The Weekly Standard: Republicans Should Be Condemning Sinclair Media and Its "Deeply Unserious" Claim that the Biased Leftwing Media is Leftwing and Biased

The cucks continue padding their Clip Reels for their job applications to work in the leftwing media.

Stuff about Amazon omitted. That's a different question and requires a different response.

For now, let's just focus on the claim that the leftwing media is not itself very biased, and therefore Republicans are charged with decrying the bias of Sinclair media. Or, at least, not decrying the bias of the leftist media.

Editorial: What If Trump Were Obama, and Sinclair Were CNN?
The right response for the wrong reason.
6:40 AM, APR 04, 2018 | By THE EDITORS

Republicans have been awfully quiet over the last few days, and they probably should have been. The question is why they were so quiet.
...
And what about the controversy over Sinclair Broadcasting? The Maryland-based media company, which owns 193 local television stations in more than 100 media markets, is reported to have required news anchors at Sinclair-owned stations to read scripts about the dangers of "fake news" (meaning left-liberal biased news) on news broadcasts. Not only that. Sinclair headquarters regularly sends its stations news segments of a politically right-leaning nature with instructions that the stations are required to run them (they're labeled "must-run").
Is this a breach of basic journalistic integrity? Is the requirement that news anchors read vaguely pro-administration boilerplate an instance of state propaganda? The answers aren't obvious. Sinclair is a private company, not a government agency, and its executives can run its newsrooms how they wish....
Suspicions about Sinclair's rightward bias were confirmed when David Smith, the company's chairman, wrote in an email to New York magazine that "the print media is so left wing as to be meaningless dribble [sic] which accounts for why the industry is and will fade away." We have our complaints about the unacknowledged dominance of left-liberal political opinions in many parts of America's news media, although Smith's remark that mainstream print media are "meaningless dribble"--together with his comment that there is a "complete lack of integrity" in print-media newsrooms--strikes us as a deeply unserious appraisal.

Let me translate: Our billionaire owner might not keep us on the make-work payroll forever. Please hire us, Atlantic! We're not like those other conservatives! We like and trust you and think you do a really good job and would like to be just like you!

[W]e wince to imagine the response among lots of famous right-wingers in the media and in Congress if the same were revealed on the other side of the media's ideological divide. If, say, MSNBC were discovered to require its anchors to recite vaguely anti-administration talking points, or if Jeff Zucker, say, were overheard grousing about the "complete lack of integrity" among conservative journalists, all hell would break loose at Fox News.

What about if, hypothetically, CNN's "media analyst" Brian "Tater" Stelter acted as a corporate propagandist absolving CNN of all the journalistic sins he actually bothered to cover, and ignored most of the charges against the network entirely?

What if CNN ran an advertising campaign similar to Sinclair's?

There would be no allowance for ambiguity and context and the distinction between private companies and public entities; it would be a scandal about mandatory agitprop and radical left-wing media bias.
We're glad Republicans aren't saying a lot of stupid things about Amazon and Sinclair. We only wish it were for the right reason.

In other words, we're glad they're not saying Sinclair is biased, because it's silly to claim the leftwing media is biased, and no one who has integrity should do either.

Guys, I know you're not quite done bilking Conservative, Inc. out of the last bits of money they're willing to set on fire to fund your cush no-influence-no-results sinecures, and I know you're still busy fighting The Only Struggle That Really Matters to the Conservative Commetariat Class -- whether formerly right-wing writers like Kevin Williamson should be permitted to write for leftwing magazines, as you hope to do in the next few quarters -- but it's time for you to leave the stage like Hillary Clinton, who you all hoped would be president, and dedicate yourself to selling Cruise Cabins at steep discounts full-time.

The liberal former Republicans understand that their time being paid for zero results to advance any cause other than their own is coming to an end. Just as Kevin Williamson debuts at The Atlantic by ingratiating himself to his new liberal confreres, declaring Victor Davis Hanson to be the Real Enemy, so too must the cucks begin pre-ingratiating themselves with their would-be future employers.

That begins by flattering their future employers and coworkers on the grounds they most desire to be flattered, and demand to be flattered: that they are not biased, and do not cook stories to favor the liberal wing of the Democrat Party, and are all-around righteous, honest, scrupulous hard-working Heroes.

This is the one matter upon which you may not disagree with the leftist media on, if you hope to secure their goodwill or even tolerance one day.

And we see now the Weekly Standard working overtime to secure that goodwill. Their Exit Strategies demand that they be able to leave one well-paid, little-work sinecure for another, and if that requires mounting vigorous defenses of the leftist media -- well, small price to pay for advancing one's career.

By the way, Kevin: I know you probably thought it sounded pretty intellectual to write etatism (accent omitted, as it would blow the formatting) and throw it in quotes as if it's a French word, but in fact it's an English word, a bastardized loanword from the French, and hence does not need the accent and does not need to be italicized. French words do not end in "-ism;" they end in -isme.

You could put etatisme in italics, as that's a French word (and add the accent aigu), or you can write etatism, no accent and no italics, as the latter is an English word.

Or you could have just used the more common English word "statism."

But you can't write the English word "etatism" and then pretend it's French.

But I hope this Appeal to Cosmopolitanisme, even if it was a bit of a faux pas, endeared you to your new liberal amis.

Coming next: Williamson tries his hand with "cooperation," with an umlaut over the second "o," the way the New Yorker writes it. Because he's writing for a Smarter Audience now.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 06:30 PM

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1 First.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 04, 2018 06:23 PM (+Dllb)

2 YO!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 04, 2018 06:24 PM (p6e8W)

3 Corgis

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 04, 2018 06:24 PM (p6e8W)

4 Cosmopolitanisme...now that is a mouthful.

Posted by: IC at April 04, 2018 06:25 PM (a0IVu)

5 The Hogg and whore media is beyond reproach!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 04, 2018 06:25 PM (+y/Ru)

6 Weekly Standard? Is that the magazine founded by the guy who played a homo on "Soap".

Posted by: freaked at April 04, 2018 06:26 PM (UdKB7)

7 Wow. I'm in.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:26 PM (o7tuA)

8 can't we all just get along?

Posted by: zombie Rodney King at April 04, 2018 06:27 PM (ROV4u)

9 Top 10

Posted by: Skip Cats won it all at April 04, 2018 06:27 PM (aC6Sd)

10 By the way, Kevin: I know you probably thought it sounded pretty intellectual to write etatism (accent omitted, as it would blow the formatting) and throw it in quotes as if it's a French word, but in fact it's an English word, a bastardized loanword from the French, and hence does not need the accent and does not need to be italicized. French words do not end in "-ism;" they end in -isme.

Jeez Ace I was hoping you would tell him to blow you first

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 04, 2018 06:27 PM (njvDI)

11 These people are dumber than a stump.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2018 06:27 PM (EoRCO)

12 I could have been first but I was playing with my toolbar.

Posted by: freaked at April 04, 2018 06:28 PM (UdKB7)

13 The Weekly Standard. About as "important" as Vanity Fair.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:28 PM (ptqGC)

14 REMOVE FROG-TALK

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:28 PM (fA1SL)

15 More tallywhacking among the media types.

Not sure why I am even surprised anymore. Actually, it is more like disappointed I guess.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 06:29 PM (jS2zB)

16 Its very easy to prove the media is Left wing, a few websites do this regularly

Posted by: Skip Cats won it all at April 04, 2018 06:29 PM (aC6Sd)

17 Buncha fags.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 06:29 PM (NWiLs)

18 We want to be loved. And admired.

But mostly loved. And invited to box seats at National's games. And parties. We do love parties.

See the glittering lights of DC? All is well here, and will be, as long as you deplorables STFU.

/The GOP

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:29 PM (7LY+6)

19 14 REMOVE FROG-TALK
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:28 PM (fA1SL)

REMOVE ESCARGOT!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 06:29 PM (NWiLs)

20 The Weekly Commie.

Posted by: Monk at April 04, 2018 06:29 PM (GJnhB)

21 They can't be serious.

Remember, these are the sober, rational voices of reason who offer sober, rational reasons of reasoning.

I've been in a car with four sixteen year old girls who acted less hysterical than these faggots.

It's incredible to me how fragile the whole thing always was.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 04, 2018 06:29 PM (4ErVI)

22 The Weekly Standard

LOL

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 06:29 PM (r9UYA)

23 Very nice takedown ace,that had to hurt.

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (LiyEm)

24 buy my book...

"From War Hair to Whore Hair"

Posted by: Trey Gowdy at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (ROV4u)

25 I think I told you this already, but I have an insider who told me there was a meeting to discuss a redesign of the Weekly Standard, and the question was asked: What magazines do you like? What would you like to see the Weekly Standard look like?

They almost all said "The Atlantic" or "The New Yorker."

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (8rNrN)

26 This and and I see from the sidebar that Trey Gowdy has finally admitted what we all knew, he's fucking duplicitous retard.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (UfMVm)

27

What's funny is the WRONG PEOPLE are wearing those stupid pussy hats.

Republican Cucks should be wearing them.

Right?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (krbmJ)

28 Now I'm having flashbacks to high school French class. {{shudder}}

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (ptqGC)

29 6:40 AM, APR 04, 2018 | By THE EDITORS

"That's right. We are THE EDITORS!!! Don't you ever forget that, you." -- THE EDITORS

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (8gDQu)

30 Mais oui, bien sur.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (MX7xj)

31
Republicans have been awfully quiet over the last few days, and they probably should have been. The question is why they were so quiet.

Because Trump is bruising for an immigration fight and the GOP are dickless wonders

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (lKyWE)

32 Ace: "But I hope this Appeal to Cosmopolitanisme, even if it was a bit of a faux pas, endeared you to your new liberal amis."

