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This Is How the Media Dies: Not With a Bang But a Whine
Some really good pieces today. I suggest you read the whole thing for each, but here's just a little to get you going.
Mollie Hemingway appeared on Howard Kurtz yesterday to say bad things about the media, and the video's worth watching. But her article about it is better and more detailed. She offers advice to media liberals about how to not be such unhinged ninnies about Trump. Here's a bit:Because humans don't really care how non-humans feel.
It’s been nearly two months since Donald Trump won the 2016 election for president of the United States but somehow that’s not been enough time for the reality to sink in for many political liberals. Yes, presidential elections have been emotional for some time. I can vouch for how sad if not depressed many conservatives were when Mitt Romney lost his bid to unseat President Obama in 2012. If you didn't already know that, it's probably just because you don’t know many conservatives. The media never for a moment considered how heartbreaking that loss was for many Americans worried about the direction of the country.
But as the media overwhelmingly tend to the political left and chose not obscure their bias so much this round, we've been given daily examples of the difficulty folks on that side of the political divide are having with the reality of Donald Trump. The crying, the protests, the riots, the subway art installations, the artist boycotts, the recount efforts, the organized and funded push to have the Electoral College do... something, the media-fed conspiracy theories about Russian vote hacking. Pundits on TV shake their head at everything Trump says and does, and journalists on Twitter react like rabid Pavlovian dogs to every utterance the president-elect makes.Yup. And I've gotta say, 2016 was an eye-opener for me, when I learned how truly dogmatic, cultish, sheep-like, and heretic-hunting the online right was. I can't say I'll ever be part of the movement again, not really, not after seeing what it was really all about. Michael Walsh just spits molten nails at the media, and it's glorious.
Folks on the Right, regardless of how they feel about Trump, have been enjoying this meltdown. It's funny! The hubris leading up the election only makes it more so! The more kindhearted keep encouraging the rest of us not to take so much delight in the tremendous difficulty the Left is having. And we all keep wondering just how long the Left is going to have this break with reality, this refusal to come to terms with life as it is....
4) Don't Follow the Media's or Social Media's Lead It should go without saying that the media had the wrong idea about the 2016 race from top to bottom. They were focused on personality at the expense of policy. They took a man well known for his sexual impropriety and tried to make his sexual impropriety the major story of the race. They avoided truly discussing his foreign policy, immigration, and economic policy. They pretended that Hillary Clinton was a far better and stronger candidate than she was. They protected her in ways that blew up in their face (e.g. by claiming, prior to her collapse on 9/11, that discussion of her health was a conspiracy theory). Social media was just as bad. To give an example from the Right, nearly everyone on Twitter believed strongly that Trump's primary opponents should renounce him and pledge not to support him if he won the nomination. Among Republicans off social media, there was almost no support for such an approach. Typical Republicans wanted the candidates to support whoever got the nomination. There's always a disconnect between a navel-gazing media establishment based in New York City and Washington DC and the rest of the country, but it's gotten far worse in the last year. Disregard the false narratives being pushed by many in the media and get out and talk to a Trump-supporting neighbor. You'll learn far more. And you'll feel a lot better when you realize they’re not the monster they’ve been portrayed as.
Riffing off Ross Douthat's infamous tweet of Sept. 2015 -- "The entire commentariat is going to feel a little silly when Marco Rubio wins every Republican primary" -- writer Zach Schonfeld notes:He then talks about all the job-losses in the media sector.At best, it's just a dopey prediction -- we've all made some of those. At worst, it's an enduring avatar of the cartoonish arrogance and mass-scale humiliation that overtook the pundit class in 2016. It's a microcosm of the biggest media trend of the year: total humiliation.It was not just Douthat. For lots of high-profile media personalities, from Nate Silver to Nick Denton, 2016 dealt an enormous reckoning....
It was the year we realized that a lot of Very Important People who get paid a lot of money to know about U.S. politics have little more insight to dispense than the cab drivers they quote in their columns... For Trump fans, it is thrillingly apt that the candidate whose rise to power blindsided the media is the same candidate who staked his entire campaign on bald contempt for journalists. Trump’s bone-deep loathing of the “dishonest media” might be his only coherent ideology. Well, as they say: it's a start...
If you didn't know -- I didn't -- today James Taranto wrote his very last Best of the Web column. Sad! He's being promoted to op-ed page editor, but his gain is our loss. For his last column, he really brings the stuff. If you've ever wondered why the media seems to be taking this so damn personally, well, it's because it is very personal indeed. Sure, they're upset that Hillary lost-- but that's only part of it. The bigger part is that they lost something personally -- prestige. It was a lot like after 9/11 when reporters were butthurt that soldiers and cops and firefighters and EMTs were treated as the real heroes, rather than, as everyone of good sense and taste prefers, reporters being treated as the real heroes. They felt meh about the felling of the Towers. What really burned their asses was the diminishment of their position in the pecking order. And so too now after Trump:
This is what happens when reporters become blind partisans, and when their grasp of larger cultural issues is subsumed by the horse race. And yet, despite their horrendous failure -- why, indeed, should anyone even believe them again when they tout a sure thing like Hillary Clinton? -- you can bet that, four years from now, they'll happily do it all over again. Those who survive, that is.
[New York Times media beat reporter Jim] Rutenberg's list of mainstream-media missteps is serviceable as an answer to the question of how journalists blew it, but he doesn't even attempt to grapple with the question of why. Partisan and ideological bias is part of the answer, but it isn’t sufficient. After all, no one is more biased than 99th-percentile Michael Moore [who predicted Trump's victory -- ace]. Nor is it very interesting. To those of us who are aware of media bias, it is so familiar that we find the subject almost as tiresome as do those who are suffused with, and therefore oblivious to, it. It seems to us that partisan and ideological bias is a symptom of a deeper disorder that afflicts journalism (among other institutions). Without meaning to, Rutenburg points toward a diagnosis. Here is how he describes his year in retrospect:Read the whole thing -- like I said, he jammed an awful lot into his goodbye column. And he's of course definitely right. The media are acting viciously and defensively precisely because they are defending the territory they've claimed for themselves by pissing all over the outskirts of it. They will not abide a challenge nor a chastening; they intend to "win" the argument they've been having for 40 years with 300 million Americans. They won't, but no one accepts a downward change in status gracefully and without embarrassing spectacle.
Starting a weekly column about the nexus between media, technology, culture and politics in the middle of the 2016 presidential campaign was like parachuting into a hail of machine-gun crossfire. Dense smoke was everywhere as the candidates and their supporters unloaded on one another and, frequently, the news media, which more than occasionally was drawn into the fighting. The territory that was at stake was the realm of the true, and how all sides would define it in the hyperpartisan debate to come under a new president.
Fact check: "The realm of the true" is not a real place. It is even more notional than "the Clinton Archipelago" [i.e, the Clinton Bubble -- ace], though it does occur to us to wonder if the two places are coterminous in Rutenberg's mind. OK, that was facetious. We respect Rutenberg enough to take him seriously and not literally; and obviously "the realm of the true" is a metaphor. But a metaphor for what? As it happens, we answered that question in a 2013 column:... Territorial animals fiercely defend their turf: "When a territory holder is challenged by a rival, the owner almost always wins the contest--usually within a matter of seconds," observes biologist John Alcock in "Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach." We'd say the same instinct is at work when the great apes who call themselves Homo sapiens defend their authority. When it is challenged, they can become vicious, prone to risky and unscrupulous behavior. That, it seems to us, is the central story of our time. The left-liberal elite that attained cultural dominance between the 1960s and the 1980s--and that since 2008 has seen itself as being on the cusp of political dominance as well--is undergoing a crisis of authority, and its defenses are increasingly ferocious and unprincipled. Journalists lie or ignore important but politically uncongenial stories. Scientists suppress alternative hypotheses. Political organizations bully apolitical charities. The Internal Revenue Service persecutes dissenters. And campus censorship goes on still.By "the realm of the true," Rutenberg means the authority to issue pronouncements about what is true -- an authority, he seems to believe, that rightly belongs to journalists and the sources they deem trustworthy. Elsewhere in the Dec. 26 column he describes the news media's role as "to do its part in maintaining a fact-based national debate." And this supposed authority extends beyond matters of fact to judgments of morality and taste...
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Log Cabin at January 03, 2017 06:50 PM (Ve2ZO)
Posted by: Hope Solo at January 03, 2017 06:50 PM (X/5o4)
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Posted by: Ace at 06:48 PM
This is definitely about me.
Posted by: Hope Solo at January 03, 2017 06:56 PM (X/5o4)
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Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 06:57 PM (g9txO)
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Posted by: Hope Solo at January 03, 2017 06:58 PM (X/5o4)
Posted by: Hope Solo at January 03, 2017 06:59 PM (X/5o4)
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You mean the Trumpers or the NeverTrumpers?
