Washington Post Express Shuts Down, Laying Off 20 "Journalists"

The free commuter paper was put out of business due to a lack of public interest in something free.

Even at zero dollars and zero cents, it did not have enough customers.

The whiny babies blamed the public's complete lack of interest in anything they did on smart phones.

"Add Express to the list of print publications done in by mobile technology," the editors wrote. "Sadly, this is our final edition."

The Post announced the shuttering of its Express publication just a day earlier, ending the 16-year run of the publication handed out to riders on D.C.'s Metro rail system.
About 20 journalists have been laid off as a result of the publication's closure. The Washington Post Guild, which did not represent the Express's writers, slammed the decision and in particular the short notice given to employees, some of whom found out from media reports.
"This announcement came the day before operations ceased, with no advance warning," the union said Wednesday.
"These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

"Journalists" call this bitchy, whiny cover "perfect."

The final edition of Express is perfect. pic.twitter.com/Kvu6dATpFC
— Julie Vitkovskaya (@Julie_Vit) September 12, 2019

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 12:13 PM

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1 first?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at September 16, 2019 12:14 PM (5l6gb)

2 20 more code writers ready to learn.

Posted by: Roy at September 16, 2019 12:14 PM (DBI6f)

3 I am enjoying my phone, thank you. And please give me another cup of coffee.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 16, 2019 12:14 PM (VaN/j)

4 More learn-to-code news.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 16, 2019 12:15 PM (ppBhU)

5 Is the Bulwark hiring? Those would be extremely secure positions to have ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Appeasement is a Blessing of Liberty! at September 16, 2019 12:15 PM (SZn+k)

6 "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

Let me guess - 77% of the pay as the other staff?

Posted by: Roy at September 16, 2019 12:16 PM (DBI6f)

7 I think this qualifies as a learn to code moment.

Posted by: dananjcon at September 16, 2019 12:16 PM (u6xw0)

8 This is like giving away free BJ's and not one guy standing line because the giver is Sandra Fluke.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 16, 2019 12:16 PM (VWp7G)

9 Learn to Patreon, cat ladies.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 12:16 PM (oZ6kz)

10 Same sentiment as JEF had about ATM's, putting all those hard working bank tellers out of business.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at September 16, 2019 12:16 PM (5l6gb)

11 Heh. Thatll teach em!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 16, 2019 12:16 PM (TAu/7)

12 LOLGF

Learn To Code

Fuck you, WAR

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 16, 2019 12:16 PM (FiUMj)

13 You think they would be happy about not cutting down trees

Posted by: batterup at September 16, 2019 12:17 PM (U2JQS)

14 lol get gergened

Posted by: ShainS -- Appeasement is a Blessing of Liberty! at September 16, 2019 12:17 PM (SZn+k)

15 They should hurry up and learn to drive truck.

Posted by: Onlooker at September 16, 2019 12:17 PM (5rmY3)

16 It was shut down because the employees wanted to unionize.

It was also poorly written and edited.

Posted by: Spade at September 16, 2019 12:17 PM (Ddy7A)

17

Die, Cvnts.

Posted by: Fvckyou at September 16, 2019 12:18 PM (ITNzr)

18 This is a joke, right? I mean, those people can't be so lacking in self-awareness, so egotistical, so entitled that they want to go out basically saying, "The problem with our business model was that we're just too good for you." They're not that bad, are they?

Posted by: Ted K. at September 16, 2019 12:18 PM (FJYfm)

19
My stinkin' phone? HAHAHA, go cut down some more trees, loser.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2019 12:19 PM (13CQC)

20 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:19 PM (DjIxe)

21 Hell hath no fury like a liberal paper scorned.

Posted by: WisRich at September 16, 2019 12:19 PM (G0vdT)

22 Yes, they think their shit...

Posted by: dananjcon at September 16, 2019 12:19 PM (u6xw0)

23 It's also self-contradictory because that very front cover has a web site address printed on it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2019 12:19 PM (ZGrMX)

24 Learn to code

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 16, 2019 12:19 PM (k81AA)

25 actually my phone sucks balls but my employer provides and pays for it so I'm kinda stuck with it

MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

Posted by: Rick in SK at September 16, 2019 12:19 PM (FZYNt)

26 Awww.. good thing they all have no marketable skills and will not flood any industries with new workers..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 16, 2019 12:20 PM (so+oy)

27 Just spitballing here....couldn't they, you know, have put the content online so it could be read on a phone?

Top Men!!

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 16, 2019 12:20 PM (FiUMj)

28 There was actually a lower grade version of the Washington Post. Didn't think it was possible.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 16, 2019 12:20 PM (xPl2J)

29 Nobody saw the headline, they were too busy scrolling their phones.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 12:20 PM (dNzKv)

30 Yeah I was hoping for an iconic "last issue" that could be saved for posterity, like The Washington Star back in the day. No such luck. As soon as I saw it, it went right in the trash.

Posted by: KingRamen at September 16, 2019 12:20 PM (52I7p)

31 *tap, tap, tap*

Yep ,just as I suspected - Sympathy meter not broken. Displays 'off scale low'.

LOLGF

Posted by: Tonypete at September 16, 2019 12:20 PM (Y4EXg)

32 Yeah I was hoping for an iconic "last issue" that could be saved for posterity, like The Washington Star back in the day"

Still have that one...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 16, 2019 12:21 PM (6qErC)

33 I'm not a Downsizing Consultant, but I did stay at a Washington Post Express last night....

Posted by: x at September 16, 2019 12:21 PM (nFwvY)

34 Build the Pay Wall!!!

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at September 16, 2019 12:21 PM (5l6gb)

35 I like unemployable leftards. More please.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (TAu/7)

36 34 Build the Pay Wall!!!
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death

I am told walls are ineffective at keeping people out

Posted by: Rick in SK at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (FZYNt)

37 Wait the hipster writers are pissed because the hipsters didn't want to read their fish and chips wrapper?

And what kind of 'content' did they serve up?

Is there another reason they didn't have readers?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (37IEG)

38 This blog has been around for about as long as the Washington Post Express and has managed to not only outlive it, but do well enough to mock its demise.

Print is dead.

Posted by: Surfperch at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (O4YGa)

39 Just spitballing here....couldn't they, you know, have put the content online so it could be read on a phone?

It's funnier than that, because they did. ReadExpress.com like the cover says, right next to the Twitter hashtag.

So they're whining about people doing what they told people to do.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (ZGrMX)

40 Not very dedicated to their cause, are they? I mean they didn't even consider paying people to take their paper.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (kfjkF)

41 Fununemployment.

Posted by: WisRich at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (G0vdT)

42 They can only peddle so much fake news

Posted by: MAGA at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (hqJuS)

43 I do enjoy my phone it's where I read Ace of SpadesHQ and comment.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (dKiJG)

44 next thing these lefties will threaten not to reproduce anymore.

i'm shaking...

Posted by: Rick in SK at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (FZYNt)

45 38 This blog has been around for about as long as the Washington Post Express and has managed to not only outlive it, but do well enough to mock its demise.

Print is dead.
Posted by: Surfperch at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (O4YGa)

=========

And pay as a contributor is just amazing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM (DjIxe)

46 We make all the jokes about learning to code. But of those 20, at least 15 are sons/daughters of the DC elite who will get them a cushy job somewhere else. The other 5 are married to someone who knows someone who will also get them a cushy job.

It's how the incestuous nature of NY/DC works.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (FiUMj)

47 There was actually a lower grade version of the Washington Post."

It was a free crapfest. Usually found in piles outside Metro stops.

Honestly - I never saw anyone take a copy. Ever.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (6qErC)

48
Yep ,just as I suspected - Sympathy meter not broken. Displays 'off scale low'.

LOLGF
Posted by: Tonypete at September 16, 2019 12:20 PM (Y4EXg)

I calibrate mine to 0.0 with pictures of feminists.

Posted by: Vanya at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (Mk8wT)

49 You think they would be happy about not cutting down trees

Posted by: batterup at September 16, 2019 12:17 PM (U2JQS)

They should be cited for littering....or illegal dumping.

Posted by: BignJames at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (X/Pw5)

50 Hey ya all you should learn to clothe.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (pw+jk)

51 Maybe the Express deserved to be shut down since they paid their female employees "substantially" less than other employees.

Posted by: Emmie at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (i/wJA)

52 the editors wrote. "Sadly, this is our final edition."

It seems like only yesterday when consumers proclaimed, "Sadly, this is their first edition".

Posted by: t-bird at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (mhs6e)

53 World needs plenty of bartenders!

Posted by: Captain George Ellerby at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (oh+79)

54 LOLGF

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (y7DUB)

55 *eyeroll* This mass of entitlement could form a singularity.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (RD7QR)

56 The dogs aren't eating the dog food.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (ZDXYb)

57 ITS FUNNY CAUSE THE FIRED JOURNALISTS TAKE A STAB AT ELECTRONIC MEDIA WHILE FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THERE IS A WHOLE NEW GROWING MARKET FOR DELIVERING CONTENT. HERE HAVE A BUGGY WHIP.

Posted by: Ben Rothlisbergergler at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (ymnmz)

58 I have wondered if there was a way to put free "alternative" weeklies out of business. It stuns me that such papers, which are usually nothing but Marxism, keep getting real business advertisers to put in adverts. They also rely on medical weed and borderline prostitution services of course.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (ujg0T)

59 LOL learn to code

Posted by: Guy Smiley at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (u//oP)

60 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (ov5W2)

61 I miss old days.

Posted by: Ivan Simonov at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (gmo/4)

62 Hopefully this will clean up the metro a bit. By the evening commute those damned papers were everywhere.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (axyOa)

63 Master the intricacies of cybernetic languages, snowflakes.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (RD7QR)

64 53 World needs plenty of bartenders!
Posted by: Captain George Ellerby

max out your credit card and get a boob job.

tips will be better.

hmm.. I should work in human resources

Posted by: Rick in SK at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (FZYNt)

65 Imagine being so unaware of your value to the world that you become a journalist.

Now imagine that you take a job where 1) you have a monopoly on the market, 2) you give away your product for free 3) even at that price point, no one wants your product--preferring to even pay for data to read your "news" elsewhere and 4) being surprised when your company is bankrupt

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 16, 2019 12:25 PM (k81AA)

66

Journocunts, now new and improved with extra snatch smegma!

Posted by: LOLGFx1000 at September 16, 2019 12:25 PM (i5yzX)

67 I blame ATMs

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 12:25 PM (yBOIx)

68 LOL get fucked
Posted by: steevy

Seriously, I'm laughing too hard.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 12:25 PM (0t+fn)

69 ITS FUNNY CAUSE THE FIRED JOURNALISTS TAKE A STAB AT ELECTRONIC MEDIA WHILE FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THERE IS A WHOLE NEW GROWING MARKET FOR DELIVERING CONTENT. HERE HAVE A BUGGY WHIP.

Posted by: Ben Rothlisbergergler at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM

****

Damn. Ben types pretty good one-handed.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 16, 2019 12:25 PM (axyOa)

70 20 liberals laid off at a liberal outlet that nobody read or cared about. Still looking for the downside here...

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2019 12:25 PM (Kpl3J)

71 Maybe their content sucked donkey balls. Nope. No. Not that ...it's those f-ing phones!

LOLOLOLOLOL

and

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 16, 2019 12:25 PM (ymnmz)

72 53 World needs plenty of bartenders!
Posted by: Captain George Ellerby at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (oh+79)
---------

I think there a number of openings in San Francisco for street sanitation workers. It's great pay if you can put up with the crap.

Posted by: WisRich at September 16, 2019 12:25 PM (G0vdT)

73 Express Beats Washington Post to Death

Posted by: NYPost Headline at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (ZDXYb)

74 Wheels coming off at the Post? Or are the walls closing in.... drums fingers on desktop waiting for a ruling...

Posted by: zeera Moron Author Working on Book TWO at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (T9rmq)

75
I have wondered if there was a way to put free "alternative" weeklies out of business. It stuns me that such papers, which are usually nothing but Marxism, keep getting real business advertisers to put in adverts. They also rely on medical weed and borderline prostitution services of course.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (ujg0T)

---------

Well, there's the weed and hookers of course.

