Puck: Inside the Woke Coup at the Washington Post

Oh, I forgot: Welcome to Tuesday. The word "Tuesday" derives from "Tiw's Day."

Old English Tīwesdæg 'day of Tīw', a Germanic god of war and the sky; translation of Latin dies Marti 'day of Mars', the god Tīw being equated with the Roman god Mars. Compare with Swedish tisdag.

A key difference between Mars and Tiw is that Mars was the god of garlic knots and Tiw the god of cheesy bread. Their eternal feud lives on in the struggle between Domino's and Papa John's.

By the way, the bundling of two letters together as in "æ" is called a ligature, because the two letters are tied to each other by a, yes, ligature. As an illegal alien may use, for example, to strangle an American 12-year-old girl to death.

Dylan Byers confirms: ousted incompetent woke Executive Editor Sally Buzbee started up the "investigation" into her successor.

The hit piece attempted to link the would-be incoming executive editor with the British phone-hacking scandal. Dylan Byers reminds everyone that this was one of the most heavily-investigated scandals in British journalism history, and Winnett was never named as one the guilty parties.

Nevertheless, the "Posties" smeared him as responsible for it. They even -- and this is amazing -- refused to publish his answers to their questions, claiming that he never responded.

He did. They just didn't publish those responses.

You can imagine the reasons why.

The Post newsroom had been on edge for days over the shake-up, and a new, somewhat nebulous plan to build a "third newsroom" of soft content to grow the Post's audience. Lewis had amplified those anxieties by delivering hard, unvarnished truths about a business that had lost $77 million the previous year: "Your audience has halved in recent years," he told his journalists. "People are not reading your stuff. I can't sugarcoat it anymore."
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By that point, Buzbee had also told colleagues about the infamous meetings where, in her telling, Lewis had tried to dissuade her from publishing stories that included accusations about his involvement in a British phone-hacking scandal--a tale that the carrier pigeon would lay on the doorstep of the Times, metastasizing the crisis. (Lewis has denied pressuring Buzbee, and denied any wrongdoing in the hacking affair.) Buzbee's smoke bomb expertly preyed upon all the Post newsroom's most delicate triggers--latent concerns about Lewis's journalistic ethics and his refusal to address questions about the hacking scandal to their satisfaction--and some journalists began to wonder whether the contretemps may have played a role in her resignation.
Within days of Buzbee's ouster, some Post journalists decided to take matters into their own hands. During a meeting of the foreign desk early that week, led by Post international editor Doug Jehl and his deputy Jennifer Amur, journalists discussed a plan to investigate both Lewis and Winnett to see if they could unearth unflattering information about the two men's history in the U.K., where they once worked together as journalists at the Sunday Times and The Telegraph. At least one staffer present at the meeting later brought the issue to Lewis's attention, said it was a shameful reflection on the Post's own ethics--a hit job masquerading as journalism--and encouraged him to take action. Lewis instead referred the matter to human resources.

Gotta tell ya, shameless hit jobs written to advance one's own private interests are what "journalism" is now.

Ya Boi Zach (who has now gone insane and is attacking people for fighting wokeness) had a pithy quote about "journalism" -- every article a "journalist" writes is either a hit piece or a puff piece, and they have already made the decision which it will be before they ask a single question. There is no such thing as neutrally-reported factual stories any longer; they're all propaganda pieces designed to hurt some person or group and advance the interests of another person or group.

It's just all political "war room" propaganda now.

The Post journalists' attempt to investigate their own boss and future editor is their right and privilege--that's how this business works, even if their work had an emotional agenda. The news media loves to cloak itself in a patina of strenuous nonpartisanship, but it is still the product of human beings. The journalists may have also been motivated by another friction between Lewis and Buzbee. On multiple occasions since becoming publisher and C.E.O., Lewis had expressed concerns over the tone of the paper's coverage of the Israel-Hamas War, which he and others inside the paper viewed as having an anti-Israel bias. Lewis had also questioned Buzbee's apparent reluctance to investigate the financing behind the pro-Palestinian protests on American college campuses, which Politico had reported were backed by major Democratic donors. At one point, Buzbee also revealed that her daughter was participating in the protests on her college campus.

Of course.

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In the days that followed, [Matt Murray, who Buzbee hired to oversee the paper between her ouster and Winnett's arrival] asked former Post managing editor Cameron Barr, now working with the Post on a freelance basis, to oversee its investigations into both Lewis and Winnett. Barr, who had stepped down after being passed over for the executive editor role that went to Buzbee, would now lead a six-person team from his new home in Skipton, on the outskirts of Leeds in the north of England.

Buzbee, who lost her job to Winnett, set off this "smoke bomb." And then, to "investigate" Winnett, they assigned a guy who himself had been passed over for the position.

Everyone directing this has a specific monetary and professional interest in the outcome of the "investigation."

There is no thought whatsoever to giving this "investigation" to a disinterested, not-personally-invested person.

And: Mike Murray, the once-passed-over would-be executive editor, is now being considered for the executive editor job now that he successfully cut the hamstrings of the guy who had been given the job.

It's like "Mirror, Mirror" -- the evil "Posties" only advance through assassination.

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The first major piece by Barr's team was published last Sunday, on Father's Day. Less than 24 hours earlier, the Times had reported that Lewis and Winnett may have used illegally obtained phone records for articles in the Sunday Times two decades ago. The Post's piece, however, focused squarely on Winnett, their incoming executive editor...

Post reporters first reached out to Winnett on Sunday evening to ask him for comment on the story, just a few hours before it was published. Winnett furnished responses to their inquiries to the Post's P.R. team, which were not included in the Post's report. Instead, a jarring and startling line in the story stated: "Winnett, currently a deputy editor of The Telegraph, did not respond to a detailed list of questions." Post comms chief Kathy Baird declined to comment on the matter.
Was the Post P.R. team gravely incompetent? Were they instead quietly manipulating the situation to side with their newsroom, which was by now nakedly trying to nuke not only Winnett but also Lewis--not only by assigning a team of six to a story with zero national import, but also by leaking their inner turmoil to Politico and the Times in an ostensible attempt to ethics-shame Jeff Bezos off his $500 million superyacht in the Mediterranean?
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Indeed, it's hard to look back on the recent tumult at the Post and not feel as though, in setting out to save the paper, its reporters inadvertently set it back--which, given the current state of the business, they can hardly afford to do. For all their rage, the Posties seem to have an insufficient understanding of the gravity of their business challenges.

But the activists aren't done yet -- New York magazine wonders if Will Lewis, the CEO who hired Winnett, will be the next to be fired.

Oh, right, we're pretending these people are "voluntarily withdrawing" from high-paying, prestigious jobs to spend more time with their former jobs.

Check out CNN's Chief Deplatforming Officer Oliver Darcy, reporting that morale at the Post has "fallen off a cliff."

Oh no!

"It's as bad as I've ever seen it, truly," one staffer said Thursday, noting that The Post has hit "rough patches" before, but that the stormy atmosphere hanging over the Washington outlet is unprecedented.
Lewis' uncouth dispatching of Buzbee poisoned much of the goodwill he had earned with his employees over the preceding six months ...

Uncouth! What a sassy little skinny-jean bitch.

The "Posties" have formed a whisper network to question whether Lewis, like Winnett, just isn't a good fit with the woke failure Washington Post.