I'm holding my fire, for the moment.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 03, 2017 06:59 PM (R+30W)
And justly so.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 03, 2017 07:00 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:00 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Idiot on Tucker Carlson at January 03, 2017 07:01 PM (g9txO)
President Obama's personally-vetted and approved Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, embraced this mission whole-heartedly, and has successfully changed course for the Navy and Marine Corps (and all their Corpspersons) away from their traditional mission of deterring potentially hostile navies, or if failing to do that, defeating them.
Secretary Mabus has, through dint of hard work and the nicest sense of personal example, successfully made the Naval services more caring, inclusive, and environmentally sensitive.
All of us here at the Brattleboro Womyn's Clinic are filled with gratitude.
Thank you Secretary Mabus, and President Obama!
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at January 03, 2017 07:01 PM (DMUuz)
the Dilbert guy, Scott Adams.
He has also paid a huge (yuuuge) price for it. His speaking career is now over, and I saw he estimated during the election season his lost income is in the seven figures.
Posted by: Boots at January 03, 2017 07:03 PM (0E+WY)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 03, 2017 07:03 PM (5VlCp)
I could give a damn about what the Right on Twitter says versus the Right on Breitbart or anywhere else. It's nice to have company, but it's hardly a necessity.
Posted by: West at January 03, 2017 07:03 PM (gPTZn)
Posted by: Buzzion at January 03, 2017 07:03 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: wth at January 03, 2017 07:04 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Boots at January 03, 2017 07:05 PM (0E+WY)
Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2017 07:05 PM (5sOEp)
Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2017 07:05 PM (sdi6R)
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I know exactly what you mean, Jim ...
Posted by: Brian Willliams at January 03, 2017 07:06 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: Idiot on Tucker Carlson at January 03, 2017 07:01 PM (g9txO)
They aren't just dead, they're really fucking dead.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 03, 2017 07:06 PM (ywNoU)
Posted by: Bosk at January 03, 2017 07:06 PM (n2K+4)
"Climate scientists" are next. They are going to be called to account. The facts that (1) they have been cooking the data (literally) for years and (2) they say they "lost" the original records will demolish their standing and credibility. The wheels within wheels of their self-affirming and self-referential grant making and peer review shell games will kneecap many of their careers and all will deserve it.
Were these people in the private sector, the press would call what they do cooking the financial books and they'd be in full-blooded cry for heads to roll. Feynmann nailed it -- "cargo cult science."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 03, 2017 07:06 PM (BK3ZS)
These were the losers of adolescence. Not, as they tell themselves, because they were too smart, but be she's they were repulsive.
So they went to a fancy, but not academically challenging, east coast school and moved to New York and deemed themselves cultured.
They laughed at the quarterback back home who just bought a fishing boat with the money from his deployment. How quaint. How provincial!
They sneered when he slapped a MAGA sticker on his truck.
What a loser!
But deep down, late at night, that ping of jealousy hits. Beth Haynes is even hotter now that she was then, and she married that oaf!
So they wrap themselves in snark and wonder why they never make a relationship last more than 2 months.
And now this. Mother fucking DJT has come along and took away their prestige. This is the last humiliation. The carefully crafted lies they tell themselves to convince them that it's not them are now crumbled at their feet.
They are the losers everyone always knew them to be.
Posted by: Lauren at January 03, 2017 07:06 PM (exyqD)
Because they're so damn stupid!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 07:07 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: JT at January 03, 2017 07:08 PM (+9xXA)
Posted by: E.T. at January 03, 2017 07:08 PM (9n0dl)
Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2017 07:08 PM (5sOEp)
Posted by: The Media at January 03, 2017 07:08 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Robert Crawford at January 03, 2017 07:09 PM (L8k8I)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 07:09 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 07:09 PM (g9txO)
Posted by: Boots at January 03, 2017 07:10 PM (0E+WY)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 07:10 PM (LTHVh)
Either that or Josh Marshall has mistaken his page for a porn aggregator again.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 03, 2017 07:10 PM (6FqZa)
http://tinyurl.com/z5d7hoj
Posted by: David at January 03, 2017 07:10 PM (Gq8qV)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 03, 2017 07:11 PM (lJXY3)
...........
Where is that Ben Rothlisburger guy to explain this one to me?
Posted by: wth at January 03, 2017 07:11 PM (HgMAr)
I keep saying, stop calling them "liberals". There is nothing remotely "liberal" about them. The word "liberal" has at least some connection to "liberty".
They are totalitarians, and they are freaking out because they thought they were *this close* to absolute, unchallenged, and permanent power.
Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2017 07:11 PM (sdi6R)
I think politicians should be added to the high school losers that never made it with a lady category.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 07:12 PM (IgBFP)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
It's funnier to note that they aren't going to change a damned thing. If anything changes, it'll be for the worse.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 03, 2017 07:12 PM (FQ0rq)
Posted by: Chilling the most at January 03, 2017 07:13 PM (Cl52v)
Posted by: Evan McMuffin at January 03, 2017 07:13 PM (lJXY3)
Definitely. There are the rare ones who become politicians after military heroics who may be exempted, but your average statist congressman? Absolutely.
Posted by: Lauren at January 03, 2017 07:14 PM (exyqD)
Posted by: Robert Crawford at January 03, 2017 07:09 PM (L8k8I)
The nerds in high school didn't give a damn about prom. And they sure aren't going to want to do it now that they're adults and don't have to deal with high school shit.
Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 07:14 PM (cAnNx)
Trump should refuse to participate in any WH press corps' self-affirming and glad-handing social affairs -- correspondence dinners, roasts and the like.
"I have meaningful work to do." would be sufficient to put natters into proper perspective.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 03, 2017 07:14 PM (BK3ZS)
No Good deed goes unpunished, U of M just fired the Tracy Claeys, head coach, for supporting his team.
http://tinyurl.com/jvyus4m
Posted by: Picric at January 03, 2017 07:14 PM (s0VSd)
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 03, 2017 07:14 PM (7s6zW)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 03, 2017 07:15 PM (g+ibI)
48 It is not funny.
Posted by: Evan McMuffin at January 03, 2017 07:13 PM (lJXY3)
She said "folks on the right." You don't fit that.
Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 07:15 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 07:15 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: Lauren at January 03, 2017 07:17 PM (exyqD)
The journalists and politicians are the same breed with some exceptions.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 07:17 PM (IgBFP)
.............
More like a DOSvidanya attack, tovarich!
Posted by: Starbucks Moscow at January 03, 2017 07:17 PM (HgMAr)
Dear Penthouse Letters, you'll never believe how my boner gave me a black eye...
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:18 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2017 07:18 PM (5sOEp)
Posted by: erick erick erickson at January 03, 2017 07:18 PM (lJXY3)
We long suspected they were in the bag for the Dems, but seeing it in vivid detail - DWS demanding MSNBC segments in progress being stopped, egomaniac anchors and columnists asking for questions to ask GOP interviewees or oppo research dumps - it can't be unseen. The Great and Powerful Oz is just some idiot behind the curtain.
They are propagandists.
And the great thing is we've just elected someone who will treat them like the scum they are.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 07:19 PM (NOIQH)
It was a lot like after 9/11 when reporters were butthurt that soldiers
and cops and firefighters and EMTs were treated as the real heroes,
rather than, as everyone of good sense and taste prefers, reporters
being treated as the real heroes.
They felt meh about the felling of the Towers. What really burned their asses was the diminishment of their position in the pecking order.
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The denouement of l'affaire MeAgain was her hourly defense of the media talking heads from the evil Caesar Trumpus Agrippas.
Her investment in her career and her campaign of self-promotion as the new Unbiased Journalistic Champion Of Wimmenz and Official Member Of The InCrowd Club was suddenly null and void.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 07:19 PM (zu88C)
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By insulting us and continuing to lie to us.
You know that cartoon from the other day that the journalists all liked about a passenger on an airliner who thinks that the pilot is out of touch with the common man and thinks he should fly the plane? Well, when I get on a plane they tell is going to Tucumcari, when I get off I can be pretty damn sure it's Tucumcari. When a journalist tells you the Russians hacked the election it's like Journalism Airlines flew you to Timbuktu and is just telling you it's Tucumcari.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 07:19 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: torquewrench at January 03, 2017 07:19 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:20 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Steven Tyler at January 03, 2017 07:20 PM (n2K+4)
Posted by: pep at January 03, 2017 07:20 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: IC at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (a0IVu)
-Posted by: Steven Tyler at January 03, 2017 07:20 PM (n2K+4)
The Eighties thread was a ways back<-----.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (6gk0M)
'Assault Weapons make Killing more Lethal'
Posted by: Idiot on Tucker Carlson
I buy RAID because it kills bugs deader!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (IqV8l)
They're really most sincerely dead.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 07:15 PM (LTHVh)
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They are most certainly not dead.
Are the newsrooms empty? Does the NYT not print anymore?
