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Jeff Bezos: People Think the Press is Biased. That's Why I'm Not Ordering the Post to Shed Its Bias, But Merely to Hide Its Bias By No Longer Publishing Political Endorements.

Bezos published an op-ed defending his choice to stop the practice of endorsing candidates.

He acknowledged that the public simply doesn't believe journalists any longer, and journalists have to acknowledge that reality. Reality, he says, always wins every argument he's in.

But, he does not state the paper needs to reform itself, or hire editors to patrol for bias. And certainly he doesn't suggest the Post stop running propaganda ops for the Deep State. And most of all, he definitely does not suggest that the Post must apologize for its history of relentless and remorseless lying, about Russiagate (the lies about which got it a Pulitizer, which they continue bragging about, for some reason, about covid, about Hunter Biden's laptop, about Joe Biden's putative cognitive health.

No -- he just says let's stop endorsing candidates, and then the public will believe us again.

Because it's the endorsements, not the corporate culture of relentless lying and propaganda, that the public objects to.

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year's Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.

Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn't see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.

Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, "I'm going with Newspaper A's endorsement." None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence.

I can only say this so many times but what creates the perception of bias is, in fact, the bias.

Ending them is a principled decision, and it's the right one.

...

Lack of credibility isn't unique to The Post. Our brethren newspapers have the same issue. And it's a problem not only for media, but also for the nation. Many people are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions. The Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves. (It wasn't always this way -- in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the D.C. metro area.)

While I do not and will not push my personal interest, I will also not allow this paper to stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance -- overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs -- not without a fight. It's too important. The stakes are too high. Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice, and where better for that voice to originate than the capital city of the most important country in the world? To win this fight, we will have to exercise new muscles. Some changes will be a return to the past, and some will be new inventions. Criticism will be part and parcel of anything new, of course. This is the way of the world. None of this will be easy, but it will be worth it. I am so grateful to be part of this endeavor. Many of the finest journalists you'll find anywhere work at The Washington Post, and they work painstakingly every day to get to the truth. They deserve to be believed.

Oh, f*** yourself.

The amateur webzine Slate used to reveal its editors' and writers' votes every four years. Their belief-- that informing the public of our biases and our preferences helps the reader judge our reportage, while hiding those biases and preferences makes it harder for the reader to judge our reportage.

They were right. Bezos is wrong.

He's spraying down a fetid whorehouse with Industrial Strength Febreeze and calling it good.

Meanwhile, the NYT says "The public doesn't trust us because they know we're vicious partisans? HOLD MY BEER."

They have sent DMs to Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson informing them that they are running a story on leftwing propaganda organization Media Matters' claims about them spreading "election misinformation." They're now accepting Media Matters as a legitimate disinterested analyst.

Tucker's reply:

So the New York Times is working with a left wing hate group to silence critics of the Democratic Party? Please ask yourself why you're participating in it. This is why you got into journalism? It's shameful. I hope you're filled with guilt and self-loathing for sending me a text like this. Please quote me. ...

Would I like to participate in your attempt to censor me? No thanks. But I do hope you'll quote what I wrote above and also note that I told you to f*** off, which I am now doing. Thanks.

I don't think tucker used asterisks. I think he said "fudge."

Unrelated, but related:



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:40 PM




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1 Bezos is kinda dumb for a rich guy.

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 05:40 PM (Gxmne)

2 I alerted the others.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 05:40 PM (ExV1e)

3 So it’s “Fuck you. Pay me,” as usual for the thugs

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:41 PM (QSrLX)

4 Never again is right Kamala.. get your a** out of here...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 05:41 PM (IyPmt)

5 How sad the press has lost its credibility...

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2024 05:43 PM (eBzBH)

6

31 degrees here in SW Wyoming and snowing like crazy. 6 inches on the top of my car already.

Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2024 05:43 PM (3ek7K)

7 Her "how it started" pic doesn't have a scrotum on her chin. Dismissed

Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2024 05:43 PM (gKWVE)

8 He's spraying down a fetid whorehouse with Industrial Strength Febreeze and calling it good.

If a hooker dresses like a nun, she is a nun.

Deep thoughts, Jeff.

But these people literally believe that men who dress up as women are in fact women. So it makes sense they's take this cosmetic approach.

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 05:43 PM (Gxmne)

9 Those lyin' eyes of yours are fooling you again.

Posted by: Beelzezos at October 29, 2024 05:43 PM (JZLN3)

10 Bonus: He got some if the idiots on staff to resign.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 05:44 PM (Hkcdp)

11 How sad the press has lost its credibility...
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

How long has it been since it was credible? I've forgotten when it was.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2024 05:44 PM (VNX3d)

12 He's spraying down a fetid whorehouse with Industrial Strength Febreeze and calling it good.
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He is spraying it down with the Moscow fountain of sh*t. https://tinyurl.com/4w6yyhu6 you tubez vid.

Posted by: scampydog at October 29, 2024 05:44 PM (2bFN5)

13 They're just going back underground in a season they cannot win. (God willing)

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:44 PM (krQz2)

14 "6 inches on the top of my car already."

Not the worst place I have had 6 inches.

Posted by: Kamala for Janitor 2025 at October 29, 2024 05:45 PM (JZLN3)

15 Democrat to normal person dictionary

Debunked:

Something a Democrat said was untrue that usually is in fact true, eg: There were fraudulent and unverified votes counted in 2020 for Joe Biden

Posted by: 18-1 at October 29, 2024 05:45 PM (oZhjI)

16

LMAO, I knew someone would bite on that

Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2024 05:45 PM (3ek7K)

17 Love Tucker’s response to the threatening journ-O.

Ben Shapiro got the same threat.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (Hkcdp)

18 It's a bold strategy, Cottonhead Let's see it if pays off for 'em ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (DAJm4)

19 In an internal bulletin, the agencies claims they “have identified domestic extremists with grievances rooted in election-related conspiracy theories, including beliefs in widespread voter fraud and animosity
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They are planning on stealing this right from our hands.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (krQz2)

20 11 How sad the press has lost its credibility...
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

How long has it been since it was credible? I've forgotten when it was.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2024 05:44 PM (VNX3d)

Probably at least since Yellow Journalism, but probably much earlier. At least back then folks knew it was slanted

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (eBzBH)

21 "Conspiracy Theories" = "Spoiler Warnings" at this point

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (xcxpd)

22

Now there is a weather alert saying 2 more inches of snow soon. How will I tell the difference now? lol

Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (3ek7K)

23 Bezos has lost over 200,000 online subscribers since WaPo didn't endorse Kamala.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (NpAcC)

24 I'd like to see a side-by-side of how it starter/how it's going videos of Michelle Obama. But both videos are the same: the one of him dancing on Ellen with his penis rhythmically slapping his dress.

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (Gxmne)

25 Kammie is starting to look like Dwayne Johnson.
She should knock off the HGH

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (D7oie)

26 Put a face on Margaret Sanger’s plan for blacks:Kamala

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (QSrLX)

27 19 In an internal bulletin, the agencies claims they “have identified domestic extremists with grievances rooted in election-related conspiracy theories, including beliefs in widespread voter fraud and animosity
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They are planning on stealing this right from our hands.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (krQz2)

Well nobody stopped them last time. Nobody even pushed back, after the Jan 6th nothingburger.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (xcxpd)

28 This entire press by lefty newspapers to specifically refuse to endorse kamala harris is being orchestrated by someone, this did not happen in a vacuum. They all did not just wake up one morning and decide to pull the plug on her, especially the LA times.


The big money democrats want her to lose.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (QNSds)

29 This is such a cynical and depressing take on things, it must be true.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (WynLa)

30 How sad the press has lost its credibility...
Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2024 05:43 PM (eBzBH)


I spend time every day reflecting on my life and the state of the world. I can accept the in your face deviancy, the rampant crime, and the crushing burden of inflation slowly eating away at the savings of a lifetime. I can relax in the face of declining standards of living, shortened lifespans, increasing hostility, and the increasing possibility of world war.

But when I think of the burden faced by our brave journalists struggling with their loss of credibility... it breaks a man.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 05:48 PM (ExV1e)

31 ...He's spraying down a fetid whorehouse with Industrial Strength Febreeze and calling it good.


They need to set off an Oil Refinery sized tank of POOF!, inside the DNC, and record the video.

Thousands of DNCtards disappearing in a puff of POOF! smoke would be glorious.

And the POOF! SpokesClown would be the perfect comic narrative voice for the event.

Same reasoning, load the anti-riot water cannon trucks' tanks with POOF! And let 'em have it!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 29, 2024 05:48 PM (Xo+UM)

32 What’s the plan - to preemptively suspend conservative people on social media so they can’t inform the public about election shenanigans?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 05:48 PM (Hkcdp)

33 Bob Eubanks: What was the strangest place you've ever made whoopee?

Contestant: In the a$$

Posted by: The Newlywed game at October 29, 2024 05:49 PM (oZhjI)

34 Now there is a weather alert saying 2 more inches of snow soon. How will I tell the difference now? lol

Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (3ek7K)


Ask Nurse, she apparently is good at telling the difference between 6 and 8 inches.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 05:49 PM (D7oie)

35 Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (eBzBH)

What happened ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 05:49 PM (IyPmt)

36 31 degrees here in SW Wyoming and snowing like crazy. 6 inches on the top of my car already.

Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2024 05:43 PM (3ek7K)


Sigh. Our forecast has pushed mid to upper 80s out for another week. Not that I want snow but rain would be nice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 05:49 PM (ExV1e)

37 "Most people believe the media is biased."

"Believe."

Yeah, that's it, Jeff. Nailed it. It's simply perception. If only potential consumers were more analytical, they'd wholly appreciate your truth.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 29, 2024 05:49 PM (aXxgO)

38 1973: we loves us some supreeeeeem Court
2024: Death to Justices

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:49 PM (QSrLX)

39 Jin SND, hugs and prayers, darlin

Posted by: Ben Had at October 29, 2024 05:49 PM (t8vHj)

40 Fuck off until you get to the door. Open the door and walk through it and continue fucking off until you get to the outskirts of the city and fuck off to a pier in a nice and deep section of the harbor and keep fucking off to the end of that pier and then you fuck yourself off the end of the pier into the water, and then fuck off all the way to the bottom of the bay....

Then start digging...

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:50 PM (krQz2)

41 How many carbon copies of Jen Rubin is he ordering?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 05:50 PM (HnUIn)

42 Team Kumala needs a hundred little Wacos for the next click of the ratchet.

Posted by: Sifty at October 29, 2024 05:50 PM (JZLN3)

43 Bezos is kinda dumb for a rich guy.

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 05:40 PM (Gxmne)

I read this to the tune of The Offspring's "Pretty Fly For A White Guy".

Posted by: pookysgirl with the early 2000s jokes at October 29, 2024 05:50 PM (dtlDP)

44 What’s the plan - to preemptively suspend conservative people on social media so they can’t inform the public about election shenanigans?

