Semafor: The Marxist Propaganda Media Is Grapping With Its Own Impotence and Irrelevance

Semafor reports that the media is struggling with the final proof of their impotence. They can no longer rig an election -- they're too small, too niche, and too despised -- and it's killing them.

Trump's victory isn't a result of a failure by news outlets to sufficiently hold him accountable. The real answer is one that is a lot more uncomfortable to grapple with: The national news media is more limited in its reach and influence than ever in the modern era.
For the third presidential contest in a row, the legacy news media -- represented by newspapers, television networks, magazines, and cable news networks -- spent months publishing and airing neutral to overwhelmingly negative news coverage of the former president. And for the second of those three instances, a majority of American voters largely ignored the implicit and explicit warnings of that coverage -- if they saw it at all -- and voted Trump into office.
Critical political media coverage simply did not resonate with a large swath of the electorate. Many voters showing up at the polls either did not agree with much of the legacy media's suggested or overt assessment of Trump's conduct or the various norm-shattering elements of his campaign, didn't see it, or didn't care. Local newspapers have continued to die off, leaving much of the country without a trusted local news source. Cord-cutting has decimated cable news viewership and taken a bite out of broadcast television viewership. Most of the people still watching are moderately to extremely old. With the exception of the Times, most other major national news organizations have seen shrinking audiences and have fewer resources than ever.
None of this is a surprise to many of the leaders of the country's most prestigious and rigorous news organizations. In a telephone call with me earlier this week, New Yorker Editor-in-Chief David Remnick said he didn't think "editors of a whole range of publications had the illusion that they were speaking to a majority of the electorate or the population."
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It isn't just a problem of reach or distribution. To some media executives, it's a sign that the quality of news offered to Americans is not satisfying them, a view that Axios founder Jim VandeHei described as "gut-check time for traditional media."
"The verdict is not debatable: Half the country thinks traditional media is biased and often useless," he said. "They feel reporters treat Republicans like a crime beat and Democrats like friends in need. I don't think this is usually the case, but it happens enough to give critics pause."

Are you kidding me? It only happens on occasion?

Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information, similarly urged journalists to remain vigilant about their tone, arguing that while Trump is a unique challenge to cover, it isn't the media's job to serve as the political resistance to him.
"Trust in journalism is plummeting; it's lower than it was even four years ago," she wrote this week.
"That calls for caution. That's not weakness or shying away from asking tough questions -- but we must remember it's not our job to tell our readers what to think," she said. "Our job is to reveal new and important facts -- especially facts that powerful people want hidden."

Semafor can't help but piling on the cope -- it's all the fault of YouTubers who don't "fact-check" themselves like the famously truthful propaganda media do.

Oh, and the media is only ailing because it alone is brave enough to do "confrontational" interviews.

Oh? They confronted Biden about his cognitive decline, did they? They confronted Kamala about her sudden fake-out policy shifts, huh?

Nontraditional media has a few advantages over more traditional outlets. Popular podcasts and YouTube shows rely on the news media for information that informs their segments, but they do not employ journalists and are not held to the same standards of accuracy and accountability. News media outlets are often boxed in by rigorous fact-checking; comedy YouTubers can say whatever they want with little consequence.

And of course it's Elon Musk's fault:

A willingness to do confrontational journalism has also made the mainstream media the enemy of powerful political and business interests. Part of the distrust in traditional news media stems from those same interests trying to discredit it, Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg noted in an interview. Musk's stewardship of X and forceful denunciations of the news media is a particularly illustrative example.

They "have a vested interest first in neutralizing and then demonizing the journalists and the journalistic institutions that are investigating their behavior," he said. "It's a deliberate campaign to marginalize, and even demonize, because they fear the outcome of our investigations and our scrutiny."

We fear you less and less, Porky.

How do you hurt a status-obsessed cadre of ideologues? Take away their status and rubbish their ideology.

Axios' @JimVandeHei: "All of us have to come to grips, the legacy media is just not as important as it thinks it is ... It’s a relatively small group of people who rely on us for their information ... So if you just look empirically at the numbers, Joe Rogan is more important… pic.twitter.com/HqE4ckkFGE
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 8, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:19 PM

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Posted by: runner at November 13, 2024 12:19 PM (V13WU)

2 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2024 12:19 PM (ZANHd)

3 Hi Ace

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)

4 Rats!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2024 12:19 PM (ZANHd)

5 Not first; but, a great morning, thank Ace!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 13, 2024 12:19 PM (JWiE+)

6 "The Marxist Propaganda Media Is Grapping"

Overdosing on grappa?

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at November 13, 2024 12:19 PM (Q8V7a)

7 They can no longer rig an election --

they certainly can help get the riggers elected though, in key jurisdictions and precincts

there are still enough idiots out there to keep my congressional district firmly in demorat hands for instance

Posted by: kallisto at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (dCxaZ)

8 The Marxist Propaganda Media Is Grapping With Its Own Impotence and Irrelevance
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Grappa >>>> Grapping

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (fs1hN)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

10 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (WXNFJ)

11 Semafor can't help but piling on the cope -- it's all the fault of YouTubers who don't "fact-check" themselves like the famously truthful propaganda media do.

Oh, and the media is only ailing because it alone is brave enough to do "confrontational" interviews.

Oh? They confronted Biden about his cognitive decline, did they? They confronted Kamala about her sudden fake-out policy shifts, huh?

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I was riveted by the multi-part story in the New York Times about how Russian Collusion was a creation of the Hillary Clinton campaign, adopted by the Deep State, and an effort to lie to the American people and steal their choice of president away from them.

It ran from March to June of two thousand and never.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

12 I first read the title as Gapping. Which makes more sense, IMHO

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (FxH7T)

13 Thune wins the senate leadership post.
McConnel 2.0
I just don;t understand why.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)

14 Afternoon, Ace.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (SQR+0)

15
You misspelled "Crapping" in the headline, ace.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (xG4kz)

16 Media delenda est

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2024 12:21 PM (vczVT)

17 They need a liberal podcaster.
Oh, wait, they had one, his name is Joe Rogan.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 13, 2024 12:21 PM (MeG8a)

18 "The Marxist Propaganda Media Is Grapping"

Overdosing on grappa?
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This

Ohhhhhh - damn few worse ways to go. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at November 13, 2024 12:21 PM (WXNFJ)

19 "The verdict is not debatable: Half the country thinks traditional media is biased and often useless,"

more than half facciabrutta

Trump won the popular vote

Posted by: kallisto at November 13, 2024 12:21 PM (dCxaZ)

20 willowed:

It was never going to be Scott. The Senate doesn't want to look like they're Trump's puppets. And if it was always ever going to be between Cornyn and Thune, I'm glad it's Thune.

It is very easy to primary him if he steps out of line. Running a primary challenge in Texas is way too costly to be effective.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 13, 2024 12:21 PM (pZ0Mr)

21
BUT WHADDABOUT THE THIRTY-FOUR FELONIES?!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:21 PM (xG4kz)

22 When you've lost the American people, you've lost any notion of credibility.

Posted by: Walter Contrite at November 13, 2024 12:21 PM (Qs9lt)

23 13 Thune wins the senate leadership post.
McConnel 2.0
I just don;t understand why.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)

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Because more than half of the Senate liked McConnell and how he did things, and they would like to see that continue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

24 "Trusted" news source?

Ha! Disinformation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (vczVT)

25 Grapping or Grappling? WTF?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (AdHga)

26 Axios' @JimVandeHei
: "All of us have to come to grips, the legacy media is just not as important as it thinks it is ... It’s a relatively small group of people who rely on us for their information ... So if you just look empirically at the numbers, Joe Rogan is more important than any of us"

They don't rely on you for information, they rely on you for reassurance and commiseration.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (xCA6C)

27 Yes, I am disappointed by the Senate Majority Leader selection, but, given the candidates, disappointment was inevitable.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (NGIBd)

28 Sad to note still no vic on the absent friends.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (Lt3SL)

29 The media can never be 'too despised.'

And I celebrate with chocolate when they die.

Posted by: Stateless at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (jvJvP)

30 The thesis of this column ignores Trump's ability and willingness to fight back. I hope that Vance, as his chosen successor, carries on the fight. It's not over.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (+qdHL)

31 "The verdict is not debatable: Half the country thinks traditional media is biased and often useless," he said. "They feel reporters treat Republicans like a crime beat and Democrats like friends in need. I don't think this is usually the case, but it happens enough to give critics pause."
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I consider them enemy agents with a microphone. If it were up to me, most would be serving long prison times or acting as worm food. It's what traitors have earned.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (17s+e)

32 I skimmed through these quotes in the media Copefest.

the horse that they are seeking to ride done left the barn and is galloping away to Kentucky in search of a presentable mate.

Posted by: kallisto at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM (dCxaZ)

33 Makes you wonder what they will do next.

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM (V13WU)

34
Watch for them to propose something like the BBC. Not only will it be wall-to-wall prog propaganda, you'll have to pay for it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM (EsZUh)

35 Peel me a grap.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM (Q8V7a)

36 It is very easy to primary him if he steps out of line. Running a primary challenge in Texas is way too costly to be effective.

True, but it gives the people of SD a lot more power than their numbers warrant. We'll never be rid of him now.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM (xCA6C)

37 There is inly so many times the media can rig pyrotechnics to a car before the audience catches on,

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM (vczVT)

38 BNO News @BNONews 5h
The Guardian says it’s leaving Twitter/X, calling it a “toxic media platform” with “far-right conspiracy theories and racism”

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 3h
X is where fake news goes to die.

https://tinyurl.com/mv2fzbu2
cartoon

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM (hovnC)

39 When you delete every critical post, and ban every long-time reader who wonders what happened to all the disappearing long-time commenters, you get the exact same bubble.

You're not the slightest bit better than them.

Posted by: The Truth at November 13, 2024 12:24 PM (GBhzz)

40 I usually confine my grapping to my bunk.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 12:24 PM (SQR+0)

41 I never paid attention to "the news" when I was a kid, even when Huntley & Brinkley's show was only fifteen minutes. (That's a long time when you're eight.) I found it boring. Nor did I watch or read it later. So I've never had to wean myself from it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:24 PM (J2vNu)

42 I think it's time for them to retire and spend more time with their families.

Posted by: bluebell at November 13, 2024 12:24 PM (79pEw)

43 That exasperated sigh when the guest says "Joe Rogan is more important than any of us" is just chef's kiss. Beautiful.

Posted by: Joy Reid being shot from a canon into China to save them from themselves at November 13, 2024 12:24 PM (wcIbG)

44 Trump's victory isn't a result of a failure by news outlets to sufficiently hold him accountable. The real answer is one that is a lot more uncomfortable to grapple with: The national news media is more limited in its reach and influence than ever in the modern era.

Trump's victory is the result of the news outlets to hold NO ONE ELSE accountable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 13, 2024 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

45 Western Lensman @WesternLensman 13h
HOLY SMOKES: @ScottJenningsKY just went scorched earth on Carl Bernstein and CNN panel defending Pete Hegseth —

— while excoriating current Pentagon leadership over their disastrous record.
🔥🔥🔥

“Does anyone have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon? And the way the defense situation has been operating for the last several years? I mean, from the Afghanistan pullout, which was an extreme debacle for which no one was held accountable. We've had spy balloons flying over the United States. We built a $300 million pier as a public relations stunt, which wound up killing an American service member.

"I hear all the criticism of him is that he's not the expected Washington pick. And I'm just saying to you that the American people just voted against the expected Washington pick."

"He's got 20 years in service. Afghanistan, Iraq. Two bronze stars. Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he's on TV, but so are the rest of us."

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (hovnC)

46 Apropos of nothing, thanks to whichever Moron recommended The Bulwarks YouTube channel.

It's sweeter than honey.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (Lt3SL)

47 The Left have zero self-awareness so they don't realize things are happening until it actually explodes in their face.

I still find it amazing how close the Left's current playbook and actions follow Orwell's 1984.

And they don't have a clue.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (oMmSx)

48 Another quaalude they gonna love themselves again.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (ksjMr)

49 17 They need a liberal podcaster.
Oh, wait, they had one, his name is Joe Rogan.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 13, 2024 12:21 PM (MeG8a)

The don't want a Liberal.

They want a breadtuber, but one that has credibility.

Commie-La wasn't gonna sit down with Ian "Vaush" Kochinski or Steven "Destiny" Bonnell.