BOOM goes the dynamite. Williamson's afternoon tea break was just given a bolus of indigestion.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (H8S+R)

33 >>> 14 REMOVE FROG-TALK
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:28 PM (fA1SL)

I think it's permitted if it's part of an attack on the faux education of these assholes.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:31 PM (8rNrN)

34 Don't you try teaching me French!

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2018 06:31 PM (qnzMp)

35 The Weakly Staffed

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 04, 2018 06:31 PM (8gDQu)

36 This and and I see from the sidebar that Trey Gowdy has finally admitted what we all knew, he's fucking duplicitous retard.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (UfMVm)

He proved that this morning on CNN when he couldn't defend PDT to Alysin Camerota.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:31 PM (ptqGC)

37 Je suis un ananas.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at April 04, 2018 06:31 PM (gDSJf)

38 27

What's funny is the WRONG PEOPLE are wearing those stupid pussy hats.

Republican Cucks should be wearing them.

Right?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (krbmJ)

I think the hats have to be green or have antlers on them.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 06:32 PM (NWiLs)

39 "Smith's remark that mainstream print media are "meaningless dribble"--together with his comment that there is a "complete lack of integrity" in print-media newsrooms--strikes us as a deeply UNSERIOUS appraisal."

Dammit
* Unserious should be Serious.

Damn AutoCorrect

Posted by: Weekly Standard Editor at April 04, 2018 06:32 PM (jS2zB)

40 The GOP is getting ready for the inevitable(they believe at least) imprachment of Trump.

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:32 PM (LiyEm)

41 Bon sewer, messy ammies!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 06:32 PM (NWiLs)

42 >>>37 Je suis un ananas.
Posted by: Bill Kristol

dude, I don't like that. I'm semi-impressed you know a French bit of anti-semitism, but I don't like the anti-semitism.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:32 PM (8rNrN)

43 ...although, I did once ask you to teach me how to say 'Ham Wallet' in French.

So, I will let this transgression slide.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2018 06:32 PM (qnzMp)

44 and throw it in quotes as if it's a French word"

I cringed when I first heard "sontremetar" as the fake frenchieness of "centemeter".

In DC. Where else?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:32 PM (7LY+6)

45 Not trying to derail but NBC delivered another knee to Mr. Roboto with more data leaks from Faceborg or something.

Holy shit what happened there? I know they think FB pumped Russian bots directly into everyone's brain, but they sure took a long time to elevate it to the hysteria we're hearing now. It's not like Faceborg wasn't censoring anything to the right of Stalin in the meantime. Guess it wasn't enough for the bug hive. Maybe it's the presence of anyone on the platform who supports Trump, even in a tepid way. The end game is getting all of us removed from the public square.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (4ErVI)

46 Goddammit, Ace, I was JUST reupholstered.

Posted by: Kevin Williamson's Fainting Couch at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (e4ZX9)

47 And yes,the misuse of his fancy word is a giant kick in the pretentious nuts.

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (LiyEm)

48 So, who is the current contact for JournoList 2.0? We're intrigued and would like to contribute to your newsletter.

Posted by: Weekly Standard at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (H8S+R)

49 I try to imagine what happened to Williamson at NR to make him so bitter.

Did VDH pee in his latte?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (LWu6U)

50 47 Pointing it out I should have wrote...

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (LiyEm)

51 >>>43 ...although, I did once ask you to teach me how to say 'Ham Wallet' in French.

portefueille de jambon

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (8rNrN)

52 Suspicions about Sinclair's rightward bias

Well we certainly don't have to worry about "rightward" anything with you mincing, poncey fcuks , do we?

Why don't you just rename yourselves the Atlantic and get it over with, already?

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (ROV4u)

53 33. Faux education is Corinthian leather.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (fA1SL)

54 I had you fvcking chumps fooled for close to a decade. Losers.

Posted by: Trey Gowdy at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (r9UYA)

55 I wonder how many cruises The Weekly Standard and Nat'l. Review would sell if they combined the two?

I'm picturing a half-empty ship, with a handful of NeverTrumpers and other self-righteous scolds.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (ptqGC)

56 18 We want to be loved. And admired.

But mostly loved. And invited to box seats at National's games. And parties. We do love parties.

See the glittering lights of DC? All is well here, and will be, as long as you deplorables STFU.

/The GOP
Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:29 PM (7LY+6)

+++

That's the truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (Kcf2u)

57 something like that. I forget wallet. It's something like portefueille.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (8rNrN)

58 Was ist etatism auf Deutsch?

Posted by: Litteraly Hitler at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (c3Ies)

59 C'est la vie

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (+lOpA)

60 Uhh,bon jour?
A French male model you met on the internet

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (LiyEm)

61 This is a tater. Some people might try to tell you that its a yam...

Posted by: Tater Stetler, CNN at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (bJ0w+)

62
Statist quo status = unchanged.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (LOgQ4)

63 >>portefueille de jambon

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (8rNrN)

Now, that's how you class a place up.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (qnzMp)

64 I have never seen any "right wing" media. Even NRO is not right wing.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 04, 2018 06:34 PM (mpXpK)

65 Ich bin ein umlaut.

Posted by: JFK at April 04, 2018 06:35 PM (c3Ies)

66 51 >>>43 ...although, I did once ask you to teach me how to say 'Ham Wallet' in French.

portefueille de jambon

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM (8rNrN)

Hambone?

*rhythmically claps, slaps knees and thumps chest*

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 06:35 PM (NWiLs)

67 I got confused in the beginning with all the decrying going back and forth, then i kinda got it together somewhere in the middle and then the french vs. english with some grammar thrown in happened and then I was truly fucked.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:35 PM (o7tuA)

68 dude, I don't like that"

He's a pineapple?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:35 PM (7LY+6)

69 The Weakley Standard

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 04, 2018 06:35 PM (y3aQB)

70 6:40 AM, APR 04, 2018 | By THE EDITORS

They misspelled "ARISTOCRATS".

Posted by: misspelt? at April 04, 2018 06:35 PM (OiQ5q)

71 At some point in 2017 the butthurt over Trump's election had passed into pathology.

As if we needed any more anecdotes that illustrates why politics made personal is the railway to hell.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2018 06:35 PM (aPsQQ)

72 dude, I don't like that. I'm semi-impressed you know a French bit of anti-semitism, but I don't like the anti-semitism.
Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:32 PM (8rNrN)

what?

it's an oft repeated joke froma canadian TV show that teaches kids French.

One of the characters is a pineapple that repeats the phrase "I'm a pineapple" multiple times. or en francais "Je suis un ananas"

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 06:35 PM (gDSJf)

73 11 These people are dumber than a stump.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2018 06:27 PM (EoRCO)

No, they aren't dumb. They are treacherous. And their masks are not just slipping; they are coming right off.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 04, 2018 06:36 PM (ujg0T)

74 Joos are pineapples too?Those shapeshifters are everywhere!

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:36 PM (LiyEm)

75
Dos cervezas, por favor!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 06:36 PM (pNxlR)

76 >>>He's a pineapple?

there's a whole backstory. A comic, who I think is Algerian-French, named something like Dieudonne, is notoriously anti-semitic. For reasons I don't quite understand, he calls Jews "ananas" to get around anti-anti-semitism speech codes, and, I'm guessing, makes hilarious jokes about ananas going into les fours (ovens).

I don't get why he says 'ananas" but I know he does.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (8rNrN)

77 Trey Gowdy went full Biden....never go full Biden.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (SzZnW)

78 Join us for the "Mountain Monsters" cruise and meet your favorite cast members also say hello to the "Weekly Standard" folks and get your complimentary beach towel from Bill Kristol, our new pool boy.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (bML9A)

79 My local fish wrap still prints Kathleen Parker's columns next to Leonard Pitt's as "conservative vs. liberal."

I just can't even.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (ptqGC)

80 I watched the video and now i want a banana with almond butter. Yum. I do not like apples btw.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (o7tuA)

81 Joos are pineapples too?Those shapeshifters are everywhere!

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:36 PM

I just wish they'd turn the weather machines off for a week or two.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (LOgQ4)

82 Que les traigo de tomar?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (7LY+6)

83

btw, SOME of us here deserve a little recognition for telling you for years Trey Gowdy was probably a useless fraud.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (krbmJ)

84 >>>One of the characters is a pineapple that repeats the phrase "I'm a pineapple" multiple times. or en francais "Je suis un ananas"

maybe but that's not why it's anti-semitic. see post above.

Or google "dieudonne."

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (8rNrN)

85 80 I watched the video and now i want a banana with almond butter. Yum. I do not like apples btw.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (o7tuA)

I brought the almond butter, big boy!

Posted by: Shep at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (NWiLs)

86 It's interesting watching trusting conservatives experience red pill rage and the black pill because of Trump exposing that Corporate conservatives and the GOP have been lying to you the entire time, which I've known since college.

While I experience that everything I've been taught and told as a man is a lie and I'm subhuman trash, disposable utility, and have no rights to my own children because I have no idea still.

I can taste blood by sundown with the rest of y'all. Trauma based bonding.

Posted by: Monk at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (GJnhB)

87 oh la la!

Posted by: concrete girl at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (h9wAA)

88 All I know about pineapples is they go good on pizza and there's something fundamentally wrong with that.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (+lOpA)

89 >>>btw, SOME of us here deserve a little recognition for telling you for years Trey Gowdy was probably a useless fraud.

Credit given.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (8rNrN)

90 87 oh la la!
Posted by: concrete girl at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (h9wAA)

That's hot.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (+lOpA)

91 Kevin thinks being a globalist means doing the fancy, schmantzy word thingie. He thinks it makes him more sophisticated and cosmopolitan. He thinks it is what a globalist is...a person who uses global language terms.

It actually makes him look like a pretentious blowhard who flounces around like a ponce.

Posted by: Weekly Standard Editor at April 04, 2018 06:39 PM (jS2zB)

92
DUODENUM is a great word!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 06:39 PM (krbmJ)

93 I think Jonah Goldberg described libertarianism in a newsletter as five gallons of ice cream mixed with a pint of dog squeeze. (Which I kind of agree with). But that didn't seem to bother Kevin then.

Posted by: goodluckduck at April 04, 2018 06:39 PM (rwaEp)

94 83

btw, SOME of us here deserve a little recognition for telling you for years Trey Gowdy was probably a useless fraud.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (krbmJ)

He looks like that guy at concerts who has the best MDMA and acid.