Posted by: Lizzy


Part that. Part refusal to certify. Part arresting Trump and a garbage sentence. Then install Kamala, martial law, and it's REALLY off to the races from there.

They know they can't win an honest election. They can't even credibly win a dishonest one, I'm betting. So they're just going to blow off the election results entirely. That's what I'm suspecting they're laying the groundwork for.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 29, 2024 05:50 PM (OUMaO)

45 Anyway, our VP is set to deliver a speech in DC, 6 PM EST. To gin up turnout in VA and MD-Sen, maybe southeast PA.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2024 05:51 PM (gKWVE)

46 "Conspiracy Theories" = "Spoiler Warnings" at this point
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (xcxpd)
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Nice.

Yeah, spoiler warnings are kept hidden for "your protection".

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:51 PM (krQz2)

47 Bezos published an op-ed defending his choice to stop the practice of endorsing candidates.

He acknowledged that the public simply doesn't believe journalists any longer, and journalists have to acknowledge that reality. Reality, he says, always wins every argument he's in.

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What's funny is that this is one area where I *do* trust the press and journalists.

Saying, "a journalist or newspaper endorsed the Party Man" is like saying, "bikini model endorses bright, sunny days."

It's obvious. They work for the Party, are of the Party and endorse the Party. They can be trusted to always do so. You can set your watch by it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 05:51 PM (HnUIn)

48 I forgot about the stupid riots and all of pussy-hat idiots in November 2016-Jan. 2017.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 05:51 PM (lCppi)

49 Watch how Germany and how the commies there treat AfD. That's our furture.

Posted by: Accomack at October 29, 2024 05:51 PM (pty6G)

50 Who was the guy they called Shit Midas? Again?

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:51 PM (QSrLX)

51 BTW, at the ballot boxes burned in Vancouver, WA and Portland, police found devices nearby with "Free Gaza" on them, according to the New York Times.

An earlier attempt to burn a ballot box in Vancouver had a device with both "Free Gaza" and "Free Palestine" on it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 29, 2024 05:51 PM (uxCna)

52 The Kallapse is Real.

And it's Magnificent.

Posted by: jsg at October 29, 2024 05:52 PM (7kKPC)

53 They need to set off an Oil Refinery sized tank of POOF!, inside the DNC, and record the video.

Thousands of DNCtards disappearing in a puff of POOF! smoke would be glorious.


Considering the number of poofters that would be hit, it should be super effective.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 29, 2024 05:52 PM (OUMaO)

54 I can only say this so many times but what creates the perception of bias is, in fact, the bias.
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Yeah, but lying has a lot to do with it.

Lying can be biased or not, but it is always lying. The greatest way to wreck trust is to lie.

And lies are the foundation stones of the press.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 05:52 PM (HnUIn)

55 Can you please put a trigger warning on the right side of the front page?

Posted by: SFGoth at October 29, 2024 05:52 PM (KAi1n)

56 Ok, Bezos, now admit to how your newspaper partners with US intelligence agencies to establish stories/narratives that benefit them, such as the Russia hoax and the “macaca” scandal.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 05:52 PM (Hkcdp)

57 Well nobody stopped them last time. Nobody even pushed back, after the Jan 6th nothingburger.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (xcxpd)


1. Lots of people tried to stop them. No court anywhere would permit the case to be brought.
2. After Jan 6th, the only recourse would have been armed revolt and people figured it'd be like it's been in the past. Sure, they'll be shitty but not end of the world shitty.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 05:52 PM (ExV1e)

58 Bezos will use the WP (when it inevitably crashes) as a tax write-off. No harm, no foul...for him.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 05:53 PM (jyAD3)

59 Who was the guy they called Shit Midas? Again?
Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:51 PM (QSrLX)
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Whoever it was, Biden has wrenched that crown away from him with clear possession.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:54 PM (krQz2)

60 The amateur webzine Slate used to reveal its editors' and writers' votes every four years. Their belief-- that informing the public of our biases and our preferences helps the reader judge our reportage, while hiding those biases and preferences makes it harder for the reader to judge our reportage.

They were right. Bezos is wrong.

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Which is how it used to be, before the FCC inadvertently (I think, though it may ave been intentional) created the fiction of the "neutral press."

We didn't have all all those papers called things like the "Podunk Democrat" and the "Anytown Republican" for no reason.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 05:54 PM (HnUIn)

61 "Ending them is a principled decision, and it's the right one."

This one particular endorsement is being withheld. One. And it will resume again on November 6 because "Orange Hitler" - the next president - isn't on the next ticket.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 29, 2024 05:54 PM (aXxgO)

62 Can you please put a trigger warning on the right side of the front page?
Posted by: SFGoth at October 29, 2024 05:52 PM (KAi1n)


You thought it was bad, but at first I thought it was Kate Brown for some reason. What a relief, no one needs that

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 05:54 PM (D7oie)

63 That's too bad. I was on pins and needles wondering who the WaPo was going to endorse.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 05:55 PM (LkLld)

64 Make Joe resign and POOF! Second DEI preznit AAAANNDD First Woman Preznit. Roofies and Plan B on the house!

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:55 PM (QSrLX)

65 So the New York Times is working with a left wing hate group to silence critics of the Democratic Party? Please ask yourself why you're participating in it. This is why you got into journalism? It's shameful. I hope you're filled with guilt and self-loathing for sending me a text like this. Please quote me. ...
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They got into journalism because they're arrogant and dull-normal. That's a bad combination. Journalism lets the arrogant dull-normal pretend that he's brilliant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 05:55 PM (HnUIn)

66 Well nobody stopped them last time. Nobody even pushed back, after the Jan 6th nothingburger.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (xcxpd)
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There should have been an outcry when they tried to use only the Courts of DC to try "federal" crimes.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:55 PM (krQz2)

67 Ask Nurse, she apparently is good at telling the difference between 6 and 8 inches.

With her eyes closed.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 29, 2024 05:55 PM (+969c)

68 Make Joe resign and POOF! Second DEI preznit AAAANNDD First Woman Preznit. Roofies and Plan B on the house!
Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:55 PM (QSrLX)

There's still time for it to occur in October.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2024 05:56 PM (VNX3d)

69 I stand corrected on Shit Midas

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:56 PM (QSrLX)

70 Evey GOP on Capitol Hill should refuse to talk with anyone from The New York Times. Ever again.

Posted by: mediapostate at October 29, 2024 05:56 PM (MzCKu)

71 Ace, in the interest of balance, please consider putting up a picture of that Jewish girl you linked earlier, above the shot of Jen Rubin. It would be a service to journalism.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 05:56 PM (1bNHn)

72 The Kallapse is Real.

And it's Magnificent.
Posted by: jsg at October 29, 2024 05:52 PM (7kKPC)
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We're trying to avoid the Kamalapse.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:57 PM (krQz2)

73 That's too bad. I was on pins and needles wondering who the WaPo was going to endorse.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 05:55 PM (LkLld)


The real reason WaPo didn't endorse is because the Babylon Bee has already released the definitive endorsement of Harris.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 05:57 PM (ExV1e)

74 This entire press by lefty newspapers to specifically refuse to endorse kamala harris is being orchestrated by someone, this did not happen in a vacuum. They all did not just wake up one morning and decide to pull the plug on her, especially the LA times.


The big money democrats want her to lose.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (QNSds)

Yes, she's proven to be completely unpalatable and untrainable, and Slappy has become a real liability, despite the coordinated (and expensive) media soft-ball and gauzy-focus treatment. I wonder what the deep left's next move is- I bet they still have their kill shot left.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 05:58 PM (lCppi)

75 Unwilling to respond to these substantial allegations, Mr. Carlson instead responded to our inquiry with these words: "F**k off".

Posted by: NY Times article at October 29, 2024 05:58 PM (lg881)

76 I saw a tweet that stated:

We have no acting President and haven't for months. The Country has such an entrenched Deep State making all the decisions no one notices.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 05:58 PM (jyAD3)

77 Two polls show Lake tied in AZ

Posted by: It's happening at October 29, 2024 05:58 PM (O05y4)

78
*that's the word ratio made into a verb, in case You Boomers didn't understand
Posted by: Soothsayer

Denominalization; we are familiar with it.
Posted by: LASue



I do my best. I'm trying.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 05:58 PM (O5GY9)

79 35 Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (eBzBH)

What happened ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 05:49 PM (IyPmt

Had a UTI show up Sat. Went to Urgent Care Sunday, told me to go to ER. Given IV antibio, prescription for oral antibio. Fever went up to 102⁰ Sunday night, better Mon morn. Mon night started feeling pain across lower abdomen , but when my BP dropped very low (80/50), and I was seeing dark spots, called elder child to take me in. Doc just came by, I'm staying overnight for obs. Have fever again.

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2024 05:58 PM (s+uBF)

80 Good for Tucker.
Pretty tough talk for a guy who used to be known for his bow-ties!

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 05:59 PM (lCppi)

81 that Jewish girl

She was not hard on the eyes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 05:59 PM (ExV1e)

82 "Many of the finest journalists you'll find anywhere work at The Washington Post,"

This could be true given the current statue of "finest journalists" in the USSA but it doesn't say much.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 29, 2024 05:59 PM (17s+e)

83 I saw a tweet that stated:

We have no acting President and haven't for months. The Country has such an entrenched Deep State making all the decisions no one notices.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 05:58 PM (jyAD3)
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I think I've noticed.

The press has avoided the question and tried not to notice.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:59 PM (krQz2)

84 Lizard heads might see regime change from Brandon to types deletes types deletes clears browser history

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:59 PM (QSrLX)

85 Prayers up, Jim.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 05:59 PM (tT6L1)

86 Waaaaaaay back at my first job out of college I worked for an established corporation.
During their new employee training they instructed that we always be sure to behave with utmost professionalism, and to be aware of appearances. Specifically: Perception = Reality. If a customer perceived something bad about how we conducted business, it was as bad as if it were true. Perception is just as important as actual behavior.

Wash Post has a HUGE problem with perceived bias and malice against one party and its voters. Not endorsing Kamala barely scratches the surface of this problem, it is superficial.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 05:59 PM (Hkcdp)

87 The last Democrat who ran for President whom I could stomach was Mondale. Sure, he was wrong about everything. But he was also the last to openly admit his liberalism, and flat out said he'd raise taxes.

