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THE MORNING RANT: The Conservative Milestone of Canceling Your Wall Street Journal Subscription
Most of the legacy media had a terrible left-wing bias my entire adult life, with one very prominent exception – the Wall Street Journal. Upon my graduation from college in the 1980s, I subscribed to the WSJ. It was not only a valuable resource on all matters related to business and economics, but it also reported politics and other news with a commitment to journalistic impartiality. And most importantly, its editorial page was an oasis of conservative thought.
As we rolled into the 21st Century, the journalistic controls lapsed, and the reporting started to mirror the left-wing propaganda you could find in the New York Times. When the Trump era rolled around, the editorial page announced its obsolescence by becoming an unhinged haven for NeverTrumpism. Whether it was shilling for overseas wars, or acting as a leading voice for the uniparty, every page of the WSJ was now aligned with the Washington morass. When I canceled my Wall Street Journal subscription in 2016 it carried an emotional punch. It was like terminating a long-time friendship with a person who had once been so important in your life. The substack of former commodities trader Jeffrey Carter (@pointsnfigures1 on Twitter) is a must read for me, as he is always informative and educational. Last month he wrote about his decision to cancel his Wall Street Journal subscription.I started reading WSJ in college (1980s) & I finally cancelled my subscription in 2016. For me, it too was a sad milestone, reflective of not only bias, but how the opinion page was stuck in an era that had passed & and its journalists were no longer investigative, or very smart. https://t.co/8W81UBo7cb
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) February 6, 2025
In his substack, Mr. Carter writes not only of the WSJ’s wokeness and anti-Trump bias…
I have been reading the WSJ daily since I entered college in 1980. That’s 45 years of reading one paper. The WSJ used to be very good. It still has some good writers. However, much of the paper has lost its objectivity. It’s either gone woke, or the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the writer is so bad it is impossible to get decent information.
…but also about how it is incapable of even engaging in traditional journalism on non-political subjects.
I don’t want to know the stuff about Palantir that I can find using a simple web search. I want to know why Palantir does what it does, what kind of people it hires, and what kind of corporate culture it has. I want insights I can’t get from numbers. The same goes for any other company.
Most disturbing, the Wall Street Journal has become a propaganda outfit staffed by politically indoctrinated zealots.
The younger writers weren’t taught journalism in Journalism School. They were taught indoctrination, which is how they write. They are also kind of dumb when it comes to understanding how businesses operate.
There was one other publication in the ‘80s and ‘90s that I valued as much as the Wall Street Journal, and my act of canceling that subscription also felt like breaking up with an old friend. That magazine was Forbes. Under editor James Michaels, its journalists could condense so much “what, why, and how” into less than 1,000 words, and it had a right-of-center leaning. I was such a fan that I supported Steve Forbes in the 1996 presidential primaries. After Mr. Michaels retired in 1999 and the magazine went primarily digital, it became an unfocused mess that leaned hard to the left. Forbes is now dead to me, as is The Wall Street Journal. The digital publications now carrying their names are a disgrace to those once-great journalistic institutions. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 17, 2025 11:00 AM (N1tpc)
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Not 1st!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 11:00 AM (hOk1M)
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Our "elites", even the supposed "conservative" ones are opposed to the people they consider beneath them.
WSJ is the same.
WSJ is the same.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 17, 2025 11:01 AM (N1tpc)
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What's a Wall Street Journal?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)
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Captain James T. Kirk, "if you are innocent, why do you need a pardon?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2025 11:02 AM (b1S6W)
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WSJ was always a bit stuck up. They were naturals for TDS.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (/x6eu)
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I canned my Nat Geo subscription for their 2nd amendment position in late 80s.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)
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You f*ked up! You trusted us!
Posted by: The New York Times at March 17, 2025 11:04 AM (PiwSw)
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ALL of journalism is either reposting whatever you find online or repeating information "leaked" to you by allies with zero due diligence to discover if it is true or not.
"Journalism" is dead, except in places like O'Keefe Media Group where they actually get people to admit things contrary to their own interests.
"Journalism" is dead, except in places like O'Keefe Media Group where they actually get people to admit things contrary to their own interests.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (N1tpc)
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Why would National Geographic have a 2nd amendment position.
Craziness. Stick to boobs and earthporn.
Craziness. Stick to boobs and earthporn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (/x6eu)
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I canned my Nat Geo subscription for their 2nd amendment position in late 80s.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)
Why did Nat Geo have a position on the Second Amendment?
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)
Why did Nat Geo have a position on the Second Amendment?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (l3YAf)
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I miss newspapers so much. Used to read 3 every day. Now none. I would love to have just ONE daily newspaper that played it straight, news-wise.
Posted by: Bob at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (1CZgt)
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I thought the wsj op-ed pages (opinion journal dot com) in the early 2000s was quite good, then was just paywalled at some point, so I lost interest.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (X+Ku8)
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Forbes is now dead to me, as is The Wall Street Journal. The digital publications now carrying their names are a disgrace to those once-great journalistic institutions.
*shifty eyes*
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: The Economist at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (xCA6C)
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I canned my Nat Geo subscription for their 2nd amendment position in late 80s.
Posted by: BignJames
You can't pick up that magazine now without finding climate-change hysteria on practically every page.
Sad what happened to it.
Posted by: BignJames
You can't pick up that magazine now without finding climate-change hysteria on practically every page.
Sad what happened to it.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)
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Thus we see the fruits of the Progressive domination of Education.
Since few conservatives even want to fight that battle, I don't know if there's a way to pull out of that death spiral.
Since few conservatives even want to fight that battle, I don't know if there's a way to pull out of that death spiral.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 17, 2025 11:06 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: cccp3o at March 17, 2025 11:06 AM (d+otF)
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Even in covering their enemies (Trump and his allies), the media is still lazy.
They almost never do any digging, but rely on allies to feed them any information. (E.g. reports about Trump calling 3rd world countries "S**-hole countries. And then the left pretending to get the vapors that he used profanity in private.)
They almost never do any digging, but rely on allies to feed them any information. (E.g. reports about Trump calling 3rd world countries "S**-hole countries. And then the left pretending to get the vapors that he used profanity in private.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 17, 2025 11:07 AM (N1tpc)
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I canned my Nat Geo subscription for their 2nd amendment position in late 80s.
Posted by: BignJames
You can't pick up that magazine now without finding climate-change hysteria on practically every page.
Sad what happened to it.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:06 AM
"Scientific" "American" has entered the chat.
Posted by: BignJames
You can't pick up that magazine now without finding climate-change hysteria on practically every page.
Sad what happened to it.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:06 AM
"Scientific" "American" has entered the chat.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 11:07 AM (hOk1M)
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What's a Wall Street Journal?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)
It's what the Wall Street bearings run on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)
It's what the Wall Street bearings run on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 11:07 AM (MqtqS)
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It seems like Investors Business Daily also imploded.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at March 17, 2025 11:08 AM (Sf2cq)
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Forbes is now dead to me, as is The Wall Street Journal. The digital publications now carrying their names are a disgrace to those once-great journalistic institutions.
I subscribed to WaPo for the better part of 30 years. I cancelled it the day after the 2008 election, because as badly biased as it was, the Obama rumpswabbing was on a whole different level. I have never regretted that decision.
It will be interesting to see if Bezos can actually accomplish a change in course, but I doubt it.
I subscribed to WaPo for the better part of 30 years. I cancelled it the day after the 2008 election, because as badly biased as it was, the Obama rumpswabbing was on a whole different level. I have never regretted that decision.
It will be interesting to see if Bezos can actually accomplish a change in course, but I doubt it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:08 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
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I subscribed to National Review when I was in high school. Now I won't even visit their website.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 17, 2025 11:08 AM (paSBy)
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Way ahead of you: canceled Time, Chemical & Engineering News, The Economist, This Week, and the WSJ years ago once I realized each one had become a worthless waste of my time.
Miss them not one bit.
Way ahead of you: canceled Time, Chemical & Engineering News, The Economist, This Week, and the WSJ years ago once I realized each one had become a worthless waste of my time.
Miss them not one bit.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:08 AM (xG4kz)
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What's a Wall Street Journal?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)
It's what the Wall Street bearings run on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
*golf clap*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)
It's what the Wall Street bearings run on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
*golf clap*
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)
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"Journalism" is dead, except in places like O'Keefe Media Group where they actually get people to admit things contrary to their own interests.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (N1tpc)
No, not contrary, in line with. Just that their interests at those moments is getting laid.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (N1tpc)
No, not contrary, in line with. Just that their interests at those moments is getting laid.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 11:09 AM (fwyhL)
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I canned my Nat Geo subscription for their 2nd amendment position in late 80s.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)
Not to mention their slavish worship of the Gerbil Worming fraud.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)
Not to mention their slavish worship of the Gerbil Worming fraud.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 11:09 AM (MqtqS)
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I felt the same way when I cancelled National Review. I'm assuming they occassionally print conservative viewpoints, along with 'the conservative case for big government intrusion' or other nonesense. But they've made themselves irrelevant at least in the conservative commentary spaces I frequent. Sad.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 17, 2025 11:09 AM (Dv3i1)
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I had WSJ and Forbes for years; added The Economist while working on an MBA.....for at least 15 years.
Now all gone.
JJ Sefton is now my news source!!
Now all gone.
JJ Sefton is now my news source!!
Posted by: cccp3o at March 17, 2025 11:10 AM (d+otF)
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The thing is, nearly every publication is paid to write what they then publish. Specifically. Like, they're given an outline to follow.
Look at the exact same "talking points" that come out. Republican or Democrat. It's word for word.
Now, I'll admit the left is not as creative as the right is about this. But they both do it. And the staff, writers, editors, whatever will tell us "they're independent."
Horseshit.
Look at the exact same "talking points" that come out. Republican or Democrat. It's word for word.
Now, I'll admit the left is not as creative as the right is about this. But they both do it. And the staff, writers, editors, whatever will tell us "they're independent."
Horseshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:10 AM (Q4IgG)
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I had Investor's Business Daily delivered to my door for about a year, late last century. I'd guess they also became tainted by Woke ideology, but maybe not ...
Posted by: illiniwek at March 17, 2025 11:10 AM (Cus5s)
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I felt the same way about the Baltimore Sun. There was always a democratic bias there (back when the Dems weren't bat shit crazy) but there was some really good info too if you had the proper filters.
Posted by: pawn, RIP Vic at March 17, 2025 11:10 AM (QB+5g)
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Not to mention their slavish worship of the Gerbil Worming fraud.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 11:09 AM (MqtqS)
We were still headed for the "next ice age" back then.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 11:09 AM (MqtqS)
We were still headed for the "next ice age" back then.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:11 AM (Yj6Os)
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I started reading WSJ in college (1980s) & I finally cancelled my subscription in 2016.
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Same timeline for me and BusinessWeek. Once it left McGraw Hill, it was on it's way to dead.
Afterwards I tried Forbes for less than 2 years. The contrast between Steven Forbes' half-page capitalist rah-rah column and the rest of the amateur junior-high socialist content of each issue led me to sparing my eyes and mind of any more.
No business periodical subscription ever since.
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Same timeline for me and BusinessWeek. Once it left McGraw Hill, it was on it's way to dead.
Afterwards I tried Forbes for less than 2 years. The contrast between Steven Forbes' half-page capitalist rah-rah column and the rest of the amateur junior-high socialist content of each issue led me to sparing my eyes and mind of any more.
No business periodical subscription ever since.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 17, 2025 11:11 AM (copfg)
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Yes, the WSJ is dead now, and most investment related online stories are now written by AI, badly.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 17, 2025 11:12 AM (lTGtQ)
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National Geographic always had great photography, and their maps were the gold standard.
From what I've seen, it still has those strengths. But I just can't get past all of the "OMG! We've only got ten years to save the Erf!" hysteria.
From what I've seen, it still has those strengths. But I just can't get past all of the "OMG! We've only got ten years to save the Erf!" hysteria.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)
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Journalism school doesn't teach journalism. I have a professor from one of the prominent journalism schools as a neighbor and his bias filters everything he does. Journalists that want the "change the world" are activists. That is what is taught anymore
Posted by: Chicago Vota at March 17, 2025 11:13 AM (baPXJ)
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We were still headed for the "next ice age" back then.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:11 AM (Yj6Os)
Same thing. A phony moral panic ginned up to make you want to embrace communism to fight "the threat".
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:11 AM (Yj6Os)
Same thing. A phony moral panic ginned up to make you want to embrace communism to fight "the threat".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 11:13 AM (MqtqS)
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‘ WSJ was always a bit stuck up. They were naturals for TDS.’
You would think the WSJ could see down the road far enough to recognize that joining the just makes them redundant to the NYT.
And if they couldn’t, just how worthwhile could their journalism about Wall Street really be?
‘ WSJ was always a bit stuck up. They were naturals for TDS.’
You would think the WSJ could see down the road far enough to recognize that joining the just makes them redundant to the NYT.
And if they couldn’t, just how worthwhile could their journalism about Wall Street really be?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 17, 2025 11:13 AM (jbnUc)
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"Journalism" is dead, except in places like O'Keefe Media Group where they actually get people to admit things contrary to their own interests.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (N1tpc)
No, not contrary, in line with. Just that their interests at those moments is getting laid.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 11:09 AM (fwyhL)
I don't entirely get how they think this stuff will get them laid. Then again, I saw a story over the weekend that a recent season of The Bachelor ended with the woman refusing to marry the guy because she found out he wasn't hard-left enough.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 17, 2025 11:05 AM (N1tpc)
No, not contrary, in line with. Just that their interests at those moments is getting laid.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 11:09 AM (fwyhL)
I don't entirely get how they think this stuff will get them laid. Then again, I saw a story over the weekend that a recent season of The Bachelor ended with the woman refusing to marry the guy because she found out he wasn't hard-left enough.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 11:14 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Auspex at March 17, 2025 11:14 AM (j4U/Z)
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SURPRISE!
Who Actually Owns the Wall Street Journal? -
News Corp., a media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, bought Dow Jones & Company in 2007 for $5 billion. Dow Jones owns the Wall Street Journal, one of the world's leading financial newspapers, as well as other assets such as The Dow Jones Newswire. See more
_Investopedia
Who Actually Owns the Wall Street Journal? -
News Corp., a media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, bought Dow Jones & Company in 2007 for $5 billion. Dow Jones owns the Wall Street Journal, one of the world's leading financial newspapers, as well as other assets such as The Dow Jones Newswire. See more
_Investopedia
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2025 11:14 AM (LdsRU)
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I canned my Nat Geo subscription for their 2nd amendment position in late 80s.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)
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Somewhere in the 90's, NG went over the line even for them on some anti-Israel/boor Balestinian article. It was just one lie after another.
Found no lack of other educational material for our kids to enjoy.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)
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Somewhere in the 90's, NG went over the line even for them on some anti-Israel/boor Balestinian article. It was just one lie after another.
Found no lack of other educational material for our kids to enjoy.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (copfg)
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National Review, Commentary, Weekly Standard.
Fun while it lasted, but they all went crazy. Stayed with them as long as I did because I often found Joseph Epstein's essays there and some of Terry Teachout's.