But (at least here in Denver) the redolent Westword survives on one staple: it's where people go for the comprehensive concert listings. From big shows, to unheard of acts in ratholes, they list everything.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (AzW6q)

76 My local weekly free rag is non-stop OrangemanBad, racism is everywhere, etc. But it has a ton of advertising in it, so it must be doing fairly well I assume. And not just hookers, legit businesses like dentists, mechanics, etc.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (FiUMj)

77 Hopefully this will clean up the metro a bit. By the evening commute those damned papers were everywhere.
Posted by: Diogenes

Hobos looking for free toilet paper hardest hit.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (0t+fn)

78 Hell yes we're gonna take your I-Phones and you Pixels!

Posted by: Beto Skateboard Blotto O'Rourke at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (37IEG)

79 Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (dkvcO)

80 When does the NY Times go out of print? Then we can celebrate.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (N39Ws)

81 They also rely on medical weed and borderline prostitution services of course.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12

Borderline? They must be slipping. The old Chicago Reader had hooker ads that included hourly and all night rates.

Posted by: Vanya at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (Mk8wT)

82 It was also poorly written and edited.
Posted by: Spade at September 16, 2019 12:17 PM (Ddy7A)

--------

Like the Post itself

Posted by: Truck Monkey at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (flINI)

83 What, the Washington Post isn't available on smartphones?

Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (NFEMn)

84 LOLGFY

Posted by: Bosk at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (9m9TT)

85 I would imagine whipmakers had similar sentiments.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (cxIsI)

86 #LearntoBarista

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (ptqGC)

87 I don't blame them for having animosity toward electronic devices, everyone who writes for print sees those things as destroying their livelihood. But its a profoundly unserious and childish way to behave, displaying their lack of professionalism.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (KZzsI)

88 The whiny babies blamed the public's complete lack of interest in anything they did on smart phones.

You know, smart people would have transitioned their business model to on-line if that's where it's at.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (0t+fn)

89 I would imagine whipmakers had similar sentiments.

That's a nasty crack.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (ZDXYb)

90

So even rich daddies subsidizing this vanity 'paper' so daughter #3 can call herself a DC Journalist and forgive him for not buying her a pony and letting her blow him that one time they were both really drunk in her apartment won't pay for it anymore?

Posted by: Janet Reno's Cat at September 16, 2019 12:28 PM (UFLLM)

91 Print is dead.

Posted by: Surfperch at September 16, 2019 12:22 PM

Sage words from Egon: https://youtu.be/D3v_ogRaTf4

Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2019 12:28 PM (OMsf+)

92 76 My local weekly free rag is non-stop OrangemanBad, racism is everywhere, etc. But it has a ton of advertising in it, so it must be doing fairly well I assume. And not just hookers, legit businesses like dentists, mechanics, etc.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (FiUMj)

Mine, the "Sacramento (Soviet) New Zoo Revue" is much the same. I am puzzled why any legit business would advertise in it.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:28 PM (ujg0T)

93 When does the NY Times go out of print? Then we can celebrate.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (N39Ws)

They'll never go out of print because they have a cult following. You wouldn't believe how many people can't start their day without reading their "bible."

Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2019 12:28 PM (NFEMn)

94 "Hope you enjoy your stinkin' phones."

They seem a bit petulant.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 16, 2019 12:28 PM (ptqGC)

95 Where will the hobos get their toilet paper now?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 16, 2019 12:28 PM (xfb67)

96 Trump absolutely should fuck over the journalism industry. Declare an environment tax on all free papers, effectively putting them out of business. Surcharge increases for the largest papers.

Posted by: trev006 at September 16, 2019 12:28 PM (JYc56)

97 Even at zero dollars and zero cents, it did not have enough customers.

-
Adam Smith's invisible hand wouldn't touch that shit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 12:28 PM (+y/Ru)

98 87
I don't blame them for having animosity toward electronic devices,
everyone who writes for print sees those things as destroying their
livelihood. But its a profoundly unserious and childish way to behave,
displaying their lack of professionalism.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (KZzsI)
Another reason these sissy nancies are probably in favor of guaranteed incomes.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (37IEG)

99 I don't understand the Guild comments other than just union claptrap. But when a business is out of money, it is out of money.
I notice the Guild didn't offer to buy the paper and keep operations going.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (r+sAi)

100 That's a nasty crack.
=====

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Stormy Daniels at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (JcXHH)

101 Let me tell you all a little story. It was 1789 and I was the only white lifeguard down at the swimmin hole. Well there was a big ole slave called Snatch Smegma. He had a strait edged cutlass. Hand to God this is the.. the.. And..I was telling that fine little filly that... that.. her.. ahh. she smelled like ahh, ahhh why like an onion patch in August. My word as Biden that really happened.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (pw+jk)

102 young women performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom

I won't be wasting a lot of time imagining what those jobs might have been.
Having run a couple of newsrooms, I can tell you what was suggested.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (8ZmvG)

103 ahh westturd. the Boulder Hobo fan zine.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (vn9fl)

104 I don't blame them for having animosity toward electronic devices, everyone who writes for print sees those things as destroying their livelihood. But its a profoundly unserious and childish way to behave, displaying their lack of professionalism.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

What does it matter HOW you get it to them?

Write for print AND online. Don't be a buggy whip in a Model T world.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (0t+fn)

105 What she doesn't yet see is the Post would be there, but for a billionaire who needs good publicity in the Capital. So he bought it.But his situation can change. And he might decide businesses have to stand or fall on their own. Big corporations make those kinds of decisions every day. And, when that happens, her own paper follows the Express into the dustbin of history (to paraphrase a guy who hated journalists).

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (NVYyb)

106 Why, yes. I guess they do enjoy their stinking phones more than your piece of crap news rag. Thank you very much.

Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (2sCft)

107 Well, there's the weed and hookers of course.

But (at least here in Denver) the redolent Westword survives on one staple: it's where people go for the comprehensive concert listings. From big shows, to unheard of acts in ratholes, they list everything.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (AzW6q)

That may make sense. The Soviet New Zoo Revue here lists all the entertainment goings on in great detail, even when much of is it Open Mike Bulldyke Bolshevik Poetry Slam or some other such.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (ujg0T)

108 Video somethingsomething radio star...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (dkvcO)

109 I actually quite enjoy the cover. Response: "Thanks, I will."

Posted by: Someguy at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (y178e)

110 Its not really phones that are killing newspapers, though. Its the cost of newspapers and their plummeting quality. Yes, the internet's news access is a factor, but if newspapers didn't suck so hard for so long, people might have still read them. But the cost kept going up and the quality (and size) kept going down so people lost any affection or loyalty they may have had.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (KZzsI)

111 So the 20 now unemployed don't own smart phones, right?

Posted by: Ha at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (HJ38S)

112 I would imagine whipmakers had similar sentiments.

That's a nasty crack.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM

****

That comment had some snap to it!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (axyOa)

113 103 ahh westturd. the Boulder Hobo fan zine.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (vn9fl)

You've got a fanzine? THAT'S BOSS!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (RD7QR)

114 Can they code?

Posted by: Chicago Vota at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (WfAli)

115 OT:

So, I just got a couple of really old Soviet propaganda films on Blu-Ray, and I'm reading about Battleship Potemkin in the little booklet that came with the discs.

Apparently, Goebbels loved it for its ability to emotionally manipulate people into Bolshevism. The quote is: "anyone who had no firm political conviction could become a Bolshevik after seeing the film."

I love reading these quotes from national socialist that praise international socialism. Cause they're just so different, you know?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (DjIxe)

116 89
I would imagine whipmakers had similar sentiments.

That's a nasty crack.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM (ZDXYb)

Ain't no bull!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (ymnmz)

117 learn to GF

Posted by: bored383 at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (zJ4nO)

118 Pull my finger.

Posted by: The Invisible Hand at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (ZDXYb)

119 That's a lot of toilet paper taken off the street.

Posted by: SH at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (sX1BW)

120 81 They also rely on medical weed and borderline prostitution services of course.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12

Borderline? They must be slipping. The old Chicago Reader had hooker ads that included hourly and all night rates.
Posted by: Vanya at September 16, 2019 12:26 PM (Mk8wT)

Well, they do call it "outcall massage"

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (ujg0T)

121 We feel their pain.

Posted by: Buggy Whip Makers of America at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (+y/Ru)

122 I think their anger is a bit misplaced. After all, it's owned by Jeff Bezo's. You know the multi billionaire. He couldn't fund a staff of 20-30 people?

The headline should have read:

"Hope you enjoy your stinking rocket Jeff. *spit*"

Posted by: WisRich at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (G0vdT)

123 What does it matter HOW you get it to them?

I actually make more money off ebooks than I do print. But there's something very wrong about buying only electronic copies of things when they can be so easily lost, destroyed, or altered.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (KZzsI)

124
It's the Wapo Express ... to the unemployment line!

Keep codin', codin', codin'
Tho your head's explodin'
Keep them bytes a flowin'
Youse guys!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (6G4DD)

125 How much of it was advertisements if it was free? Had to be massive ads all over it

Posted by: Buzzion at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (53f5K)

126 Anyone laid off by the Washington Post gets no sympathy from me.

Time to curtail your Starbucks habit.

Posted by: Ladyl urgent prayer needed for Laura and Allison at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (TdMsT)

127 97 Even at zero dollars and zero cents, it did not have enough customers.
-
Adam Smith's invisible hand wouldn't touch that shit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 12:28 PM (+y/Ru)

Adam Smith's Invisible Hand pointed at the Washington Post Express, then it made a circle with it's thumb and fingers and moved up and down repeatedly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (Kpl3J)

128 If one of those idiots was capable of learning a trade, it would surprise me. The hell with coding, just teach them the basics of plumbing, like hot on the left, cold on the right, payday is Thursday.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (C1Lsn)

129 125 How much of it was advertisements if it was free? Had to be massive ads all over it
Posted by: Buzzion

like the last 20 pages in a porn mag back in the day

Posted by: Rick in SK at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (FZYNt)

130 and so it begins..

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (ZDXYb)

131 119 That's a lot of toilet paper taken off the street.
Posted by: SH at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (sX1BW)

Or Homeless Barrel Fire Kindling.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (ujg0T)

132 Kinda related to phones....I was reading some reviews of campgrounds on the Oregon coast. Now when you read reviews of a campground, what do you looks for? Were the campsites good size, was there a nice view were the bathrooms clean, etc.

But at least 1/4 of the review, and mostly the 1 or 2 star reviews were about cell phone coverage. Whole bunch of review along the lines of "this place sucked we got no bars on the phone" or "we were told there'd be good wifi and it sucked so we are never coming back here again".

And I'm like fuck, if wifi is your #1 priority when camping, you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (FiUMj)

133 111
So the 20 now unemployed don't own smart phones, right?

Posted by: Ha at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (HJ38S)
Once they've sold them to make the Latte payments they'll be forced to sell their bodies as shill protestors at the next "give us free shit" protest.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (37IEG)

134 126 Anyone laid off by the Washington Post gets no sympathy from me.

Time to curtail your Starbucks habit.
Posted by: Ladyl urgent prayer needed for Laura and Allison at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (TdMsT)

==========

Just think of all the global warming we'll avoid as they don't cut down helpless trees to print out their worthless product!

It's a win for Gaia!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (DjIxe)

135
Time to curtail your Starbucks habit.
Posted by: Ladyl urgent prayer needed for Laura and Allison at September 16, 2019 12:32 PM (TdMsT)

--------

Well it's that or the gay chemsex I guess.

*sigh*

Woe is me.

Posted by: DC Journo at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (AzW6q)

136 I hear Corn Pop is coding now-a-days and doing quite well.

Posted by: dananjcon at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (u6xw0)

137 And, if you want to know the real reason they closed shop?

All of these "free" newspapers are political money laundering.

At the top of the paper are a few connected people. Various government agencies and businesses buy ads--not for the reader--but to pay the owner. For either support or to keep quiet/go away/attack someone else

What this means is, someone at the DC Metro has family/friend who is getting those "advertising" dollars now.

And that's what they're pissed about

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (k81AA)

138
119 That's a lot of toilet paper taken off the street.
Posted by: SH at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM

Bird cages all across America will be just a little less classy, now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (6G4DD)

139 How much of it was advertisements if it was free? Had to be massive ads all over it
Posted by: Buzzion

like the last 20 pages in a porn mag back in the day
Posted by: Rick in SK

Buy Sea Monkeys!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (0t+fn)

140 >>The hell with coding, just teach them the basics of plumbing, like hot on the left, cold on the right, payday is Thursday.

It's funny you think the low man on that totem pole is doing anything but wrestling turds.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (yBOIx)

141 >>>49 You think they would be happy about not cutting down trees

Posted by: batterup at September 16, 2019 12:17 PM (U2JQS)
---------------

Sunday, Kevin McCarthy, talking to Maria, mentioned planting a million trees and that they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air (thought T Boone was dead).

