has a 3/4 inch nut setup on the end, but not enough room to get the universal into the plug socket.
Took the torch, heated a 3/4 inch box end wrench, bent at 90 degrees, and was able to slip it over the 3/4 nut on the end of the plug socket. Broke the plug loose with the 3/4 inch wrench the bent, using an extension on the other end as a cheater.
Also had to bend the 5/8 to remove the plug the rest of the way.
He is now taking a break (and warming up in the house) before he heads back out to the shop to install the new plug.
MrBWS just now: “Thank dog for fire…”
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
Always a good sign when you need a torch to remove a spark plug.
:)
re: #79 Varek Raith
Always a good sign when you need a torch to remove a spark plug.
:)
whatever works in the long run.
:D
Full-page ad in today’s New York Times: pic.twitter.com/uXYOrZ8Tko
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) January 1, 2017
re: #61 Stanley Sea
What do people worry about around the world? Here’s what they said in 2016: pic.twitter.com/r3yAPYh1Xy
— RFE/RL (@RFERL) January 1, 2017
OK, I got my 30 minutes in my target heart rate zone done. ‘Spinning’. On a bike indoors. (Baby, it’s cold outside. Also, raining.) Boring as hell. When I do it by ‘running’ on the track, I can count my laps, time my laps, watch the ravens, greet the walkers and runners sharing the facility. In here I spent my time proving my grade school teachers wrong.
Grade school was in Southern California, and it would get hot. All the teachers hated it when a classroom full of kids would fold up their Weekly Readers and fan themselves. The teachers always told us the action of fanning caused us to generate more body heat and warm us up more. (Their real problem was the noise.) I found that I could lower my heart rate by cooling myself by fanning (with a nearby item that was on display) while I continued to pedal. HAH! Take that, Mr. Allen and Mrs. Aase!
There was air conditioning in some of the buildings, but grades 5 and 6 were in the portables. Yup, we were boomers.
re: #82 Skip Intro
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LOL! The only thing I ever worry about is the power going out in winter.
When it’s really really cold.
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
Re: Spark plugs changed last month. Got old plugs out easy enough, but putting new ones in, had problem with socket staying with screwed-down plug in bottom of spark plug well. Tried some thin wire taped to socket, extending up and out of spark plug well, so I could retrieve socket from installed spark plug(s). No Go. Not enough space in the well for socket plus that thin wire. Tried instead a strip of electrical tape— inside socket to outside of socket, and up the 8inch extension. That was thin enough to fit. Sheesh.
re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth
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You may say that he’s a dreamer…but he’s not the only one.
Revenge best served cold
.@Iosinggravity Last year, my ex-husband cheated on me & called me fat. We got divorced, I started your weight loss plan.. NOW HE’S JEALOUS😩 pic.twitter.com/LrQYDkLHGZ
— Betsy (@queen_b_b_) December 31, 2016
Happy times in Mordor. pic.twitter.com/COSKNVOZOD
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) December 31, 2016
Soooo, the Hoppin John is on the stove, brewing its beautiful broth.
I realize I AM OUT OF RICE.
Sacre bleu! I’m going to the store for one item.
re: #87 unproven innocence
MrBWS says to tell you that he knows EXACTLY what you’re talking about!
re: #88 Targetpractice
You may say that he’s a dreamer…but he’s not the only one.
Heh. I have those lyrics in my personal prayer book. I’m not sure who it confuses more - the religious or non-religious - but it is still a beautiful and important sentiment. I may have to pull it on my bishop someday…
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
Holiday mechanic update:
Plug #3 has been removed! It took some ingenuity, including a torch…
He was able to slide down the rubber boot on steering column. Gave him just enough room to get the 5/8 plug socket that has a 3/4 inch nut setup on the end, but not enough room to get the universal into the plug socket.
Took the torch, heated a 3/4 inch box end wrench, bent at 90 degrees, and was able to slip it over the 3/4 nut on the end of the plug socket. Broke the plug loose with the 3/4 inch wrench the bent, using an extension on the other end as a cheater.
Also had to bend the 5/8 to remove the plug the rest of the way.He is now taking a break (and warming up in the house) before he heads back out to the shop to install the new plug.
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MrBWS just now: “Thank dog for fire…”
Bend those wrenches. Maybe that’s why I was hot.
re: #91 Joe Bacon
steak looks tasty, but me and MrBWS are drooling over that spinach.
He just said: “who ever knew that the kid I was would ever love spinach or pretty much any vegetable now?”
re: #65 gocart mozart
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I keep looking at those old sparkplugs and am amazed there was ANY spark crossing that gap.
re: #8 The Vicious Babushka
Well ol’ Glenn GreenFART shows his true “KKK”olors…
yes. this
WSJ editor says calling Trump lie about 1000s of NJ Muslims celebrating 9/11 a lie risks being seen as not objective https://t.co/MeFJocfCIy pic.twitter.com/jL1J1B1E61
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) January 1, 2017
It’s worse than a lie: it was a slander of 3,000,000 American Muslims, including those who work at WSJ https://t.co/1t7SYKO2KK
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) January 1, 2017
In a way, ‘Trump lied’ is too rosy a picture. Suggests he knows what truth is, and picks against it. His deformities are greater than that.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) January 1, 2017
BTW, Happy New Year to those of us who were fortunate enough to survive 2016 and put another notch on their belt. I want to wish everyone good luck in 2017 because we’re going to need it.