Fun while it lasted, but they all went crazy. Stayed with them as long as I did because I often found Joseph Epstein's essays there and some of Terry Teachout's.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (q3u5l)
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39 We were still headed for the "next ice age" back then.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:11 AM (Yj6Os)
Same thing. A phony moral panic ginned up to make you want to embrace communism to fight "the threat".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 11:13 AM (MqtqS
They can’t fool me, I’m too dumb too be scared.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:11 AM (Yj6Os)
Same thing. A phony moral panic ginned up to make you want to embrace communism to fight "the threat".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 11:13 AM (MqtqS
They can’t fool me, I’m too dumb too be scared.
Posted by: Eromero at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (jgmnb)
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Agree and two comments:
1. WSJ is just another leftwing grift and money-laundering operation. They can suck my balls.
2. The entire fields of economics, business, and investing have succumbed to the same dingbat insanity that consumed modern sciences like even physics. That is, they abandoned classic and tested theories for highly speculative bullshit pulled out of assholes for clickbait and social media likes.
I read economics or science news today, and most of the time I'm like "are you fucking kidding me with this bullshit?"
1. WSJ is just another leftwing grift and money-laundering operation. They can suck my balls.
2. The entire fields of economics, business, and investing have succumbed to the same dingbat insanity that consumed modern sciences like even physics. That is, they abandoned classic and tested theories for highly speculative bullshit pulled out of assholes for clickbait and social media likes.
I read economics or science news today, and most of the time I'm like "are you fucking kidding me with this bullshit?"
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (iFTx/)
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But I just can't get past all of the "OMG! We've only got ten years to save the Erf!" hysteria.
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That propaganda is sprinkled everywhere, including Consumer Reports, Car&Driver, Sports Illustrated, I assume also in women's fashion mags and probably even in Penthouse and such.
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That propaganda is sprinkled everywhere, including Consumer Reports, Car&Driver, Sports Illustrated, I assume also in women's fashion mags and probably even in Penthouse and such.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (Dv3i1)
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From what I've seen, it still has those strengths. But I just can't get past all of the "OMG! We've only got ten years to save the Erf!" hysteria.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)
Maybe they could publish a "special issue" and explain how we've gone from "looming ice age" to "global warming" to "climate change" in 50 years.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)
Maybe they could publish a "special issue" and explain how we've gone from "looming ice age" to "global warming" to "climate change" in 50 years.
Posted by: BignJames at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (Yj6Os)
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Home from the extractions.
This house is now a no wisdom zone!!!
This house is now a no wisdom zone!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (bLe0J)
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Thx Buck. The entire "journalist" world is noticeably stupid. They follow group narratives and are lousy unfocused writers. My local rag isn't published locally and the writers are all leftist dolts . I used to subscribe to Nat Geo and Sports Illustrated. SI went stupid left and Nat Geo wouldn't stop beating the climate change drum, so bye bye to both
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (bVN1m)
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I hung with the WSJ until 2023. I'll never get that time and money back.
One other publication that I truly enjoyed and now miss was The Atlantic when the great Michael Kelly was editor. It's been a rag ever since, especially in recent years.
One other publication that I truly enjoyed and now miss was The Atlantic when the great Michael Kelly was editor. It's been a rag ever since, especially in recent years.
Posted by: pikkumatti at March 17, 2025 11:16 AM (FY8nG)
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>>>After Mr. Michaels retired in 1999 and the magazine went primarily digital, it became an unfocused mess that leaned hard to the left.
Who owns Forbes?
Chyna!
Who owns Forbes?
Chyna!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2025 11:16 AM (LdsRU)
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13 I thought the wsj op-ed pages (opinion journal dot com) in the early 2000s was quite good, then was just paywalled at some point, so I lost interest.
they had to go paywalled so you couldn't see them don the skinsuit. it's like clark kent closing the doors when he enters the phone booth.
they had to go paywalled so you couldn't see them don the skinsuit. it's like clark kent closing the doors when he enters the phone booth.
Posted by: anachronda at March 17, 2025 11:16 AM (oY6Yp)
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All print went to shit once National Lampoon stopped publishing.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 11:17 AM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 17, 2025 11:17 AM (paSBy)
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One other publication that I truly enjoyed and now miss was The Atlantic when the great Michael Kelly was editor. It's been a rag ever since, especially in recent years.
Posted by: pikkumatti
Yeah, Michael Kelly was great. Had good op-eds in the WaPo back in the die.
He died while embedded with the troops in Iraq. RIP.
Posted by: pikkumatti
Yeah, Michael Kelly was great. Had good op-eds in the WaPo back in the die.
He died while embedded with the troops in Iraq. RIP.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)
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Where there's a vacuum, there's opportunity.
Posted by: Auspex at March 17, 2025 11:14 AM (j4U/Z)
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/throws bag of dust on living room carpet in front of mrs bd
/rereads auspex's comment - this time in context
Posted by: Auspex at March 17, 2025 11:14 AM (j4U/Z)
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/throws bag of dust on living room carpet in front of mrs bd
/rereads auspex's comment - this time in context
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 17, 2025 11:17 AM (copfg)
Posted by: anachronda at March 17, 2025 11:18 AM (oY6Yp)
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Speaking of the worthless media-
DC Press Elites Reportedly Go After Trump By Breaking a 140-Yearlong Tradition at Private White-Tie Dinner. Multiple reports detailed the events Sunday at the Gridiron Dinner...Presidents have regularly attended, however Trump has not been at the dinner since 2018. And top members of his administration also boycotted the event.
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) — the most prominent Republican in attendance — jabbed at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “I was also told Robert Kennedy was going to be here tonight, but unfortunately he couldn’t make it,” she said, per the Times “He’s got the measles.”
DC Press Elites Reportedly Go After Trump By Breaking a 140-Yearlong Tradition at Private White-Tie Dinner. Multiple reports detailed the events Sunday at the Gridiron Dinner...Presidents have regularly attended, however Trump has not been at the dinner since 2018. And top members of his administration also boycotted the event.
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) — the most prominent Republican in attendance — jabbed at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “I was also told Robert Kennedy was going to be here tonight, but unfortunately he couldn’t make it,” she said, per the Times “He’s got the measles.”
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 17, 2025 11:18 AM (JCZqz)
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*back in the day*
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
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No matter how much you hate them…
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 17, 2025 11:18 AM (ukTUK)
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But I just can't get past all of the "OMG! We've only got ten years to save the Erf!" hysteria.
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That propaganda is sprinkled everywhere, including Consumer Reports, Car&Driver, Sports Illustrated, I assume also in women's fashion mags and probably even in Penthouse and such.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (Dv3i1)
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I gave up on C&D and GQ years ago. Nonstop leftwing propaganda, as if sports car enthusiasts are somehow gonna suddenly rave about the latest evo EV. And in GQ's case, nonstop faghagging grooming.
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That propaganda is sprinkled everywhere, including Consumer Reports, Car&Driver, Sports Illustrated, I assume also in women's fashion mags and probably even in Penthouse and such.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (Dv3i1)
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I gave up on C&D and GQ years ago. Nonstop leftwing propaganda, as if sports car enthusiasts are somehow gonna suddenly rave about the latest evo EV. And in GQ's case, nonstop faghagging grooming.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 17, 2025 11:19 AM (iFTx/)
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Try comparing The Economist of the 80s (newsprint, delivered by mail) to what it has become. It was a compact tour d'horizon of most important stories and topics for the entire world. With great writing and editing and often arch and subtle British wit. Now? Pretty much the sophomoric brain-dead trainwreck that all the other great publications have become.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2025 11:19 AM (1m82a)
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I still have digital WSJ subscription, but it is hanging by a thread. Constant war against Elon is tough to take. I used to think that WSJ had to play it more or less straight because their target audience of business folks can't afford to indulge in lies, but it seems they (both WSJ and their audience - judging from comments on WSJ site) just don't care anymore about truth. Party line is everything.
Posted by: Martin Tell at March 17, 2025 11:19 AM (sFNX2)
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After Mr. Michaels retired in 1999 and the magazine went primarily digital, it became an unfocused mess that leaned hard to the left.
The funny thing is Forbes' YouTube channel still has the best no-commentary videos of breaking news items. You want to see, for instance, Javier Milei's speech at the WEF with no graphics and no text about DESTROYING and OWNING, that's the place.
The funny thing is Forbes' YouTube channel still has the best no-commentary videos of breaking news items. You want to see, for instance, Javier Milei's speech at the WEF with no graphics and no text about DESTROYING and OWNING, that's the place.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 11:19 AM (2ocoG)
67
Schumer cancelled his book tour event tonight in Baltimore. He raised "security concerns" . Dem protesters were going to be there. Darn
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:20 AM (bVN1m)
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I regret that I have no subscription to cancel.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:20 AM (krQz2)
69
Buck... this is also a glimpse into the ultimate demise of traditional media outlets.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 11:20 AM (L5An7)
Posted by: skynet, controlling your roomba at March 17, 2025 11:21 AM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2025 11:21 AM (LdsRU)
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Schumer cancelled his book tour event tonight in Baltimore. He raised "security concerns" . Dem protesters were going to be there. Darn
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:20 AM (bVN1m)
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It's mean for Dems to "find out".
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:20 AM (bVN1m)
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It's mean for Dems to "find out".
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:21 AM (krQz2)
73
The older I get:
1) The more I understand my parents and their parents, and the more I treasure my family.
2) The less patience I have for leftists and their lunacy.
3) The less I care about the institutions that no longer value America and traditional American values.
4) The easier it is to throw out the useless vestiges of such fallen, degraded institutions.
1) The more I understand my parents and their parents, and the more I treasure my family.
2) The less patience I have for leftists and their lunacy.
3) The less I care about the institutions that no longer value America and traditional American values.
4) The easier it is to throw out the useless vestiges of such fallen, degraded institutions.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 17, 2025 11:21 AM (wtvvX)
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67 Schumer cancelled his book tour event tonight in Baltimore. He raised "security concerns" . Dem protesters were going to be there. Darn
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:20 AM (bVN1m)
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It's going to turn out that it's only about 10% of the Democrat base is actually pissed about this, and Schumer is going to easily win his re-election primary.
Heck, most of that 10% will completely forget about this "cave" in 3 years.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:20 AM (bVN1m)
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It's going to turn out that it's only about 10% of the Democrat base is actually pissed about this, and Schumer is going to easily win his re-election primary.
Heck, most of that 10% will completely forget about this "cave" in 3 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)
75
The Economist used to be a great magazine, but it has been over twenty years since that one became trash as well.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 17, 2025 11:21 AM (lTGtQ)
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It isn’t just Politics. The entire dead-tree paradigm died at least 20 years ago.
Magazines, the 50s thru the 80s were a golden age - whatever your interest, there was a subscription that would cover it. They had an advertising budget and circulation numbers that could support hiring experts in the field, and editors who could clean up their prose to make it readable. They inverted that - trying to hire writers and get them up to speed on a subject doesn’t really work.
All the good knowledge, that went out the window. Most of the best writing, and the DIY stuff, is found on enthusiast web forum discussion groups. For free. This includes current events. The Legacy Media is the Equivalent of Sears. Lots of nice real estate. But circling the drain.
Magazines, the 50s thru the 80s were a golden age - whatever your interest, there was a subscription that would cover it. They had an advertising budget and circulation numbers that could support hiring experts in the field, and editors who could clean up their prose to make it readable. They inverted that - trying to hire writers and get them up to speed on a subject doesn’t really work.
All the good knowledge, that went out the window. Most of the best writing, and the DIY stuff, is found on enthusiast web forum discussion groups. For free. This includes current events. The Legacy Media is the Equivalent of Sears. Lots of nice real estate. But circling the drain.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 11:21 AM (tJ+Xw)
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That propaganda is sprinkled everywhere, including Consumer Reports, Car&Driver, Sports Illustrated, I assume also in women's fashion mags and probably even in Penthouse and such.
Penthouse: "Global warming is making pussies looser!"
It is, how you say, funny that The Paolo is now "global warming".
Penthouse: "Global warming is making pussies looser!"
It is, how you say, funny that The Paolo is now "global warming".
Posted by: The Paolo at March 17, 2025 11:21 AM (2ocoG)
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Traditional mass media--newspaper, television, radio--correctly identified the internet as a threat to their existence.
But, rather than democratize the content or engage with their audience--the key attraction of the internet--they, as monopolies do, chose to redouble their effort at being gatekeepers of information.
The new information matrix has already been formed and is exploding. Content creators who combine the socials with broadcast platforms have audiences that rival the old media.
Funny thing is, this site will survive as it's long been at the forefront of not just providing content but allowing the audience to interact and share in creating content.
But, rather than democratize the content or engage with their audience--the key attraction of the internet--they, as monopolies do, chose to redouble their effort at being gatekeepers of information.
The new information matrix has already been formed and is exploding. Content creators who combine the socials with broadcast platforms have audiences that rival the old media.
Funny thing is, this site will survive as it's long been at the forefront of not just providing content but allowing the audience to interact and share in creating content.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (7oyRZ)
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That propaganda is sprinkled everywhere, including Consumer Reports, Car&Driver, Sports Illustrated, I assume also in women's fashion mags and probably even in Penthouse and such.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (Dv3i1)
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Try anything related to skiing.
Did you know 60% of ski resorts will close by 2040 cuz no more snow? To which my retort is, then why are people buying $5M homes at said ski resorts? Same question I have for Obama. If the oceans are rising why did you pay $20M for a home on the , you know, ocean?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (Dv3i1)
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Try anything related to skiing.
Did you know 60% of ski resorts will close by 2040 cuz no more snow? To which my retort is, then why are people buying $5M homes at said ski resorts? Same question I have for Obama. If the oceans are rising why did you pay $20M for a home on the , you know, ocean?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (ukTUK)
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*That propaganda is sprinkled everywhere, including Consumer Reports, Car&Driver, Sports Illustrated, I assume also in women's fashion mags and probably even in Penthouse and such.*
So glad Cat Fancy did not survive long enough to be corrupted.
So glad Cat Fancy did not survive long enough to be corrupted.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (WoDLf)
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WSJ was always a bit stuck up. They were naturals for TDS.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Back in the day The New Yorker had painted itself into the most extreme corner of snobbery.
I know of folks for whom, even to this day, the cartoons of The New Yorker are simply the drollest and wittiest things around. To me they are merely pen and ink effluvia.
WSJ was always a bit stuck up. They were naturals for TDS.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Back in the day The New Yorker had painted itself into the most extreme corner of snobbery.
I know of folks for whom, even to this day, the cartoons of The New Yorker are simply the drollest and wittiest things around. To me they are merely pen and ink effluvia.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)
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I also cancelled my WSJ subscription, right after the 2020 election. When they asked me why, I told them they could no longer be trusted to report the news fairly and accurately.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (qUkBO)
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There's mass replacement coming in "journalism", though no promises the wit and wisdom of writers will improve:
artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is as smart or smarter than humans — will start to emerge in the next five or 10 years.