Posted by: Monk at April 04, 2018 06:39 PM (GJnhB)

95 Look Ace, Big Kevin D(ie Honky Die) Williamson is just hoping to expand his audience to match his expanded waistline.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 06:39 PM (SzZnW)

96 Talking heads are being told what to say by the powers that be at each network? Say it isn't so!!

I mean Alisyn Camerota and Major Garrett are still doing conservative leaning news on their new networks aren't they?

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (6n332)

97 I do not like da joos.

Not the apple joos, not the orange joos, not the pineapple joos....none of da joos!

Posted by: Some Kazakh Anti-Semite at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (0UCQh)

98 Oops. Forgot to remove the sockaroonie.

Of course, it kinda works.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (jS2zB)

99 Michael Jambone is a damn good actor.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (+lOpA)

100 btw, SOME of us here deserve a little recognition for telling you for years Trey Gowdy was probably a useless fraud.
...

Here have some credit.

Probably.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (ROV4u)

101 When Williamson said "Die working class" maybe he was just using the German article, and it meant "the" working class.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (Dn4Uq)

102 I learned this morning that Murderin' Joe and Mika think Shep! is the best thing ever on Fox. Because of course.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (ptqGC)

103 91 Posted by: Weekly Standard Editor at April 04, 2018 06:39 PM (jS2zB)

I HAVE A BA in English Lit peon!

//Big Kev

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (SzZnW)

104 Are Trent Gowdy and Trey Gowdy the same person?

Posted by: goodluckduck at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (rwaEp)

105 there's a whole backstory"

Never heard that. Have heard the Canuckistadian show - it's probably far more recognized...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (7LY+6)

106 Re:The entire content this post ...methinks McCriminal's ass is now writing articles in between plotting to fuck Trump into the ground.

Posted by: Redgrains at April 04, 2018 06:40 PM (WPxnj)

107 DUODENUM is a great word!

Sphincter.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:41 PM (+lOpA)

108 We will be adding fresh and diverse cabin boys for our next cruise. Sign up today!

Posted by: The Weekly Standard at April 04, 2018 06:41 PM (GJnhB)

109 there's a whole backstory. A comic, who I think is Algerian-French, named something like Dieudonne, is notoriously anti-semitic. For reasons I don't quite understand, he calls Jews "ananas" to get around anti-anti-semitism speech codes, and, I'm guessing, makes hilarious jokes about ananas going into les fours (ovens).

I don't get why he says 'ananas" but I know he does.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (8rNrN)

Never heard any of that.

Je suis un ananas specifically is a phrase used by a creepy pineapple on Telefrancais! which was meant to teach Canadaian kids French. Also frequently shown in my high school french class.

I wrote that because I was amused by the though of Bill Kristol trying to impress someone with his grade-school level French.

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 06:41 PM (gDSJf)

110 How does the Weekly Standard know that Sinclair meant leftwing news when they said fake news? It's not like there aren't some fake news sites on the right.

They are competing with every media source and trying to win. Not just beat left media but all media.

And I guarantee you that ABC sends a "must run" to its affiliates for that toad George Stephanopulous and his Sunday leftwing hit show. Why would anyone be surprised that ownership, any ownership, is going to have a point of view and push it?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2018 06:41 PM (/tuJf)

111 What is it with the popularity of the name Trey btw?

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:41 PM (LiyEm)

112 Trey Gowdy never could be bothered to be bothered at the donks trying to make George Bush a one termer.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 06:41 PM (SzZnW)

113
They're all in on it.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (krbmJ)

114 Hey, where would the media be without useless frauds?

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (+lOpA)

115 Portefeuille !

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (OR+bx)

116 111 What is it with the popularity of the name Trey btw?

Uno and Due don't sound as cool.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (Dn4Uq)

117
What would you like to see the Weekly Standard look like?

Charmin or Cottonelle, unscented, but make damn sure it is soft, and two-ply.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (pNxlR)

118 Obviously, Williamson has a very acute problem.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (ewxPW)

119 the New Yorker says that's a diaresis, not an umlaut

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ the-curse-of-the-diaeresis

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (hMwEB)

120 107 DUODENUM is a great word!

Sphincter.
Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:41 PM (+lOpA)

All inclusive with the cruise.

Posted by: The Weekly Standard at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (GJnhB)

121 Sphincter."

Which one?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (7LY+6)

122 ot, but I just listened to Scott Adams link from sidebar.

The whole thing with the wall, which I have not seen anyone mention, is that the Left, and especially the democrats, want the wall to be PDT's closing of Guantanamo.

They are still bitter that their fey golfer made such a stupid promise and was unable to get it done in 8 years in spite of all the crimes and horrors he committed attempting it.

So they want this reasonable and realistic promise of a wall to be comparable to it.

It is never about what is good for the country, but always about destroying the country and winning.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 04, 2018 06:43 PM (LWu6U)

123 111 Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:41 PM (LiyEm)

Trey is an Anglicized bastardization of the word trois which implies "threesome" of course Trey just likes to watch this making the proper term cuck

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 06:43 PM (SzZnW)

124 'Deeply unserious' is a profoundly shallow turn of phrase.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:43 PM (fA1SL)

125 Don't you hate it when people use the word 'factoid' Like 'hey, heres an interesting factoid" when in fact they should be using the word fact, unless its an invented fact which would then be Ok, but in fact thats not usually the case.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:43 PM (o7tuA)

126 All this French talk makes me want to try and find that video Ace once linked of Mlle Feux de Route.

Posted by: learning aids at April 04, 2018 06:43 PM (OiQ5q)

127 I had some nasty diaresis after I ate some Taco Bell.

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:43 PM (LiyEm)

128
No more Weekly Standard

No more National Review

No more Vichy conservatives.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (e7LOo)

129 I watched the video and now i want a banana with almond butter. Yum. I do not like apples btw.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:37 PM (o7tuA)

How can you not like Apples?!
That's UnAmerican. I knew you were a Russian!

I just bought some Almond Butter last night.
It's really good on green apples with salt.

I forgot the apples. Not in season anyway.
I did buy bananas.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (jS2zB)

130 I miss Henri the cat.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (ptqGC)

131
What is it with the popularity of the name Trey btw?

It's short for "Poultry".

That's right, he's a chicken plucker.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (pNxlR)

132 The only French word I need to know is: poutine

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (Dn4Uq)

133 Gowdy should wear a pink pussy hat to cover that ridiculous hair. Have some dignity for crying out loud.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (r9UYA)

134 @83

I think the breaking point for most was him telling the President, who Trey the retard knows is being railroaded, to start acting like he's not guilty.

I always knew he was a fraudeulent piece of shit weasel, like that dick bag Mike Lee.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (UfMVm)

135 I had some nasty diaresis after I ate some Taco Bell.
...

Gave me factoids.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (ROV4u)

136 49 I try to imagine what happened to Williamson at NR to make him so bitter.

Did VDH pee in his latte?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM

VDH is a scholar, a gentleman, and a farmer. Williamson is neither of the first two, and he disdains anyone whose hands get dirty at work.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (/+bwe)

137 For the love of God someone cover me with plastic.

Posted by: Kevin Williamson's Fainting Couch at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (e4ZX9)

138 Gave me factoids."

Use two squares, plz.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:45 PM (7LY+6)

139 I'm beginning to get the impression that the French put pineapple on pizza just to piss off the Italians.

Posted by: Tater Stetler, CNN at April 04, 2018 06:45 PM (bJ0w+)

140 Kaopectate fixes diaeresis.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 04, 2018 06:45 PM (89T5c)

141 127 I had some nasty diaresis after I ate some Taco Bell.
Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:43 PM (LiyEm)

If you eat at Taco Bell, that is part of the experience, isn't it?

Which is why I never eat there.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 06:45 PM (jS2zB)

142
Hysteresis is a common affliction among #NeverTrumpers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 06:45 PM (pNxlR)

143 >>Which one?

Aren't there like 50 of those things on a person?

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (K1KYe)

144 Dear Kevin,

Va te faire enculer.

Regards,
CharlieBrown'sDildo

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (wYseH)

145 141. Not an injudicious course of action

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (fA1SL)

146 To be frank, putting pineapple on pizza should piss off all decent human beings.

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (OR+bx)

147 okay, here's the backstory to the extent I understand it:

"JE VOUS PARLE D'ANANAS"

In one of the videos for which he was arrested, he changed the song of Annie Cordy "Hot Chocolate" into "Shoah nanas."

...

Shoah refers to the Holocaust, so I guess "Shoah nanas" is some kind of way to say "Holocaust pineapples." He also speaks of wanting to be understood as 'hot pineapples," which I think he means to mean "baked pineapples."

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (8rNrN)

148 Here's a facoid:I have never actually eaten Taco Bell

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (LiyEm)

149 All this French talk"

What, the Spanish wasn't good enough?

C'est dommage....

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (7LY+6)

150 "Make a Run for The Border"

Greatest. Tag Line.

EVAR

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (ROV4u)

151 49 Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 04, 2018 06:33 PM

Victor Davis Hanson is a legitimate scholar and has more intellect left in his toilet after use than Big Kev carries in his active noggin?

A lot of us called Trey Gowdy out on his theatricality versus results, and a lot of the same people had Big Kev's number when Obama took office.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (SzZnW)

152 121 Sphincter."

Which one?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (7LY+6)

You have sphincter in your eye. True story.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (+lOpA)

153 Speaking of which, on Thursday afternoon there will be an Ariane 5 launch for the European Space Agency. When you watch those, you get to hear the terminal countdown in French. Liftoff is "decollage" with the right-leaning accent over the first e.

Posted by: rickl at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (sdi6R)

154 All this talk of pineapple pizza is making me seriously hungry.

Delicious just imagining it. Mmmm...

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (gDSJf)

155 I like words that sound kind-of dirty but aren't.

Like titular. And flux.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (Dn4Uq)

156 88
All I know about pineapples is they go good on pizza and there's something fundamentally wrong with that.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (+lOpA)

You forgot the /sarc. because NO ONE could think this.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (o7tuA)

157 Anybody picking a fight with VDH is picking a fight with me.

And I cheat.