Are the Post and Lewis just not a good fit?
One lingering issue is the difference between how newsrooms are run in the U.K. versus the U.S. Politico Playbook notes that Lewis's Fleet Street attitude seems to be triggering some culture shock at the Post:

A series of emerging revelations, stemming from his announcement Sunday that executive editor Sally Buzbee would be leaving, to replaced by two close Lewis associates, have left the Post newsroom "uniformly horrified," in one reporter's words.
More consequentially, they have revealed that the clash between Lewis' rough-and-tumble sensibilities and the Post's more high-minded culture is even more profound than previously suspected: He can't seem to figure out where his Fleet Street smarts are necessary and refreshing, and where they are toxic and self-defeating.
Inside the Post, the conversation among reporters surveyed Thursday night centered on whether Lewis could continue leading the publication.

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

(From Donnie Darko. My brother said that on occasion.)

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:20 PM

Comments

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1
It's like watching trapped rats killing each other.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 02:22 PM (MoZTd)

2 "Tiw" looks like one of those unpronounceable words from an H.P. Lovecraft story.

Posted by: Paco at June 25, 2024 02:22 PM (njExo)

3
Oh, yeah baby! We're Number 1!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 02:22 PM (MoZTd)

4 Loki!!!!

Posted by: Tiw at June 25, 2024 02:22 PM (ZdexC)

5 Burn Bezos Burn

(Sadly he's got a LOT of money and this will have almost 0 impact on him.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 02:23 PM (N1tpc)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

7
(Sadly he's got a LOT of money and this will have almost 0 impact on him.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 02:23 PM (N1tpc)

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The Post can stay crazy longer than he can remain solvent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 02:24 PM (MoZTd)

8 The hit piece attempted to link the would-be incoming executive editor with the British phone-hacking scandal. Dylan Byers reminds everyone that this was one of the most heavily-investigated scandals in British journalism history, and Winnett was never named as one the guilty parties.

Nevertheless, the "Posties" smeared him as responsible for it. They even -- and this is amazing -- refused to publish his answers to their questions, claiming that he never responded.

Why, that there sounds like defamation by WaPo staff. Seems like the punishment should be punitive against all those that supported doing that, all the way to owners that knew or should have known.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 02:25 PM (ynpvh)

9 Didn't the Post used to be a newspaper?

You know, 'news' printed on paper.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2024 02:25 PM (WXNFJ)

10 I'll settle for no less than an Andronicus for Trump's VP.

Anything less and I'll not vote!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Does every HQ thread have to devolve into a Titus thread?!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:25 PM (ZdexC)

11 Looks like the Washington Post has adhering to the Curly Howard philosophy for quite some time now.

https://tinyurl.com/eptd933z

Posted by: Paco at June 25, 2024 02:26 PM (njExo)

12 2 "Tiw" looks like one of those unpronounceable words from an H.P. Lovecraft story.

Posted by: Paco at June 25, 2024 02:22 PM (njExo)

Maybe pronounced like the comment #...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

13 I hope Bezos sells off the Washington Post to some vulture capitalists to be pieced out.

The position of the "journalists" at the Post is literally that since Bezos is so rich, he should be happy to lose $100 million a year indefinitely, just so they can keep their phoney-baloney jobs.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2024 02:26 PM (uxCna)

14 Ya Boi Zach (who has now gone insane and is attacking people for fighting wokeness)

Yeah, when your online 'persona' starts out like you're a 13 year old........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

15 Twix candy bars are made by the Mars Corporation.

Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2024 02:27 PM (LkLld)

16 Democracy dies in darkness, and by God, we will ensure the darkness.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 02:27 PM (lTGtQ)

17 Ya Boi Zach (who has now gone insane and is attacking people for fighting wokeness)

That boy always seemed to walk the fine line between genius and insanity, but something snapped, and he's gone completely wackadoo.

Posted by: Kanye West at June 25, 2024 02:27 PM (JCZqz)

18 TL;DR

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at June 25, 2024 02:27 PM (XlPmJ)

19 Does every HQ thread have to devolve into a Titus thread?!
Posted by: andycanuck

We do seem to have a Roman influence around here;

Bigus Dickus, Boobus Maximus and such have made their appearance before.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2024 02:28 PM (WXNFJ)

20 A key difference between Mars and Tiw is that Mars was the god of garlic knots and Tiw the god of cheesy bread. Their eternal feud lives on in the struggle between Domino's and Papa John's.

Except that the day is now known for tacos. Sort of a parable about border control, I suppose.

Posted by: Bert G at June 25, 2024 02:28 PM (VARTN)

21 I hope Bezos sells off the Washington Post to some vulture capitalists to be pieced out.

Remember, the Democratic Washington legislature voted to have a capital gains tax on 7,000 rich people in Washington, with Bezos forecasted to pay 45% of the total tax bill.

Bezos responded by immediately moving to Florida.

He doesn't take threats well.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 25, 2024 02:28 PM (uxCna)

22 Why, that there sounds like defamation by WaPo staff. Seems like the punishment should be punitive against all those that supported doing that, all the way to owners that knew or should have known.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 02:25 PM (ynpvh)

He's a "public figure". Defamation is completely legal as long as they claim it wasn't done with malice.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 02:28 PM (N1tpc)

23 They aren't dying, they are self-immolating. It's glorious.

Posted by: huerfano at June 25, 2024 02:28 PM (VGOMa)

24 Check out CNN's Chief Deplatforming Officer Oliver Darcy, reporting that morale at the Post has "fallen off a cliff."

I read this as "Oliver Darcy has fallen off a cliff."

Guess how I felt?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

25 >>>15 Twix candy bars are made by the Mars Corporation.

Good point. It's all connected!!!!

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 02:29 PM (KRtlO)

26 It’s funny because no one reads the Post anyway.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 02:29 PM (Hkcdp)

27 I was told there would be no latin on this blog

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at June 25, 2024 02:29 PM (DBZuM)

28
I hope Bezos sells off the Washington Post to some vulture capitalists to be pieced out.

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I'd like to buy it just so I could tell every "journalist" personally that they were fired. And that if scans of their computers showed any non-work activity, there would be no severance pay.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 02:29 PM (MoZTd)

29 Does every HQ thread have to devolve into a Titus thread?!
Posted by: andycanuck

That was an interesting show, but I don't see how we could have more than one thread about it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 02:29 PM (N1tpc)

30 20 A key difference between Mars and Tiw is that Mars was the god of garlic knots and Tiw the god of cheesy bread. Their eternal feud lives on in the struggle between Domino's and Papa John's.

Except that the day is now known for tacos. Sort of a parable about border control, I suppose.

Posted by: Bert G at June 25, 2024 02:28 PM (VARTN)

It still bears the scars of it's origins, otherwise it'd just be Tacoday.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 02:30 PM (ynpvh)

31 Meh, who gives a fvck what they do as long as they go away forever.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 25, 2024 02:30 PM (qZdIZ)

32 Think it’s time for Bezos to outsource the Post’s content to China?
He’s made a bundle selling cheap, Chinrs crap, why not cheap, Chinese propaganda?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 02:30 PM (Hkcdp)

33 I was told there would be no latin on this blog
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears!"

*Horde stands up as a group and fires spitballs towards the stage*

Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2024 02:31 PM (WXNFJ)

34 >>>27 I was told there would be no latin on this blog

They lied to you. They always lie to you.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 02:31 PM (KRtlO)

35 They aren't dying, they are self-immolating. It's glorious.

Spontaneous human combustion....
Whoops, there goes another one...

https://tinyurl.com/c3b98wmm

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:31 PM (xCA6C)

36
As bad as I imagined things were inside the Washington Post, it turns out it was much worse. What a useless gaggle of deranged screaming faggots. They really make outsiders enjoy their suffering.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 25, 2024 02:32 PM (dtlw7)

37 Oh, right, we're pretending these people are "voluntarily withdrawing" from high-paying, prestigious jobs to spend more time with their former jobs.
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Is this about me???

