Media Ratings and Online Viewership Collapse

Can we smother it?

During President Biden's first 100 days in office, weekly full-day cable ratings for CNN and MSNBC have been trending down, according to statistics from ratings company Nielsen.

On average, 1.3 million household viewers were watching MSNBC in the last week of January, shortly after Biden took office. For the week ending April 25, that number was 868,000. At CNN, those figures went from 1.2 million to 749,000.
Even perennial ratings leader Fox News is seeing a decline, though a much smaller one compared to its cable competitors, dipping to just 1.2 million from 1.3 million in late January.
Prime-time cable viewership is also down across the board. In the same time comparisons as the full-day ratings, CNN has lost 792,000 viewers, while MSNBC is down 788,000 and Fox is short 348,000.
Network evening news isn't faring any better. Ratings leader "World News Tonight" at ABC had 1.8 million fewer viewers in the seven days ending April 25 compared to the last week of January.
NBC's "Nightly News," in the No. 2 slot, lost 1.7 million viewers in that same period, while CBS is down 1.2 million.
Media experts like Scott Robson, a research analyst with S&P Global Market Intelligence who studies cable news, say viewership this year essentially peaked during the Jan. 6 insurrection and has been going down since.
"We are seeing a similar trend for the broadcast evening news shows," he added.
No cable news or broadcast networks provided a comment to The Hill about the declines.
In addition to ratings, website traffic for major news outlets is also down.
The number of total unique viewers is down this year for ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News, according to analysis firm Comscore.
Traffic is also down for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, the Boston Globe, Vice, Vox and BuzzFeed.
Some of those sites had more traffic in March than in February, but all are down since the start of the year.

Note that while Fox hasn't lost too much since January, they lost a lot in November, when they decided to join the left in "fortifying" the election.

Posted by: Ace at 01:20 PM

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1 First!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 12:20 PM (z5Vrg)

2 Again?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 03, 2021 12:20 PM (kTF2Z)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Trump was right.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 03, 2021 12:21 PM (kTF2Z)

5 It doesn't matter. Money will continue to be laundered to them, keeping them afloat and continuing to bash freedom loving Americans until we're all brainwashed in buying into the communist onslaught we're heading straight for.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

6 I was in the pool!

And who watches TV when locked in their homes, unable to go out anyway?!?

Posted by: The Media at May 03, 2021 12:22 PM (Ojki1)

7 Fox is hanging on. Sad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:22 PM (Jsjd7)

8 The viewership numbers are not only down, they were pretty small to begin with. They are not the source of news except to a very small part of one percent of the population. Mark Levin a few days ago mentioned his listing audience is around 14 million. Way more than any of these clown shows.

Posted by: Ruthless at May 03, 2021 12:22 PM (/uaBM)

9 Is the media dying?

Please say yes please say yes please say yes

Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:23 PM (ZfRYq)

10 Smother it with a MyPillow?

Posted by: IP at May 03, 2021 12:23 PM (pWrfh)

11 Heh

Posted by: Diogenes at May 03, 2021 12:23 PM (axyOa)

12 I think I read that Twatter readership tanked bigtime after they banned Trump.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:23 PM (JZT2F)

13 People watch "The News" to find out what's happening, and what might be likely to happen.

When the future is certain, and only the past keeps changing, there's no entertainment value left in watching some greased up communications dropout with fake tits and a weave yammering on about what "sources say".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:23 PM (/EuRN)

14 It doesn't matter

We've been rightly focused on the media's propaganda, but if it goes away or gets tuned out, we're still left in a state where nobody shines light on the encroaching tyranny.

Posted by: havelhavolim at May 03, 2021 12:23 PM (fLpTX)

15 Networks supporting the party out of power typically lose viewership when their party is in power. The fear mongering that so many people find addicting tends to go away and become less important to the addicts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

16 It has been dead for a long time. It was skinned and the Democrat party has been prancing around in its skin suit.

Posted by: Ruthless at May 03, 2021 12:24 PM (/uaBM)

17 Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for MSNBC.

Posted by: Flyguy at May 03, 2021 12:24 PM (3sOO0)

18 How is no one interested in the Most Popular President Ever?

Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 12:24 PM (f3SGf)

19 It's not dying because it's infrastructure.

Posted by: CN at May 03, 2021 12:24 PM (ONvIw)

20 well, really, who cares what they have to say, except the brain-dead ?
The exact form of the lies they tell is irrelevant, and anyone with 6 brain cells knows that it is all lies.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 03, 2021 12:24 PM (ErSvT)

21 Im going to need a bigger pillow.

Posted by: LASue the smothered of fraud at May 03, 2021 12:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

22 So Fox can console itself that it remains the most polished turd.

We did it!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (z79tQ)

23 Ratings are down because people are stuck at home and unable to go out to the bar and watch TV!

/some moron on some thread somewhere.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (2SdPm)

24 It's a good thing that Handmaid's Tale show told us what would happen if we re-elected Trump.

PHEW!!!!!! That was close.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

25 They do make body pillows...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (JmiBZ)

26 I wonder what Newsmax's numbers look like.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, Wild West Pimp Style at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (CcOog)

27 I saw Communications Dropout With Fake Tits open up for ME back in 2001.

Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (f3SGf)

28 23 Ratings are down because people are stuck at home and unable to go out to the bar and watch TV!

/some moron on some thread somewhere.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (2SdPm)

=======

It was presented as a serious reason that the NBA was losing viewership last year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

29
Fox is hanging on. Sad.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Tallest midget

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (63Dwl)

30 With the exception of Tucker, I've stopped watching pretty much all media.

And judging by the ratings for historical cultural mainstays like the movies, award shows and sports, it looks like everyone is tuning out across the spectrum of media.

Which is bad for me, since I build most these facilities.

Oh well, it will force my hand and cause me to retire a lot earlier than I had thought I would.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (TRWf+)

31 If CNN were serious about getting better ratings, they'd hire Spanish weather girls and just run subtitles that contain their version of the news.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (2SdPm)

32 Mark Levin a few days ago mentioned his listing audience is around 14 million. Way more than any of these clown shows.
Posted by: Ruthless at May 03, 2021 12:22 PM (/uaBM)

He can do it without me for not raising hell over the summary execution of an unarmed woman. How is that not tyranny, Mark?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (y7DUB)

33 I think I read that Twatter readership tanked bigtime after they banned Trump.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:23 PM (JZT2F)

I sure hope so and wish knew where to find statistics on that. Also on FB losses.

Posted by: LASue the smothered of fraud at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (Ed8Zd)

34 So watch for some real wag the dog stuff to start coming out. Hard-hitting media will be all over it. Gotta get those ratings up!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (axyOa)

35 Haven't watched a network or cable "news" program on purpose for so long I can't remember when I quit. The HQ's morning report is where I go first, from there I sort of graze.

Posted by: IP at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (pWrfh)

36 25 They do make body pillows...
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (JmiBZ)

And dog beds. My secondary dog is sleeping on one now.

Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (ZfRYq)

37 The Big Lie might have worked on Russian peasants, but there are a lot of reasons why it doesn't work today. We have a lot more ways to discover the truth than those peasants did, places like this one and many more. I have a feeling that a fairly large majority of Americans have a good idea of what's going on. What they can or will do about it is another question.

Posted by: Ruthless at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (/uaBM)

38 News is way down.
Primtime network TV is down modestly (about 5%).
Sports are way down.
Movies are way down.
Streaming is unknown because no one reports reliably.

Where is the audience going? It's possible they've shifted to streaming, but based on the financial reports, that is likely not true. There's been some shift to it, but not enough to make up for the bone-crunching declines observed in every known dimension.

I suspect that actual total time spent consuming media products is in the process of collapsing. The audience isn't shifting somewhere else, it's disappearing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (Jsjd7)

39 24 It's a good thing that Handmaid's Tale show told us what would happen if we re-elected Trump.

PHEW!!!!!! That was close.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

...can we get some reach around views please? Cause we might get cancelled otherwise...

Hell, just turn us on and go do something else, it counts the same.

Posted by: Handmaid's Tale. at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (Ojki1)

40 Ratings are down because people are stuck at home and unable to go out to the bar and watch TV!

/some moron on some thread somewhere.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (2SdPm)

I think that was TJM, actually.

That's capital 'M' Moron to YOU, buddy.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

41 Tallest midget

Thousand Millimeter Reich?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (JmiBZ)

42 It was presented as a serious reason that the NBA was losing viewership last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (LvTSG)
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Really? I honestly thought it was snark from a 'ron or an 'ette.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (2SdPm)

43 Fizzled.
.
.
.
.

Posted by: Newsmax at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (LilNs)

44 25 They do make body pillows...
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (JmiBZ)

Do we ever!

Posted by: Japan at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (Ojki1)

45 And judging by the ratings for historical cultural mainstays like the movies, award shows and sports, it looks like everyone is tuning out across the spectrum of media.

Which is bad for me, since I build most these facilities.

Oh well, it will force my hand and cause me to retire a lot earlier than I had thought I would.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (TRWf+)

Hear that? This is all his fault!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (z5Vrg)

46 42 It was presented as a serious reason that the NBA was losing viewership last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (LvTSG)
--------------

Really? I honestly thought it was snark from a 'ron or an 'ette.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (2SdPm)

========

It was so stupid that it just became snark naturally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

47 I really think that the day STARLINK goes online for the whole of the US, how many will then cut the cord? I really only watch live sports on Direct TV and I find myself streaming my own Movies and TV shows via EMBY on my own server.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (dKiJG)

48 Glad to see this. They are all poisoners, including Fox, I wish nothing but the worst for them all.

Posted by: Wicklow at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (uH65w)

49 Ace needs to have a post on this:

A CIA recruitment ad featuring a "cisgender woman of color" who rails against the "patriarchy" and announces she has been diagnosed with "generalized anxiety disorder" has been ridiculed for its woke pandering.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 03, 2021 12:28 PM (TYK6D)

50 anyone with 6 brain cells knows that it is all lies.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 03, 2021 12:24 PM (ErSvT)

I still think too many on our side still fall for way too much of their shit. Take NOTHING you hear at face value. Always look at the Narrative being sold.

Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 12:28 PM (f3SGf)

51 41 Tallest midget

Thousand Millimeter Reich?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (JmiBZ)

A.K.A. The Longest Yard

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:28 PM (/EuRN)

52 When the future is certain, and only the past keeps changing, there's no entertainment value left in watching some greased up communications dropout with fake tits and a weave yammering on about what "sources say".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:23 PM (/EuRN)
++++
This is likely to be in the running for the "finest writing in the blog comments this week" award.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:28 PM (Jsjd7)

53 First good news I've heard today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate Hoisting the Black Flag at May 03, 2021 12:28 PM (3H9h1)

54
That's capital 'M' Moron to YOU, buddy.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)
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I had no idea I had capital "M" Moron privileges.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:28 PM (2SdPm)

55 I have been in a position to watch it die from root and branch. I graduated from the #1 J-school in 1961 when journalism was striving to become a respected profession with ethical standards and all the rest. Then along came Watergate and it has been all downhill since.

Posted by: Ruthless at May 03, 2021 12:29 PM (/uaBM)

56 "It was so stupid that it just became snark naturally."

Ha! Right. When has that ever happened.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, Wild West Pimp Style at May 03, 2021 12:29 PM (CcOog)

57 42 It was presented as a serious reason that the NBA was losing viewership last year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (LvTSG)
--------------

Really? I honestly thought it was snark from a 'ron or an 'ette.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (2SdPm)

Why don't you and him fight?!?!

Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:29 PM (ZfRYq)

58 The viewership numbers are not only down, they were pretty small to begin with. They are not the source of news except to a very small part of one percent of the population. Mark Levin a few days ago mentioned his listing audience is around 14 million. Way more than any of these clown shows.

--

That's my impression while I was reading over this excerpt. Those are small numbers, both before and after the decline, in comparison to the actual population of adults in this country. Taken on its face, it seems nobody's watching these fools.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 03, 2021 12:29 PM (O+I8R)

59

Verizon will sell its media arm overseeing brands like AOL and Yahoo to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal expected to close during the second half of this year.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2021 12:29 PM (63Dwl)

60
A.K.A. The Longest Yard
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:28 PM (/EuRN)

Awwwww. It's good to be remembered.

Posted by: Zombie John Holmes at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

61 Huh.... old nic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (3H9h1)

62 >>>Where is the audience going? It's possible they've shifted to streaming, but based on the financial reports, that is likely not true. There's been some shift to it, but not enough to make up for the bone-crunching declines observed in every known dimension.

Twitch. Watching people play video games. Or they're just playing the video games themselves.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (5qBoi)

63 There is enough to consume on YT right now that many would never need TV again. That's where a lot of the lost viewership is. People have been told to go fuck themselves, so they have.

Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (f3SGf)

64 The media hasn't gotten tired of losing. Sad!.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (18x8x)

65 Biden is going to have to start a war just to keep CNN afloat. I guess we better hope the war is someplace overseas rather than say South Carolina or Florida.

Posted by: Math Checksout at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (dYe5S)

66 Anyone know how much Fox is down since October?

Posted by: pep at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (v16oJ)

67 some greased up communications dropout with fake tits and a weave yammering on about what "sources say".

So and so tweeted this about the story and it is up to 500 retweets! A post on FB is up to 200 shares!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (TYK6D)

68 And dog beds. My secondary dog is sleeping on one now.
Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (ZfRYq)

Smart, having a backup dog.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (ifmtJ)

69 Twitch. Watching people play video games. Or they're just playing the video games themselves.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (5qBoi)
++++
I suspect that gaming has increased a lot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (Jsjd7)

70 @45

It sort of is, the only thing I feel truly ashamed of is installing the technology for making instant replay possible in Baseball.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (TRWf+)

71 Ace: Is the media dying?

Oh F**k not this again.

You spent the last -- what, ten years? -- crowing every time some CNN anchor's ratings went down, and implying CNN and MSNBC going out of business was just around the corner.

Would you shut up already?

They're not going anywhere. The left isn't going anywhere.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (aM3+f)

72
Die, scum sucking bottomfeeders, die!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (pNxlR)

73 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Posted by: ShainS at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (/z9fK)

74 I used to have Fox on during the day, mainly as background noise. I stopped in June as they were all Covid all the time. My impression of Harris Faulkner:

Up next we have a doctor who says were all about to die. Stay tuned!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (kTF2Z)

75 ------------

I had no idea I had capital "M" Moron privileges.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:28 PM (2SdPm)

Of course. You're still in marginal standing. That falls any further and your privileges are revoked.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

76 "I really think that the day STARLINK goes online for the whole of the US, how many will then cut the cord? I really only watch live sports on Direct TV and I find myself streaming my own Movies and TV shows via EMBY on my own server.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (dKiJG)"

The problem with satellite communications of any sort is the weather issue. I don't know how that gets solved, but once it does...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, Wild West Pimp Style at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (CcOog)

77
Smart, having a backup dog.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (ifmtJ)

I was going to ask about that. I've never heard of a dog referred to as such. Seemed odd.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

78 68 And dog beds. My secondary dog is sleeping on one now.
Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (ZfRYq)

Smart, having a backup dog.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (ifmtJ)

Analogous to a RAID system....