No, they still have life in them.
Don't get cocky. Don't get complacent.
The mainstream media is a wounded animal that can and will lash out very harshly at its enemies. Laugh off their complaints and multi-part stories of Republican corruption all you want, but they will still impact the public consciousness.
All of the stories might be 100% false, but when ABC, NBC, CBS, the NYT, and WaPo all push the same narrative for weeks and months, more and more people begin to believe that if there's smoke there's fire.
Don't give up until the New York Times no longer prints news on paper and their website goes dead. And even then, be wary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (elLTo)
about a passenger on an airliner who thinks that the pilot is out of
touch with the common man and thinks he should fly the plane?
That's just it. We ARE the f'in pilots of the damn plane.
Posted by: no good deed at January 03, 2017 07:22 PM (hJamr)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 03, 2017 07:22 PM (0tfLf)
this has reduced the importance of Washington, thereby making Washington
nervous.
Heh.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 07:22 PM (NOIQH)
http://tinyurl.com/zx7nqfe
Worst. Pope. Ever.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 03, 2017 07:22 PM (6FqZa)
-Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (elLTo)
I'm going to go ahead and agree. Perhaps you have a newsletter?
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:24 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at January 03, 2017 07:24 PM (J8/9G)
Posted by: IC at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (a0IVu)
Tell them its going to be like a typical Obama press conference. And they need to submit their questions ahead of time and he will call on them from a list.
Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 07:24 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Linda Evans, not dead and available for work at January 03, 2017 07:24 PM (UW4Uc)
Posted by: drew at January 03, 2017 07:24 PM (4awEj)
Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2017 07:25 PM (5sOEp)
-Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (elLTo)
I'm going to go ahead and agree. Perhaps you have a newsletter?
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:24 PM (6gk0M)
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I do. It's called the Notes on the Federal Convention.
You should read it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 03, 2017 07:25 PM (elLTo)
-Posted by: drew at January 03, 2017 07:24 PM (4awEj)
*HAH!*
I never even though of that.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:25 PM (6gk0M)
Trump just shoved the MSM into a locker and slammed the door on them. Having first knocked their books out from under their arm
I can't wait until he give Chuck Todd a swirly.
Posted by: pep at January 03, 2017 07:26 PM (LAe3v)
You know that cartoon from the other day that the journalists all
liked about a passenger on an airliner who thinks that the pilot is out
of touch with the common man and thinks he should fly the plane? Well,
when I get on a plane they tell is going to Tucumcari, when I get off I
can be pretty damn sure it's Tucumcari. When a journalist tells you the
Russians hacked the election it's like Journalism Airlines flew you to
Timbuktu and is just telling you it's Tucumcari.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 07:19 PM
Here in Texas we say "Don't piss on my boots and tell me it's raining."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 03, 2017 07:26 PM (DMUuz)
They're going to find also, that the public does not need to, nor will, depend upon them for the erstwhile "fact-checking", which the MSN is vainly trying to stake out as a rear-guard territory.
We don't need "fact checking" sites, when by golly, we can check original sources, documents, and other verifications, all with some simple online searching.
So, they're not even going to be able to defend their diminishing turf, as to the category of "truthiness".
And here's a fact for them. Mostly, when they claim something as "truth-ey", I take the initial defensive stance that they're lying. And I'm very seldom proven wrong in this supposition.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 03, 2017 07:27 PM (v5iqM)
You should read it."
-Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 03, 2017 07:25 PM (elLTo)
I have, Mr. Madison. I need to re-read it often, so as to remind myself of the meaning of Liberty.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:27 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 03, 2017 07:27 PM (ppaKI)
Sheryl Atkison in a column points out Wiki didn't do much toward the Democrats defeat
Sheryl Atkinson is hot. That is all.
Posted by: pep at January 03, 2017 07:27 PM (LAe3v)
Just wait 'till Sean Spicer announces the new WH pressroom seating rules.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 07:27 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2017 07:28 PM (sdi6R)
The embarrassing spectacle is the best part of surprise anal.
Posted by: wooga at January 03, 2017 07:28 PM (4rniU)
My impression was that the Wikileaks revelations came out too late. If they had come out earlier they would have wounded Clinton during the nomination process. The people who voted for her had made up their minds by mid-September.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 03, 2017 07:28 PM (6FqZa)
I am not terribly concerned about that particular batch of shitweasels, because the polls show that the general public consistently rank "global warming" about #275 on their list of concerns. Behind rabid squirrels and hot-coffee crotch burns.
What I'd rather see is having Trump and company go after hundreds of billions in Democratic corporate welfare. It's a twofer. It allows Trump to further burnish his populist credentials, while cutting off a steady source of funding to the institutional left.
For instance: nullify those Obamaphone contracts which funnel huge amounts of public money into the trouser pockets of amnesty shill Carlos Slim. (Who is, by the way, now the largest single shareholder in the _New York Times_. So kneecapping him financially is a further twofer.)
Posted by: torquewrench at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: fleaped at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (BO/km)
The people who voted for her made up their minds in 2009.
Posted by: pep at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (LAe3v)
Alex Wagner raises her hand.
Trump: This is a press conference for reporters Alex, sorry. Next!
Nora O'Donnal raises her hand.
Trump: Sorry Nora, reporters only. Next!
Savannah Guthrie raises her hand.
Trump: No propagandists either Savannah, so sorry. Next!
John Harwood: Mr. Trump!!!
Trump: How the hell did you get in here John? Next!
Posted by: Steven Tyler at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (n2K+4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:27 PM (6gk0M)
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I had a friend, back in the day, who thought that the blood of the patriots might be necessary to refresh the tree of liberty from time to time.
You might have heard of him. His name was Franky the Weasel...
Wait...that's what hundreds of years of death will do to you...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (elLTo)
-Posted by: Steven Tyler at January 03, 2017 07:20 PM (n2K+4)
The Eighties thread was a ways back
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (6gk0M)
Toys in The Attic came out in 1975
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (7qAYi)
Just wait 'till Sean Spicer announces the new WH pressroom seating rules.
He should bring back the dunce hat
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2017 07:30 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Me at January 03, 2017 07:30 PM (PQypE)
-Posted by: wooga at January 03, 2017 07:28 PM (4rniU)
You've either got a lot of mirrors or a cameraman. Either way, I'm not in agreement.
Otherwise, *heh*.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:30 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 03, 2017 07:30 PM (qJhUV)
the Dilbert guy, Scott Adams.
He has also paid a huge (yuuuge) price for it. His speaking career is now over, and I saw he estimated during the election season his lost income is in the seven figures.
Posted by: Boots at January 03, 2017 07:03 PM (0E+WY)
This is great evidence for a/my theory about people in Hollywood, the Music Industry, and Entertainment have to make leftist propaganda pieces in order to ensure they can keep cashing checks and even stay alive (insurance pays a huge amount out to studios when people die).
Posted by: Pepe at January 03, 2017 07:31 PM (X/5o4)
Just wait 'till Sean Spicer announces the new WH pressroom seating rules.
He should bring back the dunce hat
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic
I'd go for the dunking stool myself.
Posted by: pep at January 03, 2017 07:31 PM (LAe3v)
Right after Trump is sworn in, the hippie Pope would resign, the British would say fuck it we're out as of now, the French would say yeah us too, the Russians would carpet bomb ISIS to extinction, and the Chinese would tell Kim jong lippy we're done covering your ass keep up the nuke shit and YOU will be glowing?
Yeah. That would be great. Then President Trump can just focus on removing Barky Oblabo and his merry Marxists from the history books.
Posted by: madamemayhem (i wanna be sedated) at January 03, 2017 07:31 PM (yTnCT)
" The Dishonest People "
"You look really small from up here. Really small. "
" I suppose you would like me to answer your stupid, loaded questions. Well, I won't. Sad! "
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 07:31 PM (zu88C)
This grassfire needs some fresh O2.
Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2017 07:32 PM (reARY)
Posted by: Emperor Fuckstick at January 03, 2017 07:32 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Shep at January 03, 2017 07:32 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: DaveA at January 03, 2017 07:32 PM (8J/Te)
So will the new Dynasty be all black or all queer? Posted by: Linda Evans
It will need a few heterosexual white males in it to play the evil roles
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2017 07:33 PM (lKyWE)
-Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (7qAYi)
Yeah, that's true. The big re-introduction, however, came during the collaboration with Run DMC.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:33 PM (6gk0M)
...no one accepts a downward change in status gracefully and without embarrassing spectacle.
This grassfire needs some fresh O2.
Posted by: gNewt
O2, thermite, whatevs.
Posted by: pep at January 03, 2017 07:33 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Bosk at January 03, 2017 07:34 PM (n2K+4)
Let's go over to Big Nose Steve. Steve, take your thumb out of your ass and ask away! C'mon, TOO LATE.
Next?