Well, I admit Bill Clinton could be amusing, until you remember the slime. The rest have been nothing less than repulsive.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:00 PM (1bNHn)

88 Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2024 05:58 PM (s+uBF)

Will pray for you, Jim.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2024 06:00 PM (MQJVv)

89 I hope you get well soon, jim!

Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2024 06:00 PM (gKWVE)

90 68 Make Joe resign and POOF! Second DEI preznit AAAANNDD First Woman Preznit. Roofies and Plan B on the house!
Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 05:55 PM (QSrLX)

There's still time for it to occur in October.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2024 05:56 PM (VNX3d)
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I fully expected this to happen. I thought the meeting between Biden and the UK Ambassador over using the Storm Missiles in Ukraine (ultimately Russia) would be the catalyst. My prediction was an approval on the missiles, and escalation in fighting and uncertainty, Biden assumes room temperature, Harris steps in, EU and Ukraine follow the script at take a step back at Harris's direction. Bingo, instant good press and foreign policy aficionado status.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2024 06:00 PM (dIske)

91 Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2024 05:58 PM (s+uBF)

I'll say a prayer this clears up.. A couple years ago I spent 5 days in the hospital with E.coli and kidney infection.. Just couldn't get the fever down. Finally did and they let me go but I had to go to an infusion center for 10 days..

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 06:01 PM (IyPmt)

92 Jim, it sucks to be in the hospital. Get well soon.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2024 06:02 PM (VNX3d)

93 We have no acting President and haven't for months. The Country has such an entrenched Deep State making all the decisions no one notices.

Posted by: Seems Legit
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Try "haven't for 3 years 10 months."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 29, 2024 06:02 PM (17s+e)

94 Tucker has had his home protested/attacked by antifa while he was on air and put on an Ukraine hit list. He’s not going to give that NYT punk the pleasure of scaring him.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 06:02 PM (Hkcdp)

95 It's truly satisfying watching the legacy propaganda ministries fall apart and lose relevance. When they're lying and telling us something isn't happening, which we can see is happening through other sources , they should cease to exist. So resign people at WAPO , LA Times, USA Today. Bye bye Andrea Mitchell.
Hopefully , don't let the screen door hit you Mika and Joe.
I hope the rest have massive nervous breakdowns on election night and commit "suicide right on the stage"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2024 06:02 PM (aRslG)

96

Low in the morning is going to be 14 and Halloween morning 23. I'd say everything is going to be a sheet of ice and Halloween night will be too icy and cold for the kids.

Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2024 06:02 PM (3ek7K)

97 92 Jim, it sucks to be in the hospital. Get well soon.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2024 06:02 PM (VNX3d)

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Agree.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 06:02 PM (jyAD3)

98 As bad as the censorship is, was it even worse before the interwebs? Or maybe before Rush? I had to subscribe to the weekly Washington Times and Heterodoxy back in the 90s to get around it. And the American Spectator. NR was already letting some squishes in.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 06:03 PM (Dm8we)

99 I'm glad this reminder of DHS and the FBI seeing Trump supporters as dangerous came out again just before the election. It's not news to most of us but, with the election, more people are paying attention.

Of course, I'm pretty sure if I were given, say, 30 days, I could come up with enough credible evidence of election fraud to justify a full scale investigation and multiple indictments.

But, go on with your assertions, FBI and DHS.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 06:03 PM (tT6L1)

100 Saying, "a journalist or newspaper endorsed the Party Man" is like saying, "bikini model endorses bright, sunny days."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 05:51 PM (HnUIn)

I am disappointed. No "She doesn't endorse the Party Man, but this bikini model endorses bright, sunny days"?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at October 29, 2024 06:03 PM (lg881)

101
Both of our Jims are ill?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 06:03 PM (O5GY9)

102 Try "haven't for 3 years 10 months."
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 29, 2024 06:02 PM (17s+e)

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I agree. I was quoting the tweet.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 29, 2024 06:03 PM (jyAD3)

103 Shhhh. It's what the multiemployer unions are doing, and also what the local union presidents & business agents who also hold political offices in Pennsylvania's legislature are doing. They're just being quiet and pretending they aren't particularly bias as is, reportedly, even Senator Bob Casey.

🤫

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 29, 2024 06:04 PM (NFX2v)

104 I think Biden hates Kamala and the Dems enough to continue to be President.

He could have issued his pardons to Hunter and resigned creating the first woman of color President with the stroke of a pen. And given her incumbency and all that brings with it.

Plus it would screw up all the Trump 45-47 merch.

But he didn't. That speaks volumes.

Posted by: blaster at October 29, 2024 06:04 PM (wbesy)

105 “ Many people are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions. ”

Not to be trite, but go fuck yourself, penis sipper.

I love how he sticks that in there as if the media people are turning to is misinformation. I’ll give him a little bit of a pass if he’s simply being inarticulate. But it sure sounds a bit like “we need to be better at fooling the rubes with some Jennifer Rubin and Bill Kristol phonies.

Bezos might be a billionaire, but he’s a complete idiot if he believes that people will pull the medias finger again. That’s over.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2024 06:05 PM (q8rok)

106 Thanks to whig, different nic, and other morons who recommended Brave browser! It does seem to fix the ad problem effectively. Guess I should have switched years ago when you guys began recommending it.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at October 29, 2024 06:05 PM (L8DZ3)

107 willowed

189 Jessica Tarlov says the problem with all the newspaper non-endorsements ordered by owners is it hurts the hard-working people who work at those papers.

Will they ever hear what they're saying?

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2024 05:41 PM (aBgBM)

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2024 06:05 PM (aBgBM)

108 Sending prayers, Jim in kalifornia.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 06:05 PM (Hkcdp)

109 I fully expected this to happen.

Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2024 06:00 PM (dIske)
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Not to brag, but I rather did as well.

There is a personality trait of the ambitious is that they want you to know who has power over you.

And gaslighting is so important is because they want you degrade yourself by repeating a lie.

I always knew that Joe was not "President" in any classical form. I called the "politburo" or the "DC politburo". And I knew they would send little winks that Joe is not really in power ("I'm going to get in trouble...") because they want you to know that they changed the game and there is nothing you can do about it.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:06 PM (krQz2)

110 “ Many people are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions. ”

Because their track record is 100 to 0 on being correct so suck a wet greasy turd out of my asshole.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 29, 2024 06:07 PM (17s+e)

111 27 19 In an internal bulletin, the agencies claims they “have identified domestic extremists with grievances rooted in election-related conspiracy theories, including beliefs in widespread voter fraud and animosity
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They are planning on stealing this right from our hands.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (krQz2)

Well nobody stopped them last time. Nobody even pushed back, after the Jan 6th nothingburger.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (xcxpd)
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It's not as if open discussion was encouraged, er, permitted.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:07 PM (1bNHn)

112 I think Bezos was trying to thread a needle with that oped.

His employees will not take the grace he has extended.

Washington post.com will go the way of Buzzfeed and all the rest of those boutique leftist websites.

Posted by: blaster at October 29, 2024 06:07 PM (wbesy)

113 79 Get well soon, Jim!

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at October 29, 2024 06:07 PM (L8DZ3)

114 Breanna Morello: "The FBI and DHS are trying to label conservatives as a threat."

Well, to be fair, conservatives aka non-Democrats are all NAZIs and Hitlers.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 29, 2024 06:07 PM (aXxgO)

115 I always knew that Joe was not "President" in any classical form. I called the "politburo" or the "DC politburo". And I knew they would send little winks that Joe is not really in power ("I'm going to get in trouble...") because they want you to know that they changed the game and there is nothing you can do about it.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:06 PM (krQz2)
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Same, though I used "Junta" because of their illegitimate claim to power.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 06:08 PM (tT6L1)

116 I don't like Bezos, but at least it's a start that he's recognizing how bad thinsg have gotten.

Posted by: Lacra at October 29, 2024 06:08 PM (4pwAx)

117 Te: Tairlov— who will think of the journalists?!!!


They really have no self- awareness, do they?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 06:08 PM (Hkcdp)

118 189 Jessica Tarlov says the problem with all the newspaper non-endorsements ordered by owners is it hurts the hard-working people who work at those papers.

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2024 05:41 PM (aBgBM)
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Earth to Jessica. Come in, Jessica.

Those words make 0 sense. Because it's not a deed, it's words. She's arguing that if a newspaper had published words they did not, people would be so much better off.

By a difference of words.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:08 PM (krQz2)

119 Everyone in the old media can go horsefuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 29, 2024 06:09 PM (dR6yv)

120 Prayers ascending Jim.

Have you voted?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (u82oZ)

121 Remember, the Washington Post is staffed with people like Don Lemon, who, when they get among people with differing views, will lie and make stuff up, rather than listen and think.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (tT6L1)

122 I guess I don’t understand how “not” endorsing Kamala makes the paper look better?

I don’t think the average American gives a rats ass if the Wash Post endorses anyone.

I can’t wait to see the reactions on MSNBC and CNN if Trump wins in a landslide.

Will all Americans be called Nazis and fascists? Will we see on air suicides?

Posted by: Czech Chick at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (fpVC1)

123 I can't believe Harris is going to give a speech on the National Mall, the same place the KKK had a rally in 1924.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (LkLld)

124 So when do the NAZIS get to start admintering free prison tatoos?

Posted by: Just Lily at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (RLLZj)

125 It's not as if open discussion was encouraged, er, permitted.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:07 PM (1bNHn)
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Learned this morning that a formidable challenge in Fulton County Georgia never got to trial because Fulton County simply refused to assign a judge to the case for 30 days and that pushed it out some sort of window by the time a judge was assigned.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (krQz2)

126 “Jessica Tarlov says the problem with all the newspaper non-endorsements ordered by owners is it hurts the hard-working people who work at those papers.”

Now do all the jobs Democrats shipped overseas.

The coal industry.

Oil and gas.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Thank a Democrat and the GOPe

Posted by: Marcus T at October 29, 2024 06:11 PM (q8rok)

127 I always suspected we were a threat.

But are we a lesser or greater threat to domestic tranquility than juggalos? On a scale of 1 to Magnets, where do us conservatives fall?

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 06:11 PM (9FEtL)

128 I can't believe Harris is going to give a speech on the National Mall, the same place the KKK had a rally in 1924.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (LkLld)
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To Democrats, who in 1924 made up the KKK.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:11 PM (krQz2)

129 "grievances rooted in election-related conspiracy theories..."
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What 'conspiracy theories' ?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 06:12 PM (XeU6L)

130 Dear Washington Posties all put out by the non-endorsement:

Learn to fucking code.

Posted by: blaster at October 29, 2024 06:12 PM (wbesy)

131 Ask Nurse, she apparently is good at telling the difference between 6 and 8 inches.
Posted by: Kindltot

I'm right here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2024 06:12 PM (Srpty)

132 I can't believe Harris is going to give a speech on the National Mall, the same place the KKK had a rally in 1924.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (LkLld)

100 years. Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 29, 2024 06:12 PM (dR6yv)

133 I always suspected we were a threat.

But are we a lesser or greater threat to domestic tranquility than juggalos? On a scale of 1 to Magnets, where do us conservatives fall?

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 06:11 PM (9FEtL)

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On the Positive Pole?

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:13 PM (3HPRs)

134 This bikini blonde doesn't endorse the Party Man, but she does endorse bright, sunny days:
http://tiny.cc/6lnszz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 06:13 PM (HnUIn)

135 What 'conspiracy theories' ?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 06:12 PM (XeU6L)
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I have a theory that Al Capone committed mail fraud.