Posted by: Michael Colangelo at June 25, 2024 02:32 PM (ZdexC)

38 Bezos has more money than he knows what to do with. See: "Penis Rocket" He's an empty shell of a man with deep personal issues. I'll bet he; 1. doesn't know and/or care what is going on at the Post, and 2. doesn't care.

The Post is a tax write-off for him. Nothing more.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2024 02:32 PM (Q4IgG)

39 I was told there would be no latin on this blog
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

Erras

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 02:32 PM (N1tpc)

40 22 Why, that there sounds like defamation by WaPo staff. Seems like the punishment should be punitive against all those that supported doing that, all the way to owners that knew or should have known.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 02:25 PM (ynpvh)

He's a "public figure". Defamation is completely legal as long as they claim it wasn't done with malice.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 02:28 PM (N1tpc)

If trying to get someone sacked based on a known falsehood does not present a jury issue on malice, what would?

Posted by: Like Trump Said, We Need To Broaden Libel Laws at June 25, 2024 02:32 PM (bDO8y)

41 >>>26 It’s funny because no one reads the Post anyway.

They're the Disney Plus of "news."

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 02:32 PM (KRtlO)

42 unless lorenz taylor is appearing naked somewhere i have no interest in the post or its minion

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CWTWj)

43 Aw, Oliver Darcy is concerned?

That’s a terrible thing, just terrible.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 02:33 PM (Hkcdp)

44 What a useless gaggle of deranged screaming faggots.

I saw A Useless Gaggle of Deranged Screaming Faggots open for Elric Blade at the Vegas Convention Center.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:33 PM (xCA6C)

45 >>>42 unless lorenz taylor is appearing naked somewhere i have no interest in the post or its minion

I bet she's got a bush the size of a Buick.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 02:34 PM (KRtlO)

46 If trying to get someone sacked based on a known falsehood does not present a jury issue on malice, what would?
Posted by: Like Trump Said, We Need To Broaden Libel Laws at June 25, 2024 02:32 PM (bDO8y)

I honestly don't know, but I also 100% guarantee this won't be enough to win a defamation suit.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 25, 2024 02:34 PM (N1tpc)

47 >>Think it’s time for Bezos to outsource the Post’s content to China?
He’s made a bundle selling cheap, Chinrs crap, why not cheap, Chinese propaganda?

That ship sailed a while ago. Here's a letter to the editor in the WaPo back in 2011 objecting not just to the insertion of Chinese content in the paper but and entire Chinese insert being included with copies of the WaPo.

https://tinyurl.com/yhmx32f3

Posted by: JackStraw at June 25, 2024 02:34 PM (LkLld)

48
They're the Disney Plus of "news."
Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 02:32 PM (KRtlO)

They're the Disney Plus of Mark Cuban's Q-Cat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

49 Bigus Dickus, Boobus Maximus and such have made their appearance before.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 25, 2024 02:28 PM (WXNFJ)
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Noodus Simianus made its appearance today, I think..

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 02:34 PM (7fElN)

50 unless lorenz taylor is appearing naked somewhere i have no interest in the post or its minion
Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CWTWj)

Seriously? She's a Walmart 2 at best. Fat, ugly, and stupid is how she rolls...

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at June 25, 2024 02:35 PM (K861k)

51 Hi ace!

It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Find a furry fuzzy belly and give it some rubs. You'll feel better!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2024 02:35 PM (dV80I)

52
Ya Boi Zach (who has now gone insane and is attacking people for fighting wokeness)

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Damn! Another one I used to love, Govindini Murty, has done the same.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at June 25, 2024 02:35 PM (I87yH)

53 The POS t is dead, It committed suicide right out in the open. Self immolation for the cause of woke. Heh!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 02:35 PM (pohLc)

54 I bet she's got a bush the size of a Buick.
Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 02:34 PM (KRtlO)

Check it for ballots

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 02:36 PM (ugRIO)

55 unless lorenz taylor is appearing naked somewhere i have no interest in the post or its minion
Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CWTWj)

Seriously? She's a Walmart 2 at best. Fat, ugly, and stupid is how she rolls...

Not to mention old as Methuselah.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)

56 this whole thing makes my head hurt

I would love to see Bezos just cut bait and sell the Post off to someone, anyone, hopefully an entity that will fold it up

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 25, 2024 02:36 PM (s3qiR)

57 What happened to Ya Boi Zack? I rarely watched his stuff (way too rambling).

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2024 02:36 PM (mlQIE)

58 Ah, sorry.....Cue Cat.

It was a failure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

59 You have to be extraordinarily stupid to just not fire all of these people.

They produce nothing worth paying for so you are out nothing but trouble.

Posted by: Thatch at June 25, 2024 02:37 PM (bbi0+)

60 This is coming to a head. These toddlers plus a plummeting readership will lead Bezos to dump this trash heap to a venture capital firm which will rip it apart like vultures on roadkill

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 02:37 PM (N+p0+)

61 Wall Street Silver @WallStreetSilv Jun 23
Bill Kristol denies “great replacement theory” … but seems to have forgotten some of his previous quotes.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxd2kd5
Screencaps ahoy! 🚢

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:37 PM (ZdexC)

62 I was told there would be no latin on this blog
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

I've got bad news for you. The blog banner contains a Latin word.

Posted by: Gref, today's Lamont the Dummy at June 25, 2024 02:38 PM (5fDan)

63 All Hail Tiw!

-The Little Cesars Pizza Pizza Guy

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 02:38 PM (o3Uyl)

64 Not to mention old as Methuselah.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)

No way, hoss. Half your age plus seven. You know this.

Posted by: Methuselah at June 25, 2024 02:38 PM (BpZ5k)

65 I really hope Trump mentions this in the debate.
one of the moderators in the debate, Jake Tapper, is the subject of a defamation lawsuit that could cost the network $1 billion.

You may not have heard about it yet, but the Florida First District Court of Appeals recently ruled that plaintiff Zachary Young can pursue punitive damages, along with economic and emotional damages, in a civil trial against CNN. According to Newsbusters, the total damages sought could approach or exceed $1 billion because of Tapper's comments defaming Young's efforts to aid individuals in Afghanistan during the botched withdrawal in 2021.

For that outcome to be remotely in the cards, Young needed to prove malice and according to the ruling, he’s done exactly that. “Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages,” Judge L. Clayton Roberts wrote in the court’s ruling.

https://tinyurl.com/386yc8j3

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:38 PM (xCA6C)

66 I bet she's got a bush the size of a Buick.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 02:34 PM (KRtlO)
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Probably looks like she's got Buckwheat in a headlock.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 25, 2024 02:39 PM (YqDXo)

67 Winnett's a "public figure". Defamation is completely legal as long as they claim it wasn't done with malice.

Genie: Chuck C, you have three wishes

Me: First wish: Winnett's defamation lawsuit against the WP and its coup leaders is the case that overturns New York Times v Sullivan and eliminates the "public figure" malice requirement.

Genie: You're weird, but OK

Posted by: Chuck C at June 25, 2024 02:39 PM (yOPBE)

68 Buzbee sounds like a vibrator brand.

New adage: Never say anything nice about journalists when you can go low.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 25, 2024 02:39 PM (W3n7o)

69 As the Captain of the Titanic said to the First Mate, "Who rearranged these deck chairs?"

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 25, 2024 02:39 PM (wBaIH)

70 Wait - the new chief has a rough and tumble approach while “the Posties” are high minded?

It was a Wash Post reporter who was sleeping with her Congress security guy to get scoops, right?
It was the Post running over 30 front page articles about the Virginia gubernatorial candidate uttering “Mac’aca” under his breath, right?