Unfortunately, at this point I think luck is our only chance of survival.
@ChrisCuomo Stop trying to degrade Democrats and Liberals for the media’s ineptness.
— itsrobert (@itsrobert) January 1, 2017
Stop trying to blame a weak strategy, flawed candidate and pitiful execution on the media. https://t.co/MsH1CWEykh
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) January 1, 2017
You work for CNN. Your employer hired Lewandowski despite absurd conflicts of interest. Yes, the media is partially to blame. Deal with it. https://t.co/L7PWk2fTXu
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) January 2, 2017
Meanwhile…
Some Arabs are spending time⏳& money💵 on what truly matters in life. pic.twitter.com/kAiG2zZuU7— Democratic Syria ✍愛 (@ShamiRebel) January 2, 2017
Goats!
hahahahaha!!!
President-elect Trump will boldly use Twitter to make major policy announcements, incoming press chief says. https://t.co/cE3oGDzjw0
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 1, 2017
Tweets will be made, however, via courier. https://t.co/8VZy2avimy
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 1, 2017
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
That ought to work well for the hundreds of millions of people with no access to Twitter.
re: #99 Anymouse
Two points.
1) She and Trump put those photos out to the NY Post.
2) She’s going to be the new FLOTUS.
She can live with the consequences of her actions. Dog knows the rest of us are going to have to.
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
yes. this
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The WSJ guy needs to be careful not to confuse the noun lie with the verb to lie.
re: #104 Odie Hugh Manatee
BTW, Happy New Year to those of us who were fortunate enough to survive 2016 and put another notch on their belt. I want to wish everyone good luck in 2017 because we’re going to need it.
Unfortunately, at this point I think luck is our only chance of survival.
Nope. Fighting, resisting, and responding is.
re: #108 Anymouse
That ought to work well for the hundreds of millions of people with no access to Twitter.
They are of no account!
re: #108 Anymouse
That ought to work well for the hundreds of millions of people with no access to Twitter.
Lucky them.
re: #109 Skip Intro
Two points.
1) She and Trump put those photos out to the NY Post.
2) She’s going to be the new FLOTUS.
She can live with the consequences of her actions. Dog knows the rest of us are going to have to.
I’ll bite: What consequences for her actions should she suffer for doing a legal thing that millions of other women do in private and many also do in public, all legally?
I suppose that my town could have voted against me for editing erotic Romance novels, instead of whether I could do the job or not.
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As I said in the comment above, there are much more important things to pillory Mrs. Trump over than her choice to do a legal photoshoot.
It’s either pro-choice, or control a women’s body. You only get to pick one.
re: #114 Anymouse
The consequences are having her pictures displayed, just like she wanted. You act like someone hacked her cellphone to get these pics; the Trumps shopped them to Murdoch’s NY Post. They’re fair game.
re: #108 Anymouse
That ought to work well for the hundreds of millions of people with no access to Twitter.
I don’t have Twitter…and you know, I think I am glad.
Besides…I expect the media to hang on his every character lacking character. I doubt anyone can really get away from this mess.
re: #109 Skip Intro
Two points.
1) She and Trump put those photos out to the NY Post.
2) She’s going to be the new FLOTUS.
She can live with the consequences of her actions. Dog knows the rest of us are going to have to.
At least Melania isn’t a tranny ape in heels….
gaaaah…I can’t believe a public official actually said that about Michelle Obama.
re: #116 ObserverArt
I don’t have Twitter…and you know, I think I am glad.
Besides…I expect the media to hang on his every character lacking character. I doubt anyone can really get away from this mess.
My guess is Trump will never do a press conference. When asked why, his hacks will say he does one for the American people every day on Twitter.
The media will swallow this whole.
re: #115 Skip Intro
The consequences are having her pictures displayed, just like she wanted. You act like someone hacked her cellphone to get these pics; the Trumps shopped them to Murdoch’s NY Post. They’re fair game.
Nope. I am acting like she is being slut-shamed for making legal pictures and engaging in legal activity for which she was paid. I thought Democrats favoured women doing what they liked with their own bodies as long as it didn’t hurt another person. Shall we slut-shame women who get abortions next, or use contraception, or don’t get married before having sex, or is that different?
No matter how challenging 2017 gets… please remember… the dogs will always be good
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) January 1, 2017
This is Titan. His nose is quite chilly. Requests to return to the indoors. 12/10 would boop to warm pic.twitter.com/bLZuOh9sKy
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) January 1, 2017
First ride of the New Year - 32.6 miles. No coyotes this time, but it was a great day for desirable cars!
There was a pristine red pre-‘73 Porsche 911; a beautiful, new, deep candyapple red Shelby GT350; a British Racing Green Bentley Continental convertible with a tan top; an electric blue Lotus Evora; and the MOST desirable (to me, anyway), a Hemi Orange 1970 Plymouth GTX Hardtop! Gorgeous! and with just the right throaty rumble!