And, he did commit mail fraud.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:13 PM (krQz2)

136 Dear Washington Posties all put out by the non-endorsement:

Learn to fucking code.
Posted by: blaster at October 29, 2024 06:12 PM (wbesy)

NO!

Learn to dig ditches! The southern border needs a good ditch, so get cracking!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2024 06:13 PM (VNX3d)

137 >>>50 Who was the guy they called Shit Midas? Again?

i called Obama Shit-Fingered Midas.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 06:14 PM (KRtlO)

138 I'm right here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 29, 2024 06:12 PM (Srpty)


And you are looking right purdy, like always!

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 06:14 PM (D7oie)

139 “Jessica Tarlov says the problem with all the newspaper non-endorsements ordered by owners is it hurts the hard-working people who work at those papers.”
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Oh? How. exactly?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 06:14 PM (XeU6L)

140 Jim in Cali …

May you be Blessed with Health & Healing.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at October 29, 2024 06:14 PM (TX4bP)

141 Jonathan Capehart you say? Well who am I to dispute the claims of such an august Real Journalist?

So, when it comes to august Real Journalists, is

a) Jonathan Capehart > Brian Stelter
b) Brian Stelter > Jonathan Capehart
c) mephitic penguin projectile poop > Brian Stelter & Jonathan Capehart

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2024 06:14 PM (a3Q+t)

142 Because their track record is 100 to 0 on being correct
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 29, 2024 06:07 PM

Gell-Mann amnesia is strong with most people. You'd think, after being lied to time and time again, folks would start to mistrust the media, but nope, they turn right back to the source that lied to them about the last big story and credulously swallow the next.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at October 29, 2024 06:14 PM (LJKij)

143 I can't believe Harris is going to give a speech on the National Mall, the same place the KKK had a rally in 1924.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (LkLld)

100 years. Same as it ever was.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 29, 2024 06:12 PM (dR6yv)
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October 2024?

If so, that's a remembrance done right!

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:14 PM (krQz2)

144 Journalists do seem to think they're the only ones who can do what they do, like they're craftsmen, and to not let them handle the esoteric job of talking to people and writing down what they say is the equivalent of crashing jetliners and, if you will, collapsing shelves.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 06:14 PM (wzAuc)

145 134 This bikini blonde doesn't endorse the Party Man, but she does endorse bright, sunny days:
http://tiny.cc/6lnszz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 06:13 PM (HnUIn)

Holy Moly. You sir, are a Prince.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at October 29, 2024 06:15 PM (lg881)

146 Bezos: No, we're not endorsing a candidate.

Post Newsroom: Wah, you want literally Hitler elected, you monster!

Bezos OpEd: Our reputation is in the toilet, we're losing money by the bucketful and we need to change course. (implied)

Post Newsroom: (Inferred) Wah, you want literally Hitler elected, you monster!

Bezos: (inferred) Here's your pink slip.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 06:15 PM (tT6L1)

147 >>>Jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

we're with you in spirit, Jim. Get better!

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 06:16 PM (KRtlO)

148 134 This bikini blonde doesn't endorse the Party Man, but she does endorse bright, sunny days:
http://tiny.cc/6lnszz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 06:13 PM (HnUIn)
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Thanks. You have been missed.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:16 PM (1bNHn)

149 25 Kammie is starting to look like Dwayne Johnson.
She should knock off the HGH

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (D7oie)


Starting? News photo of Kamala in Puerto Rico, March 2024 -

https://tinyurl.com/2mfjbmkn

Posted by: Gref at October 29, 2024 06:16 PM (aBgBM)

150 Bezos screws up a lot.

1) His divorce. He traded way down. And made Nicole Shanahan very wealthy; with a grudge to strike back. Her video ads have been stellar.
2) His penis shaped spacecraft. LOL.
3) When William Shatner went to space in that spacecraft, he was saying profound thoughts on what he experienced. Bezos was spraying people with Champagne, ruining the mood.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:16 PM (u82oZ)

151 How does not endorsing Kamala look better?

It signals non support for Kamala when she really needs a boost — to her party and her supporters. Doesn’t make a difference to anyone who hasn’t already decided to vote for her.

But part of the problem with Bezos’ statement is: Bezos is focusing on the perception of bias instead of actual bias. Clean house, stop the activist journalism, hire more straight reporters and conservative op-ed columnists if you really want to fix things.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM (Hkcdp)

152 “Jessica Tarlov says the problem with all the newspaper non-endorsements ordered by owners is it hurts the hard-working people who work at those papers.”
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Oh? How. exactly?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 29, 2024 06:14 PM (XeU6L)
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It's the same thing as saying because they'll suffer under fascist dictator Trump.

Well, if Trump is going to be a fascist dictator, that's how they will suffer, not because some paper refused to endorse his opponent.

It's just the same claim as that they should have endorsed Kamala, because she's not a fascist.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM (krQz2)

153 Journalists self-diagnosing are of the same mind as the Harley riders in South Park, who thought the town hated them because they weren't loud enough.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM (8AONa)

154 This bikini blonde doesn't endorse the Party Man, but she does endorse bright, sunny days:
http://tiny.cc/6lnszz
Posted by: Joe Mannix
________

Damn. Not sure what the "would not bang" flaw could be. Bottom doesn't match top?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM (Dm8we)

155 If Kamala was winning, you can bet they would be endorsing her.

We quit subscribing to our local paper when they ran a full page picture of Obama in 2008, endorsing him and telling us why. None of their reasons were based remotely in reality.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM (SRRAx)

156 >>>1) His divorce. He traded way down. And made Nicole Shanahan very wealthy; with a grudge to strike back. Her video ads have been stellar.

wait, nicole shanahan is his ex-wife?!

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM (KRtlO)

157 Bezos is most likely simply trying to preserve his business toy. WaPo does NOT need to make money. It doesn't even need to break even. It's a tool in the Bezos portfolio. It can lose all sorts of money.

Its value is as a legally-protected "First Amendment" Operation that allows him to research everyone and everything more openly under the guise of free speech. His proxies/employees get privileged access to people, places, things, and events that no citizen can. And he has a whole library of legal protection to utilize this tool to investigate anything, private or public.

It's essential to his larger operation to protect and defend WaPo for its unique tools he can exploit for much larger interests.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 29, 2024 06:18 PM (aXxgO)

158 shanahan was married to Sergie Brin of google not bezos

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 06:18 PM (KRtlO)

159 RIP, the Beautiful, Talented Teri Garr. 79.

Damnit.

Posted by: Sharkman at October 29, 2024 06:18 PM (OvBKV)

160 Damn. Not sure what the "would not bang" flaw could be. Bottom doesn't match top?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM


Mom says not really blonde, and thigh gap.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (a3Q+t)

161 I don't want to puncture anyone's illusions, but I've been studying this Jessica Tarlov woman, and I've concluded that she is a dunce.

Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (KRtlO)

162 Of course there hard hitting, professional journalists seek the truth just so they know how big a lie they can twist out of it.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (W/lyH)

163 Journalists self-diagnosing are of the same mind as the Harley riders in South Park, who thought the town hated them because they weren't loud enough.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM (8AONa)
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Parker and Stone hit gold sometimes.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (krQz2)

164 shanahan was married to Sergie Brin of google not bezos
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 06:18 PM (KRtlO)
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I wonder if the Tech Billionaire Ex-Wives have a club where they all party like Bourbon monarchs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (HnUIn)

165 27 19 In an internal bulletin, the agencies claims they “have identified domestic extremists with grievances rooted in election-related conspiracy theories, including beliefs in widespread voter fraud and animosity
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They are planning on stealing this right from our hands.
Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 05:46 PM (krQz2)

Well nobody stopped them last time. Nobody even pushed back, after the Jan 6th nothingburger.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 29, 2024 05:47 PM (xcxpd)
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Part of the problem is the Republicans are always in the position of the natives, trying to fight higher tech enemies, with our bows and arrows. I don't know what schemes they have in store, but it's surely something.

The only hope I have is that there are so many (New Scum, The Wicked Witch of the North, etc) whose interest it would serve if Kamala goes down. (Again).

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (1bNHn)

166 I can't believe Harris is going to give a speech on the National Mall, the same place the KKK had a rally in 1924.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:10 PM (LkLld)

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Their entire campaign was "A New Way Forward" from the existing shitstorm caused by and emanating from D.C.

So now they wrap it up there to remind people that they ARE D.C. incarnate the past four years?

Who's managing their campaign, Zombie Lee Atwater?

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (3HPRs)

167 >>>Jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia)

we're with you in spirit, Jim. Get better!
Posted by: ace

They fuck you hospital! First they drug you, then they fuck you!

Posted by: Leo Goetz at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (dR6yv)

168 Bezos... the "dickless rocketman."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 29, 2024 06:20 PM (Q4IgG)

169 wait, nicole shanahan is his ex-wife?!

No, she's a google founder's ex-wife.

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2024 06:20 PM (CFrOc)

170 perhaps the left is thinking that trump's election will finally cause the working class / minorities / etc to rise up and overthrow the capitalist system and demand a people's democratic socialist republic at long last. obama can be comrade chairman from one of those mansions he and mooshelle need. they might forget that some people who disagree have guns and the military folks might have a difference idea or two

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2024 06:20 PM (CWTWj)

171 Of course there hard hitting, professional journalists seek the truth just so they know how big a lie they can twist out of it.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (W/lyH)
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They're only hard-hitting to their boyfriends.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:20 PM (krQz2)

172 fuck off all the way to the bottom of the bay....

Then start digging...
Posted by: Axeman
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Wasn't that an Otis Redding song?

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 06:20 PM (ctrM5)

173 Tarlov also had a grating, vocal- fry voice. Unwatchable and dumb.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2024 06:20 PM (Hkcdp)

174 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 06:13 PM (HnUIn)

It's a weird shot. It looks like another head and face was photoshopped onto the body

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2024 06:20 PM (MQJVv)

175 Well, gotta go

Posted by: jim (in Hospital in Kalifornia) at October 29, 2024 06:20 PM (xn5ET)

176 Bezos is like Cuban and Gates there at the right time and the right place and they recognized an opportunity. They didn't build anything like Musk. They bought things and made the world worse buy owning them.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 29, 2024 06:20 PM (17s+e)

177 Nobody is going to convince me that the lefty publications like The WaPo, The LA Times and USA Today all decided on their own to not endorse when they are completely in the tank for the left.

Seems more like they are prepping the ground for a post election battle as well as giving themselves cover if Trump wins.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:21 PM (LkLld)

178 "Her billionaire marriage broke up. Her VP campaign fizzled. Now she’s a Trump-world star."

If WaPo doesn't fire Elizabeth Dwoskin for writing that trash headline about Nicole Shanahan--one they would never write about the exes of lefty donors--then Bezos is not serious about changing ship.