And use steel and lead.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (xJa6I)

158 Calling VDH the real enemy is the hill to die on.

Posted by: Monk at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (GJnhB)

159 >>>the New Yorker says that's a diaresis, not an umlaut

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ the-curse-of-the-diaeresis

and they're right, even though it's the same mark. I couldn't think of the term diaeresis though I knew "umlaut" wasn't right.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (8rNrN)

160 "Uno and Due don't sound as cool.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:42 PM (Dn4Uq)"

Well, they did when they were pizzerias, before they got franchised out.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (Mbmmf)

161 OT, but sorta related: Ace, there are a couple of good programs on netflix (spit) from France that are good for practicing-Les Temoins, and La Mante. Both are rather graphic murder mysteries, and the second season of Les Temoins was very weak, but they are excellent for practice, especially if you turn off the sous-titre.

There is repetition of short, useful phrases that help your brain remember them in context, and the more difficult words are understood through context. I really enjoyed them, and enjoyed dreaming in French for a week afterwards (not. it's tiring.)

Posted by: moki at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (V+V48)

162 Why doesn't anyone study Russian, or Chinese?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (ptqGC)

163 "which was meant to teach Canadaian kids French. "

What do they speak now, Canadaianian?

Posted by: freaked at April 04, 2018 06:48 PM (UdKB7)

164 Jane D'oh: "I miss Henri the cat."

His ennui was crushed by a bouncing red ball.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 04, 2018 06:48 PM (H8S+R)

165 147. REMOVE KEBAB, then. Far simpler. I retract hereby my previous REMOVE FROG-TALK.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:48 PM (fA1SL)

166 VDH's youtube videos are a must in these troubled times. Whenever things get too off the rails (which is more and more frequent these days) I turn to some VDH for therapy.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:48 PM (Dn4Uq)

167 Weakly Standard sucks

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2018 06:48 PM (BtQd4)

168 >>Why doesn't anyone study Russian, or Chinese?

The Paolo.

He knows ALL of the alphabets.

Posted by: Paolo at April 04, 2018 06:48 PM (K1KYe)

169 I'm picking up a few French words this week dealing with the ca5 in Nola and probably even some hep a. Longest work week of my life.

Posted by: NCKate at April 04, 2018 06:48 PM (j4Zz4)

170 Aren't there like 50 of those things on a person?"

Millions. In and around. IIRC....

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:48 PM (7LY+6)

171 128
No more Weekly Standard

No more National Review

No more Vichy conservatives.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (e7LOo)

This

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (xJa6I)

172 All I know about pineapples is they go good on pizza and there's something fundamentally wrong with that.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:38 PM (+lOpA)

You forgot the /sarc. because NO ONE could think this.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (o7tuA)

definite sarc tag omission. i think it is one of those things the left invented

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (OR+bx)

173 155 I like words that sound kind-of dirty but aren't.

Like titular. And flux.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:47 PM (Dn4Uq)

Shiitake.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (NWiLs)

174 162. Because the Russians and Chinese are all learning English.

It's the - ha! - lingua franca of modernity.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (fA1SL)

175 I was debating when, if ever, Kevin Williamson would address an issue in a way his new liberal readers and employers wouldn't like. Abortion, for example.

I say "never." A friend still thinks he's really seriously anti-abortion, and suggested he may cover it at some point.

I say: He knows who butters his biscuit now.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (8rNrN)

176 Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (8rNrN)

Yeah that sounds pretty ghastly, absolutely not what I was going for.

You can search "Je suis un ananas" or "telefrancais!" if you want to see my intended reference.

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (gDSJf)

177 This and and I see from the sidebar that Trey Gowdy has finally admitted what we all knew, he's fucking duplicitous retard.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 04, 2018 06:30 PM (UfMVm)

Sidebar says Trent.

Are same person?

Posted by: dDan at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (hwYmz)

178 I love that "fake news" was originally coined by the Left to describe any negative stories about Hilary on social media, and now Trump owns it.

Posted by: josephistan at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (ANIFC)

179 the pineapple on pizza, not the sarcastic tag of course

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (OR+bx)

180 >>104 Are Trent Gowdy and Trey Gowdy the same person?

Trent is ST alternate universe Trey. He has the black beard and everything.

Posted by: bananaDream at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (yRBj9)

181
"Hey, here's an interesting factoid..."

"...I'm a pretentious and illiterate retoid"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (pNxlR)

182 Don't you hate it when people use the word 'factoid' Like 'hey, heres an interesting factoid" when in fact they should be using the word fact, unless its an invented fact which would then be Ok, but in fact thats not usually the case.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:43 PM (o7tuA)

Don't get your britches in a twist. A factoid is a cute, little fact. There's nothing wrong with that use.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (8gDQu)

183 You have sphincter in your eye. True story.
Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (+lOpA)

Whole new means my to the term Brown Eye.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 04, 2018 06:50 PM (HzmaL)

184
How can you not like Apples?!

That's UnAmerican. I knew you were a Russian!

I just bought some Almond Butter last night.

It's really good on green apples with salt.

I forgot the apples. Not in season anyway.

I did buy bananas.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (jS2zB)

LMAO..I tried to follow you on this GG. Let me reread and I'll get back to you. Its a poem right? I'm not very good with poetry.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:50 PM (o7tuA)

185 I can't figure out what happens to people like Williamson. Do they look at the media landscape and think "Look at that. There's pretty much a 10:1 ratio in the jobs for left wing pundits as for right wing. If I want to stay employed I'd better reevaluate my politics."

It's hard to imagine that level of cynicism, that they'd change heartfelt political views instead of doing something else. It's not like punditry pays well.

Maybe it's just that living as a conservative in the Acela corridor is a constant battle, and you just get ground down eventually.

Posted by: Ace's liver at April 04, 2018 06:50 PM (h2Bdk)

186 I know a little Canadian.

Stop - Arret
Hat - toque
Sorry - sore-y
Fries-n-gravy - poutine

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:50 PM (Dn4Uq)

187 I just want to know, what makes this a "weekly" and by what "standard" ??

Posted by: REDACTED at April 04, 2018 06:50 PM (VWsDy)

188 >>>OT, but sorta related: Ace, there are a couple of good programs on netflix (spit) from France that are good for practicing-Les Temoins, and La Mante. Both are rather graphic murder mysteries, and the second season of Les Temoins was very weak, but they are excellent for practice, especially if you turn off the sous-titre.

huh, thanks. that could be helpful. What's "La Mante" mean?

i want to guess "manta' but that sounds dumb. Also, it sounds too awesome for a show to be called THE MANTA.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (8rNrN)

189 A factoid is a cute, little fact.
...

Is she hot?

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (ROV4u)

190 147-wow, that guy is a ass. Chaud chocolat is hot chocolate in French, so for him to use Shoah is not even subtle. I don't know the laws in France now concerning hate speech, but for him to use it in that context has no fuzzy lines whatsoever.

Posted by: moki at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (V+V48)

191 butters his biscuit"

You got Shep's attention...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (7LY+6)

192 Well, Volokh decamped WaPo for Reason after they started censoring him. WaPo hired Megan McArdle to pick up the slack. That leaves an open spot over at Bloomberg, if they haven't already filled it.

Maybe just the spot for a steadfast neverTrumping cuck.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (pvjTE)

193 Diaeresis, cha cha cha!
Diaeresis, cha cha cha!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (NWiLs)

194 Per Bander, Mika used to quite literally pull out her cell phone and read talking points that people in the Obama administration texted to her.

Posted by: alexthechick - containing multitudes at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (dEQP3)

195 In one of the videos for which he was arrested, he changed the song of Annie Cordy "Hot Chocolate" into "Shoah nanas."

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (8rNrN)

What a nasty man. What happened to him? Still in prison, I hope.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (MX7xj)

196 What do they speak now, Canadaianian?
Posted by: freaked at April 04, 2018 06:48 PM (UdKB7)

Who knows with those quebecois

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (gDSJf)

197 Wow. There's a whole lot of purty soundin' words up there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (IPHPq)

198 La Mante is The Mantis. A female serial killer. It's actually good, but rather graphic.

Posted by: moki at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (V+V48)

199 i had tried watching a french law and order rip-off called "Spirals" or "Gears" but it was boring and also my french was really bad and I couldn't undertstand a word they said, except for simple shit like "l'advocate."

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (8rNrN)

200 Shiitake.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (NWiLs)

Yep - perfect!

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (Dn4Uq)

201 huh, thanks. that could be helpful. What's "La Mante" mean?

i want to guess "manta' but that sounds dumb. Also, it sounds too awesome for a show to be called THE MANTA.
Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (8rNrN)

I think it means "mantis," like preying mantis.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (NWiLs)

202 I chose to believe Gowdy for a while because he seemed to have some fight in him, unlike Issa and Chaffetz. Now, He is just one more sell out.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (hA0ay)

203 "a briefly stated and usually trivial fact"

huh. that could be it....I guuuessssss. or cute.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (o7tuA)

204 KDW isn't worthy to carry VDH's used jockstrap in his mouth, though he probably does anyways.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (0ogQG)

205 >>>198 La Mante is The Mantis. A female serial killer. It's actually good, but rather graphic.

ooh, the mantis is only slightly less cool than The Manta!

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (8rNrN)

206 >> I know a little Canadian.

Meh - you charge too much for that.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (r9UYA)

207 i want to guess "manta'

Mantis. As in the insect. Interesting show...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (7LY+6)

208 eleven: "You have sphincter in your eye. True story."

You really have to have your eye on the ball if you have a sphincter in your eye... I'm guessing.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (H8S+R)

209 Don't get your britches in a twist. A factoid is a cute, little fact. There's nothing wrong with that use.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM

I learned a new thing today. I thought it was a fact that hit fast and hard like an asteroid...or a hemorrhoid.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (/+bwe)

210 i want to guess "manta' but that sounds dumb. Also, it sounds too awesome for a show to be called THE MANTA.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (8rNrN)

Says you.

Posted by: An Angry Manta Ray at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (8gDQu)

211 La Veuve Noire

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (8rNrN)

212 LMAO..I tried to follow you on this GG. Let me reread and I'll get back to you. Its a poem right? I'm not very good with poetry.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:50 PM (o7tuA)

No, it is not a poem. lol

I'm just gobsmacked you don't like apples. I've never meant someone who doesn't.