The Porsche and the GTX are both pre-emission control era cars, so even my lousy sniffer could smell the half-burnt hydrocarbons as they passed - on the OTHER SIDE of the road! No wonder gas mileage was so shitty - they only used half of it!
re: #119 Anymouse
So why is posting these pictures in a comparison with other FLOTUS’ “slut shaming”? It’s what she did, who she is. Why not be proud that for the first time ever we have a former escort as FLOTUS?
re: #115 Skip Intro
The consequences are having her pictures displayed, just like she wanted. You act like someone hacked her cellphone to get these pics; the Trumps shopped them to Murdoch’s NY Post. They’re fair game.
Fair game because her husband sold them? Oh, they BOTH sold them. Are we sure enough about the dynamics there to say the game is fair?
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Hmmm. I’m no expert in this, but isn’t it highly illegal to publicly solicit sales of equity?
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Seems Ginger Snapped didn’t Google this up from the SEC!
re: #122 Skip Intro
So why is posting these pictures in a comparison with other FLOTUS’ “slut shaming”? It’s what she did, who she is. Why not be proud that for the first time ever we have a former escort as FLOTUS?
Read the line posted at the bottom of her picture.
And what is wrong with having a former escort as a first lady? Is there something inherently wrong with an escort, if that is what she wanted to do?
All I know is, can anyone here imagine if there were Melania-type photos but it was Hillary?
good freaking double-standards grief.
If such photos were not okay for Michelle Obama, with rude slurs posted to them, then they are not okay for Melania Trump either.
Or does “it’s okay if you’re a Democrat” apply here?
re: #110 Belafon
The WSJ guy needs to be careful not to confuse the noun lie with the verb to lie.
Well, Chuck Todd led into that segment by saying people are always saying the media needs to fact check, but that people can’t agree on what the facts actually are.
Talk about the ultimate MBF comment. I guess we’re at the “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em” stage of journalism./
re: #123 wrenchwench
Fair game because her husband sold them? Oh, they BOTH sold them. Are we sure enough about the dynamics there to say the game is fair?
You know what I find interesting in this debate.
Here are a bunch of middle to left blog members concerned how Melania and her quite public soft-porn images should be treated.
If these were images of Hilllary or Michelle Obama when younger I doubt the wingnutter types would hesitate to make a huge deal of them. Can you image their comments and concern?
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
At least Melania isn’t a tranny ape in heels….
gaaaah…I can’t believe a public official actually said that about Michelle Obama.
Seriously, she posed, she pays.
fuck them
re: #129 ObserverArt
You know what I find interesting in this debate.
Here are a bunch of middle to left blog members concerned how Melania and her quite public soft-porn images should be treated.
If these were images of Hilllary or Michelle Obama when younger I doubt the wingnutter types would hesitate to make a huge deal of them. Can you image their comments and concern?
and those bogus photos claiming to BOH’s mother.
jeebus.
re: #125 Anymouse
You’re the one making judgements, not me. I’m just pointing out the obvious, and standing up for gocart mozart for the post. After eight solid years of vicious daily attacks on POTUS, FLOTUS, and their kids this is pretty mild stuff.
Maybe you mellowed out after last night, but I’m angrier than ever. I’m not going to back off of the Trumps - the entire rotten family.
Not ever.
re: #127 Anymouse
If such photos were not okay for Michelle Obama, with rude slurs posted to them, then they are not okay for Melania Trump either.
I agree it’s wrong to slut-shame Melania for those photos, or refer to her as “trash.” (I’d rather use that term to describe everything her husband thinks and does, to the US especially).
However, it *is* fair game to use her photos to point out what slithering, trashy racist hypocrites trump’s so-called “Christian” supporters have become.
re: #123 wrenchwench
Fair game because her husband sold them? Oh, they BOTH sold them. Are we sure enough about the dynamics there to say the game is fair?
I don’t support posting nude pics of Melania, with the exception of responding to wingnuts who say “It’ll be great to have a classy First Lady again!”*, but WRT who sold them and the dynamics, at some point you have to treat grown ups as grown ups.
* For this, though, my favorite is the turned-around-shooting-while-wearing-sunglasses, boots, and not much else. It’s so Zardoz!
re: #127 Anymouse
If such photos were not okay for Michelle Obama, with rude slurs posted to them, then they are not okay for Melania Trump either.
Or does “it’s okay if you’re a Democrat” apply here?
Show me the real nude photos of Michelle Obama and we can talk about it.
re: #129 ObserverArt
You know what I find interesting in this debate.
Here are a bunch of middle to left blog members concerned how Melania and her quite public soft-porn images should be treated.
If these were images of Hilllary or Michelle Obama when younger I doubt the wingnutter types would hesitate to make a huge deal of them. Can you image their comments and concern?
We already saw some of those comments with Mrs. Obama and she has no such pictures. I could not give a hoot less about their concern, but I will not use their tactics to slut-shame a Republican woman.
What seems to have been forgotten in all the brohaha over Mrs. Trump’s nude photos is it wasn’t either Democrats or Donald Trump that started it; it was Ted Cruz.
A Cruz super-pac started this when it took out billboards during the Utah Republican Primary showing Melania Trump in lingerie asking if Utah voters really wanted someone “like that” as the First Lady.