Posted by: Jefe El Donaldo at January 03, 2017 07:35 PM (HgMAr)
-Posted by: Pepe at January 03, 2017 07:31 PM (X/5o4)
Fascists stick together, like a bundle of sticks.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:36 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 07:36 PM (7qAYi)
Who is laughing now?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 03, 2017 07:37 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Barakkus the Dingleborn at January 03, 2017 07:37 PM (agxbX)
They are most certainly not dead.
Are the newsrooms empty? Does the NYT not print anymore?
No, they still have life in them.
Don't get cocky. Don't get complacent.
The mainstream media is a wounded animal that can and will lash out very harshly at its enemies. Laugh off their complaints and multi-part stories of Republican corruption all you want, but they will still impact the public consciousness.
All of the stories might be 100% false, but when ABC, NBC, CBS, the NYT, and WaPo all push the same narrative for weeks and months, more and more people begin to believe that if there's smoke there's fire.
Don't give up until the New York Times no longer prints news on paper and their website goes dead. And even then, be wary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (elLTo)
This x1000.
I remember after 2004 when many people thought the online blogosphere had finally made the MSM obsolete, with the fact-checking of the TANG memos.
Then came 2008. The MSM learned their lesson, and closed ranks behind Obama. Any questioning of his mysterious background was labeled as racism. The rest is history.
Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2017 07:37 PM (sdi6R)
I've worked in the media for over three decades as a closet conservative. Of the hundreds of people I've worked with I can count on one hand the colleagues who were anywhere to the right of the spectrum on any issue. All of the rest, every single one of them, are true believers. They studied journalism as a means of "making a change." They are by their very essence anti-conservative. They are supplicants to the Left. If the truth harms the left they will not tell it. They will ignore it and build up a wall against the evidence with breathtaking intellectual dishonesty. I've seen it, heard it and fought against it to no avail my entire career. They are proggs. It is as simple as that.
Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at January 03, 2017 07:37 PM (ORylZ)
I remember both. My brother had toys in the attic, I can picture the cover.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 07:38 PM (IgBFP)
Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2017 07:38 PM (5sOEp)
The media coronated Clinton, Obama (Mathews 'i'm going to help him", Totally not Their job!)and were totally convinced they would drag Hillary over the finish line by their decit, lies, obsfucations , picking topics to shove at us. The ones anything at all to have us join in the chaos.
they only can blame themselves for half the country realizing was deceitful assholes they are. and political advocates for the one party ruling they so much desired.
much like their hallaluh-ing such as castro, Chavez, etc.
They want that life for the rest of America while they can rule and not have to share their spaces with the rest of us.
party on media, I bought stock in kleenix
Posted by: willow at January 03, 2017 07:39 PM (R7cwD)
And it remains the only Aerosmith album anyone ever needed.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 07:40 PM (g9txO)
You might have heard of him. His name was Franky the Weasel...
Wait...that's what hundreds of years of death will do to you...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (elLTo)
++++
The blood of patriots and tyrants.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 03, 2017 07:40 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at January 03, 2017 07:40 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: Harry Reid at January 03, 2017 07:41 PM (89T5c)
Totally not Their job!)and were totally convinced they would drag
Hillary over the finish line
I want to stop this in its tracks. One is crowned, not coronated. There is no such word.
Posted by: pep at January 03, 2017 07:42 PM (LAe3v)
I hope we as a people chose wisely what America is .
it cannot be their dream and ours.
it has to be won. we have to be more active and stop funneling money to the shits empowering them.
Posted by: willow at January 03, 2017 07:42 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Emperor Fuckstick at January 03, 2017 07:32 PM (89T5c)
.............
Dunno. Like a bag of fucksticks?
Posted by: in response to your question at January 03, 2017 07:43 PM (HgMAr)
I want to stop this in its tracks. One is crowned, not coronated. There is no such word.
Posted by: pep at January 03, 2017 07:42 PM (LAe3v)
so do I. for our sakes and actually 'for the children'!
Posted by: willow at January 03, 2017 07:43 PM (R7cwD)
Trump: No propagandists either Savannah, so sorry. Next!"
That would be Savannah Guthrie who, in her top-billed "exclusive White House interview" with Obama, asked him tough, probing, hard-hitting, no-holds-barred policy questions such as this one:
"Mr. President: wings, or chips and guac?"
I am not making this up. You could not make this stuff up.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 03, 2017 07:44 PM (noWW6)
We're going to have to remind the public, again and again, that they can't be trusted. Because they are not going to change.
It'll have to be a generational change, when the old guard die off and retire to their "how we did it right" books, and the new crop appears. And then we'll have to watch them as well.
Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet at January 03, 2017 07:45 PM (m8Vy/)
Posted by: Barakkus the Dingleborn at January 03, 2017 07:37 PM (agxbX)
No, Reggie just put it back in his pants
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 07:45 PM (auHtY)
Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 07:46 PM (QDnY+)
Serbian turbo-folk, with Balkan elbows:
https://youtu.be/AoOXyaPVVgI
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 03, 2017 07:46 PM (849WJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 07:47 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at January 03, 2017 07:47 PM (ptQdD)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at January 03, 2017 07:47 PM (VdICR)
Va'al 2020, if you know what's good for you.
Posted by: Buff guy in silver mascara and loincloth at January 03, 2017 07:47 PM (UW4Uc)
We're going to have to remind the public, again and again, that they can't be trusted. Because they are not going to change.
Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet at January 03, 2017 07:45 PM (m8Vy/)
*points to nick, and link in nick*
I say again, that bumper sticker should go viral.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 07:49 PM (sdi6R)
(from the Department of Painfully Mixed Eternal Punishments)
Posted by: Sharkman at January 03, 2017 07:49 PM (WklnJ)
that is the truth of them.
sharing way to tell the story they want heard.
while the left is reeling , we need to open the doors to their make believe knowledge and share journO.listers site
and the way they were propagandized so thoroughly
Posted by: willow at January 03, 2017 07:49 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 07:50 PM (auHtY)
The problem is, Ace, is that the media will not go away. They're not going to change just because of 2016.
Oh hell no, 2016 is forgotten. They've rededicated themselves to making sure Trump is a one term president
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2017 07:50 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 07:47 PM (IqV8l)
What a coincidence. I saw Endora's box in '68
Posted by: Darrin Stephens at January 03, 2017 07:50 PM (7qAYi)
None.
The libs just don't know it yet.
Posted by: Mega at January 03, 2017 07:51 PM (EdXI9)
Never understood the big talking head media contract.
What are you paying for. Do they beoieve that these people are going to bring an audience with them?
Because. No.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 07:51 PM (g9txO)
got me the strangest woman
believe me this trick's no cinch
but I really get her going
when I whip out my big 10 inch
record of a band that plays the blues...
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at January 03, 2017 07:51 PM (zu88C)
-Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 07:40 PM (g9txO)
If I ever see you, I'm going to fight you.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:51 PM (6gk0M)
Oh hell no, 2016 is forgotten. They've rededicated themselves to making sure Trump is
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2017 07:50 PM (lKyWE)/i]
FIFY.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 07:51 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Senator McCarthy at January 03, 2017 07:51 PM (UW4Uc)
I'm voting Balok 2020 because I like his platform of Tranya.
Plus he's a millennial or something.
Posted by: wth at January 03, 2017 07:52 PM (HgMAr)
No I need music that gives me a war-boner...
https://youtu.be/rKYAruk_BPM?t=7m5s
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at January 03, 2017 07:52 PM (VdICR)
And while the smack-downs are funny and deserved, and refreshing (esp. coming from the very top), a lot more is needed.
Clearly quite a few people know they cannot rely on the press for information in a lot of areas. But that still needs them needing the info.
Trump and Co. can use the press to inform and educate, but it will take a lot of hard work (Gingrich or Rumsfeld or Cheney style) from people with the substantive heft to do it. Mostly in dismantling myths and false premises the press lives by.
Of course results will help.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 07:53 PM (QDnY+)
Bring it, varmint...
I'm not afraid of any Weasel that likes 'Permanent Vacation' and 'Pump'.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 07:53 PM (g9txO)
Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at January 03, 2017 07:54 PM (nQ10o)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 07:54 PM (LTHVh)
"Most of the Baby Boomers who still populate the upper ranks of journalism were on their last campaign."
The problem with these people wasn't that they were Boomers.
The problem was that they were a particular cohort of Boomers who were marinated in 1960s New Left campus radicalism while they were in college and J-school... and then never actually outgrew that laughable adolescent worldview even as they approached retirement age.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 03, 2017 07:54 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:21 PM (6gk0M)
Yeah, but it all comes 'round again
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 03, 2017 07:54 PM (BXC+l)
Posted by: pep
Horse outta the barn on that one if there ever was a distinction. B'sides it has a latin root coronatus.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 03, 2017 07:54 PM (FQ0rq)
-Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 07:53 PM (QDnY+)
That's why "Our President Should Never Tweet!!!"