If he wants to also alight his sinking ship on fire as it goes down, fine by me.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 06:21 PM (QAK8m)

179 ace

Sorry.

Brin, not Bezos. But Bezos did trade down, and Nicole is a treasure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:21 PM (u82oZ)

180 161 I don't want to puncture anyone's illusions, but I've been studying this Jessica Tarlov woman, and I've concluded that she is a dunce.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (KRtlO)
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Just doing the job she was hired to do.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:22 PM (1bNHn)

181 DC journalists don't hit anything hard, except the hash pipe.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:22 PM (krQz2)

182 Mom says not really blonde, and thigh gap.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher
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Well, the first is debatable, but shit, kudos to mom on thigh gap.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 06:22 PM (Dm8we)

183 Fortunately, being spectacularly wrong on the blog is just another day in paradise. Been to the Barrel way too many times already.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:23 PM (u82oZ)

184 Bezos is an idiot, and an asshoe

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 29, 2024 06:23 PM (ufFY8)

185 For those anxiously awaiting this announcement, the 2025 WNBA draft will be held after the 2024-25 NCAA season and will feature 13 teams, including the new Golden State Valkyries.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (a3Q+t)

186 Does Shanahan have eyes on a cabinet position helping with health, or is she eying a run as CA governor?

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (QAK8m)

187 Damn. Not sure what the "would not bang" flaw could be. Bottom doesn't match top?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM

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Face looks too much like Jessica Chastain. Hard pass.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (wzAuc)

188 161 I don't want to puncture anyone's illusions, but I've been studying this Jessica Tarlov woman, and I've concluded that she is a dunce.
Posted by: ace at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (KRtlO)

She's also a mediocre-looking Taco Cabana 5, with a hairdo that looks like it was pasted on by young black children as some part of wacky urban renewal project.

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (9FEtL)

189 Evening

Hey did you guys know Trump is literally and physically and transformatively and fundamentally Hitler?

he also said Hitler's p***y

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (M7vhK)

190 Fortunately, being spectacularly wrong on the blog is just another day in paradise. Been to the Barrel way too many times already.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:23 PM (u82oZ)
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Yeah, if you're going to be wrong, own it!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 06:25 PM (tT6L1)

191 re 149: if that pic in the daily mail is real it's frightening

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2024 06:25 PM (CWTWj)

192 185 For those anxiously awaiting this announcement, the 2025 WNBA draft will be held after the 2024-25 NCAA season and will feature 13 teams, including the new Golden State Valkyries.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (a3Q+t)
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They really need a rule limiting the number of penises a team can have on the court at one time.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:25 PM (1bNHn)

193 NCAA season and will feature 13 teams, including the new Golden State Valkyries.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (a3Q+t)

Not the Golden State Harpies ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 06:25 PM (IyPmt)

194 I wonder if the Tech Billionaire Ex-Wives have a club where they all party like Bourbon monarchs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 06:19 PM (HnUIn)

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Neo-AWFLs (Abandoned Wives Flouting Luxury).

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:25 PM (mPZ0l)

195 Been to the Barrel way too many times already.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:23 PM


It's not easy being 1110.

Posted by: Kermit at October 29, 2024 06:25 PM (a3Q+t)

196 All - VIC funeral update

Vic's family updated his obituary as well as mentioning a place for memorial donations if so moved.

Rest easy dear moron.

https://tinyurl.com/RIP-Vic

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (N39Ws)

197 They really need a rule limiting the number of penises a team can have on the court at one time.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:25 PM (1bNHn)
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Per athlete?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (U1w17)

198 For those anxiously awaiting this announcement, the 2025 WNBA draft will be held after the 2024-25 NCAA season and will feature 13 teams, including the new Golden State Valkyries.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (a3Q+t)
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How fitting you should bring us the news, Wesley.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (tT6L1)

199 Part of the problem is the Republicans are always in the position of the natives, trying to fight higher tech enemies, with our bows and arrows. I don't know what schemes they have in store, but it's surely something.

The only hope I have is that there are so many (New Scum, The Wicked Witch of the North, etc) whose interest it would serve if Kamala goes down. (Again).
Posted by: Eeyore
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Not really true anymore. Most of the techlords nowadays could not make a living from coding and are about as smart on tech as your average CEO.

We detected the steal pretty quickly and how it was carried out pretty early in 2020 but the courts throughout the nation including Scotus exhibited extreme cowardice and compliance in the face of massive illegality of the Dems.

Cheating, like terrorism, bad schooling, etc. are all fixable by willpower and a willingness to fight for them. It was more the stab in the back by the GOPe that wanted Trump gone so Mitch and crew could carry on looting is why we lost in 2024.

The elites of the GOP were against Trump whether from fear, being on Biden side in the first place, or from greed. "Nous sommes trahis!"

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (ctrM5)

200 Eeyore: "Just doing the job she was hired to do."

Yep. Designated Lefty Foil media template. Nothing more. Not that she doesn't wholly believe in the stupidity she espouses, but it is for the paycheck.

For all the Fair and Balanced.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (aXxgO)

201 I'm super-scared that Trump will invade Poland. That's what Hitlers do.

Also, he might dig up the original Hitler's burned bones and hug them.

I mean, anything could happen.

Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (hmKaK)