It was Republicans that started the slut shaming.
I am not a Republican, I will not act like one.
re: #133 Interesting Times
I agree it’s wrong to slut-shame Melania for those photos, or refer to her as “trash.” (I’d rather use that term to describe everything her husband thinks and does, to the US especially).
However, it *is* fair game to use her photos to point out what slithering, trashy racist hypocrites trump’s so-called “Christian” supporters have become.
Yup. They claim to be opposed to this sort of thing, yet beat down the doors to vote for Mr. Trump. Hypocrites.
Just to be clear…I could never run for any public office other than local because I worked for Larry Flynt 45 years ago.
And there aren’t even any Melania-type photos of me. Well, anything even remotely close to those photos.
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
steak looks tasty, but me and MrBWS are drooling over that spinach.
He just said: “who ever knew that the kid I was would ever love spinach or pretty much any vegetable now?”
I’ve had steak at the high end places such as Morton’s, Ruth’s Chris, Mastro’s, Wolfgang’s and Puck’s Cut. Taylor’s in Los Angeles provides a steak and sides just as good for 1/2 to 1/3 of the price of the high end houses.
Their house salad is the “Molly” named after their long time waitress. Diced Bermuda onions and cherry tomatoes sprinkled on a quarter head of iceberg lettuce drizzled with EVOO and Maytag Blue Cheddar crumbles, then dusted with crushed Indian peppercorns.
re: #135 Skip Intro
Show me the real nude photos of Michelle Obama and we can talk about it.
Michelle Obama won’t even allow anyone an opportunity to photograph her in a bathing suit.
For very good reasons.
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
Of course you could. Just run as the Republican, evangelical Christian candidate. You’ll win in a landslide.
Fuck Trump and his old lady. I could care less how much or how little clothing she wears. Evangelicals and Fundies and all manner of self righteous fuckwads held these people up as morally superior to Hillary Clinton. Period. I don’t shame people for exposing their bodies for fame, attention or money. I leave that up to the uptight right. THIS. The argument is the hypocrisy.
re: #134 Blind Frog Belly White
I don’t support posting nude pics of Melania, with the exception of responding to wingnuts who say “It’ll be great to have a classy First Lady again!”*, but WRT who sold them and the dynamics, at some point you have to treat grown ups as grown ups.
* For this, though, my favorite is the turned-around-shooting-while-wearing-sunglasses, boots, and not much else. It’s so Zardoz!
Do we know her motivations? Do they matter? My grandmother is from the same area of what is now the Slovenian Republic, and she was a poor peasant girl whose memory of living there is the tragedy when the cow died.
re: #136 Anymouse
We already saw some of those comments with Mrs. Obama and she has no such pictures. I could not give a hoot less about their concern, but I will not use their tactics to slut-shame a Republican woman.
What seems to have been forgotten in all the brohaha over Mrs. Trump’s nude photos is it wasn’t either Democrats or Donald Trump that started it; it was Ted Cruz.
A Cruz super-pac started this when it took out billboards during the Utah Republican Primary showing Melania Trump in lingerie asking if Utah voters really wanted someone “like that” as the First Lady.
It was Republicans that started the slut shaming.
I am not a Republican, I will not act like one.
Interesting question, though - there’s slutshaming, and there’s hypocrisy-shaming. After the vicious and continual attacks on Michelle Obama, the pearl-clutching over Melania’s publicly available pictures by the Right, and worse, the “Great to have a classy FLOTUS again!”, the hypocrisy is too much to tolerate.
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just to be clear…I could never run for any public office other than local because I worked for Larry Flynt 45 years ago.
And there aren’t even any Melania-type photos of me. Well, anything even remotely close to those photos.
That must have been an interesting job.
I’d trust Larry Flynt over Donald Trump for President. Larry Flynt seems to be honest about his positions. It’s hard to say if Donald Trump even has a position other than what the last person told him.
re: #65 gocart mozart
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This is inappropriate and insulting, but not to Melania.
She worked as a model. Many models (and actresses, etc.) do some work nude or partially nude. There is no shame in that. Rumors about her being an escort are just that, rumors, and without any actual evidence should be ignored.
No, the insult is to those who don’t share such a puritanical view about nudity. Using Melania to attack Trump is every bit as disgusting as the “Republican women hot, Democratic women not” memes.
Finally, the tweet used the word whore. Not cool. Sexual activity between consenting adults is nobody else’s fucking business, unless you’re a Republican and think you should control it.
re: #141 Skip Intro
Of course you could. Just run as the Republican, evangelical Christian candidate. You’ll win in a landslide.
nah. Kentucky evangelicals have major sticks up their asses about anything and everything, even when they do it.
It all depends on who you are related to.
Or how much money you have.
Or how good a liar you are.
OK, all of you people who keep posting the Trump boys next to Bevis and Butthead KNOCK IT OFF!! Stop stupid shaming them.
Jeez, no wonder we keep losing elections to these assholes. We’re the Polish army on horseback against the fucking Wehrmacht.
re: #143 wrenchwench
Do we know her motivations? Do they matter? My grandmother is from the same area of what is now the Slovenian Republic, and she was a poor peasant girl whose memory of living there is the tragedy when the cow died.