Posted by: Chill Billy at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (LU/XE)

142 Meanwhile, what the hell is going on at the NYT twitter department??

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y54mscm8

Blundering NY Times Deletes Baffling Tweet on Kavanaugh's 'Harmless' Penis

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (KZzsI)

143
Laughs on you! We don't use toilet paper, just our hands!

Here, let me hold that door open for you!

Posted by: DC Hobo Scum at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (UFLLM)

144 Lois Lane becomes a journalist thrown out of the WH Press briefing room in a new DC comic, Enemy of the People.

https://tinyurl.com/y474pker

I don't think you can tell an honest story about Lois if you're not reflecting the.... hostility towards journalism in the world today." writer Greg Rucka told "The Washington Post."

I wonder why there's hostility towards journalism, Greg. I wonder why that could possibly be?

Posted by: Hoary Puffleg at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (j0JAA)

145 It's amusing that even free, the "paper's" writers were so bad nobody wanted to read it.

But they can always go over to Vox, or Buzzfeed and learn to code.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (PlceE)

146 106
Why, yes. I guess they do enjoy their stinking phones more than your piece of crap news rag. Thank you very much.

Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at September 16, 2019 12:29 PM (2sCft)

The face you make when your job is eliminated by hot take commentary and listicles about favorite sex positions and internet memes about current girlfriend and other girl walking down the street.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (ymnmz)

147 Its not really phones that are killing newspapers, though. Its the cost of newspapers and their plummeting quality. Yes, the internet's news access is a factor, but if newspapers didn't suck so hard for so long, people might have still read them. But the cost kept going up and the quality (and size) kept going down so people lost any affection or loyalty they may have had.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (KZzsI)

Another factor with the phones is that I can get the news RIGHT NOW, not tomorrow morning. I think even well run papers that don't serve as political advertisements will suffer.

Posted by: Ted K. at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (FJYfm)

148 One day in the not too distant future, when even slow to adapt to reality Boomers and the like realize the WashPost has zero institutional credibility left, lefty advocacy groups and lefty Deep Staters will just publish their talking points directly without bothering to launder them through WashPost's useless hacks first. Disintermediation.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (hdzef)

149 "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

------------

They were still overpaid.

They used to teach this in business school, but if operational costs exceed revenue, your business will eventually fail.

Posted by: SH at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (sX1BW)

150 Suck it Post Express.

Posted by: Internet cat videos at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (ymnmz)

151 all you need in life is 6 feet of chain and a rusty straight razor.

mind you the GOP will put you all in chains and razors should be able to choose their sexual preference.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 16, 2019 12:35 PM (FZYNt)

152 "and that they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air "

Sounds like a Bond villain plan, LOL

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 16, 2019 12:35 PM (FiUMj)

153 According to one of my music buds on Zuckerberg, Johnny Cash is playing the Louis Armstrong role in Ken Burn's latest plug and chug production.

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 16, 2019 12:35 PM (y7DUB)

154 Ima no rappa da fish!

Posted by: Archer at September 16, 2019 12:35 PM (gmo/4)

155 Mobile did them in? Maybe. It was probably a factor. But ultimately quality - and content - are king.

No bid. Not for anything there that they have. Maybe if they paid me, I would read it. Would depend on the price.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 16, 2019 12:35 PM (e/H31)

156 Maybe they can get jobs at an online outfit like ThinkProgress.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 12:35 PM (dNzKv)

157 http://bit.ly/2QnjMZY
*******
Antonio Brown: New sexual misconduct accusation | SI.com
*******
MEtonio Brown needs put into a rubber room

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (BqBId)

158 I actually make more money off ebooks than I do print. But there's something very wrong about buying only electronic copies of things when they can be so easily lost, destroyed, or altered.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I actually agree. I'm old school. I prefer to hold a book.

But when the market shifts, you have to also.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (0t+fn)

159 Keep codin', codin', codin'
Tho your head's explodin'
Keep them bytes a flowin'
Youse guys!

-
It's quiet. Too quiet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (+y/Ru)

160 "The hell with coding, just teach them the basics of plumbing, like hot on the left, cold on the right, payday is Thursday. "

Right and left is racist. So is red and blue.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (FiUMj)

161 We had a machine on my boat that took CO2 out of the air. Think we've had that since before WWII.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (xfb67)

162 mentioned planting a million trees and that they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air

Wait, they're putting more trees into the biosphere, and then trying to take away their food?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (KZzsI)

163
"These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as
other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

--

Implication for more hair-on-fire pay inequality? Except, it says "many of them were young women." Meaning not all. Meaning others (men, presumably) also made less.

I don't know about these sainted people, but in the real world, there also exists a pay grade structure, and it's based on performance, but even more so, how long one has been at that job. Not everyone hired to do "X" will make the exact same amount, as some are newer hires than others. Does this factor into their insinuation? Something tells me we'll never know.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (JoUsr)

164 137
And, if you want to know the real reason they closed shop?

All of these "free" newspapers are political money laundering.

At the top of the paper are a few connected people. Various
government agencies and businesses buy ads--not for the reader--but to
pay the owner. For either support or to keep quiet/go away/attack
someone else

What this means is, someone at the DC Metro has family/friend who is getting those "advertising" dollars now.

And that's what they're pissed about

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (k81AA)
Our Netflix deal and book deals are of the highest quality and above reproach and are not political kickbacks of any sort! What are you trying to imply!

Posted by: Barack and Michelle Obama at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (37IEG)

165 149
"These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as
other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

------------

They were still overpaid.

They used to teach this in business school, but if operational costs exceed revenue, your business will eventually fail.

Posted by: SH at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (sX1BW)

ITS FUNNY CAUSE EVEN AT WORKING FOR 77 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR THEY STILL WENT OUT OF BUSINESS.

Posted by: Ben Rothlisbergergler at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (ymnmz)

166 Senile old Democrats say the darndist things.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (TAu/7)

167 man, I hope they don't put the Houston Press in the Barrel.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (vn9fl)

168 Sunday, Kevin McCarthy, talking to Maria, mentioned planting a million trees and that they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air (thought T Boone was dead).

Posted by: Chill Billy at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (LU/XE)

countless "Dry ice" makers and sellers could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (ujg0T)

169 The Pony Express shut down?
- Joe Cracka Smack Bidet

Posted by: Archer at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (gmo/4)

170 Free newspapers are useless when they do not contain information we the general public want to read. End of story. Now let's get back to talking about breakfast cereal and perfect sexy elves.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (W+kMI)

171 >>Antonio Brown: New sexual misconduct accusation

Guy is mrder in the Slot.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (yBOIx)

172 Momsen lungs. They're dangerous tho.

Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (cxIsI)

173 Have the writers considered an online publication? Lower overhead cost. Minimal office space needed "Journalist" can work from home, e-mail stories for editing.

I am just and ideas guy. Go ahead a close up shop and make me a coffee "Journalist."

Posted by: Picric at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (nonGu)

174 and that they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air "

They clear cut 100 acres of trees to build it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (dNzKv)

175 Lois Lane becomes a journalist thrown out of the WH Press briefing room in a new DC comic, Enemy of the People.

https://tinyurl.com/y474pker

I don't think you can tell an honest story about Lois if you're not reflecting the.... hostility towards journalism in the world today." writer Greg Rucka told "The Washington Post."

I wonder why there's hostility towards journalism, Greg. I wonder why that could possibly be?

Posted by: Hoary Puffleg at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM

****

Even at 6 years old I was wondering how this woman could be so stupid.
Glasses...no glasses.
Gawd! What an idiot. Perfect for journalism.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (axyOa)

176 One had no idea the denizens here were so devoted to the technology. Here, all along, I'd thought it was the content. So you're saying that, if a newspaper had sane conservative content, you'd laugh at them folding, too?

The farcebook pages and so on that cover local scenes in my area are just mean girls from school, nothing more or less. Nasty bitchiness. The area advertiser-only papers do a pretty good job -- better than the (now five days!) Big City Daily in the large town next door. More dignified obits, too.

There are many facets of a real life that blogs and web pages cannot do.
It's a damned shame that people can't read newspapers any more.
Also, for future reference, a "fish and chips" wrapper and a "fishwrapper" are, sure as hell, nowhere near the same thing. Whip that snapper.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (8ZmvG)

177 The internet wont have much of an impact on commerce. No more powerful than the fax machine.

Posted by: Paul Krugman Super Genius at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (DB16e)

178 Over/Under Bets

Patriot Regular Season Wins - 14.5

Antonio Brown Regular Season Sexual Misconduct Allegations - 10.5

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 12:38 PM (oZ6kz)

179 And that's what they're pissed about

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (k81AA)
Our
Netflix deal and book deals are of the highest quality and above
reproach and are not political kickbacks of any sort! What are you
trying to imply!

Posted by: Barack and Michelle Obama at September 16, 2019 12:36 PM (37IEG)

Actual LOL

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 16, 2019 12:38 PM (ymnmz)

180 Lois Lane becomes a journalist thrown out of the WH Press briefing room in a new DC comic, Enemy of the People.

Lex Luthor is president in DC Comics in an oh-so-subtle jab at Trump.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:38 PM (KZzsI)

181 What's laughable is that instead of taking a deep, hard look into themselves to see what they did wrong, they instead blame technology.

They cannot figure out that theirs is an industry dominated by CONTENT. No CONTENT, no one reads.

There is PLENTY of room left for print media but their CONTENT must improve.

Heading home from Paris right now, I read this and was instantly reminded of what I saw there: at the train station, you could pick up the Financial Times, several German, Spanish and Russian publications, other British titles, including the disgraced weekly The Economist, and naturally every French publication under the sun. And as bad as most of those publications are, I guarantee you, even without the benefit of knowing those languages fluently, the reporting and writing is far superior to anything you can find in the United States.

Our media SUCKS and this is just the latest evidence of that.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:38 PM (KeCWw)

182 139 How much of it was advertisements if it was free? Had to be massive ads all over it
Posted by: Buzzion

like the last 20 pages in a porn mag back in the day
Posted by: Rick in SK

Buy Sea Monkeys!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 12:33 PM (0t+fn)

I got a sea monkey once! That chick knew what she was doing, lemme tell ya! Where's Dr. Jill, anyway?

Posted by: Joe "Hands" Biden at September 16, 2019 12:39 PM (RD7QR)

183 Even $5 hookers stay in business.

Posted by: torabora at September 16, 2019 12:39 PM (sBpNT)

184 170 Free newspapers are useless when they do not contain information we the general public want to read. End of story. Now let's get back to talking about breakfast cereal and perfect sexy elves.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (W+kMI

Yep. Thee is still potential for niche, conservative rags. imho

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. at September 16, 2019 12:39 PM (Vy7tf)

185 put your swim cap on Ester Williams

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 16, 2019 12:39 PM (FZYNt)

186 "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

So they admit to deliberately underpaying women?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 16, 2019 12:39 PM (axyOa)

187 I like 'em dumb, what can I say.

I would have dated a junior high school teacher but she kept ogling the football team.

Posted by: Clark Kent at September 16, 2019 12:39 PM (vn9fl)

188 Kevin McCarthy, talking to Maria, mentioned planting a million trees
and that they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air
(thought T Boone was dead).

What powers the machine, and what is the source of the power?

Posted by: pep at September 16, 2019 12:40 PM (T6t7i)

189 >> "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

But think of how impressive their resumes are, now.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 12:40 PM (yBOIx)

190 Fortunately, the slackers were not discharged into the dystopian abyss of Obama era unemployment unopportunities.

Say "thanks President Trump" when you land another paying gig next week.

Posted by: BluesFish at September 16, 2019 12:41 PM (WQZ1O)

191 It's a damned shame that people can't read newspapers any more.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM
__________________________

A friend got me a sub to the Epoch Times.
It's nice taking a paper to the Throne.