"BARC": Backup Array of Redudant Canines

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (/EuRN)

79 * pours one out for D Lamp *

Posted by: Bert G at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (sAW0o)

80 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Posted by: ShainS at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (/z9fK)

Tom Waits be preachin'!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (ifmtJ)

81 Bidet is keeping US troops in Afshitastan until 11 Sept. Trump had made a deal with the Taliban to be out by 1 May. The Taliban is making noises of the US breaking their deal and resuming attacks.

So you may get that war.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (JmiBZ)

82 And dog beds. My secondary dog is sleeping on one now.
Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (ZfRYq)

Smart, having a backup dog.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (ifmtJ)

Analogous to a RAID system....

"BARC": Backup Array of Redudant Canines
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (/EuRN)

LOL

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (ifmtJ)

83 It was so stupid that it just became snark naturally.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

*Looks at major core of NBA audience*

Is the NBA suggesting Black people can't get cable themselves? Should they take up a drive for it? BCM perhaps?

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (Ojki1)

84
A CIA recruitment ad featuring a "cisgender woman of color" who rails against the "patriarchy" and announces she has been diagnosed with "generalized anxiety disorder" has been ridiculed for its woke pandering.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 03, 2021 12:28 PM (TYK6D)

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I wouldn't ridicule that. It's good business. Any ideologically driven spy agency needs mentally-ill misfits by the boatload. Hell, even spy agencies that aren't completely off the beam need some of them around.

Hanging out a sign that says "No future? No past? Nobody who loves you? Join today, and take revenge on the world that ignored you!" makes perfect sense to me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (Uh2oA)

85 Hey, MFM - Learn to code.

Posted by: LASue at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (Ed8Zd)

86 Hey, MFM - Learn to code.
Posted by: LASue at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (Ed8Zd)

Because they already know how to suck cock.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

87
Hanging out a sign that says "No future? No past? Nobody who loves you? Join today, and take revenge on the world that ignored you!" makes perfect sense to me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (Uh2oA)

CIA used to focus on recruiting bad students from good schools.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (z5Vrg)

88 So their BARC is worse than their BYTE?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (JmiBZ)

89 29 Tallest midget
you are a giant, i am a normal dwarf

Posted by: The Nits at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (sGtp+)

90 Analogous to a RAID system....

"BARC": Backup Array of Redudant Canines
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (/EuRN)

You don't have a primary dog and a secondary dog?

Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (ZfRYq)

91 Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (aM3+f)

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You seem nice.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (kTF2Z)

92 Glad to see this. They are all poisoners, including Fox, I wish nothing but the worst for them all.

--

This. They're poisoners. They're dividers. They perpetuate, propagate, instigate all manners of pure hatred between Americans. To be sure, if it weren't for them, guardians of "truth," the corrupt swamp would not be 1/1,000,000th as successful as they have been at destroying this country.

The media must die as a profession, because their profession is dead.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (O+I8R)

93 }I suspect that actual total time spent consuming media products is in the process of collapsing. The audience isn't shifting somewhere else, it's disappearing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (Jsjd7)

I watch a few non woke CBS shows. I've jettisoned all professional sports and almost all kollidge. Even my lib wife has reduced the dogshit on tv she watches, and then mostly syndicatec reruns on Ion.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (y7DUB)

94
You seem nice.
Innumerate, but nice.

Posted by: pep at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (v16oJ)

95
I suspect that gaming has increased a lot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (Jsjd7)

This is a fact.

Posted by: LASue at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (Ed8Zd)

96 Americans are disengaging at an alarming pace, the combination of short attention span theater with a new disaffected segment of the population is worrying. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Posted by: Only Context at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (QZ/dC)

97 #8

Yes.

Even in its hey day only about 10% watched the big 3 news.

Posted by: Corner Stone at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (/B6Iw)

98 I wonder what Fox's numbers would be if you removed the viewers of Tucker's show?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (bDqIh)

99 Hubby is still watching "The Five" and Tucker, but I walk out of the room when he has them on. He keeps asking me if I am ever going to get over election night. "No" is the answer to that, some things are not forgivable. Honestly, JJ Sefton's morning briefing is where I get almost all my news, and anyone who reads that is better informed than 90% of the US population.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (GZ/yK)

100 Hanging out a sign that says "No future? No past? Nobody who loves you? Join today, and take revenge on the world that ignored you!" makes perfect sense to me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (Uh2oA)

Have we got a treatment for the Bourne series!

Posted by: Wachowski Br...err...Sisters at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (ZfRYq)

101 I suspect that gaming has increased a lot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (Jsjd7)

You couldn't tell it by our store closings.

Posted by: Gamestop at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (Ojki1)

102 There's no data table, but that looks like a total cable news audience of about 6.2 million people on the latest print.

A very popular YouTube channel is called "Linus Tech Tips." The guy who runs it is a tech reviewer/commentator. I'm not a fan, but he's hugely popular. His channel has 13.4 million subscribers and it's not at all unusual for his videos to hit a couple of million views within a few days of posting.

That one dude's audience (well, he and his crew) have viewership that's nearly as large as all of cable news and he outperforms most of the networks on a regular basis.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (Jsjd7)

103 Watching Pres Joe is worse than watching VP Joe.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 03, 2021 12:36 PM (yrol0)

104 98 I wonder what Fox's numbers would be if you removed the viewers of Tucker's show?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (bDqIh)

Negative.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:36 PM (/EuRN)

105 65 Biden is going to have to start a war just to keep CNN afloat. I guess we better hope the war is someplace
overseas rather than say South Carolina or Florida.

Posted by: Math Checksout at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (dYe5S)

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"Wearing matching high heels, the 82nd Airborne parachuted into Mira Lago earlier today ...*

Posted by: ShainS at May 03, 2021 12:36 PM (/z9fK)

106 BBT was the last network show I watched, and it was the only one for the last 5 years of its run. It's amazing that three networks can't produce even a single interesting show.

Posted by: pep at May 03, 2021 12:36 PM (v16oJ)

107 So their BARC is worse than their BYTE?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (JmiBZ)

There it is

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:36 PM (ifmtJ)

108 You need to have satellites that fly below the weather to avoid rain fade. 1 million satellites orbiting100,000 mph at 10,000 ft should be fine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 03, 2021 12:36 PM (TYK6D)

109 91 Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (aM3+f)
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You seem nice.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 03, 2021 12:34 PM (kTF2Z)

Sorry. This is the only time I've said this to him.

On this subject at least.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:36 PM (aM3+f)

110 100 Hanging out a sign that says "No future? No past? Nobody who loves you? Join today, and take revenge on the world that ignored you!" makes perfect sense to me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 12:32 PM (Uh2oA)

Have we got a treatment for the Bourne series!
Posted by: Wachowski Br...err...Sisters at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (ZfRYq)

"Bourne In The Wrong Body"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (/EuRN)

111 Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (GZ/yK)

Yep. And as long as Chris Wallace is there, I won't watch it at all.

Posted by: CN at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (ONvIw)

112 Sure the media is dying, and yet it makes no difference. The Left still gets stronger and stronger. My idiot now-estranged sister cut the cord years before I did, and yet she might as well be on an intravenous drip of MSNBC. Whatever "news" she gets emanates from the Left, no matter how cute the web aggregator name.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (jF60G)

113 I agree that these "news outlets" will continue to be awash in money even as their viewership dwindles. But let them throw away their money. What's important is that we continue to avoid them, they are just mechanisms of entrainment. Our lives are richer without them.

Posted by: Wicklow at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (uH65w)

114 So watch for some real wag the dog stuff to start coming out. Hard-hitting media will be all over it. Gotta get those ratings up!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM

Yep. I'm sure the FBI and DARPA have their next Lanza-toys all wound up already.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (OssQ4)

115 > I sure hope so and wish knew where to find statistics on that. Also on FB losses.

I can't find actual readership at the moment, but Twatter stock was at $77 in early February. Now it's $54.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (JZT2F)

116 Eh. The media has been dying for years. And they still control the narrative. NYT could have 50k readers and still everyone would be talking about their haeadlines.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (nBcht)

117 #8

Yes.

Even in its hey day only about 10% watched the big 3 news.
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (/B6Iw)

Seriously? Even in the late 60s/70s? It was a mainstay in every household I knew. Nightly routine -parents come home from work, read the paper, then turn on the nightly news - local then national.

Posted by: LASue at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (Ed8Zd)

118 5 It doesn't matter. Money will continue to be laundered to them, keeping them afloat and continuing to bash freedom loving Americans until we're all brainwashed in buying into the communist onslaught we're heading straight for.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

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I've been saying for years that the easy money policies of the Fed allows these media businesses stay afloat.

It allows for all the time wine shit too.

Posted by: MAGA (stop the steal link in this nic) at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (eMEkg)

119 The problem with satellite communications of any sort is the weather issue.

Once we've reduced CO2 emissions to zero, the weather will be perfect all the time.

Posted by: spindrift at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (h5TKJ)

120 "Bourne In The Wrong Body"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (/EuRN)

First in the series will be "The Bourne Transformation"

Posted by: Wachowski Br...err...Sisters at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (ZfRYq)

121 102 A very popular YouTube channel is called "Linus Tech Tips." The guy who
runs it is a tech reviewer/commentator. I'm not a fan, but he's hugely
popular.
lttstore.com

Posted by: King of the Smooth Marketing Segue at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (v3pYe)

122 I think it is a combination of "normals" leaving in protest and the youth switching to streaming/Netflix/Disney/YouTube. My twenty-something kids NEVER watch network TV. Unfortunately they still get their news from "MSM" but just on-line. They unfortunately still see them as respected sources and haven't ventured anywhere that will redpill them.

I still wish there was a way bankrupt these sources and put them out of business.

Posted by: Iris at May 03, 2021 12:38 PM (DibdT)

123 Allows for all the woke shit too.

Stupid auto cucumber.

Posted by: MAGA (stop the steal link in this nic) at May 03, 2021 12:38 PM (eMEkg)

124 I don't know if it's been mentioned, but, are the propaganda outlets included in the "infrastructure" bill?

Seems like a natural fit, to be honest.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:38 PM (2SdPm)

125 > Sure the media is dying, and yet it makes no difference.

Well, it does in the sense that if every "media outlet" is spouting the same propaganda story, there's no reason to hire more than one blow-dried blowhard to spout it.

Learn to be a pissboy, commie. You're too stupid to learn to code.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:38 PM (JZT2F)

126 Tallest midget
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
........

Sonuvabitch wins all the wrestling matches.

Posted by: wth at May 03, 2021 12:38 PM (v0R5T)

127 124 I assume so

Posted by: CN at May 03, 2021 12:38 PM (ONvIw)

128 Have we got a treatment for the Bourne series!

"Bourne a Boy - the early years"

Posted by: IP at May 03, 2021 12:38 PM (pWrfh)

129 104 98 I wonder what Fox's numbers would be if you removed the viewers of Tucker's show?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (bDqIh)

Negative.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:36 PM (/EuRN)

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"THE ONLY VIEWERS OF FOX NEWS ARE Q ANON AND A BUNCH OF RUSSIAN BOTS!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 03, 2021 12:38 PM (/z9fK)

130 I can't find actual readership at the moment, but Twatter stock was at $77 in early February. Now it's $54.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (JZT2F)

I assume "readership" (bots) drives twat's revenue but I don't even know that for sure.

Posted by: LASue at May 03, 2021 12:39 PM (Ed8Zd)

131 Most daily newspapers now has as much depth as My Weekly Reader.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 03, 2021 12:39 PM (m/Gc2)

132 Bourne Under a Bad Sign

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:39 PM (JZT2F)

133 >>At CNN, those figures went from 1.2 million to 749,000.

The MSM got inself addicted to outrage stories.
Every day there was a new outrage about Trump.
Their viewers no doubt got addicted, too.
They've all been mostly denied their fix since January 20th.

He broke them. LOLGF

Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2021 12:39 PM (bDqIh)

134 Have to remember, the country is opening up and people are not sitting in front of the boob-tube. Plus I think a great many people know what bullshit, lying mofo's the media are anymore. It's very bias and not very reputable. What they did to Pres. Trump was a disgrace. I also think people from both sides so the massive waste of tax payers money on lies.

Posted by: sidney at May 03, 2021 12:39 PM (+fjIe)

135 Oh, also church attendance is way up in my area. I don't know if that's a national phenomenon but I. hope so!

Posted by: LASue at May 03, 2021 12:39 PM (Ed8Zd)

136 Everybody knows
Posted by: ShainS

That song needs a good remake. With no disco.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (OssQ4)

137 Stonn is just upset his uh, little Vulcan, didn't measure up to Spock's.

Posted by: T'Pring at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (PpDo3)

138 102 There's no data table, but that looks like a total cable news audience of about 6.2 million people on the latest print.

A very popular YouTube channel is called "Linus Tech Tips." The guy who runs it is a tech reviewer/commentator. I'm not a fan, but he's hugely popular. His channel has 13.4 million subscribers and it's not at all unusual for his videos to hit a couple of million views within a few days of posting.

That one dude's audience (well, he and his crew) have viewership that's nearly as large as all of cable news and he outperforms most of the networks on a regular basis.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (Jsjd7)

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Also Mr Beast.

Posted by: MAGA (stop the steal link in this nic) at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (eMEkg)

139 32 Mark Levin a few days ago mentioned his listing audience is around 14 million. Way more than any of these clown shows.
Posted by: Ruthless at May 03, 2021 12:22 PM (/uaBM)

He can do it without me for not raising hell over the summary execution of an unarmed woman. How is that not tyranny, Mark?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:26 PM (y7DUB)

Everybody has a boss. Levin would have been cut out of Fox and Westwood One the moment he said anything supportive of Ashli Babbitt.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (mdjgu)

140 "Wearing matching high heels, the 82nd Airborne parachuted into Mira Lago earlier today ...*

* * *

The good news about the p*ssification of our armed forces is that it makes them less of a threat to us.

All we have to do is "micro-aggress" them by calling them some mean names (or in the case of the trannies, calling them by their actual names and genders), and they'll crumble.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (k4dH2)

141 ""BARC": Backup Array of Redudant Canines
Posted by: Warai-otoko"

*golf clap*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (ErSvT)

142 Lots of reasons for cable news ratings collapsing, I would guess. But one that shouldn't be overlooked is just how bad of product they are putting out today.

Even for those too dumb notice the ridiculous partisan slant/bias, it's not like the you learn anything useful or interesting over the course of a prime time cable TV news "hour" interspersed with 25 minutes of drug commercials, they you can't learn in say 5 minutes of browsing stories on your phone.