Posted by: XTC at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (UnA8+)

50 News media outlets are often boxed in by rigorous fact-checking; comedy YouTubers can say whatever they want with little consequence.

rigorous fact-checking?

comedy YouTubers, you mean like Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson??

these knuckleheads have perfected the art of self-gaslighting

Posted by: kallisto at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (dCxaZ)

51 Nothing will change except the methods they use to lie.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (ksjMr)

52 Grapping or Grappling? WTF?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024p.i]

***
Greeks like to drink grappa.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (J2vNu)

53 What the left really needs is media. The right has it all.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (Z8Yh2)

54 Posted by: The Truth at November 13, 2024 12:24 PM (GBhzz)

Are you referring to some specific publication because I don't see what you claim to be happening here.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (+qdHL)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (J2vNu)

56 Or when ABC in Australia deliberately edits combat footage by adding the sound of extra shots before the media is recognized as the lying mendacious untrustworthy hacks that they ate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (vczVT)

57 New York Post @nypost Nov 12
Megyn Kelly thinks MSNBC will dump Joy Reid after she said Trump plans to deport minorities who have legal status in the country. trib.al/VL1HDB9

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 3h
DEI is killing MSNBC and there's nothing they can do about it.

DEI can be expected to destroy any organization it touches, by distracting from a focus on performance.

If we wanted to destroy another country, we would encourage more DEI there.
Posted by: andycanuck
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MSNBC audience average age of a viewer is now 70. Fox is right behind at 69, and CNN ironically the youngest at 68.

By the end of Trump's term in office, the average age of those viewers will come close to the average life expectancy in the US for men and women.
Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 12:15 PM

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 12:26 PM (hovnC)

58 "If you look at the numbers, Joe Rogan is more important..."
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What do you mean "If", dipshit. Is there any other way to measure success? Or, in your case, failure?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2024 12:26 PM (yEuRi)

59 X is having a field day with the idiots on The View.

Apparently Whoopi, who thought Jill was an actual doctor, said Pete Hegseth is just a Fox morning host and ... "knows nothing about the military."

My head hurt just typing that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:26 PM (V4Nfb)

60 learn to code

Posted by: brak at November 13, 2024 12:26 PM (25k9m)

61 Would love to hear a public explanation for why these RINOs picked thune. What's the excuse?

Posted by: FunkySeeFunkyDo at November 13, 2024 12:26 PM (HzjJR)

62 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
Too funny 😁

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2024 12:26 PM (AYz4A)

63 Maybe we should donate more to Ace's tip jar and use the proceeds to buy CNN or MSDNC.

I think the Horde can come up with more content than both those stations combined, and be more effective and informative.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 13, 2024 12:26 PM (WsJuq)

64 Perhaps the most interesting thing about this is the solution is so simple, yet it alludes the entire industry. “ …it isn't the media's job to serve as the political resistance to him.” and “but we must remember it's not our job to tell our readers what to think”

The answer is right there. Stop doing this. Stop providing your opinions and calling it “factchecking.” Look at Dana Bash. Be the exact opposite and you have a winning formula.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 12:26 PM (p4NUW)

65 I thought that Charlie XCX "Brat" endorsement was stupid as dirt and smelled very badly like "hey look at me" cheap PR. I had very little idea who she was, other than I recall she was a singer on some stupid pop song maybe 15 years ago. So googled. The results should not be surprising:

1. She's a Brit. Didn't we fight a war (actually two wars) so that we didn't have to give a fuck what Brits thought?

2. She openly admits she struggles with mental illnesses.

3. She's a leftwing NPC dronespeaking all the usual leftist tropes.

4. She's a marginally talented hack who almost certainly sucked the right dicks and ate the right pussies to advance her career.

5. The world would be a better place without her.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

66 They’re just too rigorous in the fact checking and truthiness! That’s what’s killing them. It’s more the 3rd rate DNC gossip they’ve been trying to sell.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 13, 2024 12:27 PM (ZBPS6)

67 Afternoon Ace. It will be a real mess in the next few months. When the firings start at CNN and MSNBC that will just be the tip of the iceberg. The firings will soon follow on other networks. Fun to watch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2024 12:27 PM (b2/S2)

68 They’re not as influential but they’re still controlled by deepstate. That's what has to go.

Posted by: Eromero at November 13, 2024 12:27 PM (jgmnb)

69 The legacy media always think they are the smartest people in the room and if you don;t believe that FU. They think their words are Truth and if you don;t believe their words, they will keep trying to convince you that you are stupid, ignorant, deplorable, even garbage until you change and believe their words. They think they lost this election because they didn;tuse the right words to convince us that the condition of the country is perfect.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 12:27 PM (t/2Uw)

70
Commie-La wasn't gonna sit down with Ian "Vaush" Kochinski or Steven "Destiny" Bonnell.

Posted by: XTC

I much prefer the George McFly dyslexic take for Bonnell -- Steven "Density" Bonnell.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:27 PM (xG4kz)

71 I loved Newsweek's front page story about how Anthony Fauci illegally funded gain of function research by breaking rules that Obama signed. I loved how they piggy-backed off of reporting from TIME about how much funding the Wuhan lab received from the American government.

The best part was when Newsweek apologized for pushing the wet market theory for so long in a front page editorial that announced the firing of editors who had pushed it from the beginning.

It came out in May of two thousand and never.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

72 36 It is very easy to primary him if he steps out of line. Running a primary challenge in Texas is way too costly to be effective.

True, but it gives the people of SD a lot more power than their numbers warrant. We'll never be rid of him now.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Which, I think, is why the potentially lost to cheat of 4 Senate seats will go uninvestigated. Never know when Thune will need the cheat mechanism to work in his favor.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 12:28 PM (fs1hN)

73 Top o' the Noon to ya, Ace!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 13, 2024 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)

74 "Joe Rogan is more important than any of us"

They're getting closer. The next step is to understand how Rogan, a Bernie Bro, ended up at Trump's election party.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 12:28 PM (CwhoI)

75 "The Marxist Propaganda Media Is Grapping..."
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HOLY GRAP!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2024 12:28 PM (G54uX)

76 Posted by: The Truth at November 13, 2024 12:24 PM (GBhzz)

I don't think anyone has been banned by ace that didn't have multiple warnings about breaking the rules. That is the truth.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (oMmSx)

77 What amazes me is the media charge that disinformation on alternative media like podcasts and X was why Trump won and therefore it all needs to be regulated.

They literally believe every lie and bullshit that comes out of their mouths is 100% truth and therefore never needs to be challenged or regulated

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (M7vhK)

78 To Whomever said they wanted Conway Thirty burned at the stake......

Thanks a lot asshole! I now have the ONLY good song he ever did stuck in my head....

My one and only prayer is that some day you'll care
My hopes, my dreams come true, my one and only you
No one will ever know how much I love you so
My only prayer will be, some day you'll care for me
But it's only make-believe

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (4XwPj)

79
I think the Horde can come up with more content than both those stations combined, and be more effective and informative.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 13, 2024 12:26 PM (WsJuq)

I think, if you took this website and each thread updated real time in a YouTube video, it would pull more viewers than the cable news combined.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

80 Let's not forget our intelligence services and "justice system" also went all in against Trump.

He sat humiliated in court for weeks on end. He had his house and family's things raided. We just take it for granted because he's Trump. But imagine having to go through all that.

Then the magnificent bastard beat them all, bless him.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (ksjMr)

81 Legacy media is not only losing their legitimacy, they are losing the channels. Most of them would sell heir mothers for Joe Rogan's viewership. The next big money will be in who can rally social media away from a thousand different UTubes/Podcasts, to a single unifying source.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (W/lyH)

82 Willowed: if MSNBC fires Reid they'll also have to fire five on air white women. I'm good with that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (b2/S2)

83 I was so naive…. For years I thought Bob Woodward was a journalist when in reality he’s government deep state (CIA) on the WaPo payroll…. Just one of many likewise

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (PRg7w)

84 48 Another quaalude they gonna love themselves again.
---------------
Quaaludes were special.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (AdHga)

85 Has Jill Stein asked for a recount in Michigan yet?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (/lPRQ)

86 Which, I think, is why the potentially lost to cheat of 4 Senate seats will go uninvestigated. Never know when Thune will need the cheat mechanism to work in his favor.

We really have only one weapon now. If Trump sees Thune conducting business as usual (torpedoing conservatives), he needs to publicly call him out. He needs to tell the rest of the Senators to get off their dead asses and do something about it.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (xCA6C)

87 I think my favorite bit of the mainstream media holding themselves up to the best of standards was when The Washington Post dedicated its entire front page to the story of how Democrat secretaries of state had illegally made changes to election law in 2020, calling into question the results since they were accomplished under suspect circumstances, and demanded a thorough canvas and audit of every vote just to make sure that Joe Biden won legitimately in order to smooth the transition of power.

Honestly, it brought a tear to my eye.

You can find it in their archives from the seventh of February of two thousand and never.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

88 "Trump's victory isn't a result of a failure by news outlets to sufficiently hold him accountable. The real answer is one that is a lot more uncomfortable to grapple with: The national news media is more limited in its reach and influence than ever in the modern era."

The reason the national news media is more limited in its reach and influence is because it is untrustworthy. Yes, alternative media gets a lot of attention, but the big three networks, CNN, Washington Post and NY Times would still be able to set the agenda if they didn't give alternate media the ammunition to fire at them with all the ideologically induced errors and blatant lies spewed trying to not just slide the Overton window to the left, but relocate it to another neighborhood.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (NGIBd)

89 Thune comes from a state with a population under one million, and he won his last election (2022) with 242,000 votes. If he cucks out, send Presler.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (qUkBO)

90 There's more fact-checking and journalisming here at Ace's place than all of the dusty crusty MSM outlets combined.

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (N0dT2)

91 The only people getting all their information from the legacy news media are boomers.

Everyone else incorporates some web based media. The legacy media lost their monopoly.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (Ro3yS)

92 Is John Thune official yet?

What a disappointment THAT will be.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

93 Hi, Ace!

That whole "News media outlets are often boxed in by rigorous fact-checking; comedy YouTubers can say whatever they want with little consequence" is nothing more than the 2024 version of the 'bloggers in their parents' basements' slur from years ago.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (Q0kLU)

94 oe Rogan is more important than any of us"

They're getting closer. The next step is to understand how Rogan, a Bernie Bro, ended up at Trump's election party.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 12:28 PM (CwhoI)

Rogan is a populist socially liberal independent. The true Trump is the same.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (oMmSx)

95 I mean AI can not only write the words on the teleprompter, it can read them too, without the million dollar contracts and egos

Posted by: brak at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (25k9m)

96 Kailey McEnney just said that Speaker Johnson told her this am that he has been working with Thune for the past few months , they are on the same page for executing Trumps agenda and getting reforms done.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (8moFs)

97 Whoops off joy reid sock.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (wcIbG)

98 Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (M7vhK)

That kind of thing happens when your boss and muse is called the Father of Lies.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (ksjMr)

99 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE MSM TOLD OVER HALF THE COUNTRY THAT THEY WERE UNWORTHY OF THEIR ATTENTION.

AND THEN WE RECIPROCATED.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (u1uWe)

100 The World According to Grap?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (vczVT)

101 Watch for them to propose something like the BBC. Not only will it be wall-to-wall prog propaganda, you'll have to pay for it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM

What are we...chopped liver?!

Posted by: PBS/NPR/CPB at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (ZANHd)

102 Even their grasp of the shift in information distribution is warped.

People aren't hanging in Joe Rogan's every word. They don't really give much of a shit about what Joe Rogan thinks. They watch his show because it's often entertaining, and often it has guests that actually know things and are willing to discuss them at length for hours with nuance and depth.

You'd have to be full on retarded to think you could garner a full view of global happenings by watching a nightly 30 minute segment, chopped down to 22 minutes by commercials, that covered every war, disaster, economic issue, political issue, cultural trend and important topic.

Posted by: Just sayin at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (8VHs6)

103 Kailey McEnney just said that Speaker Johnson told her this am that he has been working with Thune for the past few months , they are on the same page for executing Trumps agenda and getting reforms done.
Posted by: Jen the original at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (8moFs)

"Everything that guy just said is bullshit."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

104 Thune ? Darn it all....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (IyPmt)

105 We just take it for granted because he's Trump. But imagine having to go through all that.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (ksjMr)

He IS Trump. There isn't another one.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (+qdHL)

106 The Guardian @guardian 6h
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…

Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant 1h
Maybe try Threads by Facebook? I hear it’s the X-killer. Or maybe Mastodon?

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (hovnC)

107 103 Kailey McEnney just said that Speaker Johnson told her this am that he has been working with Thune for the past few months , they are on the same page for executing Trumps agenda and getting reforms done.
Posted by: Jen the original at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (8moFs)

======

*fingers crossed*

*breath not held*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

108 "The verdict is not debatable: Half the country thinks traditional media is biased and often useless,"

The verdict *is* debatable. FAR more than half the country thinks traditional media is biased and often useless.

