Surprise! The Associated Press is Taking Money From Deep-Pocketed Leftwing Organizations to Write Stories That Those Deep-Pocketed Leftwing Organizations Want to See Printed to Advance Their Propaganda Operations

A long time ago, Lee Smith wrote about what I think he termed "the Arabization of the American Press." The Arab press, he wrote, was not really a free press, and certainly not an independent one. The Arab press is understood to be one in which propaganda is the main stock in trade, and facts, or alleged facts, are just incorporated into propaganda pieces to give age-old narratives a topical feel.

Arab media outlets and Arab reporters are almost always working for a power faction, and not just based on ideological grounds, but for actual cash-money payment. There are very few stories that run in the Arab press that do not advance a faction's preferred propaganda narrative, and many stories are commissioned by a patron who wants to push out a certain narrative.

When it was revealed that the political dirty tricks operatives at Fusion GPS were paying "real reporters" to "research" stories Fusion GPS' political patrons (which included foreign oligarchs like Oleg Deripaska), Lee Smith concluded that the American press was now becoming the Arab press.

By the way, the media itself has shown zero curiosity about which reporters have a For Sale sign on them and are similarly writing up "research" for billionaires and political groups. For an industry that demands maximum disclosure for everyone else, they sure seem to want to keep their secrets about who's paying them off for hit-piece "research." There was not a peep of media consternation about the exposure that some of their alleged fellow Incorruptible High Priests of the Truth were taking money from foreign oligarchs to do "research."

Which, by the way, almost certainly then became planted stories appearing in the media. A foreign oligarch is probably savvy enough to avoid saying "I am paying you to plant this story." He knows that a few members of the Incorruptible High Priesthood of the Truth would understand that as a gross violation that could get them blackballed.

But if he says "I'll pay you $50,000 to do 'research' on Trump's empire for me, and then you own that research to do whatever you want to with it," well, the "researcher" can then write it up as a "news" article and get it published. He can say "no one demanded i publish it" -- yes, but they did pay you $50,000 to do a month's worth of work, which is now all conveniently sitting in your hard-drive, and can be sold again, this time to a leftwing media publisher.

And why wouldn't you sell it that second time? You probably don't have much else to sell to newspapers and magazines because you just spent a month doing "research" for Oleg Deripaska; the "research" you did for him is almost all you have to sell to the media this month.

So by this method of paying someone to basically write a hit-piece against a political opponent but then saying "I'm not telling you you now have to plant this story, but I'm telling you I give you permission to plant it, if you like," billionaires, Democrat front-groups, and foreign gangsters can pay the media to run stories that they have in fact commissioned.

And now we find out that the AP has been running story after story commissioned by deep-pocketed leftwing foundations.

Associated Press Coverage of Courts, Climate Bankrolled by Dozens of Left-Wing Foundations

Billed as purveyor of 'unbiased news,' wire service strikes lucrative sponsorship agreements with progressive charities

"Lucrative sponsorship agreements," eh?

Chuck Ross:

The Associated Press, the country's top wire service, is now bankrolled in part by millions of dollars from left-wing foundations, including one founded by "1619 Project" author Nikole Hannah-Jones.

The news organization last year announced a series of "partnerships" to subsidize reporters covering climate change, race, and democracy. A review of the donor roster shows that the vast majority fund left-wing political causes, while none are supporters of conservative initiatives.
The Ida B. Wells Society, founded by "1619 Project" lightning rod Hannah-Jones, has teamed up with filmmaker Steven Spielberg's Hearthland Foundation, for example, to foster "more inclusive storytelling" at the Associated Press.
In some ways, it was a natural partnership: The AP's global investigations editor, Ron Nixon, serves on the Ida B. Wells Society's board of directors. In others, it may prove more problematic, given that Hannah-Jones's own reporting has been disputed by historians, who have argued--among other things--that her account of the motivations of the American revolutionaries is factually inaccurate.
The funding, much of it from these sorts of overly political actors, will make it more challenging for the Associated Press to swat away accusations of political bias. In one high-profile example, critics blasted the organization for revising its style guide to instruct reporters to avoid the use of terms like "the French," which the AP indicated was "dehumanizing."
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The Associated Press is also taking nonprofit money to fund coverage of race and climate. The organization's "democracy journalism initiative," a division whose reporters cover "the intersection of race and voting," is bankrolled by nonprofits such as the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. That organization also funds Stacey Abrams's New Georgia Project and the left-wing activist group Take Back the Court, which advocates for expanding the Supreme Court.
A recent AP article on the topic asserts that the Supreme Court in a 2013 landmark decision "tossed out the heart" of the Voting Rights Act, when in reality the Court ruled that nine southern states would no longer have to "pre-clear" election law changes with the federal government. The AP lamented in another story that "far-right conservatives" in Tennessee were elected to city council seats. A February news report said that "GOP election tactics" intentionally disenfranchised black voters in Wisconsin.
Though the Associated Press is funded largely by subscriptions from the thousands of news organizations that pay to license its content, its donors shell out millions to subsidize coverage of some of the country's most divisive political issues. It is unclear when the AP began entering such partnerships, but they have proved lucrative in recent years.

The press isn't merely corrupt -- it's cash-money-in-an-envelope corrupt.

By the way, one Lee Smith story on the cash-money corruption of the press is here.

Weird that Jake Tapper has run zero stories on this scandal, huh?

The media demands that everyone else disclose every possible conflict-of-interest and outside payment.

But when it comes to their own Secret Payoffs, they have a different attitude entirely:

Posted by: Ace at 04:07 PM

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1 The Deuce you say, sir!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 29, 2023 04:07 PM (/HDaX)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Har.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 29, 2023 04:08 PM (/HDaX)

4 some whores will do anything for money, no?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 29, 2023 04:08 PM (B1FKF)

5 Project Mockingbird is a thing and has been for a LONG time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)

6 AP is corrupt? I shan't believe it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (DRSnL)

7 I just wish this would actually wake some people up. Create some ability to wonder if what they are reading is true or meant to influence them.

Posted by: Iris at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (NaH5I)

8 First?

Posted by: RA at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (ig9A2)

9 why am I not surprised?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (vbuLV)

10 >>>5 Project Mockingbird is a thing and has been for a LONG time.

I need to read about that. Jimmy Dore mentions it a lot.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (KRtlO)

11 This is obv ungood. But the worst is the use of these planted stories as the basis for investgations and covert actikn.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 04:10 PM (IPdRk)

12 8 First?
Posted by: RA at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (ig9A2)

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Close.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 29, 2023 04:10 PM (DRSnL)

13 Dog Mess Bleached Hard And White By The Sun > The Associated Press

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 29, 2023 04:10 PM (iw4IE)

14 they have proved lucrative in recent years.

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Yeah, filthy lucre.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 29, 2023 04:11 PM (cMXNt)

15 The media is the enemy of the people.

They're lucky the 1st Amendment covers both speech AND press. If it didn't, they'd be violating the press one. They're not press, they're propagandists.

But DISINFORMATION is only a right wing issue.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

16 What is Fusion GPS, Alex?

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:11 PM (krQz2)

17 I'm shocked. Shocked.

Posted by: brak at August 29, 2023 04:11 PM (4O7GE)

18 I'm shocked, SHOCKED to hear there is collusion going on in here.

Posted by: That guy in Casablanca at August 29, 2023 04:11 PM (NBVIP)

19
I need to read about that. Jimmy Dore mentions it a lot.
Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (KRtlO)

Mark Dice has been talking about it since the 00's and has written a lot about it in a few of his books.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)

20 Close.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 29, 2023 04:10 PM (DRSnL)

Dumps out bag of horseshoes and hand grenades.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 29, 2023 04:12 PM (/HDaX)

21 Do not forget about us.
We're only in it for the money, too.

Posted by: Brett Baier is Fox News at August 29, 2023 04:12 PM (RilAR)

22 But DISINFORMATION is only a right wing issue......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)
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Brought to you by the above network.

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:12 PM (krQz2)

23 "This is not the fight to have. Instead, we should worry about small dollar donors to the Trump organization bypassing WinRed. They're insurrectionists."
-Rich Lowry, probably

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:12 PM (LvTSG)

24 I feel like I should go play the lottery or something.

Two responses from the boss in one day.

The sun is shining.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)

25 Money only corrupts Republican-appointed Surpreme Court justices, not accredited news organizations comprised of credentialed, professional journalists.

You're a silly billy, ace.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 29, 2023 04:13 PM (ppBhU)

26 I think the overall reason is that the news, on the old model, is steadily going bankrupt. So all of the media outlets are step by step turning into those little advertising brochures that you used to be able to find outside strip malls, and anyone who thinks they're "objective" is a fool. It's all paid agit-prop, nothing more.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2023 04:13 PM (i9ffA)

27 Surprise! The Associated Press is Taking Money From Deep-Pocketed Leftwing Organizations to Write Stories That Those Deep-Pocketed Leftwing Organizations Want to See Printed to Advance Their Propaganda Operations

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Great. Now do ProPublica. They're set up for explicitly that purpose.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2023 04:13 PM (/iWhV)

28 Is a Jake Tapper bought and paid for?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 29, 2023 04:13 PM (mZ3xv)

29 To the angry letter writing room.
- GOP

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:14 PM (lE+cY)

30
Dog Mess Bleached Hard And White By The Sun Fools Hunter As Cocaine.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 29, 2023 04:14 PM (7C01W)

31 So, the private corporations are catching up to what the govt has done for years?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 29, 2023 04:14 PM (hAL05)

32 10 >>>5 Project Mockingbird is a thing and has been for a LONG time.

I need to read about that. Jimmy Dore mentions it a lot.
Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (KRtlO

It was a thing. It's still a thing. It is pervasive in corporations.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 29, 2023 04:14 PM (mZ3xv)

33 >>>11 This is obv ungood. But the worst is the use of these planted stories as the basis for investgations and covert actikn.

right but I think that's like 90% of it.

You publish fake bullsh*t propaganda and "transgenders being murdered at skyrocketing rates" precisely so that a judge then can cite that when he rules a kid can be forbidden by his (taxpayer-funded) school from saying "There are two genders."

Which just happened. It's in the College Fix.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:14 PM (KRtlO)

34 uninformation: information that needs to be banned

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 29, 2023 04:15 PM (B1FKF)

35 Dog Mess Bleached Hard And White By The Sun Fools Hunter As Cocaine.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 29, 2023 04:14 PM (7C01W)

I mean, he HAS snorted grated parmesan cheese......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:15 PM (Zz0t1)

36 One of the biggest stories nobody seems to notice is that our side is incredibly underfunded and disorganized.

It used to be the exact opposite.

I had a friend that worked in an AG's office, he said Bloomberg's foundation would basically "pay" a team to then go work in the AG's office to push their hobby horse issues, like gun control.

It seems we've lost all the "rich" conservatives to bankroll anything anymore. The grassroots is a joke.

Posted by: Blago at August 29, 2023 04:15 PM (cOFom)

37 I'm amazed that every year is "the hottest year ever!" and yet I still break out the winter clothes at the same time of year.

Hell at the point they should just take the older stories and just find/replace the current year and the year global warming will kill us all.

Posted by: 50% of the American population at August 29, 2023 04:16 PM (lc5cP)

38 To the angry letter writing room.
- GOP
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:14 PM

That's not who we are. We're more sternly-worded types.

Posted by: GOPe at August 29, 2023 04:16 PM (a3Q+t)

39 By the way, the media itself has shown zero curiosity about which reporters have a For Sale sign on them and are similarly writing up "research" for billionaires and political groups. For an industry that demands maximum disclosure for everyone else, they sure seem to want to keep their secrets about who's paying them off for hit-piece "research." There was not a peep of media consternation about the exposure that some of their alleged fellow Incorruptible High Priests of the Truth were taking money from foreign oligarchs to do "research.
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Of course not. This parallels with the government in this respect. Like the AP, the government and its officials have less than no curiosity about who is for sale and who bought whom. The reason for the AP's astonishing absence of curiosity is the same as the government's: they all know they all do it.

To question it is to expose one's self to the same issue. When everyone plays the game - and they all do - then everyone is safe because they will all protect each-other out of necessity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:16 PM (t0OGg)

40 27 Surprise! The Associated Press is Taking Money From Deep-Pocketed Leftwing Organizations to Write Stories That Those Deep-Pocketed Leftwing Organizations Want to See Printed to Advance Their Propaganda Operations

Those organizations are wasting their money... AP would do it for free...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:16 PM (bs+z0)

41 This is what they exposed during Trump's term.

Fusion GPS pays a reporter to do some investigation that their clients want, and it pays them to write the story, and they get paid to write the story for their organization.