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at September 16, 2019 12:41 PM (DB16e)

192 Sounds like some people need to learn coding! We have a song for them, the White Collar Holler by Canada's other great singer-songwriter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnmi35AjOow

Posted by: exdem13 at September 16, 2019 12:41 PM (W+kMI)

193
But (at least here in Denver) the redolent Westword survives on one staple: it's where people go for the comprehensive concert listings. From big shows, to unheard of acts in ratholes, they list everything.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 16, 2019

*
*

Same for Gambit here. It also has the saving grace of a local-history column that often explains little-known details of local monuments or stores that have vanished, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 16, 2019 12:41 PM (ClOmq)

194 Uh, except fish and chips are traditionally wrapped in the same thing you'd wrap a fish - a newspaper.

Though, like the papers themselves, the method has died out because it's unhygienic

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 12:42 PM (37IEG)

195 but if newspapers didn't suck so hard for so long, people might have still read them. But the cost kept going up and the quality (and size) kept going down so people lost any affection or loyalty they may have had.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:30 PM (KZzsI)

Another factor with the phones is that I can get the news RIGHT NOW, not tomorrow morning. I think even well run papers that don't serve as political advertisements will suffer.

Posted by: Ted K. at September 16, 2019 12:34 PM (FJYfm)
-------------

Newspapers are choosing to follow the Sears Roebuck/Montgomery Ward model of merchandising and the KMart model of product quality.

Posted by: Chill Billy at September 16, 2019 12:42 PM (LU/XE)

196 Everybody nailed it but the publication. In an age of instant news, you must add substance and depth.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 16, 2019 12:42 PM (r+sAi)

197 "and that they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air "

Why do they hate plant life so?

Posted by: t-bird at September 16, 2019 12:43 PM (n6bs1)

198
What powers the machine, and what is the source of the power?

Posted by: pep at September 16, 2019 12:40 PM (T6t7i)
Magic unicorn gas that doesn't contribute to global climate warming changeable hysterical story.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 12:43 PM (37IEG)

199 One had no idea the denizens here were so devoted to the technology. Here, all along, I'd thought it was the content. So you're saying that, if a newspaper had sane conservative content, you'd laugh at them folding, too?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (8ZmvG)

I still lament the loss of once right of center newspapers in my area. Most cities or larger metro areas used to be at least two newspaper towns, but the ones not left of center (and the ones taking UPI rather than AP wires, which seemed to overlap) all folded up.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:43 PM (ujg0T)

200 What powers the machine, and what is the source of the power?
Posted by: pep at September 16, 2019 12:40 PM (T6t7i)

1000 gallons of diesel per day. But they are purchasing carbon offsets to make the operation carbon neutral.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 12:43 PM (dNzKv)

201 Lois Lane becomes a journalist thrown out of the WH Press briefing room in a new DC comic, Enemy of the People.

-
Old and busted: Batman v. Superman

New hotness: Trump v. Superman

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 12:43 PM (+y/Ru)

202 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

203 LOLGF!

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

204 Learn to code.

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

205 And I just purchased 5 acres of carbon offset! Where's my award!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 12:44 PM (37IEG)

206 196 Everybody nailed it but the publication. In an age of instant news, you must add substance and depth.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 16, 2019 12:42 PM (r+sAi)

==========

I've got it!

We'll do a new print publication that just calls Republicans racist for 50 pages!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:44 PM (DjIxe)

207 "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

And now they're all getting equal pay. You should be happy.

Posted by: t-bird at September 16, 2019 12:44 PM (n6bs1)

208 lolgf with a steaming cup of covfefe

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 16, 2019 12:44 PM (jYnPD)

209 46 We make all the jokes about learning to code. But of those 20, at least 15 are sons/daughters of the DC elite who will get them a cushy job somewhere else. The other 5 are married to someone who knows someone who will also get them a cushy job.

It's how the incestuous nature of NY/DC works.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 16, 2019 12:23 PM (FiUMj)

NETWORKING!!!!!!! IT'S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, BUT WHO YOU KNOW!!!

This country, a meritocracy? What a joke.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:44 PM (KeCWw)

210 I wish the paper that constantly litters my yard would shit down.

Posted by: goodluckduck at September 16, 2019 12:44 PM (rwaEp)

211 If the WP had added a Swap Shop and/ or a Recipe section to their little paper...

Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019 12:44 PM (Vjavn)

212 They shoulda tried handing them out at intersections.

Posted by: Louis Farrakhan at September 16, 2019 12:44 PM (hjaPQ)

213 Every print newspaper is living on borrowed time. The grave is already dug

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 16, 2019 12:45 PM (p0A33)

214 1000 gallons of diesel per day. But they are purchasing carbon offsets to make the operation carbon neutral.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I can't tell if you're joking, since they have no conception of facts, but wouldn't it be easier just to plant the trees in the first place?

Posted by: pep at September 16, 2019 12:45 PM (T6t7i)

215
So they're crying and beating their breasts over the 20-30 journos.

The only ones I feel sorry for the WaPo press operators who will be cut back because of this. Most press operators are good guys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 16, 2019 12:45 PM (AzW6q)

216 they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air

-
Make a machine that takes oxygen out of air and it'll solve all our problems.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 12:45 PM (+y/Ru)

217 112 I would imagine whipmakers had similar sentiments.

That's a nasty crack.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 16, 2019 12:27 PM

****

That comment had some snap to it!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 16, 2019

*
*

I call bull!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 16, 2019 12:45 PM (ClOmq)

218 Are Corn Pops really a good source of fiber? Or just a good source of sugar.

Posted by: Chris M at September 16, 2019 12:46 PM (eAZVt)

219 What powers the machine, and what is the source of the power?

They burn the bodies of all the birds killed by wind generators.

Posted by: Vanilla Icecube at September 16, 2019 12:46 PM (UFLLM)

220 180 Lois Lane becomes a journalist thrown out of the WH Press briefing room in a new DC comic, Enemy of the People.

Lex Luthor is president in DC Comics in an oh-so-subtle jab at Trump.
========
Luthor got elected POTUS back in the late Nineties as the ultimate comeback to the Justice League. It even made the DCAU's Justice League animated series. Not too surprisingly having him in the Oval Office lowers the tone some, although he's been clever enough to stay out of trouble in office, which puts him ahead of at least two Democrats I can think of.... Didn't slow down CADMUS any, I can tell you that.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 16, 2019 12:46 PM (W+kMI)

221 Fiber is a sugar.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 16, 2019 12:46 PM (1ISKN)

222 Why is a woke institution like WaPo paying its young female employees substantially less, as the article suggests, when only red-state patriarchal corporations are supposed to do that?

As Ace says, I shan't believe it. I simply shannot.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 16, 2019 12:46 PM (ReE5g)

223 PS: Your local paper is only a bigger scam than the weekly.

You think the car dealer taking out full page ads is about letting Joe Six-pack know he can get a red-hot deal on a new Ford?

It's so the paper never runs a single story about their unethical, borderline illegal hard-sale and repo practices.

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 16, 2019 12:46 PM (k81AA)

224 Make a machine that takes oxygen out of air and it'll solve all our problems.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

Thermodynamics be damned!

Posted by: pep at September 16, 2019 12:46 PM (T6t7i)

225 181 What's laughable is that instead of taking a deep, hard look into themselves to see what they did wrong, they instead blame technology.

They cannot figure out that theirs is an industry dominated by CONTENT. No CONTENT, no one reads.

There is PLENTY of room left for print media but their CONTENT must improve.

Heading home from Paris right now, I read this and was instantly reminded of what I saw there: at the train station, you could pick up the Financial Times, several German, Spanish and Russian publications, other British titles, including the disgraced weekly The Economist, and naturally every French publication under the sun. And as bad as most of those publications are, I guarantee you, even without the benefit of knowing those languages fluently, the reporting and writing is far superior to anything you can find in the United States.

Our media SUCKS and this is just the latest evidence of that.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:38 PM (KeCWw)

I have often wished that American papers would "Go British" in terms of content. Sure The Guardian slants disgustingly left, but it actually DOES report.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:47 PM (ujg0T)

226 I dumped the local Commie Fish Wrap paper, when I lived in Illinois. Nothing but Leonard " Smug Racist" Pitts, Clarence " Depends" Page, and Jonah "Vidkun" Goldberg in the editorials.... combined with CoC boosterism rife through the rest, it was unbearable.

Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019 12:47 PM (Vjavn)

227 216 they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air

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Make a machine that takes oxygen out of air and it'll solve all our problems.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 12:45 PM (+y/Ru)

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The thing about this machine is if it actually works, then humanity can build a few of them and directly address the problem that climate hysterics have pinpointed for decades as the single largest environmental problem.

We rev those machines up and they get our CO2 particulates down to a level the climate science community has deemed acceptable? Well, then what more do they want?

The science has been addressed.

Putting aside whether this is specific solution actually desirable or not, can you imagine a better way to identify the environmental movement as nothing more than a political Trojan Horse for socialism than to actually address their problem with a different solution than they had advised and for them to just simply continue demanding their own solution?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:48 PM (DjIxe)

228
I learned in HS that if you want American news, you need to read British papers. They might be anti-American, but so are ours, and theirs include actual... what's it called... oh yeah - reportage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 16, 2019 12:48 PM (AzW6q)

229 Unemployed young women?
They'll need comforting!

Come Sancho! We must hasten to their rescue!

Posted by: Don Biden de la Gropeah at September 16, 2019 12:48 PM (37IEG)

230 The "many of them young women" is just social media code for "Dear Fellow Progs, you're supposed to be mad about this. Please re-tweet in anger."

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at September 16, 2019 12:48 PM (hdzef)

231 Getting the govt. to pay you to take CO2 out of the air is the Holy Grail of scams.

You never have to show any results.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 16, 2019 12:48 PM (1ISKN)

232 223 PS: Your local paper is only a bigger scam than the weekly.

You think the car dealer taking out full page ads is about letting Joe Six-pack know he can get a red-hot deal on a new Ford?

It's so the paper never runs a single story about their unethical, borderline illegal hard-sale and repo practices.

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at September 16, 2019 12:46 PM (k81AA)

I wonder if there's some kind of law you can derive from this. Perhaps that you can judge how shady a business is by how much they spend on newspaper ads?

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (J+mig)

233 I wonder if the WP Express was good for cleaning windshields??

Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (Vjavn)

234 One had no idea the denizens here were so devoted to the technology.

I hate my cell phone. I wouldn't like it any better if it were a new model. I don't get news on it. I don't mind some stuff on the computer. I also like papers and "real" books, and just as with a book, I'd rather read a paper while I was sitting on the couch or in a chair, not news on a screen, but it's hard to find papers that aren't blaringly left wing.

Posted by: Hoary Puffleg at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (j0JAA)

235 Corn Pops ???????????

I thought they said Porn Cops !!!!!!!

and my elbow, it hurts !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ben Rothleeeeeeeesburger at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (8KSPd)

236 I liked the Express at first but it became cuckoo town

Posted by: mushroom maniac at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (thQkh)

237 If the Washington Express "journalists" are regular non-readers of the Washington Express, they may not yet know that they have been fired, poor devils.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (jEgzt)

238 A second woman is accusing Antonio Brown of sexual misconduct, saying he inappropriately propositioned her at his Pennsylvania home in 2017 standing behind her fully naked, holding a small towel over his genitals, while she painted, according to a new report.

Ben Roethlisberger injury: Out for season in Steelers disaster

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (p0A33)

239 Jimmy Pop Corn and I don't care !

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (M+Lyo)

240 Have any morons read the departed edition?
I am imagining a more strident and less professional version of the WP with a bunch of glowing reviews of restaurants/bars with cute bartenders and listicles.

Posted by: Downcast at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (jusdg)

241 Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack.

So much for trying to differentiate herself from the rest of the pustules, I guess.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at September 16, 2019 12:50 PM (hjaPQ)

242 I loved the sense of humor meme in the last thread.

Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2019 12:50 PM (xjiRE)

243 yeah, if I had a few bucks, I'd put together a moderate newsie. Like, not right wing per se, just these things are forbidden:

1. no worship of RBG
2. no reflexive feminist worship

really, that's all...

but you can add in about a dozen other topics that you had to just shut up about and the thing would make money (cough cough gheys)

Posted by: mushroom maniac at September 16, 2019 12:50 PM (thQkh)

244 "they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air"

You guys are so funny. Unintentionally, but still. What you don't know about the world...

Anyway, these chicks need to learn to code.

Posted by: Sarah Singeworthy at September 16, 2019 12:50 PM (CrJQa)

245 241 Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack.

So much for trying to differentiate herself from the rest of the pustules, I guess.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at September 16, 2019 12:50 PM (hjaPQ)

==========

Never forget: She is a Russian stooge before anything else. She also wants to take your guns as much as Beto does.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:51 PM (DjIxe)

246 Just put the ocean under pressure and carbonate the damned thing!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 12:51 PM (37IEG)

247 I think even well run papers that don't serve as political advertisements will suffer.

Both of them?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2019 12:51 PM (ZGrMX)

248 Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack.