Posted by: t-bird at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (aqyab)

109 I mean AI can not only write the words on the teleprompter, it can read them too, without the million dollar contracts and egos

Plus, AI-created newsreaders can read the news naked.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (xCA6C)

110 "Trump's victory isn't a result of a failure by news outlets to sufficiently hold him accountable. The real answer is one that is a lot more uncomfortable to grapple with: The national news media is more limited in its reach and influence than ever in the modern era.
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Or maybe, and hear me out here, the dogs like the food.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (ksjMr)

111 I want to know why domestic abuse of women is awful but women in combat roles is a okay.

Do none of those idiots realize a woman captured in combat will be raped and abused far beyond mere domestic violence?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (tT6L1)

112 For years I thought Bob Woodward was a journalist when in reality he’s government deep state (CIA) on the WaPo payroll…. Just one of many likewise
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (PRg7w)
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He might just be a dupe who swallowed the Koolaid way back in the 60s and 70s and be stuck on stupid forever.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (G54uX)

113 [WILLOWED:]

Little-known fact: DogEater's GDP would have been negative over his 8-year Reign of Error had it not been for the economic boon provided by a single technology & industry: fracking.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 11:52 AM (HCGKD)

Source, please? Need this in my arsenal!
Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2024 11:54 AM (N0dT2)

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

Sorry, heard it from from a guest (some economic analyst) ) on Brian Kilmead's radio show this morning -- but I don't recall his name.

[Am driving for work so haven't had a chance to research & confirm it for myself yet -- but it struck me as likely true. And it would be nice to have a source to which we can point if indeed true.]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (MWxtF)

114 I consider them enemy agents with a microphone. If it were up to me, most would be serving long prison times or acting as worm food. It's what traitors have earned.

As I've said on more than one occasion, the Constitution guarantees a free press. It does not require an administration to give aid, comfort and access to a cadre of domestic enemies.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (Q0kLU)

115 Noem moves up, Thune moves back to SD to be Governor. Speakership opens up.

Mrs Thune wants to be close to the grandkids in SD.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (Z8Yh2)

116 Jonathan Last amuses me, like a clown.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (Lt3SL)

117 When Whoopi the Repulsive says Trump plans to break up mixed race couples does she get called out for misinformation?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (kTd/k)

118 Kailey McEnney just said that Speaker Johnson told her this am that he has been working with Thune for the past few months , they are on the same page for executing Trumps agenda and getting reforms done.
Posted by: Jen the original at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (8moFs)
______

The Blade hopes this is true. The Blade doesn't think this is true.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

119 And as a post script, one must make mention of the great moment when the AP publicly announced that the CIA was planting stories in the wire service, and they'd rather shut down than act as an arm of the intelligence apparatus.

It was great.

Their announcement came on the tenth of June, two thousand and never.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

120 5. The world would be a better place without her.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024

***
Her stage name means "Charlie 100" (Roman numerals: C, 100, minus X, 10, gives 90; then add back the 10 with the second X). Not that I believe she knows any of that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (J2vNu)

121 "Then the magnificent bastard beat them all, bless him."

And was very gracious during today's meeting with Biden.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (MeG8a)

122 Kailey McEnney just said that Speaker Johnson told her this am that he has been working with Thune for the past few months , they are on the same page for executing Trumps agenda and getting reforms done.

this thirdhand hearsay with zero consequences to the parties involved if not true is good enough for me, go Thune!

Posted by: brak at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (25k9m)

123 "48 Another quaalude they gonna love themselves again."

Is this going to turn into a thread about The Tubes?

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (zSyrn)

124 It's offensive the Propaganda Press presumes to lecture us with their so-extreme horseshit "journalism". It's even more offensive they fawn over each other, give themselves awards, and pretend it's all so important.

What what is really most offensive is that they are so dumb, as a rule. So thick-headed. And completely unaware of it. No humility.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (yEuRi)

125 The Blade hopes this is true. The Blade doesn't think this is true.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
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Cutting edge analysis!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (G54uX)

126 Kailey McEnney just said that Speaker Johnson told her this am that he has been working with Thune for the past few months , they are on the same page for executing Trumps agenda and getting reforms done.

==

ok. we shall see.

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (V13WU)

127 Remember, remember,
The February of two thousand and never
The election treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the election treason
Should ever be forgot!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (hovnC)

128 >>Joe Rogan is more important than any of us"

Imagine the J-school dissertations being written now attempting to explain how this can be.

Imagine the J-school and college Communications professors creating scholarship for the "underground, right-wing podcast culture" in attempt to capture that lightning in a bottle to replicate it for their side.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (u1uWe)

129 Somehow, I feel this is about friend of the blog, Rick Wilson.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (QoyXi)

130 Movie crews used to have grappers. Then Thomas Ince invented the superior Gaff technology, and now gaffers work the sets.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (Q8V7a)

131 Let's be honest, they picked him because of the hair.

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (V13WU)

132 "Thune wins the senate leadership post.
McConnel 2.0
I just don;t understand why."

Lots of senators want the graft of the old days to continue, others were probably offered leadership positions or other prizes for their vote.

None of them that voted for Thune cared about the voter and their MAGA mandate. Bannon promises yesterday the vote would be leaked and made public, and Thune voters will be primaried at first opportunity.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (Cus5s)

133 So if you just look empirically at the numbers, Joe Rogan is more important than any of us

If you just look empirically at the numbers, Joe Rogan is a hundred times more important than any of you.

Posted by: t-bird at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (aqyab)

134 52 Grapping or Grappling? WTF?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024p.i]

***
Greeks like to drink grappa.
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Those Greek Homos.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (AdHga)

135
The only people getting all their information from the legacy news media are boomers.

Nope. Our parents do, what few of them are still alive.

I haven't sought out news coverage from broadcast or cable media for over fifty years.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (xG4kz)

136 13 Thune wins the senate leadership post.
McConnel 2.0
I just don;t understand why.
Posted by: sharon(
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Easy, fear of consequences to voting Thune out and fear of changes that decrease a senator's own power and wealth. Senator Cornhole was always going to be a splitter candidate to prevent an effective challenge to the heir apparent.

Essentially, McConnell had a base of about 12-20 senators over time that kept him in office. Some are undercover soft Dems like Murkow and Collins (also see Cassidy of LA, Cindy Hyde something from MS), others are GOPe machine politicians like Lankford in OK, Ernst in IA, etc.

McConnell bequeathed the support of those senators to Thune who as minority whip, had his own chits from service to senators over the years.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (ctrM5)

137 Will the propaganda ministries report

Hitler Meets Biden

Otherwise they should just shut up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (b2/S2)

138 The Junta's Media was highly effective.
A population exposed to objective facts would probably result in about a 3:1 route*.

*I figure getting below a 25% Pol Pot redux wannabe number is not going to happen anytime soon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (/lPRQ)

139 "Semafor can't help but piling on the cope -- it's all the fault of YouTubers who don't "fact-check" themselves like the famously truthful propaganda media do."

Buh buh buh WE have journalism degrees and credentials! How can people trust amateurs, not we professional fact-finders, truth-tellers, and non-partisan political discourse referees??????
- MSM

Posted by: Gref at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (aBgBM)

140 Now we need to figure out how to make it politically profitable for Thune to do the right things.

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (+aEJM)

141 Trump can ask Thune if he wants to be ambassador to Australia.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (vczVT)

142 Don't worry guys, once Trump deports the illegals, there will be plenty of opportunities in the food service and landscaping industries.

Posted by: Duke Lowell, MAGA Viking at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (2UnvF)

143 Make Journalists Learn To Code Again!

Posted by: Caiwyn at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (5MZNC)

144 I'm concerned about this.

Sincerely,
Anonymous Source speaking on a condition of Anonymity

Posted by: Orson at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (dIske)

145 >> When Whoopi the Repulsive says Trump plans to break up mixed race couples does she get called out for misinformation?

Did she called out for asking McCain if he would brig back slavery if elected president?

She is a vile person.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (u1uWe)

146 I don't think Rogan is the sharpest tool in the shed but he knows how to interview and is smart in a number of ways.

I just think he just lacks the cause and effect gene.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (oMmSx)

147 Grapping?

Is that a typo or a portmanteau of Grappling & Crapping?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (MWxtF)

148 How long before MSM declares they've finished with their struggle sessions and announce they've done what was necessary to make sure it never happens again?

Without, of course, defining, "it."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (tT6L1)

149 Sorry, heard it from from a guest (some economic analyst) ) on Brian Kilmead's radio show this morning -- but I don't recall his name.

[Am driving for work so haven't had a chance to research & confirm it for myself yet -- but it struck me as likely true. And it would be nice to have a source to which we can point if indeed true.]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 12:32 PM (MWxtF)

Appreciate you carrying this over and replying to me. I'll do some research too. Let's compare notes at some point.

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (N0dT2)

150 "the country's most prestigious and rigorous news organizations"

bollocks!

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (V6W16)

151 Trump was elected to do some things.

The problem the FNM faces is the public still wants him to do those things. Noting that Trump said "pussy" once is not going to make the populace not want those things.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (oZhjI)

152 Another quaalude they gonna love themselves again.
---------------
Quaaludes were special.

Posted by: Pudinhead
I second this comment.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)

153 Well super duper. Catching up on the world and learn John Thune is it. A never Trumper, younger version of McConnell. Things should go along swimmingly.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (p4NUW)

154 125 The Blade hopes this is true. The Blade doesn't think this is true.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
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Cutting edge analysis!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (G54uX)

Wait, is Elric going third person... or is Stormbringer speaking through him?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (QoyXi)

155 So Thune is replacing McConnell.. For the present Senate term ?Who says he can't be tossed in Jan when we take over the Senate ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (IyPmt)

156 154 125 The Blade hopes this is true. The Blade doesn't think this is true.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
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Cutting edge analysis!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (G54uX)

Wait, is Elric going third person... or is Stormbringer speaking through him?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (QoyXi)

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Jimmy doesn't like where this is going.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

157 >>>I mean AI can not only write the words on the teleprompter, it can read them too, without the million dollar contracts and egos

Then explain Anderson Cooper.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (CwhoI)

158 I mean AI can not only write the words on the teleprompter, it can read them too, without the million dollar contracts and egos
Posted by: brak at November 13, 2024

***
AI: "I'm an AI-generated voice clone, totally devoid of emotion. At least I don't have to count carbs or have a drinking problem."

Live Host: "Touche."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (J2vNu)

159 155 So Thune is replacing McConnell.. For the present Senate term ?Who says he can't be tossed in Jan when we take over the Senate ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (IyPmt)

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This is for the next Congress.

The new senators voted. The ones leaving (like Mitt) did not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

160 Somehow, I feel this is about friend of the blog, Rick Wilson.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (QoyXi)

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Rick Wilson blocked me when I was on X. I think I pissed him off when I asked if he still had his confederate cooler. He's very touchy about that subject. 😀😀

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (V4Nfb)

161 "Graaaaaaaaper, graper grap,
They call me the Grapper."

-- The Jaggerz & Donnie Iris

Posted by: Tonypete at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (WXNFJ)

162 The national news media is ARE more limited in its reach and influence than ever in the modern era.

FIFY.

medium: singular
media: plural

So endeth the lesson, in remedial high school English.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (YqDXo)

163 90 There's more fact-checking and journalisming here at Ace's place than all of the dusty crusty MSM outlets combined.
Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2024 12:30 PM (N0dT2)
So this is a suicide mission? OK. I’m good with that.

Posted by: Eromero at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (jgmnb)

164 Lying, spouting Propaganda, omitting news helpful to the political opposition...Gee, I have NO idea why there's a lack of trust in the MSM.

On CNN just a few days ago, there was an article on how Trump could be a tryrant and use the Gov't to go after his political enemies, as if the last four years had not happened under the Biden regime, as if the previous four years of Trump NOT doing that had not happened.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

165 Hopefully Rick Wilson is getting his drunken self rolled by a hobo in Bed-Sty.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (vczVT)

166 Rick Wilson blocked me when I was on X. I think I pissed him off when I asked if he still had his confederate cooler. He's very touchy about that subject. 😀😀
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (V4Nfb)
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Heh.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (tT6L1)

167 As with Trump's picks I'll wait to see what Thune actually does before I light my hair on fire.

I have the matches ready though.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (oMmSx)

168 Then explain Anderson Cooper.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (CwhoI)

He and Trey Gowdy are mandroids.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (Lt3SL)

169 Politico guy says Musk has so much power now, ignoring the power of Google/FB and the rest, and guys like Bezos buying WAPO. Not to mention the MSM on the whole being the Dems propaganda media.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (Cus5s)

170 Mmmmm. Tears of unfathomable sadness. Yummy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (i24o9)

171 @82

Fire five white women? Rats, I was hoping they'd fire Rachel Madcow too.

Posted by: tintex at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (XmquS)

172 Awhile back there was a senate majority leader in SD and he was so bad the states voters fired him… his name was Tom Daschle. So it can be done. The guy who beat him? John Thune

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (MqqJZ)

173 The Andrea Mitchell, Christiane Amanpour casting couch videos are going to be so hot when they're looking for work trying to stay 'relevant' next year.