...even though the previous idiot did so to enhance his MSM "legacy".
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:55 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Picric at January 03, 2017 07:56 PM (s0VSd)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 03, 2017 07:56 PM (QDnY+)
-Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 07:53 PM (g9txO)
A Slapweasel is NOT a weasel. Stop me if you've heard this...
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:57 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at January 03, 2017 07:57 PM (ptQdD)
'Course, there's some old Russian/Cossack stuff what's good for 'battle-trance,' as well.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 03, 2017 07:58 PM (849WJ)
Hope I'm not threadjacking, but more #winning: James Woods won his effort in court to force social media (Twitter?) to identify his online harassers.
And, I also saw at Twitter that none other than Charlie Manson is "seriously ill" and has been moved from prison to a hospital facility.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 07:58 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Eromero at January 03, 2017 07:58 PM (zLDYs)
Barack, his face black, his eyes red.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 07:54 PM (LTHVh)
Hillary, when the walls fell.
Posted by: Dathon at January 03, 2017 07:58 PM (cmE8J)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 03, 2017 07:58 PM (g6yUI)
Posted by: Picric at January 03, 2017 07:59 PM (s0VSd)
This fake news idea is so persuasive, pervasive, that I'm starting to worry about fake history. All those books on amazon about historical events, even those by distinguished academics, are making me worried.
Do we even really know what happened back then?
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 03, 2017 07:59 PM (N7KCY)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 03, 2017 07:59 PM (qJhUV)
-Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 03, 2017 07:54 PM (BXC+l)
I hope so. The Eighties were a great time, through which to grow-up.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 07:59 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Oh who ra? at January 03, 2017 07:59 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Libertarianwannabe at January 03, 2017 07:54 PM (nQ10o)
You mean using a screenshot from Fallout 4 on Russian hacking isn't real news?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 07:59 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:00 PM (g9txO)
We're putting together an exploratory committee to get a feel for what this nation wants in the way of tort reform and genocide by phaser fire. We value your input. My running mate, Col. Green, will answer your questions.
Karidian 2020.
Posted by: Anton Karidian at January 03, 2017 08:00 PM (UW4Uc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:01 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:01 PM (g9txO)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:01 PM (u8kLQ)
-Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 07:58 PM (u8kLQ)
Everyone loves good news!
Satan awaits that fucking guy.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:01 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 07:58 PM (u8kLQ)
There goes our "dark horse" candidate for 2020.
Posted by: DNC at January 03, 2017 08:01 PM (iMxBJ)
141 131. Gotta suggest this to be played, as well: Goga Sekulic - 'Seksi Biznismen':
Serbian turbo-folk, with Balkan elbows:
https://youtu.be/AoOXyaPVVgI
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 03, 2017 07:46 PM (849WJ)
A hottie wearing a shoulder pelt. Wonder if there is a Makarov hiding in all that fur.
It is a catchy tune.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at January 03, 2017 08:01 PM (FtrY1)
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:01 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:02 PM (u8kLQ)
-Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:01 PM (g9txO)
I didn't say all of everything was great.
...even though I like Walking on Sunshine!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:02 PM (6gk0M)
Did you see the picture of her eating Breakfast last week?
At a table for 8.
By herself.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (g9txO)
Posted by: Things Ace would probably like to say at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (UW4Uc)
-Posted by: Things Ace would probably like to say at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (UW4Uc)
No.
Posted by: T'Pau at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Things Ace would probably like to say at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (UW4Uc)
Sigh. It's called "Pon Farr."
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (7qAYi)
She literally looks as if she sold her soul, and just found out the devil blew off his end of the bargain.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:04 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Cloud William, 2020 at January 03, 2017 08:04 PM (UW4Uc)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/drinkyforscrunt
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 08:04 PM (iMxBJ)
Is the mole singing? Who is that woman attached to the mole?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 03, 2017 08:05 PM (g+ibI)
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:05 PM (BO/km)
Clicked on an article and got malware. Big time malware.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 03, 2017 08:05 PM (u82oZ)
Hoping she blows it all on failed Senate campaigns.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:06 PM (u8kLQ)
183 How awesomely funny and awkward will it be when Hillary goes full Grand Mal in a snowbank at the Inauguration?
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:00 PM (g9txO)
------------
I used to pray for her to shit herself and collapse in a twitching fit on stage during a debate. I guess shitting herself and collapsing at Trump's inauguration would be even better.
Posted by: Weasel at January 03, 2017 08:06 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 03, 2017 08:06 PM (849WJ)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:07 PM (6gk0M)
Drudge works fine for me. I just learned this:
"Chickens exhibit Machiavellian tendencies, scientists discover"
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:07 PM (BO/km)
Is shattering defenestration
To 'scape from the throng
Before they do you wrong
Try a Porsche's acceleration
Posted by: zombie Bohemian potentate at January 03, 2017 08:07 PM (wpC7C)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 08:07 PM (LTHVh)
And, I also saw at Twitter that none other than Charlie Manson is "seriously ill" and has been moved from prison to a hospital facility.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 07:58 PM (u8kLQ)
I call dibs on Charlie in the dead pool.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:08 PM (sdi6R)
It is our deepest obligation that we give the next generation a better place than what our predecessors gave us. The boomers will not, and especially intellectually. Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address having read only the Bible, Shakespeare, and a few Greek classics. These small men with gifts of high potential robbed and squandered our country. The cannot describe any historical event beyond having an oppressor and a victim.
Fuckem.
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at January 03, 2017 08:08 PM (VdICR)
Who bitch this is?
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 03, 2017 08:08 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: pep at January 03, 2017 07:27 PM (LAe3v)
And, I must admit, good-looking as well.
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:09 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Things Ace would probably like to say at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (UW4Uc)
Here.... try some Tranya....
Posted by: The Corbonite Manuever at January 03, 2017 08:09 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: fleeped
It's true, it's amazing how quickly some new delicious-looking Wendy's chicken sandwich will bump me right off my latest diet...
"Chipotle AND mayo on one sandwich?!?!? Yum yum..." :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:09 PM (u8kLQ)
>>"Toys in The Attic came out in 1975."
And it remains the only Aerosmith album anyone ever needed.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 07:40 PM (g9txO)
Rocks.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 08:09 PM (EzgxV)
I looked a way for a moment and my fact-boner put a hole in the drywall.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:09 PM (6gk0M)
-
Boy, you butcher a dozen people and, right away, you're Mr. Bad Guy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 08:10 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:10 PM (u8kLQ)
These chickens are something else:
"They also have a sense of numbers, with even newly hatched chicks able to discriminate between quantities, and do simply arithmetic."
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:10 PM (BO/km)
Toys in The Attic came out in 1975
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 07:29 PM (7qAYi)
Knowing this I now feel sweet emotion.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 03, 2017 08:11 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:11 PM (6gk0M)
Exactly what Chapter of 'The Prince' describes my plight?
...if you had Sisyphusean, I might have agreed.
Posted by: The Chicken at January 03, 2017 08:11 PM (g9txO)
"Toys In The Attic"
"Pump"
...and one of their hits compilations, just for "Jaded" and "Back In The Saddle."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:11 PM (u8kLQ)
I'm over 40, and Walter Cronkite was a lying mother fucker the day I was born.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at January 03, 2017 08:12 PM (EUMr7)
"Toys In The Attic"
"Pump"
...and one of their hits compilations, just for "Jaded" and "Back In The Saddle."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:11 PM (u8kLQ)
Don't leave out Permanent Vacation.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 03, 2017 08:12 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:12 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: The Corbonite Manuever at January 03, 2017 08:09 PM (qf6WZ)
Stay away from anything "green" though . . .
Unless you're trying to drink an Andromedan invader under the table, that is.
Posted by: Cmdr. Montgomery Scott at January 03, 2017 08:12 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:13 PM (g9txO)
...which is nice.
...so I've got that going for me.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:13 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 03, 2017 08:12 PM (0mRoj)
I'm fond of "Big Ten Inch Record" but then I was extremely young and impressionable when it first, er, came out.
Posted by: Cmdr. Montgomery Scott at January 03, 2017 08:13 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Things Ace would probably like to say at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (UW4Uc)
Are you saying ace is a Babylon 5 fan?
Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 08:13 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:14 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:14 PM (6gk0M)
And an LP copy, an OP, should go for decent money as it was an 89 release.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:15 PM (g9txO)
Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 08:13 PM (cAnNx)
No boom today.
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:15 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: buzzion at January 03, 2017 08:13 PM (cAnNx)
Hmmm.... got the whole series on DVD...
May be time for a Babylon marathon....
Better than anything on TV now...