They haven’t been high minded in years, decades.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 25, 2024 02:39 PM (Hkcdp)

71 I bet she's got a bush the size of a Buick.
Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 02:34 PM (KRtlO)

When you need a weed eater and a brush hog to get somewhere, it's not really worth it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

72 I guess the whiny little bitches at the Post are upset they're expected to keep their whines to themselves and not put them on the front page.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 02:40 PM (tT6L1)

73 What a colossal bunch of faggots.

Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at June 25, 2024 02:40 PM (0Uf+z)

74 By the way, the bundling of two letters together as in "æ" is called a ligature, because the two letters are tied to each other by a, yes, ligature. As an illegal alien may use, for example, to strangle an American 12-year-old girl to death.

Dark, Ace, very dark.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 25, 2024 02:41 PM (/y8xj)

75 What a colossal bunch of faggots.
Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at June 25, 2024 02:40 PM (0Uf+z)

Every bundle of sticks has an axe in the middle.

Posted by: Methuselah at June 25, 2024 02:41 PM (BpZ5k)

76 funny if the post people wake up one morning and learn that their new billionaire owner is elon musk.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 25, 2024 02:42 PM (CWTWj)

77 FWIW, Ace, I'm really enjoying your Adventures in Etymology. This is something that has always interested me, too. No end of surprises in discovering the origins of words and phrases.

Posted by: Paco at June 25, 2024 02:42 PM (njExo)

78 funny if the post people wake up one morning and learn that their new billionaire owner is elon musk.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 25, 2024 02:42 PM (CWTWj)

I'm still not subscribing to NewsX.

Posted by: Methuselah at June 25, 2024 02:42 PM (BpZ5k)

79 67 Winnett's a "public figure". Defamation is completely legal as long as they claim it wasn't done with malice.

Genie: Chuck C, you have three wishes

Me: First wish: Winnett's defamation lawsuit against the WP and its coup leaders is the case that overturns New York Times v Sullivan and eliminates the "public figure" malice requirement.

Genie: You're weird, but OK
Posted by: Chuck C at June 25, 2024 02:39 PM (yOPBE)

Second wish: All spiders sing, but they only sing songs by Pink! and Peaches.

Posted by: Money, Long Life, a Big Phallus - Nope, Genie, I Have Other Plans at June 25, 2024 02:42 PM (ohEAP)

80 funny if the post people wake up one morning and learn that their new billionaire owner is elon musk.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 25, 2024

***
And he's hired Ace to be his managing editor (read: "hatchet man")!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 02:43 PM (J2vNu)

81 funny if the post people wake up one morning and learn that their new billionaire owner is elon musk.

Musk only invests in up and coming businesses. WaPo is down and sinking.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:43 PM (xCA6C)

82 The self centered brats in the newsroom are not only going to put themselves out or work, they're going to put all the grunts out of work, too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 02:43 PM (tT6L1)

83 76 funny if the post people wake up one morning and learn that their new billionaire owner is elon musk.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 25, 2024 02:42 PM (CWTWj)
That would bode well for the survival of the paper, however it would be the death of the communist soul of the rag.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 02:44 PM (pohLc)

84 And he's hired Ace to be his managing editor (read: "hatchet man")!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 02:43 PM (J2vNu)
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"Team Building Through Hobo Hunting"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

85 Thank you for noticing that Ya Boi Zack has lost the plot. As I hit “unsubscribe” a couple of weeks ago I was wondering if it was just me.

Posted by: James Felix at June 25, 2024 02:44 PM (seVob)

86
The Washington Planarium: Two-Headed When It Counts!

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at June 25, 2024 02:45 PM (WN9cm)

87 60 This is coming to a head. These toddlers plus a plummeting readership will lead Bezos to dump this trash heap to a venture capital firm which will rip it apart like vultures on roadkill
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 02:37 PM (N+p0+)

Gotta think that is the end game when the posties run out of other peepos moolah.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 02:45 PM (OiAR7)

88 Always thought Tuesday came from Lauren Tewes , Julie McCoy on The Love Boat. Learn something new every day, thx ace

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 02:45 PM (N+p0+)

89 https://tinyurl.com/yhmx32f3
Posted by: JackStraw
===
13 years later and a letter to the editor is still behind the paywall.
This may be a small part of the Post's, and all media's, problems.

Posted by: From about that Time at June 25, 2024 02:45 PM (4780s)

90 My decoder ring says Tuesday in French is "Mardi - Boire plus d'Ovomaltine".

Posted by: Ralphie at June 25, 2024 02:46 PM (caIUg)

91 Let it burn! Learn to code losers. Time to start reducing head count to lower expenses.

Posted by: Stacy0311 at June 25, 2024 02:46 PM (8LKg9)

92 82 The self centered brats in the newsroom are not only going to put themselves out or work, they're going to put all the grunts out of work, too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 02:43 PM (tT6L1)

Haha, then they will be screaming. Turn this thing back on.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 02:46 PM (OiAR7)

93 CNN and Jake Tapper are being sued for defamation:

But, as the well-known CNN personality gears up for that debate he also finds himself in the middle of a lawsuit against his employer by security consulting firm Nemex Enterprises and its owner Zachary Young, who worked to help evacuate Afghanis following the chaotic Taliban takeover of that country.

It seems Mr. Young has receipts.....and lots of them.

https://is.gd/BZs8qh

This article doesn't mention it, but there's apparently text messages where CNN reporters were talking about destroying Young and ruining him on purpose.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

94 MeTV's new cartoon channel started today. Wacky Races on right now.

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 25, 2024 02:47 PM (xPl2J)

95 THAT’S REAL MONEY: Jake Tapper Could Cost CNN $1 Billion in Defamation Suit.
Posted at 2:16 pm by Stephen Green

||You may not have heard about it yet, but the Florida First District Court of Appeals recently ruled that plaintiff Zachary Young can pursue punitive damages, along with economic and emotional damages, in a civil trial against CNN. According to Newsbusters, the total damages sought could approach or exceed $1 billion because of Tapper's comments defaming Young's efforts to aid individuals in Afghanistan during the botched withdrawal in 2021.||

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:47 PM (ZdexC)

96 which will rip it apart like vultures on roadkill
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 02:37 PM (N+p0+)

Hey!!!

Posted by: David Freiberger and Mike Finnigan at June 25, 2024 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

97
Get yer tiw out,
Get yer tiw out,
Get yer tiw out for the lads.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 25, 2024 02:49 PM (CwhoI)

98 94 MeTV's new cartoon channel started today. Wacky Races on right now.
----------
I'll take "White Hispanics with Black and Jewish Blood" for $500, Alex.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:49 PM (ZdexC)

99 So how long can the post lose readership and money and keep these clowns employed. Is there a rock bottom to their subscribers..... say all the dems that can read in DC? Can the float on that?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 02:50 PM (OiAR7)

100 MeTV's new cartoon channel started today. Wacky Races on right now.
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 25, 2024 02:47 PM (xPl2J)

=====

I loved that show when I was a kid. I wanted to be Penelope Pitstop when I grew up.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 25, 2024 02:51 PM (DRSnL)

101 "Musk only invests in up and coming businesses. WaPo is down and sinking.
Posted by: Archimedes "

Bring back color Sunday funnies and real reporters and I'll buy it.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 02:51 PM (vFG9F)

102
The Colossus of Faggots was a lighthouse erected at Crete. Its time in service totaled all of one night.

I mean, c'mon, it was made from pitch-soaked faggots.