Posted by: Stateless at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (jvJvP)

174 You can give a Lewinsky to powerful Democrats as often as you like. And the MFM seems to like it a lot.

But press credibility is like virginity. Once you've lost it, it ain't coming back. And the press has, so speak, blown it.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (cB7nX)

175
Somehow, I feel this is about friend of the blog, Rick Wilson.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop

I heard one podcaster (Derek Hunter?) state that The Rick Wilson has a persistent and quite noticeable whiff of body odor.

I have a friend from HS with the same problem. I went hiking for two weeks with him in the summer of '76 and I experienced his BO close up. When I last saw him in 2017, he still had the same BO. Sad, actually.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (xG4kz)

176
TV Media is now the newspapers that is now typewriter ribbon.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (+oR7L)

177 "...arguing that while Trump is a unique challenge to cover."

Why? He's no more of a "challenge" than covering the local mayor. Just report the f*cking facts and leave it at that. We don't want your interpretation, nuanced or otherwise.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (ZlOcj)

178 Thune wins the senate leadership post.
McConnel 2.0
I just don;t understand why.

Not surprised but.... F*ck.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (/y8xj)

179 112 For years I thought Bob Woodward was a journalist when in reality he’s government deep state (CIA) on the WaPo payroll…. Just one of many likewise
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2024 12:29 PM (PRg7w)
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He might just be a dupe who swallowed the Koolaid way back in the 60s and 70s and be stuck on stupid forever.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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No, he isn't. Woodward was Naval Intelligence for 5 years (1965-1970) and was close to several of the admirals due to that assignment as it included handling launch codes for Armageddon
among other things.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (ctrM5)

180 99 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE MSM TOLD OVER HALF THE COUNTRY THAT THEY WERE UNWORTHY OF THEIR ATTENTION.

AND THEN WE RECIPROCATED.
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Yep. And they've done this twice. MSM is profoundly stupid. Dare I say, retarded?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (AdHga)

181 I think I could pork some sense into Sarah Longwell.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (Lt3SL)

182 Rita Repulsa > Whoopi

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (vczVT)

183 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
11m
Monica Asher, principal of
@OlentangySD
in Ohio sent a message to staff expressing how upset she was due to the election and doesn’t know how to tell the staff to “move forward.” She also says the staff needs to stick together in order to keep celebrating “diversity.”

These are the people in charge of your kids’ education

https://tinyurl.com/3abmzxf2

Posted by: redridinghood at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (NpAcC)

184 And for the second of those three instances, a majority of American voters largely ignored the implicit and explicit warnings of that coverage -- if they saw it at all -- and voted Trump into office.

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81 MILLION VOTES, MY ASS!

Where were the missing 10 MILLION this year?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (MWxtF)

185 So endeth the lesson, in remedial high school English.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (YqDXo)

You is correct.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (oMmSx)

186 The Blade hopes this is true. The Blade doesn't think this is true.

Bob Dole agrees.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (xCA6C)

187 I mean AI can not only write the words on the teleprompter, it can read them too, without the million dollar contracts and egos
Posted by: brak at November 13, 2024

***
Pixy on the early morning Tech Thread seems to think AI's days are numbered and companies' enthusiasm for it is waning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (J2vNu)

188 Thanks Whig. Your answer to my question makes sense. Most are saying he was a better choice than Cornyn.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (t/2Uw)

189 Amazing. Instead of acknowledging that their gaslighting is ineffective, they double down on gaslighting. To be expected, really. Leftards NEVER learn from failure.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (pohLc)

190 News media outlets are often boxed in by rigorous fact-checking

I'd like them to say that under penalty of perjury...and pay for lying.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (ynpvh)

191 152 Another quaalude they gonna love themselves again.
---------------
Quaaludes were special.

Posted by: Pudinhead
I second this comment.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)

Forget me nows! (Pretty much the only thing from Arrested Development that I remember.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (QoyXi)

192 The new senators voted. The ones leaving (like Mitt) did not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

Drat

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (IyPmt)

193 Then explain Anderson Cooper.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (CwhoI)

He and Trey Gowdy are mandroids.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (Lt3SL)

Skin jobs. Basic pleasure models.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (i24o9)

194 Let me just say that, for entertainment purposes, I reviewed the election night coverage of multiple so-called news organizations. I was watching them for the first time in years. It was shocking how many lies and how much propaganda was being spewed.

The funny thing is that their ratings are probably spiking now, when millions are looking at their coverage for a few laughs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (lTGtQ)

195 Their biggest mistake was trying to shoehorn a Historic First into the Obama template and thinking they could do a repeat. Which would have been fine if she could speak. Maybe it's true what they say - the sequel is always a lame attempt to recreate the same thing.

What they didn't grasp was Obama was a once in a lifetime "do over" for America convinced in a very short space of time that he was the second coming of MLK and that electing him would "end racism". Because he did a reasonable facsimile of making empty platitudes and bilge sound "soaring" instead of how Kamala makes them sound.

AND, and this is the important bit, he was running against a team that was only play fighting, had no spine and no will to anything other than making themselves rich, and who hated their own voters more than anything.

Trump is many things but he doesn't fucking hate us. He is the first candidate since Reagan that loves Americans and what we want more than he loves himself. Or even at all.

And all this transactional analysis is going to miss it. It's right there for anyone who wants to look.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (ksjMr)

196

Member how they rigged the debate this time around?

That didn't work.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (et1vG)

197 >> When Whoopi the Repulsive says Trump plans to break up mixed race couples does she get called out for misinformation?

Did she called out for asking McCain if he would brig back slavery if elected president?

She is a vile person.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (u1uWe)

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She trashed Pete Hegseth this morning for being a Fox News host and not knowing anything about the military. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (V4Nfb)

198 184 And for the second of those three instances, a majority of American voters largely ignored the implicit and explicit warnings of that coverage -- if they saw it at all -- and voted Trump into office.

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81 MILLION VOTES, MY ASS!

Where were the missing 10 MILLION this year?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (MWxtF)

Laying around, waiting for the Ressurection...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (ynpvh)

199 ZH has a story up about crooked cop Michael Fanone.

Apparently he has become an alcoholic and is claiming he's going to kill a bunch of federal agents if they try to arrest him.

Well, good thing we had sane reasonable men like him in charge of keeping the peace during the J6 protests right?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (oZhjI)

200 "AI: "I'm an AI-generated voice clone, totally devoid of emotion. At least I don't have to count carbs or have a drinking problem."

And my hair is always perfect, as are my tits.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (Cus5s)

201 169 Politico guy says Musk has so much power now, ignoring the power of Google/FB and the rest, and guys like Bezos buying WAPO. Not to mention the MSM on the whole being the Dems propaganda media.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2024 12:38 PM (Cus5s)

========

The New York Times is 17.4% owned by a Mexican national billionaire who most likely has cartel ties, Carlos Slim.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

202 If you weren't embarrassed by David Muir's debate performance, then you're not a journalist; you're a Democrat.

Posted by: Wally at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (NXYp1)

203 "The Blade hopes this is true. The Blade doesn't think this is true."

Bob Dole agrees.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (xCA6C)

Rickey Henderson does too

Posted by: Rickey Henderson at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (N0dT2)

204 Pixy on the early morning Tech Thread seems to think AI's days are numbered and companies' enthusiasm for it is waning

it will change greatly from what it is now but it's not going away.

Posted by: brak at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (25k9m)

205 Forget me nows! (Pretty much the only thing from Arrested Development that I remember.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (QoyXi)

It's and ILLUSION, Aetius

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (CIS44)

206 Holy shit. They took the Obama Story, put a chick in it, and made it gay.

Oops.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (ksjMr)

207 >>They watch his show because it's often entertaining, and often it has guests that actually know things and are willing to discuss them at length for hours with nuance and depth.

Two characteristics of Joe Rogan that they can't replicate:

1. He asks open ended questions, and then follow-up questions.

2. He is legitimately curious and wants to hear more from his guests (not lecture them, play gotcha!, make himself look better to other podcasters).

Maybe it's that - get this! - he doesn't need to establish a narrative to spoon-feed to his audience as if they were toddlers?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (u1uWe)

208 Schumer has an ally now.

Posted by: torabora at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (XBYfz)

209 The Blade hopes this is true. The Blade doesn't think this is true.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:33 PM (iFTx/)
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Cutting edge analysis!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (G54uX)

Wait, is Elric going third person... or is Stormbringer speaking through him?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (QoyXi)
__________

Yes

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

210 Korean claiming 4B is "cultural appropriation in its highest form" and it's not well known even in Korea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwoweR6kjU

Posted by: H at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (4N/0w)

211 Jimmy doesn't like where this is going.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

That sword is a killer!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (QoyXi)

212 So the current Speaker of the House "likes" Thune and believes he will work with Trump ? Who's to say he keeps his speakership ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (IyPmt)

213 I was listening to a Joe Rogan & Ben Shapiro discussion on whatever and AGW (global warming) came up. Rogan is in the AGW camp lock stock and barrel. "Did you now that 65% of scientists support AGW?" is his main argument - Consensus Science.
My estimation of the man has dramatically dropped.

Posted by: Ciampino - whatever else he has wrong? at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (i0xsb)

214 Fucking RINO backstabbers

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (eZwyX)

215 The media spent "months publishing and airing neutral to overwhelmingly negative news coverage of the former president."

When was the coverage ever "neutral"? I must have missed that.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (p9rFX)

216 206

The Obama story was already gay enough

Posted by: tintex at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (XmquS)

217 It's fucking Thune.

Time for a Cuckoos Nest frontal lobotomy. Him or me, it won't matter.

I had hopes for a Trump agenda but it's logjam time and terrible disappointment.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (ZtgZZ)

218 The First Amendment is killing them. Why do you think they hate it so much?

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (ZlOcj)

219 2. He is legitimately curious and wants to hear more from his guests (not lecture them, play gotcha!, make himself look better to other podcasters).

Ask yourself why do you want to watch an interview? And the answer is you want to hear the ideas of the interviewee. If you want to hear the interviewer's ideas you'd want HIM to be interviewed.

Rogan gets this. Most of the FNM does not.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (oZhjI)

220 >>She trashed Pete Hegseth this morning for being a Fox News host and not knowing anything about the military.

Could she BE any more clueless?!
lol

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (u1uWe)

221 So Thune is replacing McConnell.. For the present Senate term ?Who says he can't be tossed in Jan when we take over the Senate ?

Posted by: It's me donna

Sadly, it seems that once they're in power, and start distributing goodies, they almost never get removed. Tom Daschle was mentioned, but he had significant ethics problems, and talked gay and his s*** was all retarded.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (xCA6C)

222 She trashed Pete Hegseth this morning for being a Fox News host and not knowing anything about the military. 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (V4Nfb)

That's like saying Patton doesn't know anything about the US Army.

Posted by: dantesed at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (Oy/m2)

223 Has Thune given his "I'm willing to work with the Trump administration on the important issues facing this country" statement yet?

You know he will say that at some point and you know what that actually means.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (Y1sOo)

224 The thesis of this column ignores Trump's ability and willingness to fight back. I hope that Vance, as his chosen successor, carries on the fight. It's not over.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 13, 2024 12:22 PM (+qdHL)

One thing that Jefferson did better than any other President was finding, promoting and placing competent younger men to carry on the leadership. It would be nice to think that Trump has this skill. In his private businesses, he liked finding competent people to turn the work over to, including people who never had done the work but had the flair.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (D7oie)

225 Posted by: Ciampino - whatever else he has wrong? at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (i0xsb)

How long ago was this interview?

Was it the one four months ago?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (eZwyX)

226 Blogs like AoS and many others simply gutted the MSM, pointing out their bias, their evil, their ill-intent and their hated of America, and have been doing to devastating effect since ca. 2001. I proclaimed the irrelevance of the mainstream media (and even is counter-productiveness) way back in 2004-ish, and it remains even more true 20 years later.

The media accrued undeserved "credibility" in the 20th century (after previous having essentially zero credibility during the 18th century "broadsheet" era and the 19th century "yellow journalism" era). SOmeone the 20th century was kind to the media, and people began to trust it. for nearly 100 years he MSM accrued a vast storehouse of public confidence and status.

And then -- then burned through al that credibility in just a few years, post 9/11 or post-Lewinsky.

The hilarious pat is that the media itself are the only ones who don';t know this. They still act like they are relevant, when their incompetent propagandzing only serves to be counter-productive

Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (pMi6S)

227 I preferred Cornyn for the simple reason he has to face reelection in 2 years and the thought being that reelection would pull him more rightward than he wanted. But its done and now we sit and hope. Most important job for the Senate initially is confirmation proceedings.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (sX1BW)

228
Cord-cutting has decimated cable news viewership

Ivy League dumbasses can't even use the word "decimate" correctly. Tell me you're "elite" now, you stupid, illiterate cocksuckers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (y9nCu)

229 Grappa is an alcoholic beverage: a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Italian origin that contains 35 to 60 percent alcohol by volume (70 to 120 US proof). Grappa is a protected name in the European Union.