202 Seems more like they are prepping the ground for a post election battle as well as giving themselves cover if Trump wins.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:21 PM (LkLld)
~~~~~

Possibly a kinetic battle, if Benz is right.
https://tinyurl.com/nnphyx8d

Posted by: IrishEi at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (3ImbR)

203 Nobody is going to convince me that the lefty publications like The WaPo, The LA Times and USA Today all decided on their own to not endorse when they are completely in the tank for the left.

These clowns don't do anything independently even when they think they do. They've all been living in the same hippy coop for so long that all their menses are synched up.

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (9FEtL)

204 Evening

Hey did you guys know Trump is literally and physically and transformatively and fundamentally Hitler?

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (M7vhK)
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Trump is just bleaching his toothbrush moustache.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:27 PM (krQz2)

205 NCAA season and will feature 13 teams, including the new Golden State Valkyries.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (a3Q+t)

Not the Golden State Harpies ?
Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 06:25 PM (IyPmt)

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They could have gone with an all-white analog to the Warriors -- the Golden State Shieldmaidens.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:27 PM (mPZ0l)

206 183 Fortunately, being spectacularly wrong on the blog is just another day in paradise. Been to the Barrel way too many times already.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:23 PM (u82oZ)
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When we regulars show up in the Barrel, the waitress asks "The usual?"

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:27 PM (1bNHn)

207 Does Shanahan have eyes on a cabinet position helping with health, or is she eying a run as CA governor?
Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 06:24 PM (QAK8m)
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There is no way Newsom allows Shanahan to run. She's way to attractive and that's the only quality Newsom bring to the table.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 29, 2024 06:28 PM (tT6L1)

208 191 re 149: if that pic in the daily mail is real it's frightening
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2024 06:25 PM (CWTWj)


Cocaine is not a great choice if you want to age gracefully.

Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2024 06:28 PM (hmKaK)

209 *Flaunting.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 29, 2024 06:28 PM (gKWVE)

210 170 perhaps the left is thinking that trump's election will finally cause the working class / minorities / etc to rise up and overthrow the capitalist system and demand a people's democratic socialist republic at long last. obama can be comrade chairman from one of those mansions he and mooshelle need. they might forget that some people who disagree have guns and the military folks might have a difference idea or two
Posted by: gnats local 678
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Replacing 'thinking' with 'feels' would improve the first sentence. NPCs do not think--they emote.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 06:28 PM (ctrM5)

211 I'm super-scared that Trump will invade Poland. That's what Hitlers do.

Also, he might dig up the original Hitler's burned bones and hug them.

Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (hmKaK)
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Well, he's going to let Putin take the Ukraine

And then Poland, because despite Poland being part of NATO and Ukraine not, it's the same thing.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:29 PM (krQz2)

212 Kermit

Blue Falcon. You be you.

Like 1120s (collisions with seamounts) and 1310s (Italian cable cars) have never made mistakes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:29 PM (u82oZ)

213 Nobody is going to convince me that the lefty publications like The WaPo, The LA Times and USA Today all decided on their own to not endorse when they are completely in the tank for the left.

These clowns don't do anything independently even when they think they do. They've all been living in the same hippy coop for so long that all their menses are synched up.

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (9FEtL)

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Maybe DogEater and F. Joe Mugabe throwing her under the bus again.

Very passive-aggressive ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:29 PM (mPZ0l)

214 If Kamala was winning, you can bet they would be endorsing her.

We quit subscribing to our local paper when they ran a full page picture of Obama in 2008, endorsing him and telling us why. None of their reasons were based remotely in reality.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at October 29, 2024 06:17 PM (SRRAx)

The Austin-"American" Statesmen has been delivering us free copies. I hope to bundle them all up and send them back, COD.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (lCppi)

215 201 I'm super-scared that Trump will invade Poland. That's what Hitlers do.

Also, he might dig up the original Hitler's burned bones and hug them.

I mean, anything could happen.

Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (hmKaK)


He will begin by invading Austria! Where they speak Austrian, of course.

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (aBgBM)

216 >>> He's spraying down a fetid whorehouse with Industrial Strength Febreeze and calling it good.
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Perhaps if he tried Lume it would have worked.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (/lPRQ)

217
Lara Logan
@laralogan
Have you noticed the shift? Can you see how the messaging from the left is now more focussed on what happens after the election than the election itself?
That tells me:
1) They know they cannot win on votes. It’s over.
2) They know it is “too big to rig”. The cheat will fail.
3) They have shifted their main line of effort to preventing Trump from ever taking office.

Watch what they have planned. I suspect from their rhetoric that they are willing to burn this country to the ground before they will face accountability & let the will of the people prevail.

That is my professional analysis based on more than 35 years as a journalist watching the information landscape every day of my life.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (TGPs7)

218 Eeyore: "Just doing the job she was hired to do."
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For 20 bucks?

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (krQz2)

219 Jeff Bezos… So you ARE a businessman after all…

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (PCK5/)

220 Long (really fukin long) story short. I met a computer guy that was pretty ground floor at Scamazon. My ex sister-in-law is his wife.
Told me he worked for the largest data mining operation in the world and wouldn't go further. Took me about two hours and a few beers to get him to admit it was Scamazon. I was leaning towards Farcebook and he laughed at that.
They are weird people. His jeep cost more than my house.

Posted by: Reforger at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (xcIvR)

221 These clowns don't do anything independently even when they think they do. They've all been living in the same hippy coop for so long that all their menses are synched up.

Posted by: Almost Human and Lifelike at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (9FEtL)

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Pro-tip: Stay away from the upstairs bathroom between the 20th-25th of the month.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 06:31 PM (lCppi)

222 Lara Logan… a name that occasionally comes up.. seems pretty honest.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 06:31 PM (PCK5/)

223
Low in the morning is going to be 14 and Halloween morning 23. I'd say everything is going to be a sheet of ice and Halloween night will be too icy and cold for the kids.
Posted by: four seasons at October 29, 2024 06:02 PM (3ek7K)


Are you sure you're not in DC? Everything is sheet there too.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 29, 2024 06:32 PM (NMT5x)

224 The world has changed: Fetterman is making sense these days...


Senator John Fetterman
@SenFettermanPA
I reject any accusation that Israel attempted to “starve” anyone.

Hamas hijacks and resells aid to impoverished and hungry Palestinians.

Where is the outrage and blame for what they are doing?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 29, 2024 06:32 PM (TGPs7)

225 "They have shifted their main line of effort to preventing Trump from ever taking office."

Everything they throw at Trump fails. If he wins, they will fail to stop him from taking office too.

Posted by: fd at October 29, 2024 06:32 PM (uH1zk)

226 I'm super-scared that Trump will invade Poland. That's what Hitlers do.

Also, he might dig up the original Hitler's burned bones and hug them.

I mean, anything could happen.
Posted by: Splunge
________

He'll send archeologists on quests for lost relics.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 06:32 PM (Dm8we)

227 I'm super-scared that Trump will invade Poland. That's what Hitlers do.

Also, he might dig up the original Hitler's burned bones and hug them.

Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (hmKaK)

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Ivanka was legally born "Eva" -- but Trump had the original birth certificate hidden.

And, like her father, Ivanka is the worst Nazi ever ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (DNxNK)

228 I missed the Jimmy Drama thread. He still has a place in my Dante's Hell.

A few things to add. While AG, Loretta Lynch ran FBI head Comey. Their Fix for Hillary's server exposure was to focus on narrow charges that purposefully ignored what really happened. The charges never got into how all that confidential information got on the server in the first place. e.g., Huma going into the SCIF to take screen captures with her phone.

Hillary used all this information to run her own shadow international operation, including to solicit hundreds of millions in bribes that were run through the Clinton Foundation.

The deal was that Hillary would make Loretta the first black woman SCOTUS and Comey would be her AG. It fell apart when Lynch was caught on the tarmac with Bill. Lynch then had to delegate to Comey who refused a total whitewash because it would kill Comey's future advancement.

Comey has a seedy past if you only connect the dots. One dot is his making his bones by putting Martha Stewart in jail on bogus charges. I especially hate his sanctimony for pretending to be religious.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (Gqoy+)

229 Jim in Kalifornia, Get well wishes are sent your way.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (yTvNw)

230 Jeff Bezos… So you ARE a businessman after all…
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (PCK5/)
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Not really. If he were, he would either shut down the WaPo and scrap it for asset value, and walk away without continuing to throw good money after bad. That or sell it for $1 to some other Party-affiliated industrialist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (HnUIn)

231 199 ...
========
Not really true anymore. Most of the techlords nowadays could not make a living from coding and are about as smart on tech as your average CEO.

We detected the steal pretty quickly and how it was carried out pretty early in 2020 but the courts throughout the nation including Scotus exhibited extreme cowardice and compliance in the face of massive illegality of the Dems.

Cheating, like terrorism, bad schooling, etc. are all fixable by willpower and a willingness to fight for them. It was more the stab in the back by the GOPe that wanted Trump gone so Mitch and crew could carry on looting is why we lost in 2024.

The elites of the GOP were against Trump whether from fear, being on Biden side in the first place, or from greed. "Nous sommes trahis!"
Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 06
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Oh? What is your solution when the law is no recourse? Start shooting?

Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (1bNHn)

232
Bezos is the Jerry Jones of Elon Musks.

Smart enough to hire the right people initially, buuuuut-

then his personal issues and subsequent poor decisions fuck everything up.

He had exactly the right idea with his space program. He went about it exactly the wrong way.

He bought the WaPo and ran it like a teenage nerd wanting approval from the cool kids, instead of as a money-making influential business.

Sad.

Bezos needs to get on his sailboat and enjoy his money. He's done as an influence from here on out.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (eDfFs)

233 All - VIC funeral update

Vic's family updated his obituary as well as mentioning a place for memorial donations if so moved.

Rest easy dear moron.

https://tinyurl.com/RIP-Vic

--

Thank you for that link. For those interested, it looks like there are many photos of Vic and his family to view. And a nice obit write-up that wasn't there the other day.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (qBdHI)

234 >>Told me he worked for the largest data mining operation in the world and wouldn't go further. Took me about two hours and a few beers to get him to admit it was Scamazon.

Fun fact. Bezos wasn't just some scrappy guy who started an online bookstore in his parents garage.

He's the grandson of one first directors of DARPA. You know, the guys who founded ARPANET which turned into the internet.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (LkLld)

235 I hope the communists initiate civil war 2 after the election. Time to get shit resolved. Yeah, I know it will be horrible, but you cannot let a boil go unlanced indefinitely.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (pohLc)

236 Lara Logan… a name that occasionally comes up.. seems pretty honest.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 06:31 PM (PCK5/)
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Superman's girlfriend?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (U1w17)

237 Why didn't the WNBA go for truth in advertising and just call them the Golden State Lesbians? Probably attract a larger crowd in Cali

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 29, 2024 06:34 PM (aRslG)

238 He'll send archeologists on quests for lost relics.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 29, 2024 06:32 PM (Dm8we)

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Are you ready for "Indiana Pence and The Last Crusade?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:35 PM (DNxNK)

239
Ronoc
@TheRealRonoc
AOC is pregnant btw. She won’t announce it until after the election, looks bad for the pro-abortion messaging.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 29, 2024 06:35 PM (TGPs7)

240 If McConnell's mad and horrible plan comes to fruition and our beloved Ted Cruz loses, I will pray that he's appointed to the Supreme Court, stat.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 06:35 PM (lCppi)

241 Jeff Bezos - Capitalist.. funny term, Capitalist.. many flavors.. Donald Trump, Elon Musk… Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg. I guess “ Capitalist” is like, flour.. basic ingredient, but sort of neutral until you add other - stuff- to it.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 06:35 PM (PCK5/)

242 Good catch

Posted by: Rdbrewer at October 29, 2024 06:35 PM (GR8+r)

243 Bezos should have bought a sports team, hired a really good manager using his megabucks, and gone off on his yacht to enjoy his wealth and his 90% plastic wife.

Buying a newspaper for reflected prestige might have worked with the kind of newspapers he grew up with, but these days it's like thinking that owning Reed College would make your life more tranquil.

Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2024 06:35 PM (hmKaK)

244 NBC News...

"Harris delivers closing argument in Washington"

Is the rest of the campaign a bender?




Oh, and now comedian. NBC is still butthurt about calling a corrupt shithole a shithole.

Posted by: Stateless at October 29, 2024 06:36 PM (jvJvP)

245 Gell-Mann amnesia is strong with most people. You'd think, after being lied to time and time again, folks would start to mistrust the media, but nope, they turn right back to the source that lied to them about the last big story and credulously swallow the next.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff
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Old joke: if you don't read or watch the media, you are uninformed. If you do read or watch, you are misinformed.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 06:36 PM (ctrM5)

246 Blake, I know Newscum is jealous of anyone prettier than him, but at some point he HAS to pry his hands off of the governor's office to run for president. (God help us.)

The thing is, the CA political machine (Pelosis, Gettys, Newscum) is now against her. But she still might get enough appeal to launch a pretty good run, and puncture the CA political gods while she does so.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 06:36 PM (QAK8m)

247

1. I think Bezos really believes Trump will go after Amazon if he endorses. The left always gets hooked to their own supply.

2. I think the Tucker, Shapiro letters are prepping the ground for shutting down voices of protest in case of a fraud. If they were doing to silence them to sway the vote, they would have done it weeks ago. They want to silence them after the vote.

3. Imagine what all those illegals are going to do to our towns and cities knowing that they will be deported and the gravy train is over. What do they have to lose?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 29, 2024 06:36 PM (krcnV)

248 Bezos should have bought a sports team, hired a really good manager using his megabucks, and gone off on his yacht to enjoy his wealth and his 90% plastic wife.

Buying a newspaper for reflected prestige might have worked with the kind of newspapers he grew up with, but these days it's like thinking that owning Reed College would make your life more tranquil.
Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2024 06:35 PM (hmKaK)
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He's a creature of power, like Gates and Buffet. They can't ride off into the sunset. They'd die.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 29, 2024 06:36 PM (HnUIn)

249 2) They know it is "too big to rig". The cheat will fail.

Yeah, that dawned on me last night as I recounted the bat-**** crazy Hitlerian Hysteria that exploded over the weekend.

The back-up plan to an outright victory was the compromised voting machine. Alas, the last model cannot succeed this time; too many different variables not the least of which is no Covid scare to bastardize all election process. So, Plan B is not operative hence the freakout.

So, "they have shifted their main line of effort to preventing Trump from ever taking office" does seem like the most natural evolution of Deep State function. It's not like they're hiding it either.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 29, 2024 06:37 PM (aXxgO)

250 Trump will be such a huge dictator that he will conquer Czechia and Slovakia without firing a shot.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 29, 2024 06:37 PM (DsA2n)

251 That is my professional analysis based on more than 35 years as a journalist watching the information landscape every day of my life.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (TGPs7)
~~~~~

That's two people whose opinions I respect that are worried about violence.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 29, 2024 06:37 PM (3ImbR)

252 I does my heart good to see that the elites are unhappy with how things are going.

Now where did I put that tar and feathers ....

Posted by: Anna Phylaxis at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (MB784)

253 236 Lara Logan… a name that occasionally comes up.. seems pretty honest.
Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 06:31 PM (PCK5/)
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Superman's girlfriend?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (U1w17)

Hmm.. Thought that was Margot Kidder.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (PCK5/)

254 I don't know about this claim that Trump is Hitler. I have heard nothing about Volkism from Trump.

And Hitler wrote a lot about Volkism.

But that's for people who know something about Hitler. Not for slogan parrots.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (krQz2)

255 RIP
Teri Garr
Born December 11, 1947 · Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Died October 29, 2024 · Los Angeles, California, USA (degenerative disease of the nervous system)
That sounds painful.

Posted by: Ciampino - Loved her as Inga at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (i0xsb)

256 Fetterman is proof positive that having a stroke actually improves a lefty's intelligence

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (M7vhK)

257 Ronoc
@TheRealRonoc
AOC is pregnant btw. She won’t announce it until after the election, looks bad for the pro-abortion messaging.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 29, 2024 06:35 PM (TGPs7)

I wonder why it should be just her decision. I'm a woman, too, and maybe I, as a woman, should have a say in whether or not AOC procreates.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (lCppi)

258
Notice how it's "closing argument."

Do you get it?

Because she's a "prosecutor." Get it?

And President Trump is on trial for "crimes."

Get it?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 06:39 PM (O5GY9)

259 244 NBC News...