Thus, political funds were going toward producing campaign content for publication in "news".

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:16 PM (krQz2)

42 I may see this pattern in Gov grants as well.
EPA grants climate change research: we get *the sky is heating up* headlines.
NIH grants, oh hell, I don't want to go into covid *again*; but we get covid, masks, we've seen it.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 04:16 PM (K+1Pw)

43 Control the media, control the message.

Pay the fact checker, control the 'facts'.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 29, 2023 04:16 PM (mZ3xv)

44 >>> I think the overall reason is that the news, on the old model, is steadily going bankrupt.

Well I agree, partly, but also, they're corrupt motherfuckers who just want to be part of Holy CIA Psyops Crusades. Let's not discount that factor.

If we got together to fund a foundation to "partner" with the AP to cover stories about religious discrimination or censorship, they would refuse our money, even though it spends as well as the left's.

>>>So all of the media outlets are step by step turning into those little advertising brochures that you used to be able to find outside strip malls, and anyone who thinks they're "objective" is a fool. It's all paid agit-prop, nothing more.

Yup.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:16 PM (KRtlO)

45 I shan't believe it. I shan't.

Posted by: Brian "S. M." Stelter at August 29, 2023 04:17 PM (a3Q+t)

46 39 By the way, the media itself has shown zero curiosity about which reporters have a For Sale sign on them and are similarly writing up "research" for billionaires and political groups."

Joe Mannix, you got it nailed. They ALL have a For Sale sign on them, and they all know it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2023 04:17 PM (i9ffA)

47 Billed as purveyor of 'unbiased news,' wire service strikes lucrative sponsorship agreements with progressive charities
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Only idiots and conmen still claim that. They basically don't even claim that themselves anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:17 PM (t0OGg)

48 It seems we've lost all the "rich" conservatives to bankroll anything anymore. The grassroots is a joke.

Most rich guys want to run their business, snort their coke, and bang their yacht girls.

Contribute to the left and you can keep on doing that.

Contribute to the right though and suddenly you are wearing a target on you like Elon Musk

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:17 PM (lc5cP)

49 Those organizations are wasting their money... AP would do it for free...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:16 PM (bs+z0)

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Heh, good point.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 29, 2023 04:17 PM (DRSnL)

50 More Russian disinformation, Ace?

Shameful.

(Cough)

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 29, 2023 04:17 PM (sAmhv)

51 They only believe in freedom of the press when it has been commissioned and paid for

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 29, 2023 04:17 PM (NtVYv)

52 >>> Those organizations are wasting their money... AP would do it for free...

not exactly -- "reporters' need to be paid to work, and these leftwing organizations are funding that type of work, while other stories don't get covered because no one's paying for them.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:18 PM (KRtlO)

53 From last thread:
466 Volunteer reporter Geoff Cygnus who has been reporting exclusively on the aftermath of Maui after deadly fires razed the island, has released a new video that shows a massive black curtain that has been resurrected around Maui’s ground zero.
Posted by: SMOD at August 29, 2023 04:07 PM (RHGPo)

This is very poorly written. What "black curtain"? "Resurrected" means that said curtain was there, destroyed, and brought back. None of that makes sense.

Is he trying to say that the government put up an opaque fence around ground zero?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:18 PM (uFzkb)

54 Surprise! The Associated Press is Taking Money From Deep-Pocketed Leftwing Organizations to Write Stories That Those Deep-Pocketed Leftwing Organizations Want to See Printed to Advance Their Propaganda Operations
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Wowie Zowie! This is a mind-blower Ace.
Imma just go ahead and ignore it like 250 million of my American peers will. I shall not believe it.
Next you'll be telling me that all the major media work together with the government to sell a point of view and disparage any info to the contrary as misdismalinfo.

You conspiracy theorists are nuts I tells ya.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 29, 2023 04:18 PM (FCbAQ)

55 5 Project Mockingbird is a thing and has been for a LONG time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)

This is ironic, especially since Ben Bradlee, JFK's Hahvahd classmate, was a conduit for publicizing IRS information that JFK wanted to discredit his enemies with by publishing.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2023 04:18 PM (/iWhV)

56 Never watch the news.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 29, 2023 04:18 PM (NBVIP)

57 Ace, isn't George Soros or Jeff Bezos buying a dying rag doing the same thing?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 29, 2023 04:18 PM (mZ3xv)

58 Yea but ..........................

Trump sends mean tweets !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 29, 2023 04:18 PM (9e2kV)

59 36 One of the biggest stories nobody seems to notice is that our side is incredibly underfunded and disorganized.

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Our side can’t organize a picnic whole the left can have 1000 “protestors” with professionally made signs show up anywhere in he country with 48 hour notice.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:19 PM (lE+cY)

60 The Associated Press is also taking nonprofit money to fund coverage of race and climate. The organization's "democracy journalism initiative," a division whose reporters cover "the intersection of race and voting," is bankrolled by nonprofits such as the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. That organization also funds Stacey Abrams's New Georgia Project and the left-wing activist group Take Back the Court, which advocates for expanding the Supreme Court.
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The funny thing about this is that I suspect that the AP sees no problem with this in the slightest. This is pay-for-play coverage exclusively in an agenda-driven framework, but I doubt that they can even see that. It isn't agenda-driven, it's just truth.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:19 PM (t0OGg)

61 They only believe in freedom of the press when it has been commissioned and paid for

One trend I've seen recently is rightish pundits arguing the benefits of free speech/press.

This is a bad sign, because you shouldn't have to - free speech/press is a fundamental right guaranteed in the Constitution.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:19 PM (lc5cP)

62 while other stories don't get covered because no one's paying for them.
Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:18 PM (KRtlO)

Plus they don't want to cover certain stories.. Ones that hurt their agenda

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:19 PM (bs+z0)

63 Those organizations are wasting their money... AP would do it for free...
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Maybe AP is the way it is because it's not doing it for free.

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:19 PM (krQz2)

64 The fact that the MSM survives proves the stupidity of the average American who stupidly states they have confidence in the truthfulness and accuracy of the press. I dislike the stupid. Maybe they should be a protected class, like faggots, crossdressers, child molesters, and criminals (but I suppose I am repeating myself there).

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 29, 2023 04:19 PM (pohLc)

65 >some whores will do anything for money, no?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 29, 2023 04:08 PM (B1FKF)

"I ain't gay, but twenty bucks is twenty bucks!"
--Your Betters in the MSM

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (uFzkb)

66 Ace, are you going to grant our petition beseeching you to place a positive entry in Weasel's Permanent Record?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (a3Q+t)

67 Cash money in an envelope? They ain't that classy.

These price-tag-tucked-down-their-collar mooks take venmo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (9UlRk)

68 when he rules a kid can be forbidden by his (taxpayer-funded) school from saying "There are two genders."

Which just happened. It's in the College Fix.
Posted by: ace

Prove to me you don't understand the 1A without saying you don't understand the 1st Amendment.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (K+1Pw)

69 The AP lamented in another story that "far-right conservatives" in Tennessee were elected to city council seats.
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That was covered here, IIRC. And it exposes a lot of what makes the AP - and other leftists - tick. City government belongs to *them.* Anyone else is an interloper, and evidence of great failure to keep out the unclean.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (t0OGg)

70
Our side can’t organize a picnic whole the left can have 1000 “protestors” with professionally made signs show up anywhere in he country with 48 hour notice.

Because ultimately the left has access to the US federal treasury and we don't.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (lc5cP)

71 And now for something like taking a dozen hits of acid at ounce.

Breaking911
@Breaking911
VP HARRIS: "I want to thank, of course, our nation's champion, President Biden, for your leadership and commitment to lowering costs for working families in every way."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (FVME7)

72 the suck now outnumber the don't suck

unofficially

Posted by: REDACTED at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (us2H3)

73 Surprise! The Associated Press is Taking Money...

Do we look like amateurs?!

Posted by: The AP at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (iW8nX)

74 >>>Our side can’t organize a picnic whole the left can have 1000 “protestors” with professionally made signs show up anywhere in he country with 48 hour notice.

as friends of mine in the business say, the billionaires on "our side" refuse to fund anything long-term or any media operations. They just want to spend a few million on ads four weeks before an election.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (KRtlO)

75 AP has always been the off-brand Tupperware of journalism, anyway. When I see an article from AP, I don’t bother reading it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 29, 2023 04:21 PM (JTwsP)

76 Meh. I think funds and personnel are already dedicated Federal assets buttressing the MFM. We know they're in Big Tech, and Big Tech isn't nearly as old as Big Media.

The evidence of MFM corruption is as historic as is its breadth.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 29, 2023 04:21 PM (aXxgO)

77 Most rich guys want to run their business, snort their coke, and bang their yacht girls.

Contribute to the left and you can keep on doing that.

Contribute to the right though and suddenly you are wearing a target on you like Elon Musk
Posted by: 18-1
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It just seems like rich liberals "care" about these causes more than rich conservatives.

There's very few conservative billionaires that really throw a lot of money around. The Kochs are about the only example, and even there, it's nothing compared to rich Tech Titans.

Sure, there will be a handful that say write max check out for $2500 in a Senate race, but then a Mark Zuckerberg drops $500 million in a single election cycle.

if I thought campaign finance worked, I would be all for it.

Posted by: Blago at August 29, 2023 04:21 PM (cOFom)

78 >Project Mockingbird is a thing and has been for a LONG time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Right. If you are a leftist billionaire, why pay for the vig when you can get the taxpayers to do it for you? What an awesome deal, using a person's own money to agitate against their own interests.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:21 PM (uFzkb)

79 >>>Breaking911
@Breaking911
VP HARRIS: "I want to thank, of course, our nation's champion, President Biden, for your leadership and commitment to lowering costs for working families in every way."

ay man that's some good shit

Posted by: Cheech Marin at August 29, 2023 04:21 PM (KRtlO)

80 70
Our side can’t organize a picnic whole the left can have 1000 “protestors” with professionally made signs show up anywhere in he country with 48 hour notice.

If "Our" side showed up with 1000 protesters they'd all be arrested

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:21 PM (bs+z0)

81 They are the Ass Press afterall

Posted by: SMOD at August 29, 2023 04:22 PM (RHGPo)

82 VP HARRIS: "I want to thank, of course, our nation's champion, President Biden, for your leadership and commitment to lowering costs for working families in every way."

Every week I see normies in the grocery store pick up steaks, look at the price, and put them back.

That's peak Bidenomics right there.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:22 PM (lc5cP)

83 They only believe in freedom of the press when it has been commissioned and paid for

One trend I've seen recently is rightish pundits arguing the benefits of free speech/press.

This is a bad sign, because you shouldn't have to - free speech/press is a fundamental right guaranteed in the Constitution.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:19 PM (lc5cP)

Yes

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 29, 2023 04:22 PM (NtVYv)

84 Our side can’t organize a picnic whole the left can have 1000 “protestors” with professionally made signs show up anywhere in he country with 48 hour notice.
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:19 PM (lE+cY)

"Our side" can organize a full to capacity stadium every week.

The average GOPe fink is not on "our side"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:22 PM (9UlRk)

85 "Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. "

-Thomas Jefferson, regarding the British Gazetteers.

The media has become everything we despised and fought against.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2023 04:22 PM (EadwG)

86 avoid the use of terms like "the French," which the AP indicated was "dehumanizing."
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Well, who with a heart is not going to agree with that?!

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:22 PM (krQz2)

87 The media demands that everyone else disclose every possible conflict-of-interest and outside payment.

But when it comes to their own Secret Payoffs, they have a different attitude entirely:
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Of course. Beyond the typical corrupt self-dealing and conspiracy, I refer to my earlier point. I don't think they even see it as a conflict of interest. They're getting "charity" money in the interests of reporting the truth. The truth is, by definition, left-wing. There is no conflict. They're being paid to do what they would be doing anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:22 PM (t0OGg)

88 They only believe in freedom of the press when it has been commissioned and paid for

Freedom ain't free, pal. *opens hand*

Posted by: The AP at August 29, 2023 04:23 PM (aJ58s)

89 Breaking911
@Breaking911
VP HARRIS: "I want to thank, of course, our nation's champion, President Biden, for your leadership and commitment to lowering costs for working families in every way."