Grappa is made by distilling the skins, pulp, seeds and stems (i.e., the pomace) left over from winemaking after pressing the grapes. It was originally made to prevent waste by using these leftovers. A similar drink, known as acquavite d'uva, is made by distilling whole must.

In Italy, grappa is primarily served as a digestive or after-dinner drink. Its main purpose is to aid in the digestion of heavy meals. Grappa may also be added to espresso coffee to create a caffe corretto, meaning "corrected" coffee. Another variation of this is the ammazzacaffe ("coffee-killer"): the espresso is drunk first, followed by a few ounces of grappa served in its own glass. In Veneto, there is resentin ("little rinser"): after finishing a cup of espresso with sugar, a few drops of grappa are poured into the nearly empty cup, swirled and drunk down in one sip.

Posted by: soledad o'brien's earpiece at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (hovnC)

230 126 Kailey McEnney just said that Speaker Johnson told her this am that he has been working with Thune for the past few months , they are on the same page for executing Trumps agenda and getting reforms done.

==

ok. we shall see.
Posted by: runner at November 13, 2024 12:34 PM (V13WU)

Republican leader that the party only barely tolerates is excited to work with Republican leader that the party doesn't want.

Great job, team.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (pZ0Mr)

231 Holy shit. They took the Obama Story, put a chick in it, and made it gay.

Oops.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024

***
You forgot "lame."

Oh. Wait. Obama always was.

Carry on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (J2vNu)

232 For the third presidential contest in a row, the legacy news media -- represented by newspapers, television networks, magazines, and cable news networks -- spent months publishing and airing ~~neutral to~~ overwhelmingly negative news coverage of the former president.

"Local newspapers have continued to die off, leaving much of the country without a trusted local news source."

Who in his right mind EVER viewed local newspapers as a "trusted local news source?" The only thing they ever got right was reporting the number of cats rescued from trees.

None of this is a surprise to many of the leaders of the country's most prestigious and rigorous news organizations.

"Most prestigious and rigorous news organizations." Are they kidding? Russia Today is more reliable than they are.

Here's a starting point: report the race of a criminal (or religion, in the case of Muslim terrorism, or immigration status, in the case of illegal aliens), even if he's not white. Suppressing that information makes your agenda painfully clear. The electorate needs to know who the hell is responsible for crimes.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (YqDXo)

233 Has Thune given his "I'm willing to work with the Trump administration on the important issues facing this country" statement yet?

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

Yes, he has.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (sX1BW)

234 Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (sX1BW)

+1

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (oMmSx)

235 All this bloated complaining by the media about the situation they made for themselves is complete fuckery.

The whole matter comes down to this: the Fourth Estate became a ~~Democrat~~ Marxist Fifth Column. It worked for a while and then it didn't, especially when Trump showed up and started calling them out for exactly what they were, fake news. There isn't a modern mainstream media organization that isn't stuffed to the gunnels with liars that somehow managed, sadly, to have escaped being aborted. The modern mainstream media has done one thing exceptionally well; they conclusively made the case for enforced illiteracy. May they all rot and burn in hell.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (vO42M)

236 The World According to GARP

Posted by: Dyslexic John Irving at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (w9Wax)

237
Where were the missing 10 MILLION this year?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47

They are "The Disappeared Ones" ...

... sits back and waits for aggrieved fans of Chile's deposed Allende regime to start squawking about "appropriating" their virtue-signalling appellation for those who vanished during the reign of Pinochet.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (xG4kz)

238 Pixy on the early morning Tech Thread seems to think AI's days are numbered and companies' enthusiasm for it is waning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (J2vNu)

For every female AI out there, there's at least one male AI out there that has been trained on your Facebook data to be sick of her AI-generated bullshit.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (i24o9)

239 Kailey McEnney just said that Speaker Johnson told her this am that he has been working with Thune for the past few months , they are on the same page for executing Trumps agenda and getting reforms done.

Even taking Kailey (whom I like and want to trust) out of the chain, it's still just a politician saying to someone what another politician said to him. Pardon me if I'm not quite willing to bet the farm on that just yet.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (/y8xj)

240 *smiles*

And now comes my appointment with a cast-cutter. Report to follow.

*smiles more *

Posted by: creeper at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (M6moH)

241 Oh wish Whoopi a miserable birthday today

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (AYz4A)

242 235 The whole matter comes down to this: the Fourth Estate became a Democrat Marxist Fifth Column.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (vO42M)

=======

This is after, of course, decades, nearly a century, of the mainstream media being an establishment column for both major parties, crowding out dissenting voices the entire time. Only the elect should be heard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

243 The Blade hopes this is true. The Blade doesn't think this is true."

Bob Dole agrees.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (xCA6C)

Rickey Henderson does too

Rickey like to point out that the alleged Rickey posting at 203 ain't the real Rickey cause not only does Rickey talk about Ricey in the third Rickey but Rickey talks about Rickey in the 4th Rickey cause no Rickey knows Rickey like Rickey.

Posted by: Rickey "Rickey" Henderson at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (ig8VZ)

244 Has Thune given his "I'm willing to work with the Trump administration on the important issues facing this country" statement yet?

And I look forward to reaching across the aisle to my friends on the other side in the spirit of Senatorial courtesy to advance our goals for the nation

Posted by: Senator Thune (Uniparty-SD) at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (25k9m)

245 220 Hers is a small world, after all.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (vd6bO)

246 One more random quote

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.
---- Grover Norquist

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (D7oie)

247 217 It's fucking Thune.

Time for a Cuckoos Nest frontal lobotomy. Him or me, it won't matter.

I had hopes for a Trump agenda but it's logjam time and terrible disappointment.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (ZtgZZ)

Is it a Steely Dan?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (ynpvh)

248 Posted by: Shenanigans at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (pZ0Mr)

Gotta have that vote in secret. Democracy!

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (eZwyX)

249 How do you hurt a status-obsessed cadre of ideologues?

Super Atomic Wedgie FTW!

Plus continued blog cruelty.

Posted by: DaveA at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (FhXTo)

250 They will pass tax cuts, a ton of spending, and the senate will confirm judges.

They arent passing any meaningful laws.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (7PziG)

251 "Popular podcasts and YouTube shows rely on the news media for information that informs their segments, but they do not employ journalists and are not held to the same standards of accuracy and accountability."

***

That's the spirit, media. If anything will get you through these tough times it's your continued insistence on sucking your own dicks.

Posted by: Azathoth at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (wb1YC)

252 The democrats just didn't get their message out.

And their propagandists didn't work hard enough to get their lies out either.

If only the democrats and their propagandists had just gotten their message out. Maybe 100% of the media instead of 96% would have done it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (17s+e)

253 Its actually worse then they are stating. The Legacy media's reputation is so bad, that a large news organization saying they support a Candidate, is now a NEGATIVE to that candidate.

When someone you despise, suddenly says you should vote a certain way? When someone who has proven themselves liars say you MUST support someone?

Yeah, the MSMs Reputation then tarnishes the candidate's reputation.... which is why so many big Publishers did not endorse Kama last election... their own numbers said supporting her would be a bad thing.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (QAkQ3)

254 Korean claiming 4B is "cultural appropriation in its highest form" and it's not well known even in Korea.

LOL. LMAO, even

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (hB7mE)

255 Not worried about Thune. Thing ain't what they were. Thune has no future as leader of the Senate.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (pohLc)

256 Another variation of this is the ammazzacaffe ("coffee-killer"): the espresso is drunk first, followed by a few ounces of grappa served in its own glass. In Veneto, there is resentin ("little rinser"): after finishing a cup of espresso with sugar, a few drops of grappa are poured into the nearly empty cup, swirled and drunk down in one sip.
Posted by: soledad o'brien's earpiece at November 13, 2024

***
Nothing can kill espresso. It's like Dracula: It always comes back for a sequel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (J2vNu)

257 And WTF is Semafor? A more gay Daily Signal?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (i24o9)

258 You forgot "lame."

Oh. Wait. Obama always was.

Carry on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:44 PM (J2vNu)

Gay? Check
Lame? Check
A chick? Close enough

This all checks out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (QoyXi)

259 Trump and Biden are still meeting. Wonder if Trump needs an interpreter for Joey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (b2/S2)

260 "Trust in journalism is plummeting; it's lower than it was even four years ago," she wrote this week.
_________________

No. "Trust in journalism" is non-existent.

Another tip: stop calling this shit "journalism," because that provides the perpetrators with an implicit excuse for publishing their opinions.

Call them "reporters," and insist that they report the facts, without an editorial comments.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (YqDXo)

261 218 The First Amendment is killing them. Why do you think they hate it so much?

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (ZlOcj)

Autocrats have to autocrat. Dictators have to be dicks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (ynpvh)

262 The Blade hopes this is true. The Blade doesn't think this is true."

Bob Dole agrees.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:39 PM (xCA6C)

Rickey Henderson does too

Rickey like to point out that the alleged Rickey posting at 203 ain't the real Rickey cause not only does Rickey talk about Ricey in the third Rickey but Rickey talks about Rickey in the 4th Rickey cause no Rickey knows Rickey like Rickey.
Posted by: Rickey "Rickey" Henderson at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (ig8VZ)

George is not happy.

Posted by: George at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (Lt3SL)

263 Declaring the demise of the Dem Media is premature.

We've heard it before.

Don't let exuberance cloud perception.

Posted by: davidt at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (i0F8b)

264 Could she BE any more clueless?!
lol
Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (u1uWe)

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Remember when she said Doctor Jill would be a good pick to head ip the Dept. of Health? "Because she's a great doctor." ***all the facepalms***

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (V4Nfb)

265 250 They will pass tax cuts, a ton of spending, and the senate will confirm judges.

They arent passing any meaningful laws.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (7PziG)

The odds for some of Trump's cabinet picks just went down Bigly

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (IyPmt)

266 And my hair is always perfect, as are my tits.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (Cus5s)

Be nice. You guys don't care if the tits are perfect or not.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (cPl+1)

267 257 And WTF is Semafor? A more gay Daily Signal?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (i24o9)

Telegram with less porn?

I think it is one of those Twitter replacements with the rat cages individually presented.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (QoyXi)

268 255 Not worried about Thune. Thing ain't what they were. Thune has no future as leader of the Senate.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (pohLc)

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I bet Thune has a long future as leader of the Senate.

He could tank the GOP in 2026, in public and openly, and he'd win the vote for minority leader in November of 2028.

There are few powers greater in the universe than inertia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

269 When a big media macher like Jim VanDerSloot or whatever refers to HIS gang as the 'legacy media', get ready to take them off the grill and plate 'em; they're cooked.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (Ft5W9)

270 229 In Italy, grappa is primarily served as a digestive or after-dinner drink. Its main purpose is to aid in the digestion of heavy meals

And it tastes like diesel fuel. There is also a pasta sauce, which the name eludes me, that uses this and it is also gross. I want to say the name has smoke in it (but obviously in Italian). I will ask J.

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (p4NUW)

271 Tom Daschle...I had consigned him to the dustbin of my memory. A contemptible POS.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (CwhoI)

272 They will pass tax cuts, a ton of spending, and the senate will confirm judges.

They arent passing any meaningful laws.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (7PziG)

But Trump has a phone and a pen. That's how this all works, right?

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (CIS44)

273 I'm not getting depressed about Thune. And it's not that I expect some sort of epiphany by him or the RINOs. I just believe Trump and his team will find a way to play these bastards to his and the country's advantage.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (ZlOcj)

274
Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense?
Then who's vice president? Jerry Lewis?
I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
And Jack Benny is secretary of the treasury.
I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!

Posted by: Doc Brown at November 13, 2024 12:48 PM (+oR7L)

275 "Trust in journalism is plummeting; it's lower than it was even four years ago," she wrote this week.

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It's plummeted through the ground floor and continues cratering into deeper depths of negativity & sewage as a reliable shitstorm reverse-barometer of reality & truth.

They can't continue to eat shit and die soon or painfully enough for me ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 12:48 PM (yY4QV)

276 Thune is my senator. He's a stinking RINO backstabbing SOB . Unfortunately for conservative South Dakota voters, he's backed by the powerful ag producers lobby.

Posted by: Archer at November 13, 2024 12:48 PM (IDphi)

277 Could she BE any more clueless?!
lol
Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (u1uWe)

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Remember when she said Doctor Jill would be a good pick to head ip the Dept. of Health? "Because she's a great doctor." ***all the facepalms***
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (V4Nfb)

Remember when she said "Hell, I want her to be MY doctor"

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 12:48 PM (CIS44)

278 [i】Trump and Biden are still meeting. Wonder if Trump needs an interpreter for Joey

Trump is debating how long to let him nap before he nudges him to wake up

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at November 13, 2024 12:48 PM (ig8VZ)

279 >>Remember when she said Doctor Jill would be a good pick to head ip the Dept. of Health? "Because she's a great doctor." ***all the facepalms***

Um. . . wow. Forgot that!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2024 12:48 PM (u1uWe)

280 Not worried about Thune. Thing ain't what they were. Thune has no future as leader of the Senate.

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It is contingent upon the GOP retaining the Senate in two years. The best way to make that happen is an ascendent America. Even the Senate tide is changing. Though it may change slower than others (by design of course).