"Harris delivers closing argument in Washington"

Is the rest of the campaign a bender?


Did anyone watch ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 06:39 PM (IyPmt)

260 RIP
Teri Garr
Born December 11, 1947 · Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Died October 29, 2024 · Los Angeles, California, USA (degenerative disease of the nervous system)
That sounds painful.
Posted by: Ciampino - Loved her as Inga at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (i0xsb)
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Multiple sclerosis. She had it for decades.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 06:39 PM (U1w17)

261 That sounds painful.
Posted by: Ciampino - Loved her as Inga at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (i0xsb)
~~~~~

She had MS.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 29, 2024 06:39 PM (3ImbR)

262 255 RIP
Teri Garr
Born December 11, 1947 · Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Died October 29, 2024 · Los Angeles, California, USA (degenerative disease of the nervous system)
That sounds painful.
Posted by: Ciampino - Loved her as Inga at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (i0xsb)

She had MS.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 06:40 PM (PCK5/)

263 Let’s see: who may have anti trust problems with an executive branch that has receipts from hostile entities?

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 06:40 PM (QSrLX)

264
I'll tell you right now, the Narrative tomorrow will be "hit it out of the park!" and "sealed the deal!" and "best campaign speech ever!" and "one for the history books."

Do not doubt me.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 06:41 PM (O5GY9)

265 Fetterman is proof positive that having a stroke actually improves a lefty's intelligence

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at October 29, 2024 06:38 PM (M7vhK)
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It can be a reset button for the brain and nervous system.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:41 PM (krQz2)

266 3. Imagine what all those illegals are going to do to our towns and cities knowing that they will be deported and the gravy train is over. What do they have to lose?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 29, 2024 06:36 PM (krcnV)

I don't see this as being too much of a problem in Texas, for obvious reasons. But California, Colorado, Washington and NY? They better watch out.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 06:41 PM (lCppi)

267 Before 1945, there were very few penguins in Argentina. After a huge surge in the penguin population that continued thru 1946, rumors began to spread of Nazi penguin gold hidden in a cave on the Falkland Islands. Exploration seeking this treasure continued up thru the 60s, when all activity of this nature was banned.

Searching continued in secret though, aided by a team of psychic penguins trained in remote viewing. A break thru was made in 1982, and then all news went silent after the war.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 29, 2024 06:41 PM (uH1zk)

268 Did anyone watch ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 06:39 PM (IyPmt

The people bused in whose phones died....

Posted by: Stateless at October 29, 2024 06:42 PM (jvJvP)

269 I hope the communists initiate civil war 2 after the election. Time to get shit resolved. Yeah, I know it will be horrible, but you cannot let a boil go unlanced indefinitely.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 29, 2024 06:33 PM (pohLc)

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

Per Lee Smith, one of the overt strategies being planned by the Anarcho-Terrorists is to create so much violence across the nation the Trump is forced to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell it -- and at that point all the Commie Generals will refuse, causing a split among the various military departments.

Which would obviously likely lead to Civil War ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:42 PM (x119P)

270
AOC is pregnant btw. She won’t announce it until after the election, looks bad for the pro-abortion messaging.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 29, 2024 06:35 PM (TGPs7)


So if she continues with the pregnancy, it's a baby. But if the pregnancy is terminated, it was just a random clump of cells.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2024 06:42 PM (EsZUh)

271 Right now the EU or NATO, choose your favorite name, is trying to overthrow elected governments in both Georgia and Hungary.

Tell me again who the fascists are.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:42 PM (LkLld)

272 Sen. Fetterman has been making some keen observations on the Trump movement lately. He does not agree, but he is observant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:42 PM (u82oZ)

273 When we regulars show up in the Barrel, the waitress asks "The usual?"
Posted by: Eeyore at October 29, 2024 06:27 PM (1bNHn)
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I've never heard of a pain technician referred to as a "waitress" before...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 29, 2024 06:42 PM (BpYfr)

274 >>> Watch what they have planned. I suspect from their rhetoric that they are willing to burn this country to the ground before they will face accountability & let the will of the people prevail.

I can't wait to see how they spin how contesting an election is suddenly patriotic!

Their version of Jan. 6 to stop the confirmation of trump will make the other Jan 6 look like a baby shower. They will probably have actual guns. Hope security is prepared.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 06:43 PM (QAK8m)

275 Right now the EU or NATO, choose your favorite name, is trying to overthrow elected governments in both Georgia and Hungary.

Tell me again who the fascists are.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 29, 2024 06:42 PM (LkLld)


At some point they are going to run out of colors. Which is this, ecru or puce?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 29, 2024 06:44 PM (D7oie)

276 LASue

Lots of Libs are buying guns now. Range time, not so much.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:44 PM (u82oZ)

277 Big cities seem especially vulnerable to a civil war.

Posted by: tubal at October 29, 2024 06:44 PM (PCK5/)

278 Their version of Jan. 6 to stop the confirmation of trump will make the other Jan 6 look like a baby shower. They will probably have actual guns. Hope security is prepared.
Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 06:43 PM (QAK8m)

Trump has the backing of darned near every police organization.. I also think the rank and file military would be on his side...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 06:44 PM (IyPmt)

279 Harris delivered closing arguments? Let’s see a transcript. Any transcript.

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 06:45 PM (QSrLX)

280 I can't wait to see how they spin how contesting an election is suddenly patriotic!
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They don't have to spin it. They'll just state it as self-obvious and ignore everything they've said before. And call you a liar if you say they said it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 06:45 PM (U1w17)

281 Did anyone watch ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 29, 2024 06:39 PM (IyPmt

We may be morons, but we're not stupid.

Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 06:45 PM (lCppi)

282 I'll tell you right now, the Narrative tomorrow will be "hit it out of the park!" and "sealed the deal!" and "best campaign speech ever!" and "one for the history books."

Do not doubt me.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 06:41 PM (O5GY9)

It's probably too late to hire a foghorn to blast nearby during her speech, isn't it?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 29, 2024 06:45 PM (VNX3d)

283 OK, I will expound my way-out theory, which I thought to never mention to another living soul but Mrs. Splunge, and then only because I needed to insist that she not go to her Scottsdale office next Tuesday. But something strange happened, and I still don't know why.

The theory goes like this.

1) I read Kurt Schlichter's The Attack, and thought "If I were Iran, this is what I'd do, this year."

2) There was a terrorist dude that Biden-Harris let across the border, a serious guy that, when asked why he was coming over, said "you'll see."

3) There was another terrorist dude, an Afghan let in by Bush, who was busted for planning an attack on Election Day. My thought: he's probably an idiot. Did he really go for delayed gratifcation and long planning, or is this like The Attack?

4) Today the intelligence community issued a vague warning for Election Day.

The weird part: Mrs Splunge had a lunch with some local women. When she mentioned to them that I was insisting she stay home that day, they agreed that was the wise course of action.

WTF? The one time I do something off-the-wall, two people endorse it, instead of calling me a weirdo??

Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2024 06:45 PM (hmKaK)

284
Somehow, SOMEHOW, that idiot's speechwriters are going to try to mix a theme of "freedom" into a theme of "racists" and "misogynists" and "insurrectionists."

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 06:45 PM (O5GY9)

285
Let’s see a transcript. Any transcript.
Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 29, 2024 06:45 PM (QSrLX)


"Vote for me. Cause Trump is a poopy head."
*cackles*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2024 06:46 PM (EsZUh)

286 LASue: "If McConnell's mad and horrible plan comes to fruition and our beloved Ted Cruz loses, I will pray that he's appointed to the Supreme Court, stat."

The monkey wrench, though, is that that would mean a) a TX seat went to the Democrats, and b) McConnell still has his seat. That's two votes lost in a Senate that has to pass a nominee with consent and will be very close to 50/50.

I pray harder and more simply that Cruz keep his seat.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 29, 2024 06:46 PM (aXxgO)

287 A reminder that @BarackObama @HillaryClinton @SenSchumer & @SpeakerPelosi did nothing to stop the rioting when Trump WON in 2016.
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"Well that's just how mad they were!"

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:46 PM (krQz2)

288 JackStraw

The EU is continuing to underperform against the US, Israel, and both Chinas. Their governance is fatally flawed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:46 PM (u82oZ)

289 Oh? What is your solution when the law is no recourse? Start shooting?
Posted by: Eeyore
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Twas not the hypothesis in question. You said, that they were superior regarding technology. I said they were not.

I explained why in most cases that the tech that the GOP had which included results of a truly massive investigation in swing states were ignored. It is because the courts and GOPe in the highest offices in the land were moral cowards or complicit in the steal--from top to bottom.

The legal rule in stopping a steal is whether or not the size of the alleged cheat exceeds the margin of victory. MAGA proved that again and again with facts, figures, science, and evidence and the deafening silence even from GOP officeholders in places like Wisconsin, GA, AZ, etc and the halls of Congress by and large to ignore that.

That is what a fight looks like regarding willpower but you have to have your leaders up front. The GOP leaders and jurists had to close ranks like they did for the shitty person GWB in 2000. They did not and the country is worse for it.

It was not the MAGA people, it was explictly the GOPe like Pence that shrank from the task in fighting the steal.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 06:46 PM (ctrM5)

290 If you would just believe Bezos' lies everything would be OK.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at October 29, 2024 06:46 PM (L/fGl)

291 >>> 253 236 Lara Logan… a name that occasionally comes up.. seems pretty honest.

Getting raped in an Egyptian town square the night Mubarak stepped down, while just doing your job, will open your eyes to a lot of the evil of the world. The real evil, not these play games the left does about Trump being Hitler.

One of the few honest journalists I 100% respect. Yeah, if she's worried about violence, thats nothing to sneeze at.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 06:47 PM (QAK8m)

292 We may be morons, but we're not stupid.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 06:45 PM (lCppi)
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We don't want to lose the IQ points that may or may not exist, and are probably arbitrary anyway.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at October 29, 2024 06:47 PM (U1w17)

293 Harris sounded pretty sloshed when she was talking to Shannon Sharpe.

Posted by: Pussy Galore at October 29, 2024 06:47 PM (MB784)

294 This is going to get ugly fast. It is what it is.
Fuck all democrats and their fuckhead supporters.

Posted by: Leo Goetz at October 29, 2024 06:47 PM (dR6yv)

295 3. Imagine what all those illegals are going to do to our towns and cities knowing that they will be deported and the gravy train is over. What do they have to lose?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest


The real raping and pillaging will begin.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 29, 2024 06:48 PM (/lPRQ)

296 - Just woke up to a text from a friend.
Poso posted a vid on X. Cop not letting people in to vote in Bucks cnty Pa.

Posted by: TeeJ at October 29, 2024 06:48 PM (xI6JS)

297 A Minnesota woman is accused of turning in a ballot for her dead mother. A routine check caught it -

https://tinyurl.com/ycxxr8zc

See it was for Trump.
Also no cheating took place in 2020 and cheating is rare.

(Hey we were going to use her name for a D vote)

Posted by: Ciampino - But don't purge voters rolls at October 29, 2024 06:48 PM (i0xsb)

298 Nood. Quickies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 29, 2024 06:48 PM (ExV1e)

299 Learn to code? That's jobs being taken from citizens nowadays.

Higher Ed Immigration Portal:

Immigrant and International Students in Higher Education

(In part) The U.S. has a strong legacy of welcoming immigrant and international students. First- and second-generation immigrant and international students make up one out of every three students enrolled in higher education in the U.S. Immigrant and international students help strengthen America’s higher education community, driving an increase in overall enrollment figures.


Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 29, 2024 06:49 PM (NFX2v)

300 Lots of Libs are buying guns now. Range time, not so much.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Handguns are defensive weapons. Rifles and shotguns to some degree are offensive. Most of the new firearms being sold are handguns which actually take more training to shoot well than rifles or shotguns. And so it goes.

Too many people think like the lawyer couple in St Louis when BLM came calling. They think of firearms as a magic talisman to show seriousness of purpose.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 06:49 PM (ctrM5)

301 Both Musk and Bezos own extra large media organizations,

Both have tried to spin the wheel a bit but "Limited Responses".

This seems to be a thing.

One man alone isn't enough.

Trump probably knows this too.

Posted by: pawn at October 29, 2024 06:49 PM (QB+5g)

302 >>> I pray harder and more simply that Cruz keep his seat.

Lots of prayers until next Tuesday, and possibly well beyond.

What do the house races look like? If the left gets the house, first thing they'll do is impeach Trump. I know Pelosi is crapping her depends, but I don't now how the races are actually shaping up.

Posted by: LizLem at October 29, 2024 06:49 PM (QAK8m)

303 296 - Just woke up to a text from a friend.
Poso posted a vid on X. Cop not letting people in to vote in Bucks cnty Pa.
Posted by: TeeJ

Yeah, problems in Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery counties.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 29, 2024 06:50 PM (NFX2v)

304
Did anyone watch ?

Posted by: It's me donna


I'm listening to Spiegel im Spiegel for violin and piano by Arvo Pärt. "The piece is in F major in 6/4 time, with the piano playing rising crotchet triads and the violin playing slow F major scales, alternately rising and falling, of increasing length, which all end on the note A (the mediant of F). The piano's left hand also plays notes, synchronized with the violin." That is how I want to be spending my time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 29, 2024 06:50 PM (EsZUh)

305 Pro-tip: Stay away from the upstairs bathroom between the 20th-25th of the month.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 06:31 PM


What about the bathroom on the right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2024 06:51 PM (a3Q+t)

306 >>> 217
Lara Logan
@laralogan
Have you noticed the shift? Can you see how the messaging from the left is now more focussed on what happens after the election than the election itself?
That tells me:
1) They know they cannot win on votes. It's over.
2) They know it is "too big to rig". The cheat will fail.
3) They have shifted their main line of effort to preventing Trump from ever taking office.

Watch what they have planned. I suspect from their rhetoric that they are willing to burn this country to the ground before they will face accountability & let the will of the people prevail.

That is my professional analysis based on more than 35 years as a journalist watching the information landscape every day of my life.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 29, 2024 06:30 PM (TGPs7)

They want you to live in '15 minute cities', own nothing, and eet zee boogz. OF COURSE they're going to throw the biggest fcking tantrum ever. Do whatever you can to be ready for who-knows-what.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 29, 2024 06:51 PM (FnneF)

307 Somehow, SOMEHOW, that idiot's speechwriters are going to try to mix a theme of "freedom" into a theme of "racists" and "misogynists" and "insurrectionists."

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 29, 2024 06:45 PM (O5GY9)
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My observation is that it's easy to get narcissists to believe anything. You can convince them of two conflicting things at the same time if both of them imply positive attributes about the members of the group.

It just hit me, this is how doublethink is grown: it is a virtue to think either thing. And narcissists love to hear positive traits attributed to themselves.

Posted by: Axeman at October 29, 2024 06:51 PM (krQz2)

308 Searching continued in secret though, aided by a team of psychic penguins trained in remote viewing. A break thru was made in 1982, and then all news went silent after the war.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 29, 2024 06:41 PM (uH1zk)

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

Major Ed Dames knows who are where you are ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:51 PM (7eyS8)

309 What do the house races look like? If the left gets the house, first thing they'll do is impeach Trump. I know Pelosi is crapping her depends, but I don't now how the races are actually shaping up.
Posted by: LizLem
======
To some degree, Trump showing up in some blue places are as much for House races as they are to seriously challenge Harris there. NY has quite a few competitive house races that will turn on a relatively few votes.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 06:52 PM (ctrM5)

310 247
Imagine what all those illegals are going to do to our towns and cities knowing that they will be deported and the gravy train is over. What do they have to lose?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 29, 2024 06:36 PM (krcnV)
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Well if they start that shit they'll be deported in body bags.

Posted by: Ciampino - But don't purge voters rolls ever at October 29, 2024 06:52 PM (i0xsb)

311 They want you to live in '15 minute cities', own nothing, and eet zee boogz. OF COURSE they're going to throw the biggest fcking tantrum ever. Do whatever you can to be ready for who-knows-what.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

The elites, sure, the rank and file are to stop Orange Man and his Not See voters because enough of them have been programmed to explode.

That being said, many a slip between cup and lip and do not be afraid. I would get out of any large city for election day and aftermath though.

Posted by: whig at October 29, 2024 06:54 PM (ctrM5)

312 LizLem: "What do the house races look like?"

Wish I knew. I thought the Republicans would do well in '22. You know, Red Wave. Apparently the country hadn't experienced enough pain yet to change.

I think maybe now it has, but as to how the vote actually occurs? Even with MAGA in ascendancy? I have hope but no faith.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 29, 2024 06:55 PM (aXxgO)

313 That's two people whose opinions I respect that are worried about violence.
Posted by: IrishEi at October 29, 2024 06:37 PM


Sensei Weasel has offered counsel concerning this potential.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2024 06:55 PM (a3Q+t)

314 ny times today ran an editorial piece titled "the smearing of kamala harris" by... anita hill

here is an actual like, took me a while to find on line:

"One facet of Ms. Harris’s dignity is her recognition of the right of others to be treated with respect."

from "deadline dot com"

At the outset of the event, held before a group of undecided voters in Pennsylvania, Harris was asked by moderator Anderson Cooper if she herself believed Trump is a fascist. The vice president said without hesitation: “Yes, I do.”

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2024 06:55 PM (CWTWj)

315 305 Pro-tip: Stay away from the upstairs bathroom between the 20th-25th of the month.
Posted by: LASue at October 29, 2024 06:31 PM

What about the bathroom on the right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2024 06:51 PM (a3Q+t)
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Bit foggy that bathroom.

Posted by: Ciampino - CCR at October 29, 2024 06:56 PM (i0xsb)

316 https://tinyurl.com/RIP-Vic
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 29, 2024 06:26 PM (N39Ws)

RIP, Vic.
Only a year older than I…

Posted by: RI Red at October 29, 2024 06:56 PM (sGZEA)

317 re me at 314: meant 'here is an actual line'

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2024 06:57 PM (CWTWj)

318 Both Musk and Bezos own extra large media organizations,

Both have tried to spin the wheel a bit but "Limited Responses".

This seems to be a thing.

One man alone isn't enough.

Trump probably knows this too.

Posted by: pawn at October 29, 2024 06:49 PM (QB+5g)

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

Interestingly, Sundance over at CTH had a post last night claiming that Larry Ellison (of Oracle) is actually the power behind Musk -- which has allowed the latter to let his freedom freak flag fly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:57 PM (4fajg)

319 re 312: and the idiot lindsay graham and and idiot kevin mccarthy opened their yaps. probably cost the repubs ten seats in the house of reps.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2024 06:58 PM (CWTWj)

320 re 316: yeah, not much older than i am. sad. jimmy carter... phooey

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2024 07:01 PM (CWTWj)

321 318 Interestingly, Sundance over at CTH had a post last night claiming that Larry Ellison (of Oracle) is actually the power behind Musk -- which has allowed the latter to let his freedom freak flag fly.
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024: Make The Glass Ceiling Great Again! at October 29, 2024 06:57 PM (4fajg)


Musk has like a quarter-trillion dollars. He's the richest man in the world. Why on earth would he need a power behind him, in order to support freedom?

Posted by: Splunge at October 29, 2024 07:02 PM (hmKaK)

322 Sensei Weasel has offered counsel concerning this potential.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 29, 2024 06:55 PM (a3Q+t)
~~~~~