Posted by: Math Checksout at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (dYe5S)

143 Donaldus Maximus Yuugus is currently laughing in denarii.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (W+kMI)

144 Sure the media is dying, and yet it makes no difference. The Left still gets stronger and stronger. My idiot now-estranged sister cut the cord years before I did, and yet she might as well be on an intravenous drip of MSNBC. Whatever "news" she gets emanates from the Left, no matter how cute the web aggregator name.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (jF60G)
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Yes, but that means we don't need nearly so many outlets. They're all telling the same lies. We'll eventually go through another massive round of media consolidation. Like the Soviet Union, we'll end up with two major outlets, with one representing the State's positions and the other representing the Party leadership's positions, with agreement between them more often than not. This is America and not the USSR, so we might end up with a third outlet that's official opposition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (Jsjd7)

145 Oh, also church attendance is way up in my area. I don't know if that's a national phenomenon but I. hope so!
Mine is way down. Of course, it's an Episcopal church, so......

Posted by: pep at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (v16oJ)

146 Ace's article is Russian disinformation.

Posted by: Jeff Zucker at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (Zny85)

147 Here at the casa de Diogenes, Mrs D controls the wand of power. In the few time i get my hands on it, i go tothe music channels and grab some hits of the 60's and 70's. Otherwise its Hallmark.

I drink a lot in my man cave.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (axyOa)

148 That one dude's audience (well, he and his crew) have viewership that's nearly as large as all of cable news and he outperforms most of the networks on a regular basis.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (Jsjd7)
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And yet, the corporate media (TV / Print) are still seen to "dominate the conversation" -- even here, much of the focus on day-to-day deals with what these propagandists say.

"Who cares what they say?" needs to be the operative comment from the man on the street. Not only should these MSM outfits go unwatched, their editorial points of view should be discarded offhand. We need to set our own "narrative", not merely be reactive to whatever bilge they pump out.

Posted by: Revenant at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (rFIOB)

149 Obviously, it's time we nationalize the news.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (/EuRN)

150 137 Stonn is just upset his uh, little Vulcan, didn't measure up to Spock's.
Posted by: T'Pring at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (PpDo3)

T'Pring is such a slut.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (aM3+f)

151 Hubby is still watching "The Five" and Tucker, but I walk out of the room when he has them on. He keeps asking me if I am ever going to get over election night. "No" is the answer to that, some things are not forgivable.

This. The only way I'm not pissed about the stolen election is if I'm dead or suffered a massive stroke; and in the latter case I'm still pissed but can't express it.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (y7DUB)

152 144 Sure the media is dying, and yet it makes no difference. The Left still gets stronger and stronger. My idiot now-estranged sister cut the cord years before I did, and yet she might as well be on an intravenous drip of MSNBC. Whatever "news" she gets emanates from the Left, no matter how cute the web aggregator name.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at May 03, 2021 12:37 PM (jF60G)
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Yes, but that means we don't need nearly so many outlets. They're all telling the same lies. We'll eventually go through another massive round of media consolidation. Like the Soviet Union, we'll end up with two major outlets, with one representing the State's positions and the other representing the Party leadership's positions, with agreement between them more often than not. This is America and not the USSR, so we might end up with a third outlet that's official opposition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (Jsjd7)

Official opposition channel that really aims to help the other side? Why does that sound so familiar...

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 12:42 PM (z5Vrg)

153 Next in the series will be Bourne Different.

Posted by: Wachowski Br...err...Sisters at May 03, 2021 12:42 PM (ZfRYq)

154 4 Trump was right.

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Trump was right more often than not. Not as high with the correctness % as the sainted Rush Limbaugh, but he was over 50%. And boy hasn't the Harris Administration done everything possible to persuade us that it was so!

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 12:42 PM (W+kMI)

155 Most daily newspapers now has as much depth as My Weekly Reader.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 03, 2021 12:39 PM (m/Gc2)

I was forced to use the NYT for current events in a Poly Sci class my freshman year of college. Back THEN it was the most poorly written rag I'd ever seen.

I can't IMAGINE it's gotten any better. Their editors should've been taken out back and shot. They were REALLY bad at their jobs.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

156 Have you guys seen CIA's new recruitment video. SNL at its best couldn't have made a funnier bit; AND IT'S REAL!

https://bit.ly/2QUk4s1

Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (i0wNm)

157 >There is enough to consume on YT right now that many would never need TV again. That's where a lot of the lost viewership is. People have been told to go fuck themselves, so they have.
Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 12:30 PM (f3SGf)

Yep, between being able to get nearly whatever content you want on YT (or one of their competitors if the content isn't Alphabet approved) and gaming, mass media has very little to offer. I cut the cord years ago and added OTA TV and a few streaming services, but even then, my TV viewing is very low and is mostly done "socially" (as in spending an hour lounging on the couch with the Mrs, chit-chatting and only half-paying attention to what's on the boob tube).

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (DXFDM)

158 Otherwise its Hallmark.

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Oh, you poor thing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (O+I8R)

159 I am so lucky the lovely Mrs. Blake has less use for the news than I do. She'll sometimes go offline when some especially maddening headline comes across her computer.

It is to laugh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (2SdPm)

160 128 Have we got a treatment for the Bourne series!

"Bourne a Boy - the early years"
i was a bourne a young black child

Posted by: Steve Martin at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (v3pYe)

161 From the -You Gotta love Texas- Dept. Sign on the back of a sewage removal truck.
Caution: this vehicle may contain political promises.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (9w/EW)

162 Who supports these woke newsrooms? Large woke corporations do. And most large corporations are woke now.

These newsrooms have nothing to fear from ratings.

Posted by: Justsayin' at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (Fs5vw)

163 Official opposition channel that really aims to help the other side? Why does that sound so familiar...
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 12:42 PM (z5Vrg)
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Yeah, it's weird. I can't quite put my finger on it...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (Jsjd7)

164 CIA HQ: Jason, it's urgent, we need you to...

Mz. Bourne: IT'S MA'AM DAMMIT!

Posted by: IP at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (pWrfh)

165 Next in the series will be Bourne Different.
Posted by: Wachowski Br...err...Sisters at May 03, 2021 12:42 PM (ZfRYq)

Where he dons a dress, fights crime during the week and dominates women's soccer on the weekends.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (Zz0t1)

166 "Linus Tech Tips." . . . His channel has 13.4 million subscribers and it's not at
all unusual for his videos to hit a couple of million views within a
few days of posting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:35 PM (Jsjd7)

I hate that guy, LTT.

There is also the youtuber, Davie504, who plays bass and does memes and stuff. Pretty funny and good bassist. 10 million subscribers. Traditional media is dead. They just don't know it, yet.

Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (KnJdm)

167 Its odd to me, you'd expect TV viewership to have gone up over the last year because of everyone cowering at home from the seasonal flu.

Instead ratings are bad, across the board. Especially for the very stuff people always said they wish they could stay home for in the past, like sports.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (KZzsI)

168 > T'Pring is such a slut.

The thing that didn't ring true about that episode was that Kirk didn't insist on a test drive after she chose him.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (JZT2F)

169 When all news from national to local no matter the channel mimic the exact words we know there is nothing but propaganda being fed to us. Most of the American people are bright enough to shut it off, but others are too dumb or stuck in a routine. These dumb or stuck people are not going to change no matter what, and these are the people the Democrats count on.

The real question coming from Biden wining 2020 is how long have we had elections stolen at all levels. Trump showed that the government has been playing us and this is why they hate him so much. The audits should show issues in Arizona. Georgia previously did but then it was blocked by a Judge to go further. What has not been done through out the country is getting rid of the Voting machines and this will allow the problem to continue.

Posted by: JG at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (7JYUE)

170 I suspect that gaming has increased a lot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:31 PM (Jsjd7)

It probably has, though the industry is still in a contraction that coincided with the housing collapse of 2008. The number of AAA titles being produced at each publisher is way down from that period, though the costs of each now rival something like Avengers.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (uhPTO)

171 The Bourne Tranzition.

Posted by: klaftern at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (RuIsu)

172 25 They do make body pillows...
==========
None of those bastards and bitches deserve to die under the loving gaze of a beloved waifu. Do it in the prescribed manner from the Book of Kings, and use a wet washcloth/dishtowel.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (W+kMI)

173 Can we smother it?

Yes but while we agree on execution, the public should be witnesses. If I gave the orders, shoot him up with heroin then firing squad.

When you said smother, I remembered, Before The Devil Knows You Are Dead, 2007.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (o89XP)

174 matt
damon

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (vuisn)

175 Contra Stonn- I think it's a perception issue. The trend is, and remains down. I think they are, in fact, dying, it's just they're going with claws dragging. Compare total numbers today to 20 years ago.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (jfJkg)

176 Forgotten Weapons is a really good YouTube channel that surprisingly hasn't been banned yet.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (JZT2F)

177 And then the capper for the trilogy will be "Janice Bourne."

Posted by: Wachowski Br...err...Sisters at May 03, 2021 12:45 PM (ZfRYq)

178 "Who cares what they say?" needs to be the operative comment from the man on the street. Not only should these MSM outfits go unwatched, their editorial points of view should be discarded offhand. We need to set our own "narrative", not merely be reactive to whatever bilge they pump out.
Posted by: Revenant at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (rFIOB)

This.
I care just as little about what Wapo or NYSlimes or CNN or the View says when they occasionally admit a little nugget of t he truth that Trump or the right may not be 100 percent wrong 100 percent of the time, as I do when they spew their minute by minute lying garbage opinions.

They will NEVER come around to the truth so F em.

Posted by: LASue at May 03, 2021 12:45 PM (Ed8Zd)

179 Caution: this vehicle may contain political promises.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (9w/EW)

LOL!!!!

And I have news. The marching schedule has been released and as of right now, there are NO competitions the weekend of the MoMe.

I'll get with you and Rancher Bob about it in the VERY near future........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

180 Have you guys seen CIA's new recruitment video. SNL at its best couldn't have made a funnier bit; AND IT'S REAL!

https://bit.ly/2QUk4s1
Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:43 PM (i0wNm)
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Oh my. This is going to be extremely effective. They want the Woke, and they want the Woke to kill, and the Woke want to kill.

This video shows you what the jackboots and guns are going to look like. I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:45 PM (Jsjd7)

181 Trump said pussy!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 03, 2021 12:45 PM (kTF2Z)

182 "Media experts like Scott Robson, ...peaked during the Jan. 6 insurrection..."

He said without the slightest bit of self-awareness.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 12:45 PM (VpIIl)

183 Levin would have been cut out of Fox and Westwood One the moment he said anything supportive of Ashli Babbitt.

Sharyl Atkisson ran a supportive segment on Full Measure yesterday, on CBFS here in Austin area.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (CX3cf)

184 Forgotten Weapons is a really good YouTube channel that surprisingly hasn't been banned yet.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (JZT2F)

They proactively demonetized, so Youtube has less leverage over them. I won't be surprised if they get yanked eventually, though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (ifmtJ)

185 Bourne to Run

Posted by: Only Context at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (QZ/dC)

186 Bourne on the Bayou.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (OssQ4)

187 > Forgotten Weapons is a really good YouTube channel that surprisingly hasn't been banned yet.

Has everyone seen the .50 blow up in Kentucky Ballistics' face yet. Holy shit that video is scary, and his dad saved his life.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (i0wNm)

188 153 Next in the series will be Bourne Different.

Posted by: Wachowski Br...err...Sisters at May 03, 2021 12:42 PM (ZfRYq)
saw a blurb for a thingie about women in electronic music a while back. looked into and, sure enough, included wendy carlos.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (sGtp+)

189 Official opposition channel that really aims to help the other side? Why does that sound so familiar...
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 12:42 PM (z5Vrg)

It'll carry Grand Old Programs.

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (Ojki1)

190
I was forced to use the NYT for current events in a Poly Sci class my freshman year of college. Back THEN it was the most poorly written rag I'd ever seen.

I can't IMAGINE it's gotten any better. Their editors should've been taken out back and shot. They were REALLY bad at their jobs.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

I has the Christian Science Monitor. A good paper back then.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (axyOa)

191 There's no pravda in Izvestia and no izvestia in Pravda.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:47 PM (Jsjd7)

192 168 > T'Pring is such a slut.

The thing that didn't ring true about that episode was that Kirk didn't insist on a test drive after she chose him.
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Kirk maybe suspected that she was one of the quiet ones who would become an absolute wild thing in bed.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 12:47 PM (W+kMI)

193 Oh my. This is going to be extremely effective. They want the Woke, and they want the Woke to kill, and the Woke want to kill.

This video shows you what the jackboots and guns are going to look like. I'm not kidding.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:45 PM (Jsjd7)

Makes sense because CIA is just for the purpose of destroying America anymore.

Oh, and the jackboots and guns will complement each other, and they will look FABULOUS.

Posted by: Wachowski Br...err...Sisters at May 03, 2021 12:47 PM (ZfRYq)

194 No one threw out "Bourne This Way" yet?

It's like I don't even know you people anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:47 PM (Jsjd7)

195 Bourne Stubborn

https://youtu.be/G9LxXiT7qu0

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

196
My family loves that Mr. Beast guy. I've never seen more than 3-5 minutes at a time, but it didn't seems to be patently offensive or propagandistic from what I've seen. I could be wrong, though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (Uh2oA)

197 Has everyone seen the .50 blow up in Kentucky Ballistics' face yet. Holy shit that video is scary, and his dad saved his life.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (i0wNm)
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I like the T Shirt he's marketing: Put a thumb in it!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (2SdPm)

198 The number of AAA titles being produced at each
publisher is way down from that period, though the costs of each now
rival something like Avengers.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (uhPTO)

Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after. I loaded up some Quake 3 Arena on some old linux computers, so I can beat down my boys, and it is still as enjoyable as ever to hear that "Humiliation!" when you get a gauntlet kill and they are squealing to get away.

Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (KnJdm)

199 Speaking of holy shit videos, if anyone hasn't seen the South Africa dashcam video yet, please do it right this second.

https://youtu.be/KAvqDF3Wujc

Butthole pucker factor 12 out of 10.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (i0wNm)

200 The problem is that the mainstream media has certainly become more selective in their appeal, but that appeal is mostly in the Ruling Class Geniuses, who love their "prestige TV programs" and Daily Propaganda Hit and Two-Minutes Hate shows.

So does it matter that most normal Americans are tuning out? I don't think so, as they don't really care for us any way. Their programming (used in both senses of the word) is there to keep Outer Party informed as to what opinion they are required to have for the day.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (DXFDM)

201 The Martian Bourne

Posted by: wth at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

202 Everybody has a boss. Levin would have been cut out of Fox and Westwood One the moment he said anything supportive of Ashli Babbitt.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (mdjgu)

I'm sure you're right but sometimes you have to make a stand and say to hell with the consequences. Mark is, imo, the most generous of the talk show people in terms of giving books away and not charging for podcasts. Without knowing the details of his income streams I'd think, perhaps erroneously, he could weather the shot.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (y7DUB)

203 Makes sense because CIA is just for the purpose of destroying America anymore.

Oh, and the jackboots and guns will complement each other, and they will look FABULOUS.
Posted by: Wachowski Br...err...Sisters at May 03, 2021 12:47 PM (ZfRYq)
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Yes. Their uniforms will surely be snappy. That's one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (Jsjd7)

204 106 BBT was the last network show I watched, and it was the only one for the last 5 years of its run. It's amazing that three networks can't produce even a single interesting show.