The photoshoot in question was when she was 25, and had already been modeling for 20 years.
re: #123 wrenchwench
Fair game because her husband sold them? Oh, they BOTH sold them. Are we sure enough about the dynamics there to say the game is fair?
I don’t condone slut shaming, and I don’t agree with calling her names because of the pictures, but the pictures themselve? Melania said herself, “I’m very proud I did those pictures. I’m not ashamed of my body…and it was done as art and a celebration of female body.”
re: #148 Skip Intro
OK, all of you people who keep posting the Trump boys next to Bevis and Butthead KNOCK IT OFF!! Stop stupid shaming them.
Jeez, no wonder we keep losing elections to these assholes. We’re the Polish army on horseback against the fucking Wehrmacht.
I agree we should stop shaming Bevis and Butthead.
re: #144 Blind Frog Belly White
Interesting question, though - there’s slutshaming, and there’s hypocrisy-shaming. After the vicious and continual attacks on Michelle Obama, the pearl-clutching over Melania’s publicly available pictures by the Right, and worse, the “Great to have a classy FLOTUS again!”, the hypocrisy is too much to tolerate.
Well, perhaps I am not seeing a difference in calling out Republican voters for being hypocrites to their stated values, and plastering the picture on Twitter calling Mrs. Trump trashy.
It’s those voters who are trashy. The ones flying Dixie Swastikas and Nazi Swastikas and Pepe the Frog memes. There are plenty of things to go after Mrs. Trump for (such as her hypocrisy of seeking to end on-line bullying when she is married to a first-class on-line bully).
re: #144 Blind Frog Belly White
Interesting question, though - there’s slutshaming, and there’s hypocrisy-shaming. After the vicious and continual attacks on Michelle Obama, the pearl-clutching over Melania’s publicly available pictures by the Right, and worse, the “Great to have a classy FLOTUS again!”, the hypocrisy is too much to tolerate.
THIS!
I do not need to see the photos of some skinny nekkid person (and truthfully, her photos really have no artistic values and her body wasn’t all that much to brag about, but that’s just my opinion).
But I can still (and will) call out the hypocrisy to anyone who calls it “classy”.
It is not classy. Not. At. All. Ever.
Take out the trash, go to the building dumpster and there are a pair of raccoons dumpster diving…In Los Angeles??????
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
nah. Kentucky evangelicals have major sticks up their asses about anything and everything, even when they do it.
It all depends on who you are related to.
Or how much money you have.
Or how good a liar you are.
Many-times divorced Kim Davis managed to get elected there …
She road the train, she gets what she gets.
I’d judge a dude the same way.
re: #156 Stanley Sea
She road the train, she gets what she gets.
I’d judge a dude the same way.
Well, I guess I can’t count on your vote if I run for President then. /s
re: #154 Joe Bacon
Take out the trash, go to the building dumpster and there are a pair of raccoons dumpster diving…In Los Angeles??????
If that surprised you, you never ran into the crack squirrels….
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
nah. Kentucky evangelicals have major sticks up their asses about anything and everything, even when they do it.
It all depends on who you are related to.
Or how much money you have.
Or how good a liar you are.
Sometimes a son who goes off on his ATV to do god knows what or tortures animals. Oops. I’m so sorry. That’s Arkansas….
re: #149 Blind Frog Belly White
The photoshoot in question was when she was 25, and had already been modeling for 20 years.
Didn’t hang out with Gramma.
I’m with A Cranky One, but I’m out ‘til tomorrow.
re: #155 Anymouse
Many-times divorced Kim Davis managed to get elected there …
but she never had nekkid photos released to the public…
re: #136 Anymouse
We already saw some of those comments with Mrs. Obama and she has no such pictures. I could not give a hoot less about their concern, but I will not use their tactics to slut-shame a Republican woman.
What seems to have been forgotten in all the brohaha over Mrs. Trump’s nude photos is it wasn’t either Democrats or Donald Trump that started it; it was Ted Cruz.
A Cruz super-pac started this when it took out billboards during the Utah Republican Primary showing Melania Trump in lingerie asking if Utah voters really wanted someone “like that” as the First Lady.
It was Republicans that started the slut shaming.
I am not a Republican, I will not act like one.
And you have that right…no one said you should. Your opinion is not wrong.
The reason I brought up my point is it always are the Democrats that worry about every little thing being done the right way. How does that work out in the long run? And I only use it as an example. What was all that about political correctness and how it all hurt Democrats?
It is just something to consider about what we get upset over and what should really be attacked. Political perspective.
Trump runs around actually being quoted “grab that pu**y” and dodging rape and groping charges and gets elected. He talks about his daughter in a sexual way.
We fight over images that can be seen with a Google search by a 10 year old inquisitive boy.
I find it out of balance in the context of the very real slut shaming the GOP actually does do and the “screwing” we are all going to get by their legislation.
.@Karoli “Halp! Halp! I’m being loved to death by a pitzbullz!” pic.twitter.com/RuNRnKsOWI
— Chris Savage (@Eclectablog) January 2, 2017
Someone made this suggestion over at Daily Kos, recreating the Hull Houses of the late 1800s. I wonder if there is a way for something like these to happen again?