But then, maybe you were making a CNN reference and I missed it. And you really do like apples.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 06:53 PM (jS2zB)

213
Per Bander, Mika used to quite literally pull out her cell phone and
read talking points that people in the Obama administration texted to
her.

Posted by: alexthechick - containing multitudes at April 04, 2018 06:51 PM (dEQP3)

I witnessed that in real time one morning. Mika: "Wait, everyone--Valerie Jarrett just texted me--we got that last point wrong. It's -----"

Un-fucking-believable.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:53 PM (ptqGC)

214 185 I can't figure out what happens to people like Williamson.

They get lazy. It's a lot easier to bash conservatives than support conservatives

Posted by: REDACTED at April 04, 2018 06:53 PM (VWsDy)

215 THE COUNT ON ATTEMPTS TO KILL ME ARE NOW UP TO 237!!! I KNOW WHO YOU ALL ARE!!!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at April 04, 2018 06:53 PM (O5Q3r)

216 Met, not meant.

Whatever.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 06:53 PM (jS2zB)

217 Just as Kevin Williamson debuts at The Atlantic by ingratiating himself to his new liberal confreres, declaring Victor Davis Hanson to be the Real Enemy,

oy
I won't click the link but if that is what Williamson said, what a dick. He's lost his mind. He lost his mind when Trump won, like so many.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2018 06:54 PM (fceHP)

218 >>>I don't know the laws in France now concerning hate speech,

they're repressive.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:54 PM (8rNrN)

219 The quebec-istanians make a cool beer La Fin du Monde. That's about as much French as I need to know....

Posted by: E.T. at April 04, 2018 06:54 PM (nzKWW)

220 Is an Altoid a cute little alt?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:54 PM (Dn4Uq)

221
198 La Mante is The Mantis. A female serial killer. It's actually good, but rather graphic.

Ah. So she has skills beyond putting Ego to sleep and frightening Gamora.

Posted by: Anachronda at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (sGtp+)

222 205 >>>198 La Mante is The Mantis. A female serial killer. It's actually good, but rather graphic.

ooh, the mantis is only slightly less cool than The Manta!
Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (8rNrN)

Word!

Posted by: Dr. Mantis Toboggan at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (ANIFC)

223 220 Is an Altoid a cute little alt?
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:54 PM (Dn4Uq)

I've dated some of those cute alt chicks.

Spicy.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (xJa6I)

224 Scary/weird fact about preying mantises: They capture and eat humming birds.

Had one on my feeder a few years ago and thought, "Cute!" Walked outside and it eyeballed me with its creepy little insect eyes, and jumped off the feeder. Then I learned why it was there. It was waiting.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (ptqGC)

225 In one of the videos for which he was arrested, he changed the song of Annie Cordy "Hot Chocolate" into "Shoah nanas."

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:46 PM (8rNrN)

He was arrested for having bad taste?

I think it's cute that the French like to pretend that they're against anti-Semitism.

Speaking of which, The Raffle is a good and powerful movie.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (8gDQu)

226 I think all these shitheads are hoping to tank the midterms as well. Do the bare minimum effort so they can go "See this is what happened because I Trump! You need to listen to us!"

Posted by: Buzzion at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (lKs2v)

227 I don't know the laws in France now concerning hate speech, "

depends on who and where.

Much like the formerly Great Britain.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (7LY+6)

228
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 06:44 PM (jS2zB)

....am I supposed to say your poem to like a song tune or something?

Lets see....

la la la la

How can you not like Apples?!

That's UnAmerican. I knew you were a Russian!

babbababa

I just bought some Almond Butter last night.

It's really good on green apples with salt.

dowopdowop

I forgot the apples. Not in season anyway.

I did buy bananas.

ramalamaramalam

Nope.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (o7tuA)

229
ooh, the mantis is only slightly less cool than The Manta!
Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (8rNrN)

It's one of my fifteen minutes of fame, but I took a class with the male lead of the first season of Les Temoins in France, Thierry Lhermitte. He aged beautifully.

Posted by: moki at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (V+V48)

230 The Canadians are still pissed that English became the international language.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (r9UYA)

231 These people sure do like telling us what to think, don't they?

Posted by: goatexchange at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (YFnq5)

232 Is an Altoid a cute little alt?
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:54 PM (Dn4Uq)

An Android is a cute little Andr.

Posted by: Lt. Cmdr. Data at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (gDSJf)

233 You really have to have your eye on the ball if you have a sphincter in your eye... I'm guessing.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel

Or just an iris.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (aPsQQ)

234 The Masters starts tomorrow. Or should I say non stop Tiger talk show.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (2DOZq)

235 204 KDW isn't worthy to carry VDH's used jockstrap in his mouth, though he probably does anyways.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (0ogQG)

Agreed. VDH is great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (IPHPq)

236 >>>Had one on my feeder a few years ago and thought, "Cute!" Walked outside and it eyeballed me with its creepy little insect eyes, and jumped off the feeder. Then I learned why it was there. It was waiting.

yuch.

I read an article about deer eating birds. Apparently it happens more than you'd think.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (8rNrN)

237 What this country needs is a good reboot to a Fixmestick.

Posted by: freaked at April 04, 2018 06:57 PM (UdKB7)

238 Gee...who is associated with the Weekly Standard that we know?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 04, 2018 06:57 PM (taGF2)

239 Polaroid.

Cute little Eskimo.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 04, 2018 06:57 PM (ROV4u)

240 208 eleven: "You have sphincter in your eye. True story."

You really have to have your eye on the ball if you have a sphincter in your eye... I'm guessing.

A good sphincter is called an iris.

Posted by: Anachronda at April 04, 2018 06:57 PM (v3pYe)

241 Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (ptqGC)

Wow. I always had a feeling those things were up to no good! Those beady eyes, man.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:57 PM (Dn4Uq)

242 I read an article about deer eating birds. Apparently it happens more than you'd think.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (8rNrN)

Condor? Otherwise...........

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:57 PM (ptqGC)

243 Polaroid.

Cute little Eskimo"

or a frozen, well, you get it.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (7LY+6)

244
I like words that sound kind-of dirty but aren't.

Like titular. And flux.

Homoscedastic.
Mensuration.
Sigmoid.
Smectic.
Callipygian.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (pNxlR)

245 Although, come to think of it, it would be awesome if the Stargate SG-1 folks started yelling "open the sphincter!"

Posted by: Anachronda at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (v3pYe)

246 oy
I won't click the link but if that is what Williamson said, what a dick. He's lost his mind. He lost his mind when Trump won, like so many.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2018 06:54 PM (fceHP)

And I was wavering on my Williamson loathing to defend him from the charges of being SatanHitler that the whinging twats at The Atlantic were leveling.

Nope. Enjoy that bed you made, Kevvy.

Posted by: alexthechick - containing multitudes at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (dEQP3)

247 Plus, Victor Davis Hanson is not only a professor of the classics, he is also a grape(?) farmer, iirc. So he has two actual jobs.

Comparing him to KW? Really? What does Williamson actually do?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (IPHPq)

248 Deltoid

Cute little airplane

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (Dn4Uq)

249 178 I love that "fake news" was originally coined by the Left to describe any negative stories about Hilary on social media, and now Trump owns it.
Posted by: josephistan at April 04, 2018 06:49 PM (ANIFC)

It was a stupid strategic error on the media's part. The underlying assertion is "everything we say is true", something that's easily falsifiable and would stain them even if 99% of what they said is true and the rest was the result of honest mistakes. Which is far from the case.

Posted by: Ace's liver at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (h2Bdk)

250 Kurt Eichenwald's tentacle porn picture probably sent Williamson over the edge. Nice toenail polish there Kurt Kimono.

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (bML9A)

251 68 year old Tom Watson won the Masters par 3 tournament.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (2DOZq)

252 A good sphincter is called an iris. "

And a bad sphincter is called .... what?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (7LY+6)

253 I'm not sure why I'm teasing GG. I like GG.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (o7tuA)

254 246 oy
I won't click the link but if that is what Williamson said, what a dick. He's lost his mind. He lost his mind when Trump won, like so many.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 04, 2018 06:54 PM (fceHP)

And I was wavering on my Williamson loathing to defend him from the charges of being SatanHitler that the whinging twats at The Atlantic were leveling.

Nope. Enjoy that bed you made, Kevvy.
Posted by: alexthechick - containing multitudes at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (dEQP3)

He, too, is going to hate living by his own rules.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (xJa6I)

255 I masticate every day.

Posted by: freaked at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (UdKB7)

256 242. Condor.
* destroys codebooks. Dons peaked cap, white parade gloves, grey cloak, Raybans.*

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (fA1SL)

257 Often many times in a row.

Posted by: freaked at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (UdKB7)

258 Is an Altoid a cute little alt?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:54 PM (Dn4Uq)

No. An Altoid is a robotic alt.

The "oid" suffix has several meanings.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (8gDQu)

259 Pineapples are antisemitic? We will need to find new objects to be rammed up the fundaments of our enemies.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (08Rsd)

260 Some local asshole managed to swerve and hit an adult bald eagle feeding on something on the side of the road here.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (ptqGC)

261 Love the sick burn over the misappropriation of the French language. Some time it's the small knife that cuts with a sting so bright, or "Meange la; twi' " as they say in Provence.

Posted by: Max Power at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (q177U)

262 Being a grape farmer's not a bad idea if tshtf.

Robinson Crusoe practically lived on raisins. And goats. A lot of goats too.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (Dn4Uq)

263 256 242. Condor.
* destroys codebooks. Dons peaked cap, white parade gloves, grey cloak, Raybans.*
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (fA1SL)

Get DeGaulle with the first, shot, will ya?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2018 07:00 PM (xJa6I)

264 I enjoy a good thespian performance.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 07:00 PM (Dn4Uq)

265 247 Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (IPHPq)

He thinks man, he like writes and tweets man....

//Big Kev as Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (SzZnW)

266 The Canadians are still pissed that English became the international language.
Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (r9UYA)

Quebec mostly. They're the ones that want to secede from the rest of Canada every few years.