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at June 25, 2024 02:52 PM (WN9cm)

103 I wonder if the Post gets fed subsidies.

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 02:52 PM (o3Uyl)

104 Never saw the film, but "Mean Girls" comes to mind. Rooms filled with people suffering from arrested adolescence, lashing out at anything or anyone who threatens their attenuated sense of the world.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 02:52 PM (rj6Yv)

105 "Musk only invests in up and coming businesses. WaPo is down and sinking.
Posted by: Archimedes "

Bring back color Sunday funnies and real reporters and I'll buy it.

Nope. That ship sailed with the hagiography of Obama. I'll never trust them again.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:52 PM (xCA6C)

106 This rag went from a readership of 600K down to less than 150K in just a few years. I don't see how they can afford newsprint anymore.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 02:53 PM (lTGtQ)

107 @95 andycanuck, that lawsuit was a slam dunk when the e-mails and texts between reporters and their editors were shown. They were so dripping with malice that a dead man could see it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 02:53 PM (N+p0+)

108 Every bundle of sticks has an axe in the middle.
Posted by: Methuselah

And they're carried by Lictors, in advance of an eminent official of the Roman government.

Posted by: John Drake Is Taking A Break Near Atyrau, North Of The Caspian Sea at June 25, 2024 02:53 PM (ENHQb)

109 "Ah, sorry.....Cue Cat.

It was a failure.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden"

I've still got mine. I don't know why.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 02:53 PM (vFG9F)

110 This rag went from a readership of 600K down to less than 150K in just a few years. I don't see how they can afford newsprint anymore.

They built out physical presses for a paper with an order of magnitude larger readership. I wonder what all those facilities are doing now, other than collecting dust.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:53 PM (xCA6C)

111 Yes, it's very weird and unfortunate how Ya Boi Zach had decided that anti-SJW's are now worse than SJW's even as he notes that SJW's literally conspired to get him to kill himself and have successfully managed to get someone else to actually kill himself not three months ago!

But I guess this is why the Kiwi Farmers call him "Simple Zach..."

Posted by: Kensington at June 25, 2024 02:54 PM (n86V+)

112 Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr 3h
How can CNN debate moderator Dana Bash be impartial questioning Trump, she was married to Trump-bashing Russiagate conspiracist, Biden donor and Brennan aide JEREMY BASH who signed 2020 intel statement falsely insisting Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation.

Catturd ™ @catturd2 3h
Again - Dana Bash, who's moderating the CNN debate, her husband was one of the 51 treasonous traitors who lied about Hunter's laptop being Russian misinformation.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:54 PM (ZdexC)

113 So it's cheesy bread Tuesday?

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 02:54 PM (fwDg9)

114 Not to mention old as Methuselah.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)

"born October 21, c. 1984–1987"

Damn. It's all over. Time to take up knitting I guess.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at June 25, 2024 02:54 PM (JCLJi)

115
Tiw! It's gay wrastlin' day!

Posted by: Auspex at June 25, 2024 02:54 PM (j4U/Z)

116 Every bundle of sticks has an axe in the middle.
Posted by: Methuselah
*
And they're carried by Lictors, in advance of an eminent official of the Roman government.
Posted by: John Drake Is Taking A Break Near Atyrau, North Of The Caspian Sea at June 25, 2024

***
Pontifex maximus for the win!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 02:54 PM (J2vNu)

117
Butt Lictors were the dregs of the Earth.

Ass Lictors were worse, way worse.

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at June 25, 2024 02:55 PM (WN9cm)

118 Not to mention old as Methuselah.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:36 PM (xCA6C)

"born October 21, c. 1984–1987"

Damn. It's all over. Time to take up knitting I guess.

Nah. It's a joke because she makes such a thing of pretending to be younger than she is.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 02:55 PM (xCA6C)

119 I also have a Space Ball and Logitech Magellan 3d mouse too.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 02:55 PM (vFG9F)

120 Catturd ™ @catturd2 3h
Again - Dana Bash, who's moderating the CNN debate, her husband was one of the 51 treasonous traitors who lied about Hunter's laptop being Russian misinformation.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:54 PM (ZdexC)

These are the sorts of things that need to be aired on Thursday night. Dont let the hacks just sit there like they are the font of all impartiality.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 02:56 PM (OiAR7)

121 I also have a Space Ball and Logitech Magellan 3d mouse too.
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 02:55 PM (vFG9F)

I still have a 16 port DigiBoard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

122 re Ya Boi Zach

Is there some sort of explanation he offers for this bizarre about-face?

Posted by: Just Curious at June 25, 2024 02:57 PM (ohEAP)

123 "I still have a 16 port DigiBoard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden"

You never know when you might need to run some terminals.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 02:57 PM (vFG9F)

124 Monday, one day
Tuesday, twos day
Wednesday, what day?
Thursday, the third day!

Posted by: Joey Tribbiani at June 25, 2024 02:57 PM (VGRuw)

125 Lictor? Hardly knew her!

Posted by: Roman Soldier Lobbying for Decimation at June 25, 2024 02:58 PM (ohEAP)

126 120 Catturd ™ @catturd2 3h
Again - Dana Bash, who's moderating the CNN debate, her husband was one of the 51 treasonous traitors who lied about Hunter's laptop being Russian misinformation.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:54 PM (ZdexC)

These are the sorts of things that need to be aired on Thursday night. Dont let the hacks just sit there like they are the font of all impartiality.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 02:56 PM (OiAR7)

*Attempts to call out Bash as a signer of said document

*Cuts off mic

"Sir, we're not here to talk about the past. Now, do you believe the 2020 election was rigged? How many Capitol Police were you hoping got killed as you triggered the J6 insurrection?" - Bash

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 02:58 PM (KbCG3)

127 What is it with leftist, woke entities that self implode like hood rats at a Waffle House? Just with less furniture throwing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2024 02:58 PM (Q4IgG)

128 I think we're going to hear the words "fake" and "weak" a lot on Thor's Day.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 02:58 PM (rj6Yv)

129 "I still have a 16 port DigiBoard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden"

You never know when you might need to run some terminals.
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 02:57 PM (vFG9F)
-----

SCO Unix and let's hang some printers off that bad boy!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 02:59 PM (tT6L1)

130 Tim Pool @Timcast 15h
CNN is now threatening any social channels that provide commentary on the debate stating they will not allow the use outside of CNN

Commentary on a presidential debate is the epitome of fair use and we fully intend to provide insight and real time fact checking Thursday LIVE

Catturd ™ @catturd2 5h
LOL - CNN trying to control free speech to protect Turnip Brain. Good luck with that.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:59 PM (ZdexC)

131 Maybe Bezos should just sell the Post to the employees so they can go down in flames as owners instead of just employees topping from the bottom.

Posted by: Octochicken at June 25, 2024 02:59 PM (oCS0o)

132 Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:47 PM (ZdexC)

I was just reading about the lawsuit, and as AtC might say, "Discovery is a b!tch." One billion in damages sounds like too much until you see how much the plantiff lost, and he *needs* that money to do his job. Getting people out of a warzone is not cheap, and that's before the bribes.

Posted by: pookysgirl, doing math along with Latin at June 25, 2024 03:00 PM (dtlDP)

133 Inside's spouse still gets the Wash Poo delivered as well as our nonagenarian neighbor. Inside was actually a Wash Poo delivery boy in the 70's - decent money for middle schooler and started me getting up early.

I'm rooting for injuries in the whole thing.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at June 25, 2024 03:00 PM (jFCkp)

134 Oh, I forgot: Welcome to Tuesday. The word "Tuesday" derives from "Tiw's Day."

Look, if you need help remembering, just think of it like this. The third day. Alright?