???

Is there a 24 hour rule that we have to retaliate in that nobody told me about?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 16, 2019 12:51 PM (p0A33)

249 58 I have wondered if there was a way to put free "alternative" weeklies out of business. It stuns me that such papers, which are usually nothing but Marxism, keep getting real business advertisers to put in adverts. They also rely on medical weed and borderline prostitution services of course.
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Based on where I find a lot of 'em, the papers are career training for a lot of Liberal Farts majors who work as bartenders and wait staff.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 16, 2019 12:51 PM (W+kMI)

250 If those Express idjits had just taken their time, they could have delivered the full flavor of their ire with a slightly smaller font size:

"Hope you enjoy your stinkin' phones, PROLES"

Posted by: mrp at September 16, 2019 12:51 PM (Pqytn)

251 I do give The Daily Mail a lot of credit for their photography. Even with a United States story they'll have about 250 color close-up shots taken at every angle, where here we get one fuzzy out of focus picture taken at about 2 miles away.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2019 12:51 PM (9+jnX)

252 228
I learned in HS that if you want American news, you need to read British papers. They might be anti-American, but so are ours, and theirs include actual... what's it called... oh yeah - reportage.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

The Guardian is actually better than WaPo as far as straight news reportage. Probably about as good as NYT on things that aren't specifically political and not much worse on US political topics.

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at September 16, 2019 12:52 PM (hdzef)

253 244 "they are making a machine in Texas to take CO2 out of the air"

You guys are so funny. Unintentionally, but still. What you don't know about the world...

Anyway, these chicks need to learn to code.

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how about they make a machine that puts brains in their skulls.

it was funny, going through watts up with that, they tried to recreate Gore/magic black science Jesus's CO2 experiment and it failed, turns out CO2 is a better conductor than air, so bottles of CO2 didn't get as hot as air under lightbulbs.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at September 16, 2019 12:52 PM (thQkh)

254 I do feel kinda sorry though, I canceled my local paper due to delivery problems, and now I have tp scrounge stuff to put in the bottom of my charcoal chimney to light charcoal for burgers. The junk mail just does not do as good of a job.

Posted by: Picric at September 16, 2019 12:52 PM (nonGu)

255 Where was Saudi Arabia when they burned the Westfell????

Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019 12:52 PM (90T4r)

256 So, I just got a couple of really old Soviet propaganda films on Blu-Ray, and I'm reading about Battleship Potemkin in the little booklet that came with the discs.

Apparently, Goebbels loved it for its ability to emotionally manipulate people into Bolshevism. The quote is: "anyone who had no firm political conviction could become a Bolshevik after seeing the film."

I love reading these quotes from national socialist that praise international socialism. Cause they're just so different, you know?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (DjIxe)

So why did they brawl in the streets so much and absolutely despise each other?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (KeCWw)

257 Only a hand towel, Antonio? I usually use one of the tarps from Camden Yards when I do that.

Posted by: Brett "Moby" Kavanaugh at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (oZ6kz)

258 Take more CO2 out of the air? Plant more trees.

Posted by: mrp at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (Pqytn)

259 255 Where was Saudi Arabia when they burned the Westfell????
Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019 12:52 PM (90T4r)

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When our enemies closed in around us?

When...

No, my lord Aragorn. We are alone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (DjIxe)

260
And now they're all getting equal pay. You should be happy.

Har!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (6G4DD)

261 Another "news" paper out of business?

Couldn't be happier.

Posted by: MWR, the Public Intellectual (aka Beth) at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (XcaPD)

262 Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel./

Posted by: shit someone once said at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (pSotA)

263 256 So why did they brawl in the streets so much and absolutely despise each other?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (KeCWw)

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Because they both wanted to be on top of the same statist pile.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (DjIxe)

264 238 A second woman is accusing Antonio Brown of sexual misconduct, saying he inappropriately propositioned her at his Pennsylvania home in 2017 standing behind her fully naked, holding a small towel over his genitals, while she painted, according to a new report.

Ben Roethlisberger injury: Out for season in Steelers disaster

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 16, 2019 12:49 PM (p0A33)

So he walked into her house while she painted, took off his clothes, put a towel over his John Thomas, and walked up behind her? Again, I'm not trying a "you shouldn't have been there" but...why was HE there?

Posted by: Joe at September 16, 2019 12:54 PM (RD7QR)

265 Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack.

???

Is there a 24 hour rule that we have to retaliat

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there's so much insane lunatic bad behavior by the left these days. I hope trump2020 makes whatever retard gets the nomination disavow (or avow) all this shit.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at September 16, 2019 12:54 PM (thQkh)

266 My answer to the whine of the paper is...

Compete or lose.
Or learn to code.

LOLGF.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 16, 2019 12:54 PM (0OmEj)

267 I wonder if The Advocate is still in print.
Maybe UConn et al kept it going

Posted by: kactus at September 16, 2019 12:54 PM (A6JPL)

268 233 I wonder if the WP Express was good for cleaning windshields??
Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019

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I read years ago that the best thing for cleaning the inside of your windshield was newspaper. (Presumably, *after* the ink had dried.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 16, 2019 12:54 PM (ClOmq)

269
The junk mail just does not do as good of a job.
Posted by: Picric

Newsprint excels in charcoal chimneys and cleaning glass.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 16, 2019 12:54 PM (aKsyK)

270 "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

They had to work that in, didn't they?

"Asteroid Strikes. Women and Minorities Hardest Hit."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (A2Uq6)

271 OK kid, it's like this, and shame on your ass too.

You wrapped (fresh-fried, greasy) fish and chips in today's paper, because it was clean. It was a generally-accepted substitute for food-grade wrapping paper right off the roll. Sometimes you'd wrap a newborn baby in it. too.

You wrapped fish guts in old newspaper because it was the grossest thing most people dispatched from their homes on a daily basis. You used a lot of it. Because it was filthy.

Cultural references you're going to blow all your life if you don't get out of that fricking cubicle. Do you give a shit? You do not give a shit.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (8ZmvG)

272
One thing I find surprising about Brits is that they don't know about or understand US politics very much. They have much better coverage of the US political meatgrinder than we get.

They must just skim past the articles about the DC stuff.

Not that I blame them - why should they care? - but I just think it's interesting.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (AzW6q)

273 262
Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel./

Posted by: shit someone once said at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (pSotA)

ITS FUNNY CAUSE NOW THEY USE LASERS AND TONER INSTEAD OF INK AND THEY STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT TIME MARCHES ON!

Posted by: Ben Rothlisbergergler at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (ymnmz)

274 >>Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

FS : Several New / Unused Barrels of Ink.

Posted by: Washington Post Express at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (yBOIx)

275 There is no black person on earth that would have called himself "Corn Pops" back then, even if there was a cereal that was called that. Especially not some "gangsta" thug.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (KZzsI)

276 I have a friend of a friend that says their son was groped by Chuck Schumer while Nancy Pelosi watched and laughed at a fundraiser.

Prove it didn't happen.

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)

277 "Just put the ocean under pressure and carbonate the damned thing!"

Easy, they'll just need 10 atmospheres of CO2 and, oh wait...

Posted by: Chris M at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (eAZVt)

278 Joe: No, she was at his house. He hired her to paint a mural.

I know we're not just going to "#BelieveAllWomen" but reading that SI Article, there's a long history of Brown being a sociopath.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (oZ6kz)

279 It's sad that another Washington Post paper has gone broke. I so enjoyed being lectured regarding the ways of the world to by 22 year olds with "Gender Studies" degrees.

Posted by: Sarah Singeworthy at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (CrJQa)

280 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PUT A BEDSHEET OVER MY THINGIE!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (RD7QR)

281 "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

Lots of roofing jobs available, girls.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (A2Uq6)

282 Nail in my head, from my creator
You gave me life, now show me how to live

Posted by: Insomniac at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (NWiLs)

283 Always pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

Posted by: Chris M at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (eAZVt)

284 I love reading these quotes from national socialist that praise international socialism. Cause they're just so different, you know?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (DjIxe)

So why did they brawl in the streets so much and absolutely despise each other?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (KeCWw)

Two factions of the same cult fighting over who had the purest interpretation of the scripture.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (J+mig)

285 A second woman is accusing Antonio Brown of sexual misconduct, saying he inappropriately propositioned her at his Pennsylvania home in 2017 standing behind her fully naked, holding a small towel over his genitals,

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Her backfield was in motion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (+y/Ru)

286 >>Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack.

Tulsi is a dove. That's why Tucker has a couple fingers in her box.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (yBOIx)

287
238 A second woman is accusing Antonio Brown of sexual misconduct, saying he inappropriately propositioned her at his Pennsylvania home in 2017 standing behind her fully naked, holding a small towel over his genitals, while she painted, according to a new report.

"Painted what?" they all wondered. The lifelike ceramic dildo modeled on John Holmes' junk?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (6G4DD)

288 smart phones are very useful, so Google and the NSA can track your every movement and listen to all your dialogue. Auto voice to text can (probably) convert your talk to text, in case you say something "seditious"against your BigBrother.

And their studies show that you will buy more if they can stress you out a little ... via news or crowded conditions, blocking you or other contrived stressors. Yes yes ... come to the dark side, embrace the smart phone, carry it near your heart. Sith Lord is waiting for your embrace.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (Cus5s)

289 263 256 So why did they brawl in the streets so much and absolutely despise each other?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (KeCWw)

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Because they both wanted to be on top of the same statist pile.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (DjIxe)

See also Khrushchev / Brezhnev vs. Mao.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (ujg0T)

290 For those who fetishize Tulsi Gabbard because on some things, she's not as crazy as the rest of the dems - you should realize that in the Middle East, she strongly sympathizes with Iran and their proxies, Hezbollah and Hafez Assad. She is a younger version of Valerie Jarrett. Don't be fooled, she knows how to sound good, but she's poison, and more dangerous than the other clowns over there.

Lucky they hate her so much that she has no chance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (Kpl3J)

291 There is no black person on earth that would have called himself "Corn Pops" back then, even if there was a cereal that was called that. Especially not some "gangsta" thug.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (KZzsI)

Eddie Murphy had an entire skit on this in one of his stand-ups.

It must've been one of Slow Joe's favorite and he thought it was real in his senile dementia head.

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

292 Chris, there's literally an obit for a guy the exact same age as Biden, from Wilmington, DE, who went by "Cornpop."

We're not supposed to be the side that refuses to change our minds when shown actual evidence.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (oZ6kz)

293 >>holding a small towel over his genitals

This would never work for me.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (yBOIx)

294 254 I do feel kinda sorry though, I canceled my local paper due to delivery problems, and now I have tp scrounge stuff to put in the bottom of my charcoal chimney to light charcoal for burgers. The junk mail just does not do as good of a job.
Posted by: Picric at September 16, 2019

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*

Yeah, those flyers and circulars are all shiny and stuff. Rough newsprint catches fire much better.

Posted by: Chuck the Arsonist at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (ClOmq)

295 I don't think I've ever been appropriately propositioned.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (1ISKN)

296 Kid - heh. If only.

But I concede your meaning - paper not fit to wrap fish and chips in.

Now, the baby, that's a new one on me.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 12:58 PM (37IEG)

297 #LearnToCocoaPuff!

Posted by: Joey "Junk Without Trunks", Lifeguard to the Cereal Killaz at September 16, 2019 12:58 PM (Ndje9)

298 Joe Biden's flashback:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XDnuQx1yP4

- Eddie Murphy

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

299 This would never work for me.
And deep too!

Posted by: Just the punchline please at September 16, 2019 12:58 PM (r+sAi)

300 So why did they brawl in the streets so much and absolutely despise each other?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (KeCWw)

It's like the Bloods and the Crips. There can Only Be One.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2019 12:59 PM (Kpl3J)

301 292 Chris, there's literally an obit for a guy the exact same age as Biden, from Wilmington, DE, who went by "Cornpop."

We're not supposed to be the side that refuses to change our minds when shown actual evidence.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (oZ6kz)

I can Still Mock and have Fun with all of it anyway... maybe even better, f true....

Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019 12:59 PM (90T4r)

302 >> Chris, there's literally an obit for a guy the exact same age as Biden, from Wilmington, DE, who went by "Cornpop."