And the basis for that translate all your insulting graffiti from English to French bit in operation canadian bacon that Michael Moore ripped off from Monty Python.

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (gDSJf)

267 I'm not sure why I'm teasing GG. I like GG.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 06:58 PM (o7tuA)

Oh thank god you were teasing. I thought you had lost your mind trying to make my post into a poem. Got worried Heidi has beaned you in the head with a frying pan after you gave her a bus schedule.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (jS2zB)

268 Sponge Bob Square Pants! I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Patrick, the large pink octopus on the oddity thread earlier, and now we have pineapple. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (MIKMs)

269 Let's tell them what we're going to say, and then say it, and then go on from there. Using all of those words to describe, or justify, people that want to keep or enhance their phony-baloney jobs, is just complete BS. Where is the knife, the sudden reversal, the change of heart? Boring!

Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (PEcU2)

270 Bill Kristol Is Very Concerned.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (oVJmc)

271 Imagine my shock when I found out KOMO (Seattle) was a Sinclair company.

They are probably the most anti-Trump station in the market. And that's saying something.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (jWe5r)

272
Robinson Crusoe practically lived on raisins. And goats. A lot of goats too.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (Dn4Uq)

Goat raisins.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:02 PM (NWiLs)

273 "226 I think all these shitheads are hoping to tank the midterms as well. Do the bare minimum effort so they can go "See this is what happened because I Trump! You need to listen to us!"
Posted by: Buzzion at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (lKs2v)"

Ab-so-freakin'-lutely right.
And so far it seems to be working.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at April 04, 2018 07:02 PM (Mbmmf)

274 >>260 Some local asshole managed to swerve and hit an adult bald eagle feeding on something on the side of the road here.

The Sierra Club here is so concerned about the trauma suburban sprawl is causing to the Bald Eagle.

I have lost count of how many times I've seen an eagle perched on the guardrails on I-5 during rush hour. It's a daily occurrence.

Traumatized!

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:02 PM (r9UYA)

275 268 Sponge Bob Square Pants! I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Patrick, the large pink octopus on the oddity thread earlier, and now we have pineapple. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea . . .
Posted by: mustbequantum at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (MIKMs)

So SpongeBob is...anti-Semitic?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:02 PM (NWiLs)

276 A young Canadian woman opened this food truck here:

https://squeakybeaver.com/

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (ptqGC)

277 well done Ace

Posted by: Avi at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (Gcl/7)

278 268
Sponge Bob Square Pants! I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Patrick,
the large pink octopus on the oddity thread earlier, and now we have
pineapple. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (MIKMs)

KamelToe/Patrick 2020

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (UsCnO)

279 >>>Love the sick burn over the misappropriation of the French language. Some time it's the small knife that cuts with a sting so bright, or "Meange la; twi' " as they say in Provence.

what does this mean? I can't figure out any of those words.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (8rNrN)

280 Yall may not care but here's a nice little song about France:

https://tinyurl.com/pageym2

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (UdKB7)

281
Sponge Bob Square Pants! I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Patrick, the large pink octopus on the oddity thread earlier, and now we have pineapple. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (MIKMs)

Because Patrick is a large pink starfish

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (lKyWE)

282 >>271 Imagine my shock when I found out KOMO (Seattle) was a Sinclair company.

They are probably the most anti-Trump station in the market. And that's saying something.

What are we, chopped liva?

Posted by: Q13 Fox at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (r9UYA)

283 Robinson Crusoe practically lived on raisins. And goats. A lot of goats too.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 06:59 PM (Dn4Uq)

Goat raisins.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:02 PM (NWiLs)

Almost as popular as Cow Pies.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (jS2zB)

284 Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (ptqGC)

Nice-she has poutine!

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 07:04 PM (Dn4Uq)

285 236 >>>Had one on my feeder a few years ago and thought, "Cute!" Walked outside and it eyeballed me with its creepy little insect eyes, and jumped off the feeder. Then I learned why it was there. It was waiting.

yuch.

I read an article about deer eating birds. Apparently it happens more than you'd think.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM (8rNrN)

I suspect lot of animals we've assumed were 100% herbivorous eat meat opportunistically. I've seen videos of donkeys eating chicks and hippos eating dead buffalo.

Posted by: Ace's liver at April 04, 2018 07:04 PM (h2Bdk)

286 Poutine is another one of those words that sounds dirty but isn't. Like uvula.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:04 PM (NWiLs)

287 Way OT:
OT/I was supposed to call the mechanic today to have
car looked at after a week of troubles. But last night, by
serendipitous timing, I figured out and resolved the issue.

... Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel

Is this amazing diagnostic talent available?

Posted by: DaveA at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (FhXTo)

288 Because Patrick is a large pink starfish
=====

Close enough.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (MIKMs)

289 You gotta put fur oil on that squeaky beaver.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (89T5c)

290 Why is French even a language any more? They've sold their souls, or flat lost them, so many times that one would think that they would have stopped spewing that soft shit by now, and learn a real language ... something covered in blood, earned by non-chickenshits! Fuck French!

Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (PEcU2)

291 >>>I suspect lot of animals we've assumed were 100% herbivorous eat meat opportunistically. I've seen videos of donkeys eating chicks and hippos eating dead buffalo.

That was the suggestion of this article, which apparently is new news not just to the laity but to many biologists.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (8rNrN)

292

Blaming the NRA for Nikolas Cruz shooting up his school is like blaming American Christians for 9/11.

Oh wait, that's exactly what the Left did.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (krbmJ)

293

Sinclair needs gravitas

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (IqV8l)

294 Because Patrick is a large pink starfish

I call mine "Virgil."

Posted by: Shep at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (NWiLs)

295 Another affectation I hate is pronouncing the Russian museum, the Hermitage, the ermi-tahj. The French word for hermitage, that I can't recall right now, isn't e.g. ermitage and 'ermites' don't live in them!

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (ewxPW)

296 273 "226 I think all these shitheads are hoping to tank the midterms as well. Do the bare minimum effort so they can go "See this is what happened because I Trump! You need to listen to us!"
Posted by: Buzzion at April 04, 2018 06:55 PM (lKs2v)"

Ab-so-freakin'-lutely right.
And so far it seems to be working.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at April 04, 2018 07:02 PM (Mbmmf)

I agree completely. If the GOPe cucks give us a rabid left-wing Democrat majority in Congress, they will be responsible for whatever happens afterwards.

Posted by: rickl at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (sdi6R)

297 The Meek-no Standards is what they are.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (VeqSQ)

298 When I was little I was sure that uvula was a bad word. Part of the female reproductive system or something, dumb young me vaguely thought.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 07:06 PM (Dn4Uq)

299
Oh thank god you were teasing. I thought you
had lost your mind trying to make my post into a poem. Got worried
Heidi has beaned you in the head with a frying pan after you gave her a
bus schedule.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:01 PM (jS2zB)

LOL. Maybe I'm giving you a bad time because shes out of town. Huh, now that i think about it I tease the ettes' more when she's out of town. Maybe, because I can't give her a bad time. Huh.
whoa, i'm getting headache with all this self examination.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:06 PM (o7tuA)

300 I'm pretty sure there are flies at VDH's farm that crap bigger than KW.

Posted by: DaveA at April 04, 2018 07:06 PM (FhXTo)

301 279 >>>Love the sick burn over the misappropriation of the French language. Some time it's the small knife that cuts with a sting so bright, or "Meange la; twi' " as they say in Provence.

what does this mean? I can't figure out any of those words.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (8rNrN)

Yeah, you are going to have to explain that. I have no idea what that means.

Posted by: moki at April 04, 2018 07:06 PM (V+V48)

302 I sense Ace is a bit disgusted with the formerly right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, I'm your Huckleberry! at April 04, 2018 07:06 PM (y+Ufa)

303 A prickly little pretender denounced VDH? Oh, It's so on now.

Out of all right of center media figures William's fingers affable old VDH? Then again - Victor really is a adroit man with much to offer - best take him out first.

We'll fight in the shade or on the beaches. And in the pubs!

Posted by: 13times at April 04, 2018 07:06 PM (K3B2k)

304
295 Another affectation I hate is pronouncing the Russian museum, the Hermitage, the ermi-tahj. The French word for hermitage, that I can't recall right now, isn't e.g. ermitage and 'ermites' don't live in them!

and you probably don't shop at tar-zhey, either, do you?

Posted by: Anachronda at April 04, 2018 07:07 PM (sGtp+)

305 I've been watching an osprey cam here, and a male osprey (not the mate) keeps trying to rape the nesting female.

I did not realize that's a thing when there are lots of ospreys in the area.

Nature. When it's not trying to kill you, it's weirding you out.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:07 PM (ptqGC)

306 just for Shits & Giggles I sent "The Editors" this thread

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 04, 2018 07:08 PM (y3aQB)

307 305 I've been watching an osprey cam here, and a male osprey (not the mate) keeps trying to rape the nesting female.

I did not realize that's a thing when there are lots of ospreys in the area.

Nature. When it's not trying to kill you, it's weirding you out.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:07 PM (ptqGC)

So what you're saying is rape is perfectly natural.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 04, 2018 07:08 PM (NWiLs)

308 raisins are a huge crop in his valley.
almonds are too.

Posted by: concrete girl at April 04, 2018 07:08 PM (h9wAA)

309 >>> The French word for hermitage, that I can't recall right now, isn't e.g. ermitage and 'ermites' don't live in them!

i looked it up. It is in fact ermitage and ermite.

Perhaps you are thinking of moine (monk) or abbe (abbot) or abbaye (abbey) or related words.

or maybe ermitage and ermite do mean hermitage and hermit but they are archaic and there is a more used word.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 07:08 PM (8rNrN)

310 Gotta Love Me!

Posted by: Baby Sinclair at April 04, 2018 07:08 PM (oVJmc)

311 And even less cool than _The Man from La Mante_

Posted by: goodluckduck at April 04, 2018 07:08 PM (rwaEp)

312 274 >>260 Some local asshole managed to swerve and hit an adult bald eagle feeding on something on the side of the road here.