“I think today’s systems, they’re very passive, but there’s still a lot of things they can’t do. But I think over the next five to 10 years, a lot of those capabilities will start coming to the fore and we’ll start moving towards what we call artificial general intelligence,”
(via cnbc)
artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is as smart or smarter than humans — will start to emerge in the next five or 10 years.
“I think today’s systems, they’re very passive, but there’s still a lot of things they can’t do. But I think over the next five to 10 years, a lot of those capabilities will start coming to the fore and we’ll start moving towards what we call artificial general intelligence,”
(via cnbc)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 17, 2025 11:23 AM (TiuIU)
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The barrel comes for us all, KvC
The barrel comes for us all, KvC
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 11:23 AM (fwyhL)
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They inverted that - trying to hire writers and get them up to speed on a subject doesn’t really work.
That was mostly in service of diversity. There are no black lesbian experts in the Commodore 64, but we can train some!
That was mostly in service of diversity. There are no black lesbian experts in the Commodore 64, but we can train some!
Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 11:23 AM (2ocoG)
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75 The Economist used to be a great magazine, but it has been over twenty years since that one became trash as well.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Big Mac index.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Big Mac index.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 17, 2025 11:23 AM (ukTUK)
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The Atlantic when the great Michael Kelly was editor.
Posted by: pikkumatti at March 17, 2025 11:16 AM (FY8nG)
He was at The New Republic before The Atlantic, but made the mistake of trusting and defending one of his writers... Stephen Glass.
Posted by: pikkumatti at March 17, 2025 11:16 AM (FY8nG)
He was at The New Republic before The Atlantic, but made the mistake of trusting and defending one of his writers... Stephen Glass.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 11:23 AM (L5An7)
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That propaganda is sprinkled everywhere, including Consumer Reports, Car&Driver, Sports Illustrated, I assume also in women's fashion mags and probably even in Penthouse and such.
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I grew up with Popular Science. My dad subscribed for my brothers and me. It's another one that's turned to shit.
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I grew up with Popular Science. My dad subscribed for my brothers and me. It's another one that's turned to shit.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 17, 2025 11:24 AM (paSBy)
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Quoting some prescient rap song, "it wasn't me!"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 17, 2025 11:24 AM (TiuIU)
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Forbes is now dead to me, as is The Wall Street Journal.
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The Conservative Case for National TDS Review, The Rear Dispatch, and The Bullworking Your Wife.
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The Conservative Case for National TDS Review, The Rear Dispatch, and The Bullworking Your Wife.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 11:24 AM (h9jqp)
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One thing I liked about the WSJ was how they would always have a pen-and-ink drawing to accompany one of the stories on the front page.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)
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For me it was when Mad magazine went TDS.
Posted by: eleven at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (0HaGk)
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I know of folks for whom, even to this day, the cartoons of The New Yorker are simply the drollest and wittiest things around.
Is that the one where all of the cartoons instantly get funnier if you add "And then I killed myself" to the caption?
Is that the one where all of the cartoons instantly get funnier if you add "And then I killed myself" to the caption?
Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
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Speaking of gone downhill, Triggernometry did an interview with Boris Johnson that was published on YT over the weekend. First off, he lies about what he did to push Ukraine into not signing a treaty with Russia in 2022, then he moved on to proudly exclaim that he became a global warmist when he flew over Africa, and realized that there are too many people in the world.
So, he is another who wants millions of people to die to save the earth, as long as they are darker than him. At that point, I turned it off.
So, he is another who wants millions of people to die to save the earth, as long as they are darker than him. At that point, I turned it off.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (lTGtQ)
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The barrel comes for us all, KvC
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
It most certainly does not -- I colored inside the lines.
The barrel comes for us all, KvC
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
It most certainly does not -- I colored inside the lines.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (xG4kz)
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I know of folks for whom, even to this day, the cartoons of The New Yorker are simply the drollest and wittiest things around. To me they are merely pen and ink effluvia.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (xG4kz)
You simply don't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate the subtle, rapier wit of The New Yorker cartoons.
Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (xG4kz)
You simply don't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate the subtle, rapier wit of The New Yorker cartoons.
Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (L5An7)
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47 Agree and two comments:
1. WSJ is just another leftwing grift and money-laundering operation. They can suck my balls.
2. The entire fields of economics, business, and investing have succumbed to the same dingbat insanity that consumed modern sciences like even physics. That is, they abandoned classic and tested theories for highly speculative bullshit pulled out of assholes for clickbait and social media likes.
I read economics or science news today, and most of the time I'm like "are you fucking kidding me with this bullshit?"
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (iFTx/)
These are my news sources:
Ace of Spades HQ
Instapundit (faster news updates than AoS). No need to click through to the news items; just the headlines)
Real Clear Politics (They pick the best longish-form articles to read)
X (however, I can't stand that you can't sort tweets by subject, so I'm using it less)
However, if I have one thing I'm really trying to do this year, it's READ PRIMARY SOURCES ONLY.
And the last thing I'm doing is reading more books on the subjects that I'm interested in. The first draft of history - news - is garbage. I want the distance of time.
1. WSJ is just another leftwing grift and money-laundering operation. They can suck my balls.
2. The entire fields of economics, business, and investing have succumbed to the same dingbat insanity that consumed modern sciences like even physics. That is, they abandoned classic and tested theories for highly speculative bullshit pulled out of assholes for clickbait and social media likes.
I read economics or science news today, and most of the time I'm like "are you fucking kidding me with this bullshit?"
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM (iFTx/)
These are my news sources:
Ace of Spades HQ
Instapundit (faster news updates than AoS). No need to click through to the news items; just the headlines)
Real Clear Politics (They pick the best longish-form articles to read)
X (however, I can't stand that you can't sort tweets by subject, so I'm using it less)
However, if I have one thing I'm really trying to do this year, it's READ PRIMARY SOURCES ONLY.
And the last thing I'm doing is reading more books on the subjects that I'm interested in. The first draft of history - news - is garbage. I want the distance of time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (hIom3)
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I had an ex who loved The New Yorker. I should have known what was to come of our relationship when I first found that out. Would have saved me year of shit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (ukTUK)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (5hfjS)
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I canceled my WSJ subscription in 2016 when they went never Trump. I wasn’t on the Trump Train yet, but jeepers, they lost their minds.
I remember how excited i was when they started publishing on Saturdays.
How far they have fallen. Now I wouldn’t line a birdcage with their drivel.
I remember how excited i was when they started publishing on Saturdays.
How far they have fallen. Now I wouldn’t line a birdcage with their drivel.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (mT+6a)
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Meet the new cope. Same as the old cope!
https://shorturl.at/wRlov
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
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The new messaging is that the Democrats have failed at messaging.
Thus the only thing they were once good at, and the only thing they're trying now.
https://shorturl.at/wRlov
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
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The new messaging is that the Democrats have failed at messaging.
Thus the only thing they were once good at, and the only thing they're trying now.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (krQz2)
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I miss newspapers so much. Used to read 3 every day. Now none. I would love to have just ONE daily newspaper that played it straight, news-wise.
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Same.
Not just that, I miss having the time (or not feeling bad for taking the time) to sit and just meander through a newspaper.
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Same.
Not just that, I miss having the time (or not feeling bad for taking the time) to sit and just meander through a newspaper.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 11:27 AM (7oyRZ)
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Speakng of leftist media.
VOAs new overseer Kari Lake has found much corruption at Voice Of America and vows to chop block agency to levels madated as statutory by law.
VOAs new overseer Kari Lake has found much corruption at Voice Of America and vows to chop block agency to levels madated as statutory by law.
Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 17, 2025 11:27 AM (37aB+)
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National Geographic started going off the rails when they took the filigree off the yellow border on their covers in 1979. It's been a steady downhill plunge ever since.
How I loved reading it cover to cover in my childhood, especially the maps!!!
How I loved reading it cover to cover in my childhood, especially the maps!!!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 17, 2025 11:27 AM (wtvvX)
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@74 TJM, Schumer will be 78 in 2028. New York, were I live , is trending crazy left and the crazies are pissed at this cave . While I agree they have the attention span of gnats , the old line Dems are being replaced by Democratic Socialists who have no loyalty to Chuck. Combine that with leftist anti Semitism and younger Dems wanting power and Chuck has a problem.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:27 AM (bVN1m)
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They went into left feild in the 90's when most of the writers jumped on the Clinton wagon. The editorial staff still put out mostly decent articles but that went to hell with Obama and the bootlicking they gave him.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 17, 2025 11:27 AM (5M/Mg)
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Is that the one where all of the cartoons instantly get funnier if you add "And then I killed myself" to the caption?
Posted by: Ian S.
That's the idea. I recall it as the character saying, "I think I'll kill myself."
Is that the one where all of the cartoons instantly get funnier if you add "And then I killed myself" to the caption?
Posted by: Ian S.
That's the idea. I recall it as the character saying, "I think I'll kill myself."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (xG4kz)
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Its not as if Manhattan is an island. Oh, wait.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (Hpgos)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (zay7X)
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89 When I was a kid, Mom and Dad got me subscriptions to Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and Mechanics Illustrated. Looked at one of the three in the VA waiting room (forgot which one) a couple years ago and things have certainly changed. Can't even buy a King Midget car mail order anymore.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (gm9Sb)
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I saw a story over the weekend that a recent season of The Bachelor ended with the woman refusing to marry the guy because she found out he wasn't hard-left enough.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 11:14 AM (2ocoG)
I picture him like Neo in the The Matrix... just dodging bullets.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2025 11:14 AM (2ocoG)
I picture him like Neo in the The Matrix... just dodging bullets.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (ExV1e)
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My father subscribed to US NEWS & WORLD REPORT for over 45 years. Never missed an issue. Between that, the daily paper we got (evening) and mags that mother's friends passed on to us, we had a strong knowledge of what was going on. Dad ended that subscription, out of disgust over how they covered Clinton then Bush. Never been back, never going back...
Posted by: Mr Wolf at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (OS/Fq)
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The barrel comes for us all, KvC
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
It most certainly does not -- I colored inside the lines.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (xG4kz)
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Well, you might have been saved...
The barrel comes for us all, KvC
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
It most certainly does not -- I colored inside the lines.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (xG4kz)
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Well, you might have been saved...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (GBKbO)
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VOAs new overseer Kari Lake has found much corruption at Voice Of America and vows to chop block agency to levels madated as statutory by law.
Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it!
Chop block > cock block
Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it!
Chop block > cock block
Posted by: Moron Math at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (JCZqz)
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I almost cancelled my WSJ subscription in 2022 but James Freeman talked me out of it in an entertaining email exchange. But the opinion writers inability to see the forest for the trees, ie, they get stuck in a minutia of detail and ignore the larger purposes of Trump actions, has got me to the point where they just piss me off.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (TiuIU)
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Above, about Forbes: Yeah, that's a real poser. You can still find conservative enough content from them, but in the main, you can't trust them to have other than a DC opinion.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (krQz2)
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"Scientific American" is now unreadable. The science is all filled with thinly disguised DEI and 1619 bullsh*t.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (L5An7)
120
97
The barrel comes for us all, KvC
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
It most certainly does not -- I colored inside the lines.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (xG4kz)
I see someone has the cardboard subscription with the aluminum foil privileges.
The barrel comes for us all, KvC
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
It most certainly does not -- I colored inside the lines.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (xG4kz)
I see someone has the cardboard subscription with the aluminum foil privileges.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (fwyhL)
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Like, I really want to subscribe to the print edition of the Epoch Times.
But I just know they'll stack up unread.
That saddens me.
But I just know they'll stack up unread.
That saddens me.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (7oyRZ)
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Meet the new cope. Same as the old cope!
https://shorturl.at/wRlov
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
Is that a tranny?
https://shorturl.at/wRlov
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
Is that a tranny?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (MqtqS)
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107 @74 TJM, Schumer will be 78 in 2028. New York, were I live , is trending crazy left and the crazies are pissed at this cave . While I agree they have the attention span of gnats , the old line Dems are being replaced by Democratic Socialists who have no loyalty to Chuck. Combine that with leftist anti Semitism and younger Dems wanting power and Chuck has a problem.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:27 AM (bVN1m)
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I seriously doubt that the NY establishment is so weak that Schumer, fully aware of an attack from his left and with years to prep for it, will fold or lose.
Besides, he's only 78. That's like 24 in Senator years.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:27 AM (bVN1m)
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I seriously doubt that the NY establishment is so weak that Schumer, fully aware of an attack from his left and with years to prep for it, will fold or lose.
Besides, he's only 78. That's like 24 in Senator years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
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Schumer cancelled his book tour event tonight in Baltimore. He raised "security concerns" . Dem protesters were going to be there. Darn
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:20 AM (bVN1m)
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It's mean for Dems to "find out".
I think Chuckie is on the way out.
More Dems Unleash on Chuck Schumer
During Sunday episodes of CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) fumed over Schumer's siding with Republicans. She expressed frustration that Schumer is portrayed as the only Democrat leader with a clear understanding of the situation. ...
She suggested it was time for the long-time politician to step aside, saying that Democrats need to sit down and take a look and decide whether Schumer is the one to continue leading.
It's true that AOC and Crockett are the ones leading the charge, but I think the rank and file have realized that Chuck just isn't up to the Trump challenge. I think they're right, but that doesn't mean they'd do any better.
https://is.gd/SPGuWZ
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 17, 2025 11:20 AM (bVN1m)
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It's mean for Dems to "find out".
I think Chuckie is on the way out.
More Dems Unleash on Chuck Schumer
During Sunday episodes of CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) fumed over Schumer's siding with Republicans. She expressed frustration that Schumer is portrayed as the only Democrat leader with a clear understanding of the situation. ...
She suggested it was time for the long-time politician to step aside, saying that Democrats need to sit down and take a look and decide whether Schumer is the one to continue leading.
It's true that AOC and Crockett are the ones leading the charge, but I think the rank and file have realized that Chuck just isn't up to the Trump challenge. I think they're right, but that doesn't mean they'd do any better.
https://is.gd/SPGuWZ
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)
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The press, all of it, is no longer considered "the authoritative source" for information. They ain't taking it well.
Flipside - one does have to do their own due diligence which either is, or isn't something everyone can, or is willing to do.
Even here there's been a shift to the "verification then trust" method rather than trusting the media to be even remotely accurate and then fact checking them.
Flipside - one does have to do their own due diligence which either is, or isn't something everyone can, or is willing to do.
Even here there's been a shift to the "verification then trust" method rather than trusting the media to be even remotely accurate and then fact checking them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (Q4IgG)
126
You simply don't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate the subtle, rapier wit of The New Yorker cartoons.
Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (L5An7)
And if you want something rapier than usual, you can depend on Lefty brainiacs.
You simply don't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate the subtle, rapier wit of The New Yorker cartoons.
Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (L5An7)
And if you want something rapier than usual, you can depend on Lefty brainiacs.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (pIfcn)
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Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew
Says the guy now residing in Wisconsin. Mind your Ps and Qs, cheesehead.
Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew
Says the guy now residing in Wisconsin. Mind your Ps and Qs, cheesehead.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xG4kz)
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124 It's true that AOC and Crockett are the ones leading the charge, but I think the rank and file have realized that Chuck just isn't up to the Trump challenge. I think they're right, but that doesn't mean they'd do any better.
https://is.gd/SPGuWZ
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)
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We realized this about our own establishment in 2009.
https://is.gd/SPGuWZ
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)
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We realized this about our own establishment in 2009.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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Besides, he's only 78. That's like 24 in Senator years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
“He’s got 4 more elections in him!”
~ Chuck Grassley
Besides, he's only 78. That's like 24 in Senator years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
“He’s got 4 more elections in him!”
~ Chuck Grassley
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (fwyhL)
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Some twat at MSN wrote how you can’t treat the government like a business the way Elon wants to. Because if yiou did, you’d have to get rid of money losing operations like USPS.
And I’m like bitch you’re not doing a good job persuading me. 🤣🤣
And I’m like bitch you’re not doing a good job persuading me. 🤣🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (ukTUK)
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106 The National Geographic played a significant role in WW2, providing accurate maps to the War Department of places we would never go to and then did.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (gm9Sb)
132
The legacy media clings to its former relevancy and they can't understand why we read them any more.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 17, 2025 11:31 AM (jjoN6)
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My father subscribed to US NEWS & WORLD REPORT for over 45 years.
Posted by: Mr Wolf
My parents were news junkies. We got Time, Newsweek, USN&WR. And every Friday evening they'd watch Washington Week in Revue and The McLaughlin Group. Also the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour.
Posted by: Mr Wolf
My parents were news junkies. We got Time, Newsweek, USN&WR. And every Friday evening they'd watch Washington Week in Revue and The McLaughlin Group. Also the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)
134
I always used to enjoy Best of the Web by Taranto. But it's been decades since I've been to the WSJ website.
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 17, 2025 11:32 AM (fwiFD)
135
This house is now a no wisdom zone!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM
"I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. is down! I repeat, we have no I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.!"
Posted by: lin-duh at March 17, 2025 11:15 AM
"I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. is down! I repeat, we have no I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.!"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 11:32 AM (f+rRX)
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Says the guy now residing in Wisconsin. Mind your Ps and Qs, cheesehead.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xG4kz)
Wrong coblogger!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xG4kz)
Wrong coblogger!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 17, 2025 11:32 AM (L5An7)
137
Seriously, I still have a print subscription to the WSJ that started back in the late '70s.
I also have a parrot that needs birdcage liner. You'd be amazed how much that enters into the subscription continuation equation.
The WSJ really went bonkers when:
-Elon Musk bought Twitter. BIG competition to the existing media blob, and the WSJ is right in the middle of that.
-They brought in their current editor, Emma Blimeywhatsersnatch or whatever. Her mission to totally Karen-ize the paper is rolling along with vigor.
-Obviously the Murdoch family HATES Donald Trump with a passion. It's personal.
-They hire from the pool of journalistic talent available, and it's a bunch of mouth-breathing indoctrinated morons. Imaging the idiots that didn't make the cut.
It's like their motto became, "We know we suck. But all your other daily newspaper choices suck much worse."
And don't get me started on the Chicago Tribune....even the comics bite the wax tadpole in that rag.
I also have a parrot that needs birdcage liner. You'd be amazed how much that enters into the subscription continuation equation.
The WSJ really went bonkers when:
-Elon Musk bought Twitter. BIG competition to the existing media blob, and the WSJ is right in the middle of that.
-They brought in their current editor, Emma Blimeywhatsersnatch or whatever. Her mission to totally Karen-ize the paper is rolling along with vigor.
-Obviously the Murdoch family HATES Donald Trump with a passion. It's personal.
-They hire from the pool of journalistic talent available, and it's a bunch of mouth-breathing indoctrinated morons. Imaging the idiots that didn't make the cut.
It's like their motto became, "We know we suck. But all your other daily newspaper choices suck much worse."
And don't get me started on the Chicago Tribune....even the comics bite the wax tadpole in that rag.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at March 17, 2025 11:33 AM (Ft5W9)
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Says the guy now residing in Wisconsin. Mind your Ps and Qs, cheesehead.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
Uh, it's JJ who now lives in Wisconsin. CBD is in that other cheese-land, France.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
Uh, it's JJ who now lives in Wisconsin. CBD is in that other cheese-land, France.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)
139
Some twat at MSN wrote how you can’t treat the government like a business the way Elon wants to. Because if yiou did, you’d have to get rid of money losing operations like USPS.
#OwnGoal FTW!
Some twat at MSN wrote how you can’t treat the government like a business the way Elon wants to. Because if yiou did, you’d have to get rid of money losing operations like USPS.
#OwnGoal FTW!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:33 AM (xG4kz)
140
You simply don't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate the subtle, rapier wit of The New Yorker cartoons.
Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (L5An7)
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Saul Steinberg nods...
You simply don't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate the subtle, rapier wit of The New Yorker cartoons.
Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (L5An7)
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Saul Steinberg nods...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 17, 2025 11:33 AM (TiuIU)
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> Uh, it's JJ who now lives in Wisconsin. CBD is in that other cheese-land, France.
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Cheese thread... incoming.
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Cheese thread... incoming.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
142
I almost cancelled my WSJ subscription in 2022 but James Freeman talked me out of it in an entertaining email exchange. But the opinion writers inability to see the forest for the trees, ie, they get stuck in a minutia of detail and ignore the larger purposes of Trump actions, has got me to the point where they just piss me off.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (TiuIU)
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I think the main confusion is thinking that there is one way everyone does politics.
But I think it's crucial that if your side of "politics" is to roll your eyes as "government solutions", your side is doing something vastly different from how the other side engages in politics.
The side that wants fewer promises of "government solutions" does NOT need "leaders" as much as they need people to get done what government is franchised to get done.
Trump thinks he did a real good thing in delivering the vaccine "so fast". From his real estate framework, delivering early is a definite positive.
Many of us want to be left to our own decision on whether we partake of this government miracle, and so we at least appreciate that Trump didn't try to force it on us.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 17, 2025 11:28 AM (TiuIU)
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I think the main confusion is thinking that there is one way everyone does politics.
But I think it's crucial that if your side of "politics" is to roll your eyes as "government solutions", your side is doing something vastly different from how the other side engages in politics.
The side that wants fewer promises of "government solutions" does NOT need "leaders" as much as they need people to get done what government is franchised to get done.
Trump thinks he did a real good thing in delivering the vaccine "so fast". From his real estate framework, delivering early is a definite positive.
Many of us want to be left to our own decision on whether we partake of this government miracle, and so we at least appreciate that Trump didn't try to force it on us.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (krQz2)
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The most hilarious eye-opener/cancellation for me was-
Once upon a time, the Dallas/Ft Worth area had two major daily newspapers, The Dallas Morning News and the Times-Herald.
The DMN was the conservative newspaper and the T-H was the liberal newspaper.
Over time the profound stupidity and wide open propaganda of the Times-Herald, worked against them and were close to bankruptcy when bought out by the Dallas Morning News.
Literally, the next day the DMN turned hard left. In stories, in reviews, in sports coverage, in the opinion page, everything.
People who wrote "conservative" columns were now writing "progressive" columns and all this under their same ownership.
I waited it out a bit but finally cancelled.
All along the "conservative" paper had simply been a fake. They lost readers, of course. And, of course, went even harder left. And lost more people.
Once the internet hit hard, they were doomed.
No loyalty to their loyal customers meant no loyalty to their brand.
Once upon a time, the Dallas/Ft Worth area had two major daily newspapers, The Dallas Morning News and the Times-Herald.
The DMN was the conservative newspaper and the T-H was the liberal newspaper.
Over time the profound stupidity and wide open propaganda of the Times-Herald, worked against them and were close to bankruptcy when bought out by the Dallas Morning News.
Literally, the next day the DMN turned hard left. In stories, in reviews, in sports coverage, in the opinion page, everything.
People who wrote "conservative" columns were now writing "progressive" columns and all this under their same ownership.
I waited it out a bit but finally cancelled.
All along the "conservative" paper had simply been a fake. They lost readers, of course. And, of course, went even harder left. And lost more people.
Once the internet hit hard, they were doomed.
No loyalty to their loyal customers meant no loyalty to their brand.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (iJfKG)
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Here's some actual journalism you might find interesting. Apparently, The Blaze has an exclusive about the people who were behind the violence on Jan. 6th and you probably won't be surprised that it leads back to Pelosi.
This is the first installment.
https://tinyurl.com/bds73yya
This is the first installment.
https://tinyurl.com/bds73yya
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (LkLld)
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It's true that AOC and Crockett are the ones leading the charge, but I think the rank and file have realized that Chuck just isn't up to the Trump challenge. I think they're right, but that doesn't mean they'd do any better.
https://is.gd/SPGuWZ
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)
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We already saw this before in the early days of the "Squad," when they were still being heralded as the next gen of politics: dark-skinned, radically leftwing women screeching at clouds like imbeciles.
AOC is the only one of the Squad that managed to stay relevant, in large part because she's better looking, represents a more important state, and has more social-media savvy. And she never fucked her brother.
This Crockett crotch-rot is merely the latest attempt at the "Squad" formula. It will fail miserably, and in fact already is.
https://is.gd/SPGuWZ
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)
_________
We already saw this before in the early days of the "Squad," when they were still being heralded as the next gen of politics: dark-skinned, radically leftwing women screeching at clouds like imbeciles.
AOC is the only one of the Squad that managed to stay relevant, in large part because she's better looking, represents a more important state, and has more social-media savvy. And she never fucked her brother.
This Crockett crotch-rot is merely the latest attempt at the "Squad" formula. It will fail miserably, and in fact already is.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 17, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)
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Some twat at MSN wrote how you can’t treat the government like a business the way Elon wants to. Because if yiou did, you’d have to get rid of money losing operations like USPS.
That's not the flex she thinks it is.
That's not the flex she thinks it is.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 11:35 AM (BLpWt)
147
Walked out this morning, I don't believe what I saw
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone at being alone
Hundred billion castaways, looking for a home...
Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone at being alone
Hundred billion castaways, looking for a home...
Posted by: Sting at March 17, 2025 11:35 AM (QB+5g)
148
Well it was a simple concept. “Ask Smoky” who would tell you how to repair your car. Smoky Yunick. Could he write? Reasonably well. It not, the editor would clean it up.
Then they started hiring generic “writers”. Do they know anything about car engines? Well no… Does that matter? It’s easier to teach a welder how to dive, than it is to teach a diver how to weld. That’s their problem.
The advertisement paradigm is a big part of it too.
Then they started hiring generic “writers”. Do they know anything about car engines? Well no… Does that matter? It’s easier to teach a welder how to dive, than it is to teach a diver how to weld. That’s their problem.
The advertisement paradigm is a big part of it too.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 11:35 AM (tJ+Xw)
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114 My father subscribed to US NEWS & WORLD REPORT for over 45 years.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It used to be a pretty objective news source.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. It used to be a pretty objective news source.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 17, 2025 11:35 AM (paSBy)
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141 > Uh, it's JJ who now lives in Wisconsin. CBD is in that other cheese-land, France.
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Cheese thread... incoming.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Are cheese threads made of string cheese???
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Cheese thread... incoming.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Are cheese threads made of string cheese???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (wtvvX)
151
All legacy media will be gone within 10 years. Their products, suck. No need to purchase and consume.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (06ko5)
152
No! Fun! Aloud!
https://shorturl.at/fgu0q
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)
On the one hand, Mee-caw keeps saying that she only wants to hear facts. On the other hand, she's a Democrat so I have doubts.
https://shorturl.at/fgu0q
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)
On the one hand, Mee-caw keeps saying that she only wants to hear facts. On the other hand, she's a Democrat so I have doubts.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)
153
WSJ was liberal in the 90s as well, rated second most in one study.
It was just masked by the editorial page. My dorm bought a subscription and the liberals in charge never ordered it because they thought it was too conservative.
It was just masked by the editorial page. My dorm bought a subscription and the liberals in charge never ordered it because they thought it was too conservative.
Posted by: MikeN at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (HVZOH)
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Some twat at MSN wrote how you can’t treat the government like a business the way Elon wants to. Because if yiou did, you’d have to get rid of money losing operations like USPS.
#OwnGoal FTW!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:33 AM (xG4kz)
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Remember how we heard that the USPS holds its own against private alternatives during the ACA debate?
Which is why of course, we could offer a "government option" to "compete" against private providers.
The problem to Democrats is that some people have memories.
#OwnGoal FTW!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:33 AM (xG4kz)
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Remember how we heard that the USPS holds its own against private alternatives during the ACA debate?
Which is why of course, we could offer a "government option" to "compete" against private providers.
The problem to Democrats is that some people have memories.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (krQz2)
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Uh, it's JJ who now lives in Wisconsin. CBD is in that other cheese-land, France.
Posted by: Bulg
Now that I have erred my obligatory once this day, it'll be smooth sailing on the wine dark sea of expressionistic perfection for me!
Uh, it's JJ who now lives in Wisconsin. CBD is in that other cheese-land, France.
Posted by: Bulg
Now that I have erred my obligatory once this day, it'll be smooth sailing on the wine dark sea of expressionistic perfection for me!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (xG4kz)
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I started reading the WSJ in the mid 1970s. I dropped it soon after the Murdock clan took over.
A test of someone's age: "Do you remember when the WSJ was a real newspaper?"
A test of someone's age: "Do you remember when the WSJ was a real newspaper?"
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (9X60i)
157
None of ConInc media was ever "good." They were always straight-up insidious. Even worse than the MSM, because they were there to keep you docile, managed, and vociferously advocating for your own worst problems. All the Trump era did was expose their evil scam.
These people are the scum of the earth. Fucking capos.
These people are the scum of the earth. Fucking capos.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (BI5O2)
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Besides, he's only 78. That's like 24 in Senator years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
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*laughs* *cries*
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Besides, he's only 78. That's like 24 in Senator years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
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*laughs* *cries*
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (LPS7w)
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Mrs B gets the WSJ, and I never really looked at it. Not too long ago I was flipping through it and I was wondering just what frigging newspaper I was looking at.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 17, 2025 11:37 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)
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158 Besides, he's only 78. That's like 24 in Senator years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
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*laughs* *cries*
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (LPS7w)
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I made a funny!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)
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*laughs* *cries*
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (LPS7w)
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I made a funny!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
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150 141 > Uh, it's JJ who now lives in Wisconsin. CBD is in that other cheese-land, France.
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Cheese thread... incoming.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Are cheese threads made of string cheese???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (wtvvX)
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Before ipads, parents pacified their toddlers with string cheese.
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Cheese thread... incoming.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Are cheese threads made of string cheese???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (wtvvX)
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Before ipads, parents pacified their toddlers with string cheese.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 11:38 AM (LPS7w)
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Schumer cancelled his book tour event tonight in Baltimore. He raised "security concerns" . Dem protesters were going to be there. Darn
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Lie down with dogs, Chuckie, get up with Democrats.
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Lie down with dogs, Chuckie, get up with Democrats.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)
164
Real newspapers have Bat Boy or Jennifer Anniston on the front page.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (gm9Sb)
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My father subscribed to US NEWS & WORLD REPORT for over 45 years.