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just to be clear…I could never run for any public office other than local because I worked for Larry Flynt 45 years ago.
And there aren’t even any Melania-type photos of me. Well, anything even remotely close to those photos.
Heh. Did you work out of Columbus, or Cincinnati? My old boss at a small tech ad agency back in the late 80s told me he worked for him too, doing some editing and writing, etc. My old boss was an ex-AP editor and worked the area.
I also knew one of his Columbus Photographers. Small world time.
re: #111 Belafon
Nope. Fighting, resisting, and responding is.
While I wholeheartedly agree, remember Will Rogers words, “I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”
re: #154 Joe Bacon
Take out the trash, go to the building dumpster and there are a pair of raccoons dumpster diving…In Los Angeles??????
They’re working for Michelle Malkin.
re: #154 Joe Bacon
Take out the trash, go to the building dumpster and there are a pair of raccoons dumpster diving…In Los Angeles??????
Gentrification.
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
THIS!
I do not need to see the photos of some skinny nekkid person (and truthfully, her photos really have no artistic values and her body wasn’t all that much to brag about, but that’s just my opinion).
But I can still (and will) call out the hypocrisy to anyone who calls it “classy”.
It is not classy. Not. At. All. Ever.
The Trumpers also think the photo with the yam sitting in a gold chair, Melania’s dress flying around and the kid on a lion is the ultimate in class, so we can not only call them on their hypocrisy but also on their utter lack of taste.
re: #155 Anymouse
Many-times divorced Kim Davis managed to get elected there …
Yes but it’s OK when it comes to her because Jesus forgave her transgressions.
re: #163 ObserverArt
Well, I can’t say what is the correct way to run any political campaign; I can only do what worked for me.
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re: #167 Odie Hugh Manatee
While I wholeheartedly agree, remember Will Rogers words, “I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.”
It’s going to be hard for our party, and what’s going to be even harder is we’re going to need to ally ourselves with Republicans such as Ana Navaro and the governor of Utah. At the same time, I doubt too many people would have described 1940 America as being able to organize to fight a war.
re: #166 ObserverArt
Heh. Did you work out of Columbus, or Cincinnati? My old boss at a small tech ad agency back in the late 80s told me he worked for him too, doing some editing and writing, etc. My old boss was an ex-AP editor and worked the area.
I also knew one of his Columbus Photographers. Small world time.
Cincinnati
re: #171 Joe Bacon
Yes but it’s OK when it comes to her because Jesus forgave her transgressions.
and she’s a Republican now.
My wife is serving dinner, so I am going to bail out here.
Happy New Year to everyone (if the flaming orange fascist doesn’t get us all killed).
re: #163 ObserverArt
The fight is not over the images per se. Rather, it’s about how women are treated.
Is Melania classy? Not in my opinion, but that has nothing to do with the photo(s) in question.
Are the Republicans massive hypocrites and should we point that out? Absolutely. The list of hypocrisies from Republicans is virtually endless. The problems with Trump as well. Those are fair game. There is no lack of ammunition.
Should we turn to Republican scorched earth tactics and do anything to win, throwing our ethics and morals aside? And if we do, is that winning?
I’d love to see karma for all the terrible things said and done to a great POTUS and FLOTUS. But I don’t think attacking Melania for posing nude would be, well, classy.
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A great neighbor just brought over a New Year’s gift of a sweet potato pie. Yes, SWEET POTATO PIE. I’ma eat this up.
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klys:
(yes and the rest of you runners)
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happies and merries to all
re: #177 A Cranky One
The fight is not over the images per se. Rather, it’s about how women are treated.
Is Melania classy? Not in my opinion, but that has nothing to do with the photo(s) in question.
Are the Republicans massive hypocrites and should we point that out? Absolutely. The list of hypocrisies from Republicans is virtually endless. The problems with Trump as well. Those are fair game. There is no lack of ammunition.
Should we turn to Republican scorched earth tactics and do anything to win, throwing our ethics and morals aside? And if we do, is that winning?
I’d love to see karma for all the terrible things said and done to a great POTUS and FLOTUS. But I don’t think attacking Melania for posing nude would be, well, classy.
I only bring up my points to try to weigh it all.
Two quick points. And I’m taking off…got some drumming to do.
1. If you don’t win, you can’t do anything good. I don’t like it, but it is a fact. Do we need to get down in the gutter? No. How down in the gutter actually is this in real world terms? (It is a BIG world).
2. Does the actual circa 2020 era voter care about this? The real Donald Trump got elected. These pictures did not matter to the people that voted for him. Goes to what I was talking about perspective.
And for clarity. I do a lot of political based images around here. I would not have made that particular image. But then, I also understand why it was made. Also goes to perspective.
Later Lizards…
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
yes. this
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The media had no problem at all saying “lie” or any variation thereof when Hillary was involved, but when it’s Trump, they can’t be objective. They have to present “both sides” and rely upon the public’s good judgment to decide that Trump is full of shit.
Most banana republics have to take deliberate action to make the media their bitches. Trump doesn’t even have to work that hard.
re: #184 Targetpractice
The media had no problem at all saying “lie” or any variation thereof when Hillary was involved, but when it’s Trump, they can’t be objective. They have to present “both sides” and rely upon the public’s good judgment to decide that Trump is full of shit.