Monday, one day. Tuesday, two day. Wednesday, what, huh, what day? Thursday, the third day! Okay?

https://bit.ly/4eDHcB1

Posted by: Joey Tribbiani at June 25, 2024 03:00 PM (P5BPp)

135 Maybe Bezos should just sell the Post to the employees so they can go down in flames as owners instead of just employees topping from the bottom.

That is an outstanding idea.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 03:00 PM (xCA6C)

136 130 Tim Pool @Timcast 15h
CNN is now threatening any social channels that provide commentary on the debate stating they will not allow the use outside of CNN

Commentary on a presidential debate is the epitome of fair use and we fully intend to provide insight and real time fact checking Thursday LIVE

Catturd ™ @catturd2 5h
LOL - CNN trying to control free speech to protect Turnip Brain. Good luck with that.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:59 PM (ZdexC)

You eat the shitsandwhich they serve and don't talk about the shit sandwich they serve or else.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 03:01 PM (OiAR7)

137 >>>Probably looks like she's got Buckwheat in a headlock.

lol

Paco, see the sidebar for a new one.

Posted by: ace at June 25, 2024 03:01 PM (KRtlO)

138 From the Washington Examiner:

Time to pull an alarm on Jamaal Bowman’s career in Congress

arring an unforeseen wave of political support, Bowman is expected to lose the Democratic primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District. A recent poll from Emerson College and the Hill showed Bowman losing by 17 points, 48% to 31%, to challenger Westchester County Executive George Latimer. Granted, this isn’t definitive proof of Bowman’s defeat, and technically, he could still win. However, if political accountability and justice exist, he won’t.

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 03:02 PM (o3Uyl)

139 Tim Pool @Timcast 15h
CNN is now threatening any social channels that provide commentary on the debate stating they will not allow the use outside of CNN

Commentary on a presidential debate is the epitome of fair use and we fully intend to provide insight and real time fact checking Thursday LIVE

Catturd ™ @catturd2 5h
LOL - CNN trying to control free speech to protect Turnip Brain. Good luck with that.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 02:59 PM (ZdexC)

Stupid is as stupid does. Stupid Dana and Stupid Jake and Stupid CNN. Can't stop the signal.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 03:02 PM (rj6Yv)

140 2 "Tiw" looks like one of those unpronounceable words from an H.P. Lovecraft story.
Posted by: Paco

Like smelling the color six.

Posted by: Hastur the Yellow at June 25, 2024 03:03 PM (JCZqz)

141 CNN is now threatening any social channels that provide commentary on the debate stating they will not allow the use outside of CNN

-

Wait, how is this not election interference?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 03:03 PM (b9jZi)

142
"Sir, we're not here to talk about the past. Now, do you believe the 2020 election was rigged? How many Capitol Police were you hoping got killed as you triggered the J6 insurrection?" - Bash
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 02:58 PM (KbCG3)

Is there a betting line on the over under on how many times they cut trumps mike mid sentence?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 03:03 PM (OiAR7)

143 Maybe Besos should file a shareholders suit against employees with them being bound to buy it at his cost. Then they can run it into the ground.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2024 03:04 PM (4780s)

144 Buzbee just supports my opinion that White American Leftist woke women are the worst human beings in the world.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 03:04 PM (SHMXB)

145 Old English Tīwesdæg 'day of Tīw', a Germanic god of war and the sky; translation of Latin dies Marti 'day of Mars'

Lunes
Martes
Miercoles Mercury Blues Full of Woe

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 03:04 PM (ENQN6)

146 144 Buzbee just supports my opinion that White American Leftist woke women are the worst human beings in the world.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 03:04 PM (SHMXB)

Calling ms swift to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 03:05 PM (OiAR7)

147 Can I put my rent money on "every time?"

Posted by: Octochicken at June 25, 2024 03:05 PM (oCS0o)

148 Dammit.

Is there a betting line on the over under on how many times they cut trumps mike mid sentence?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 03:03 PM (OiAR7)

Can I put the rent money on "every time?"

Posted by: Octochicken at June 25, 2024 03:05 PM (oCS0o)

149 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 19h
Trump Preps For Debate Against Biden By Going to Nursing Home And Arguing With Dementia Patients
buff.ly/4ezzLuO

great picture

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 03:06 PM (ZdexC)

150 Is there a betting line on the over under on how many times they cut trumps mike mid sentence?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

--

I think it was ellipses that had a very smart observation in that the mic-muting will be mainly intended for Joe.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 03:06 PM (b9jZi)

151 Thanks, Ace for giving a shout-out to the Teutonic deities! Hope everyone has a great Woden's Day tomorrow, and a wonderful Thor's Day and Freya's Day, respectively, on the days that follow!

Krauts - we named every day of the week for you, except Saturday.

Posted by: John Drake Is Taking A Break Near Atyrau, North Of The Caspian Sea at June 25, 2024 03:07 PM (ENHQb)

152 Ya Boi Zach just insists that he's being consistent in focusing his ire on the people who are running the things he enjoys, and, currently that means anti-SJW's because Zach thinks they cannot be satisfied any longer by anything short of destroying movies and comics. That, in his opinion, makes guys like Nerdrotic and Critical Drinker (presumably) more destructive than jerks like Kathleen Kennedy, Mark Waid, and Kelly Sue DeConnick.

It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Posted by: Kensington at June 25, 2024 03:07 PM (n86V+)

153
I think it was ellipses that had a very smart observation in that the mic-muting will be mainly intended for Joe.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at June 25, 2024 03:06 PM (b9jZi)

What a race! All the norms are subverted. lol

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 25, 2024 03:08 PM (OiAR7)

154 Surprised Hitler didn’t make Tuesday the new Sabbath day.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 03:09 PM (SHMXB)

155 Lemme see I got this straight.
CNN get's chosen as host of the Presidential debate, being held to inform people of issues for the upcoming election, and then declares that they cannot discuss these issues, with direct linking to the points they are discussing.
Do I have this correct?

Posted by: From about that Time at June 25, 2024 03:09 PM (4780s)

156 149 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 19h
Trump Preps For Debate Against Biden By Going to Nursing Home And Arguing With Dementia Patients
buff.ly/4ezzLuO

great picture
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 03:06 PM (ZdexC)

do not I REPEAT do not get in between those people and the ice cream at snack time.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 03:09 PM (ENQN6)

157 So, cat fight at the Post. Do I have that right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer,etc., etc. at June 25, 2024 03:09 PM (XeU6L)

158
Barring an unforeseen wave of political support, Bowman is expected to lose the Democratic primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District

Now he will be able to pursue his heart's desire and make a career out if pulling things. He's aces at pulling his pud -- what else has he got up his sleeve?

Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at June 25, 2024 03:09 PM (WN9cm)

159
not only by assigning a team of six to a story with zero national import

Of course, if you ask the Posties, it's of paramount importance.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2024 03:09 PM (n+4am)

160 Like smelling the color six.

Don't take the brown acid.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at June 25, 2024 03:09 PM (9CtH8)

161 After the NYT debacle over publishing Tom Cotton's letter, which resulted in opinion editor Bennett stepping down, why would Willett think that WaPo was any better? My guess is that Willett has a fairly rosy view of the editorial rooms of print media, and hadn't thought a lot about the depth of depravity within them. Until irrefutably confronted in the face with it.

Kinda jarring reading through this post, seeing words such as "news" and "reporter" and "journalist" being used to describe these people. I refuse to use such terms when regarding them. "Media" is about the most positive descriptor I will employ. Less complimentary, I suppose, are "chuckle-headed parrots" or "airholes" or "miserable little shirt-winders" or some such.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at June 25, 2024 03:10 PM (TOe+Q)

162 The NYT has a story where they are suggesting prison time for "Passing AI images off as real ones for the sake of commercial or political gain"

And on first thought it sounds reasonable.