Name one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:23 PM (Zz0t1)

90 And nothing will happen....

Posted by: InZona at August 29, 2023 04:23 PM (YSc55)

91 Sure, there will be a handful that say write max check out for $2500 in a Senate race, but then a Mark Zuckerberg drops $500 million in a single election cycle.

I guarantee Zuckerberg got a healthy ROI on that $500M.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:23 PM (lc5cP)

92 @Breaking911
VP HARRIS: "I want to thank, of course, our nation's champion, President Biden, for your leadership and commitment to lowering costs for working families in every way."

Is this from the Bee?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:23 PM (bs+z0)

93 If "Our" side showed up with 1000 protesters they'd all be arrested
Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:21 PM (bs+z0)

Betcha we'll see a big 12 college stadium filled to the rafters just to watch orange man on a screen broadcasting live from a Birmingham jail

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:24 PM (9UlRk)

94 Be nice if Fox hadn't been a Bushie outlet since the jump.

Glad they decided to wrap it up.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 04:24 PM (NyJuk)

95 What I'd like to know is whether UPI or Reuters or any of the others are any better. If not, then any news outlet using any wire service is corrupted.

I wouldn't be surprised, just saddened at another sign of decay.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 29, 2023 04:24 PM (mNmNo)

96 The first rule of propaganda is, we can't tell you what to think but we can control what you think about.

And that's the biggest propaganda service of the American press:
They make sure that America is fed only stories they want to them to think about.
Or distractions to make sure they never think about anything else.
And absolutely never run stories they don't want you to think about.

It's all so very complex and coordinated now, it's a wonder Republicans win anywhere.
We just need to run better candidates ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (/X7zQ)

97 Breaking911
@Breaking911
VP HARRIS: "I want to thank, of course, our nation's champion, President Biden, for your leadership and commitment to lowering costs for working families in every way."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (FVME7)

And all the NPR weirdos eating the same meal as their cats nod and applaud.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (hCzfy)

98 Back in the "olden days", the welfare queens in Pennsylvania would have buses of protestors show up in Harrisburg in less 24 hours notice.

Governor Thornburg finally did a "divide and conquer" by defunding the "able-bodied" and give the 'savings' to the remaining welfare recipients.

Posted by: SMOD at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (RHGPo)

99 74 as friends of mine in the business say, the billionaires on "our side" refuse to fund anything long-term or any media operations. They just want to spend a few million on ads four weeks before an election.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (KRtlO)

=========

"Can you blame them? They're the most effective spending in politics."
-Consultants, who make 40% on ad buys

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

100 Oh gee the "media" is corrupt. What else is new? So, when do the bonfires start to burn this banana republic down? I've stocked up on some good hot dogs, brats, and chorizo sausage for grilling...

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (GKLAN)

101 some people will always sell out to look like they are part of the group that knows the future. socialism it is, bernie sanders on the billion dollar bill. next.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (B1FKF)

102 Of course. Beyond the typical corrupt self-dealing and conspiracy, I refer to my earlier point. I don't think they even see it as a conflict of interest. They're getting "charity" money in the interests of reporting the truth. The truth is, by definition, left-wing. There is no conflict. They're being paid to do what they would be doing anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:22 PM (t0OGg)

"Prove I'm doing anything else! I'll swear in court that's what I did!"

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (NyJuk)

103
Is this from the Bee?

Someone mentioned the Onion recently so I went to their website in the first time in a decade or more.

And...its like going to the People's Cube. Except nothing is funny and they are serious in the "funny" stories they are publishing.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (lc5cP)

104 They spent 2 solid days discussing Trump's Mug shot... Biden corruption ? Zip

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (bs+z0)

105 Let's not forget the flip side... I doubt certain conservative money would be accepted by the AP.

They aren't for sale for just anybody... you still have to have the right "message"

Posted by: RealityMain at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (liB0E)

106 Is every American institution corrupt? Kinda looks that way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (5B8p4)

107 as friends of mine in the business say, the billionaires on "our side" refuse to fund anything long-term or any media operations. They just want to spend a few million on ads four weeks before an election.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (KRtlO)
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Thus, there are no "billionaires on our side".

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (krQz2)

108 a lot of those families voted for this shit and it's damn likely thee will do it again

some of us take a lot less suffering to change our course

Posted by: REDACTED at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (us2H3)

109 What I'd like to know is whether UPI or Reuters or any of the others are any better. If not, then any news outlet using any wire service is corrupted.

I wouldn't be surprised, just saddened at another sign of decay.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 29, 2023 04:24 PM (mNmNo)
++++
They're all the same. Here's the filtering criteria for questions like this:
1. Does the organization have more than 500 people?
2. Does the organization have anything in its recent history (past ten years) that is left-wing?

If the answer to either is "yes," then it's a leftist institution and the decision-making is based on ideology or corruption or both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (t0OGg)

110 I don't think anything needs to be done. That is until we hang them. Exposing the media's duplicity and pay to play schemes is important only to the degree it provides proof of their insidious dishonesty. People already know that intuitively and based on the antics of the last few years. But there are few things that provide a better example then to see their graft exposed with the receipts.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (EadwG)

111 >You publish fake bullsh*t propaganda and "transgenders being murdered at skyrocketing rates" precisely so that a judge then can cite that when he rules a kid can be forbidden by his (taxpayer-funded) school from saying "There are two genders."

Which just happened. It's in the College Fix.
Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:14 PM (KRtlO)

"Citogenesis"

Which I can't believe the execrable Randall Munroe coined, but he did and it's accurate. He'd probably deny it now.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (uFzkb)

112 We need conservative billionaires buying CNN or fox.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (mZ3xv)

113 thee ? I'm a quaker now ??

Posted by: REDACTED at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (us2H3)

114
"Our side" can organize a full to capacity stadium every week.

The average GOPe fink is not on "our side"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:22 PM (9UlRk)

Are you talking about Trump rallies? Those are meaningless. Trump could have been the right guy in our side who set up a Soros type network of organizations. But he did fuck all other than do concerts every week to inflate his ego.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (lE+cY)

115 I'm very surprised.
This is my very surprised face.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (xcxpd)

116 Biden Lies Again, Says He ‘Literally’ Convinced Segregationist Strom Thurmond to Vote for Civil Rights Act ... “before he died.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 29, 2023 04:27 PM (RHGPo)

117 105 Let's not forget the flip side... I doubt certain conservative money would be accepted by the AP.

They aren't for sale for just anybody... you still have to have the right "message"
Posted by: RealityMain at August 29, 2023 04:25 PM (liB0E)

This

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:27 PM (bs+z0)

118 The only real use for media is as ecidence supporting gov action which the gov can cite as the basis for said action.

It doesn't move the needle much.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 04:27 PM (NyJuk)

119 106 Is every American institution corrupt? Kinda looks that way.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (5B8p4)

=========

"Not everyone."
-The Institute for American Excellence in Bikini Maintenance

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

120 "There are two genders."

In some Euro languages there are three. In English there are none.

And of course gender doesn't refer to people or animals. That's "sex".

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (lc5cP)

121 The press likes to mock Congress as bought and paid for, their favorite joke being they should have to wear sponsorship patches like NASCAR drivers.

If that rule applied to the press, theirs would look like the wall in a Mexico City slum--complete with "putas en venta"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (/X7zQ)

122 I love the Go Gos!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (5yGIt)

123 116 Biden Lies Again, Says He ‘Literally’ Convinced Segregationist Strom Thurmond to Vote for Civil Rights Act ... “before he died.”
Posted by: SMOD at August 29, 2023 04:27 PM (RHGPo

He also convinced George Washington to fess up about the cherry tree.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (mZ3xv)

124 "74 as friends of mine in the business say, the billionaires on "our side" refuse to fund anything long-term or any media operations. They just want to spend a few million on ads four weeks before an election.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (KRtlO)"

And this is your weekly reminder that Harmeet Dhillon wanted to change that. Instead we got Rona McRomneytrump

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (EadwG)

125 >I had a friend that worked in an AG's office, he said Bloomberg's foundation would basically "pay" a team to then go work in the AG's office to push their hobby horse issues, like gun control.

Posted by: Blago at August 29, 2023 04:15 PM (cOFom)

Yeah, that seems like the most blatant form of buying access/pay-to-play that I've ever seen, but apparently it's completely legal.

Well, until some theoretical conservative billionaire tried to do it, then it's an Attack On Our Sacred Democracy™.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (uFzkb)

126 "But when it comes to their own Secret Payoffs, they have a different attitude entirely:"

Fox guarding the henhouse? Old as civilization.

I envision an industry where a New Press does nothing but record, document, and "research" The Press. No, not like the Media Research Center and such. I mean proactive 24/7 tracking of reporters... for the sake of transparency.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (aXxgO)

127 "Not everyone."
-The Institute for American Excellence in Bikini Maintenance
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:27

I'd like join this organization, do they have a newsletter I can donate and subscribe to?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (GKLAN)

128 *and bang their yacht girls*

Tell me more...

Posted by: BJ Clinton at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (NBVIP)

129 Biden Lies Again, Says He ‘Literally’ Convinced Segregationist Strom Thurmond to Vote for Civil Rights Act ... “before he died.”
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After he died, presumably he needed less convincing to vote correctly.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 29, 2023 04:29 PM (aBJcM)

130 Are you talking about Trump rallies? Those are meaningless. Trump could have been the right guy in our side who set up a Soros type network of organizations. But he did fuck all other than do concerts every week to inflate his ego.
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (lE+cY)

The reason i said this thing that you freely admit is a thing is to demonstrate that we can indeed mobilize people to give up their plans and go to a place on purpose to support someone. But oops, can't say anything even obliquely positive about orange man, because I'm the one in a cult.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:29 PM (9UlRk)

131 Biden Lies Again, Says He ‘Literally’ Convinced Segregationist Strom Thurmond to Vote for Civil Rights Act ... “before he died.”

It is one of those things that gives me a dark chuckle...we have the last Dixiecrat president right now and the Dems *love* him. Even though the parties flipped or something.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:29 PM (lc5cP)

132
Thus, there are no "billionaires on our side".
Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:26 PM (krQz2)

Sheldon Adelson was. He died a couple of years ago sadly.

And the left always went apeshit about him. How dare he spend so much money on politics? That’s hurting our precious democracy.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:29 PM (lE+cY)

133 Are you talking about Trump rallies? Those are meaningless.

Four indictments say otherwise.

Posted by: t-bird at August 29, 2023 04:29 PM (iW8nX)

134 The only real use for media is as ecidence supporting gov action which the gov can cite as the basis for said action.

It doesn't move the needle much.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 04:27 PM (NyJuk)
++++
Not true.

The media also still frames the issue. Even if people don't trust the press - and they increasingly don't - they talk about the stories that the press reports. The most basic form of press bias - the bias of story selection - is a very, very powerful thing and it's a power they still wield.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)

135 My colleges's newspaper printed an article critical of the colleges's President.

In response, the college's President just got rid of the college's journalism program. All the stuff in the space went to the county dump.
And he hired the journalism's program's Director as a Vice President and fired her after about a year. She won a lawsuit and got a fat pension so don't feel sorry for her.

He got fired too later and gets a pension too. College. It's all a racket.

Posted by: torabora at August 29, 2023 04:30 PM (FfJu/)

136 in the meanwhile, sports illustrated continues to feature swimsuit models who not too many years ago would have been considered seriously overweight. maybe they got paid off by little debbie.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 29, 2023 04:30 PM (B1FKF)

137 Hey, wait until the US implements Castreau's new system, where the government just flat out funds all of their MSM buddies. I mean, news is a public good and all that. No pretense of a free press in Canuckistan any more.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:30 PM (uFzkb)

138 I love the Go Gos!
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (5yGIt)

Same. Perfect pop band.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 04:30 PM (NyJuk)

139 The reason i said this thing that you freely admit is a thing is to demonstrate that we can indeed mobilize people to give up their plans and go to a place on purpose to support someone. But oops, can't say anything even obliquely positive about orange man, because I'm the one in a cult.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:29 PM (9UlRk)

Yes Trump can organize a 90 minute show that has no real impact past those 90 minutes. He’s very good at at it.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (lE+cY)

140 134 Not true.

The media also still frames the issue. Even if people don't trust the press - and they increasingly don't - they talk about the stories that the press reports. The most basic form of press bias - the bias of story selection - is a very, very powerful thing and it's a power they still wield.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)

========

Covid showed they could still do it, and they threw everything at it to make it happen.