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 13, 2024 12:48 PM (sX1BW)

281 I was riveted by the multi-part story in the New York Times about how Russian Collusion was a creation of the Hillary Clinton campaign, adopted by the Deep State, and an effort to lie to the American people and steal their choice of president away from them.
__________________

And where are the articles reporting the blatant lawfare inflicted on Trump the nanosecond he announced he was running again?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (YqDXo)

282 This is after, of course, decades, nearly a century, of the mainstream media being an establishment column for both major parties, crowding out dissenting voices the entire time. Only the elect should be heard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Spot on.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (vO42M)

283 They will pass tax cuts, a ton of spending, and the senate will confirm judges.

They arent passing any meaningful laws.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (7PziG)

Immigration control and deportations will move forward despite their inclinations. That is the one clear motivator from this election.

Posted by: George at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (Lt3SL)

284 There are few powers greater in the universe than inertia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

Inertia is overcome by the application of outside force.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (pohLc)

285 I really don't understand why these "journalists" think they have the facts, when it's all conjecture through a lens of idiocy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (cPl+1)

286 I have some bad news for everyone. I went to Costco today, thinking to beat the TG rush, especially in the middle of the week. I did not beat the rush. It was packed. You've waited too long again.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (xCA6C)

287 "Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information"

lol such an absurd name

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (V6W16)

288 Rickey like to point out that the alleged Rickey posting at 203 ain't the real Rickey cause not only does Rickey talk about Ricey in the third Rickey but Rickey talks about Rickey in the 4th Rickey cause no Rickey knows Rickey like Rickey.
Posted by: Rickey "Rickey" Henderson at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (ig8VZ)

Wow - I have never felt so unworthy of a sock before. You have humbled me. Well done!

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (N0dT2)

289 Several times prominent members of the FNM have said they cannot compete with conservative ideas if they are given an equal airing.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (oZhjI)

290 I think semafor was seeded with ftx money, with staff from politico

make him accountable, means to lie extravagantly,

Posted by: no 6 at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (pGTZo)

291 272 They will pass tax cuts, a ton of spending, and the senate will confirm judges.

They arent passing any meaningful laws.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (7PziG)

But Trump has a phone and a pen. That's how this all works, right?
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (CIS44)

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My predictions:

Loper application as far as possible unilaterally (Vivek has indicated this).

Maybe a return to omnibus budget bills instead of CRs, if we're lucky.

A border wall. They'll finally just let him have it.

Some questionably constitutional laws about some culture issues.

Judges.

The only action that will really matter is the attack on the bureaucracy and the judges.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

292 What is it that the media was estimated to be worth in an election in 2004? Like 15%? Its maybe .5% now. Nobody reads newspapers except the very elderly now. Nobody watches the network news except pundits and the very elderly now. Almost nobody uses mainstream media as their primary source for news and information any more except people in the media.

And I think it took this election for that to finally begin to sink in with these people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (Hh1ER)

293 271 Tom Daschle...I had consigned him to the dustbin of my memory. A contemptible POS.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM

A name from the past that should stay there. I'd forgotten about that fool.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (+oR7L)

294 266 And my hair is always perfect, as are my tits.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (Cus5s)

Be nice. You guys don't care if the tits are perfect or not.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (cPl+1)

I can say that my hair, what's left of it, is imperfect. As for my tits...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (ynpvh)

295 Inertia is overcome by the application of outside force.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (pohLc)

Steel-toed boots seems to understand this principle.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (cPl+1)

296 Rick Wilson blocked me when I was on X. I think I pissed him off when I asked if he still had his confederate cooler. He's very touchy about that subject. 😀😀

***

I mentioned to him during my first jaunt on Twitter back in the early Trump years that he looks like an interrupted circumcision. He took that poorly.

Posted by: Azathoth at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (wb1YC)

297 Congress will not have dealt with the implications of Loper for another few years, though I could imagine Congress getting its panties in a wad when some department gets reduced to nothing, trying to quickly pass laws to re-establish it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

298 I think I saw somewhere that journalists are right down there with lawyers in approval ratings. THAT takes effort.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (CwhoI)

299 286 I have some bad news for everyone. I went to Costco today, thinking to beat the TG rush, especially in the middle of the week. I did not beat the rush. It was packed. You've waited too long again.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 12:49 PM (xCA6C)

Damn.. I was supposed to go today but decided to go next week...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (IyPmt)

300 Grapping or Grappling?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (+H2BX)

301 225 Posted by: Ciampino - whatever else he has wrong? at November 13, 2024 12:42 PM (i0xsb)

How long ago was this interview?

Was it the one four months ago?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 13, 2024 12:43 PM (eZwyX)
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I'd have to find it again to get the date. Is the date important? Did he have an epiphany since?

Posted by: Ciampino - whatever else he has wrong?? at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (i0xsb)

302 I don't believe AI can really be programmed to learn. I don't see any way to insert any sort of negative feedback.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (tT6L1)

303 "I did not beat the rush."

It a celebration of the anticipated return to the Good Times!!!

Posted by: pawn at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (QB+5g)

304 291. Yea. Thats the sum of it. This is why they cheated to keep the other 5 seats or so.

Thune will likely find one cabinet nominee to tank to send a message.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (7PziG)

305 Mika’s heavy sigh at 1:05 on the Vandehei’s rant is gold .
It’s gold Jerry gold.
The sighing ,eye rolling Mika is just a wonderful thing.
Great time to be alive.

Posted by: Redenzo at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (V/pbu)

306 True, but it gives the people of SD a lot more power than their numbers warrant. We'll never be rid of him now.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Which, I think, is why the potentially lost to cheat of 4 Senate seats will go uninvestigated. Never know when Thune will need the cheat mechanism to work in his favor.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

What South Dakota needs, now more than ever, is Ranked Choice Voting.

Posted by: John Thune at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (oEWLd)

307 So Thune is replacing McConnell.. For the present Senate term ?Who says he can't be tossed in Jan when we take over the Senate ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 12:36 PM (IyPmt)

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This is for the next Congress.

The new senators voted. The ones leaving (like Mitt) did not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell

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They should have voted to recess and come back in February to address it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (/lPRQ)

308 There are few powers greater in the universe than inertia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

My thirst for libtard tears.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (ksjMr)

309 And my hair is always perfect, as are my tits.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (Cus5s)

Be nice. You guys don't care if the tits are perfect or not.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (cPl+1)

As long as they're original, and not bolted on to support a mental illness.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (VNX3d)

310 295
[snip] Steel-toed boots seems to understand this principle.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (cPl+1)

Well, there's that.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (vd6bO)

311 Not worried about Thune. Thing ain't what they were. Thune has no future as leader of the Senate.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (pohLc)

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I bet Thune has a long future as leader of the Senate.

He could tank the GOP in 2026, in public and openly, and he'd win the vote for minority leader in November of 2028.

There are few powers greater in the universe than inertia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
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That, plus the way the Senate is set up, the majority leader has control over tons of moolah and can almost dole it out however he wants. You might be shocked to learn that massive corruption follows!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

312 The way the GOP is moving, Thune will not be given a very long leash. At some point, the new guard will have the numbers to assert itself over the old guard if they don't deliver. I'm not sure Cornyn makes it back in 2 years. He will have to help deliver some results to assure a victory in a primary.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (sX1BW)

313 they aren't journalists, they may be journolists and part of the rizzotto tray set (as maggie haberman outed herself)

Posted by: no 6 at November 13, 2024 12:52 PM (pGTZo)

314 Call them "reporters," and insist that they report the facts, without an editorial comments.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (YqDXo)

Agitation propagandists. Nothing more.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 12:52 PM (i24o9)

315 I mentioned to him during my first jaunt on Twitter back in the early Trump years that he looks like an interrupted circumcision. He took that poorly.

Posted by: Azathoth at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (wb1YC)

You win. 😂😂

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:52 PM (V4Nfb)

316 Be nice. You guys don't care if the tits are perfect or not.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 13, 2024 12:47 PM (cPl+1)
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If they're attached to the woman we love, they're perfect.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 12:52 PM (tT6L1)

317 I have some bad news for everyone. I went to Costco today, thinking to beat the TG rush, especially in the middle of the week. I did not beat the rush. It was packed. You've waited too long again.

The only time Costco isn't packed is 30 minutes before close. I even went at opening on a weekday one time thinking I would beat the crowds, but no, people were lined up around the building like it was black friday.

Posted by: brak at November 13, 2024 12:52 PM (25k9m)

318 Thune will likely find one cabinet nominee to tank to send a message.

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Entirely possible and Sec Def is easiest one to see going down.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 13, 2024 12:52 PM (sX1BW)

319 Maybe it's that - get this! - he doesn't need to establish a narrative to spoon-feed to his audience as if they were toddlers?
Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2024 12:41 PM (u1uWe)

Ridiculous, that can never work

Posted by: NPR - The Voice of Your Elite Masters at November 13, 2024 12:52 PM (D7oie)

320 311 That, plus the way the Senate is set up, the majority leader has control over tons of moolah and can almost dole it out however he wants. You might be shocked to learn that massive corruption follows!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

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I don't know if Thune had to promise to change anything to get the spot. It's possible that he did.

Haven't heard anything, but we'll see.

*fingers crossed*
*breath not held*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

321 I'm late to the tread but I just wanted to say that ace is hitting right at the core of the social sickness that the media is inflicting on us with this article (and others of course).

Keep it up man.

Posted by: pawn at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (QB+5g)

322 Posted by: Ciampino - whatever else he has wrong?? at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (i0xsb)

I’d imagine covid woke him up.

I don’t know that but it’s my guess.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (eZwyX)

323 Journalism majors are the kids who couldn't measure up to the academic rigors of majoring in fine arts.

Posted by: Archer at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (IDphi)

324 I looked up what Daschle is going now and...he runs a pot company.

My have the mighty fallen...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (oZhjI)

325 Be nice. You guys don't care if the tits are perfect or not.
_______

Availability >>>>>>>> Perfection

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (fs1hN)

326 I'm guessing the word went out that "Pro-Choice" or just plain old "Abortion" aren't getting it done in DNC focus groups.

Apparently we are going to be inflicted with "Women's Bodily Autonomy", or some variation thereof, from here on out until our ears bleed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (6ydKt)

327 Do not fool yourself, they can still steal an election.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (icmmM)

328 Tom Daschle...I had consigned him to the dustbin of my memory. A contemptible POS.

***

"You don't professionalize unless you federalize."
- Tom Daschle arguing for the creation of the TSA after 9/11

In case you're wondering who to thank next time you're in line at the airport getting to third base with the TSA agent.

Posted by: Azathoth at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (wb1YC)

329 "Trump falsely claimed..."
Every newsie beotch who uttered that phrase oughta be gassed.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (ROwtT)

330 Just think: The Debate That Changed Everything (Trump/Biden) was only a little less than five months ago. In mid-June we were all tearing our hair and rending our clothing -- well, figuratively for some of us -- about "They're gonna cheat again and Trump will lose!" Then, Trump/Biden, then Kammie gets tapped, than Trump/Harris (another disaster for the Ds), and the rollercoaster ride continued untl last week.

2024: A Year Like No Other

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (J2vNu)

331 Gloriously out of touch afloat for a while, though I hear about the basics (Trumpensieg). Just getting tidbits now and not surprised that the voters seem to have yet again decided they don’t want a real change of direction (i.e. not close to what’s actually feasible at the moment). Oh well. In free fall, even a pause is welcome and might create conditions for serious rehab.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (hf6W+)

332 Karly Kingsley
@karlykingsley

Trump and Biden met in the Oval Office today. Melania was notably absent after declining a customary tea with the current First Lady.

The Trumps are the same petty people who refused to attend Biden’s inauguration. Every day, I feel better about my voting choices.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (TGPs7)

333 And really, only the media is to blame here. They saw that their ratings were fading and popularity was on the decline, so they went insane on the far left crank. It was bad before 2004, but they just gave up all pretense of objective coverage then in 2016 they actively, overtly decided their job was to destroy the Republican party and Trump in particular.

Strangely, people stopped trusting them.

Oh, and advertisers. Advertisers are to blame as well. Because they keep paying premium prices for rock bottom quality returns. Chevy and Coca Cola and State Farm insurance etc keep paying huge money for ads on a platform fewer and fewer people even watch. In a way I suspect its just meant to keep these places open, rather than hoping to find customers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (Hh1ER)

334 326 I'm guessing the word went out that "Pro-Choice" or just plain old "Abortion" aren't getting it done in DNC focus groups.