Posted by: The Corbonite Manuever at January 03, 2017 08:15 PM (qf6WZ)
Still can't believe they got out from under a song like "My Fist Your Face."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:15 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:16 PM (u8kLQ)
I like the song I'm back in the saddle. Aerosmith sucked live. Steven forgot the lyrics and they all were high.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 08:16 PM (IgBFP)
"Toys In The Attic"
"Pump"
...and one of their hits compilations, just for "Jaded" and "Back In The Saddle."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:11 PM (u8kLQ)
Don't leave out Permanent Vacation.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 03, 2017 08:12 PM (0mRoj)
Their MTV Unplugged show is pretty good.
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:16 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:16 PM (g9txO)
Uh ... that was never a well-kept secret. But it dovetails nicely with the silly talk that people like to engage in about "qualifications" for political office, which almost always involves the stupidest sorts of arguments one can imagine - seeing as they are constantly pointing to the totally unqualified (in any sense) people who have no successes in any actual field, to speak of, as being "the qualified candidates".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:17 PM (zc3Db)
"The very idea of chicken psychology is strange to most people."
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:17 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:14 PM (6gk0M)
Supreme Court Associate Justice Nominee Andrew Napolitano (perhaps to start Trump's second term?)
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:17 PM (s5o+q)
Went to Drudge. Loaded fine.
Clicked on an article and got malware. Big time malware.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 03, 2017 08:05 PM (u82oZ)
Uh-oh....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 08:17 PM (EzgxV)
Still can't believe they got out from under a song like "My Fist Your Face."
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:15 PM (u8kLQ)
I think it was their first, hence the title.
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:17 PM (7qAYi)
These chickens are something else:
"They also have a sense of numbers, with even newly hatched chicks able to discriminate between quantities, and do simply arithmetic."
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:10 PM (BO/km)
As God is my witness, I never knew chickens could do arithmetic.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:17 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:17 PM (zc3Db)
To all candidates.
I will slow grapple and throw boulders with all of you to decide the Presid--ksssssssssh--nited Stat--kssss--vglbrgrlrl--ah screw this cheap--kssh--versal--kssh--anslator--glxvlzkbr--
Posted by: Gorn, 2020 at January 03, 2017 08:18 PM (UW4Uc)
Ace, that's not quite right.
They do care how non-humans feel.
They care that your feelings are evil, invalid, and are reason that you should suffer and endure pain and privation.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 03, 2017 08:18 PM (EZebt)
Back in college I had a teacher for one of my classes, who also worked at KNAC in Long Beach, back when it was a hard rock/heavy metal station. He said Tyler & Co. could literally perform for hours, just on autopilot, high on drugs.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:18 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: The Corbonite Manuever at January 03, 2017 08:09 PM (qf6WZ)
Stay away from anything "green" though . . .
Unless you're trying to drink an Andromedan invader under the table, that is.
Posted by: Cmdr. Montgomery Scott
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Oh my.
Posted by: Big Gay Asian Navigaytor Who Is Also Gay at January 03, 2017 08:18 PM (zu88C)
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:10 PM (BO/km)
They've got a step up on Barky, then.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:18 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:18 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 08:19 PM (Nwg0u)
Clicked on an article and got malware. Big time malware.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 03, 2017 08:05 PM (u82oZ)
Uh-oh....
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 08:17 PM (EzgxV)
You sure that wasn't the Washington Times' normal encruftedness?
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:20 PM (s5o+q)
Vainglorious.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 03, 2017 08:20 PM (0tfLf)
230
>>Rocks.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 08:09 PM (EzgxV)
Toys has it all over Rocks.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:13 PM (g9txO)
Didn't say it didn't -- but Rocks was the companion album. Just like Night at the Opera/Day at the Races by Queen, or Floyd's Dark Side/Wish.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 03, 2017 08:20 PM (EzgxV)
If I remember correctly, the band didn't sound that bad, Steven messed up song lyrics. He wasn't good live.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 08:20 PM (IgBFP)
Posted by: Keith Richards and Jimmy Page at January 03, 2017 08:20 PM (g9txO)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair"
Have you ever heard the expression "like a chicken looking at a card trick"?
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:21 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at January 03, 2017 08:21 PM (VdICR)
-Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:17 PM (s5o+q)
No. He's too "Large "L" Libertarian. We already have Kennedy.
A replacement for Scalia would need someone like Willet or he judge that Scalia called "someone who should replace me", whose name escapes me at the moment.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:21 PM (6gk0M)
His Mobile Alabama office, where he's not. I say remove the toilet paper from the crapper and ignore them.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2017 08:22 PM (LTHVh)
I'm fond of "Big Ten Inch Record" but then I was extremely young and impressionable when it first, er, came out.
Posted by: Cmdr. Montgomery Scott at January 03, 2017 08:13 PM (s5o+q)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rws_7mLTqj8
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:22 PM (sdi6R)
I just never cared for Aerosmith. Not even one tiny, little bit.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:22 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 08:23 PM (iMxBJ)
A replacement for Scalia would need someone like Willet or he judge that Scalia called "someone who should replace me", whose name escapes me at the moment.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:21 PM (6gk0M)
Well, I did suggest that he might be a candidate for Trump's **second** term.
My current fave for first up (to replace Scalia) is Willett.
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:23 PM (s5o+q)
This year is going to be great with all the progressive protests groups active again. Good times.
Posted by: Ermin Waters at January 03, 2017 08:23 PM (N7KCY)
-
Compared to you're a hater and deserve to die if you don't like 6'3" perverts taking a whiz next to your daughter in the little girls room?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 08:23 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:21 PM (BO/km)
No, but I've heard the expression "like playing chess with a chicken" ... or maybe it was a rooster ... close enough.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:24 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 08:23 PM (iMxBJ)
WISE Latina?
Sadly we don't have on now...
Posted by: Don Q. at January 03, 2017 08:24 PM (qf6WZ)
Sometimes a Pecker is just a Pecker.
Posted by: Zombie Freud at January 03, 2017 08:24 PM (g9txO)
I don't think I'm ever going to be a fan of MC5, for instance. But I'd bet there are folks here who love them.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:25 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:25 PM (6gk0M)
Went to Drudge. Loaded fine.
Clicked on an article and got malware. Big time malware.
I can't even get the page to load.
That might be a good thing re:malware.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:25 PM (IqV8l)
We saw them in Long Beach in about 1982 I think.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 08:25 PM (IgBFP)
Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 03, 2017 08:25 PM (nvMvs)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 03, 2017 08:25 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 08:19 PM (Nwg0u)
I saw a picture of 4 people sitting on the floor of an office. Let them stay there for the next 4 years
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 08:26 PM (auHtY)
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College level online course in the UK, for people who keep chickens as a hobby.
"It is to make chickens laugh."
Posted by: Ermin Waters at January 03, 2017 08:26 PM (N7KCY)
-Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 03, 2017 08:25 PM (nvMvs)
She is the ultimate 'ette!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:26 PM (6gk0M)
It's ironic I'm such an Eagles fan, given that Long Beach (which I am close to) is where they went to die.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:27 PM (u8kLQ)
May I suggest using your nightstick, Officer?
Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at January 03, 2017 08:27 PM (iMxBJ)
(from the Department of Painfully Mixed Eternal Punishments)
You forgot the pineapple there, Sharkman.
Posted by: J. Random Dudde at January 03, 2017 08:27 PM (C9lNt)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 08:26 PM (auHtY)
Last I heard, trespassing was still a crime...
Kick the media out, then arrest them.
Posted by: Don Q. at January 03, 2017 08:28 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 03, 2017 08:25 PM (nvMvs)
I've seen her comment here under her own name, but that was a thread where Ace wrote about an article of hers.
It would be very cool if she is a regular (or even occasional) 'ette under a pseudonym.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:28 PM (sdi6R)
Yeah, there's a long list of bands I can't stand that people love. Even bands I love, like them...but, I can't stand them.
Like the Velvet Underground.
To me, they are the Umberto Eco of Rock.
All these people swear up and down how awesome and seminal they were...
you know what I never catch these people doing?
Listening to the fucking Velvet Underground.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:28 PM (g9txO)
Posted by: Weasel
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You mean I may get my wish to see the evil bitch stroke out on Live national TV afterall?
Maybe there is a God...
Posted by: Chi at January 03, 2017 08:29 PM (wVYbe)
From WZ: NAACP 'Occupying' Office Of Sen. Jeff Sessions Until He Withdraws As Trump's Attorney General . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius!
I saw a picture of 4 people sitting on the floor of an office. Let them stay there for the next 4 years
Posted by: TheQuietMan
Do they do it in shifts like those rolling hunger strikes?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:29 PM (IqV8l)
May I suggest using your nightstick, Officer?
-
Right up the wazoo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 08:29 PM (Nwg0u)
...because boner and stuff.
...but mainly boner.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:29 PM (6gk0M)
"They perceive time intervals and may be able to anticipate future events."
These are some damn smart fortune telling chickens. I want one.
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:29 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 03, 2017 08:30 PM (849WJ)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 08:30 PM (IgBFP)
Like the Velvet Underground.