I think the long-term effects of it will be that the covid fever ends up lessening MSM power to influence the public overall, but they flexed, they flexed hard, and they had an effect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

141 The press isn't merely corrupt -- it's cash-money-in-an-envelope corrupt.

This is a shocking, paradigm-shifting revelation! Joe Biden, though, is still a relatable, hard-working blue collar man who overcame monumental hardship to truly care about normal people like me, and is adroitly guiding the nation through turbulent times with a scandal-free administration and steady hand honed through years of expert government service...right?

Posted by: LIV at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (JCZqz)

142 Billed as purveyor of 'unbiased news,' wire service strikes lucrative sponsorship agreements with progressive charities.

Come on, man, these are charities! Why do you hate poor people?

Posted by: Half Dozen at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (eHovo)

143 ... ~~College.~~ It's all a racket.
Posted by: torabora at August 29, 2023 04:30 PM (FfJu/)
++++
Everything is a racket. Absolutely everything, at all levels, in all contexts, in all venues.

Literally *everything* is a scam.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (t0OGg)

144 Yes Trump can organize a 90 minute show that has no real impact past those 90 minutes. He’s very good at at it.
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (lE+cY)

Yes, dear.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (9UlRk)

145 I'm a quaker now ??
Posted by: REDACTED

You're going to have a rough time adhering to Quaker tenets... they don't drink.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (K+1Pw)

146 Once upon a time you could tell which way a particular newspaper would tilt, just by looking at the name. For instance we have locally, the Press Democrat.
Now? They try to hide all that.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (MeG8a)

147 Hey, wait until the US implements Castreau's new system, where the government just flat out funds all of their MSM buddies.

Two of the official complaints against Jordan Peterson are that he criticized Justin Castro on twitter. I'm not kidding/exaggerating.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:32 PM (lc5cP)

148 Literally *everything* is a scam.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (t0OGg)

Not true.

Some things are just to launder the money gained from the scam.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:32 PM (9UlRk)

149 In some Euro languages there are three. In English there are none.
_______________

he/she/it

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2023 04:32 PM (UD9kD)

150 143 Everything is a racket. Absolutely everything, at all levels, in all contexts, in all venues.

Literally *everything* is a scam.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (t0OGg)

===========

"Just don't look at our books."
-The Institute for American Excellence in Bikini Maintenance

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

151 Assorted
Pricks

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 29, 2023 04:32 PM (flINI)

152 For instance we have locally, the Press Democrat.
Now? They try to hide all that.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (MeG8a)

You must be in my area.. The press Democrat just echoes the NYT's

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:33 PM (bs+z0)

153 124 "74 as friends of mine in the business say, the billionaires on "our side" refuse to fund anything long-term or any media operations. They just want to spend a few million on ads four weeks before an election.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (KRtlO)"

And this is your weekly reminder that Harmeet Dhillon wanted to change that. Instead we got Rona McRomneytrump
Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2023 04:28 PM (EadwG)

Unfortunately, all too true.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2023 04:33 PM (/iWhV)

154 151 Assorted
Pricks
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 29, 2023 04:32 PM (flINI)

=====

"This sounds familiar..."
-Kamala

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

155 Ace

If I am remembering my history correctly, for the years before the US entered the Second Word War the Associated Press agreed to play nice with the Nazis' censorship rules and in return the Nazis got access to the Associated Press' photo archives.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2023 04:33 PM (Dbn8T)

156 The media also still frames the issue. Even if people don't trust the press - and they increasingly don't - they talk about the stories that the press reports. The most basic form of press bias - the bias of story selection - is a very, very powerful thing and it's a power they still wield.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)

Ehhh. I think it is over-rated as to that. Most don't. I do.

It is useful as the basis for political action.

And in that sense, yeah.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 04:33 PM (NyJuk)

157 Assorted Pricks > Whitman Sampler

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 29, 2023 04:33 PM (lc5cP)

158 144 Yes Trump can organize a 90 minute show that has no real impact past those 90 minutes. He’s very good at at it.
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (lE+cY)

Yes, dear.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:31 PM (9UlRk)

You're supposed to say Bless Your heart

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM (bs+z0)

159 Old highschool joke:

Q: Why wouldn't it be fun to date a Go-go?

A: Their lips are sealed.

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM (krQz2)

160 One hundred years ago, the "press" was all propaganda.

The "Spanish-American War?"

It's been shit for a long time.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM (8fpTj)

161 >That was covered here, IIRC. And it exposes a lot of what makes the AP - and other leftists - tick. City government belongs to *them.* Anyone else is an interloper, and evidence of great failure to keep out the unclean.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (t0OGg)

Would be interesting to see a simple LexisNexis query. Number of results returned for "far right" versus number of results for "far left".

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM (uFzkb)

162 Another part of the Democrats Propaganda Ministry

Posted by: Skip at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM (MOY79)

163 The media also still frames the issue. Even if people don't trust the press - and they increasingly don't - they talk about the stories that the press reports

—-

It’s like a football game where the MSM always starts off with the ball at mid field. Even if their offense sucks, they’ll score a lot of points.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM (lE+cY)

164 Good thing we have The Bulwark, The Dispatch, and the National Review out there working day and night to tirelessly bring conservative news and commentary to the American people.

Or they would if they could close the Twitter page.
And if Trump would go away.
So Better Republicans could run for office

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 04:35 PM (/X7zQ)

165 Ass (ociated )press Press taking money for propaganda?

That "meaningless" book that 's been around for millennia got it correct again:

"For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."

1st Timothy 6:10.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2023 04:35 PM (RSbhh)

166 At least Gemma Arterton is still wholesome and uncorrupted. Sort of.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2023 04:35 PM (5B8p4)

167 You're supposed to say Bless Your heart
Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM (bs+z0)

I'm far too yankee to pull off that look.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:35 PM (9UlRk)

168 William Randolph Hurst?

All propaganda, all the time.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 29, 2023 04:35 PM (8fpTj)

169 I mean, he HAS snorted grated parmesan cheese...
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The White House baggy was stamped "KRAFT"??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 29, 2023 04:35 PM (krqg6)

170 They played a lot of people for the fool with COVID, along with their pals in the Democrat Party. It not only stole people's liberty, it killed their family members and provided an almost intractable election scheme that assures Democrats will stay in power.

Nobody likes to be played the fool. Especially when it kills their family. Pretty much nobody is going back to that without a fight.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2023 04:35 PM (EadwG)

171 The press isn't merely corrupt -- it's cash-money-in-an-envelope corrupt.

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Eh, yeah, but that's really the lesser corruption. The Party takes care of its people, just the cost of doing business, and common courtesy. But you better believe that Fusion, Clinton, McCain, CNN, WFB, Matthew Continent, Bill Kristol, the AP hacks, all of them, would have run that play, and all these other ones, without a dime changing hands. Just easier to use the carrot than the stick.

Conversely, you can also rest assured that if a deep-pocketed MAGA dude approached any of these outlets about running his planted story, even if it were 100% gospel truth, there wouldn't be enough money on this cursed Earth to get it printed.

These payoffs are for the Party faithful. If you're not always promoting the faith, you ain't worth shit on a shingle to the Party anymore. That payoff better be yuuuuuge, because it would be your last. You'd never work again. And you might get tapped twice in the chest during a botched robbery, or framed for CP, or...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2023 04:35 PM (0FoWg)

172 You're supposed to say Bless Your heart

Saw a comedy video about a Wisconsinite that moves somewhere in the deep south talking with her neighbor about the summer heat, the mosquitos, and the snakes.

There must have been about 10 Bless Your hearts each one followed by an "aw thanks!" it was hilarious.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (lc5cP)

173 That explains why the most popular repeated story in media is: Nuh Uh, Wingnutz!

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (krQz2)

174 Trump knocked it out of the park on demonstrated loyalty.

But he did nothing to stop the steal and they worked every angle to push their commie rat across the finish line successfully.

That's our problem coming up too.

Posted by: torabora at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (FfJu/)

175 I am several threads behind, but I ran into this post on Ukraine oldsters...

It is a weird thing with some cultures, they almost revel in catastrophic losses. The Romans were like that too. Not as bad as the slavs, but they did it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 29, 2023 11:46 AM (zZu0s)

I look forward to a speech as Livvy reports, of the Consul going outside to the mob eager for news after the battle of Cannae, perhaps the worst single battle loss for another thousand years (if you believe their numbers) and calling out "Women of Rome! Time to do your duty!"

Posted by: Old Toby at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (rkkWf)

176 Lee Smith concluded that the American press was now becoming the Arab press.
_______

The flaw with that is the word "becoming". It was always venal, mercenary, and dishonest. The only thing new is they're not trying to hide it.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (brAQZ)

177 The Afternoon Arterton heard the implication that she is wholesome and has this to say:

https://is.gd/jWrN87

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (LvTSG)

178 And Joe Mannix' bikini babes...I can still count on them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (5B8p4)

179 The media has become everything we despised and fought against.

It has, indeed.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (V8he0)

180 Is the Go's " Our Lips are Sealed" actually meant to be a 180 degree comparison?

IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (FxH7T)

181 "The media also still frames the issue. Even if people don't trust the press - and they increasingly don't - they talk about the stories that the press reports."

Experts agree that this is true.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 29, 2023 04:36 PM (KbCG3)

182 Once upon a time you could tell which way a particular newspaper would tilt, just by looking at the name. For instance we have locally, the Press Democrat.
Now? They try to hide all that.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

The Santa Barbara News Suppress and the Arizona Repulsive come to mind.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 04:37 PM (K+1Pw)

183 The media also still frames the issue. Even if people don't trust the press - and they increasingly don't - they talk about the stories that the press reports

When I talk with LIVs, even those somewhat skeptical of the FNM, it is like talking with someone from another country.

They've never even heard of the stories that matter, and drone on about whatever the hell the headlines on yahoo news or the MSN start page or whatever they see say.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:37 PM (lc5cP)

184 SO-

newspaper for whore
I mean hire

Posted by: DB - rockin' in the free world at August 29, 2023 04:37 PM (geLO8)

185 They've never even heard of the stories that matter, and drone on about whatever the hell the headlines on yahoo news or the MSN start page or whatever they see say.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:37 PM (lc5cP)

This is my Sister an BIL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (bs+z0)

186 tick. City government belongs to *them.* Anyone else is an interloper, and evidence of great failure to keep out the unclean.

There is an effort here in my town to recall the leftist mayor. First, the local rag conducted a poll. The vote was 66/33% to keep her in place. They then snickered "Good luck to the petition gatherers" in getting the recall on the ballot.

The recall is now on the ballot (lol). Last Saturday, a group of "grassroots supporters" were rallying outside of City Hall encouraging a "No" vote on the recall - all equipped with very nice, professionally printed cardboard signs. Looked expensive. I wonder who paid for those? It's a mystery, I tell ya.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (YYt0O)

187 Conversely, you can also rest assured that if a deep-pocketed MAGA dude approached any of these outlets about running his planted story, even if it were 100% gospel truth, there wouldn't be enough money on this cursed Earth to get it printed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2023 04:35 PM (0FoWg)
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That would be the story: Nefarious Trumper Tries to Bribe Reporter To Place Positive Story

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (krQz2)

188 "You must be in my area"
I'm on the peninsula, but I visit up there quite a bit.
Lucky us! I missed the CA bashing thread earlier. I can't refute anything posited there. But, it is a beautiful day here today, and for that I'm grateful.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (MeG8a)

189 156 The media also still frames the issue. Even if people don't trust the press - and they increasingly don't - they talk about the stories that the press reports. The most basic form of press bias - the bias of story selection - is a very, very powerful thing and it's a power they still wield.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)

Ehhh. I think it is over-rated as to that. Most don't. I do.

It is useful as the basis for political action.

And in that sense, yeah.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 04:33 PM (NyJuk)

I agree with Joe. In Barry Schwartz' book, The Paradox of Choice, he notes that too many options serve to incapacitate us. The press offers one option that most people can use to focus incoming information, and then work from there. Editorial control is *the* way to bloodlessly control a populace. Orwell was onto something when he invented Newspeak.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (/iWhV)

190 Good on the AP in taking money for what they would do for free.
Being a prostitute is a step up from a whore, right?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (ga8qR)

191 59 36 One of the biggest stories nobody seems to notice is that our side is incredibly underfunded and disorganized.
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Our side can’t organize a picnic whole the left can have 1000 “protestors” with professionally made signs show up anywhere in he country with 48 hour notice.
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:19 PM

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They are the same 1,000 people. Protesting about Global Warming? Police Brutality? Welfare Reform? BLM? They are all from the same 1,200-2,000 people. They may be paid of they may just do it for "the-cause," and want to support their fellow protesters, but they keep showing up again and again.