But this would be merely be used as another way to prosecute regime opponents.

Leftwing examples of this will be called humor or they'll just argue are not fake and even obvious rightwing humor will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Oh you have a picture of Hunter Biden sitting on a literal mountain of cocaine? JAIL. You have Hillary wiping a server with a cloth? JAIL. You have Barack sipping penis? Err that's probably real.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2024 03:10 PM (oZhjI)

163 I remember newspapers vaguely. Just like the dinosaur, everything goes extinct eventually.

Good riddance.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 25, 2024 03:10 PM (Aoykm)

164 The Amazon Compost?

Trying to care.

*Unnnnnhhhh...loud grunt*

Nope.
Don't care.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 25, 2024 03:10 PM (dg+HA)

165 CNN is now threatening any social channels that provide commentary on the debate stating they will not allow the use outside of CNN

Uh yeah good luck wit dat! Tik Tok influencers will be posting that shit left and right..

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 03:10 PM (o3Uyl)

166 Ice Cream - Black Cherry or Butter Pecan?

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 03:10 PM (rj6Yv)

167 vanilla

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2024 03:11 PM (QSrLX)

168 154 Surprised Hitler didn’t make Tuesday the new Sabbath day.
Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 03:09 PM (SHMXB)

Dienstag

the words that appear on the Prince of Wales's crest (= the design that represents his title). It was first used in 1346 and is German for ‘I serve’

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 03:11 PM (ENQN6)

169 Regarding reasons Ya Boi Zach’s about face, not knowing a thing about him, I’d have to guess pussy or money.

What do I win?

Posted by: McLurkerson at June 25, 2024 03:12 PM (vl3bq)

170 152 Ya Boi Zach just insists that he's being consistent in focusing his ire on the people who are running the things he enjoys, and, currently that means anti-SJW's because Zach thinks they cannot be satisfied any longer by anything short of destroying movies and comics. That, in his opinion, makes guys like Nerdrotic and Critical Drinker (presumably) more destructive than jerks like Kathleen Kennedy, Mark Waid, and Kelly Sue DeConnick.

It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Posted by: Kensington at June 25, 2024 03:07 PM (n86V+)

Thanks.

Yeah, that's cuckoo bananas. Someone would have to be trying to satisfy us before we could be characterized as unsatisfiable.

Posted by: I Can Be Satisfied, But No One's Trying at June 25, 2024 03:12 PM (ohEAP)

171 countdown clock to the "debate?". Beuller?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2024 03:12 PM (QSrLX)

172 163 I remember newspapers vaguely. Just like the dinosaur, everything goes extinct eventually.

Good riddance.
Posted by: Jak Sucio

Could I show you something in a buggy whip?

Posted by: Antique dealer on the other side of town at June 25, 2024 03:13 PM (dg+HA)

173 "Fleet Street smarts."

I'm thinking WaPo could use smarts of any kind right about now. No sense being picky about the flavor.

Posted by: Jake Tapper amIright? at June 25, 2024 03:13 PM (nLFEI)

174 mean girls are taking notes, I mean the tech has multiplied

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2024 03:13 PM (QSrLX)

175 "The Post journalists' attempt to investigate their own boss and future editor is their right and privilege--that's how this business works."

Er. Anyone want to break it to him? NO. You don't get to investigate your boss.

Posted by: Jake Tapper amIright? at June 25, 2024 03:14 PM (nLFEI)

176 Posted by: 18-1 at June 25, 2024 03:10 PM (oZhjI)

They already imprisoned a guy for just making fun of Hillary voters by posting an obvious intentionally fake voting instructions. That it involved the point person in creating the false dossier makes the imprisonment even worse.

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 03:14 PM (SHMXB)

177 I can't wait for this debate yet sure it will be nothing but gotcha questions on Trump and look at poor grandpa just trying to help the country

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 03:14 PM (fwDg9)

178 Wait a second...Ace's brother is Donnie Darko?!?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 25, 2024 03:14 PM (1mpG0)

179 I thought I was about to care about the internal strife at the Post.

I had some coffee. I feel better now.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2024 03:15 PM (TqTMv)

180 The first question from Bash to Trump should produce the following response " say hello to your husband , you know the guy who lied about the laptop being Russian disinformation"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 03:15 PM (N+p0+)

181 the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday published a report recommending that President Joe Biden's ghost writer be cited for contempt of Congress after he failed to produce documents and other materials as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 03:16 PM (NtVYv)

182 Nine p.m. Eastern, Thursday. When does the Lecter handtruck arrive?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2024 03:16 PM (QSrLX)

183 mean girls are taking notes, I mean the tech has multiplied
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2024 03:13 PM (QSrLX)

All the tech on this blog is c. 1992. Way to keep up!

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 03:16 PM (rj6Yv)

184 New York judge on Tuesday partially lifted a gag order on Donald Trump following his conviction last month in his so-called hush money trial.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 03:16 PM (NtVYv)

185 My guess Willit looked at this gang of assholes, prepared to sabotage his every move, and said "No thanks."

Posted by: El Mariachi, Attorney at Law! at June 25, 2024 03:17 PM (nLFEI)

186 "Tuesday" derives from "Tiw's Day."
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Tiw is both the god of war and justice. He has one hand after loosing it to a wolf. This is why Mattie Ross of Dell County, Arkansas lost her left arm. Justice is not cheap and comes at a cost. This why we have so little justice. But the grace of god is given freely.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 03:17 PM (n17eQ)

187 177 I can't wait for this debate yet sure it will be nothing but gotcha questions on Trump and look at poor grandpa just trying to help the country
Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 03:14 PM (fwDg9
‘John, do you denounce Satan and all his works?’

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2024 03:18 PM (tJ0LD)

188 Dienstag

the words that appear on the Prince of Wales's crest (= the design that represents his title). It was first used in 1346 and is German for ‘I serve’
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 03:11 PM (ENQN6)

I assume Dienstag means I serve Tyr

Posted by: polynikes at June 25, 2024 03:18 PM (SHMXB)

189 Hope they eat each other.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2024 03:18 PM (BMD3P)

190 Wonder what the significance of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are to the use of ligatures. Especially when SCOTUS will be releasing opinions the next three days.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 25, 2024 03:19 PM (N39Ws)

191 Ya Boi Zach

You how sometimes you become aware that you missed something that everyone else got.

Who dis?

Posted by: From about that Time at June 25, 2024 03:19 PM (4780s)

192 All news is fake.
The question is which exact part is fake.
So take a story on a robbery.
Illegal aliens robbed at robbery.
Were they there to be robbed?
Why would you want to be robbed?
To be a witness and need a court date to get immunity.

Every story out there has an angle that the media does not wish to tell.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 03:19 PM (ENQN6)

193 John, do you denounce Satan and all his works?’
Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2024 03:18 PM (tJ0LD)

Whoa, Confirmation flashback.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 03:19 PM (rj6Yv)

194 Every story out there has an angle that the media does not wish to tell.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 03:19 PM (ENQN6)

The usual suspects

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 25, 2024 03:20 PM (NtVYv)

195 Elon Musk has checked in on the CNN debate gag order.

We plan to simulcast
Tim Pool

@Timcast
CNN is now threatening any social channels that provide commentary on the debate stating they will not allow the use outside of CNN

Commentary on a presidential debate is the epitome of fair use and we fully intend to provide insight and real time fact checking Thursday LIVE
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Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 03:20 PM (o3Uyl)

196 American Thinker had a article on hopping up Sundowner, I only hope it shows he is now a drug addict with screaming and whispering and his eyes ate bugged out.