To me, they are the Umberto Eco of Rock.
All these people swear up and down how awesome and seminal they were...
you know what I never catch these people doing?
Listening to the fucking Velvet Underground.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:28 PM (g9txO)
Heh. My best friend, who lives, eats & breathes music (he's a hell of a guitar player) swears his favorite band is The Velvet Underground. We've been best friends since the first grade & I've never heard him play anything by them.
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:30 PM (7qAYi)
I think the saying about VU is, they were never very popular; but all of their fans went on to create/front other groups that were far more popular.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 03, 2017 08:30 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 08:26 PM (auHtY)
Last I heard, trespassing was still a crime...
Kick the media out, then arrest them.
-
One word: defenestration.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 08:31 PM (Nwg0u)
That explains why you can't hit one with a pickup truck.
No matter how fast you drive through the barnyard.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:31 PM (g9txO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:31 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 03, 2017 08:31 PM (u82oZ)
-Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 08:30 PM (IgBFP)
Feminists.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:31 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 03, 2017 08:31 PM (849WJ)
May I suggest using your nightstick, Officer?
-
Right up the wazoo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 08:29 PM (Nwg0u)
Close the Officer. Turn off the Electricity. No Food deliveries. Shut the toilets or overflow them ( call me, my expertise) . They will leave
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 08:32 PM (SjImc)
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Two words: chicken coup.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 08:32 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU
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Are restraining orders enforceable in comment sections on the internet?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Chi at January 03, 2017 08:32 PM (wVYbe)
Nobody, in the history of the world, has ever walked into a room where the Velvet Underground was playing and said:
'I like this...Who is it?'.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:32 PM (g9txO)
I think it means the cat watches and wants the duck but it knows the duck will kick it's butt and the duck knows it too.
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:32 PM (BO/km)
OK, I resign.
PSYCH, BITCHES!!! HahahahhhHHAAAahahaha!!
Posted by: Jeff Sessions at January 03, 2017 08:33 PM (97XyN)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:31 PM
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Hey! That's grammie's and my gig!
Posted by: bluebell at January 03, 2017 08:33 PM (sBOL1)
All these people swear up and down how awesome and seminal they were...
you know what I never catch these people doing?
Listening to the fucking Velvet Underground.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:28 PM (g9txO)
Well, I used to, anyway, back when I had a stereo system. I still have some of their LPs.
I never got into Lou Reed's solo material, but the VU were pretty kickass and ahead of their time.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:33 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 03, 2017 08:30 PM (849WJ)
Like a tiger looking at a person and thinking: "That's the biggest pig I've ever seen."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 08:33 PM (92kX2)
To me, they are the Umberto Eco of Rock.
All these people swear up and down how awesome and seminal they were...
you know what I never catch these people doing?
Listening to the fucking Velvet Underground.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:28 PM (g9txO)
I love the Velvet Underground. I listen to them all the time. But, different strokes for different folks.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:33 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 03, 2017 08:30 PM (IgBFP)
Mean, check. Smart -- I'm still trying to figure that one out. They've done some things that seem smart and observant.
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 08:33 PM (iMxBJ)
May I suggest using your nightstick, Officer?
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Right up the wazoo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 08:29 PM (Nwg0u)
Close the Officer. Turn off the Electricity. No Food deliveries. Shut the toilets or overflow them ( call me, my expertise) . They will leave
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2017 08:32 PM (SjImc)
They'd probably get their lawyers to sue to have the power turned back on & food deliveries made. And they'd probably win.
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:33 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Ermin Waters at January 03, 2017 08:34 PM (N7KCY)
Grandfather had 20,000 damn chickens on his egg ranch...
Chickens are about the dumbest creatures on the face of the earth...
Kind of like, the Left...
Wait... maybe THATS why folks are suddenly studying their psychology? To figure out the Left?
Posted by: Don Q. at January 03, 2017 08:34 PM (qf6WZ)
I can't say I'll ever be part of the movement again, not really, not after seeing what it was really all about.
Ace ...
... most everybody that ever go all-in on any movement - or anything else - are mostly dogmatic, cultish, sheep-like, and love to scold heretics.
That's why they go all-in.
Well Hell - you'll never see post. But I wish you would.
Posted by: SD at January 03, 2017 08:34 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2017 07:08 PM (5sOEp)
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We demand that Trump appoint an anti-Trump Czar whose job it will be to resist the racist, white-supremist, nazi Trump administration!
Posted by: #DrunkDonLemon and #BlackLiesMatter at January 03, 2017 08:34 PM (mt8X9)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 03, 2017 08:34 PM (xInes)
I am still skeptical that the leftist media will ever be changed. Just like I am skeptical that Jews will ever not vote Democrat.
To paraphrase their own phrase: it's who they are. They did not come to their views as adults. It began in adolescence, them in their bubble, unaware of how their minds were being shaped.
The next eight years, and I hope the eight beyond, are going to be interesting. We've not had anything like this before in the age of mass communication.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 03, 2017 08:35 PM (U6f54)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at January 03, 2017 08:35 PM (849WJ)
They go for decent money. Crazy if they are the rarest of them.
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:35 PM (g9txO)
Even though Willett drinks beer with Dave Burge, he's far too immersed in pop culture for my tastes. A guy who spends that much of his time on TV, movies and sports isn't going to be another cerebral and scholarly Scalia.
And he's got young kids. Hence vulnerable to the gambit of "not only will you be socially ostracized, but we'll also blackball your children from obtaining a place in a good school in D.C."
Posted by: torquewrench at January 03, 2017 08:35 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 08:33 PM (iMxBJ)
Chickens are JUST like the Left.... thinking on it a bit...
One chicken can appear to do smart things...
Get three or more of them together? Dumb dumb dumb...
Posted by: Don Q. at January 03, 2017 08:36 PM (qf6WZ)
Have a comment that keeps getting rejected.
It wasn't much of a comment and should have been rejected. I just didn't know that pixy was able to judge the appropriateness of commentary and screen out stuff.
Or maybe it's more mysterious computer 'acking by the Russians. I don't know.
Posted by: Ermin Waters at January 03, 2017 08:36 PM (N7KCY)
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:36 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 03, 2017 08:37 PM (xInes)
Scalia mentioned Frank Easterbrook by name in 2012.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:37 PM (6gk0M)
And he's got young kids. Hence vulnerable to the gambit of "not only will you be socially ostracized, but we'll also blackball your children from obtaining a place in a good school in D.C."
Posted by: torquewrench at January 03, 2017 08:35 PM (noWW6)
Good points. I haven't gone in-depth with Trump's entire list . . . or really any person on it, at all.
I'm just a guy in a gray box on the Intertubes, you know?
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:37 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 08:38 PM (92kX2)
That's where I got the chicken story but now it's not working.
Posted by: fleeped at January 03, 2017 08:36 PM (BO/km)
Wasn't me! I was . . . uh . . . BUSY . . .
Posted by: The Chicken at January 03, 2017 08:39 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 03, 2017 08:39 PM (rH4JY)
Posted by: garrett at January 03, 2017 08:40 PM (g9txO)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:40 PM (6gk0M)
Get three or more of them together? Dumb dumb dumb...
Posted by: Don Q. at January 03, 2017 08:36 PM (qf6WZ)
Wait...that seems familiar...Tommy Lee Jones...Men In Black. Naah. Someone must have flashy-thinged me.
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 08:40 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:40 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: teej at January 03, 2017 08:41 PM (gJ3Vg)
Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2017 08:41 PM (reARY)
Posted by: Floyde Farthengton at January 03, 2017 08:41 PM (N7KCY)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Chi at January 03, 2017 08:32 PM
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Winona Ryder?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 03, 2017 08:41 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:41 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:29 PM (IqV8l)
Nothing says conviction for a cause like feeling hungry for 15 minutes
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2017 08:41 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:42 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:37 PM (s5o+q)
You're a nut!
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 03, 2017 08:42 PM (97XyN)
So. That's nice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 08:38 PM (92kX2)
Thanks for the warning.
I'll take your word for it that Drudge is back up.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:42 PM (sdi6R)
Drudge has been getting nailed with attacks since he reported it. I can only connect about 30% of the time when I try.
Posted by: Pepe at January 03, 2017 08:42 PM (X/5o4)
And he's got young kids. Hence vulnerable to the gambit of "not only will you be socially ostracized, but we'll also blackball your children from obtaining a place in a good school in D.C."
Posted by: torquewrench
Somebody(s) need to set up a NonLefty school there.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:43 PM (IqV8l)
Well, at least she SAID she could milk cows.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 03, 2017 08:25 PM (97XyN)
Milk is bad for chickens. It depletes the enamel on their teeth.
Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at January 03, 2017 08:44 PM (uHXIq)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:33 PM
Yep.
Posted by: otho at January 03, 2017 08:44 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: Things Ace would probably like to say at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (UW4Uc)
I'm a doctor, not a thread moderator!!