Posted by: rd at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (oYOW4)

192 as friends of mine in the business say, the billionaires on "our side" refuse to fund anything long-term or any media operations. They just want to spend a few million on ads four weeks before an election.

Posted by: ace at August 29, 2023 04:20 PM (KRtlO)"

And this is your weekly reminder that Harmeet Dhillon wanted to change that. Instead we got Rona McRomneytrump
Posted by: Marcus T
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And how much has Trump spent of the $100 million or so raised to "Stop the Steal?" Zero dollars and change? That still frosts my ass--spend money, you Orange Turd.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (/X7zQ)

193 I look forward to a speech as Livvy reports, of the Consul going outside to the mob eager for news after the battle of Cannae, perhaps the worst single battle loss for another thousand years (if you believe their numbers) and calling out "Women of Rome! Time to do your duty!"[/i

Good time to be a Roman assigned to guard duty back home I guess.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (lc5cP)

194 of the few news sites I look at, UPI isn't overtly awful

I also check Fox, Daily Mail and NYPost

Posted by: DB - rockin' in the free world at August 29, 2023 04:39 PM (geLO8)

195 Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (MeG8a)

It is beautiful here

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:39 PM (bs+z0)

196 When I talk with LIVs, even those somewhat skeptical of the FNM, it is like talking with someone from another country.

They've never even heard of the stories that matter, and drone on about whatever the hell the headlines on yahoo news or the MSN start page or whatever they see say.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:37 PM (lc5cP)

"If Hunter Biden's laptop was important the news would've told me!"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 29, 2023 04:39 PM (KbCG3)

197 This busty blonde in a dress is wearing sunglasses to hide her lack of shock over hearing any of this:
https://is.gd/HhLoka

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:39 PM (t0OGg)

198 They've never even heard of the stories that matter, and drone on about whatever the hell the headlines on yahoo news or the MSN start page or whatever they see say.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:37 PM (lc5cP)
_______________

I have a neighbor who had never heard of George Soros.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 29, 2023 04:39 PM (UD9kD)

199 160 One hundred years ago, the "press" was all propaganda.

The "Spanish-American War?"

It's been shit for a long time.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM

Remember the Maine!!!

Posted by: Hoodwinked Americans at August 29, 2023 04:39 PM (JCZqz)

200 Old highschool joke:

Q: Why wouldn't it be fun to date a Go-go?

A: Their lips are sealed.
Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM (krQz2)

Guy that used to do a lot of back stage work in the 70's and 80's told a story on air one day about the Go Go's. Said as they were breaking into the business and playing smaller venues opening up for various more popular acts, after the shows were over, they started the BJ line and each band member gave head to everyone, including the security guard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (Zz0t1)

201 >Is the Go's " Our Lips are Sealed" actually meant to be a 180 degree comparison?

you left out a 'Go'

Posted by: DB - rockin' in the free world at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (geLO8)

202 194 of the few news sites I look at, UPI isn't overtly awful

I also check Fox, Daily Mail and NYPost
Posted by: DB - rockin' in the free world at August 29, 2023 04:39 PM (geLO

My only source for news is Weirddave.

JJ's a'ight too, i guess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (9UlRk)

203 None of this is surprising and only confirms what anybody paying attention already know is going on. What really sucks is that probably 70% of this country is unaware of the vast left wing propaganda machine that surrounds us and controls the narrative, day-in, day out, 24/7.

But try to explain that to a LIV's or one of the norms that don't pay much attention. You will sound like a nutcase. Where do you even start?

Posted by: Ripley at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (KrJTL)

204 Hottentot Venus On An Ottoman

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (7C01W)

205
And how much has Trump spent of the $100 million or so raised to "Stop the Steal?" Zero dollars and change? That still frosts my ass--spend money, you Orange Turd.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at A

Dude!!! He gets people to show up at rallies. What more do you want? /s

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (lE+cY)

206 197 This busty blonde in a dress is wearing sunglasses to hide her lack of shock over hearing any of this:
https://is.gd/HhLoka
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:39 PM (t0OGg)

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The sunglasses aren't hiding her lack of shock, but her lizard eyes.

1/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

207 It's possible to read the communist press we have and actually get information. Just know when your reading something with a descriptor like " he falsely claimed" that is attached to - election fraud - global warming - MAGA - right wing - your getting that asshole's opinion and it burnishes the truth you know.

Posted by: DanMan at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (SPSUr)

208 I think having my heart blessed sounds like a good thing!

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (krQz2)

209 Our side" can organize a full to capacity stadium every week.

The average GOPe fink is not on "our side"
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yes, as evidenced by the huge crowds turning out to pack the Trump rallies.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 29, 2023 04:41 PM (tQL7r)

210 18-1: "They've never even heard of the stories that matter, and drone on about whatever the hell the headlines on yahoo news or the MSN start page or whatever they see say."

Hellooo, Sharkweek!

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 29, 2023 04:41 PM (aXxgO)

211 I agree with Joe. In Barry Schwartz' book, The Paradox of Choice, he notes that too many options serve to incapacitate us. The press offers one option that most people can use to focus incoming information, and then work from there. Editorial control is *the* way to bloodlessly control a populace. Orwell was onto something when he invented Newspeak.
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Every Republican policy proposal will lead to "Ultra-MAGA Death Squads!"
All Democrat proposals are reasonable, moderate, common sense, etc.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 04:41 PM (/X7zQ)

212 > This busty blonde in a dress is wearing sunglasses to ...

DUDE THAT'S MY DENTAL HYGIENIST'S ROOMMATE'S SISTER

Posted by: DB - rockin' in the free world at August 29, 2023 04:41 PM (geLO8)

213 I went to the MSN start page with an incognito window and the headlines right now are;

Biden lowers drug costs
COVID will kill your grandma...again...if you don't mask up
Remote work - bad for everyone! get back to work losers!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (lc5cP)

214 I also check Fox, Daily Mail and NYPost
Posted by: DB - rockin' in the free world at August 29, 2023 04:39 PM (geLO8

=====

Yesterday, crazy sister told not-crazy sister and me that DM is fake news.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (DRSnL)

215 >Two of the official complaints against Jordan Peterson are that he criticized Justin Castro on twitter. I'm not kidding/exaggerating.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:32 PM (lc5cP)

I didn't realize that they also implemented lese majeste.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (uFzkb)

216 197 This busty blonde in a dress is wearing sunglasses to hide her lack of shock over hearing any of this:
https://is.gd/HhLoka
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Paige Spiranac. Has made a ton of money by being hot and a pro golfer. Not actively playing on the LPGA and probably made more money going on her own. She's hot, also has some decent golf tips if you can look away from her magnificent rack and pretty blue eyes. Hard to do.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (sAmhv)

217 I agree with Joe. In Barry Schwartz' book, The Paradox of Choice, he notes that too many options serve to incapacitate us. The press offers one option that most people can use to focus incoming information, and then work from there. Editorial control is *the* way to bloodlessly control a populace. Orwell was onto something when he invented Newspeak.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (/iWhV)

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Most people, especially the young people with families don't have the time to read and research the news. They form their opinions on the little they hear. Some are misinformed by Fox, some by CNN, some by ESPN, but they ALL are misinformed.

Posted by: rd at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (vALbk)

218 TBH I don't like sunglasses on a woman. I'd rather see her face.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (lc5cP)

219
Yesterday, crazy sister told not-crazy sister and me that DM is fake news.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (DRSnL

You have a crazy Sister too ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (bs+z0)

220 Rally's used to be one of the gold standards in judging a candidate's electability. I remember people telling me about Obama before he was really considered likely to win. The I heard the same about Trump, and he won. Then along came ballot harvesting and mail in ballots, and they broke every single decent, reliable and accurate predictor. Anyone want to guess why?

"Yes, you in the back". *points*

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2023 04:43 PM (EadwG)

221 215 >Two of the official complaints against Jordan Peterson are that he criticized Justin Castro on twitter. I'm not kidding/exaggerating.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:32 PM (lc5cP)

I didn't realize that they also implemented lese majeste.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (uFzkb)

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Canada doesn't have free speech. Never has.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

222 Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (krQz2)

I was wondering what Southerners says when they really do want to bless someone. Is it simply "God bless you"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2023 04:43 PM (RSbhh)

223 "If Hunter Biden's laptop was important the news would've told me!"
---
"I like to get both sides of the story-- so I watch Fox News and CNN."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 04:43 PM (/X7zQ)

224
Paige Spiranac. Has made a ton of money by being hot and a pro golfer. Not actively playing on the LPGA and probably made more money going on her own. She's hot, also has some decent golf tips if you can look away from her magnificent rack and pretty blue eyes. Hard to do.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (sAmhv)

She's got multiple business ventures outside of her looks. She's a smart cookie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:43 PM (Zz0t1)

225 Is the Go's " Our Lips are Sealed" actually meant to be a 180 degree comparison?

you left out a 'Go'
Posted by: DB - rockin' in the free world at August 29, 2023 04:40 PM (geLO

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The most important one too!

Posted by: Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding at August 29, 2023 04:43 PM (krQz2)

226 One hundred years ago, the "press" was all propaganda.

The "Spanish-American War?"

It's been shit for a long time.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 29, 2023 04:34 PM
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It has, but the difference between then and now is that there was competition in the propaganda. You had the Republican paper and the Democrat paper and the socialist paper and the independent paper and the chemical industry paper and so on.

Everything was biased, but there was *variety* in the bias. The entire complex wasn't totally controlled by a single side.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:43 PM (t0OGg)

227 You have a crazy Sister too ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:42 PM (bs+z0)

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Unfortunately.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (DRSnL)

228 She's hot, also has some decent golf tips if you can look away from her magnificent rack and pretty blue eyes. Hard to do.

Don't forget about the perfectly toned legs and butt you want to smack like a bag of mulch at the hardware store.

Posted by: Some Moron at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (lc5cP)

229 Our people won't turn out for a gutless fink. They will turn out for someone who at least looks like they aren't a gutless fink.

It's not just that Trump was so gosh darn charismatic. It's that there is an entire base with no champion that is deeply, deeply yearning for anyone to take up the banner and do something more than immediately surrender.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (9UlRk)

230 I love that old bar and restaurant up on Stony Pt. road in Petaluma - Sebastopol area. That place is historic. When news of Lincoln's assassination reached Union troops stationed in Marin, they marched on to Sonoma with the intention of burning down the Press Democrat. When they got to the restaurant, tired, hungry and thirsty, the madame proprietor offered the troops to come in and talk this thing over. And so the Press Democrat survived.
What is the name of that place? The one with the paper money all over the ceiling.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (MeG8a)

231 DanMan: "It's possible to read the communist press we have and actually get information..."

Some of you may be too under 29 to remember, but Soviet Man learned how to read between all the lines at Pravda. That is where we are now. It may be that we've been there already (and for a long time) but never really realized it.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (aXxgO)

232 In 2016, Trump beat the steal. Bu 2020, Trump had no idea how big the steal was going to be.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (8fpTj)

233 It's payola. How is it materially different from payola.

Posted by: 13times at August 29, 2023 04:45 PM (enMZU)

234 I was wondering what Southerners says when they really do want to bless someone. Is it simply "God bless you"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2023 04:43 PM (RSbhh)
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That and "have a blessed day."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:45 PM (t0OGg)

235 232 In 2016, Trump beat the steal. Bu 2020, Trump had no idea how big the steal was going to be.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (8fpTj)

========

In 2016 there was a ceiling on the steal.

In 2020, Democrats removed the ceiling with the GOPe's blessing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

236 Ace is in the pocket of Big Fungus.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 04:45 PM (wsSEe)

237 >That would be the story: Nefarious Trumper Tries to Bribe Reporter To Place Positive Story
Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (krQz2)

You'll see the same if Trump surrogates attempt to do a fraction of the "ballot harvesting" that the left does.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:45 PM (uFzkb)

238 Grace Charis is another hot golfer chick.

She had her naked golf round leaked not long ago.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)

239 Paige is the Anna Kornakova of womens golf, not good enough to compete so make money from your looks.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 29, 2023 04:46 PM (hAL05)

240 Organizing on the right could do a Bud Light thing more often. Pick a woke company every month. Or things like a national retail strike. Find local people running for school boards and city council races. Create a network of lawyers to fight lawfare on an equal footing.