Doesn't mean Biden ever met the guy, or that his story is anywhere near true

Just that someone found him an alias to use in his retarded story.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 12:59 PM (yBOIx)

303 So why exactly were these enlightened, beneficent liberals paying their female staffers less money?

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 16, 2019 12:59 PM (R4unc)

304 My family and I went to DC two years ago and had to take the Metro in each day. I read this, because there were several copies strewn about. I noticed that the other, more seasoned Metro riders read...just about anything else .

Posted by: Victoria at September 16, 2019 12:59 PM (sZ+os)

305 286 >>Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack.

Tulsi is a dove. That's why Tucker has a couple fingers in her box.
Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (yBOIx)

==========

Another funny thing I read about movies:

Gregory Peck was described as a pacifist until Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, then he became pro-war.

He was never a pacifist. He was always an advocate for the West to lay down against socialism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:59 PM (DjIxe)

306 290 For those who fetishize Tulsi Gabbard because on some things, she's not as crazy as the rest of the dems - you should realize that in the Middle East, she strongly sympathizes with Iran and their proxies, Hezbollah and Hafez Assad. She is a younger version of Valerie Jarrett. Don't be fooled, she knows how to sound good, but she's poison, and more dangerous than the other clowns over there.

Lucky they hate her so much that she has no chance.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (Kpl3J)

Yeah, I appreciate how Tulsi looks during her sweaty, sweaty workouts and she is not a complete lunatic but that is a highly relative measure. I don't want her to be president, I just want her to be sweaty and wear tight spandex.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 16, 2019 12:59 PM (RD7QR)

307 Getting the govt. to pay you to take CO2 out of the air is the Holy Grail of scams.

You never have to show any results.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 16, 2019 12:48 PM (1ISKN)

See, this solar panel runs a compressor. The compressor sucks CO2 out of the air, then we pump in into an underground chamber through that pipe. No, sorry, there is no access to the underground chamber, but it can collect CO2 for centuries.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 12:59 PM (dNzKv)

308 "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

They had to work that in, didn't they?

"Asteroid Strikes. Women and Minorities Hardest Hit."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 16, 2019 12:

If that is true, why don't they fire the higher paid staff in the newsroom and replace them with the cheaper, yet totally equally talented, females?

Posted by: LASue at September 16, 2019 01:00 PM (Ed8Zd)

309 Elections in IDF underway
Elections in IDF units began last Saturday and will continue until tomorrow at 10:00 PM when polling stations close.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 16, 2019 01:00 PM (p0A33)

310 Even at zero dollars and zero cents, it did not have enough customers.

Their work "product" was such a POS that they couldn't attract enough advertising revenue to keep 20-people nominally employed... in a commuter-heavy region like the DC Metro area. So basically, it was fish wrap from the get-go.

Posted by: DocJ at September 16, 2019 01:00 PM (77WPm)

311 He used the story in his 2007 book and it's apparently pretty well known in DE circles, especially the black community. People are acting like this is some huge deal if true - why? It's a dumb story about him fighting a thug when he was younger. Does this suddenly make him Presidential?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:00 PM (oZ6kz)

312 Maybe Corn Pop is just a nice example of ghetto naming practices...

Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019 01:00 PM (90T4r)

313 Perhaps some of the chicken processing plant jobs in Mississippi are still available. Maybe even better pay than journalisming.

Posted by: AlmostYuman at September 16, 2019 01:00 PM (0B0xY)

314 eh, maybe cornpop was real, but to hear Biden tell the story in his advanced age is a real onion on the belt, as was the fashion of the day, kind of ordeal.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at September 16, 2019 01:01 PM (thQkh)

315 256
I love reading these quotes from national socialist that praise international socialism. Cause they're just so different, you know?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (DjIxe)

So why did they brawl in the streets so much and absolutely despise each other?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (KeCWw)

Why do the Crips and Bloods brawl in the streets and absolutely despise each other?

Posted by: rickl at September 16, 2019 01:01 PM (xjiRE)

316 " there's literally an obit for a guy the exact same age as Biden, from Wilmington, DE, who went by "Cornpop."

Cornpop sounds like a Russian name.

Posted by: shit someone once said at September 16, 2019 01:01 PM (pSotA)

317 292 Chris, there's literally an obit for a guy the exact same age as Biden, from Wilmington, DE, who went by "Cornpop."

We're not supposed to be the side that refuses to change our minds when shown actual evidence.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (oZ6kz)

---------

Do you have a link to the obit?

Posted by: rd at September 16, 2019 01:01 PM (+0uDE)

318 >>Doesn't mean Biden ever met the guy, or that his story is anywhere near true

>>Just that someone found him an alias to use in his retarded story.

Knowing Biden, it wouldn't surprise me if the got the Corn Pop name from the obituary and then made up the story.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 16, 2019 01:01 PM (ZLI7S)

319 The only appropriate proposition I ever got was the gorgeous girl who once got in my bed without even me asking her.

Posted by: Sarah Singeworthy at September 16, 2019 01:01 PM (CrJQa)

320 One thing I find surprising about Brits is that they don't know about or understand US politics very much. They have much better coverage of the US political meatgrinder than we get.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (AzW6q)

They don't know much at all, but they think they do. Some Brit political observer wrote an op-ed on why Bush should have fired Cheney, apparently unaware that the VP is elected in his own right.

But sure, tell us what we should do. by all means.

(A Brit once asked me how the national elections would be affected if it rained that day (this topic is an evergreen in the UK, in every sense, the notion being that rain will suppress the Labour vote).

"What would we do if it rained that day? Over the entire !@#$%^ country?? We'd call off the election and build arks like crazy, that's what we'd do!")

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 16, 2019 01:01 PM (A2Uq6)

321 Chris, there's literally an obit for a guy the exact same age as Biden, from Wilmington, DE, who went by "Cornpop."

We're not supposed to be the side that refuses to change our minds when shown actual evidence.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (oZ6kz)

Nickname of an old white dude from Delaware =/= Black thug at a pool in 1960's.

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

322 If that is true, why don't they fire the higher
paid staff in the newsroom and replace them with the cheaper, yet
totally equally talented, females?

Posted by: LASue at September 16, 2019 01:00 PM (Ed8Zd)

====================
From Mexico, the Philippines, and India. That would be a good start. H1B visas handed out like Marlboro coupons.

Posted by: mrp at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (Pqytn)

323 >>Knowing Biden, it wouldn't surprise me if the got the Corn Pop name from the obituary and then made up the story.

...or, whomever actually assembled his Biography found it to ground his story in reality.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (yBOIx)

324 Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack.

Tulsi is a dove. That's why Tucker has a couple fingers in her box.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 12:56 PM (yBOIx)

She's moderately dovish. But she's also no less Iran's bitch than the milk-chocolate "pallets of cash" messiah was.

Posted by: DocJ at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (77WPm)

325 The compressor sucks CO2 out of the air, then we pump in into an
underground chamber through that pipe. No, sorry, there is no access to
the underground chamber, but it can collect CO2 for centuries.

But the chamber will leak and then the CO2 will get into the ground water and poison everyone!

Posted by: Environmentalist who loves craft beer on tap at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (OMsf+)

326 I think now it would be an appropriate time to blame the damned French and their bubbly water!

Shut down those springs!

GERBIL CLIMATE CHANGE!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (37IEG)

327 It's a sad day in America when you can't make money off something you're giving away...

Posted by: The Washington Post Expense at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (dzJ3R)

328 The globalist communists hate the national communists just like the sunni muzzies and shia muzzies hate each other.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (pw+jk)

329
Yeah, those flyers and circulars are all shiny and stuff. Rough newsprint catches fire much better.

Posted by: Chuck the Arsonist at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (ClOmq)

+++
It's really annoying not to have full-sized newspapers anymore. You want to do a small paint or varnish job on a piece of furniture, now you have to specially buy a drop cloth, or just cleaning out your vacuum cleaner all you can do is piece together advertising and coupon flyers.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (9+jnX)

330 "Knowing Biden, it wouldn't surprise me if the got the Corn Pop name from the obituary and then made up the story.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 16, 2019 01:01 PM (ZLI7S)"

He got it from the obit in 2016 and then told the story in his book in 2007? Did he steal ace's time machine?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (oZ6kz)

331 Kevin Williamson sez, "Die already Bitchez!"

Posted by: Cuz He Ain't Lernin' 2 Code at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (Zx6uT)

332 We feel their pain.

Posted by: Buggy Whip Makers of America at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (+y/Ru)

Step off.

Posted by: Record Players at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (ptqGC)

333 306 290 For those who fetishize Tulsi Gabbard because on some things, she's not as crazy as the rest of the dems - you should realize that in the Middle East, she strongly sympathizes with Iran and their proxies, Hezbollah and Hafez Assad. She is a younger version of Valerie Jarrett. Don't be fooled, she knows how to sound good, but she's poison, and more dangerous than the other clowns over there.

Lucky they hate her so much that she has no chance.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 16, 2019 12:57 PM (Kpl3J)

Yeah, I appreciate how Tulsi looks during her sweaty, sweaty workouts and she is not a complete lunatic but that is a highly relative measure. I don't want her to be president, I just want her to be sweaty and wear tight spandex.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 16, 2019 12:59 PM (RD7QR)

Straw AOSHQ Poll: Who is the least Commiecrat of the Demuinists?

I am going to say Amy Klownbutcher based upon what is being revealed about Tulsi by joncelli.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (ujg0T)

334 Gregory Peck was described as a pacifist until Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, then he became pro-war.

He was never a pacifist. He was always an advocate for the West to lay down against socialism.

-
It must have killed him to make Pork Chop Hill but I guess he just brought his inner capitalist out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (+y/Ru)

335 I don't think that the Legend of Corn Pop actually has Smokin' Joe Biden actually engaging in fisticuffs, does it??

Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (90T4r)

336 >>She's moderately dovish. But she's also no less Iran's bitch than the milk-chocolate "pallets of cash" messiah was.

I have not picked up the Jew hate from her...at least, not to the degree of Obama / Jarret.

But. She is on Team Mullah. No doubt.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (yBOIx)

337 Broseidon, if you like Biden so much, why don't you marry him?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (dNzKv)

338

Tugsi is an utter traitor to her oaths to the Constituition, military and civilian. She is a 100% mole into the system, a construct just like Barky save she had enough physicality to be able to pass a PT test and get .mil street cred. She is is a full on fascist gun confiscating post birth aborting cunt.

Posted by: Joe Blowme at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (UFLLM)

339 333
Straw AOSHQ Poll: Who is the least Commiecrat of the Demuinists?

I am going to say Amy Klownbutcher based upon what is being revealed about Tulsi by joncelli.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (ujg0T)

=========

Williamson?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (DjIxe)

340 https://tinyurl.com/cornpopobit

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (oZ6kz)

341 Free newspapers are useless when they do not contain information we the general public want to read. End of story. Now let's get back to talking about breakfast cereal and perfect sexy elves.

Posted by: exdem13 at Se

And Fizzier! My favorite childhood non candy candy. Its amazing my teeth are intact.

Posted by: LASue at September 16, 2019 01:04 PM (Ed8Zd)

342 "You never have to show any results."

Except for the bank deposits from selling worthless Carbon Credits. Total Globalist Scam--no wonder Kevin McCarthy likes it.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at September 16, 2019 01:04 PM (Ndje9)

343 319 The only appropriate proposition I ever got was the gorgeous girl who once got in my bed without even me asking her.
Posted by: Sarah Singeworthy at September 16, 2019 01:01 PM (CrJQa)

Was there, by any chance, video? Just by way of information, you understand.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at September 16, 2019 01:04 PM (RD7QR)

344 If the left can make a big deal about a sharpie, we are entitled to some fun with Corn Pop.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 01:04 PM (dNzKv)

345 Hey Joe Biden wasn't lying this time. Take that haters!

Posted by: Chris M at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (eAZVt)

346 Gregory Peck was described as a pacifist until Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, then he became pro-war."

"pacifist" = "communist"

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (6qErC)

347 325
The compressor sucks CO2 out of the air, then we pump in into an

underground chamber through that pipe. No, sorry, there is no access to

the underground chamber, but it can collect CO2 for centuries.

But the chamber will leak and then the CO2 will get into the ground water and poison everyone!

Posted by: Environmentalist who loves craft beer on tap at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (OMsf+)

Hook it up to the strategic beers reserves and we can haz giant party, converting the CO2 to CH4.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (jYnPD)

348 Broseidon, if you like Biden so much, why don't you marry him?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (dNzKv)

lol

Posted by: LASue at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (Ed8Zd)

349 311
He used the story in his 2007 book and it's apparently pretty well known
in DE circles, especially the black community. People are acting like
this is some huge deal if true - why? It's a dumb story about him
fighting a thug when he was younger. Does this suddenly make him
Presidential?