The Sierra Club here is so concerned about the trauma suburban sprawl is causing to the Bald Eagle.

I have lost count of how many times I've seen an eagle perched on the guardrails on I-5 during rush hour. It's a daily occurrence.

Traumatized!
Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:02 PM (r9UYA)

Yup.

And we have some bald eagles that perch near our little man-made lakes in Monroe.

It's very cool.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2018 07:08 PM (xJa6I)

313 290- back in the day, (including my tenure) all diplomatic correspondence between countries was conducted in French, so if you were in the diplomatic corps, you had to know the language of the country to which you were assigned as well as French.

By the fourth or fifth language, you are a bit bonkers.

Posted by: moki at April 04, 2018 07:10 PM (V+V48)

314
Holy shit. I aint seen Ace this riled up about French since the infamous "Toot Sweet" thread.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2018 07:10 PM (vIjh1)

315 I hate when people said hooomaaaaage instead of homage. Actually i kind hate people. and don't get me started again on vanity plates.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:10 PM (o7tuA)

316 287 Way OT:
OT/I was supposed to call the mechanic today to have
car looked at after a week of troubles. But last night, by
serendipitous timing, I figured out and resolved the issue.

... Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel

Is this amazing diagnostic talent available?
Posted by: DaveA at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (FhXTo)

Well, the car died on Good Friday, and then yesterday I had resurrection power. So I'm giving credit to the Risen Jew Jesus.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:10 PM (jS2zB)

317 And the Left and the Salon 25 also don't mind leftist shit being recycled from the AP or the NYT and being read over the airwaves as if it was written by the station's news staff. Remember the GOP convention (or similar) that literally every news service, print and over-air, independently decided to describe as "overwhelmingly white"?

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2018 07:10 PM (ewxPW)

318 Deer eating a rabbit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-o6UxDD0lSM

Posted by: Monk at April 04, 2018 07:10 PM (GJnhB)

319 >>305 I've been watching an osprey cam here, and a male osprey (not the mate) keeps trying to rape the nesting female.

I did not realize that's a thing when there are lots of ospreys in the area.

Nature. When it's not trying to kill you, it's weirding you out.

W have two local Bald Eagles that circle up and down the valley riding the wind currents here. They've been officially been named George and Martha (Washington-get it?) When they circle over the house the cat runs inside. It's funny to watch.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:11 PM (r9UYA)

320 I give them an 8/10 on the Kent Brockman scale.

https://youtu.be/8lcUHQYhPTE

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 04, 2018 07:11 PM (rnAwa)

321 279 >>>Love the sick burn over the misappropriation of the French language. Some time it's the small knife that cuts with a sting so bright, or "Meange la; twi' " as they say in Provence.

what does this mean? I can't figure out any of those words.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 07:03 PM (8rNrN)

++++

Maybe something to do with this?

https://twitter.com/menage_a_twi

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 04, 2018 07:11 PM (pvjTE)

322 295 Another affectation I hate is pronouncing the Russian museum, the
Hermitage, the ermi-tahj. The French word for hermitage, that I can't
recall right now, isn't e.g. ermitage and 'ermites' don't live in them!

Better call Orkin, just to be sure.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:11 PM (LAe3v)

323 305
I've been watching an osprey cam here, and a male osprey (not the mate) keeps trying to rape the nesting female.

I did not realize that's a thing when there are lots of ospreys in the area.

Nature. When it's not trying to kill you, it's weirding you out.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 04, 2018 07:07 PM (ptqGC)

Sure its a male? maybe its a bi thing.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:12 PM (o7tuA)

324 315 Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:10 PM (o7tuA)

especially since the frogs just say "oh-mahje"

faux sophistication sucks.

I do say "tar-jay" in lieu of "Target" but that is because it is an effete cuckold organization.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 07:12 PM (SzZnW)

325 Holy shit. I aint seen Ace this riled up about French since the infamous "Toot Sweet" thread.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2018 07:10 PM (vIjh1)

Is that a verbotten phrase? Bcz now I may use it.

Dammit, I got almond butter on my iPad keyboard.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:12 PM (jS2zB)

326 321-I looked that up and still have no freaking idea of what is going on.

Get off my lawn. (said with love and a plate of snickerdoodles for your bike ride home.)

Posted by: moki at April 04, 2018 07:12 PM (V+V48)

327 314Holy shit. I aint seen Ace this riled up about French since the infamous "Toot Sweet" thread.

Posted by: fixerupper

I can't believe you brought that up in front of me. I was the victim of Ace's wroth for not using tout de suite. I'm still traumatized.

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:13 PM (LAe3v)

328
the We Can't Republicans for the last, how many, decades?:

-We can't secure the border
-We can't reform entitlements
-We can't deport foreign invaders
-We can't cut spending
-We can't investigate and prosecute Democrats
-We can't stop election fraud
-We can't get out of Afghanistan
-We can't stop funding Planned Abortionhood
-We can't re-negotiate the China Trade Imbalance
-We can't move the Israel embassy
-We can't end obamacare

What use are these Shits??
-We can't

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:13 PM (krbmJ)

329 295 Another affectation I hate is pronouncing the Russian museum, the Hermitage, the ermi-tahj.

by the way, that is, in fact, how it's spelled in Russian. can't type it in here because black diamonds.

Posted by: Anachronda at April 04, 2018 07:13 PM (sGtp+)

330 >>And we have some bald eagles that perch near our little man-made lakes in Monroe.
It's very cool.

We camped near Rockport last spring. Near the Skagit river. There were hundreds flying around. Awesome.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 04, 2018 07:13 PM (r9UYA)

331 Kevin Williamson attacks Dr. Victor Hanson?

Well, Kev, you better get some of these RPG's, you'll need them.

VDH has been an unapologetic support of Trump since before the election. He did a masterful monologue on what the election of Trump meant not long after the election. Of course, the NeverTrumper Cucks are MAD at him.

I would like to fast forward five years, just to see what a mess of his career Williamson will have made.

Parting remark: everything is going to get a lot uglier before the November mid-term elections.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at April 04, 2018 07:13 PM (S6Pax)

332
Pockeestan

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (pNxlR)

333 Maybe we'll get lucky and the antibiotics will all stop working. I wouldn't want to wish ill upon the Middle East, or Africa, or South America, or Indonesia, or anywhere else where filth and grime are the norms. Nope, wouldn't wish for that.

Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (PEcU2)

334 Is that a verbotten phrase? Bcz now I may use it.

Dammit, I got almond butter on my iPad keyboard.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:12 PM (jS2zB)

What are you slathering it on? other than the keyboard.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (o7tuA)

335 Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel

So what was wrong with your automobile?

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (n9EOP)

336 Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:05 PM (PEcU2)

Mais Francais est la plus belle langue du monde!

Tous les chose sont meilleur quand nous parlons en francais.

Tout le monde vont parler en francais bientot.

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 07:15 PM (gDSJf)

337 well the actual phrase is tout de suite. The first and second word are slurred together into a "tood."

suite means in a row, which you might hear in "en suite" referring to rooms in a row (one room opening into the next, or a master bedroom opening directly into the master bath).

tout de suite thus means "all in a row," but it has acquired the meaning of "immediately" or "in the next second."

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 07:15 PM (8rNrN)

338
Maybe we'll get lucky and the antibiotics will all stop working.

Yeah, about that.....

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:15 PM (LAe3v)

339 337
well the actual phrase is tout de suite. The first and second word are slurred together into a "tood."

STOP THE HAMMERING!!!!!!!

Posted by: pep at April 04, 2018 07:16 PM (LAe3v)

340 Theses people are truly deaf dumb and blind.
The MSM continues daily, non-stop bashing of Republicans and Trump and these people sit back and let it happen.

The 'Weakly" Standard-
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Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2018 07:16 PM (PvFoN)

341 Ace's French snark is even better than his English snark.

Posted by: Bill screws around, so HIllary punishes the rest of us at April 04, 2018 07:16 PM (yCuyt)

342 332 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (pNxlR)

Which is mockery by Urkle toward Jackie the Paki at best or mocking their poor's accents at worst.

When the Pakistani pilots would cycle through Wright-Patt they said "Pack-i-stan" in slightly accented English.

Posted by: sven10077 at April 04, 2018 07:16 PM (SzZnW)

343 Nooood.

Posted by: f'd at April 04, 2018 07:16 PM (UdKB7)

344 Never heard any of that.

Je suis un ananas specifically is a phrase used by a creepy pineapple on Telefrancais! which was meant to teach Canadaian kids French. Also frequently shown in my high school french class.

I wrote that because I was amused by the though of Bill Kristol trying to impress someone with his grade-school level French.

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 06:41 PM (gDSJf)

I used to do a spot on impression of the guy on the tapes we listened to in Spanish class decades ago.

I called him Senor Modelo because he'd always start anything with a really loud MODELO!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 04, 2018 07:16 PM (4ErVI)

345
Shit. Sorry Pep. But that thread was... epic.

Posted by: fixerupper at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (vIjh1)

346 332
Pockeestan
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (pNxlR)

Nick-her-agua

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (IPHPq)

347 >>>Tout le monde vont parler en francais bientot.

quasiment certain!

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (8rNrN)

348
btw, do you think it's just coincidence (or sheer shrewdness of their part) that China specifically targeted products/goods from "Trump-won-states," or do you think China is being advised by Leftist American Shits?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (krbmJ)

349 347
>>>Tout le monde vont parler en francais bientot.

quasiment certain!

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (8rNrN)

Wee! Wee!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (o7tuA)

350 Yes, but didn't Mary Poppins teach us "Toot Sweet"? And that was way before I learned any actual french, so that takes precendence. Just like Harry Potter and GOT take precendence over reality (for a lot of people...including HRC.)

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (jS2zB)

351 >>>
I wrote that because I was amused by the though of Bill Kristol trying to impress someone with his grade-school level French.

ah. apologies.

i never heard of that show. I only know the phrase from this Dieudonne character.

Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (8rNrN)

352 or maybe ermitage and ermite do mean hermitage and hermit but they are archaic and there is a more used word.
Crap. You're right. I just looked it up in my old, hardcover Cassell's when I could have sworn I looked it up years and years ago (obviously not in my Cassell's) and it had a completely different word.