That was the home world of that horrid college ranking survey, was it not?
My father subscribed to US NEWS & WORLD REPORT for over 45 years.
That was the home world of that horrid college ranking survey, was it not?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (xG4kz)
166
The problem for Chuckie is that the Dems need a scapegoat, and he's the most likely candidate because he's old, Jewish, and clearly has no idea how to combat Trump or grill a cheeseburger.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (xCA6C)
167
interesting, 2016 is about the time I cancelled my subscription too ! such a profound shift to biased reporting. plus who the heck needs it - by the time they publish anything business or markets related , it is old news
Posted by: runner at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (g47mK)
168
Last time I saw the WSJ they were using pencil drawings of people instead of photos
what's with that
what's with that
Posted by: Don Black at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (AOsQT)
169
So glad Cat Fancy did not survive long enough to be corrupted.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (WoDLf)
I know a couple of cats. And they both support Trump. They would have never put up with a lefty Cat Fancy. It's good that magazine died.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (WoDLf)
I know a couple of cats. And they both support Trump. They would have never put up with a lefty Cat Fancy. It's good that magazine died.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Elon Musk's Sperm X4357D2025 at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (QB+5g)
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I was not on the computer this weekend, could someone simply explain the Houthi situation to me...like I'm five?
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (PMtkd)
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164 Real newspapers have Bat Boy or Jennifer Anniston on the front page.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (gm9Sb)
HAH! Forgot about the little guy.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (gm9Sb)
HAH! Forgot about the little guy.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (wtvvX)
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Ted Cruz x-posted a video of Elon saying that the Department of Treasury has 14 "magic money" computers simply "paying out" government IOUs based on nothing.
They just write it off, Jerry.
(nothing, but probably the backing of the 14 amendment, that the government has to be deemed to be reliable in paying out its debts).
They just write it off, Jerry.
(nothing, but probably the backing of the 14 amendment, that the government has to be deemed to be reliable in paying out its debts).
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (krQz2)
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Real newspapers have Bat Boy or Jennifer Anniston on the front page.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (gm9Sb)
Thanks!
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (gm9Sb)
Thanks!
Posted by: Mark Groubert at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (Aqu9a)
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President Trump has declared that the pardons signed by Biden's autopen are void.
Granted, this was on Truth Social, and not formally, but crikey
Granted, this was on Truth Social, and not formally, but crikey
Posted by: Kindltot at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (D7oie)
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Dropped National Review and anyone affiliated with it because of Kevin Williamson, who should be unemployable in any role more sophisticated than crash test dummy.
Posted by: American Hawkman at March 17, 2025 11:41 AM (9VDxG)
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Last time I saw the WSJ they were using pencil drawings of people instead of photos
what's with that
Posted by: Don Black
They always had a drawing to accompany a story on the front page.
what's with that
Posted by: Don Black
They always had a drawing to accompany a story on the front page.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)
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@167 Wasn't that also the year the "journolist" was born? The MSM lost their collective minds.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 11:41 AM (LPS7w)
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Mommy Jill still lets me get Highlights For Children, though some of the puzzles and word games are very difficult. I'm still sad that Cappy Dick is no longer in the Sunday Funny Papers.
Posted by: Joe's AutoPen at March 17, 2025 11:41 AM (G5+As)
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Real newspapers have Bat Boy or Jennifer Anniston on the front page.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (gm9Sb)
Real news papers have a comics section. News I can use. lol
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM (gm9Sb)
Real news papers have a comics section. News I can use. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 17, 2025 11:41 AM (VwHCD)
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163 Schumer cancelled his book tour event tonight in Baltimore. He raised "security concerns" . Dem protesters were going to be there. Darn
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BLUF - too many angry black wymmynz.
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BLUF - too many angry black wymmynz.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 11:41 AM (Hpgos)
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Once again, "To be an enemy of the U.S. is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal." Quoting former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, renowned U.S Economist Jeffrey Sacks said...
Also, "China is not the enemy. China is a success story."
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China pushes for control. Progressives are all in, Wall Street doesn't care because it's a game for the big dogs & they believe they'll always win. imo, of course.
"Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All," authors Jedd McFatter and Susan Crabtree., may be worthy of reading.
Also, "China is not the enemy. China is a success story."
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China pushes for control. Progressives are all in, Wall Street doesn't care because it's a game for the big dogs & they believe they'll always win. imo, of course.
"Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All," authors Jedd McFatter and Susan Crabtree., may be worthy of reading.
Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 17, 2025 11:42 AM (NFX2v)
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No loyalty to their loyal customers meant no loyalty to their brand.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (iJfKG)
Along the way, they lost the simple fact that they are a business, same as every other business. And in business, you need to distinguish yours from others, be it on price, quality, customer service, or a mix.
As it turns out, woke-scold propaganda mills that sneer at its readership for their existence are indistinguishable from the tens of other ones exactly like them. And there never really was a market for woke-scold propaganda mills that sneer at its readership when the readers can get that for free at any of a number of other places.
Good riddance to them all.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (iJfKG)
Along the way, they lost the simple fact that they are a business, same as every other business. And in business, you need to distinguish yours from others, be it on price, quality, customer service, or a mix.
As it turns out, woke-scold propaganda mills that sneer at its readership for their existence are indistinguishable from the tens of other ones exactly like them. And there never really was a market for woke-scold propaganda mills that sneer at its readership when the readers can get that for free at any of a number of other places.
Good riddance to them all.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 17, 2025 11:42 AM (i24o9)
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he moved on to proudly exclaim that he became a global warmist when he flew over Africa, and realized that there are too many people in the world.
Did anyone suggest to him that perhaps they should:
1. Kill themselves first.
2. Not steal their citizens money and send it to these places.
3. Not permit people from these places to come to their country and have everything handed to them.
3. GOTO 1.
Did anyone suggest to him that perhaps they should:
1. Kill themselves first.
2. Not steal their citizens money and send it to these places.
3. Not permit people from these places to come to their country and have everything handed to them.
3. GOTO 1.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:42 AM (ExV1e)
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Bat Boy was hilarious.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)
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Man, it's really cold in here.
Someone, please adopt me.
Posted by: Elon Musk's Sperm X4357D2025
Gets popcorn for watching the upcoming Laura Loomer v AOC cage match.
Man, it's really cold in here.
Someone, please adopt me.
Posted by: Elon Musk's Sperm X4357D2025
Gets popcorn for watching the upcoming Laura Loomer v AOC cage match.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:42 AM (xG4kz)
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What we really need is a resolution to continue...
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:43 AM (krQz2)
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Bill in Our Kansas - I’m reading a now declassified report on the U2 spyplane development.
It’s fascinating. Numerous civilians and agencies contributed. Notably Edwin Land (Polaroid) and Kodak, MIT and lots of various suppliers.
One interesting factoid, Kelly Johnson requested an Altimeter that would scale to 80,000 feet. This raised eyebrows at the contractor. They had to be read in as a result. Ordinarily 40,000 was the highest ever requested.
They also had a funding stash, to avoid the open bidding and procurement process. They cut a check for $1.8 million and mailed it to Johnson’s house, who started the project without a formal contract.
It’s fascinating. Numerous civilians and agencies contributed. Notably Edwin Land (Polaroid) and Kodak, MIT and lots of various suppliers.
One interesting factoid, Kelly Johnson requested an Altimeter that would scale to 80,000 feet. This raised eyebrows at the contractor. They had to be read in as a result. Ordinarily 40,000 was the highest ever requested.
They also had a funding stash, to avoid the open bidding and procurement process. They cut a check for $1.8 million and mailed it to Johnson’s house, who started the project without a formal contract.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2025 11:43 AM (tJ+Xw)
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171 I was not on the computer this weekend, could someone simply explain the Houthi situation to me...like I'm five?
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (PMtkd)
Islamicists Fucking Around with American Shipping are about to Find Out from American Warships
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (PMtkd)
Islamicists Fucking Around with American Shipping are about to Find Out from American Warships
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 17, 2025 11:43 AM (wtvvX)
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Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (L5An7)
Sporty talk for a pseudo-Frog.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (L5An7)
Sporty talk for a pseudo-Frog.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:43 AM (ExV1e)
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National Review was the same for me. Used to subscribe, and visit their site every day.
I knew it was sliding towards irrelevancy when they fired Derbyshire for saying Un-PC things, and Katherine Jean Lopez started flicking the bean daily over Mitt Romney.
Plus Nordlinger was always a squish with his Davos updates.
They're dead to me.
I knew it was sliding towards irrelevancy when they fired Derbyshire for saying Un-PC things, and Katherine Jean Lopez started flicking the bean daily over Mitt Romney.
Plus Nordlinger was always a squish with his Davos updates.
They're dead to me.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 17, 2025 11:43 AM (2VMYz)
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The problem for Chuckie is that the Dems need a scapegoat
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The problem for Schumer is that, unlike Republicans, Democrats do not tolerate weakness and failure. It enrages them. They aren't going to sit there mewling and making pathetic justifications based on 11th degree chess fantasies. They just pull out the pliers and blowtorches, as is correct.
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The problem for Schumer is that, unlike Republicans, Democrats do not tolerate weakness and failure. It enrages them. They aren't going to sit there mewling and making pathetic justifications based on 11th degree chess fantasies. They just pull out the pliers and blowtorches, as is correct.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 11:44 AM (BI5O2)
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Canceled mine a couple years ago. Still miss Baker, Henninger, Jenkins. And especially Barton Swaim.
Posted by: cthoms at March 17, 2025 11:44 AM (GMJaz)
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Newspaper fun fact. The Daily Racing form always has a couple of column inches on page two devoted to world news. Gives them the sales tax break newspapers get.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:44 AM (gm9Sb)
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Psycho protesters crash St. Patty's parade: "F*** St. Patrick. He genocided people."
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Dude, those were snakes.
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Dude, those were snakes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:44 AM (L/fGl)
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171 I was not on the computer this weekend, could someone simply explain the Houthi situation to me...like I'm five?
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They're dead, Jim.
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They're dead, Jim.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 17, 2025 11:45 AM (paSBy)
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I actually kinda liked Nordlinger, in that he was readable, even if he was clearly of the monoculture.
Posted by: American Hawkman at March 17, 2025 11:45 AM (9VDxG)
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Uh, it's JJ who now lives in Wisconsin. CBD is in that other cheese-land, France.
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Cheese thread... incoming.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Are cheese threads made of string cheese???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (wtvvX)
That pun curdled my morning outlook.
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Cheese thread... incoming.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Are cheese threads made of string cheese???
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 17, 2025 11:36 AM (wtvvX)
That pun curdled my morning outlook.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 17, 2025 11:45 AM (i24o9)
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Real newspapers have Bat Boy or Jennifer Anniston on the front page.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM
Oh, aye.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:39 AM
Oh, aye.
Posted by: May MacKenzie at March 17, 2025 11:45 AM (hOk1M)
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The most hilarious eye-opener/cancellation for me was-
Once upon a time, the Dallas/Ft Worth area had two major daily newspapers, The Dallas Morning News and the Times-Herald.
The DMN was the conservative newspaper and the T-H was the liberal newspaper.
Over time the profound stupidity and wide open propaganda of the Times-Herald, worked against them and were close to bankruptcy when bought out by the Dallas Morning News.
Literally, the next day the DMN turned hard left. In stories, in reviews, in sports coverage, in the opinion page, everything.
People who wrote "conservative" columns were now writing "progressive" columns and all this under their same ownership.
I waited it out a bit but finally cancelled.
All along the "conservative" paper had simply been a fake. They lost readers, of course. And, of course, went even harder left. And lost more people.
Once the internet hit hard, they were doomed.
No loyalty to their loyal customers meant no loyalty to their brand.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (iJfKG)
Same story for the Houston Comical and the Houston Pest.
Once upon a time, the Dallas/Ft Worth area had two major daily newspapers, The Dallas Morning News and the Times-Herald.
The DMN was the conservative newspaper and the T-H was the liberal newspaper.
Over time the profound stupidity and wide open propaganda of the Times-Herald, worked against them and were close to bankruptcy when bought out by the Dallas Morning News.
Literally, the next day the DMN turned hard left. In stories, in reviews, in sports coverage, in the opinion page, everything.
People who wrote "conservative" columns were now writing "progressive" columns and all this under their same ownership.
I waited it out a bit but finally cancelled.
All along the "conservative" paper had simply been a fake. They lost readers, of course. And, of course, went even harder left. And lost more people.
Once the internet hit hard, they were doomed.
No loyalty to their loyal customers meant no loyalty to their brand.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (iJfKG)
Same story for the Houston Comical and the Houston Pest.
Posted by: Count de Moent at March 17, 2025 11:45 AM (Aqu9a)
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President Trump has declared that the pardons signed by Biden's autopen are void.
Adam Kinzinger is acting all tough and manly on X, and is telling Trump to BRING IT ON.
He turned off replies to everyone but his sycophants, of course.
Adam Kinzinger is acting all tough and manly on X, and is telling Trump to BRING IT ON.
He turned off replies to everyone but his sycophants, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 17, 2025 11:45 AM (xTIDn)
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169 So glad Cat Fancy did not survive long enough to be corrupted.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (WoDLf)
I know a couple of cats. And they both support Trump. They would have never put up with a lefty Cat Fancy. It's good that magazine died.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (g8Ew
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Has "Knitting Magazine" been corrupted?
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Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (WoDLf)
I know a couple of cats. And they both support Trump. They would have never put up with a lefty Cat Fancy. It's good that magazine died.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (g8Ew
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Has "Knitting Magazine" been corrupted?
🫣
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (LPS7w)
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The new messaging is that the Democrats have failed at messaging.
Thus the only thing they were once good at, and the only thing they're trying now.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (krQz2)
To all 47 genders...
The policies that Donald Trump promised to enact if elected, the policies that has has enacted since being elected, the policies that you've repeated said that you voted for and are happy about... those policies are deeply unpopular and you must vote Democrat to undo them.
Thus the only thing they were once good at, and the only thing they're trying now.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (krQz2)
To all 47 genders...
The policies that Donald Trump promised to enact if elected, the policies that has has enacted since being elected, the policies that you've repeated said that you voted for and are happy about... those policies are deeply unpopular and you must vote Democrat to undo them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (ExV1e)
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I remember when news gave way to journalism. I never imagined it could get any worse than that downgrade. Wow was I wrong.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (O7YUW)
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Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 17, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Are cheese threads made of string cheese???
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My borderline dyslexia is acting up. I read that as "Cheese Martini".
Are cheese threads made of string cheese???
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My borderline dyslexia is acting up. I read that as "Cheese Martini".
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (krQz2)
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Newspapers, gone. TV news, gone (even local news weather coverage is designed for ratings and alarm, not info). National Geographic, gone. News magazines, gone. If there is a business magazine that isn't leftist they are keeping it a secret. I get more accurate and faster news from AOSHQ than any other source. My subscriptions are down to niche magazines for my hobbies.
The benefit is I spend more time on classic literature, poetry and philosophy.
The benefit is I spend more time on classic literature, poetry and philosophy.