Most banana republics have to take deliberate action to make the media their bitches. Trump doesn’t even have to work that hard.
Bush and Cheney did most of the heavy lifting on that.
What sort of freaking bizarro-world have we entered? https://t.co/8Ui0gouepq pic.twitter.com/fhMeRC2icW
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 1, 2017
The media constantly used the word “lie” around Hillary. They’d print headlines about how she “lied” to investigators, how she “lied” to the public, about how voters saw her as a “liar” and her reputation as a “liar” was hard to overcome.
But with Trump, they never want to use the word “lie.” Even after a year of boasting about how you can take him at his word, every time his “word” is found to be totally at odds with objective reality, the media will still insist on this “both sides” narrative.
Somewhere in the bowels of Hell, Nixon is absolutely livid at the sort of favorable coverage Trump is receiving.
Disney’s Bambi artist Tyrus Wong has died at the age of 106.
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
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To me, the media has completely failed to realize what their job actually is: To be the professional eyes and ears of the public. Most people do not have the time to go down to their government office and find out what every official is doing. That’s what the press is for. We have doctors because people don’t have time to research every disease and how to determine which they have. The press is there to help us figure out what is right and what is wrong.
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
I keep looking at those old sparkplugs and am amazed there was ANY spark crossing that gap.
Many cars are nightmares to work on, even for routine maintenance such as spark plug replacement. There are a lot of specialized wrenches just for that purpose, because there ain’t no way to reach the plug otherwise.
Of course, some people make their own special wrenches. Show offs. ;-)
Many a time, while working on a car, I’ve felt that the designers should be forced to perform typical maintenance work on the vehicles prior to final approval of the design. Seriously, you shouldn’t need to pull an engine just to change the plugs.
And to your post, yes, I’m also amazed there was any spark. Wow.
re: #190 A Cranky One
MrBWS is of the opinion that those are the original plugs.
I’m inclined to agree with him.
Remember when the first few pages of Trump’s tax returns were released by the NYT? The Trump campaign’s first response was not to address the contents of the release, it was to scream that the NYT and whoever their source was had broken the law and demanded swift legal action. Herr Hairpiece himself threatened to sue the NYT for the release.
So to have them now suggest that the media should be focusing on the contents of the Russian hacking is just par for the hypocritical course.
re: #184 Targetpractice
The media had no problem at all saying “lie” or any variation thereof when Hillary was involved, but when it’s Trump, they can’t be objective. They have to present “both sides” and rely upon the public’s good judgment to decide that Trump is full of shit.
Most banana republics have to take deliberate action to make the media their bitches. Trump doesn’t even have to work that hard.
WSJ editor on @MeetThePress today, reluctant to say Trump “lies.” So why’d NYT say it? @CarolynRyan’s answer coming up on @ReliableSources 📺 pic.twitter.com/nwTRqXdYmb
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 1, 2017
The problem is Trump bullshits more than lies. ‘Lie’ is inaccurate, and ‘bullshit’ is a bad word, so the media uses neither, and Trump wins. https://t.co/ugEwHor503
— Ken Arneson (@kenarneson) January 1, 2017
heh
I don’t want to badmouth pigs, but the Trump inaugural coin is remarkably porcine. #AnimalFarm pic.twitter.com/FQPmea4FkD
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) January 2, 2017
WSJ editor Gerard Baker said they won’t call Trump’s lies “lies.” But check out how many articles they printed saying Hillary Clinton lies.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 2, 2017
@Green_Footballs Something like this?https://t.co/tM4OTNflJD
Apparently they had no problem using that word for her.— Orange Cosby (@Unabogie) January 2, 2017
The NYT obsessed about Hillary’s emails and published a letter from its editorial board demanding Hillary cut ties with the Clinton Foundation. CNN’s CEO not only hired a Trump mouthpiece, but defended him when it became public knowledge that said mouthpiece was still on the Trump payroll. And now the WSJ editor is arguing that calling Trump a liar violates a reporter’s “objectivity” and its better to just present a story and expect the public to decide he’s a liar.
The fourth estate is quietly installing a gold “TRUMP” sign over their front door.
So, the NYT employs a writer named “an employee of the New York Times.” It’s the byline version of pixelating Mohammed: pic.twitter.com/XiF7fx2ecM
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 2, 2017
Sshh Michelle. The grownups are talking. A news organization (google it) is decently (google it) trying to protect its reporter (google it) https://t.co/nLBRXogtIV
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 2, 2017
re: #172 Anymouse
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Gee. I wonder……Who owns the Wall Street Journal…Hmmmm…..
re: #201 nines09
lol. That muckraker Murdoch. I thought everyone knew that. /half
re: #200 Ziggy_TARDIS
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I started watching The Man in the High Castle.
Seems very topical just now.
my neighbor just got an unsecured wireless printer, so I sent this to him pic.twitter.com/UxVdyLJTYv
— blake messick (@blakemessick) December 30, 2016
re: #206 bratwurst
Mr Printer meet Mr OffSwitch. :)
To SNERDLE is to wrap up cosily in bed.