Apparently we are going to be inflicted with "Women's Bodily Autonomy", or some variation thereof, from here on out until our ears bleed.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (6ydKt)

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With the left routing most victories at the state level, getting abortion rights added to constitutions, they're losing it as an issue to politic with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

335 ZH has a story up about crooked cop Michael Fanone.

Apparently he has become an alcoholic and is claiming he's going to kill a bunch of federal agents if they try to arrest him.

Well, good thing we had sane reasonable men like him in charge of keeping the peace during the J6 protests right?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 12:40 PM (oZhjI)
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I thought this vile shitstain was mentally ill from the jump. His dogshitty lunatic testimony about J6 did nothing to assuage that thought.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (iFTx/)

336 The most fascinating thing to me was the exit poll that showed a large number of people put "democracy is in danger" as a major factor.

The press assumed that their propaganda had taken hold, and these people would vote democrat.

What actually transpired is that a majority of those who noted this as a factor were actually in fear that the press and the federal government was acting in opposition to true democracy, and voted for Trump.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (lTGtQ)

337 youtube.com/watch?v=qkAh0CCrV9I

The Matrix as a commentary on Woke politics.

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (f1kZG)

338 I looked up what Daschle is going now and...he runs a pot company.

My have the mighty fallen...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (oZhjI)

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Is he in business with Boehner?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (V4Nfb)

339 I see we lost a CA House seat

Posted by: It's me donna at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (IyPmt)

340 326 I'm guessing the word went out that "Pro-Choice" or just plain old "Abortion" aren't getting it done in DNC focus groups.

Apparently we are going to be inflicted with "Women's Bodily Autonomy", or some variation thereof, from here on out until our ears bleed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (6ydKt)

Why do leftist women even need men? I mean, it's supposed to be like a fish needing a bicycle, right? Hook up with each other, get big and fat and have lots of cats. American can wait you out.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

341
Remember when she said Doctor Jill would be a good pick to head ip the Dept. of Health? "Because she's a great doctor." ***all the facepalms***

Posted by: Jane D'oh

It was the Surgeon General post that WhoPeed wished "Doctor" Jill would be appointed to fill. Because, as you pointed out, "... she's a great doctor".

Doctor of Numbers, Colours and Shapes, but great nevertheless!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (xG4kz)

342 Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.
---- Grover Norquist
Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (D7o

Conservatives used to have a platform of restrictive responsible parents and Liberals were the parents trying to be friends with their spoiled teenagers and trying to buy their love.

It's will always be hard to get the voters to support the conservative parents cleaning up the messes the teenagers left because of their irresponsible parents.

Please note I said conservatives 'used to '

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (oMmSx)

343 Trump can get a lot done by executive order and the DOGE. Ithink this will be an atypical term. Notice that so far, Trump's picks are smart, experienced, mostly outsiders and young. I stress young because this will make a difference. The memes I am seeing are ridiculously happy. People were tired ofthe old, sour, angry faces. They have embraced this new young happy face ofthe party. This will be maningful in the fights ahead. Think of how many tie votes Harris made in hte Senate. We now have Vance in that chair.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (t/2Uw)

344 Trump and Biden are still meeting. Wonder if Trump needs an interpreter for Joey
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Greg Price @greg_price11 1h
I don't think Joe Biden has ever been happier in his entire life.

https://tinyurl.com/3puwmfx9
39 seconds; politeness over transition!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (hovnC)

345 Most of the senators should be selling reverse mortgages, not serving in the senate. The senate as an institution has become detached form the citizens it is suppose to serve. They view themselves not as a coequal branch of government but rather superior and independent in judgement. Witness that you now have Lankford and reportedly Thune who tried to “negotiate” the border bill Kamala was so fond of quoting. Which was essentially amnesty, not deportation. I’m hopeful that with his mandate Trump will signal what he will reject from the senate rather publicly. I am hoping he also, as is his style, bring together leadership to decide on bills in advance. We shall see.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (8NQQX)

346 >>The Matrix as a commentary on Woke politics.

I forget where I saw this...but it's funny as hell.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (z/jjr)

347 Journalism majors thank the god they don't believe in for education majors keeping them off the bottom of the Entering Freshman SAT Scores list.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (Lt3SL)

348 2024: A Year Like No Other
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024

***
Come to think of it, I recall a 1988 radio retrospective that claimed the same title for 1968.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (J2vNu)

349 I'm guessing the word went out that "Pro-Choice" or just plain old "Abortion" aren't getting it done in DNC focus groups.

Apparently we are going to be inflicted with "Women's Bodily Autonomy", or some variation thereof, from here on out until our ears bleed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (6ydKt)

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Murdering Your Children == "Women's Reproductive Rights"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (DjsLx)

350 I looked up what Daschle is going now and...he runs a pot company.

My have the mighty fallen...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (oZhjI)

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Is he in business with Boehner?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (V4Nfb)

Fawn Leibowitz's classmates?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (VNX3d)

351 "Trump falsely claimed..."
Every newsie beotch who uttered that phrase oughta be gassed.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (ROwtT)

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MSM newsreaders asserted such repeatedly without ever actually checking the story. But, yeah, totally credible source for news, yo!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (tT6L1)

352 I have hope RFK goes after medicine ads on TV. Dare to dream.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (Z8Yh2)

353 I guess the legacy loser media will bump along as a bottom feeder for a while longer. But, when the baby boomer generation, which is the main consumer of legacy media becomes smaller, it will finally die.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (TN5A0)

354 A penny for your thoughts, featuring boobies....

https://tinyurl.com/mee5kz3r

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (TGPs7)

355 346 >>The Matrix as a commentary on Woke politics.

I forget where I saw this...but it's funny as hell.
Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (z/jjr)

=======

"You're interpreting it wrong!"
-The Wachowski ~~Brothers~~ ~~Sisters~~ Starship

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

356 ... sits back and waits for aggrieved fans of Chile's deposed Allende regime to start squawking about "appropriating" their virtue-signalling appellation for those who vanished during the reign of Pinochet.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (xG4kz)
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I thought it was Argentina who had "los desaparecidos."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (YqDXo)

357 "They feel reporters treat Republicans like a crime beat and Democrats like friends in need. I don't think this is usually the case, but it happens enough to give critics pause."

It happens on every day that ends in "y". So yea, it happens enough. Good grief.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (sT13O)

358 I don't believe AI can really be programmed to learn. I don't see any way to insert any sort of negative feedback.

And you better not try...

Posted by: SkyNet at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (zat+9)

359 Do not fool yourself, they can still steal an election.

They did. Several congressional elections, they stole. Its cheaper and easier to target specific elections like that than to try to rig the presidential one. I mean they did try, but it wasn't enough.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (Hh1ER)

360 Three hundred and I just left the Mannix thread.
I'm going to work. Don't be too happy.
I'll be back.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (RH5d9)

361 "Can we turn subtitles on for this guy?"

- Trump today, probably

Posted by: Azathoth at November 13, 2024 12:57 PM (wb1YC)

362 With the left routing most victories at the state level, getting abortion rights added to constitutions, they're losing it as an issue to politic with.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

5 out of 7 and mostly Blue states. Missouri and Wyoming the two somewhat red states.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 13, 2024 12:57 PM (oMmSx)

363 Karly Kingsley
@karlykingsley

Trump and Biden met in the Oval Office today. Melania was notably absent after declining a customary tea with the current First Lady.

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Why on earth would Melania want to sip tea with the washed up hag whose husband sent the FBI to raid her house and rummage around in her underwear drawers?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 12:57 PM (V4Nfb)

364 I don't believe AI can really be programmed to learn. I don't see any way to insert any sort of negative feedback.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 12:50 PM (tT6L1)

Current iterations are just models of how words are strung together based on non-AI examples. Humans don't always make sense, so you get Raimondo-AI.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 12:57 PM (i24o9)

365 These godless commies can DIAF.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 13, 2024 12:57 PM (ufFY8)

366 A quote from the character of Bill Bradlee in Steven Spielberg's film The Post:

"Jack Kennedy. The night he was assassinated, Tony and I were down at the Naval Hospital so we would be there to meet Jackie when she landed. She was bringing Jack's body back on the plane from Dallas and she walked into the room. She was still wearing that pink suit, with Jack's blood all over it. She fell into Tony's arms and they held each other for quite a long time. And then Jackie looked at me and said, "None of this. None of what you see. None of what I say, is *ever* going to be in your newspaper, Ben." And that just about broke my heart. I never - never thought of Jack as a source. I thought of him as a friend. And that was my mistake. And it was something that Jack knew all along. We can't be both. We have to choose. And - that's the point. The days of us smoking cigars together on Pennsylvania Avenue were over."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

367 Journalism majors thank the god they don't believe in for education majors keeping them off the bottom of the Entering Freshman SAT Scores list.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (Lt3SL)
_________________

THIS.

The first course in journalism teaches how to spell "SAT."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:57 PM (YqDXo)

368
... sits back and waits for aggrieved fans of Chile's deposed Allende regime to start squawking about "appropriating" their virtue-signalling appellation for those who vanished during the reign of Pinochet.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:45 PM (xG4kz)

All 10,000 of them? Pinochet only killed off about 10k commies, he was an underachiever, especially compared to the commies themselves who were equal-opportunity mass murderers, killing right wingers and their fellow commies alike by the millions

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (y9nCu)

369 Just when I got sick of winning. Enter Thune.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (wBaIH)

370 The press assumed that their propaganda had taken hold, and these people would vote democrat.

What actually transpired is that a majority of those who noted this as a factor were actually in fear that the press and the federal government was acting in opposition to true democracy, and voted for Trump.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 13, 2024

***
Almost as if the Dem propaganda machine had been subtly reprogrammed by the Trump campaign . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (J2vNu)

371 That, plus the way the Senate is set up, the majority leader has control over tons of moolah and can almost dole it out however he wants. You might be shocked to learn that massive corruption follows!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

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I don't know if Thune had to promise to change anything to get the spot. It's possible that he did.

Haven't heard anything, but we'll see.

*fingers crossed*
*breath not held*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:53 PM (GBKbO)
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Yes, that is possible. It's also possible The Blade will get home to find the 10 hottest Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders naked in his bedroom begging for his magic sword.

I would like to think that not even the GOPe cockwaddlers can derail the Trump Train this time around, with that massive election blowout and mandate. But I've thought things about the GOPe before and been very disappointed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (iFTx/)

372 What I found the most infuriating was the incessant editorializing in simple reporting. Words like "misleading" "unfounded' "lying' "false" "unsupported" "misinformed" liberally scattered as predicates before a non-Democrat is quoted. It's insulting to the readers, it cheapens the "discourse" and all the while, we're inundated with a cataract of verbage that is little more than DNC-Pablum spoon-fed to the propagandists as press releases.

F*ck them, they hate our country.

Posted by: mrp at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (rj6Yv)

373
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Trump/Biden meeting. Very House of Cards vibes going on. Trump should agree to pardon Biden's son in exchange for openly admitting the DOJ went after Trump for political purposes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (+oR7L)

374 137 Will the propaganda ministries report

Hitler Meets Biden

Otherwise they should just shut up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2024 12:35 PM (b2/S2)
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Considering Joe's health, there's always a possibility that could be a true headline sooner rather than later.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (QdGJh)

375
Is the media covering the reunion of the li'l organ grinder monkey, Timpon, with his formerly frantic organ grinder owner?

They should be!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (xG4kz)

376 357 "They feel reporters treat Republicans like a crime beat and Democrats like friends in need. I don't think this is usually the case, but it happens enough to give critics pause."

It happens on every day that ends in "y". So yea, it happens enough. Good grief.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (sT13O)

And on the hour for 24-hour news channels...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

377 Melania snubbed Doctuh Jill?

War!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (tT6L1)

378 I see we got Thune the poltroon for senate leader

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (NtVYv)

379 And it was something that Jack knew all along. We can't be both. We have to choose. And - that's the point. The days of us smoking cigars together on Pennsylvania Avenue were over."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
__________________

Now with Clinton, it would be "sharing a cigar," not smoking one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:59 PM (YqDXo)

380 Cripes. Inertia is rampant right here. There is a new and aggressive team in town, and they mean business, yet the Eeyores keep right on whining, pissing and moaning.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 13, 2024 12:59 PM (pohLc)

381 Trump has left the building

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2024 12:59 PM (b2/S2)

382 ... sits back and waits for aggrieved fans of Chile's deposed Allende regime to start squawking about "appropriating" their virtue-signalling appellation for those who vanished during the reign of Pinochet.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024

***
"Allende!"
( -- Kelly Bundy emoting enthusiastically as model for a new sports car)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 12:59 PM (J2vNu)

383 I saw pieces of an interview recently. The reporter was literally debating the interviewee. That is not good. Ask questions. Get an answer and move on.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 13, 2024 12:59 PM (+H2BX)

384 Donna, yes but at 219 and leading in 3 more undecided races so should be good. I am especially pleased that Peltola will lose in Alaska.She stole that seat so glad she only got one term.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 01:00 PM (t/2Uw)

385 I don't know if Thune had to promise to change anything to get the spot. It's possible that he did.

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Of course he had to promise things. These things aren't just voted on. Negotiations have been going on for a long time. Whether these promises are helpful or ever become known is different.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 13, 2024 01:00 PM (sX1BW)

386 " Journalism majors are the kids who couldn't measure up to the academic rigors of majoring in fine arts."