Posted by: JTB at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (yTvNw)
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82 No! Fun! Aloud!
https://shorturl.at/fgu0q
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)
Leftists prove every day that they cannot be reasoned with. "Facts" bounce right off their dense but mushy skulls. I'm beginning to suspect that the only way to rescue them from their delusions is to mock them.
https://shorturl.at/fgu0q
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)
Leftists prove every day that they cannot be reasoned with. "Facts" bounce right off their dense but mushy skulls. I'm beginning to suspect that the only way to rescue them from their delusions is to mock them.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (Sf2cq)
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Plus Nordlinger was always a squish with his Davos updates.
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Even before I understood what was going on with ConInc, I knew that guy was no good. And soooo insufferably smug. I bet he wears culottes. If I ever meet that nerd, he's getting an atomic wedgie *and* a swirly right there and then.
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Even before I understood what was going on with ConInc, I knew that guy was no good. And soooo insufferably smug. I bet he wears culottes. If I ever meet that nerd, he's getting an atomic wedgie *and* a swirly right there and then.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (BI5O2)
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The press is a giant vat of Virtue Signaling masquerading as objective journalism.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 17, 2025 11:47 AM (tT6L1)
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208 Plus Nordlinger was always a squish with his Davos updates.
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Even before I understood what was going on with ConInc, I knew that guy was no good. And soooo insufferably smug. I bet he wears culottes. If I ever meet that nerd, he's getting an atomic wedgie *and* a swirly right there and then.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (BI5O2)
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Isn't he the culture guy who got a column a month to complain about the current state of opera?
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Even before I understood what was going on with ConInc, I knew that guy was no good. And soooo insufferably smug. I bet he wears culottes. If I ever meet that nerd, he's getting an atomic wedgie *and* a swirly right there and then.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (BI5O2)
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Isn't he the culture guy who got a column a month to complain about the current state of opera?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
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And now...
A musical interlude, brought to you by the official White House X account:
https://tinyurl.com/pya6a6wk
A musical interlude, brought to you by the official White House X account:
https://tinyurl.com/pya6a6wk
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 17, 2025 11:47 AM (copfg)
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President Trump has declared that the pardons signed by Biden's autopen are void.
Adam Kinzinger is acting all tough and manly on X, and is telling Trump to BRING IT ON.
When, if ever, can we expect AK to figure out that he's utterly irrelevant to anything now?
Adam Kinzinger is acting all tough and manly on X, and is telling Trump to BRING IT ON.
When, if ever, can we expect AK to figure out that he's utterly irrelevant to anything now?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:47 AM (xCA6C)
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The benefit is I spend more time on classic literature, poetry and philosophy.
Posted by: JTB at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (yTvNw)
I spend more time here at the HQ.
Posted by: JTB at March 17, 2025 11:46 AM (yTvNw)
I spend more time here at the HQ.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at March 17, 2025 11:47 AM (Sf2cq)
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>>>Same story for the Houston Comical and the Houston Pest.
And the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News.
And the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News.
Posted by: one hour sober at March 17, 2025 11:48 AM (Y1sOo)
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I made a funny!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
How would you know?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
How would you know?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 17, 2025 11:48 AM (i24o9)
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@215 DNA test?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 11:49 AM (LPS7w)
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I read Forbes Russian edition when I lived there in 04 and 05. They had some stellar work, including Paul Klebnikov. Reading his work such as the God Father of the Kremlin gave me sharp insight into why Russia is the way it is now. Hell that book now 20 years old explains the roots of the conflict we have now. Sad about his assassination.
Posted by: mishdog at March 17, 2025 11:49 AM (+Ei0O)
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215 I made a funny!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
How would you know?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 17, 2025 11:48 AM (i24o9)
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Sock puppets. I'm a simple man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
How would you know?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 17, 2025 11:48 AM (i24o9)
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Sock puppets. I'm a simple man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
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I was not on the computer this weekend, could someone simply explain the Houthi situation to me...like I'm five?
Posted by: Seems Legit
The Houthi are the de facto rulers of Yemen. They have been swaggering and firing 'splody things at shipping in the Red Sea, Israel, and the US Navy. President Trump sent them a big burst of 'splodiness this weekend, as well as warning their master, the Iranians, "If your little dog, these Houthis, continue to make a nuisance of themselves, we're coming for you, and you'll really not like that."
I was not on the computer this weekend, could someone simply explain the Houthi situation to me...like I'm five?
Posted by: Seems Legit
The Houthi are the de facto rulers of Yemen. They have been swaggering and firing 'splody things at shipping in the Red Sea, Israel, and the US Navy. President Trump sent them a big burst of 'splodiness this weekend, as well as warning their master, the Iranians, "If your little dog, these Houthis, continue to make a nuisance of themselves, we're coming for you, and you'll really not like that."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:49 AM (xG4kz)
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I was not on the computer this weekend, could someone simply explain the Houthi situation to me...like I'm five?
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (PMtkd)
Houthi bad. Trump smash. Houthi have tantrum.
Here's a juicebox.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (PMtkd)
Houthi bad. Trump smash. Houthi have tantrum.
Here's a juicebox.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (i24o9)
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It's true that AOC and Crockett are the ones leading the charge, but I think the rank and file have realized that Chuck just isn't up to the Trump challenge. I think they're right, but that doesn't mean they'd do any better.
https://is.gd/SPGuWZ
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)
Are you suggesting that a retarded woman of color isn't "up to the Trump challenge"? How dare you, sir. Also, Crockett is, horrifyingly, from Texas.
https://is.gd/SPGuWZ
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)
Are you suggesting that a retarded woman of color isn't "up to the Trump challenge"? How dare you, sir. Also, Crockett is, horrifyingly, from Texas.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (ExV1e)
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190 Stay on your side of the Hudson, and all will be well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (L5An7)
Sporty talk for a pseudo-Frog.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Damn. It's only Monday AM.🤨
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Upper West Side Reconstructionist Jew at March 17, 2025 11:26 AM (L5An7)
Sporty talk for a pseudo-Frog.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Damn. It's only Monday AM.🤨
Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (NFX2v)
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I thought TJM was like Tommy Lee Jones in "MIB" and had no sense of humor.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (tT6L1)
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The thing about Democrat "messaging" is that for years people confused sentiment for policy.
Some people are waking up to the idea that they are actually two different things (which they are). Some others are doubling down. Say, that the "Inflation Reduction Act" reduces inflation (provided the corporates don't get "too greedy").
The Democratic party has made wagon loads of hay out of the idea that a bill titled something pursues the cause of its title and that you're either against or for "Niceness and Goodness" by your vote on the "Niceness and Goodness Act".
Some people are waking up to the idea that they are actually two different things (which they are). Some others are doubling down. Say, that the "Inflation Reduction Act" reduces inflation (provided the corporates don't get "too greedy").
The Democratic party has made wagon loads of hay out of the idea that a bill titled something pursues the cause of its title and that you're either against or for "Niceness and Goodness" by your vote on the "Niceness and Goodness Act".
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (krQz2)
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Isn't he the culture guy who got a column a month to complain about the current state of opera?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17,
Yep. I think the execrable Kevin Williamson had a similar gig. But I have a very selective, limited patience for opera.
But for cringey, throne-sniffing diatribes about the awe and splendor of his globalist puppet masters? Nah, bruh. No patience for that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17,
Yep. I think the execrable Kevin Williamson had a similar gig. But I have a very selective, limited patience for opera.
But for cringey, throne-sniffing diatribes about the awe and splendor of his globalist puppet masters? Nah, bruh. No patience for that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (BI5O2)
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I wonder how many of us subscribe to Dead Tree Media?? I have not for 10 or 15 years..l the reason being.. Whyyyyy?
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (PCK5/)
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223 I thought TJM was like Tommy Lee Jones in "MIB" and had no sense of humor.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (tT6L1)
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I don't joke.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (tT6L1)
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I don't joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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I read Forbes Russian edition when I lived there in 04 and 05. They had some stellar work, including Paul Klebnikov. Reading his work such as the God Father of the Kremlin gave me sharp insight into why Russia is the way it is now. Hell that book now 20 years old explains the roots of the conflict we have now. Sad about his assassination.
Posted by: mishdog
Did you read it in Russian or English?
Posted by: mishdog
Did you read it in Russian or English?
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)
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If Dems want a target why not give them Nanzi? If I were Schumer this would be my go to feint.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 11:51 AM (Hpgos)
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Are you suggesting that a retarded woman of color isn't "up to the Trump challenge"? How dare you, sir. Also, Crockett is, horrifyingly, from Texas.
I'm not sure how retarded she really is. She seems to be cosplaying as a retard. It's a bold strategy...
I'm not sure how retarded she really is. She seems to be cosplaying as a retard. It's a bold strategy...
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:51 AM (xCA6C)
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212
‘ When, if ever, can we expect AK to figure out that he's utterly irrelevant to anything now?’
This time Kinzinger is relevant. If Trump can void his pardon, the DOJ can prosecute his sorry ass.
Give him something to cry about.
‘ When, if ever, can we expect AK to figure out that he's utterly irrelevant to anything now?’
This time Kinzinger is relevant. If Trump can void his pardon, the DOJ can prosecute his sorry ass.
Give him something to cry about.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 17, 2025 11:51 AM (jbnUc)
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Used to read the Christian Science Monitor for opinions and news. Also because it was required for a college.class. I found it to be slightly left of center but usually well written. A few.years after graduation, I picked one up. Horrible.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 17, 2025 11:51 AM (W/lyH)
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225 Yep. I think the execrable Kevin Williamson had a similar gig. But I have a very selective, limited patience for opera.
But for cringey, throne-sniffing diatribes about the awe and splendor of his globalist puppet masters? Nah, bruh. No patience for that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (BI5O2)
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I got NR for a few years, and those are the only things by Jay that I could remember.
I don't think it's inherently bad that NR had an occasional article on opera. I just wondered how big of an audience were they attracting and retaining by having Nordlinger complain about it.
But for cringey, throne-sniffing diatribes about the awe and splendor of his globalist puppet masters? Nah, bruh. No patience for that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (BI5O2)
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I got NR for a few years, and those are the only things by Jay that I could remember.
I don't think it's inherently bad that NR had an occasional article on opera. I just wondered how big of an audience were they attracting and retaining by having Nordlinger complain about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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All I HAVE is humor, poorly done..
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (PCK5/)
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President Trump has declared that the pardons signed by Biden's autopen are void.
Granted, this was on Truth Social, and not formally, but crikey
Posted by: Kindltot at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (D7oie)
Specifically naming the J6 committee. And then Jackstraw's Blaze link about J6 violence being sponsored by Pelosi. I think Trump knows something about what's what and is prepping the field to expose it all.
Pelosi stepped on her tits big time.
Granted, this was on Truth Social, and not formally, but crikey
Posted by: Kindltot at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (D7oie)
Specifically naming the J6 committee. And then Jackstraw's Blaze link about J6 violence being sponsored by Pelosi. I think Trump knows something about what's what and is prepping the field to expose it all.
Pelosi stepped on her tits big time.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (i24o9)
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Sock puppets. I'm a simple man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
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* nods *
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)
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* nods *
Posted by: Ronny Van Zant at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (krQz2)
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If Dems want a target why not give them Nanzi? If I were Schumer this would be my go to feint.
I think she's already been defenestrated. No way would she allow what's gone on in the last 3 months if she were still in charge.
I think she's already been defenestrated. No way would she allow what's gone on in the last 3 months if she were still in charge.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:53 AM (xCA6C)
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Used to read the Christian Science Monitor for opinions and news.
Posted by: Diogenes
My brother bought me a subscription to that when I was in HS in the early '80s. It was pretty good then.
Posted by: Diogenes
My brother bought me a subscription to that when I was in HS in the early '80s. It was pretty good then.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)
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My parents always got four or five different daily newspapers (found out later in life it's a thing in the Old Country, Finland). Back then there was a difference of opinion on the editorial pages, difference in news coverage slant due to whatever wire service was relied on. Now it seems to be copy and paste. The newspaper I worked at in high school was a Scripps Howard subscriber and at times it would be night and day compared to, say, UPI.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 17, 2025 11:53 AM (gm9Sb)
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"Journalism", at the moment, is a as vicious and partisan as I've ever seen it - a frenzy of gnats. If it was DJT vs. mustache man, they'd point out that Hitler loved dogs. It's nuts. My msn.com news feed informed me that a member of the EU parliament has made a motion to demand the return Statue of Liberty because Orange Man is a "tyrant" for firing scientists. Nothing is so trivial that it remains unreported if it denigrates Donald Trump or the US - the best "news" is if it denigrates both.
Posted by: mrp at March 17, 2025 11:53 AM (rj6Yv)
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Carmen >>>>>> all other operas.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)
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NPR clutz chick who acosted President Trump with boom mike gets justice.
https://tinyurl.com/muh2mjx2
https://tinyurl.com/muh2mjx2
Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (37aB+)
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I got NR for a few years, and those are the only things by Jay that I could remember.
I don't think it's inherently bad that NR had an occasional article on opera. I just wondered how big of an audience were they attracting and retaining by having Nordlinger complain about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Sounds more like an op by NR. "See, we're able to appeal to the blue blood conservatives." Of which there are three in the entire country.
I don't think it's inherently bad that NR had an occasional article on opera. I just wondered how big of an audience were they attracting and retaining by having Nordlinger complain about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Sounds more like an op by NR. "See, we're able to appeal to the blue blood conservatives." Of which there are three in the entire country.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (tT6L1)
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All I HAVE is humor, poorly done..
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (PCK5/)
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That's a rare admission.
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (PCK5/)
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That's a rare admission.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (krQz2)
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@220 The Houthi supporters on Telegram are a trip. It's one post covering news of missile attacks on US ships in retaliation for air strikes showered with love, fire, party emojis, followed shortly by a post reporting new US air strikes on Houthi positions and a showerng of angry, finger emojis. Repeat.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (LPS7w)
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237 If Dems want a target why not give them Nanzi? If I were Schumer this would be my go to feint.
I think she's already been defenestrated. No way would she allow what's gone on in the last 3 months if she were still in charge.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:53 AM (xCA6C)
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I'll believe Democrat anger at their party leadership manifests in any way at all when an actual election happens and someone even relatively prominent (think Eric Cantor) loses their seat.
Until then, it's just the same noise party faithful make after a big election loss, quickly forgotten after the party organs have effectively turned attention outwards again.
I think she's already been defenestrated. No way would she allow what's gone on in the last 3 months if she were still in charge.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:53 AM (xCA6C)
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I'll believe Democrat anger at their party leadership manifests in any way at all when an actual election happens and someone even relatively prominent (think Eric Cantor) loses their seat.
Until then, it's just the same noise party faithful make after a big election loss, quickly forgotten after the party organs have effectively turned attention outwards again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
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Are you suggesting that a retarded woman of color isn't "up to the Trump challenge"? How dare you, sir. Also, Crockett is, horrifyingly, from Texas.
I'm not sure how retarded she really is. She seems to be cosplaying as a retard. It's a bold strategy...
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:51 AM (xCA6C)
You never go full retard.