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:00 PM (oZ6kz)

+++
Yeah, what's supposed to be the moral of the story?

Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (9+jnX)

350 I like being consistent, Cat.

"Politician tells single true story, people lose their minds"

It was still a rambling old Grandpa Simpson story even if true.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (oZ6kz)

351 >>He got it from the obit in 2016 and then told the story in his book in 2007? Did he steal ace's time machine?

Biden's entire career is based on lies and bullshit he made up. He's been doing this since his first run for Congressman.

I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth and I don't believe his stupid Corn Pop story.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (ZLI7S)

352 And Fizzier! My favorite childhood non candy candy. Its amazing my teeth are intact.

Posted by: LASue at September 16, 2019 01:04 PM (Ed8Zd)

Those nasty fizzie caps? My favorite was root beer. I kind of throw up in my mouth a little thinking about it.

Posted by: Jane Crackle Pop D'oh at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (ptqGC)

353 334 Gregory Peck was described as a pacifist until Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, then he became pro-war.

He was never a pacifist. He was always an advocate for the West to lay down against socialism.

-
It must have killed him to make Pork Chop Hill but I guess he just brought his inner capitalist out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (+y/Ru)

=========

Most of what he made after a certain point was supposed to have undertones of "pacifism" and complete moral relativism regarding the East vs West Cold War.

The problem is that he could only get it out in certain speeches while the movies dramatically undermined those points.

The Guns of Navarone is supposed to be anti-war based on a couple of speeches, but the fight is won through violence. So, what's the message?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (DjIxe)

354 Come on;

The Esther Williams Joke
Working as the only lifeguard in a ghetto pool.
The Janitor with the Chain
The Rusty Straight Razor

These are not real things.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 01:06 PM (yBOIx)

355 On the "Corn Pop" thing, I think Biden knew him, and I think he may have even been a local troublemaker, but I suspect Biden's interactions with him were more liekly in the nature of "community organizing" instead of the claimed "I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka" scenario.

Posted by: Bert G at September 16, 2019 01:06 PM (OMsf+)

356 >>"Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack."

Someone needs to tell politicians and pundits foreign policy isn't a binary choice. It's not bomb Iran and go to war forever or let them get away with anything, there is some room for other actions.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 16, 2019 01:06 PM (Mr80f)

357
I did my part to keep negros out of our pools. That's the moral of the story.

Posted by: Joe "Cracker Jack" Biden at September 16, 2019 01:06 PM (AzW6q)

358 Yeah, what's supposed to be the moral of the story?

Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (9+jnX)

Don't wear pomade in the pool, or Joe will beat you with a chain.

Posted by: Jane Crackle Pop D'oh at September 16, 2019 01:06 PM (ptqGC)

359 Williamson?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 01:03 PM (DjIxe)

Not an actual track record with her, but based upon her ceaseless Bush bashing back in the day (Way to alienate at one time half of your self help customers, Marianne!) I would have to put Klobuchar ahead still.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (ujg0T)

360 Why are they pimping a story about Joe Biden bullying a young black man just trying to better his life?

Seems like he should be shouted at as a racist and be shunned for life for it. Aren't those the rules?

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

361 So! It's okay for white Biden to smear this dead black guy by calling him a thug!

RayCIS!!!!!

I'm just practicing, maybe I can get a job with CNN?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (37IEG)

362 But the chamber will leak and then the CO2 will get into the ground water and poison everyone!

Posted by: Environmentalist who loves craft beer on tap at September 16, 2019 01:02 PM (OMsf+)

Shit, you're right. I am going to need a $10 million government grant to study that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (dNzKv)

363 "Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack."

Pretty sure if that were the case Tehran would already be covered-over by a sheet of glass that was once sand.

Posted by: DocJ at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (77WPm)

364 converting the CO2 to CH4."

Mister Methane?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (6qErC)

365 I don't think he says he actually fought, that's true. He threatened him with a chain but also apologized. It's a rambling story that doesn't really matter - but just because it seemed utterly absurd doesn't mean it couldn't have been true.

Beto's fables about gun owners are a lot harder to believe, as are Booker's stories about T-Bone.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (oZ6kz)

366 You're Damn Right I Ordered The Learn To Code Memo !

Posted by: Colonel Jessup at September 16, 2019 01:08 PM (OT4N4)

367 I don't live in, or visit that cesspool,

But isn't the Washington Times still publishing, and is it an afternoon paper?

Wouldn't this freebie rag be a direct competition to the Washington Times? A free competitor? One that would depress the Times distribution and subscription rates?

Or am I completely wrong?

Posted by: rd at September 16, 2019 01:08 PM (+0uDE)

368 There is no black person on earth that would have called himself "Corn Pops" back then, even if there was a cereal that was called that. Especially not some "gangsta" thug.

Just to catch you up, yes there was. Nearly the entire story has now been validated by multiple witnesses, and we even know Corn Pop's real name (William L. Morris, who died in 2016).

Which actually makes it funnier that Biden is sticking to the story.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2019 01:08 PM (ZGrMX)

369 >>He threatened him with a chain but also apologized.

You can't use a pool chain as a weapon. also, and I am just pointing this out for posterity - Chains Don't Float.

Nobody uses a chain in the pool.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (yBOIx)

370 "Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel"

revised to "server farms" for Google, which conspires with DeepState and various tyrant kingdoms.

Of course those buying ink by the barrel back then, were they not just honest reporters of fact? Why would anyone fight with the Virtuous Reporter, who is basically the High Priest of Freedom of the Press, ordained by the Founders as Specially Sanctioned, above the common man.

/s How useful to be a political operative and own a newspaper, or any "news" agency. It's also useful for monopolists in corporate world.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (Cus5s)

371 "Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack."

Pretty sure if that were the case Tehran would already be covered-over by a sheet of glass that was once sand.
Posted by: DocJ at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (77WPm)

Trump reacts to a terrorist attack hampering 5% of the world's oil production and he's somehow the Saudi's bitch?

Fuck the left. #WAR.

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

372 Don't wear pomade in the pool, or Joe will beat you with a chain.

Posted by: Jane Crackle Pop D'oh at September 16, 2019 01:06 PM (ptqGC)

+++
Corn Pop backed off. Hey.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (9+jnX)

373 Biden's CornPop story contains as much accuracy as his Afghanistan medal pinning story.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (2DOZq)

374 363 "Tulsi Gabbard says Trump's acting like Saudi Arabia's bitch after the Iran attack."

Pretty sure if that were the case Tehran would already be covered-over by a sheet of glass that was once sand.

Posted by: DocJ at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (77WPm)

Maybe we should solicit saudi opinion on foreign policy more then.

Posted by: Someguy at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (Wj9tV)

375 Momsen lungs. They're dangerous tho.
Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (cxIsI)

Mine are totally not dangerous. A little droopy, though.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (jEgzt)

376 364
converting the CO2 to CH4."

Mister Methane?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (6qErC)

Beer farts.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (jYnPD)

377 365 I don't think he says he actually fought, that's true. He threatened him with a chain but also apologized. It's a rambling story that doesn't really matter - but just because it seemed utterly absurd doesn't mean it couldn't have been true.

Beto's fables about gun owners are a lot harder to believe, as are Booker's stories about T-Bone.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (oZ6kz)

So this gangbanger name T-Bone Cornpop approached me at the pisser, looked me right in the eye, and said "You know Beto, these AR-15s, we just don't need them." Totally happened!

Posted by: BETO'S NOT ON METH! NO! at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (RD7QR)

378 Beto's fables about gun owners are a lot harder to believe, as are Booker's stories about T-Bone.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (oZ6kz)

Beto's and Booker's fables are absolutely taken from the "Shit That Never Actually Happened" column of the Double Jeopardy round.

Posted by: DocJ at September 16, 2019 01:09 PM (77WPm)

379 I see Mitt is trying to out-cuck the Democrats on Iran and the Saudi's.

Posted by: Marcus T, Gringo at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (VpIIl)

380 Remember the whole 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' thing.

Lotta witnesses there, too.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (yBOIx)

381
I had a composite girlfriend named Trix, but I dumped her for my true love Froot Loop.

Posted by: Barack Obama at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (AzW6q)

382 Biden has more corroborating witnesses about his Cornpop story than Blasey Ford has about her Kavanaugh story, and it was 20 years earlier.

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (oZ6kz)

383 These people want to ban meat and plastic, but have no problem with cutting down trees to publish their little paper

Posted by: Josephistan at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (Izzlo)

384 Why was Biden walking around with chains in the vicinity of black people?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (37IEG)

385 Williamson?

-
I was so amused that somebody so unqualified would run but now, when I compare her to the others, she doesn't look too bad.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (+y/Ru)

386 "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it continued.

But, but... I thought "the future is female"?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (ZAQUe)

387 Just to catch you up, yes there was. Nearly the entire story has now been validated by multiple witnesses,

Yes I can validate the story. I heard Biden tell it in 2005.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (dNzKv)

388 "They gonna put ya'll back in CHAINZ!" sounds kind of hinky now, after Joe's chain story.

Posted by: Jane Crackle Pop D'oh at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (ptqGC)

389 Surprisingly, Romney has come out saying we shouldn't use military action against Iran.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (NFEMn)

390 365 I don't think he says he actually fought, that's true. He threatened him with a chain but also apologized. It's a rambling story that doesn't really matter - but just because it seemed utterly absurd doesn't mean it couldn't have been true.

Beto's fables about gun owners are a lot harder to believe, as are Booker's stories about T-Bone.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:07 PM (oZ6kz)

Yeah, guess my bottom line is the veracity one way or the other in no way impedes my mockery and japery of the old reprobate.... all's good.

Posted by: kraken at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (90T4r)

391 The Guns of Navarone is supposed to be anti-war based on a couple of speeches, but the fight is won through violence. So, what's the message?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (DjIxe)

The message I'd take is the same I take from reality. More issues have been resolved with raw force than by any other means, rhetoric be damned.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (J+mig)

392 NOOD.

NYT is the birdshit paper of record

Posted by: Sponge at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

393 You can't use a pool chain as a weapon. also, and I am just pointing this out for posterity - Chains Don't Float.

Nobody uses a chain in the pool.

The public pool I went to in the 80s used chains sometimes to divide off part for a class or something. They were attached to hooks on the sides of the pool at both ends so they couldn't sink and had plastic floats attached so you could see them.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (ZGrMX)

394 #353:The Guns of Navarone is supposed to be anti-war based on a couple of
speeches, but the fight is won through violence. So, what's the message?
===========================
Percentage of gross, big guns, little guns, and high explosives.

Posted by: mrp at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (Pqytn)

395 The clownish antics of Tex Kennedy, that drunk driving furry and El Paso
punchline, are much less funny now that he is promising to convert
millions of Americans into felons and send armed government agents to
their homes to steal their constitutionally-guaranteed property. Maybe
he doesn't know -- whether due to pharmaceuticals or simply because he's
stupid -- that two Democratic administrations ago, right up the road, the
feds sent a bunch of armed men to take the forbidden guns of some
people who were minding their own business and it turned out poorly.
That debacle resulted in four dead ATF agents and over 70 dead civilians -- including dozens of kids the feds burned alive.

Nicely put.

Posted by: A Kurt Schlichter Classic at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (NVYyb)

396 Why was Biden walking around with chains in the vicinity of black people?
Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (37IEG)

Did he tell the Corn Pop hand he'd put y'all back in chains?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (dNzKv)

397 Hope you enjoy your stinking antibiotics

Signed ,

Leeches

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (2DOZq)

398 "These employees, many of them young women, performed the same jobs
as other staff in our newsroom for substantially lesser pay," it
continued.

Thanks. I needed a good laugh.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (jYnPD)

399
I see Mitt is trying to out-cuck the Democrats on Iran and the Saudi's.

Posted by: Marcus T, Gringo at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (VpIIl)

Filed under "Days Ending In The Letter 'y'"

Posted by: DocJ at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (77WPm)

400 "No blood for oil", right Mitt, you dickhead.
Forget about the fact they shot down our drone and our bases have been under constant attack by Iran's proxies.