Excellent counsel indeed.

I can't believe this is something we have to worry about in this country. God help us.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 29, 2024 07:03 PM (3ImbR)

323 re 304: had to look on youtube

almost as sophisticated as 'chopsticks'

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 29, 2024 07:06 PM (CWTWj)

324 Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at October 29, 2024 06:36 PM (krcnV

I am far more worried about native born terror groups like antifa and blm than illegals.

Not including possible sleeper cells of jihadis, mind you, but your average Hispanic illegal is just going to go back home. It's what happened when Trump was President before.

The violent foreign gangs are emboldened by toothless and/or unenforced laws and complicit Soros DAs. That's a local problem that may or may not be fixable, depending on how much people are paying attention or acrually understand how the legal system works, but I doubt they're paying attention to the Presidential election.

All the madness that will be unleashed is going to be homegrown. Again, jihadis aside.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at October 29, 2024 07:11 PM (Vvh2V)

325 I fully expected this to happen. I thought the meeting between Biden and the UK Ambassador over using the Storm Missiles in Ukraine (ultimately Russia) would be the catalyst. My prediction was an approval on the missiles, and escalation in fighting and uncertainty, Biden assumes room temperature, Harris steps in, EU and Ukraine follow the script at take a step back at Harris's direction. Bingo, instant good press and foreign policy aficionado status.
Posted by: Orson at October 29, 2024 06:00 PM (dIske)

Zelensky can't 'take a step back' because he will get couped out by the Azov Nazi units in the army if he does. And not the 'visit a resort island' kind of coup but the shot in the head kind.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 07:55 PM (n7h9X)

326 JackStraw

The EU is continuing to underperform against the US, Israel, and both Chinas. Their governance is fatally flawed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 06:46 PM (u82oZ)

The smart thing for a continent clogged with decaying welfare states that suck up too much of the movable wealth is to add a second layer of repressive government on top that is representative of nobody and filled with the chaff of each country's failed government drones.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 29, 2024 08:04 PM (n7h9X)

327 Oldcat

Exactly. A parasite's paradise.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 29, 2024 08:21 PM (u82oZ)

328 The M.S. Media Bottom Feeders are Biased and always support the Demo-Rats

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 30, 2024 04:24 PM (wGqjj)

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Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
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John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
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Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
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Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
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