Posted by: pep at May 03, 2021 12:36 PM (v16oJ)

Big Black THOT?

asking for a friend

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (Fdgdx)

205 my old sweater runS faster than Bourne.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (o89XP)

206
Have you guys seen CIA's new recruitment video. SNL at its best couldn't have made a funnier bit; AND IT'S REAL!

"I am a ..."
"I am a ..."
"I am a ..."

Above all else you are an egotistical and crashing bore. Do shut up, please.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (pNxlR)

207 Sponge, This is me doin my happiest dance.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 03, 2021 12:49 PM (9w/EW)

208 To be fair to the miserable script networks, it has literally been a nonstop carousel of Biden fluffery, racism, and covid for a year. Who could possibly sustain interest in such shit news programming? I would guess that actually covering actual news outside this triumvirate might penetrate a market suffering fatigue from sheer repetition.

Posted by: red speck at May 03, 2021 12:49 PM (gS3OW)

209 It's a good thing that Handmaid's Tale show told us what would happen if we re-elected Trump.
======

Oddly enough, the popularity of that tripe is withering too. I wonder what happened...

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 03, 2021 12:49 PM (IytoW)

210 "script" not "script".

Posted by: red speck at May 03, 2021 12:49 PM (gS3OW)

211 Bourne to Run
Bourne Free
Bourne Again (still my favorite Unix shell)
Bourne To Lose
Bourne This Way
Bourne To Boogie
Bourne To Be Wild (get your motor runnin'....)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:49 PM (JZT2F)

212 S-C-R-U-N-T

Posted by: red speck at May 03, 2021 12:49 PM (gS3OW)

213 The only way I'm not pissed about the stolen election is if I'm dead or suffered a massive stroke; and in the latter case I'm still pissed but can't express it.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM

In the former case, you'll be voting Democrat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 03, 2021 12:50 PM (DMUuz)

214 "I am a ..."
"I am a ..."
"I am a ..."

Above all else you are an egotistical and crashing bore. Do shut up, please.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (pNxlR)

I'm a man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luMoGdwixTM

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:50 PM (ifmtJ)

215 Butthole pucker factor 12 out of 10.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (i0wNm)
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I also found it amusing because it was obvious the driver was a bit cranky about being shot at.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:50 PM (2SdPm)

216 The thing that didn't ring true about that episode was that Kirk didn't insist on a test drive after she chose him.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (JZT2F)

She wasn't green enough.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at May 03, 2021 12:50 PM (cjlB3)

217 Fox should keep pushing Democrat Eunuch Chris Wallace. Even Tucker's ratings won't save them from that cocksucker.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 12:51 PM (VpIIl)

218 > It's a good thing that Handmaid's Tale show told us what would happen if we re-elected Trump.

Aka the dumbest science fiction novel ever written (even though Atwood claims that it's "literature", not science fiction).

Sorry, Maggie. If the United States becomes a totalitarian religious dictatorship, Canada is not going to somehow miraculously be Just Fine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:51 PM (JZT2F)

219 Foreign Spy [looking for the CIA agent]: "Sir, can you admit that there are only two genders?"

Undercover CIA Agent: "It's XIR, and you are a bigot for even asking me that question."

Foreign Spy: "Take that "lady" with the Adam's apple the size of my fist to prison."

Posted by: Math Checksout at May 03, 2021 12:51 PM (dYe5S)

220
Hanging out a sign that says "No future? No past? Nobody who loves you? Join today, and take revenge on the world that ignored you!" makes perfect sense to me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Parallax View

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (63Dwl)

221 > This video shows you what the jackboots and guns are going to look like. I'm not kidding.

Yep. If you want to know who's making the lists of people to be exterminated right this minute, just have a look at any "studies" department at top Uni campuses. Those severe looking women with the really short hair and zero sense of humor, those people are the planners.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (i0wNm)

222 Butthole pucker factor 12 out of 10.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (i0wNm)
++++
Dude held his shit. Those guys definitely earned their pay. I hope he lived through it after exiting the vehicle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (Jsjd7)

223 Who pretends to believe voter turnout for the 2020 election was 90% more than the MSM.

Eligible voters - 254 million
Percentage registered- 70% -178 million

160 million votes / 178 million voters = 90%

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (2DOZq)

224 Speaking of holy shit videos, if anyone hasn't seen the South Africa dashcam video yet, please do it right this second.

https://youtu.be/KAvqDF3Wujc

Butthole pucker factor 12 out of 10.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (i0wNm)

Better than most movies.
Wish I knew how it ended up, that driver deserves a raise or twenty.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (ifmtJ)

225 Jason Borg, Transhuman Hit Ma-- Person.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (b2AYi)

226 I thought Levin had his own "network"

Posted by: CN at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (ONvIw)

227 I heard a rumor that CNN was going to stop its airport business for some reason. Was that a thing, and when will it happen?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - #SuperStraight at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (Mzdiz)

228 Posted by: Farmer Bob

I can't post any response longer than this without it being considered spam.

Can that be fixed?

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (aM3+f)

229 Butthole pucker factor 12 out of 10.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM

You say that like it's a Good Thing.

Posted by: Shep! Now with more Sheppiness! at May 03, 2021 12:53 PM (DMUuz)

230 > I also found it amusing because it was obvious the driver was a bit cranky about being shot at.

When he hops out of the truck at the end, you know he means to deal death.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:53 PM (i0wNm)

231 h, also church attendance is way up in my area. I don't know if that's a national phenomenon but I. hope so!
Mine is way down. Of course, it's an Episcopal church, so......
Posted by: pep at May 03, 2021 12:41 PM (v16oJ)

Yesterday, both (!) latin masses were packed. Seems like another good sign.

Posted by: LASue at May 03, 2021 12:53 PM (Ed8Zd)

232 96 Americans are disengaging at an alarming pace, the combination of short attention span theater with a new disaffected segment of the population is worrying. Nature abhors a vacuum.
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It's what the Uniparty wants, that vacuum. They think they know how to fill that vacuum. They have no idea, let alone absolute control, of what the filling might be. Absolute folly, but we're lorded over by fools these days.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 12:53 PM (W+kMI)

233 > Wish I knew how it ended up, that driver deserves a raise or twenty.

I think I read that after the driver jumped out of the vehicle with the "proper gun", the would-be robbers pissed their pants and ran away.

I would.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:53 PM (JZT2F)

234 >Also Mr Beast.

Posted by: MAGA (stop the steal link in this nic) at May 03, 2021 12:40 PM (eMEkg)

My youngest loves Mr Beast. Dude has some good business sense. He opened up a ghost kitchen under his name and it finally became available in my suburb. My kid was so excited when he found out that he bought a Mr Beast Burger that cost his entire week's "allowance". We picked it up at a roach coach that seemed to be doing multiple ghost kitchens at the same time. I had a bite and it was surprisingly pretty good, although I would hope so for the money he paid, lol.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 03, 2021 12:53 PM (DXFDM)

235 Sponge, This is me doin my happiest dance.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 03, 2021 12:49 PM (9w/EW)

We have an away game Friday night, but we'll make arrangements with you guys on how we'd like to handle that.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

236 WSJ used to have good writing. Have not looked at it in over 5 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (yrol0)

237 Xhe used to suffer from imposter syndrome, but zhe has obviously beat that!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (axyOa)

238 176 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (JZT2F)

Karl took the chocolate mein friend....

He is 100% pro BLM

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (Lzpvj)

239 Ok, that went through.

How about:

I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (aM3+f)

240 It's actually surprising that a good portion of those audiences turned them off because they realize they are being lied to. The remaining viewers are their die-hard Democrats who need affirmation of their delusions.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (VpIIl)

241 Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after. I loaded up some Quake 3 Arena on some old linux computers, so I can beat down my boys, and it is still as enjoyable as ever to hear that "Humiliation!" when you get a gauntlet kill and they are squealing to get away.

Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (KnJdm)

Arena was a lot of fun. I worked on that one, but can't say much more without outing myself. The industry was a lot more fun then, too.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (uhPTO)

242 > Wish I knew how it ended up, that driver deserves a raise or twenty.

I've heard that the perps were captured and the guys in the video lived. Apparently in SA, this happens so often, it's not news. The video circulated among private cash and carry contractors, then onto the internet.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (i0wNm)

243

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 03, 2021 12:55 PM (K2SnJ)

244 Rage Quit me!

Posted by: Returnal at May 03, 2021 12:55 PM (Oo9rt)

245 -------------

I also found it amusing because it was obvious the driver was a bit cranky about being shot at.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:50 PM (2SdPm)

However, it does show you how much your confidence can rise when you know the bullets aren't going to get to you.

All bets are off after he jumps out with the AR. That dude is a BEAST at that point.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)

246 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (aM3+f)

If you look in the style guide, you can find the Hot Air button.

Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (ZfRYq)

247 Lol

Learn to code blue.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (n/szn)

248 Sponge should have thought about this nick.

Posted by: johnd01 - pronouns: First/1st at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (ukNFU)

249 ox should keep pushing Democrat Eunuch Chris Wallace. Even Tucker's ratings won't save them from that cocksucker.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 12:51 PM (VpIIl)

Didn't he get charged with some harassment thing recently? Seemed weird since he does seem to be a eunuch- maybe Im misremembering.

Posted by: LASue at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (Ed8Zd)

250 Bi den will use tax money to pay Fake News.

Don't worry.

Posted by: torabora at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (ZjFZv)

251 Media Ratings and Online Viewership Collapse

no one wants to watch an old man with a rictus grin get sucked off

Posted by: x4 at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (oA+QO)

252 197 Has everyone seen the .50 blow up in Kentucky Ballistics' face yet. Holy shit that video is scary, and his dad saved his life.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:46 PM (i0wNm)
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I like the T Shirt he's marketing: Put a thumb in it!
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Saw it on Friday when it was posted. talked about it a little on Sunday. He's a lucky man, saved by positive circumstance and training. May buy the shirt.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (W+kMI)

253
Better than most movies.
Wish I knew how it ended up, that driver deserves a raise or twenty.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 12:52 PM (ifmtJ)

My favorite part, I think, is the passenger. He was two fisting weapons at one point and used really good trigger safety.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

254 246 Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (ZfRYq)

It's marked under Ed for Tepid Err IIRC

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 12:57 PM (Lzpvj)

255 The industry was a lot more fun then, too.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (uhPTO)

Of that I am sure. Before network gear was affordable, we strung a crossover cable through the apartment to play some epic rounds.

Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:57 PM (KnJdm)

256 Italians break curfew in Bologna. I have to say I'm surprised it took them this long to wake up:

https://tinyurl.com/tmd8x2rh

Posted by: kallisto at May 03, 2021 12:57 PM (DJFLF)

257 Practice throat punching, it's for the children. The motive is for the children.

Now I have to explain how much I love life and what a good human I am. You girls can even pet me.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 03, 2021 12:57 PM (o89XP)

258 All of this begs the question... who watches television news, after all, and are they an audience that is relevant?

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 12:57 PM (0KKyI)

259 It's what the Uniparty wants, that vacuum. They think they know how to fill that vacuum. They have no idea, let alone absolute control, of what the filling might be. Absolute folly, but we're lorded over by fools these days.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 12:53 PM (W+kMI)

So we have a chance at success?

Posted by: Partner Assisted Butthole Sniffers Local # 265 at May 03, 2021 12:57 PM (Fdgdx)

260 256 Italians break curfew in Bologna. I have to say I'm surprised it took them this long to wake up:

https://tinyurl.com/tmd8x2rh
Posted by: kallisto at May 03, 2021 12:57 PM (DJFLF)

I am kind of surprised by the Italian response - you can't even get Italians to stand in line.

Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:58 PM (ZfRYq)

261 "Every lost network viewer gets made up in online viewership."
-The Deluded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 12:58 PM (LvTSG)

262 My favorite part, I think, is the passenger. He was two fisting weapons at one point and used really good trigger safety.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

Juggled two weapons and a cell phone, no control over the vehicle and he still stayed calm. That's a good wingman.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 03, 2021 12:58 PM (uhPTO)

263 > However, it does show you how much your confidence can rise when you know the bullets aren't going to get to you.

I'd be really relieved that neither the armored car manufacturer nor my employer had cheaped out on on the bullet-proof glass.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:59 PM (JZT2F)

264 Aka the dumbest science fiction novel ever written (even though Atwood claims that it's "literature", not science fiction).

Sorry, Maggie. If the United States becomes a totalitarian religious dictatorship, Canada is not going to somehow miraculously be Just Fine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:51 PM (JZT2F)

I belonged to a sci fi book club when that dog diarrhea came out and, even in the pre internet era the overwhelming negative feedback was somehow very easy to detect. I still am puzzled how that happened.

*Snort* "literature"; good one Maggie.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 12:59 PM (y7DUB)

265 exdem13

This hurt to watch - https://youtu.be/qkAxUppnnFc

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2021 12:59 PM (JmiBZ)

266 I was a news junkie for many, many years...watched a LOT of Fox News, read a lot of blogs, etc.

Now, I'm here, occasionally. I sometimes visit Instapundit or OAN. I cut the cable one year ago, and stopped watching Fox long sometime after Trump was elected.

Yet, I know people who still watch the alphabet networks' evening news, willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Sad.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread -- wait, that dude's still alive? at May 03, 2021 12:59 PM (nBNUK)

267 One can celebrate the (nominal) travails of big media all one wants - look who is in power, and sample the marinade in which most people soak. Nothing's changed. Except now we know 90% of Americans are ignorant fearful compliant North Koreans, really, who don't question extremely dubious authority and have every Stasi instinct ever seen in any populace of the destroyed 20th century dictatorships.

And financially, most media is just a small loss-making extension of MegaCorps that are prospering fabulously, more and more every day.

I get the desire to calumniate NeverTrump idiots - who had/have no impact on anything - and to celebrate the nominal travails of Big Media. But it's emotional side-show, at best.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 03, 2021 12:59 PM (OTzUX)

268 > My favorite part, I think, is the passenger. He was two fisting weapons at one point and used really good trigger safety.

Yep, he was clearly scared, but carried out his duty in an orderly fashion nonetheless.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 01:00 PM (JZT2F)

269 I am kind of surprised by the Italian response - you can't even get Italians to stand in line.
Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:58 PM (ZfRYq)

I know, right? There wasn't even much resistance in Sicily or Naples that are just well, let's say disorganized on a good day.

Posted by: kallisto at May 03, 2021 01:00 PM (DJFLF)

270 I can see Chris Wallace biting a chick like Marv Albert.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (8KGgj)

271 246 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (aM3+f)
If you look in the style guide, you can find the Hot Air button.
Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (ZfRYq)

True. I guess if you're all happy. But I don't think a post suggesting tiredness will hurt anyone.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (aM3+f)

272 Off nasty union sock.

Posted by: BifBewalski - some assembly required at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (Fdgdx)

273 The video circulated among private cash and carry contractors, then onto the internet.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (i0wNm)
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Ah, industrial admiration. Makes sense. Like the story of the greatest tech support call of all time - a weird confluence of good comms and fucked up situation.