— Haggard Hawks Words (@HaggardHawks) January 1, 2017
DO IT. #WithABook #WordsAreWonderful https://t.co/yZnVQgUlXH
— Bas Bleu Bookseller (@BasBleuCatalog) January 2, 2017
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago made $420,000+ selling dinner, dancing, & access to the President-elect on New Year’s Eve https://t.co/5tbwxqVDWn pic.twitter.com/hwgyQ1t9zB
— Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) January 1, 2017
Oh look—@TeenVogue is doing what MSM forgot YET AGAIN. https://t.co/xoxIgPeWmu
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) January 2, 2017
“Vertigo” is on TCM. I’d forgotten just how…odd it is.
It’s pathetic how much Trump gets away with. Clinton gets scrunitized for liking hot sauce. Meanwhile Trump is blatantly corrupt and beholden to a foreign power but nah the media thinks they can’t report on his lies.
re: #212 HappyWarrior
WTF are they babbling about?
HURR HURR WHY AREN’T YOU TALKING ABOUT DONNA BRAZILE GIVING DEBATE QUESTIONS TO HILLARY DURING TEH PRIMARY DEBATES INSTEAD OF PUTIN TAMPERING IN THE ELECTION!!!!!!!
Um because one thing is a FELONY & TREASON & the other thing is a nothingburger.
re: #213 Belafon
They’re letting Russia off the hook.
I wish we could send Trump, Kellyanne, Pence, Bannon, and company to Russia.
Lee Seigel of the Columbia Journalism Review is blaming Jon Stewart and Stephen Cobert for the rise of Donald Trump.
He accuses them of exploiting the public with their “fake news” (invoking Stephen Cobert’s word “truthiness” - which Cobert used to describe what others were doing, not what he was doing).
re: #217 Anymouse
Lee Seigel of the Columbia Journalism Review is blaming Jon Stewart and Stephen Cobert for the rise of Donald Trump.
He accuses them of exploiting the public with their “fake news” (invoking Stephen Cobert’s word “truthiness” - which Cobert used to describe what others were doing, not what he was doing).
Let’s be blunt. Trump’s rise can be blamed on one thing. The fact that the Republican base could not accept that the country elected a man with the name Obama President and that resulted in their base wanting someone that would be open about the stuff that past Republican nominees would be more subtle about. Blaming Stewart and Colbert is bullshit.
Bottom line on the 2016 election: the weaponized Birther conspiracy theorizing extremist right wing elected our next president.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 2, 2017
And there are no words to describe how deep the shit is that we’re in now.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 2, 2017
re: #219 Charles Johnson
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It honestly is a worse downgrade than Lincoln to Andrew Johnson. Yes, Johnson was a bigot but during the Civil War, he had been a loyal Union man. Trump has shown he doesn’t give a fuck about the country.
re: #217 Anymouse
Lee Seigel of the Columbia Journalism Review is blaming Jon Stewart and Stephen Cobert for the rise of Donald Trump.
He accuses them of exploiting the public with their “fake news” (invoking Stephen Cobert’s word “truthiness” - which Cobert used to describe what others were doing, not what he was doing).
I’m going to guess he never watched a single episode.
re: #222 Belafon
I’m going to guess he never watched a single episode.
Not to mention the people who tend to spread Fake News stories aren’t typical TDS or Colbert viewers.
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Hmmm. I’m no expert in this, but isn’t it highly illegal to publicly solicit sales of equity?
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There are ways to offer equity for startups, pre-IPO, using something like SeedInvest. But the announcement usually comes from the organization arranging the investment, not from the company itself. Likewise, a company seeking angel investors normally would approach such people privately. Appealing for investors on Facebook is pretty bush-league, but consider who we are dealing with here.
Rage Furby is always bragging about all the billionaires he meets with. So, why is he soliciting investors on FB?
re: #217 Anymouse
So this Lee Siegel person thinks a couple of comedians appearing on a channel called Comedy Central need to demonstrate more journalistic integrity than, say, “journalists” who write for publications like the Wall Street Journal or appear on Fox News (like, for example, Lee Siegel).
Lee Siegel is doing the most basic rhetorical fuckery which is flipping, or am no you are fallacy. It’s just junk food intellectualism.
A couple of satirists mocking current events and politicians is not fake news. Either he’s stupid or making some faulty analogy because/mainstream media.
re: #226 BigPapa
Yep, the blame rests squarely on the right, which has pushed people to disbelieve anything they don’t agree with. Fox is one source of this.
Up at my job, full of lots of engineers, one of the cars has an “I don’t believe the liberal media” bumper sticker.
re: #181 dangerman
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re: #209 Eclectic Cyborg
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When you mention T2, this scene comes to mind.
Spoilered because reasons.
re: #217 Anymouse
Lee Seigel of the Columbia Journalism Review is blaming Jon Stewart and Stephen Cobert for the rise of Donald Trump.
He accuses them of exploiting the public with their “fake news” (invoking Stephen Cobert’s word “truthiness” - which Cobert used to describe what others were doing, not what he was doing).
Lee Siegel — he of the infamous Sprezzatura sock puppet — knows all about fake media.
The fact that the Columbia Fucking Journalism Review is willing to publish anything he writes is proof enough that they’re desperate to cast blame on anyone other than the traditional news media.
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