Posted by: Dr Leonard McCoy at January 03, 2017 08:44 PM (Ya7zs)
Posted by: Captain James Tiberius Kirk at January 03, 2017 08:46 PM (Tyii7)
Anytime he posts, I listen.
...like the old H&R block commercials.
E.F. Hutton
https://youtu.be/2MXqb1a3Apg
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:46 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:37 PM (s5o+q)
You're a nut!
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 03, 2017 08:42 PM (97XyN)
Sometimes you feel like a nut . . .
Posted by: filbert at January 03, 2017 08:46 PM (s5o+q)
99 percent of commenters are trashing the JEF. This, at the WaPo site. Amazing!
Maybe things are really turning.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 03, 2017 08:46 PM (U6f54)
Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2017 08:41 PM (reARY)
They were paying dark and cynical proto-punk music during the Flower Power era of the mid-to late 60s. Like I said, they were ahead of their time.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:47 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Things Ace would probably like to say at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (UW4Uc)
You talk about orgies like it's a BAD thing
Posted by: Capt James T Kirk at January 03, 2017 08:47 PM (Ya7zs)
McAfee as a nice feature built into their product; a list of urls that people have reported as 'risky', and McAfee filters your internet session so your browser doesn't go to those sites without warning you.
I'm not sure what happens when a legitimate site gets marked as 'risky'. There is an appeal process, but it would depend on how much time McAfee can afford to spend on checking.
Posted by: Ermin Waters at January 03, 2017 08:48 PM (N7KCY)
https://youtu.be/2MXqb1a3Apg
-Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:46 PM (IqV8l)
My bad. You are correct. Thanks!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:48 PM (6gk0M)
But, different strokes for different folks.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
Sometimes you feel like a Rockwell
Sometimes you feel like a Rothko
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:48 PM (IqV8l)
My bad. You are correct. Thanks!
Posted by: Slapweasel
People listened to them up until the point they went out of business.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2017 08:50 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Things Ace would probably like to say at January 03, 2017 08:03 PM (UW4Uc)
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Uhura > Yar > Rand
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 03, 2017 08:50 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:42 PM (7qAYi)
That must be the edited version of 21 Hours in Munich. I hope they don't cut all the good stuff out.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:50 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:50 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 08:52 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:42 PM (7qAYi)
BTW, that wasn't a muslim thing. That was pure, 100% secular arab terror. More marxist than muzzie.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:52 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:47 PM (sdi6R)
Just because they were ahead of their time, does not mean they were good. Not my cup of tea, but I never found them offensive.
They always seemed to me like one of those bands that everyone 'hip' and 'with it' were supposed to love- like the Ramones. Again, another one that never did anything for me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 08:52 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: josephistan at January 03, 2017 08:53 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at January 03, 2017 08:53 PM (nvMvs)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 03, 2017 08:50 PM (EZebt)
How quickly they forget Andrea, from the Roger Korby episode, in that that blue and green dress.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zddbpk3
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 08:54 PM (iMxBJ)
Read the comments under the WaPo story.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 03, 2017 08:54 PM (U6f54)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 08:52 PM (dKiJG)
Tomorrow I'll reveal how the Rothschild Lizard People implant mind altering computer chips into your poop chute.
Buy gold!
Posted by: Glenn Beck at January 03, 2017 08:54 PM (Ya7zs)
My first candidate would be Bill Belichick.
Posted by: mrp at January 03, 2017 08:54 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:54 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 03, 2017 08:55 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:47 PM
They did some fantastic rock n roll songs... sometimes executed in odd and weird ways, but there is some surprisingly great stuff spread over those albums for those who haven't heard them. Not everything works... but, the ones that do, are killer.
Posted by: otho at January 03, 2017 08:55 PM (lmIoG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 03, 2017 08:50 PM (EZebt)
7of9>Dax>thatvulcanchickfromenterprise
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 08:55 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 03, 2017 08:55 PM (KP5rU)
...The Perfect Album.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:54 PM (6gk0M)
That was good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 08:56 PM (92kX2)
Obama dishes up one last free meal (at taxpayer expense) to friends and money donors. I presume there will be eating and drinking at the White House? That's the whole point of a 'party', right?
Posted by: Ermin Waters at January 03, 2017 08:56 PM (N7KCY)
Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2017 08:56 PM (reARY)
Posted by: ¡Jeb! at January 03, 2017 08:56 PM (g6yUI)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 03, 2017 08:56 PM (l0TQe)
Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2017 08:56 PM (reARY)
I don't remember Cosell from that. I remember Jim McKay.
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 08:57 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:47 PM (sdi6R)
Just because they were ahead of their time, does not mean they were good. Not my cup of tea, but I never found them offensive.
They always seemed to me like one of those bands that everyone 'hip' and 'with it' were supposed to love- like the Ramones. Again, another one that never did anything for me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 03, 2017 08:52 PM (92kX2)
I liked them to a degree, but eventually I had my fill of "dark and cynical".
The Ramones just seemed like brainless fun, at a time when prog-rock bands were playing Serious Music. They were a reaction to that.
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:57 PM (sdi6R)
Also, Mollie Hemingway is a boss.
Posted by: iwuzhere at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (GRNzr)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (6gk0M)
My Cats are visiting Allen Field House tonight,,, where they have lost eleven, that's right, eleven, in, a, row.
But then Bill Self has only lost 5 home games since he's been at KU.
Well, the 2017 football season is just around the corner.
Two minutes till tip.
Posted by: teej at January 03, 2017 08:58 PM (gJ3Vg)
Posted by: rickl - THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU at January 03, 2017 08:47 PM
Part of that is because they were junkies before everyone else. Still, I love their sound. And most of Lou Reed's solo stuff, too.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (zc3Db)
I have, multiple times, personally seen him call the immigration restrictionist movement racist.
He can spend the rest of his life sneaking into bathrooms and trying to have sex with children, for all I care. (Which is what all good leftists want to do, of course.)
Posted by: Oschisms at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (ZsN9X)
journalists all liked about a passenger on an airliner who thinks that
the pilot is out of touch with the common man and thinks he should fly
the plane? Well, when I get on a plane they tell is going to Tucumcari,
when I get off I can be pretty damn sure it's Tucumcari. When a
journalist tells you the Russians hacked the election it's like
Journalism Airlines flew you to Timbuktu and is just telling you it's
Tucumcari.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at January 03, 2017 07:19 PM (Nwg0u)
We got it, far more than the cartoonist understood. We agreed with the cartoon. But this was the Flight 93 election. We don't know if Trump knows how to land the airplane, but we knew damn well what would happen if Hillary was flying it, and that was unacceptable.
http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/
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Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at January 03, 2017 09:01 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: Barrel at January 03, 2017 09:02 PM (u82oZ)
When you post from there
Barrel smells infest your nose
Sticky floor ointment
Posted by: Splunge at January 03, 2017 09:04 PM (iMxBJ)
What won me over, in good measure.
Posted by: oddnot enjoying #winning still with schadenboner to prove it at January 03, 2017 09:08 PM (g1MTt)
I still don't understand why folks can't analyze this election. I was trying to spell this out to my Lefty friend, which I guess was the problem. We elected someone that isn't a career politician. He put his own money into it. He spent a lot less and did an old school campaign where he went out and talked to people. He didn't fund consultants or the media. And his cabinet picks seem to be mostly successful business people or successful military. I think that's a good change from the guy that drove the van during your campaign.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 03, 2017 09:08 PM (uyrlv)
Not true. Watch how liberals react when a lion or giraffe is shot on a hunt.
Posted by: Bill at January 03, 2017 09:50 PM (FbFKQ)
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at January 03, 2017 09:52 PM (nFdGS)
I have, multiple times, personally seen him call the immigration restrictionist movement racist.
Posted by: Oschisms at January 03, 2017 08:59 PM (ZsN9X)
Okay, I guess I'll stay unsubscribed.
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at January 03, 2017 09:55 PM (nFdGS)
http://www.everyjoe.com/2017/01/02/politics/trump-inauguration-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us/#1
Posted by: Zaklog the Great at January 03, 2017 09:58 PM (sQtcX)
I was once told Ees Auld Roosyan Folk Tale, but now I think it was turned out by Prokofiev in 1936 in a couple of days for a commie commissar's commission.
Anyway, one of the towering works of western kultur, some will say.
Pretty sure there was a Camel jingle based on its main theme, in the 60's.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 03, 2017 10:33 PM (H5rtT)
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And with McCain, and Mitt, and GOPe in general, they got that quick backdown. Trump (and Cruz) didn't. But Cruz could be ignored; Trump couldn't be. So they got a real fight they couldn't keep up with.
Posted by: SDN at January 04, 2017 12:00 AM (z3gg+)
Deal is, one is supposed to defend one's territory ferociously and unprincipled-ly *before* one loses control of it. It's a little late for that now.
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