A guy in Afghanistan was pinned down while providing cover fire for a raid when his weapon jammed. The situation was, I suppose, "fluid." He called the manufacturer (Barrett) and explained that he was in the field, under fire and his weapon kept jamming. They immediately routed him to one of the guys on the test team. The guy listened, and asked if the soldier had recently cleaned his weapon. The soldier affirmed. The guy at the manufacturer knew the likely problem, gave him instructions on how to strip the weapon to the correct point and use another part to bend something back into place, and got him back to operation within about a minute.

That call made the rounds in my industry (high tech) of "this is the tech support standard to aim for."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (Jsjd7)

274 Dolley watched the first season of The Handmaid's Tale.

I don't think she watched any others. She likes to laugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (LvTSG)

275 >Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after. I loaded up some Quake 3 Arena on some old linux computers, so I can beat down my boys, and it is still as enjoyable as ever to hear that "Humiliation!" when you get a gauntlet kill and they are squealing to get away.
Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (KnJdm)

Yeah, I pretty much only buy Steam games when they are on sale and I have a huge back catalog to choose from that I've never played yet. Game from 10-20 years ago can still be hella fun even if they don't have the latest and greatest gfx.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (DXFDM)

276 Have you guys seen CIA's new recruitment video. SNL at its best couldn't have made a funnier bit; AND IT'S REAL!

https://bit.ly/2QUk4s1
Posted by: bonhomme

Some Bond music with videos of skiing in the Alps would've been more effective.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 03, 2021 01:02 PM (VVEnO)

277 But ace why no mention of the only real "rightwing" news?
Newsmax!
Yes you forgot to mention that NewsMax pulled in only 100000 viewers
Maybe because they went all squishy and apologized to Dominion Voting after lying about their "fraud"

Posted by: Proud Moderate at May 03, 2021 01:02 PM (3gU2s)

278 And financially, most media is just a small loss-making extension of MegaCorps that are prospering fabulously, more and more every day.

these media outlets that have no audience likely will benefit from bailouts handed out by their NWO democommie buddies anyway

Posted by: kallisto at May 03, 2021 01:02 PM (DJFLF)

279 " Italians break curfew in Bologna. I have to say I'm surprised it took them this long to wake up:

https://tinyurl.com/tmd8x2rh

Posted by: kallisto at May 03, 2021 12:57 PM (DJFLF)"
The comments are great. A lot of resistance to the vaccination and overall control of the people.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 01:03 PM (VpIIl)

280 Note the media anal ist calls it the Jan 6 Insurrection.

Pure F'n Propaganda.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 03, 2021 01:03 PM (oHd/0)

281 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (JZT2F)

Karl took the chocolate mein friend....

He is 100% pro BLM
Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (Lzpvj)

Karl has always felt hinkey to me. Didn't know about the BLM support.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (ifmtJ)

282 Proud Moderate: Lying even with the nic.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (2SdPm)

283 Too many mainlining dirty data.

Now am I lying?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (o89XP)

284 There is also the youtuber, Davie504, who plays bass and does memes and stuff. Pretty funny and good bassist. 10 million subscribers. Traditional media is dead. They just don't know it, yet.
Posted by: 4

Than theres Marcus Nimbler

Posted by: Jean at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (yIJFm)

285 Except now we know 90% of Americans are ignorant fearful compliant North Koreans, really, who don't question extremely dubious authority and have every Stasi instinct ever seen in any populace of the destroyed 20th century dictatorships.

I'm not exactly Mr Sunshine - but I'd challenge that number. Maybe 90% in NorthEast and West Coast urban areas. Rural SouthEast - not even close. 25% compliant, tops. Less compliant in the MidWest as well - just not as belligerently rebellious.

Posted by: Like A Rock at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (784ZQ)

286 282 Proud Moderate: Lying even with the nic.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (2SdPm)

=========

He's a moderate extremist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

287 I don't think she watched any others. She likes to laugh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (LvTSG)

That's why she married youl

Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (f3SGf)

288 "246 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (aM3+f)
If you look in the style guide, you can find the Hot Air button.
Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (ZfRYq) "

You can also light yourself on fire.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 01:05 PM (VpIIl)

289 218 > Sorry, Maggie. If the United States becomes a totalitarian religious dictatorship, Canada is not going to somehow miraculously be Just Fine.
=====
With you all the way, Your Popeness. If the USA became the Kingdom of Swaggertland, Canada would bend the knee. Wouldn't have to worry about Mexico, they'd still come up north, anyway.

I thought the story was crap from a nonideological POV. Gee, a bunch of pretty young things get to become the concubines of wealthy, influential men, even as much of the USA is a radioactive wasteland. Three hots, a cot, and fairly easy duty since the old guy doesn't get it up so much. Said as much to Mom when her book club was reading it. Said my opinion was supported by all of history to the 20th century. She didn't talk about it to me again.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:05 PM (W+kMI)

290 287 I don't think she watched any others. She likes to laugh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (LvTSG)

That's why she married youl
Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (f3SGf)

========

All she has to do is look at my face.

Because I'm funny lookin'.

Get it?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:05 PM (LvTSG)

291 I have been reading Substack, a leftwing independent site, doing some of the work that needs to be done concerning 1st Amendment and personal liberty issues. They are becoming increasingly hated by the lunatic left and their corporate masters.

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (0KKyI)

292 286 282 Proud Moderate: Lying even with the nic.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (2SdPm)

=========

He's a moderate extremist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

Are you assuming xhir gender? Be better TJM.

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (Ojki1)

293 Yeah, I pretty much only buy Steam games when they
are on sale and I have a huge back catalog to choose from that I've
never played yet. Game from 10-20 years ago can still be hella fun even
if they don't have the latest and greatest gfx.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (DXFDM)

I was surprised to see that there is a bit of a youtube phenomenon of youtubers going back to some of the early BF and COD classics, which I suppose is problematic for game studios.

Years after playing BF2, I was surprised to see games still going strong online.

Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (KnJdm)

294 292 He's a moderate extremist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

Are you assuming xhir gender? Be better TJM.
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (Ojki1)

==========

I'm assigning a gender, because fuck it. I'm a hater no matter what.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (LvTSG)

295 I can see Chris Wallace biting a chick like Marv Albert.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (8KGgj)

I think Wallace is a deeply closeted homo who will never come out because he doesn't want to add to his traitor father's torments in Hell.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (y7DUB)

296 Get it?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:05 PM (LvTSG)

No I do not.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (Zz0t1)

297 All she has to do is look at my face.

Because I'm funny lookin'.

Get it?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:05 PM (LvTSG)

I DON'T GET IT. CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN IT?

Posted by: Ben Rothlesburger at May 03, 2021 01:07 PM (Ojki1)

298
You can also light yourself on fire.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 01:05 PM (VpIIl)

If you light yourself on fire, the world will PAY to watch you burn.

Posted by: Course of Empire at May 03, 2021 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

299 I have to admit the robbers shot pretty well . They were stymied by the up armor.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 03, 2021 01:08 PM (2DOZq)

300 > Karl took the chocolate mein friend....

Karl?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 01:08 PM (JZT2F)

301 294 292 He's a moderate extremist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

Are you assuming xhir gender? Be better TJM.
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (Ojki1)

==========

I'm assigning a gender, because fuck it. I'm a hater no matter what.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (LvTSG)

Make that " Proud Hater", eh?

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:08 PM (0KKyI)

302 Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after. I loaded up some Quake 3 Arena on some old linux computers, so I can beat down my boys, and it is still as enjoyable as ever to hear that "Humiliation!" when you get a gauntlet kill and they are squealing to get away.

"My Leige" still echos at my house from the old laptops I gave the kids.

Posted by: Jean at May 03, 2021 01:08 PM (yIJFm)

303 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
Posted by: Stonn

Here's somebody aping Ace. Not very well.

Kirsten Gillibrand
@SenGillibrand
Tired: Families
Wired: Affordable child care and universal paid leave
8:59 AM � May 3, 2021

Once a Jellybrain, always a Jellybrain.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 03, 2021 01:09 PM (VVEnO)

304 Have you guys seen CIA's new recruitment video.

So the CIA is trying to get out ahead of The Babylon Bee news cycle? Good luck CIA. America's Paper of Record and Prophecy has a stellar record.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2021 01:09 PM (QkowV)

305 302 Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after. I loaded up some Quake 3 Arena on some old linux computers, so I can beat down my boys, and it is still as enjoyable as ever to hear that "Humiliation!" when you get a gauntlet kill and they are squealing to get away.

"My Leige" still echos at my house from the old laptops I gave the kids.
Posted by: Jean at May 03, 2021 01:08 PM (yIJFm)

You have Space Invaders?

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:09 PM (0KKyI)

306 I'm a hater no matter what.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (LvTSG)

In that kase Mortal Kombat is streaming. Live your best life and let the hate flow. Well, probably not hate for the movie but hate that you sat through mediocre drek.

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:09 PM (Ojki1)

307
Related: Canadians love to cheer on the American Left, and jeer anything we do that's remotely "conservative."

It's like these idiots forget that Communist superpowers pick off their weaker neighbors as a matter of course, and necessity.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 01:10 PM (Uh2oA)

308 Dominion fraud is NOT a lie.

The machines were updated after the lockdown date. Illegal.

The machines were connected to the internet during the election. Illegal.

The machines physically changed votes when ballots were submitted. Illegal.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

309 Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after.
Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (KnJdm)

Same with music and cars. However, people seem to like new things. Their real problem is the big studios are too sclerotic to do new things.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:10 PM (aM3+f)

310 Why tune into a talking head lying to me when I can get directly lied to by the government now?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2021 01:10 PM (JMMlQ)

311 I find it curious how the viewership curves for CNN, MSNBC, and Headline News are all three so nicely parallel? Speculating as to why...

Posted by: Muldoon at May 03, 2021 01:10 PM (Fc5rx)

312 307
Related: Canadians love to cheer on the American Left, and jeer anything we do that's remotely "conservative."

It's like these idiots forget that Communist superpowers pick off their weaker neighbors as a matter of course, and necessity.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 01:10 PM (Uh2oA)

It's all Weather Envy.....

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:10 PM (0KKyI)

313 306 I'm a hater no matter what.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (LvTSG)

In that kase Mortal Kombat is streaming. Live your best life and let the hate flow. Well, probably not hate for the movie but hate that you sat through mediocre drek.
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:09 PM (Ojki1)

=========

It was...I didn't even like the opening that most people who don't like the movie give it props for. Razor thin stuff that doesn't really hold together. Also, it's really boring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (LvTSG)

314 302 Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after. I loaded up some Quake 3 Arena on some old linux computers, so I can beat down my boys, and it is still as enjoyable as ever to hear that "Humiliation!" when you get a gauntlet kill and they are squealing to get away.

"My Leige" still echos at my house from the old laptops I gave the kids.
Posted by: Jean

I've pondered the idea of trying to get Grand Prix Legends to run on my Linux WS. I haven't tried to yet but at some point, I'll experiment.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (QkowV)

315 Wired: Affordable child care
Spherical Guatemalans for the win!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (JMMlQ)

316 . But I don't think a post suggesting tiredness will hurt anyone.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (aM3+f)

Except that's not what you did. Suggesting tiredness is not demanding "would you shut up already?" That's what you did.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (5qBoi)

317 > So the CIA is trying to get out ahead of The Babylon Bee news cycle? Good luck CIA. America's Paper of Record and Prophecy has a stellar record.

CIA has always recruited out of the Ivies. Maybe that recruitment video missed its mark, but I doubt it. It's funny and scary to us, but that's what a top graduate from our most exclusive schools looks and sounds like.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (i0wNm)

318 Yes, the USA will totally turn into a Christian Totalitarian hellscape. Just look at who is at the head of every powerful institution, corporation, central bank, and NGO in America.
IT's ThE ChRiStIaNs!

Posted by: Maggie at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (Oo9rt)

319 Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after.
Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (KnJdm)

Which is why console makers aren't exactly rushing to make backwards compatibility a big thing.

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (Ojki1)

320 198 The number of AAA titles being produced at each
publisher is way down from that period, though the costs of each now
rival something like Avengers.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (uhPTO)

Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after. I loaded up some Quake 3 Arena on some old linux computers, so I can beat down my boys, and it is still as enjoyable as ever to hear that "Humiliation!" when you get a gauntlet kill and they are squealing to get away.
Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (KnJdm)

Meanwhile CoD still releasing a new version nearly every year.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 01:12 PM (z5Vrg)

321 FNC is lucky to have me! I'm the bet of the whole place and bring a sheen of success to the Sunday morning line-up. But politics is where I really shine. I'm just sorry my protege, Leland Vittert, was treated so abominably. I am considering a very strong letter.

Posted by: Chris Wallace at May 03, 2021 01:12 PM (Zny85)

322 I get 90% of my news here, truth be told... mostly from that Sefton fellow...

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:12 PM (0KKyI)

323 The comments are great. A lot of resistance to the vaccination and overall control of the people.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 01:03 PM (VpIIl)

there is still a right wing in Italy and a pretty fervent nationalist group. However, they have been sold out by alleged nationalist party Lega, sound familiar??

Posted by: kallisto at May 03, 2021 01:12 PM (DJFLF)

324 Our oligarch masters can keep any "news" show going by funneling "advertising" money into it. Indefinitely.

The worse they're doing, the more people hate it and don't want to be gaslighted by it, the happier our masters will be. There will be an inverse relationship between rating and support.

Like the relationship between how much you like the person sticking red hot pokers into you and their performance review at "evil torture guy wearing mask Inc.".

Posted by: banana Dream at May 03, 2021 01:12 PM (AB1Co)

325 > "My Leige" still echos at my house from the old laptops I gave the kids.

Age of Empires III?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 01:12 PM (i0wNm)

326 I'm a hater no matter what.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (LvTSG)
++++
His favorite drink is Haterade!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 01:13 PM (Jsjd7)

327 did I really just see someone compare a streaming news channel to over the air and cable networks with granted licenses and billions of dollars of govt backing?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 03, 2021 01:13 PM (r+sAi)

328 300 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 01:08 PM (JZT2F)

In Range TV's asshole on camera.

He and Ian are either partners or frequent collaborators, at the end of the day I know Karl is darkside and I suspect Ian is totalitarian curious.

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:13 PM (Lzpvj)

329 And now we have... MUBB????

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:14 PM (0KKyI)

330 288 "246 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (aM3+f)
If you look in the style guide, you can find the Hot Air button.
Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (ZfRYq) "
You can also light yourself on fire.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 01:05 PM (VpIIl)

Sorry, it's hot here already. Can I wait 'til winter?

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:14 PM (aM3+f)

331 Like a Rock - yeah, those numbers are just pulled out of the air. Bottom line is, nationally, a collapsed civic culture. Compliant citizens, uninformed and misinformed, ruled over by incompetent/corrupt institutions, with no press to actually ask questions, no real opposition within elected political institutions. Whole ecosystem an open society is built on is out of balance or just gone. Regional variation is no solace. Not long ago that wouldn't have even been the case.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 03, 2021 01:14 PM (OTzUX)

332 It was...I didn't even like the opening that most people who don't like the movie give it props for. Razor thin stuff that doesn't really hold together. Also, it's really boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (LvTSG)

The opening only works if it goes somewhere. Which it only did if you count the end as going somewhere, and I don't. Also, why would a 1600's Chinese ninja speak English after killing his Japanese rival?