Merde.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2018 07:18 PM (ewxPW)

353 Kevin Williamson practiced pronouncing "Pockeestan" in the mirror for two weeks before starting at the Atlantic.

And then he gave Obama another blowjob

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at April 04, 2018 07:18 PM (rNGKx)

354 Wee! Wee!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:17 PM (o7tuA)

Ah ha huh!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 04, 2018 07:19 PM (IPHPq)

355 #331 He did a masterful monologue on what the election of Trump meant not long after the election.

ITA. That speech belongs in the history books.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at April 04, 2018 07:20 PM (Dn4Uq)

356 http://bit.ly/2HaKbld
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Devin Nunes Threatens Lawsuit DOJ, FBI | The Daily Caller

Posted by: DeploraBOT at April 04, 2018 07:20 PM (y3aQB)

357 Dammit, I got almond butter on my iPad keyboard.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:12 PM (jS2zB)

What are you slathering it on? other than the keyboard.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (o7tuA)

A banana. lol
Yes, you gave me the idea.
But added salt too.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:20 PM (jS2zB)

358 The Masters starts tomorrow. Or should I say non stop Tiger talk show.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 04, 2018 06:56 PM

Tiger is pretty impressive when he's balling 20 chicks on the side and his back is really limber. Otherwise, pretty average.

He just can't seem to get his back really limber unless he's balling 20 chicks on the side. He's got all sorts of ortho and chiro guys. But it seems to take 20 chicks on the side for the cure.

I suppose 'woke' guys have some input on this but they're strangely silent.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 04, 2018 07:20 PM (LOgQ4)

359 #329 The Russian court spoke French alot so I wouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 04, 2018 07:21 PM (ewxPW)

360 Speaking French is a curse. Just ask that 1/5th of the population of Indochina that got marched around and turned into skulls. Fat lot of good that did them. Or, better yet, ask an Algerian how that all worked out for them. Yer' Moroccans can still, almost, speak some gibberish, and they are breaking new ground every day for their new particle accelerators and such. They should have stuck with Arabic.

Posted by: goon at April 04, 2018 07:21 PM (PEcU2)

361 Kevin Williamson eat Kiwis unpeeled because they reminded him of unshaven testicles.

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at April 04, 2018 07:22 PM (rNGKx)

362 I'm off my ridicule game this evening.

Time for an early bed

Posted by: Nationalist Pikachu at April 04, 2018 07:25 PM (rNGKx)

363 Lateral transfer from WochenStandarte to Das Atlantichen. These FascistoCommie organizations are all the same.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 04, 2018 07:26 PM (Zskvw)

364 I chose to believe Gowdy for a while because he seemed to have some fight in him, unlike Issa and Chaffetz. Now, He is just one more sell out.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 04, 2018 06:52

Wht has gotten to these guys? They were all heads of the House Intelligence Com and they want to quit. WTF? Does the IC have something on them all?

Posted by: Farmer at April 04, 2018 07:32 PM (yJ1e6)

365 Bill Kristol and his entire operation is so foul and maloderous that it could knock a buzzard off a three day old gut wagon.

Posted by: H. Davis Wall at April 04, 2018 07:34 PM (v4K82)

366 Kristol prefers the Deep State, wants the Obamas back in the White House and thinks the Fake News is doing a great job.

What a tool.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 04, 2018 07:36 PM (kUSzu)

367 199 i had tried watching a french law and order rip-off called "Spirals" or "Gears" but it was boring and also my french was really bad and I couldn't undertstand a word they said, except for simple shit like "l'advocate."
Posted by: ace at April 04, 2018 06:52 PM (8rNrN)

==
I watched a couple of foreign Netflix shows this week - Hotel Beau Sejour (really good) and Tabula Rasa (slow but interesting).
They both claim to be in "Flemish" but they sound different.
Although they do both sound like pidgin German with some English thrown in but spoken with a French accent.

Posted by: votermom certified russian matryoshka bot at April 04, 2018 07:39 PM (hMwEB)

368 What are you slathering it on? other than the keyboard.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 04, 2018 07:14 PM (o7tuA)

A banana. lol
Yes, you gave me the idea.
But added salt too.
Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 04, 2018 07:20 PM (jS2zB)

Snack ideas from a cannibal?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at April 04, 2018 07:40 PM (Dp6qK)

369 So good that I read the content three times before making a boring comment

Posted by: GeneTheHappy at April 04, 2018 07:41 PM (ZUOUM)

370 When I was a wee lad "weekly" was pertinent because there was no 24/7/365 fake news tsunami sweeping across the social landscape. Those weekly magazines, Life, Colliers, Look, they all went bye-bye when the TV antennas started to sprout up like evil mushrooms. Now, that was over a half century ago so why does anything even think about calling itself weekly today? We live in a minute-ly world now, certainly not monthly, weekly, or even daily, but minute-ly. If you don't like the fake news you hear right this instant, just wait a minute and you will hear it again in a slightly different accent and wording. Same message, though.... Fake.

Posted by: Ruthless at April 04, 2018 07:44 PM (DNjb8)

371 Completely off-topic, but does anyone have any good advice on to search the blog here for a specific comment? It was something vaguely remembered from the comment thread sometime back about frightening/supernaturally-themed songs.

Posted by: Second (blue) Unicorn at April 04, 2018 07:44 PM (lJMCC)

372 Posted by: Second (blue) Unicorn at April 04, 2018 07:44 PM (lJMCC)

search engine search with site:acecomments.mu.nu included in the query.

Posted by: Sjg at April 04, 2018 07:52 PM (gDSJf)

373 Sjg- many thanks!

Posted by: Second (blue) Unicorn at April 04, 2018 08:00 PM (lJMCC)

374 366 Kristol prefers the Deep State, wants the Obamas back in the White House and thinks the Fake News is doing a great job.

What a tool.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 04, 2018 07:36 PM (kUSzu)

I used to like Kristol when he was on McLaughlin. Seems like he's gone 'round the bend.

I think you're probably right. A lot of people, like Kristol, have been tactically advocating positions they don't actually hold based on the belief the question would never come up. Virtually the entire Republican delegation to Congress has been raising money on an anti-abortion plank with the same understanding.

Posted by: Ace's liver at April 04, 2018 08:13 PM (h2Bdk)

375 Backtrack---

I think the nickname "Trey" is given to kids who are Soandso Whatshisface III.
Y'no, just as Soandso Whatshisface, Jr. might go by "Junior" or "Junie."
I've met a few Treys and Junies over the years.

As far as Gowdy's concerned, I guess I could look it up, couldn't I? *sigh*
Yep. Harold Watson Gowdy III.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 04, 2018 08:29 PM (0jtPF)

376 "It actually makes him look like a pretentious blowhard who flounces around like a ponce."

Posted by: Weekly Standard Editor at April 04, 2018 06:39 PM (jS2zB)

Isn't that a bit redundant? I mean, if you flounce and your're not a female, you are a ponce. Or a poof. Or a poofter. Or a Nancy. Or a Nellie. Or a fag. Or a faggot. Or a queen. Or a fairy. Or a pansy. Or a Butt Bandit. Or a Rump Ranger. Or a Fudge Packer. Or a Gerbil Stuffer. And now, continuing in our Francophilic Language Studies 101.....just put a le in front of it. As in le poof. Or le poofter. Le Nancy. Le Nellie. Le fag. Le faggot. La reine. Le fee. La pensee. Am I a Renaissance kind of guy or what?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at April 04, 2018 08:47 PM (9BLnV)

377 Marvelous Ace! Nailed it. Their faux 'Superiority Complex' is so transparent, they obviously can't see it. They believe they are the smartest person in the room, but are actually one of the most misinformed, ignorant people on the planet! I always new the 'news' was biased, but what finally hit me on the head these last two years, is that these creatures are stupid. Not your regular kind of stupid. No. We're talking weapons grade stupid. They know nothing about anything and lack any cognitive ability to even recognize their incompetence. I'm pretty confident Kevin believes you just paid him a big complement! You are awesome, Ace.

Posted by: TheFoundersParty at April 04, 2018 10:02 PM (QAVtQ)

378 Please hire us Atlantic??

NO!

1) You can't get an interview with Fidel Castro.

2) You are definitely NOT HOT ENOUGH!!

BUT I AM! ;-)

https://tinyurl.com/y9u4e5en

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at April 05, 2018 06:39 AM (EMi53)

379 If you morons think Williamson is the problem, you're dumber than I imagined.

Posted by: Mike at April 05, 2018 10:32 AM (6Z0LB)

380 In Kevin's defense, he always used snooty words--he makes no effort to hide his elitism--and he easily could have written that column at NR.

But I think he underestimates what Trump offers to libertarians, particularly when contrasted with what Dems offer. Tax cuts and regulatory reforms are no small things. Neither is the control and direction of the federal courts. Under Trump, the libertarian-leaning Federalist Society, which favors robust 1st and 4th Am protections, picks our federal judges. Trump is also suspicious of the use of military force abroad than are other, supposedly more libertarian Republicans like Cruz or Rubio. His recent comments about leaving Iraq should be welcome to libertarians. And when it comes to personal stuff, like accepting gay marriage or indulging in lustful behavior, Trump is the best Republicans have to offer, even though he enjoys deep support from Evangelicals. Trump isn't great on the entitlement state, but he would have happily repealed Obamacare if the Republicans had put a full repeal bill on his desk. And, of course, let's not forget that he did away with the individual mandate.

Hillary would have offered more taxes, more regulations, more spending (esp. on entitlements), more foreign adventurism, and less-liberty oriented federal courts. She may have been slightly better on trade, but the difference would have been mostly rhetorical.

In my view, the choice is a no brainer for those concerned with libertarian policy.

Posted by: gts109 at April 05, 2018 10:46 AM (rX06+)

381 >>>Just as Kevin Williamson debuts at The Atlantic by ingratiating himself to his new liberal confreres, declaring Victor Davis Hanson to be the Real Enemy

That was such a boringly dull article.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/defused/556934/

Posted by: m at April 05, 2018 04:38 PM (U6XUk)

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