I'm not sure how retarded she really is. She seems to be cosplaying as a retard. It's a bold strategy...
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:51 AM (xCA6C)
You never go full retard.
Posted by: Kirk Lazarus at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (Aqu9a)
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As I recall, JournoList was set up during Barky's time in office in order to insure that all the hymns of praise to him were sung from the same hymnal and in key.
As I recall, JournoList was set up during Barky's time in office in order to insure that all the hymns of praise to him were sung from the same hymnal and in key.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (xG4kz)
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237 If Dems want a target why not give them Nanzi? If I were Schumer this would be my go to feint.
I think she's already been defenestrated. No way would she allow what's gone on in the last 3 months if she were still in charge.
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Bottom Line - she can't outrun the lynch party. Schumer can.
I think she's already been defenestrated. No way would she allow what's gone on in the last 3 months if she were still in charge.
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Bottom Line - she can't outrun the lynch party. Schumer can.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (Hpgos)
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I don't think it's inherently bad that NR had an occasional article on opera. I just wondered how big of an audience were they attracting and retaining by having Nordlinger complain about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM
He had a gig where they'd send him to Davis every year to send back daily updates about how amazing globalists are, and also how he is definitely very smart and important since he gets to wash their feet and eat their scraps. A truly unseemly creature of power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM
He had a gig where they'd send him to Davis every year to send back daily updates about how amazing globalists are, and also how he is definitely very smart and important since he gets to wash their feet and eat their scraps. A truly unseemly creature of power.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (BI5O2)
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he moved on to proudly exclaim that he became a global warmist when he flew over Africa, and realized that there are too many people in the world.
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This, to me, is one of the most ridiculous things about the global warming crowd:
How can you spend any time at altitude, traveling over the vast stretches of countries, where you may be lucky to see one paved road below, and still say, "the Earth is too crowded?"
Fuck you retard, you're too stupid to see what's right in front of your eyes--the Earth isn't just very big, it's mostly empty. Very empty.
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This, to me, is one of the most ridiculous things about the global warming crowd:
How can you spend any time at altitude, traveling over the vast stretches of countries, where you may be lucky to see one paved road below, and still say, "the Earth is too crowded?"
Fuck you retard, you're too stupid to see what's right in front of your eyes--the Earth isn't just very big, it's mostly empty. Very empty.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (7oyRZ)
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All I HAVE is humor, poorly done..
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (PCK5/)
I have only classy, high-end puns.
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 11:52 AM (PCK5/)
I have only classy, high-end puns.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (77rzZ)
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Are you suggesting that a retarded woman of color isn't "up to the Trump challenge"? How dare you, sir. Also, Crockett is, horrifyingly, from Texas.
I'm not sure how retarded she really is. She seems to be cosplaying as a retard. It's a bold strategy...
Posted by: Archimedes
Jasmine Crockett insists 'it's not a crime' to illegally cross the border
That's a hell of a play.
I'm not sure how retarded she really is. She seems to be cosplaying as a retard. It's a bold strategy...
Posted by: Archimedes
Jasmine Crockett insists 'it's not a crime' to illegally cross the border
That's a hell of a play.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (BLpWt)
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Speaking of gone downhill, Triggernometry did an interview with Boris Johnson that was published on YT over the weekend. First off, he lies about what he did to push Ukraine into not signing a treaty with Russia in 2022, then he moved on to proudly exclaim that he became a global warmist when he flew over Africa, and realized that there are too many people in the world.
So, he is another who wants millions of people to die to save the earth, as long as they are darker than him. At that point, I turned it off.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (lTGtQ)
Truth to the old saying scratch a Global Warmingmonger, reveal a Malthusian.
So, he is another who wants millions of people to die to save the earth, as long as they are darker than him. At that point, I turned it off.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 17, 2025 11:25 AM (lTGtQ)
Truth to the old saying scratch a Global Warmingmonger, reveal a Malthusian.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (i24o9)
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"The Economist" has always been the propaganda organ of the Fabian Socialists.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (ZmEVT)
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Carmen >>>>>> all other operas.
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)
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"What's Opera, Doc?" >>> all operas
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:53 AM (77rzZ)
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"What's Opera, Doc?" >>> all operas
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (tT6L1)
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As I recall, JournoList was set up during Barky's time in office in order to insure that all the hymns of praise to him were sung from the same hymnal and in key.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (xG4kz)
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I thought it was an anti-Bush thing, first.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (xG4kz)
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I thought it was an anti-Bush thing, first.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (krQz2)
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I don't joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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Do you jape? Jest? Jive? Jolly? Josh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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Do you jape? Jest? Jive? Jolly? Josh?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (7fElN)
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258 I don't joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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Do you jape? Jest? Jive? Jolly? Josh?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (7fElN)
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I have been known to josh when sloshed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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Do you jape? Jest? Jive? Jolly? Josh?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (7fElN)
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I have been known to josh when sloshed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
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I was not on the computer this weekend, could someone simply explain the Houthi situation to me...like I'm five?
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (PMtkd)
The Houthis occupy a spot in southern Yemen which is a pinch point at the entrance to the Red Sea. They're angry - supposedly about the Joos - so they've decided that they'll blockade the Red Sea. This is problematic as the alternative is to skip the Suez Canal and round the Cape of Good Hope. Biden mostly begged them to please consider stopping. Trump bombed them.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:40 AM (PMtkd)
The Houthis occupy a spot in southern Yemen which is a pinch point at the entrance to the Red Sea. They're angry - supposedly about the Joos - so they've decided that they'll blockade the Red Sea. This is problematic as the alternative is to skip the Suez Canal and round the Cape of Good Hope. Biden mostly begged them to please consider stopping. Trump bombed them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
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Do you jape? Jest? Jive? Jolly? Josh?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (7fElN)
“The five J’s of joking.”
~ Patches O’Houlihan
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (7fElN)
“The five J’s of joking.”
~ Patches O’Houlihan
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (fwyhL)
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I'm not sure how retarded she really is. She seems to be cosplaying as a retard. It's a bold strategy...
Posted by: Archimedes
Jasmine Crockett insists 'it's not a crime' to illegally cross the border
That's a hell of a play.
Like I said, fortune favors the bold.
Posted by: Archimedes
Jasmine Crockett insists 'it's not a crime' to illegally cross the border
That's a hell of a play.
Like I said, fortune favors the bold.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (xCA6C)
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Conor McGregor for The Taoiseach of Ireland? [And Rosie O'Donnell's a Jew ... Pass it on.]
https://is.gd/JW1oBu
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Conor McGregor just met with Trump in the White House and started calling out the open border, soft on crime globalists destroying Ireland
Ireland has an invasion of illegals just like us
Sounds like he’s getting ready to run for President of Ireland
https://is.gd/JW1oBu
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Conor McGregor just met with Trump in the White House and started calling out the open border, soft on crime globalists destroying Ireland
Ireland has an invasion of illegals just like us
Sounds like he’s getting ready to run for President of Ireland
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (rATg1)
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I maintain that the vast majority of the most fervent global warming believers have never ventured on foot more than a mile from the nearest sidewalk and curb.
They have no idea what it's like to walk for hours--or days--and see no concrete, no asphalt, no buildings.
Let alone, driving for hours through the empty of the American West.
They have no idea what it's like to walk for hours--or days--and see no concrete, no asphalt, no buildings.
Let alone, driving for hours through the empty of the American West.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (7oyRZ)
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"What's Opera, Doc?" >>> all operas
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM
^^^ This.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM
^^^ This.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (hOk1M)
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Thanks, Horde. I honestly didn't know what was going on with the Houthis'.
I enjoyed the juice box.
I enjoyed the juice box.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:58 AM (PMtkd)
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I also graduated college in the 80s, and subscribed to the WSJ.
I cancelled just after they got sold(?), and went to color printing. That was maybe in the 2000s.
It is such a rag now.
For years I received offers to resubscribe, but they were never at or below $99/yr, which is what I previously paid.
I was sad when I dumped it. But it was necessary.
I cancelled just after they got sold(?), and went to color printing. That was maybe in the 2000s.
It is such a rag now.
For years I received offers to resubscribe, but they were never at or below $99/yr, which is what I previously paid.
I was sad when I dumped it. But it was necessary.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 17, 2025 11:58 AM (ufFY8)
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Conservatism is not an ideology, but a mode. Conservatism was created as a way to foster the ideology of Liberalism (as opposed to collectivism or monarchism or any other non-Liberal "ism") by supporting the public and private institutions that form the Living Soil from which Liberty grows. Lose those institutions either to revolutionary collectivist zeal or some kind of deck clearing reactionary "Anti- ism- ism", and Liberty dies.
But, let that slavish devotion to Institutions as such, however broken and corrupted they may be, overshadow all else, though, and Conservatism ceases to be a mode of defending Liberalism and becomes a mode of entrenching Illiberalism.
So.... clear the decks.
But, let that slavish devotion to Institutions as such, however broken and corrupted they may be, overshadow all else, though, and Conservatism ceases to be a mode of defending Liberalism and becomes a mode of entrenching Illiberalism.
So.... clear the decks.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2025 11:58 AM (VoAdT)
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I don't joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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Do you jape? Jest? Jive? Jolly? Josh?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (7fElN)
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I have been known to josh when sloshed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
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Or jesht.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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Do you jape? Jest? Jive? Jolly? Josh?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (7fElN)
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I have been known to josh when sloshed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 17, 2025 11:56 AM (GBKbO)
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Or jesht.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 11:58 AM (krQz2)
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interview with Boris Johnson that was published on YT over the weekend. First off, he lies about what he did to push Ukraine into not signing a treaty with Russia in 2022, then he moved on to proudly exclaim that he became a global warmist when he flew over Africa, and realized that there are too many people in the world.
Quit your virtue signaling you stupid simp.
That's not the place to do it. Fly over New Delhi or Calcutta. Then we can talk. Empy assed Africa isn't it.
Quit your virtue signaling you stupid simp.
That's not the place to do it. Fly over New Delhi or Calcutta. Then we can talk. Empy assed Africa isn't it.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 11:58 AM (BLpWt)
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The Houthis occupy a spot in southern Yemen which is a pinch point at the entrance to the Red Sea. They're angry - supposedly about the Joos - so they've decided that they'll blockade the Red Sea. This is problematic as the alternative is to skip the Suez Canal and round the Cape of Good Hope. Biden mostly begged them to please consider stopping. Trump bombed them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
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Because of the strategic importance of the Suez Canal for global trade and commerce, every single first-world nation should be rallying behind the United States in obliterating the Houthis, as a warning to the next ten generations that some actions carry a heavy, heavy price.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
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Because of the strategic importance of the Suez Canal for global trade and commerce, every single first-world nation should be rallying behind the United States in obliterating the Houthis, as a warning to the next ten generations that some actions carry a heavy, heavy price.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2025 11:59 AM (7fElN)
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The lovely Jasmine does appear to be truly ignorant, if not out and out dumb… what show does possess is cunning, and ambition.. a classic DC politician.
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 11:59 AM (PCK5/)
273
Conor McGregor just met with Trump in the White House and started calling out the open border, soft on crime globalists destroying Ireland
Ireland has an invasion of illegals just like us
Who let Rosie O in?
Ireland has an invasion of illegals just like us
Who let Rosie O in?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM (BLpWt)
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Grok says:
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the information about JournoList forming in February 2007 under Ezra Klein's initiative is widely referenced in discussions about the group. For a more formal source, you might look into reporting from outlets like Politico or The Daily Caller, which covered JournoList extensively when it became a topic of public interest around 2010. Ezra Klein himself has also acknowledged creating the list in his writings and interviews from that period. If you'd like, I can search the web or X for more precise references!
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I can't always trust my memory these days, but sometimes I can.
It was a collusion against Bush.
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the information about JournoList forming in February 2007 under Ezra Klein's initiative is widely referenced in discussions about the group. For a more formal source, you might look into reporting from outlets like Politico or The Daily Caller, which covered JournoList extensively when it became a topic of public interest around 2010. Ezra Klein himself has also acknowledged creating the list in his writings and interviews from that period. If you'd like, I can search the web or X for more precise references!
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I can't always trust my memory these days, but sometimes I can.
It was a collusion against Bush.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM (krQz2)
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Bombing the Houthis also has the side effect of telling Russia there's a new sheriff in town.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM (tT6L1)
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@271 They are also a proxy of Iran, being funded and armed by them.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM (LPS7w)
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My understanding is that McGregor is DEFINITELY running for Irish President after they tried to silence his speech a few years back. I appreciate a good vengeance run, especially amongst the Irish, so I hope he wins and wins big. 
Posted by: American Hawkman at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM (9VDxG)
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266 Thanks, Horde. I honestly didn't know what was going on with the Houthis'.
I enjoyed the juice box.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:58 AM (PMtkd)
I did not realize that Houthi dumped the Blowfish when he went to Yemen…
I enjoyed the juice box.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 17, 2025 11:58 AM (PMtkd)
I did not realize that Houthi dumped the Blowfish when he went to Yemen…
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM (PCK5/)
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The Houthis occupy a spot in southern Yemen which is a pinch point at the entrance to the Red Sea. They're angry - supposedly about the Joos - so they've decided that they'll blockade the Red Sea. This is problematic as the alternative is to skip the Suez Canal and round the Cape of Good Hope. Biden mostly begged them to please consider stopping. Trump bombed them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
They're also mad because we spent a decade funding and helping the Saudis try to wipe them out.
It didn't work.
They hold grudges.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
They're also mad because we spent a decade funding and helping the Saudis try to wipe them out.
It didn't work.
They hold grudges.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM (dGCAG)
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Jasmine Crockett insists 'it's not a crime' to illegally cross the border
That's a hell of a play.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (BLpWt)
Be a shame.if she were to...say...go to sleep and wake up a day or so later in the outskirts.of Moscow. Be interesting to see what she says then.
That's a hell of a play.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 17, 2025 11:55 AM (BLpWt)
Be a shame.if she were to...say...go to sleep and wake up a day or so later in the outskirts.of Moscow. Be interesting to see what she says then.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM (W/lyH)
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As I recall, JournoList was set up during Barky's time in office in order to insure that all the hymns of praise to him were sung from the same hymnal and in key.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 11:54 AM (xG4kz)
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I'm old enough to remember AttackWatch.com.
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I'm old enough to remember AttackWatch.com.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 12:01 PM (rATg1)
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Because of the strategic importance of the Suez Canal for global trade and commerce, every single first-world nation should be rallying behind the United States in obliterating the Houthis, as a warning to the next ten generations that some actions carry a heavy, heavy price.
But if we did that, what would happen to the all-important frankincense and myrrh imports?
But if we did that, what would happen to the all-important frankincense and myrrh imports?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2025 12:01 PM (xCA6C)
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FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)
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@274 Thanks for doing the LMGTFY ("Let me Grok that for you"). 
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 17, 2025 12:01 PM (LPS7w)
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What disappoints me most is how much I miss getting up a half an hour earlier than I needed to, just to read my morning WSJ with coffee before I got the boys up. It was quiet, and i could take my time and enjoy my morning news fix.