Posted by: Marcus T, Gringo at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (VpIIl)

401 172 Momsen lungs. They're dangerous tho.
Posted by: jakee308 - Hylozoist at September 16, 2019 12:37 PM (cxIsI)

Modern "rebreathers" are much better, but they take a lot of physical effort and are far more costly than just putting an air tank on your back. Unless you are sneaking up on an enemy position, which most divers are not, I don't see the point.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 16, 2019 01:12 PM (ujg0T)

402
Gregory Peckerwood was a full on died in the wool Commie that donated for handgun confiscation, hated the military, and was a very active recruiter for the USSR in his circles. He also, allegedly, liked licking women's shoes and Ingrid Bergman was really grossed out that after they did it he got down on the floor and gave a her pumps a good tongue bath, never slept with him again...

Posted by: Thats What I Heard... at September 16, 2019 01:12 PM (UFLLM)

403 I had a composite girlfriend named Trix, but I dumped her for my true love Froot Loop.
Posted by: Barack Obama at September 16, 2019 01:10 PM (AzW6q)

I would figure Obama was a Cocoa Puffs man....

Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2019 01:12 PM (NFEMn)

404 Of course we shouldn't use military action against Iran, but we didn't sell SA all those weapons for nothing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 16, 2019 01:12 PM (1ISKN)

405 I miss my homie Corn Pop

Posted by: Apple Jack at September 16, 2019 01:12 PM (OT4N4)

406 Those nasty fizzie caps? My favorite was root beer. I kind of throw up in my mouth a little thinking about it.

Posted by: Jane Crackle Pop D'oh at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (ptqGC)

Not Bottle Caps- they weren't as good and the root beer flavor was a bit weird. I mean the actual fizzies that you were supposed to drop in water - although I always licked them straight out of the foil.

Posted by: LASue at September 16, 2019 01:12 PM (Ed8Zd)

407 I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a sex maniac on the Supreme Court.

Posted by: guy who totattly vote for Reagan at September 16, 2019 01:12 PM (w2hq6)

408 When Joe said they were going to put them back in chains, he may have meant "The Royal They."

Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at September 16, 2019 01:13 PM (oZ6kz)

409 >> They were attached to hooks on the sides of the pool at both ends so they couldn't sink and had plastic floats attached so you could see them.

The plastic Floats make the Assault Chains...or some shit.

Posted by: garrett at September 16, 2019 01:13 PM (yBOIx)

410 Highly anecdotal and unscientific, but my observation is that most of the people I see with their noses in their phones on the Metro aren't looking at alternative news sources, they're either doing social media or playing games.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 16, 2019 01:13 PM (dfRN6)

411 So he'll wear a Speedo for Corn Pop but not for us?

Posted by: Female Secret Service Agents at September 16, 2019 01:13 PM (Ndje9)

412 256
I love reading these quotes from national socialist that praise international socialism. Cause they're just so different, you know?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:31 PM (DjIxe)

So why did they brawl in the streets so much and absolutely despise each other?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 12:53 PM (KeCWw)

Easy. Read "Mein Kampf." Young Schicklgruber was fanatically pro-German (in which category he included Austria), rails against the Slavs marginalizing ethnic Germans in his native Austria, and of course volunteered to fight for Germany in WWI.

Along come the international socialists who want to do away with the very concept of "nation."

That's why.

Incidentally, he asserts in Mein Kampf that this internationalism was what made him anti-Semitic as well.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 16, 2019 01:13 PM (A2Uq6)

413 The Guns of Navarone is supposed to be anti-war based on a couple of
speeches, but the fight is won through violence. So, what's the message?
===========================
Percentage of gross, big guns, little guns, and high explosives.
Posted by: mrp at September 16, 2019 01:11 PM (Pqytn)

The Guns of Ana Navarro was nothing special.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 16, 2019 01:13 PM (NFEMn)

414

Noood

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 16, 2019 01:14 PM (ABuzZ)

415 Northern Lurker pointed out that Biden over and over either threatens someone with violence or invites advisories to a wrestling or punching match - always with the physical contests. What does this say about him?

Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2019 01:14 PM (9+jnX)

416 61
I miss old days.

Posted by: Ivan Simonov at September 16, 2019 12:24 PM (gmo/4)

________

Good times I remember ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Appeasement is a Blessing of Liberty! at September 16, 2019 01:15 PM (88LJz)

417 Anyway, the best line in Biden's ramble is "My word as a Biden". What does that even mean?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2019 01:15 PM (ZGrMX)

418 Call your Republican Senators and those on Twitter send Trump an urgent message.

Google has removed RSBN live stream capabilities.

This is election interference and Google has become more dangerous than the Russians

Posted by: redridinghood at September 16, 2019 01:15 PM (wiXsO)

419 What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: Toucan Sam at September 16, 2019 01:15 PM (Ndje9)

420 Eddie Murphy had an entire skit on this in one of his stand-ups.

That's exactly what I was thinking about "here's my sister Farina"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 16, 2019 01:15 PM (KZzsI)

421 415
Northern Lurker pointed out that Biden over and over either threatens
someone with violence or invites advisories to a wrestling or punching
match - always with the physical contests. What does this say about him?

Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2019 01:14 PM (9+jnX)
He spent some time in a Turkish prison?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 16, 2019 01:16 PM (37IEG)

422 272
One thing I find surprising about Brits is that they don't know about or understand US politics very much. They have much better coverage of the US political meatgrinder than we get.

They must just skim past the articles about the DC stuff.

Not that I blame them - why should they care? - but I just think it's interesting.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (AzW6q)

Neither the Brits (or the Canadians or other people in countries with parliamentary systems) do not understand our politics because they detest political gridlock and cannot understand why it is not a bug in our system but rather a feature.

Once you figure out a parliamentary system is just a way to fuse the legislative function with the executive (and bye-bye "separation of powers/checks and balances") it's relatively easy to understand.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 01:16 PM (KeCWw)

423
Gregory Peck was described as a pacifist until Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, then he became pro-war."

"pacifist" = "communist"
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 16, 2019 01:05 PM (6qErC)

-------

French Communists undermined the French War effort in 1939 and 1940. They called strikes in the Arms industry, etc.

The Communist French Underground would shop the non-Communist French Resistance cells to the Gestapo.

Posted by: rd at September 16, 2019 01:17 PM (+0uDE)

424 "This announcement came the day before operations ceased, with no advance warning," the union said Wednesday.

OK, everybody all together now...

On 4. One...two...three...

Awwwww...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 16, 2019 01:17 PM (HaL55)

425 The death of the Express was probably a good thing for the Metro. The Express was basically kindling for the frequent track fires.

As far as content, the best part of the Express was the soduko and the crossword puzzle. Oh, and you could save a $1.00 and get a shortened version of the Post a day later.

The only original content was the blog roll report, where reporters pretty much reported the contents of their friends' lame, snarky blogs.

Posted by: Wendy at September 16, 2019 01:17 PM (bpemY)

426 Mine, the "Sacramento (Soviet) New Zoo Revue" is much the same. I am puzzled why any legit business would advertise in it.
Posted by: Curmudgeon

Lack of awareness and the desire to display their hippness. Advertisers are told we have a weekly readership of 10,00 (number randomly pulled out of my monkey butt). Publisher actually prints 10k and puts them in free distribution points. At the end of the week they pickup 7485 (nrpoommb) which are untouched. Of the other 2515 copies 2406 were grabbed so someone could read the alternative comics or the upcoming music venues while eating a burger and then thrown in the trash. The Feminist Union of Cat Ladies are the only ones who actually took the remaining 109 copies home and read them cover to cover. Print advertising is a foolish waste of $ with the possible exception of car dealers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey... going boldly...somewhere...when I find my keys at September 16, 2019 01:18 PM (9Vttv)

427 415
Northern Lurker pointed out that Biden over and over either threatens
someone with violence or invites advisories to a wrestling or punching
match - always with the physical contests. What does this say about him?

Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2019 01:14 PM (9+jnX)

_______

Elizabeth Warren's people refer to that as "all warbonnet, no buffalo."

Posted by: ShainS -- Appeasement is a Blessing of Liberty! at September 16, 2019 01:18 PM (88LJz)

428 Anyway, the best line in Biden's ramble is "My word as a Biden". What does that even mean?

Kumquat.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 16, 2019 01:19 PM (HaL55)

429 Northern Lurker pointed out that Biden over and over either threatens
someone with violence or invites advisories to a wrestling or punching
match - always with the physical contests. What does this say about him?

Posted by: washrivergal at September 16, 2019 01:14 PM (9+jnX)

He spent some time in a Turkish prison?
Posted by: DamnedYankee

He likes gladiator movies?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 01:20 PM (0t+fn)

430 The thing about this machine is if it actually works, then humanity can build a few of them and directly address the problem that climate hysterics have pinpointed for decades as the single largest environmental problem.

We rev those machines up and they get our CO2 particulates down to a level the climate science community has deemed acceptable? Well, then what more do they want?

The science has been addressed.

Putting aside whether this is specific solution actually desirable or not, can you imagine a better way to identify the environmental movement as nothing more than a political Trojan Horse for socialism than to actually address their problem with a different solution than they had advised and for them to just simply continue demanding their own solution?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, The Winter Soldier at September 16, 2019 12:48 PM (DjIxe)

Except, of course, that cannot be done. Thermodynamics tells us so. Sequestering CO2 permanently would require more energy than was obtained by burning the original fuel that contained it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2019 01:20 PM (jEgzt)

431
Link to the Right Side Broadcasting News
censorship-

https://tinyurl.com/y3xad7u6

Posted by: redridinghood at September 16, 2019 01:21 PM (wiXsO)

432 Easy. Read "Mein Kampf." Young Schicklgruber was fanatically pro-German (in which category he included Austria), rails against the Slavs marginalizing ethnic Germans in his native Austria, and of course volunteered to fight for Germany in WWI.

Along come the international socialists who want to do away with the very concept of "nation."

That's why.

Incidentally, he asserts in Mein Kampf that this internationalism was what made him anti-Semitic as well.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 16, 2019 01:13 PM (A2Uq6)

Yes, and they still come at this from two completely opposite directions.

The Commies believed in uniting all of the working people under one banner until eventually all the borders could fade away and humanity could be one, big, happy family. The Nazis believed the end of the nation state could be achieved simply by conquering everybody and killing anyone who opposed it or who, in their view, simply didn't belong.

They existed on the same evil, Statist coin, but on two different sides.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 16, 2019 01:21 PM (KeCWw)

433 Except, of course, that cannot be done. Thermodynamics tells us so. Sequestering CO2 permanently would require more energy than was obtained by burning the original fuel that contained it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

We build a special rocket ship, fill it full of CO2, and launch it into deep dpace.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 01:23 PM (0t+fn)

434 What does this say about him?

Posted by: washrivergal

He's really fun to watch reruns of Batman (Adam West) with.

Posted by: Sock Monkey... going boldly...somewhere...when I find my keys at September 16, 2019 01:23 PM (9Vttv)

435 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at September 16, 2019 01:24 PM (0t+fn)

436 why people wanna not NUKE Iran & instead kick the can down the road is Mind blogging to me! Anyone with a functional IQ knows we are going to have to turn Iran into Green Glass at some point. Just do it know & get it off the to do list

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at September 16, 2019 01:25 PM (BqBId)

437 Cultural references you're going to blow all your life if you don't get out of that fricking cubicle. Do you give a shit? You do not give a shit.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 16, 2019 12:55 PM (8ZmvG)

Most of us here are 29. We get that. What we don't get anymore is the daily paper, because it's turned into all Commie, all the time, and even "free" is too much to pay for third-rate wrapping paper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2019 01:29 PM (jEgzt)

438 MSM , everything and everybody is responsible except journalists.

Evil. They are evil.

Posted by: Demos at September 16, 2019 01:59 PM (9wYFF)

439 They can always move to San Francisco and live in a $1200 a month pod.

Fuck them, Fuck the Post, Fuck DC, Fuck Metro, and Fuck Steelers fans HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ROETHLISBERGER'S DONE.

Thought I'd toss that one in there.

Happy Monday.

Posted by: Lilly Von Schtoop at September 16, 2019 02:22 PM (6MoD2)

440 And no bird will ever miss having on the bottom of his cage

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 16, 2019 04:27 PM (wGqjj)

441 Corn Pop > T-Bone

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at September 16, 2019 05:27 PM (iw59Q)

442 Okay. Well, you were done in by mobile tech, then GO DIGITAL YA IDIOTS!

Posted by: RobertM at September 16, 2019 06:51 PM (3DQeM)

443 If you can't believe it, if it doesn;t enlighten you, if it doesn't amuse you, what use is it?

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at September 17, 2019 01:03 AM (nRj4F)

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