Those things matter and have meaningful impact.

Instead the great triumph of “organizing” is Trump rallies. And people wonder why we keep losing.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (lE+cY)

241 232 In 2016, Trump beat the steal. Bu 2020, Trump had no idea how big the steal was going to be.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (8fpTj)

When Trump had that rally in Butler, PA - the one where 50,000 people showed up in a town of 15,000 - on the Saturday before Election Day, the Dems realized they had to crank up the presses 24/7 to overcome the wave they didn't think was coming before then.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (/iWhV)

242 164 Good thing we have The Bulwark, The Dispatch, and the National Review out there working day and night to tirelessly bring conservative news and commentary to the American people.

I occasionally trawl the depths of their sites for fun nuggets to point and laugh at...but they're reliably dumber and much less honest than DU and mainstream Lefty sites. I tried to find a Bulwark quote about Christie at the debate last week, assuming they'd be praising him...but all I found were links to podcasts, including Charlie Sykes speaking with NPR about the debate. A true conservative reaching other true conservatives on a true conservative platform.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (JCZqz)

243 She's got multiple business ventures outside of her looks. She's a smart cookie.

Was talking with a good looking female friend that complained that as such people think she's dumb.

I don't think that's accurate at all, BTW, "good looking" and "smart" aren't closely correlated.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (lc5cP)

244 We warned you knuckle-draggers the Federal Government needs to fund The Media, or we won't be independent any longer!

Posted by: The Media Wing of Your Betters at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (5fDan)

245 That would be the story: Nefarious Trumper Tries to Bribe Reporter To Place Positive Story
Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (krQz2)

You'll see the same if Trump surrogates attempt to do a fraction of the "ballot harvesting" that the left does.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:45 PM (uFzkb)
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Look what happened when the right tried to protest something?

Two men killed as cops shot flash-bangs into a peaceful crowd.

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (krQz2)

246 It's all starting to make sense... of course.

Now if only the rest of the country could connect the dots that they're being lied to with Democrat propaganda about everything.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (NpAcC)

247 In 2016 there was a ceiling on the steal.

In 2020, Democrats removed the ceiling with the GOPe's blessing.

But it'll be back for '24, right?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (nfrXX)

248 Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (MeG8a)

It's the Washoe House

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:48 PM (bs+z0)

249 Some of you may be too under 29 to remember, but Soviet Man learned how to read between all the lines at Pravda. That is where we are now. It may be that we've been there already (and for a long time) but never really realized it.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (aXxgO)
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We can do the same thing, and increasingly need to.

In the USSR, the basic way to do it was to read both Pravda (the Party paper) and Izvestia (the State paper). Where they agreed with each other, it was what would happen as normal business. Where they disagreed with each other was where the actual conflicts were between factions or personalities.

Same thing with us. We have the WaPo, which is the Party/IC paper and the NYT, which is the State/LE paper. Most of the other publications orbit them (The Atlantic orbits the NYT, for example, and the New Yorker orbits the WaPo). Where those two mainline factional outlets disagree, you see where the conflicts in the State/Party complex are.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:48 PM (t0OGg)

250 2016 was such a foregone conclusion that Hilry would win, the Dem cheat was phoned in. They spent the next 4 years making sure that would never happen again.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:48 PM (lE+cY)

251 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2023 04:45 PM (t0OGg)

Thanks, because I never heard "Bless your heart" in the entire time I was in school in the South. Just occasionally "God bless you"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2023 04:48 PM (RSbhh)

252 Instead the great triumph of “organizing” is Trump rallies. And people wonder why we keep losing.
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (lE+cY)

Oh give it a rest you twink. Your first paragraph is spot on, and then you just gotta go and shit all over it because Orange Man Exists

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:48 PM (9UlRk)

253 as friends of mine in the business say, the billionaires on "our side" refuse to fund anything long-term or any media operations. They just want to spend a few million on ads four weeks before an election.

Mailers, my good man. All know that if you mail the same thing to people 4 times in 2 weeks preceding the election all will be well.

Posted by: The Texas GOP at August 29, 2023 04:49 PM (ppBhU)

254 >Some of you may be too under 29 to remember, but Soviet Man learned how to read between all the lines at Pravda. That is where we are now. It may be that we've been there already (and for a long time) but never really realized it.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (aXxgO)

"Kremlinology"

That's basically where we are at now.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:50 PM (uFzkb)

255 247 In 2016 there was a ceiling on the steal.

In 2020, Democrats removed the ceiling with the GOPe's blessing.

But it'll be back for '24, right?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM (nfrXX)

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Nope. No matter who is the GOP candidate. It could be Jeb Bush. It could be Kamala, peeved that Biden won't keel over and die. It could be Joseph Stalin himself.

The handful of cities in "purple" states will do their assorted mix of ballot box stuffings, the courts will let it all happen, and the GOPe will wonder why their army of lawyers didn't work again. Wait...scratch that. They won't wonder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

256 "Kremlinology"

That's basically where we are at now.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 29, 2023 04:50 PM (uFzkb)
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Don't feed DC after midnight!

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:51 PM (krQz2)

257 Mailers, my good man. All know that if you mail the same thing to people 4 times in 2 weeks preceding the election all will be well.
Posted by: The Texas GOP at August 29, 2023 04:49 PM (ppBhU)

Don’t forget 120 emails per hour all saying the same thing that every ISP sends to the junk folder.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:51 PM (lE+cY)

258 There's a reason I call these bastards Presstitutes.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 29, 2023 04:51 PM (qPw5n)

259 I apologize for "twink".

Unless you laughed as intended, in which case i don't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2023 04:52 PM (9UlRk)

260 In 2016 there was a ceiling on the steal.

In 2020, Democrats removed the ceiling with the GOPe's blessing.

But it'll be back for '24, right?
Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2023 04:47 PM

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What happened a year ago in November 2022?

Maricopa County sound familiar? Wasn't that run by "Republicans" too?

Posted by: rd at August 29, 2023 04:52 PM (frE5Y)

261 I think having my heart blessed sounds like a good thing!

Posted by: Axeman

I know, right? Sorta like receiving all due respect...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at August 29, 2023 04:53 PM (OUMaO)

262 Taylor Swift fills stadiums at higher ticket prices. It doesn't mean the majority of people in a given jurisdiction like Taylor Swift. We've been talking about rallies since Mitt Romney's run.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 29, 2023 04:53 PM (ppBhU)

263 Don’t forget 120 emails per hour all saying the same thing that every ISP sends to the junk folder.

Apparently ISPs/email providers are more likely to send GOP fundraising emails to junk mail then Dem ones.

In this one case I think the GOP emails are more spammy though anyway.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2023 04:53 PM (lc5cP)

264 Speaking of dirty "journalists" being for sale:

Under Armour founder Kevin Plank gave television anchor Stephanie Ruhle a private phone with a special email address to communicate with him, sent her confidential financial information about the sportswear maker and enlisted her help to refute concerns about slumping sales, according to newly released court documents.

https://is.gd/CqAPVv

Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2023 04:53 PM (0N1h0)

265 257 Mailers, my good man. All know that if you mail the same thing to people 4 times in 2 weeks preceding the election all will be well.
Posted by: The Texas GOP at August 29, 2023 04:49 PM (ppBhU)

Don’t forget 120 emails per hour all saying the same thing that every ISP sends to the junk folder.
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:51 PM (lE+cY)

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It's one reason I advise people to never donate to political campaigns. It's going to be laundered to consultants, at best, in meaningless, pointless, and ineffective election efforts.

If you really want to help, donate your time. Calling voters and getting their commitment to vote will do more than sending $50 that the candidate only spends $35 for on mailers, the other $15 going to the connected organization that thought up the latest photoshop combination on the glossy front.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

266 Grace Charis is another hot golfer chick.
She had her naked golf round leaked not long ago.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I saw Naked Golf Round open for Five For Fighting at the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre last April.

Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2023 04:53 PM (DgGvY)

267 The press was always such. And the Brits, too, if Orwell is any guide. (As I Please, Jan 12, 1945. I link it a lot. The last item.)

https://tinyurl.com/mr25d65m

IN the same number of World Review I note that Mr Edward Hulton remarks rather disapprovingly that 'the small city of Athens possesses far more daily newspapers than London.' All I can say is, good luck to Athens! It is only when there are large numbers of newspapers, expressing all tendencies, that there is some chance of getting at the truth. Counting evenings, London has only twelve daily papers, and they cover the whole of the south of England and penetrate as far north as Glasgow. When they all decide to tell the same lie, there is no minority press to act as a check. In pre-war France the press was largely venal and scurrilous, but you could dig more news out of it than out of the British press, because every political faction had its paper and every viewpoint got a hearing. I shall be surprised if Athens keeps its multiplicity of newspapers under the kind of government that we apparently intend to impose.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 29, 2023 04:54 PM (brAQZ)

268 Apparently ISPs/email providers are more likely to send GOP fundraising emails to junk mail then Dem ones

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No doubt this is true. And does he GOP do anything about? File any lawsuits? Get AGs to investigate? Of course not.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 04:55 PM (lE+cY)

269 Naked golf is all fun and games until a golfette tees off on your balls.

Posted by: Obligatory at August 29, 2023 04:55 PM (lc5cP)

270 Perfessor Squirrel: If you happen to be reading along, thank you for your explanation about that STTNG book and the phrase "Cosmic Bastards" in reference to the Borg. That ... makes much more sense now, and yes, that works.

(My schedule got blackjacked and hauled off into a dark alley earlier today, otherwise I would have gotten back to you sooner.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 29, 2023 04:55 PM (qPw5n)

271 A partial answer as to why the media is always on the same exact page about every single subject.

Does raise the question however of "If they're for sale, how come only one specific branch of one specific ideology is successfully buying them every time."

🤔

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2023 04:55 PM (lX8VI)

272 Oh give it a rest you twink. Your first paragraph is spot on, and then you just gotta go and shit all over it because Orange Man Exists

Posted by: Warai-otoko

Except he has a point--if "rallys" are the apex of our organizing, no matter who for, all we're doing is helping the Enemy build their Lists while accomplishing little or nothing of use.

We better start mobilizing people to do something useful. Preferably peacefully, though how long that's going to be an option is an open question at this stage.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at August 29, 2023 04:56 PM (OUMaO)

273 2020 was Covid.

Covid changed everything and caused people to give up their rights because everyone's hair was on fire as the Covid deaths and cases were being reported every minute of the day and people were panicking with the fear.

Meanwhile, the Democrats in power and in the media were licking their chops about how they could use Covid to their advantage and they did.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2023 04:56 PM (NpAcC)

274 The handful of cities in "purple" states will do their assorted mix of ballot box stuffings, the courts will let it all happen, and the GOPe will wonder why their army of lawyers didn't work again. Wait...scratch that. They won't wonder.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)
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Giving up is failure.
Texas passed a law and took control of voting in crooked Harris County. If they are pushed/punished hard enough they will respond.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 29, 2023 04:56 PM (gmxXe)

275 If you really want to help, donate your time. Calling voters and getting their commitment to vote will do more than sending $50 that the candidate only spends $35 for on mailers, the other $15 going to the connected organization that thought up the latest photoshop combination on the glossy front.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:53 PM (LvTSG)
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I did GOTV work for Romney in 2012. (Hangs head in shame.) They were sending us, on election day, to remind people to vote. People with Obama signs on their yards. A bunch of us peons bitched about that, but wiser heads kept telling us to, and that couldn't be true.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 29, 2023 04:56 PM (brAQZ)

276 I was wondering what Southerners says when they really do want to bless someone. Is it simply "God bless you"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2023

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Nawlins people of a certain age, especially black women, will say, "Bless you, baby." Despite its location on the North American continent, though, NO is not really a "Southern" city. Thus I have no idea what someone in Birmingham might say, or Savannah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 29, 2023 04:56 PM (J2vNu)

277 >Some of you may be too under 29 to remember, but Soviet Man learned how to read between all the lines at Pravda. That is where we are now. It may be that we've been there already (and for a long time) but never really realized it.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at August 29, 2023 04:44 PM (aXxgO)

Big Media learned from the Soviet public and leaves little to be found between the lines. Every article and opinion piece is either total happy-happy-joy-joy or The World Ends Next Week Unless Joe (or Barack before him) Is Given Dictatorial Power By Sundown Today!