Liberals destroy everything.
Liberals destroy everything.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2025 12:01 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Man On The Street at March 17, 2025 12:01 PM (Ic155)
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And now...
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Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 17, 2025 11:47 AM (copfg)
LMAO
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Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 17, 2025 11:47 AM (copfg)
LMAO
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 17, 2025 12:01 PM (i24o9)
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I did not realize that Houthi dumped the Blowfish when he went to Yemen…
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM
I know, right? Rocked me like a wagon wheel that news did.
Posted by: tubal at March 17, 2025 12:00 PM
I know, right? Rocked me like a wagon wheel that news did.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 17, 2025 12:02 PM (hOk1M)
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My poli sci class in my freshman year of college made me do current events from the NY Times.
I'd never read that paper. I haven't since. It was a poorly edited shitrag then and I've seen it only got worse after that.
Media is dead.
I'd never read that paper. I haven't since. It was a poorly edited shitrag then and I've seen it only got worse after that.
Media is dead.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 17, 2025 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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Is Crossing The U.S. Border Legal? Rep. Jasmine Crockett Says ‘It’s Not A Crime’ by Sharelle Burt, March 10, 2025
Several comments on social media attacked Crockett for seemingly not knowing the law as a licensed attorney.
“They continue to say things like ‘the illegals’ and that they broke the law coming in. But what they’re not telling the American people is that it is a civil violation. It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. It’s not. It’s not criminal. It’s not a crime,” Crockett said.
And, "Several laws say differently. Under 8 USC 1325, crossing into the U.S. improperly is considered a federal misdemeanor crime where first-time offenders can face fines and up to six months in jail. Repeat offenders can face similar fines and an extended two years in prison. For illegal immigrants who have been removed from the country after being convicted of three or more misdemeanor crimes and returned, 8 USC 1326 pushed up to 10 years in prison.
Those convicted of felony crimes and return face up to 20 years in prison."
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She's best ignored.
Is Crossing The U.S. Border Legal? Rep. Jasmine Crockett Says ‘It’s Not A Crime’ by Sharelle Burt, March 10, 2025
Several comments on social media attacked Crockett for seemingly not knowing the law as a licensed attorney.
“They continue to say things like ‘the illegals’ and that they broke the law coming in. But what they’re not telling the American people is that it is a civil violation. It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. It’s not. It’s not criminal. It’s not a crime,” Crockett said.
And, "Several laws say differently. Under 8 USC 1325, crossing into the U.S. improperly is considered a federal misdemeanor crime where first-time offenders can face fines and up to six months in jail. Repeat offenders can face similar fines and an extended two years in prison. For illegal immigrants who have been removed from the country after being convicted of three or more misdemeanor crimes and returned, 8 USC 1326 pushed up to 10 years in prison.
Those convicted of felony crimes and return face up to 20 years in prison."
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She's best ignored.
Posted by: L - No nick, another fine day at March 17, 2025 12:02 PM (NFX2v)
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I maintain that the vast majority of the most fervent global warming believers have never ventured on foot more than a mile from the nearest sidewalk and curb.
They have no idea what it's like to walk for hours--or days--and see no concrete, no asphalt, no buildings.
Let alone, driving for hours through the empty of the American West.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Nevada's Highway 50. Officially America's Lonliest Road
https://loneliestroad.us/
They have no idea what it's like to walk for hours--or days--and see no concrete, no asphalt, no buildings.
Let alone, driving for hours through the empty of the American West.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
Nevada's Highway 50. Officially America's Lonliest Road
https://loneliestroad.us/
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Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2025 12:03 PM (xG4kz)
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Ireland has an invasion of illegals just like us.
They wade across the Irish Sea or the Celtic Sea like wetbacks crossing the Rio Grande?
They wade across the Irish Sea or the Celtic Sea like wetbacks crossing the Rio Grande?
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 17, 2025 12:03 PM (Aqu9a)
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271 The Houthis occupy a spot in southern Yemen which is a pinch point at the entrance to the Red Sea. They're angry - supposedly about the Joos - so they've decided that they'll blockade the Red Sea. This is problematic as the alternative is to skip the Suez Canal and round the Cape of Good Hope. Biden mostly begged them to please consider stopping. Trump bombed them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
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Because of the strategic importance of the Suez Canal for global trade and commerce, every single first-world nation should be rallying behind the United States in obliterating the Houthis, as a warning to the next ten generations that some actions carry a heavy, heavy price.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Quite frankly, as a Jacksonian, attacks on our ships demands something like Linebacker I and II over Houthi land. No ship ports, no airports, and no civilization left to support those assholes. When they are scrambling around for their next meal, they won't have time nor the energy to launch trouble from their lands.
Don't want nothing to happen to you, don't start nothing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 17, 2025 11:57 AM (ExV1e)
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Because of the strategic importance of the Suez Canal for global trade and commerce, every single first-world nation should be rallying behind the United States in obliterating the Houthis, as a warning to the next ten generations that some actions carry a heavy, heavy price.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Quite frankly, as a Jacksonian, attacks on our ships demands something like Linebacker I and II over Houthi land. No ship ports, no airports, and no civilization left to support those assholes. When they are scrambling around for their next meal, they won't have time nor the energy to launch trouble from their lands.
Don't want nothing to happen to you, don't start nothing.
Posted by: whig at March 17, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)
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Psycho protesters crash St. Patty's parade: "F*** St. Patrick. He genocided people."
Where do they get this ludicrous idea?
Where do they get this ludicrous idea?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2025 12:04 PM (42Vb+)
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Conservatism is not an ideology
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2025 11:58 AM (VoAdT)
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Daniel J Flynn used to make that same point.
An "ideology" is not "what has seemed to work age after age, even it has been improved upon from age to age".
It is specifically, that we need to re-envision the world by what is "possible" and radically change it toward that end.
Opposing "ideologies" is not, itself an "ideology".
I guess that Americanism could have at one time been called an "ideology", but we're long passed the "this theory just might work stage", I think. And now we're a lot about preserving what works.
"Ideology" should also not be confused with policy preference.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 17, 2025 11:58 AM (VoAdT)
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Daniel J Flynn used to make that same point.
An "ideology" is not "what has seemed to work age after age, even it has been improved upon from age to age".
It is specifically, that we need to re-envision the world by what is "possible" and radically change it toward that end.
Opposing "ideologies" is not, itself an "ideology".
I guess that Americanism could have at one time been called an "ideology", but we're long passed the "this theory just might work stage", I think. And now we're a lot about preserving what works.
"Ideology" should also not be confused with policy preference.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 12:04 PM (OaZlZ)
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Quite frankly, as a Jacksonian, attacks on our ships demands something like Linebacker I and II over Houthi land. No ship ports, no airports, and no civilization left to support those assholes. When they are scrambling around for their next meal, they won't have time nor the energy to launch trouble from their lands.
Don't want nothing to happen to you, don't start nothing.
Posted by: whig at March 17, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)
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FAFO ... Good Hard, & Plenty.
Don't want nothing to happen to you, don't start nothing.
Posted by: whig at March 17, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)
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FAFO ... Good Hard, & Plenty.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 17, 2025 12:06 PM (rATg1)
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Psycho protesters crash St. Patty's parade: "F*** St. Patrick. He genocided people."
Where do they get this ludicrous idea?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2025 12:04 PM (42Vb+)
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Groundless.
I guess since the pagan Celts "did not survive" his "colonializing" mission, it has to be cast into that mold.
Any suggestion of a "quality gradient" seems to be mistaken as "supremacy" to these non-thinkers.
Where do they get this ludicrous idea?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2025 12:04 PM (42Vb+)
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Groundless.
I guess since the pagan Celts "did not survive" his "colonializing" mission, it has to be cast into that mold.
Any suggestion of a "quality gradient" seems to be mistaken as "supremacy" to these non-thinkers.
Posted by: Axeman at March 17, 2025 12:07 PM (OaZlZ)
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Why should the WSJ and Forbes be spared the Leftist takeover when magazines like Scientific American have become Leftist trash. I'm sure longtime subscribers to "scientific" journals turned Leftist politics rags felt a pretty big gut punch as well.
Posted by: JTSmith at March 17, 2025 12:08 PM (OKQUm)
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Fen - because they consider him driving out the snakes as violating their professional courtesy.
Posted by: American Hawkman at March 17, 2025 12:08 PM (9VDxG)
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Nazis! Everywhere I look!
Kim Kardashian Smeared as a “Nazi” After Posting Photo Shoot With a Tesla Cybertruck and Optimus Robot
Kim Kardashian Smeared as a “Nazi” After Posting Photo Shoot With a Tesla Cybertruck and Optimus Robot
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 17, 2025 12:08 PM (L/fGl)
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293 Ireland has an invasion of illegals just like us.
They wade across the Irish Sea or the Celtic Sea like wetbacks crossing the Rio Grande?
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 17, 2025 12:03 PM (Aqu9a)
Escorted in by the Irish government, just like in the UK.
They wade across the Irish Sea or the Celtic Sea like wetbacks crossing the Rio Grande?
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 17, 2025 12:03 PM (Aqu9a)
Escorted in by the Irish government, just like in the UK.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 17, 2025 12:14 PM (xcxpd)
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228 I read Forbes Russian edition when I lived there in 04 and 05. They had some stellar work, including Paul Klebnikov. Reading his work such as the God Father of the Kremlin gave me sharp insight into why Russia is the way it is now. Hell that book now 20 years old explains the roots of the conflict we have now. Sad about his assassination.
Posted by: mishdog
Did you read it in Russian or English?
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)
Forbes I read in Russian, the God Father of the Kremlin I read in English. Once upon a time I was fluent.....
Posted by: mishdog
Did you read it in Russian or English?
Posted by: Bulg at March 17, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)
Forbes I read in Russian, the God Father of the Kremlin I read in English. Once upon a time I was fluent.....
Posted by: mishdog at March 17, 2025 12:17 PM (+Ei0O)
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as a warning to the next ten generations that some actions carry a heavy, heavy price.
Vir Cotto for the win.
Vir Cotto for the win.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 17, 2025 12:20 PM (WPL6O)
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That was me, except with Forbes. I loved it for years, then they got weird and woke.
Posted by: Eternity Matters at March 17, 2025 12:21 PM (yT7Wa)
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I felt the same when I cancelled my subscription of 30+ years to National Review.
Posted by: Grump928(C) sans apostrophe at March 17, 2025 01:24 PM (Q91V2)
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Great post, Buckster! Too bad I already subscribe to Mr. Carter :-D
You are totally on point re the WSJ. TDS started in the summer of 2015.
Even if you hate the Trumpster... You have to give him credit for outing the entirety of Sodom on Potomac.
You are totally on point re the WSJ. TDS started in the summer of 2015.
Even if you hate the Trumpster... You have to give him credit for outing the entirety of Sodom on Potomac.
Posted by: Danimal28 at March 17, 2025 01:45 PM (1E4GV)
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I also cancelled my WSJ sub in 2016 due to the Never Trump shit. Interesting to read that so many here did the same, as it wasn't any kind of organized cancellation campaign, but just individual decisions due to their insane bias.
Posted by: Liberty at March 17, 2025 01:49 PM (wmcPi)
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I stopped reading the NYT after the 2000 election and the bum kissing for Gore.
I cancelled my Boston Globe subscription after the 2008 election with the Uber bum kissing for Black Jesus (aka Obama).
Then in 2012 I cancelled my WSJ subscription, that like you Buck, I had been reading since college in the 80s.
And by 2016 I stopped watching all legacy media even Fox News (except for Tuckers show till they fired him).
I miss none it and don’t regret it. I actually find I’m better informed than most people who are still stuck with old media. Started reading Ace in 2015 when my older brother introduced me to this blog and haven’t looked back.
And I voted with my feet in late 2023 leaving the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts after 30+ years and arrived in TN. Best decision ever.
Happy St Paddy’s day y'all!🍀🇮🇪
I cancelled my Boston Globe subscription after the 2008 election with the Uber bum kissing for Black Jesus (aka Obama).
Then in 2012 I cancelled my WSJ subscription, that like you Buck, I had been reading since college in the 80s.
And by 2016 I stopped watching all legacy media even Fox News (except for Tuckers show till they fired him).
I miss none it and don’t regret it. I actually find I’m better informed than most people who are still stuck with old media. Started reading Ace in 2015 when my older brother introduced me to this blog and haven’t looked back.
And I voted with my feet in late 2023 leaving the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts after 30+ years and arrived in TN. Best decision ever.
Happy St Paddy’s day y'all!🍀🇮🇪
Posted by: Mrs Emma Peel at March 17, 2025 01:52 PM (lIN5E)
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Yep, I went through the same when I cancelled The Economist, National Review, Sports Illustrated, and stopped watching Sports Center on ESPN.
The common thread? All ruined by The Radical Left
The common thread? All ruined by The Radical Left
Posted by: Ultra Magas Brother Bob at March 17, 2025 02:05 PM (tBfGm)
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I let my subscription lapse last June; had subscribed since the late ‘90s. I can get stupid woke coverage everywhere, so who needs it. The cheerleading for EVs was the most irritating aspect and the main catalyst. Then a couple months ago, I resubscribed for $2 / month. I rationalized it on the ground that that’s almost for free.
Posted by: Bud Norton at March 17, 2025 02:17 PM (/8Jbh)
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I subscribed off and on over several decades.
In 2017, WSJ burned it's bridges w/ me permanently.
They were censoring a lot of my comments, and the comments of others. The common thread is they were true but unflattering comments about the Democrat Party.
I'm not going to pay $ to be censored for no valid reason.
I see in the occasional article not behind their paywall, WSJ is still censoring its subscribers.
In 2017, WSJ burned it's bridges w/ me permanently.
They were censoring a lot of my comments, and the comments of others. The common thread is they were true but unflattering comments about the Democrat Party.
I'm not going to pay $ to be censored for no valid reason.
I see in the occasional article not behind their paywall, WSJ is still censoring its subscribers.
Posted by: Evil Incarnate at March 17, 2025 02:46 PM (YrqgQ)
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I canceled in 2015.
I picked up an occasional paper since then, but it kept getting worse.
Well, the recycle barrel needs to make fewer trips to the curb now.
I picked up an occasional paper since then, but it kept getting worse.
Well, the recycle barrel needs to make fewer trips to the curb now.
Posted by: John the River at March 17, 2025 03:36 PM (MZ6RK)
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The WSJ op-ed page followed Robert Bartley into the grave. While I enjoyed that they published right and left sensible opinions, soon after Bartley's death, the Op-Ed page began to resemble DNC press releases, all of it. Even my second-favorite part of the newspaper the Center Column began to go full left even on topics that shouldn't have a political bias.
Posted by: Max Entropy at March 17, 2025 03:47 PM (oxDA9)
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Add the Economist to that group. I read it for many years, and about 10 years ago it just failed. No interest today.
Forbes 1977-1985 Malcolm!
WSJ 1986-1999
Economist 1995-2010
Ace 2015-present
Forbes 1977-1985 Malcolm!
WSJ 1986-1999
Economist 1995-2010
Ace 2015-present
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