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 03:21 PM (fwDg9)

197 I'm willing to denounce 75% of his works. The other 25 I need for professional use.

Posted by: law-talking guy at June 25, 2024 03:21 PM (ohEAP)

198 The "debate" is just reality TV for politicians.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 25, 2024 03:21 PM (dg+HA)

199 Communist Catechism

Do you embrace the works of Marx with your whole heart?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2024 03:21 PM (BMD3P)

200 Every bundle of sticks has an axe in the middle.
Posted by: Methuselah

The Romans appear to have borrowed the Fasces as a symbol of authority from the Etruscans, along with the Toga and the Via Sacra and a host of other things from that shadowy culture.

Posted by: John Drake Is Taking A Break Near Atyrau, North Of The Caspian Sea at June 25, 2024 03:22 PM (ENHQb)

201 @elonmusk
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Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 03:20 PM (o3Uyl)

I'm starting to like him more and more

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 03:23 PM (Akjoo)

202 The Etruscans invented that little piece of metal trim that fits around the pipes in your bathroom where they enter the wall.

Posted by: Not a joke at June 25, 2024 03:24 PM (dg+HA)

203 NOOD Surgeon General!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 25, 2024 03:24 PM (UC3nL)

204 Dear Mr. D. E. Ace, ithink you get more views thab xinn, they mite hat yoo and perdapz AI ban cave felp,

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 25, 2024 03:24 PM (QSrLX)

205 [152] Ya Boi Zach makes PERFECT sense. Some people simply enjoy the event. They don't care hat the event means - they don't care if its real or fake - and they would really like everyone else to shut up and stop ruining their fantasy.

How long did Dave in FLA shout down anyone who tried to show that 2020 could be rigged ? At least two years before and months after. Why ? The guy enjoys elections. Part of the enjoyment is the idea that its a contest.

Same with every old ball player that tells you, constantly, that you can't let the official decide the game. Makes no logical sense - you can't stop that official from deciding the game - so why do the old sports heads say it ? Same as above - they love the event - and part of the event is the expectation of a fair competition.

Zach loves movies - because he wants to see them as art instead of propaganda. No different really.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at June 25, 2024 03:24 PM (tez6A)

206 Biden in the debate could fall to the floor , fill his Depends, curl up in a fetal ball sucking his thumb and people like Micheal Beschloss would still say "the greatest debate tactic ever"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 03:24 PM (N+p0+)

207 The Romans appear to have borrowed the Fasces as a symbol of authority from the Etruscans, along with the Toga and the Via Sacra and a host of other things from that shadowy culture.
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The Toga selects you.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 03:24 PM (n17eQ)

208 I'm starting to like him more and more
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 03:23 PM (Akjoo)

So much can happen when the right person stands up and says "No".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 25, 2024 03:25 PM (BpZ5k)

209 193 John, do you denounce Satan and all his works?’
Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2024 03:18 PM (tJ0LD)

Whoa, Confirmation flashback.
Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 03:19 PM (rj6Yv)
In the debate such questions will be asked of Donald John by people closely related to Satan and all his works.

Posted by: Eromero at June 25, 2024 03:25 PM (o2ZRX)

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So why is CNN pulling this copyright BS. I think they're worried about Biden.

Posted by: WisRich at June 25, 2024 03:26 PM (G0vdT)

211 186 "Tuesday" derives from "Tiw's Day."
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Tiw is both the god of war and justice. He has one hand after loosing it to a wolf. This is why Mattie Ross of Dell County, Arkansas lost her left arm. Justice is not cheap and comes at a cost. This why we have so little justice. But the grace of god is given freely.
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 03:17 PM (n17eQ)

When people say they want justice
They want mercy
Social Justice is the worst justice as by forgiving the criminal (a single person representative of a group) you then shift the cost of the crime to society. 9/11 gets you barefoot people at the airport.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 03:26 PM (ENQN6)

212 I find it interesting, there are various islands of the media landscrape, and they sometimes seem to operate within a bubble one has to fully penetrate in order to understand ANY of what's going on.

I always thought someone who calls himself "yaboi zack" can't be taken seriously, but I know people did. I can't say I remember what his "thing" was, or why he is not considered a traitor to it.

But my first assumption is, somebody who does a 180 on their pet issues, they got blackmail on you. You did something you shouldn't have, and they have the receipts.

Oh well.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 25, 2024 03:26 PM (dGCAG)

213
The Romans appear to have borrowed the Fasces as a symbol of authority from the Etruscans, along with the Toga and the Via Sacra and a host of other things from that shadowy culture.
Posted by: John Drake Is Taking A Break Near Atyrau, North Of The Caspian Sea at June 25, 2024 03:22 PM (ENHQb)

Wow. Gotta hand it to the Romans - one day you and your brother are suckin' on wolf teats, and the next thing you know, you're high-stepping on the Via Sacra in tony bedsheets.

Posted by: mrp at June 25, 2024 03:27 PM (rj6Yv)

214 fuck em. stuff em all into a burlap bag and beat them with crowbars

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 25, 2024 03:29 PM (4hS4m)

215 a bubble one has to fully penetrate

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at June 25, 2024 03:32 PM (9CtH8)

216 It's like "Mirror, Mirror" -- the evil "Posties" only advance through assassination.

the agonizer is what comes off the presses, right?

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 03:32 PM (sGtp+)

217 First Wave of Kenyan Police Arrive in Haiti

Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 03:34 PM (o3Uyl)

218 217 First Wave of Kenyan Police Arrive in Haiti
Posted by: Im Gumby Damn It!/George Carlins Pencil at June 25, 2024 03:34 PM (o3Uyl)

On whose side?

Posted by: Octochicken at June 25, 2024 03:35 PM (oCS0o)

219 Lock their doors, set the building on fire, then sit, relax, have a beer. I'm a moderate though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 25, 2024 03:39 PM (sAmhv)

220 I’m glad I never paid any attention to ya boi. No I don’t have to try to not pay any attention to him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2024 03:41 PM (pgG81)

221 What this story means is that the WaPo is now just going to slowly fade away and die, eventually becoming nothing more than some online fanzine like Newsweek. It’ll still pretend it’s something, but it won’t be.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 25, 2024 03:43 PM (pgG81)

222 "I'd like to buy it just so I could tell every "journalist" personally that they were fired. And that if scans of their computers showed any non-work activity, there would be no severance pay.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 02:29 PM (MoZTd)"

I'd mark it on my calendar as a personal holiday if the WaPo LARPers were ever fired for cause. Alas, I doubt Bezos bought it with even the slightest intention of seeing a return on investment. I still maintain it's a toy for him to pretend he's a good little liberal rather than merely one of the world's luckiest manbabies.

Posted by: Saber Alter at June 25, 2024 03:44 PM (G/gy4)

223 "More consequentially, they have revealed that the clash between Lewis' rough-and-tumble sensibilities and the Post's more high-minded culture..."

Ahahaha! They're a bunch of petty, bitter, insecure adolescents; tattletales sniping amongst themselves for clique popularity.

But, whatever. Don't care. Just hoping for injuries.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 25, 2024 04:48 PM (aXxgO)

224 "Inside the Post, the conversation among reporters surveyed Thursday night centered on whether Lewis could continue leading the publication."

I love how lefties think the boss has to pass their purity tests when he could empty and re-fill the entire WAPO dumpster in a month

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at June 25, 2024 05:08 PM (XLfSN)

225 So the bloodthirsty Red Guard have taken another head.

Smart of Winnett to say "Fukkit, I'm outta here."

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