Lately most articles are a combination of the two types.

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2023 04:56 PM (5fDan)

278 Does raise the question however of "If they're for sale, how come only one specific branch of one specific ideology is successfully buying them every time."

🤔

Posted by: ...

Because, as the bank robber said, "That's where the money is".

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at August 29, 2023 04:57 PM (OUMaO)

279 Paige Spiranac is a regular photo op in the NY Post. So is Emily Ratjowski.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2023 04:57 PM (RqMSv)

280 A partial answer as to why the media is always on the same exact page about every single subject.

A few left wing figures have gotten themselves into serious trouble for saying something that goes against the left's narrative in some minor way or was the narrative a while back and was...retrofitted since then.

So leftists mostly just repeat whatever the day's narrative is so they stay "safe"

Posted by: Obligatory at August 29, 2023 04:57 PM (lc5cP)

281 Also, italicized smilies are cursed. For the record.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at August 29, 2023 04:57 PM (OUMaO)

282 When Trump had that rally in Butler, PA - the one where 50,000 people showed up in a town of 15,000

Butler, PA is around 25,000, more or less.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (sAmhv)

283 275 I did GOTV work for Romney in 2012. (Hangs head in shame.) They were sending us, on election day, to remind people to vote. People with Obama signs on their yards. A bunch of us peons bitched about that, but wiser heads kept telling us to, and that couldn't be true.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 29, 2023 04:56 PM (brAQZ)

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Romney's organization was peak GOPe. Wait until the last second, overspend because you didn't plan appropriately, and then step all over your dick.

The GOPe only really fights against its real enemy: conservative upstarts in the primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

284 Do rally's have an effect on the people who count the votes?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (hAL05)

285 I did GOTV work for Romney in 2012. (Hangs head in shame.) They were sending us, on election day, to remind people to vote. People with Obama signs on their yards. A bunch of us peons bitched about that, but wiser heads kept telling us to, and that couldn't be true.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 29, 2023 04:56 PM (brAQZ)

Ugh, I did the same.

Was so weird walking around neighborhoods saying, "Hey, be sure to vote, fellow adult."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (KbCG3)

286 Does raise the question however of "If they're for sale, how come only one specific branch of one specific ideology is successfully buying them every time."

🤔
Posted by: ... at August 29, 2023 04:55 PM (lX8VI)
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Established customer base.

But they are also ideologically compatible.

I wonder how man "non-profit" groups pay journalists in this manner. Also, how many "non-profit"s that are doing "such a good job" that the government gives them tax dollars to perform "their service"?

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (krQz2)

287 The National Archives refuses to release the 5,138 Biden alias emails until they have permission from Obama and Biden.

https://is.gd/aArU7p

Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (0N1h0)

288 Email should be as sacrosanct as USPS.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 29, 2023 04:59 PM (gmxXe)

289 But it'll be back for '24, right?
Posted by: Oddbob

Of course. As long as trump is not the nominee, the dems promise to go back to the old rules where they only cheat a little bit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 04:59 PM (wsSEe)

290 287 The National Archives refuses to release the 5,138 Biden alias emails until they have permission from Obama and Biden.

https://is.gd/aArU7p
Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (0N1h0)

Of course

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:59 PM (bs+z0)

291 Email should be as sacrosanct as USPS.

Damn right!

Posted by: Some postal worker eating the cookies your grammy tried to mail to you at August 29, 2023 04:59 PM (lc5cP)

292 Maricopa County sound familiar? Wasn't that run by "Republicans" too?
Posted by: rd

NO.
The current Governor was the Sec of State and she ran the election. The fraud was rampant in Maricopa County (the largest voting area) and the judges have all ruled Kari Lake is wrong.
The judges are wrong and maybe don't understand what was being shown to them; but, I think they are just in the GOPe's pockets (McCain family as well as D.Ducey).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 04:59 PM (K+1Pw)

293 So, despite my statement above, I see this Bulwark headline, and think it looks fairly intelligent and interesting:

2024 Is America’s Kobayashi Maru. There are no good outcomes. And we were put to this test not by prosecutors, but by the cowardice of the Republican party.

Many Republicans would like to move on from Trump, but the blatant political lawfare against him forces the base to defend him (because cowardly GOPe leaders won't), paralyzing the party.

But no, instead we get a series of possible outcomes for Trump's trial and the Trump/Biden election:

Of these six scenarios, all but one—Trump guilty/Biden safe win—lead to crisis.

Including: (1a) A jury finds Trump not guilty, Biden wins safely.

(2) A jury finds Trump guilty before the general election and even so, Trump wins a clean victory over Biden.

(2a) Trump is found not guilty and wins a clean election

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 29, 2023 05:00 PM (JCZqz)

294 https://images.fineartamerica.com
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Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 29, 2023 05:00 PM (7C01W)

295
Watched some Tik-Toxic video of a single mom despairing over her plight in regards to inflation and cost of goods. Sorry, babe, but when 70% of single women vote for the Dems to protect their precious ability to off their potential offspring, I got only crocodile tears for you.

You ever hear about something called 'birth control'? It's real and it's spectacular. Also, a helluva lot cheaper then feeding another kid.

But go ahead and vote based on the need to have your uterus regularly vacuumed out by some prevert.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 29, 2023 05:01 PM (enJYY)

296 Naked golf is all fun and games until a golfette tees off on your balls.
Posted by: Obligatory at August 29, 2023 04:55 PM (lc5cP)
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It shares that with

...

ALL FUN ACTIVITIES.

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 05:01 PM (krQz2)

297 "Push polling" is a technique to suppress turnout. You act like you're asking polling questions but you deliver inforamtion targeted to turn off the prospective voter. Often the information can be kinda true.

e.g. fifth question is "did you know Romney blows goats?"

Media does this on a mass scale with right-leaning candidates with their routine coverage. Vivek is getting the treatment right now.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2023 05:01 PM (RqMSv)

298 Romney: I am pausing my campaign to help the victims of Sandy

Obama: Lol! Full speed ahead. Now let me go get my hug from Christie.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 05:02 PM (wsSEe)

299 The GOPe only really fights against its real enemy: conservative upstarts in the primary.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (LvTSG
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Heh

Posted by: Mitch at August 29, 2023 05:02 PM (gmxXe)

300 I'm sure that's half the reason the GOPe turned on Trump:
"He didn't hire my cousin to mail out 50,000 8X15 gloss full-color mailers to New York City voters! Every Republican candidate has done that for years!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 05:02 PM (/X7zQ)

301 fifth question is "did you know Romney blows goats?"

Why yes, yes I did.

Posted by: Some goat smoking a cigarette at August 29, 2023 05:02 PM (lc5cP)

302 298 Obama: Lol! Full speed ahead. Now let me go get my hug from Christie.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 05:02 PM (wsSEe)

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"It wasn't just a hug."
-Obama

"I didn't object."
-Christie

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 05:02 PM (LvTSG)

303 Deep state money 💰

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 29, 2023 05:03 PM (ytSiK)

304 Do rally's have an effect on the people who count the votes?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

Think you've gotten to the heart of the problem. Well done!

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 29, 2023 05:03 PM (tQL7r)

305 We want the Left and R fellow travellers like Sununu to pull dirty tricks like knocking Trump off the ballot in the primaries, so that they can be appealed to SCOTUS in time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2023 05:03 PM (RqMSv)

306 It is going to be fun when Ron is the nominee next Aug, and there is a huge, relentless bimbo eruption that detonates his marriage right in the middle of the campaign.

And Schlichter and all of the other Ronbots will be all "Heyyyyyy! We didn't expect this!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 05:04 PM (wsSEe)

307 e.g. fifth question is "did you know Romney blows goats?"

Media does this on a mass scale with right-leaning candidates with their routine coverage. Vivek is getting the treatment right now.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2023 05:01 PM (RqMSv)
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"Would the information that Romney killed that lady with cancer make you more or less likely to vote for Mitt Romney?"

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 05:04 PM (krQz2)

308 Do rally's have an effect on the people who count the votes?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

Yes, they get rid of auditors, block windows, and run up totals which are over 100% of their registered voters.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 05:04 PM (K+1Pw)

309 290 287 The National Archives refuses to release the 5,138 Biden alias emails until they have permission from Obama and Biden.

https://is.gd/aArU7p
Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (0N1h0)

Of course

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:59 PM (bs+z0)

I'm gonna have the most open and honest Administration, ever!
- Joe, 32 months ago

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2023 05:05 PM (5fDan)

310 And Schlichter and all of the other Ronbots will be all "Heyyyyyy! We didn't expect this!"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 05:04 PM (wsSEe)

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It'd be more like, "NOW we REALLY fight!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 05:05 PM (LvTSG)

311 2 Taylor Swift fills stadiums at higher ticket prices. It doesn't mean the majority of people in a given jurisdiction like Taylor Swift. We've been talking about rallies since Mitt Romney's run.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 29, 2023 04:53 PM (ppBhU)

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WhenTaylor came to Minneapolis and performed several shows, there were fans from across the nation, and even from Europe and Australia.

Remember the Grateful Dead and the Deadheads?

There are "Trumpheads" too. They go to multiple rallies. It is a thing for them to do, a cause to believe in, and they hope, a way to make a difference.

Posted by: rd at August 29, 2023 05:05 PM (7mGaO)

312 It'd be more like, "NOW we REALLY fight!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Send money! 10X matching!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 05:06 PM (wsSEe)

313 305 We want the Left and R fellow travellers like Sununu to pull dirty tricks like knocking Trump off the ballot in the primaries, so that they can be appealed to SCOTUS in time.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2023 05:03 PM (RqMSv)

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They tried to kick Marjorie Taylor Green off of the ballot in 2022. It was through leftist money that it even got to trial, but it was essentially laughed out of court. It was definitely a trial run to try and set the framework for keeping Trump off the ballot, and it failed miserably.

I doubt they pursue it on any sort of grand scale. I would expect one kind of effort in a deep blue state to get reasonably far in the process before the powers that be shut it down as not helpful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)

314 Romney's organization was peak GOPe. Wait until the last second, overspend because you didn't plan appropriately, and then step all over your dick.
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ORCA

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 05:07 PM (/X7zQ)

315 312 It'd be more like, "NOW we REALLY fight!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Send money! 10X matching!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 05:06 PM (wsSEe)

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Well, since it's Schlichter, it'll be more just purely polemic about how this fight will destroy Mitch McConnell forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 05:07 PM (LvTSG)

316 If Paige cut off one of her breasts so she could shoot arrows better, she'd be the ultimate Amazon woman. Yowzaa.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2023 05:07 PM (RqMSv)

317 Perfessor Squirrel: If you happen to be reading along, thank you for your explanation about that STTNG book and the phrase "Cosmic Bastards" in reference to the Borg. That ... makes much more sense now, and yes, that works.

(My schedule got blackjacked and hauled off into a dark alley earlier today, otherwise I would have gotten back to you sooner.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 29, 2023 04:55 PM (qPw5n)
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My pleasure!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2023 05:08 PM (YIVH2)

318 WhenTaylor came to Minneapolis and performed several shows, there were fans from across the nation, and even from Europe and Australia.

Remember the Grateful Dead and the Deadheads?
Posted by: rd

Worked with a software engineer that traveled to every Dead concert he could manage.

My son wants to tour Scotland, his wife missed her chance to see TS here. She bought tickets in Edinburgh.
Son said okay we're including the tour in that trip.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 05:08 PM (K+1Pw)

319 Meanwhile, the Democrats in power and in the media were licking their chops about how they could use Covid to their advantage and they did.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2023 04:56 PM (NpAcC)

I submit they already knew the answer to these questions because it was planned.

Posted by: ... at August 29, 2023 05:08 PM (lX8VI)

320 National Archives refuses to release the 5,138 Biden alias emails until they have permission from Obama and Biden.

https://is.gd/aArU7p
Posted by: bonhomme at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (0N1h0)

Of course

Posted by: It's me donna at August 29, 2023 04:59 PM (bs+z0)

I'm gonna have the most open and honest Administration, ever!
- Joe, 32 months ago
Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2023 05:05 PM (5fDan)
******
They are being shredded as I type this.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2023 05:08 PM (NpAcC)

321 I doubt they pursue it on any sort of grand scale. I would expect one kind of effort in a deep blue state to get reasonably far in the process before the powers that be shut it down as not helpful.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)
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I doubt that it is Constitutional to make a legal change about anybody until they are convicted.