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:14 PM (Ojki1)

333 326 I'm a hater no matter what.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:06 PM (LvTSG)
++++
His favorite drink is Haterade!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2021 01:13 PM (Jsjd7)

Well, Jedi Knight and the Force is now a recognized religion in England... maybe we could get a Dark Side Religion Exemption?

Yes, I Hate, its part of MY Religion.

Oh, and thinking on it, the Bible says there are things even GOD hates.... soooo...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 03, 2021 01:15 PM (oHd/0)

334 Just did our part by ending our cable TV.

Posted by: Brian at May 03, 2021 01:15 PM (eV752)

335 and just in case I have not said it today, FUCK NATIONAL REVIEW....

"WaPo fact checkers give up on monitoring Biden's lies"

Yeah thank God you fucks undermined Trump nonstop eh?

Now you think we give two shits you have buyers' remorse over Biden?

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:15 PM (Lzpvj)

336 332

The opening only works if it goes somewhere. Which it only did if you count the end as going somewhere, and I don't. Also, why would a 1600's Chinese ninja speak English after killing his Japanese rival?
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:14 PM (Ojki1)

Those words.... they confuse...

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:15 PM (0KKyI)

337 332 It was...I didn't even like the opening that most people who don't like the movie give it props for. Razor thin stuff that doesn't really hold together. Also, it's really boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (LvTSG)

The opening only works if it goes somewhere. Which it only did if you count the end as going somewhere, and I don't. Also, why would a 1600's Chinese ninja speak English after killing his Japanese rival?
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:14 PM (Ojki1)

To frame the British for the murder obviously. What are we talking about anyways?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 01:15 PM (z5Vrg)

338 239 Ok, that went through.

How about:

I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
----------
No. Ace has kept it real for many years now. The fluffy stuff gets saved for the weekends. Today is the daily drumbeat warning us to be aware, be ready, be angry, be prepared.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (W+kMI)

339 Which is why console makers aren't exactly rushing to make backwards compatibility a big thing.
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (Ojki1)

Except one of them is. That's a major part of the Xbox appeal is that they have done backwards compatibility. Because there are a couple things going into that. If you make a popular game backwards compatible, then you can continue to sell that game on new consoles and you already have the sunk cost in it. And everyday some kid is out their buying their first console ever and now they can download that amazing game from two generations ago.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (5qBoi)

340 334 Posted by: Brian at May 03, 2021 01:15 PM (eV752)

We all arrived at that point at different speeds, welcome to having a real life in a real world brother.

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (Lzpvj)

341 Yes, I Hate, its part of MY Religion.
Indeed hate is part of everyone's religion. Yes, God hates sin, and in the lefty religion they hate everyone and everything that is not part of the left.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (JMMlQ)

342 Karl always seemed odd to me too. The contrast with Gun Jesus is spectacular, as Ian comes across as about the nicest easiest-going smart guy you'll ever meet. Karl had an edge, and a bad vibe. I did see some brief thing where he went into an anti-police rant, not sure it was the National Racist-Totalitarian Street Festival launched by the overdose death of the street trash Floyd, or something else.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (OTzUX)

343 If you have time to play video games, you have time to get active in the governance of your communities and your lives, especially now.

And before you all go all "whataboutyou" like the lefties you bemoan, I'm not playing video games (and God knows I used to spend hours playing Hearts of Iron); my time is spent working on my health, doing what pro-property rights litigation gets tossed my way, getting the lawsuit over the dysthanasia of my unsedated cat by heart stick served and litigated, and doing what I can, from afar, to help my 85 y.o. mother who is in pretty bad health (researching surgeons, medicines, etc.) And unlike most of you, I don't live anywhere near a place where I could do any good outside the litigation context (as my nic suggests, I live in San Francisco).

Posted by: SFGoth at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (KAi1n)

344 I love lamp

Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 01:17 PM (f3SGf)

345 >>> Problem for game studios is that so many games remain playable for years after. I loaded up some Quake 3 Arena on some old linux computers, so I can beat down my boys, and it is still as enjoyable as ever to hear that "Humiliation!" when you get a gauntlet kill and they are squealing to get away.
Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:48 PM (KnJdm)

Meanwhile CoD still releasing a new version nearly every year.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 01:12 PM (z5Vrg)

I'm not going to pay the level money they're asking for AAA these days. CyberPunk? No way I'm gonna do that. I can wait five years for a sale. Gladly. I might pay for new Blizzard releases but they've been sane on price. If they get up to $$$ where other companies then no to them too.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 03, 2021 01:17 PM (AB1Co)

346 The media is for .gov and .corp propaganda. So it won't die; it there are problems, it will be propped up financially by .gov and .corp.

/you know, Bailouts R US(a)!

Posted by: Vyx at May 03, 2021 01:17 PM (8eSmR)

347 316 . But I don't think a post suggesting tiredness will hurt anyone.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (aM3+f)
Except that's not what you did. Suggesting tiredness is not demanding "would you shut up already?" That's what you did.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (5qBoi)

Oh, no, 100% you are correct. I posted a really short response because I'm trying to evade the spam filter. I usually put every sentence on a separate line, maybe that triggers it? I meant in the future, if I just make a single post saying "Media ratings down, news at 11" or something, that wouldn't be something anyone could complain about.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:17 PM (aM3+f)

348
He's a moderate extremist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

Moderate Extremist's Liberation Front? MELF?

Posted by: BifBewalski - some assembly required at May 03, 2021 01:18 PM (Fdgdx)

349 >Now you think we give two shits you have buyers' remorse over Biden?
Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:15 PM (Lzpvj)

It's like the Menendez Bros pleading for leniency because they are orphans.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 03, 2021 01:18 PM (DXFDM)

350 332 It was...I didn't even like the opening that most people who don't like the movie give it props for. Razor thin stuff that doesn't really hold together. Also, it's really boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (LvTSG)

The opening only works if it goes somewhere. Which it only did if you count the end as going somewhere, and I don't. Also, why would a 1600's Chinese ninja speak English after killing his Japanese rival?
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:14 PM (Ojki1)

========

Because game reference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:18 PM (LvTSG)

351 342 Posted by: rhomboid at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (OTzUX)

Karl went full retard on Katrina...seriously in the ramp up to erection 2020

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:18 PM (Lzpvj)

352 Now you think we give two shits you have buyers' remorse over Biden?
Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:15 PM (Lzpvj)

They dont give a fuck. They're just trying to hang on to their core audience by showing how "fair" they are.

Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 01:18 PM (f3SGf)

353 "Every lost network viewer gets made up in online viewership."
-The Deluded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 12:58 PM (LvTSG)

Nope - even after demonitization and shadow banning, alt news sites on YT dominate regular cable numbers...and many of those are branching out to other sites in parallel.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 03, 2021 01:19 PM (eoQWY)

354 I'd love to get the NR folks in a room and ask them which of Biden's unconstitutional actions bother them, then ask them if they didn't know he was going to do them when they supported him.

This is all a game where they pretend they weren't being paid to support Biden and aren't being paid now to be the controlled opposition.

But I want to see Jonah Goldberg sweating donuts when he has to explain how he didn't think Biden was going to pack the court after Biden said the people didn't need to know if he was going to pack the court.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2021 01:19 PM (JMMlQ)

355 Once the Federal Police State has been established there ain't gonna' be a need for 3, 4, 5 or more "news" channels comrades.

I expect the most pliable "talent" from cable to be cornholed together at N3 (National News Network). They'll have a snazzy logo and matching uniforms.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 03, 2021 01:19 PM (3H9h1)

356 343 Posted by: SFGoth at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (KAi1n)

We should all pontificate on why our intoxicant of choice is good and alcohol is bad, or you know rather than being inebriated physically we can take the occasional hour or two long break and shoot pixels but do go on.

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:19 PM (Lzpvj)

357 I can see Chris Wallace biting a chick like Marv Albert.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 03, 2021 01:01 PM (8KGgj)

I can top that!

Posted by: Steve Kroft at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (BMmaB)

358 I don't know how people can stand to watch TV at all. It's all such obvious lies and manipulation.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (qpX6U)

359 That's a major part of the Xbox appeal is that they have done backwards compatibility. Because there are a couple things going into that. If you make a popular game backwards compatible, then you can continue to sell that game on new consoles and you already have the sunk cost in it. And everyday some kid is out their buying their first console ever and now they can download that amazing game from two generations ago.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (5qBoi)

Some of them are in disc form, some aren't. Now digitally, yeah making those compatible adds opportunity for new sales but Microsoft isn't exactly sending out new patches to make all the original X Box game discs playable on the X.

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (Ojki1)

360 I usually put every sentence on a separate line, maybe that triggers it? I meant in the future, if I just make a single post saying "Media ratings down, news at 11" or something, that wouldn't be something anyone could complain about.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:17 PM (aM3+f)

Enough enters will do it. That and being really long.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (z5Vrg)

361 355 Once the Federal Police State has been established there ain't gonna' be a need for 3, 4, 5 or more "news" channels comrades.

I expect the most pliable "talent" from cable to be cornholed together at N3 (National News Network). They'll have a snazzy logo and matching uniforms.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 03, 2021 01:19 PM (3H9h1)

How many television stations were there in the Soviet Union?

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (0KKyI)

362
They dont give a fuck. They're just trying to hang on to their core audience by showing how "fair" they are.
Posted by: ... at May 03, 2021 01:18 PM (f3SGf)

I got their fairness, right heah!
*grabs crotch*
*thrusts hips forward*
You got the bonus plan, babeee

Posted by: Andrew Dice Clay - circa 1990 at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (Fdgdx)

363 >>I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.

Yeah -

Bring back the Top Ten Lists!

Posted by: garrett at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (Kt7VC)

364 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
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No. Ace has kept it real for many years now. The fluffy stuff gets saved for the weekends. Today is the daily drumbeat warning us to be aware, be ready, be angry, be prepared.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (W+kMI)

Well that's what I'm saying I disagree with. He's not keeping it real. It's not real that the media ratings go down as much as his post's headlines imply, and he says the same thing every time.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (aM3+f)

365 Democrats: Good, no one will know what we are doing.

Posted by: Wodun at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (YE1jU)

366
CIA has always recruited out of the Ivies. Maybe that recruitment video missed its mark, but I doubt it. It's funny and scary to us, but that's what a top graduate from our most exclusive schools looks and sounds like.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (i0wNm)

What's really scary about that video is that it tells me the CIA has turned away from operations against foreign governments and agencies to turning it's eyes inwards towards us.

Posted by: Justsayin' at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (Fs5vw)

367 350 332 It was...I didn't even like the opening that most people who don't like the movie give it props for. Razor thin stuff that doesn't really hold together. Also, it's really boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:11 PM (LvTSG)

The opening only works if it goes somewhere. Which it only did if you count the end as going somewhere, and I don't. Also, why would a 1600's Chinese ninja speak English after killing his Japanese rival?
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:14 PM (Ojki1)

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Because game reference.

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Because reading subtitles and watching action at the same time is so hard.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (W+kMI)

368 >Posted by: SFGoth at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (KAi1n)

I get it, you're better than me because you play within the system, and I don't because I've got enough of my own troubles to keep me more than busy and I have the gall to unwind by playing some vidya for a few hours a week when my kids are asleep.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (DXFDM)

369 They'll have a snazzy logo and matching uniforms.
You want Hugo Boss
You'll settle for business formal circa 2004.

You'll get whatever the hell gender neutral, godawful schlock fashion designers are making now.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (JMMlQ)

370 Well that's what I'm saying I disagree with. He's not keeping it real. It's not real that the media ratings go down as much as his post's headlines imply, and he says the same thing every time.
Posted by: Stonn

Then post your numbers with verifiable data.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (HqWIn)

371
NR doesn't have buyer's remorse. They just complain ineffectually about Democrats when they're in power, so they can keep up the controlled-opposition charade.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (Uh2oA)

372 367 Because game reference.

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Because reading subtitles and watching action at the same time is so hard.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (W+kMI)

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Because reading subtitles and watching a zoom shot of a still figure is so hard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (LvTSG)

373 Television is the opiate of the masses.

Posted by: Archer at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (gmo/4)

374 363 >>I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
Yeah -
Bring back the Top Ten Lists!
Posted by: garrett at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (Kt7VC)

Oh S**t you made me remember the Dilbert lists! People would post the worst types of bosses or companies or whatever, and just the funniest stories in a few sentences on every list.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (aM3+f)

375 364 Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (aM3+f)

10 years ago they had double the audience.

Now I know you think their audience has GROWN remarkably by leaps and bounds in some unmeasurable and unmonetizable way....

I know otherwise, if I want lied to repeatedly I can cut out the middlemen and watch the professionals on C-Span.

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (Lzpvj)

376 Scolding libertarians is usually counterproductive...

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (0KKyI)

377 The marketing term that comes to mind is "loss leader". CNN and MSNBC will continue to be subsidized until the bitter end.

Posted by: mrp at May 03, 2021 01:23 PM (Pqytn)

378 It's not real that the media ratings go down as much as his post's headlines imply, and he says the same thing every time.

I guess what you think means one thing, ace and others think means another. The words "collapse" are hardly unreasonable with a 6,000,000 viewer drop in less than a month, with continuing downward movement.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 03, 2021 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

379 Television is the opiate of the masses.

TV is a schedule 1 narcotic.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Serving all Americans, even the Neanderthals. at May 03, 2021 01:23 PM (SchxB)

380 369 They'll have a snazzy logo and matching uniforms.
You want Hugo Boss
You'll settle for business formal circa 2004.

You'll get ~~whatever the hell gender neutral, godawful schlock fashion designers are making now~~ the pants that show up as "even these ones" in the book thread.
fixt

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at May 03, 2021 01:23 PM (v3pYe)

381 What's really scary about that video is that it tells me the CIA has turned away from operations against foreign governments
The government of the United States is *controlled* by a foreign government which is why they banned talking about WuFlu coming from China.

So they will still go after the Russians hiding under our beds, but their real enemy is...us.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2021 01:23 PM (JMMlQ)

382 RELATED: https://tinyurl.com/exrrtpxp

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 03, 2021 01:23 PM (r+sAi)

383 376 Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (0KKyI)

No less productive than counting on them voting their principles either....

"muh drugz!" "muh welfare state!" "Amigo Grande!"

Fuck it subsidize it and deliver it and let Darwin sort shit out.

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:24 PM (Lzpvj)

384
Well that's what I'm saying I disagree with. He's not keeping it real. It's not real that the media ratings go down as much as his post's headlines imply, and he says the same thing every time.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:21 PM (aM3+f)

I've waited this entire post to link this clip.