It would violate the concept of "presumed innocent", for your legal status to change because you were indicted and suspected of a crime.

It would throw the whole standard of substantive due process out the window.

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 05:09 PM (krQz2)

322 I agree with Joe. In Barry Schwartz' book, The Paradox of Choice, he notes that too many options serve to incapacitate us. The press offers one option that most people can use to focus incoming information, and then work from there. Editorial control is *the* way to bloodlessly control a populace. Orwell was onto something when he invented Newspeak.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 29, 2023 04:38 PM (/iWhV)

Elections are fixed. We don't know what ppl are voting for or on what basis.

Back in the day all the big outlets were lib and repubs won all the time. Sometimes by large margins over the medias opposition.

The elections are rigged.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 05:09 PM (U6UGu)

323 "did you know Romney blows goats?"

Oh hush

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Nervous Sheep at August 29, 2023 05:09 PM (7C01W)

324 If Paige cut off one of her breasts so she could shoot arrows better, she'd be the ultimate Amazon woman. Yowzaa.

That's not the way wonder woman works at all!

Posted by: William Moulton Marstondrawing wonder woman in a spanking battle with another Amazon at August 29, 2023 05:09 PM (lc5cP)

325 They are Mormon goats.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 05:09 PM (wsSEe)

326 I want thank Hawaii's most famous citizen for helping the people of Maui. President Obama really is coming through with support for the homeless people in Maui. NOT !!!!!

One Central Maui restaurant turned their banquet room into an assembly line, sending off hundreds of meals to people impacted by the fires.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 29, 2023 05:09 PM (9e2kV)

327 It is a thing for them to do, a cause to believe in, and they hope, a way to make a difference.
Posted by: rd at August 29, 2023

They did. We did, I guess. Im not much of a rallygoer, but all of us who supported him made a big difference.

It forced the US government to tear off it's mask, spit venom in our faces, and go full-bore totalitarian rogue state in front of G-d and everyone.

Whatever else happens, the 2016-2020 bell can't be unrung.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 29, 2023 05:10 PM (0FoWg)

328 Joe's sending those emails to Hillary as a sort of escrow.

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 05:10 PM (krQz2)

329
We want the Left and R fellow travellers like Sununu to pull dirty tricks like knocking Trump off the ballot in the primaries, so that they can be appealed to SCOTUS in time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2023 05:03 PM

Oh, they're gonna do it. But are there 10 testosterone infused testicles on the Supreme Court?

:: Shakes Magic Eight Ball ::

"Not likely"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 29, 2023 05:10 PM (enJYY)

330 We've been talking about rallies since Mitt Romney's run.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 29, 2023 04:53 PM (ppBhU)

Same with who has the most yard signs. People still think that means something.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 05:10 PM (lE+cY)

331 Ugh, I did the same.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 29, 2023 04:58 PM (KbCG3)

I signed up three months in advance, and got my first materials three weeks after the election.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 29, 2023 05:10 PM (lQONO)

332 If Nixon hadn't stepped down he would have cruised to re-election. Despite the press.

The GOP removed him. Prob after creating the whole affair.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 05:10 PM (U6UGu)

333 Kerry was a Swiftie.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 29, 2023 05:11 PM (63Dwl)

334 And Schlichter and all of the other Ronbots will be all "Heyyyyyy! We didn't expect this!"
---
Imma gonna like be saying, "hey, at least he wasn't paying off a prostitute. I don't know what all goes into paying off a prostitute but that's not an issue important to the people of Florida."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 05:11 PM (/X7zQ)

335 commissioned by a patron

I love Dolly Patron!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Nervous Sheep at August 29, 2023 05:11 PM (7C01W)

336 321 I doubt that it is Constitutional to make a legal change about anybody until they are convicted.

It would violate the concept of "presumed innocent", for your legal status to change because you were indicted and suspected of a crime.

It would throw the whole standard of substantive due process out the window.
Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 05:09 PM (krQz2)

========

The qualifications for president are laid out in the constitution, and they don't include having a clean criminal record.

It was essentially the same with the MTG trial where the left tried to apply the logic of the 14th Amendment limitations on her as having taken part in an insurrection. It didn't work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 05:11 PM (LvTSG)

337 I see the usual suspects are giddy about a hurricane hitting Florida, it's like they're hoping for death and destruction. Evil fucks.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 29, 2023 05:11 PM (hAL05)

338 If Nixon hadn't stepped down he would have cruised to re-election. Despite the press.

Uhhhh....

Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2023 05:12 PM (nfrXX)

339 I submit they already knew the answer to these questions because it was planned.
Posted by: ...

Of course they did

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 29, 2023 05:12 PM (tQL7r)

340 Joe: I have an open administration. Hell yaeah I took foreign bribes. You wanna see my accounts. I was a machine, took in millions with Hunter's help!

Press: *swoon* So honest, unlike Trump!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2023 05:12 PM (wsSEe)

341 Yo Maui............. Best Wishes from Rehobeth Beach in Delaware. Wow.... Presidenting is hard work man.....Hang in there and hang ten !!!!! I got your back !!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 29, 2023 05:12 PM (9e2kV)

342 331 I signed up three months in advance, and got my first materials three weeks after the election.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 29, 2023 05:10 PM (lQONO)

==========

Thanks, Obama.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 29, 2023 05:12 PM (LvTSG)

343 If Trump really wants to win?

Get up and speak for about ten minutes, then say listen to this person on how to get involved in your state election process as a judge, election observer, and/or an election vote counter. Then come back and finish his Trump speech.

Make sure there are handouts for everyone telling them how to get involved in their state election process, and what, or at least where the state laws are.

Posted by: rd at August 29, 2023 05:12 PM (DwVxz)

344 I loved my son so much I used .gov email aliases to send him advice about turning his life around! No joke, Fat!

Posted by: Corrupt Joe at August 29, 2023 05:12 PM (5fDan)

345 Well, since it's Schlichter, it'll be more just purely polemic about how this fight will destroy Mitch McConnell forever.
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"As I wrote in my best-selling book ...."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2023 05:12 PM (/X7zQ)

346
My son wants to tour Scotland, his wife missed her chance to see TS here. She bought tickets in Edinburgh.
Son said okay we're including the tour in that trip.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 05:08 PM (K+1Pw)

I know someone who is going to Bueno Aires to see her. Tickets are a lot cheaper there,
With the difference almost covering a flight. Not a bad way to do it.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 05:13 PM (lE+cY)

347 I know someone who is going to Bueno Aires to see her. Tickets are a lot cheaper there,
With the difference almost covering a flight. Not a bad way to do it.
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 05:13 PM (lE+cY)

Like the filthy Yankees and Mets fans coming to Philly.

Reprehensible

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 29, 2023 05:14 PM (U6UGu)

348 "No prosecutor would prosecute..." -- Merrick Garland after Joe Biden bleach-bits 5K emails to Hunter.

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 05:15 PM (krQz2)

349 Trump really wants to win?

Get up and speak for about ten minutes, then say listen to this person
Posted by: rd at August 29, 2023 05:12 PM (DwVxz)

Trump giving someone other than Trump the spotlight? Surely you jest.

Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 05:15 PM (lE+cY)

350 Like the filthy Yankees and Mets fans coming to Philly.

Hey wassa matta you? Twenty bucks is twenty bucks

Posted by: Some Philly crack whore at August 29, 2023 05:15 PM (lc5cP)

351
2016: No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute (a breach of the law)

2017+: NO ONE is above the law!

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 05:15 PM (krQz2)

352 Thad Cochran dreams

Posted by: Braenyard at August 29, 2023 05:16 PM (gmxXe)

353 Did I miss a nood? Well if you did too, this is it.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 29, 2023 05:16 PM (nfrXX)

354 Another way to make a difference for Republicans? Finance people like Scott Presler to get people registered to vote, and also get people to sign up for election campaigns.

The guy gets out there to get things done. He doesn't spend his days in an office wearing a suit looking important while he bangs the young idealistic political volunteers.

Posted by: rd at August 29, 2023 05:16 PM (r/i62)

355 PERSON-CANE (Woke name for the Storm that is non-offensive to Trannys) heading for Florida ..

OMG.... IT IS GLOBAL WARMING..... Eveyone must only flush their toilets once a week to conserve water except Biden who Shit's his pants 5 times a day !!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 29, 2023 05:17 PM (9e2kV)

356 My son wants to tour Scotland, his wife missed her chance to see TS here. She bought tickets in Edinburgh.
Son said okay we're including the tour in that trip.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 05:08 PM (K+1Pw)

I know someone who is going to Bueno Aires to see her. Tickets are a lot cheaper there,
With the difference almost covering a flight. Not a bad way to do it.
Posted by: Montec at August 29, 2023 05:13 PM (lE+cY)
******
People have lost their minds.
There has never been any person, singer or band that I would ever camp out for or overpay the amount TS tickets have been going for.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2023 05:18 PM (NpAcC)

357 351
2016: No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute (a breach of the law)

2017+: NO ONE is above the law!

Posted by: Axeman at August 29, 2023 05:15 PM (krQz2)

Correction:
2017 to the day Hunter's corrupt plea deal fell apart: NO ONE is above the law!

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2023 05:19 PM (5fDan)

358 that Karen teacher will help rig the vote count ... oh look, 3000 new ballots got mailed in ...

Posted by: illiniwek at August 29, 2023 05:19 PM (Cus5s)

359 What are we up to now...... COVID 57..... Like Heinz ???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 29, 2023 05:21 PM (9e2kV)

360 Posted by: rd at August 29, 2023 05:16 PM (r/i6

Yes; He's a very admirable person. I believe that he's also a former Democrat.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2023 05:22 PM (RSbhh)

361 I served in Vietnam somewhere !!!! What did you during Mr. Johnson's War ?????

Posted by: John Kerry at August 29, 2023 05:22 PM (9e2kV)

362 I couldn't name a Taylor Swift song if you paid me. Obviously I've heard them, but I don't care.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 29, 2023 05:23 PM (RSbhh)

363 When Trump wins will the roaches scatter like light coming on and skip the Country ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 29, 2023 05:24 PM (9e2kV)

364 Thad Cochran dreams

I was a younger man then. I had Thad Cochran dreams, and Larry Craig's enthusiasms. The bathroom stalls at the Boise airport were my K2. I knew I could summit, but could I survive the return journey . . . .

Posted by: Gay GOP Potboilers at August 29, 2023 05:27 PM (ppBhU)

365 I couldn't name a Taylor Swift song if you paid me. Obviously I've heard them, but I don't care.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I think I'd have to turn on a radio or stream music to actually hear her; so, no, I can easily say "Never heard her sing or any of her songs."

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 05:28 PM (K+1Pw)

366 When Trump wins will the roaches scatter like light coming on and skip the Country ????
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

They didn't last time they *PROMISED*! Damn liars.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 29, 2023 05:30 PM (K+1Pw)

367
I am very slow,
connect to questions about
sarcastic "Bless your heart",

back in New England, people
said, "Just put it anywhere".
(hat,coat)

Brit saying,
"here's your hat, what's your hurry?"
I love archaic language.
Another very popular phrase,
used in Child-rearing,
"People in Hell want Icewater..."
(Left unsaid, "but they're not
going to get it.")

Posted by: zigzag at August 29, 2023 05:35 PM (i4s8h)

368 I served in Vietnam somewhere !!!! What did you during Mr. Johnson's War ?????
Posted by: John Kerry at August 29, 2023 05:22 PM (9e2kV)

I was being a toddler.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, A.A.S. Drafting Technology at August 29, 2023 05:38 PM (T/Lqj)

369 Does this explain the recent swarm of articles about how bugs are the yummy and delicious environmentally friendly food of the future?

Posted by: Cymbaline at August 29, 2023 06:48 PM (TmPqR)

370 I get paid over $85 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless.
Here's what I've been doing... http://www.Salary49.com

Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at August 29, 2023 07:24 PM (aq9cy)

371 No wonder the print media is as dead as broadcast media. The only way you can rely on it is that you must disbelieve anything they tell you. Then you will arrive at the truth.

Posted by: Jane at August 30, 2023 12:33 AM (EcD5Y)

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