You ain't keepin' it realh!
https://youtu.be/lld3Gv20YZ8

Posted by: Eddie Griffin & Orlando Jones at May 03, 2021 01:25 PM (Fdgdx)

385 How many television stations were there in the Soviet Union?

There were 6 although not all were available everywhere inside the USSR. All 6 were controlled by the state.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 03, 2021 01:25 PM (3H9h1)

386 One sure fire way to get up attendance is to attack the sitting POTUS

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2021 01:25 PM (RHGPo)

387 I bet this would get cable news viewership up ...

Inside the secret briefing from a top Australian military general as he warned troops of an all-out WAR with China - saying conflict is 'highly likely'
- Australia on verge of an 'all-out war' with China as boiling tensions keep rising
- A special forces general warned troops in a secret briefing about impeding war
- Major-General Adam Findlay said there was a 'high likelihood' of a hot conflict
- Government's China expert urged Australia to form treaty to combat attack

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (RHGPo)

388 361 How many television stations were there in the Soviet Union?
don't know 'bout that, but you could get a speaker that plugged into the wall, which allowed you to hear the approved propaganda.

i think i saw them talked about in an episode of the "ushanka show" youtube channel.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (v3pYe)

389
Because game reference.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:18 PM (LvTSG)

Which makes the main character being a movie original creation even weirder. I get wanting to have the Scorpion/Sub Zero fight. I just don't get why they had to do it so poorly, both from story and execution. Oh hey, he's back from hell because movie script wants it to happen to help the lead fight his enemy and even together they barely win.

But it made a ton of money, so I guess the sequel will explain it all.

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (Ojki1)

390 How many television stations were there in the Soviet Union?
Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (0KKyI)

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Three-C-PTV, Television Moscow!

Best SCTV episode EVAH!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (dfRN6)

391 It is a curious inverse relationship. As the quality of the average home TV screen goes up the amount of viewers goes down. It is almost as if people can now see clearly how much of broadcasting is nothing but rot and are saying they want nothing to do with it.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (v2ilG)

392
383 376 Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (0KKyI)

No less productive than counting on them voting their principles either....

"muh drugz!" "muh welfare state!" "Amigo Grande!"

Fuck it subsidize it and deliver it and let Darwin sort shit out.
Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:24 PM (Lzpvj)

Heh. I am libertarian -right, sven, if that is even a category, but I take your point....

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (0KKyI)

393 370 Well that's what I'm saying I disagree with. He's not keeping it real. It's not real that the media ratings go down as much as his post's headlines imply, and he says the same thing every time.
Posted by: Stonn
Then post your numbers with verifiable data.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2021 01:22 PM (HqWIn)

You sound like those constant posts from leftists on Twitter saying, what's your source what's your data, to every post that disagrees with the official opinions on the coronavirus. But my complaint can't be put in numbers, because it's that his posts imply a huge change, where there isn't one, and that's not something you can put in numbers. I would have to find some endless list of his posts, and still you'd dispute with me, if you're like the leftists. How about if we agree to watch for it going forward?

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (aM3+f)

394 364 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
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No. Ace has kept it real for many years now. The fluffy stuff gets saved for the weekends. Today is the daily drumbeat warning us to be aware, be ready, be angry, be prepared.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:16 PM (W+kMI)

Well that's what I'm saying I disagree with. He's not keeping it real. It's not real that the media ratings go down as much as his post's headlines imply, and he says the same thing every time.

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Don't believe the hype. The old alphabets, CNN, and PMS-NBC are all chasing the same demographics. Even Fox is slipping now after hiring a Clintonista for Election Night coverage. Of course the viewership is going down. If my newspaper dropped the funny pages and coupons, it would disappear like morning mist. Ace is telling you to watch if you must, but don't buy their claims to speak for the majority. Cronkite is dead and so is mass media credibility. But it still has to be said. It's. A. Damned. Lie. And 60% of the American voters knew it last November.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (W+kMI)

395 I find this narrative concerning.

Posted by: Chris Wray at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (sTOQ8)

396 390 How many television stations were there in the Soviet Union?
Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (0KKyI)

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Three-C-PTV, Television Moscow!

Best SCTV episode EVAH!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (dfRN6)

Lol!

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:27 PM (0KKyI)

397 377 The marketing term that comes to mind is "loss leader". CNN and MSNBC will continue to be subsidized until the bitter end.
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They call them 'Strategic Assets'. The View, a Comcast/NBC asset, has been in business for 28 years and has never made a profit. But they do maintain 'goodthink' for the Wine Moms and Karens. Keeping white women angry and bitchy seems an important key to Comcast's business plan.

Posted by: Buddha Steppenwolf at May 03, 2021 01:28 PM (/MaDp)

398 Soviet TV remote pretty easy to navigate!

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:29 PM (0KKyI)

399 Woo-hoo! My doggie is home.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2021 01:29 PM (OC7lX)

400 Three-C-PTV, Television Moscow!

Best SCTV episode EVAH!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (dfRN6)

https://youtu.be/oHjaAu1GTZU

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

401 Seriously why would someone want to turn on the nightly "news"? I can already tell you what their stories are
COVID is WORSER THEN EVERER...minorities and women hardest hit
ORANGEMANBAD and NORMIESBAD

China Good

Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2021 01:29 PM (JMMlQ)

402 It's like these idiots forget that Communist superpowers pick off their weaker neighbors as a matter of course, and necessity.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 01:10 PM (Uh2oA)

The only reason Canada exists is because we find it useful. Short of invasion, we could collapse it at any time in three months with an economic blockade. That's not to say that many of the Canadians aren't wonderful allies and steadfast partners (they are), but we both know the power relationship is somewhat . . . imbalanced.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 03, 2021 01:29 PM (BMmaB)

403 398 Soviet TV remote pretty easy to navigate!
Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:29 PM (0KKyI)

I like channel 3 progda. Is better than channel 7 progda. different camera angle show side bewb.

Posted by: BifBewalski - move to a new dimension to escape the squirrels at May 03, 2021 01:30 PM (Fdgdx)

404 Sorry, Maggie. If the United States becomes a totalitarian religious dictatorship, Canada is not going to somehow miraculously be Just Fine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Hey, they got Fidel's kid, Justin. Just in time, too. The Maple Leaf Reich! All hail, Justin!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at May 03, 2021 01:30 PM (vcOmj)

405 Holy crap.

I just made love to an Italian Combo with Extra Prosciuto like it was Tuesday.

I need a smoke.

Posted by: garrett at May 03, 2021 01:30 PM (Kt7VC)

406 >>The only reason Canada exists is because we find it useful.

Think lately it's been a lot more useful to China.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2021 01:30 PM (bDqIh)

407 I think I read that Twatter readership tanked bigtime after they banned Trump.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2021 12:23 PM (JZT2F)

Were it not for kbdabear, they'd get no clicks at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2021 01:31 PM (OC7lX)

408 389
Which makes the main character being a movie original creation even weirder. I get wanting to have the Scorpion/Sub Zero fight. I just don't get why they had to do it so poorly, both from story and execution. Oh hey, he's back from hell because movie script wants it to happen to help the lead fight his enemy and even together they barely win.

But it made a ton of money, so I guess the sequel will explain it all.
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (Ojki1)

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It made pretty good money...for the pandemic. And it collapsed in its second week.

I imagine a second movie will come, but no more than that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

409 378 It's not real that the media ratings go down as much as his post's headlines imply, and he says the same thing every time.
I guess what you think means one thing, ace and others think means another. The words "collapse" are hardly unreasonable with a 6,000,000 viewer drop in less than a month, with continuing downward movement.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 03, 2021 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

No doubt. But if that 6M comes from after the election, and the election of a Democrat, that exact thing, the drop in media ratings after an election where they elect a Democrat, always happens, news at 11. Why isn't that fact in the post (unless it is, sorry I skimmed it.)

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:31 PM (aM3+f)

410 406 Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2021 01:30 PM (bDqIh)

They did a pretty good job of pissing Xi off, he fixed it by pulling on Justin Castro's choker.

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:31 PM (Lzpvj)

411 Be pretty funny if the media started begging Trump to come back so that can prop up their business model.

Posted by: Nancy at 7000 ft at May 03, 2021 01:31 PM (0tmoY)

412 Some of them are in disc form, some aren't. Now digitally, yeah making those compatible adds opportunity for new sales but Microsoft isn't exactly sending out new patches to make all the original X Box game discs playable on the X.
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (

Apparently there are about 42 from the original Xbox that are playable. They all apparently get an up res as well. Now that 42 sounds small and I agree it is. But then you look and the 360 has nearly 600 hundred that are playable on the current gem console. And basically all Xbox One games are minus Kinect games. That says backwards compatibility going forward. Add in to that how Xbox has figured out how to double the frame rate for quite a few old games too shows that they aren't just ignoring them.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 03, 2021 01:32 PM (5qBoi)

413 Did China outright buy Vancouver, or what?

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:32 PM (0KKyI)

414 You sound like those constant posts from leftists on Twitter saying, what's your source what's your data, to every post that disagrees with the official opinions on the coronavirus. But my complaint can't be put in numbers, because it's that his posts imply a huge change, where there isn't one, and that's not something you can put in numbers. I would have to find some endless list of his posts, and still you'd dispute with me, if you're like the leftists. How about if we agree to watch for it going forward?
Posted by: Stonn

Is this your first week on the Internet?
You challenge something posted, it's incumbent upon you to provide facts.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2021 01:32 PM (HqWIn)

415 413 Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:32 PM (0KKyI)

Well the Chinese did as in people, ergo there is Defacto china and Dejure China....

HongCouver is Defacto China

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:33 PM (Lzpvj)

416 Ratings are down because people are stuck at home and unable to go out to the bar and watch TV!

/some moron on some thread somewhere.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 12:25 PM (2SdPm)

That is literally true for me. I have no TV at home. I don't go to the bar to watch TV, but I might see some TV, while there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2021 01:33 PM (OC7lX)

417 We should all pontificate on why our intoxicant of choice is good and alcohol is bad, or you know rather than being inebriated physically we can take the occasional hour or two long break and shoot pixels but do go on.
Posted by: sven

I have no problem with your intoxicant of choice -- while i don't drink much now, I have rather enjoyed a good beer, wine, or whisky in the past. Hell, I wasn't a hash house harrier for the *running* (which I generally dislike). I also don't think alcohol should be illegal at all. I do think a broader perspective is warranted. Shoot back at me all you like -- and some playing time to unwind is fine -- but events are going to event and you either participate or watch them unfold without you.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 03, 2021 01:34 PM (KAi1n)

418 I think this is obvious.

Covid 19 and Net Neutrality were worse than we could have imagined.
Millions....MILLIONS are dead, and their TV sets are turned off. Perhaps, forever. There are TV sets being turned off all over the country, and we shall not see them turned on again in our generation.

TURN THOSE TV SETS BACK ON, DAMMIT!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at May 03, 2021 01:34 PM (vcOmj)

419 >>> Enough enters will do it. That and being really long.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 01:20 PM (z5Vrg)

Great! Now people tell me.

Posted by: Zombie John Holms at May 03, 2021 01:34 PM (AB1Co)

420 415 413 Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:32 PM (0KKyI)

Well the Chinese did as in people, ergo there is Defacto china and Dejure China....

HongCouver is Defacto China
Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:33 PM (Lzpvj)

Just wondered... when I visited, there was a weird vibe..

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:34 PM (0KKyI)

421 If the media is dying, please, please make Piss Wallace the tip of the spear. The worst part about this guy isn't that Daddy made his career available to him, or that he's a "news" guy who f'ing spins all day long. It's that testosterone deprived voice that just *squeels* I'm a Patrician cuck from an elite, heh, "Boys" school who has zero to add to the conversation.
I'm sure I missed some...

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 03, 2021 01:34 PM (7Fj9P)

422 402 It's like these idiots forget that Communist superpowers pick off their weaker neighbors as a matter of course, and necessity.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2021 01:10 PM (Uh2oA)

The only reason Canada exists is because we find it useful. Short of invasion, we could collapse it at any time in three months with an economic blockade. That's not to say that many of the Canadians aren't wonderful allies and steadfast partners (they are), but we both know the power relationship is somewhat... imbalanced.
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The only reason Canada exists is that we'd have to govern it after absorbing it. Between the 20 million oil company dues and the 20 million subarctic hippies invading the new states, we'd mess things up in short order. But, I say let Ontario and Quebec govern themselves, and keep everything and everyone else.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:35 PM (W+kMI)

423 I got a Nielsen invite in the mail last week. I haven't had a TV subscription since 2012.

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 03, 2021 01:35 PM (iTXRQ)

424 406 >>The only reason Canada exists is because we find it useful.

Think lately it's been a lot more useful to China.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2021 01:30 PM (bDqIh)

I'll say it again. Disregarding that Trump legitimately won the election, the President of the United States is Chairman Xi of China.

Posted by: Justsayin' at May 03, 2021 01:35 PM (Fs5vw)

425 Die left wing media scum!

Die! Die!....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 03, 2021 01:35 PM (DDw5Y)

426 417 Posted by: SFGoth at May 03, 2021 01:34 PM (KAi1n)

I have been sober for 21 years champ....

Try again.

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:35 PM (Lzpvj)

427 423 I got a Nielsen invite in the mail last week. I haven't had a TV subscription since 2012.
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 03, 2021 01:35 PM (iTXRQ)

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Accept it, and return the booklet completely empty every week.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:36 PM (LvTSG)

428 It made pretty good money...for the pandemic. And it collapsed in its second week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

*looks up number*

Huh, I was confusing its numbers, I thought it made a lot more than that. So yeah, the Sub Zero actors 5 movie deal is likely not to be a completed thing.

As to the collapse week 2, almost everything collapses in its second week these days though MK's is rather spectacular. Almost 75%, wow.

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:36 PM (Ojki1)

429 The UK is sending a carrier strike group to the "Indo-Pacific" region that will include the brand-new HMS Queen Elizabeth,, two DDs, two frigates, and an Astute-class nuke sub. A USN Arleigh Burke class destroyer, The Sullivans, and a Dutch frigate will accompany the British fleet component. The deployment will last 28 weeks. The Queen Elizabeth will carry 10 UK F-35Bs and 10 USMC F-35s.

Posted by: mrp at May 03, 2021 01:36 PM (Pqytn)

430 427 423 I got a Nielsen invite in the mail last week. I haven't had a TV subscription since 2012.
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 03, 2021 01:35 PM (iTXRQ)

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Accept it, and return the booklet completely empty every week.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:36 PM (LvTSG)

Or just fill in random shit.....

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:36 PM (0KKyI)

431 420 Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:34 PM (0KKyI)

When I get done rebuilding my main computer I will post the interrogation of Rocky Rambo Wei Yan Can or whatever....

you get some definite twin peaks vibe there.

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:36 PM (Lzpvj)

432 You have Space Invaders?

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:09 PM (0KKyI)

You can, on an emulator.

Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 01:37 PM (KnJdm)

433 You guys don't think Joe and Nancy aren't going to bail out their mouthpieces? C'mon man! It's like sports leagues -- they're not going to go under because that would be systematic raycizm.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 03, 2021 01:37 PM (KAi1n)

434 Yes! My new DVD copy of The Searchers just arrived.

Figured I'd better buy it before it's disappeared.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 03, 2021 01:37 PM (dfRN6)

435 Well that's what I'm saying I disagree with. He's not keeping it real. It's not real that the media ratings go down as much as his post's headlines imply, and he says the same thing every time.
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Don't believe the hype. The old alphabets, CNN, and PMS-NBC are all chasing the same demographics.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:26 PM (W+kMI)

They're all dropping. We've all seen the drop in readership of papers, hugely. And you'd expect a drop in mainstream media ratings both from seeing their lies and the proliferation of other ways to get news. BUT NONE OF THAT IS ITSELF NEWS. We all know all of that. Ace's posts are like Qanon, telling us great things are about to happen and this particular ratings drop proves it. I'm glad he serves the needs of his audience, but I would prefer a shorter post from him that doesn't make it seem like this particular drop is rilly important.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:37 PM (aM3+f)

436 The cold reality of being correct can never overcome the warm satisfaction of being right.

stolen from zman

Posted by: DaveA at May 03, 2021 01:37 PM (FhXTo)

437 Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:31 PM (aM3+f)

Feel free to email Ace and tell him you think he is running his site wrong. He's said in the past how much he likes it when people do that.

Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:37 PM (Ojki1)

438 422 Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:35 PM (W+kMI)

If the US and Canada ever join up I am moving to Vulcan.

Posted by: sven at May 03, 2021 01:38 PM (Lzpvj)

439 >>You have Space Invaders?

Cool looking pin. Incredible art package.

But a boring game to flip.

Posted by: garrett at May 03, 2021 01:38 PM (Kt7VC)

440 Do not watch TV News if you are allergic to TV News. Do not watch TV News if you are taking a beta-blocker, MAO inhibitor, sulfonylurea medications or use a steroid inhaler. Do not watch TV news if you or a family member have a history of multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type II or chronic depression. Watching TV news can cause headache, rage strokes, eye twitching, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and anal warts. Stop watching TV news and call your doctor if you experience any of these side effects. If you cannot afford TV news, MSNBC may be able to help with zero dollar copays.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 03, 2021 01:38 PM (Fc5rx)

441 Send $100 ASAP so we can fight the Biden liberal radical agenda.
- Liz Cheney

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 03, 2021 01:38 PM (nBcht)

442 "The UK is sending a carrier strike group"

The UK still has a navy?

Posted by: SFGoth at May 03, 2021 01:38 PM (KAi1n)

443 From Ashli Babbitt's family lawyer

In a statement, the officer's attorney insistedhis client's "bravery
was nothing short of heroic and by shooting and killing Babbitt, he
saved the lives of countless members of Congress and the rioters. The
nation owes him a debt of gratitude."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 03, 2021 01:38 PM (Zny85)

444 >>The UK still has a navy?

Rum, Sodomy and a Sash

Posted by: garrett at May 03, 2021 01:39 PM (Kt7VC)

445 428
As to the collapse week 2, almost everything collapses in its second week these days though MK's is rather spectacular. Almost 75%, wow.
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:36 PM (Ojki1)

=========

Yeah, 75% is a lot.

The movie sucks, and audiences realize that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 03, 2021 01:39 PM (LvTSG)

446 Nood. Surrender to i-slam.

Posted by: Vyx at May 03, 2021 01:39 PM (lIIT7)

447 I kinda miss the #two weeks guy.... he was resolute in his... optimism... I guess you'd call it, but after a while it became untenable..

Posted by: kraken at May 03, 2021 01:39 PM (0KKyI)

448 From Ashli Babbitt's family lawyer

In a statement, the officer's attorney insistedhis client's "bravery
was nothing short of heroic and by shooting and killing Babbitt, he
saved the lives of countless members of Congress and the rioters. The
nation owes him a debt of gratitude."
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 03, 2021 01:38 PM (Zny85)

Wait.....what?

Is this from the Bee?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

449 I need a smoke.
Posted by: garrett at May 03, 2021 01:30 PM

If we could get someone to take care of us, we would too.

Posted by: The Margins at May 03, 2021 01:39 PM (DMUuz)

450 429 The UK is sending a carrier strike group to the "Indo-Pacific" region that will include the brand-new HMS Queen Elizabeth,, two DDs, two frigates, and an Astute-class nuke sub. A USN Arleigh Burke class destroyer, The Sullivans, and a Dutch frigate will accompany the British fleet component. The deployment will last 28 weeks. The Queen Elizabeth will carry 10 UK F-35Bs and 10 USMC F-35s.

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In 1951 the U.S. Navy was to be found everywhere, except Antarctica.

Our allies were the icing of a large, delicious cake. Now it's more like 1821, and the Navy is a "me too" component of someone else's agenda.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:40 PM (W+kMI)

451 "Why isn't that fact in the post"

This site is not for objectively reported news. It is for outrage and lulz. Ace throws out the red meat 6-8 times a day, and we roll around in it. I think you're looking in the wrong place for the wrong thing.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at May 03, 2021 01:40 PM (qpX6U)

452 killing Babbitt, he

saved the lives of countless members of Congress and the rioters.
If Babbit gets through she has a heated discussion with some congress critter - just like when the Kavanaugh protestors got through.
Obviously murdering her while she was stuck in a door to stop that is the height of bravery.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2021 01:40 PM (JMMlQ)

453 >> the officer's attorney insistedhis client's "bravery
was nothing short of heroic and by shooting and killing Babbitt, he saved the lives of countless members of Congress and the rioters. The nation owes him a

Menthol Cigarette and a Blindfold.

Posted by: garrett at May 03, 2021 01:40 PM (Kt7VC)

454 Posted by: mrp at May 03, 2021 01:36 PM (Pqytn)

I must really be a moron. Your conjunction of Queen Elizabeth followed by two DD's gave me a very strange thought.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at May 03, 2021 01:41 PM (v2ilG)

455 Is this your first week on the Internet?
You challenge something posted, it's incumbent upon you to provide facts.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2021 01:32 PM (HqWIn)

Is this your first week on the Internet?
Nobody does that. And nobody but the trolls claim to expect it. People provide extensive facts either on their own blogs after much thought and work, or at webpages of official scientific journals.
Truly, is this your first week on the planet?
Nobody provides extensive data off the top of their head in real life.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:41 PM (aM3+f)

456 I have been sober for 21 years champ....
Try again.
Posted by: sven

Wouldn't 21 years sober make you the champ? Congrats, though, in all seriousness. My ex's step-brother died of cirrhosis last November. He was 31.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 03, 2021 01:41 PM (KAi1n)

457 Amazon is staring to identify products made outside of China. I picked up a product from Korea.

Posted by: JM in Florida at May 03, 2021 01:42 PM (HCeRP)

458 The UK still has a navy?
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...all aboard the "Raging Queen". God, I miss John Belushi.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 03, 2021 01:42 PM (7Fj9P)

459 Ratings plummeted after the WWE Attitude era ended. The WWE is still around along with Pro Wrestling.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 03, 2021 01:42 PM (H+Igi)

460 1/3rd to 40% drops (after previous large drops) is pretty significant for any business. Ace's headline? Completely accurate.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 01:42 PM (z5Vrg)

461 NOOD - Iran

Posted by: Dark Helmet at May 03, 2021 01:43 PM (Oka5v)

462 In 1951 the U.S. Navy was to be found everywhere, except Antarctica.
Our allies were the icing of a large, delicious cake. Now it's more
like 1821, and the Navy is a "me too" component of someone else's
agenda.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:40 PM (W+kMI)

================================
Japan and SK would beg to differ. Even Taiwan is beefing up.

Posted by: mrp at May 03, 2021 01:43 PM (Pqytn)

463 MILLIONS are dead,

-
Mrs. Wrecks told me 4,000,000 a day are dying of covid in India! I'm sure she got that from here school teacher friends.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 03, 2021 01:43 PM (VVEnO)

464 Cable news some the JV teams
NBC CBS ABC pull in around 10 million

Posted by: Proud Moderate at May 03, 2021 01:43 PM (3gU2s)

465 the media long ago devolved into a racket. With the 24 hour news cycle, they needed content to fill that cycle. As the content became thinner and thinner (since more networks were in on the game) they increasingly turned to becoming part of the story rather than reporting the story. They needed to prolong the stories as long as possible to fill those hours and to pay their salaries.

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at May 03, 2021 01:44 PM (uS2EJ)

466 "...official scientific journals."
====================
You just smoked yourself out, fuck face.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 03, 2021 01:44 PM (7Fj9P)

467 Lumber goes to yet a new record high price. Almost as if when the govt prints trillions every month inflation follows.

But the LIVs got a $2k check so all is good in the world, so says the MSM

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 03, 2021 01:45 PM (nBcht)

468 There is also the youtuber, Davie504, who plays bass and does memes and stuff. Pretty funny and good bassist. 10 million subscribers. Traditional media is dead. They just don't know it, yet.
Posted by: 4 at May 03, 2021 12:44 PM (KnJdm)

And then there is the continuing growth of "LongMan" shows commenting on movies and other topics. Groups of several regular YTers commenting on a movie and other reviews for 10-12 hours in a row, panel members napping on the stream. Puts to lie the supposed need for everything to be predigested 30 second pap soundbytes.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 03, 2021 01:46 PM (eoQWY)

469 >but events are going to event and you either participate or watch them unfold without you.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 03, 2021 01:34 PM (KAi1n)

I have a finite number of hours on this Earth. I can either throw them away trying to play in a rigged game or I can try to make things the best I can for my family, personally. It's not irrational to make the choice to eschew the Rasslin' Match in favor of tangibly improving the lives of me and my family the best I can.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at May 03, 2021 01:46 PM (DXFDM)

470 451 "Why isn't that fact in the post"
This site is not for objectively reported news. It is for outrage and lulz. Ace throws out the red meat 6-8 times a day, and we roll around in it. I think you're looking in the wrong place for the wrong thing.
Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at May 03, 2021 01:40 PM (qpX6U)

I like read meat.
In fact, I've enjoyed the posts I'm complaining about. I'm just tired of them, having seen so many of the same thing, and now after the election stuff makes it seem like a waste of time.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:46 PM (aM3+f)

471 "...official scientific journals."
====================
You just smoked yourself out, fuck face.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 03, 2021 01:44 PM (7Fj9P)

There's no such thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 03, 2021 01:46 PM (eoQWY)

472 466 "...official scientific journals."
====================
You just smoked yourself out, fuck face.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at May 03, 2021 01:44 PM (7Fj9P)

Maybe I'll taste better.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:47 PM (aM3+f)

473 Why isn't that fact in the post

Why would it be? He's analyzed that in the past and discussed the fact that having no Orange Bad Man to broadcast on is killing the news channels.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 03, 2021 01:49 PM (KZzsI)

474 460 1/3rd to 40% drops (after previous large drops) is pretty significant for any business. Ace's headline? Completely accurate.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 03, 2021 01:42 PM (z5Vrg)

Sure. Except for the point about how it always does that after an election.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:49 PM (aM3+f)

475 The UK is sending a carrier strike group to the "Indo-Pacific" region that will include the brand-new HMS Queen Elizabeth,, two DDs, two frigates, and an Astute-class nuke sub. A USN Arleigh Burke class destroyer, The Sullivans, and a Dutch frigate will accompany the British fleet component. The deployment will last 28 weeks. The Queen Elizabeth will carry 10 UK F-35Bs and 10 USMC F-35s.

----------

In 1951 the U.S. Navy was to be found everywhere, except Antarctica. Our allies were the icing of a large, delicious cake. Now it's more like 1821, and the Navy is a "me too" component of someone else's agenda.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 03, 2021 01:40 PM (W+kMI)

The Brits should remember what happened to Force Z, the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, when war broke out in 1941

Posted by: Oldcat at May 03, 2021 01:50 PM (eoQWY)

476 Is this from the Bee?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 03, 2021 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

=====================
Nope- it's a quote from Sharyl Attkisson's Sunday Show reprinted at Just The News

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 03, 2021 01:50 PM (Zny85)

477 437 Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:31 PM (aM3+f)
Feel free to email Ace and tell him you think he is running his site wrong. He's said in the past how much he likes it when people do that.
Posted by: Bete at May 03, 2021 01:37 PM (Ojki1)

Thank you, and it's reasonable not to want to hear people complain about a site you like on that very site, especially so aggressively as I did. However, perhaps a single mild post won't be a problem going forward, without going on about it? Complaints do happen, from time to time.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 01:54 PM (aM3+f)

478 Ashli Babbitt article link

https://tinyurl.com/zm2ej5ps

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 03, 2021 01:55 PM (Zny85)

479 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (aM3+f)

Sheesh! Ace has several themes that he revisits from time to time, so changes can be tracked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2021 01:59 PM (GjmxD)

480 Proud Moderate: Lying even with the nic.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 03, 2021 01:04 PM (2SdPm)

"Plowed Faggot" didn't focus-group well at the troll farm.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2021 02:04 PM (GjmxD)

481 479 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (aM3+f)
Sheesh! Ace has several themes that he revisits from time to time, so changes can be tracked.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2021 01:59 PM (GjmxD)

Thank you. But this particular subject seems repeated, saying the same thing, always making it seem like the current particular instance is big important news.

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 02:05 PM (aM3+f)

482 always making it seem like the current particular instance is big important news.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 02:05 PM (aM3+f)

Then why didn't he put it in red text and a flaming skull?

Posted by: Buzzion at May 03, 2021 02:08 PM (5qBoi)

483 482 always making it seem like the current particular instance is big important news.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 02:05 PM (aM3+f)
Then why didn't he put it in red text and a flaming skull?
Posted by: Buzzion at May 03, 2021 02:08 PM (5qBoi)

Maybe it's not bigger and importanter?

Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 02:12 PM (aM3+f)

484 330 288 "246 I just don't want to see the same articles from Ace on the same subject he's been doing for years.
Posted by: Stonn at May 03, 2021 12:54 PM (aM3+f)
If you look in the style guide, you can find the Hot Air button.
Posted by: blaster at May 03, 2021 12:56 PM (ZfRYq) "
You can also light yourself on fire.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 03, 2021 01:05 PM (VpIIl)

Sorry, it's hot here already. Can I wait 'til winter?

TROIKA!!!!

Posted by: T'Pau at May 03, 2021 02:31 PM (w9Wax)

485 nood

mitt

Posted by: banana Dream at May 03, 2021 02:42 PM (AB1Co)

486 The more the corrupt MSM repeats the "Insurrection" lie, the faster it will die.

Posted by: nobody at May 03, 2021 04:50 PM (GhqvW)

487 Retard Republican's keeping Fox HOT! 'MERICA!!!!

Posted by: Iggycaster at May 03, 2021 05:07 PM (u+bkM)

488 CNN Founder Red Ted Turner(Who Brainwashed kids with junk like Captain Planet,Network Earth,One Child One Voice National Geographic Explorer Etc)once boasted he was going to squash Fox News like Bug Guess who's bug was squished?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 03, 2021 05:12 PM (FLiOE)

489 Sorry I don't believe that the ratings of CNN, MSNBC ever beat the Albanian dance channel or the Thirty Years War Re enactors channel. No one watchs them nor the MSM where Holt said that objectivity and facts were vastly over rated.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at May 03, 2021 09:35 PM (EcD5Y)

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