I always said they're the ones too dumb to cut it in sociology, and too spastic for physical education.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at November 13, 2024 01:00 PM (Ft5W9)

387 380 Cripes. Inertia is rampant right here. There is a new and aggressive team in town, and they mean business, yet the Eeyores keep right on whining, pissing and moaning.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 13, 2024 12:59 PM (pohLc)

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It's not like we have a previous Trump term to look back on along with decades of experience telling us that DC can't be moved, or anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

388 I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Trump/Biden meeting. Very House of Cards vibes going on. Trump should agree to pardon Biden's son in exchange for openly admitting the DOJ went after Trump for political purposes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 13, 2024 12:58 PM (+oR7L)
_________________

And Trump should later renege on the deal. No reason to be more honorable than the enemy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:00 PM (YqDXo)

389 If they're attached to the woman we love, they're perfect.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 12:52 PM (tT6L1)

*golfclap*

Well played.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:00 PM (QoyXi)

390 23 13 Thune wins the senate leadership post.
McConnel 2.0
I just don;t understand why.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)

Trump needs to acquire a gold-plated veto stamp and give it a prominent position on the Resolution Desk.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (g8Ew8)

391 I don't believe AI can really be programmed to learn. I don't see any way to insert any sort of negative feedback.

And you better not try...

Posted by: SkyNet at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (zat+9)

Perfect example. AI simply would not come up with such a reply, because it is too improbable as an answer, except among a certain set, in certain not well understood contexts, for AI to discern.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (i24o9)

392 What I found the most infuriating was the incessant editorializing in simple reporting. Words like "misleading" "unfounded' "lying' "false" "unsupported" "misinformed" liberally scattered as predicates before a non-Democrat is quoted. It's insulting to the readers, it cheapens the "discourse" and all the while, we're inundated with a cataract of verbage that is little more than DNC-Pablum spoon-fed to the propagandists as press releases.

Even after we began mocking them for "seizing" and "pouncing", they continued to use those words. I guess they have limited vocabularies.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (xCA6C)

393 Posted by: soledad o'brien's earpiece

I actually once went to a high-end "grappa tasting" at an Italian winery, arranged b a PR firm to help change public perception of grappa, which in Italy is regarded as low-grade wino liquor, the equivalent of "white lightning" in the US.

Turns out the reputation is mostly deserved. Grappa will indeed knock your socks off, but elegant it is not.

Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (pMi6S)

394
It's the Circle of Life!

Red Kammie hates Doctor Jill

Docter Jill despises Melania

Melania disregards Red Kammie

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (xG4kz)

395 I looked up what Daschle is going now and...he runs a pot company.

My have the mighty fallen...
Posted by: 18-1

Failed in Florida.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (/lPRQ)

396 If someone had the FBI raid my house and go through my wife’s underwear drawer, I’d have tea with them alright, right after I wiped my dick in their cup.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (0ZmKh)

397 379 And it was something that Jack knew all along. We can't be both. We have to choose. And - that's the point. The days of us smoking cigars together on Pennsylvania Avenue were over."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
__________________

Now with Clinton, it would be "sharing a cigar," not smoking one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:59 PM (YqDXo)

Only if you're equipped with the proper humidor.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (ynpvh)

398 not that it would be likely to succeed, but Thune cannot be primaried until 2028

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (V6W16)

399 Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 13, 2024 12:59 PM (pohLc)

predictable

I'm looking forward to the Restoration of America

to be sure there will be obstacles and speedbumps, but we're in a new timeline.

literally

Posted by: kallisto at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (dCxaZ)

400 Thune won the Majority leader.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM (Da7Vv)

401 381 Trump has left the building
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2024 12:59 PM (b2/S2)

Wait, did I miss it again? That four years went by quick. Of course, so did the last one...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:02 PM (QoyXi)

402 I always said they're the ones too dumb to cut it in sociology, and too spastic for physical education.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at November 13, 2024 01:00 PM (Ft5W9)
_________________

I've long had the fantasy of going back to college, major in sociology, flunk out, then go back as a physics major, and graduate summa cum laude.

Why? Because I want to be the first person in human history to fail to hack sociology but kick ass in physics.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:02 PM (YqDXo)

403 "gold-plated?"

Why not solid gold?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at November 13, 2024 01:02 PM (+H2BX)

404 not that it would be likely to succeed, but Thune cannot be primaried until 2028

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which is why I preferred Cornyn. That being said, Thune is 10 years younger so he has a longer potential future.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (sX1BW)

405 Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

🇺🇸 TRUMP REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING TULSI FOR DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is reportedly under consideration for the role of Director of National Intelligence.

Gabbard served in Congress from 2013 to 2021.

The position requires Senate confirmation.

Source:
@JakeSherman

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (TGPs7)

406 402 I've long had the fantasy of going back to college, major in sociology, flunk out, then go back as a physics major, and graduate summa cum laude.

Why? Because I want to be the first person in human history to fail to hack sociology but kick ass in physics.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:02 PM (YqDXo)

========

Scientist who doesn't understand people?

I feel like it might have been done before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

407 Someone on X said Trump should slap a big sticker on the Resolute desk as he's leaving:

"JOE BIDEN SLEPT HERE"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (V4Nfb)

408 >> not that it would be likely to succeed, but Thune cannot be primaried until 2028

The people in his State can exert a ton of pressure on him and his family.

Refuse him/them services.
Mock him/them relentlessly should he show up anywhere outside of DC.
Run ads highlighting his Voting and Actions.

Just pummel him and his for 6 years.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (z/jjr)

409 325 Be nice. You guys don't care if the tits are perfect or not.
_______

Availability >>>>>>>> Perfection
______

Upon further reflection: Availability = Perfection

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 13, 2024 01:04 PM (fs1hN)

410 407 Someone on X said Trump should slap a big sticker on the Resolute desk as he's leaving:

"JOE BIDEN ~~SLEPT~~ SHAT HERE"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (V4Nfb)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

411 What I found the most infuriating was the incessant editorializing in simple reporting. Words like "misleading" "unfounded' "lying' "false" "unsupported" "misinformed" liberally scattered as predicates before a non-Democrat is quoted. It's insulting to the readers, it cheapens the "discourse" and all the while, we're inundated with a cataract of verbage that is little more than DNC-Pablum spoon-fed to the propagandists as press releases.

Even after we began mocking them for "seizing" and "pouncing", they continued to use those words. I guess they have limited vocabularies.

Posted by: Archimedes

What is infuriating is that writers who put editorial in news stories would have been fired a decade or so ago. It was always a no-no in the days of non fake news.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 13, 2024 01:04 PM (lTGtQ)

412 someone had the FBI raid my house and go through my wife’s underwear drawer, I’d have tea with them alright, right after I wiped my dick in their cup.

Horde poetry is the best poetry.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 13, 2024 01:04 PM (ROwtT)

413 What I found the most infuriating was the incessant editorializing in simple reporting. Words like "misleading" "unfounded' "lying' "false" "unsupported" "misinformed" liberally scattered as predicates before a non-Democrat is quoted. I
__________________

A wise man once told me that the message is loaded up into the adjectives.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:04 PM (YqDXo)

414 Journalism majors are the kids who couldn't measure up to the academic rigors of majoring in fine arts.

Hey! My daughter majored in Fine Arts. Granted, she was a double major, with computer science being the other one, but still.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 01:04 PM (xCA6C)

415 well maybe there will at least be a 4 year reprieve from the calls for the feral government to bail out the legacy media.

and I'm late to thread so probably stated countless times already and Ace mentioned. The distrust in the media has little to do with you being 'confrontational' to R politicians. Its because this is the internet age and we can learn when you are smothering a story because the facts hurt the DNC or socialist narrative and we can also find fact checks that expose when you have printed or read full on LIES about the party that opposes your commie world view. You mewling babies need to wake up and smell the coffee, but you probably have only ever ingested half-caf or de-caf Starbucks drinks made with highly sweetened soy milk.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 13, 2024 01:04 PM (zYCTH)

416 "How do you hurt a status-obsessed cadre of ideologues? Take away their status and rubbish their ideology."[i/]

- Ace

--- --
And their money, Ace, don't forget to take their money.

They're called presstitutes for good reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 01:05 PM (6ydKt)

417 I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Trump/Biden meeting. Very House of Cards vibes going on. Trump should agree to pardon Biden's son in exchange for openly admitting the DOJ went after Trump for political purposes.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Turns out - It was Biden pushing it because once asshoe, always asshoe.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 01:05 PM (/lPRQ)

418 Teabagging hot tea would be less pleasant I'd think than pudding.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:05 PM (QoyXi)

419 I have hope RFK goes after medicine ads on TV. Dare to dream.
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 13, 2024

***
I'm so tired of those, and of seeing pop songs from the '70s repurposed as music for them. "O-O-O-Ozempic . . ."

The first I recall seeing long ago was some acid reflux product, an enormous purple pill animated to tumble through red rock canyons, while people wandered around gawking as though they had just arrived in Heaven and were waiting for an angel to show up and direct them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 01:05 PM (J2vNu)

420 ooops.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 01:05 PM (6ydKt)

421 410 407 Someone on X said Trump should slap a big sticker on the Resolute desk as he's leaving:

"JOE BIDEN ~~SLEPT~~ SHAT HERE"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (V4Nfb)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 01:04 PM (ynpvh)
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And another: "BILL CLINTON GOT A BLOWIE HERE."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:06 PM (YqDXo)

422 If you need something fun to keep the Election Night high going, listen to the recent Rogan podcast with Theo Von. They talk election night and the fun of it. (Elon bounced four hours before the party ended, his special app said Trump had won and he was out, ha. Stuff to do!)

Rogan says that if Kamala won, the media was ready to roll on Tony Hinchcliffe and completely blame his puerto rican garbage joke for Trump losing. Which explains why the day before the election, and election day, all I saw on every channel was stuff on Puerto Rico and how disgusted their cherry picked interviews were about the joke. They were trying to build a narrative.

Rogan loves Tony and they talk about his comedy on the episode. And how crazy it was the media were going to blame an entire loss one one brilliant comedian.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:06 PM (wcIbG)

423
The first I recall seeing long ago was some acid reflux product, an enormous purple pill animated to tumble through red rock canyons, while people wandered around gawking as though they had just arrived in Heaven and were waiting for an angel to show up and direct them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Prilosec

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 01:06 PM (xG4kz)

424 guess they have limited vocabularies.

Poo poo. Doo Doo. Ca ca. Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 13, 2024 01:06 PM (ROwtT)

425 Free Huey!

And Louie and Dewey!!!

Posted by: Kelly Bundy at November 13, 2024 01:06 PM (hovnC)

426 Oh dear lord, I have Limelight stuck in my head. And not the covers I linked earlier.

Ok God, I get that you want me to suffer...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:06 PM (QoyXi)

427 Be nice. You guys don't care if the tits are perfect or not.
_______

Availability >>>>>>>> Perfection
______

Upon further reflection: Availability = Perfection

I rate this statement as "true."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (Q0kLU)

428 Gabbard served in Congress from 2013 to 2021.

The position requires Senate confirmation.

Source:
@JakeSherman
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (TGPs7)

Impossible, Trump hates women and never surrounds him self with intelligent women.

Fuck you Cuban you loser

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (NtVYv)

429 >>If you need something fun to keep the Election Night high going, listen to the recent Rogan podcast with Theo Von

You should watch this solely to remind yourself that Joe Rogan and Theo Von are NOT thought leaders.

That had to be one of the dumbest conversations I have ever listened to.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (z/jjr)

430 And another: "BILL CLINTON GOT A BLOWIE HERE."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:06 PM (YqDXo)

I always prefer the 'knob shine' euphemism. It fits with today's art!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (QoyXi)

431 Probably gonna be willowed, but I have an online subscription to my local newspaper, which is part of the Gannett/USA Today group. Along with the local paper, you get USAToday Network Nation&World and sports sections.
Today's N&W has a short news GlobalPost section, which includes what can only be described as a promotional/recruitment headlined The Rock Stars, about our current favorite terrorist group, the Houthis. It starts:
Some belive the Houthis of Yemen are having a moment.
The scappy rebel Shiite group that has been fighting the goverment of Yemen for years and has terrorized major international shipping lanes has changed with the times.
"The Houthis have morphed from sandal-wearing fighters to rock stars," Michael Knights, who studies Iranian influence in the Middle East with Militia Spotlight, told Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom. "These are people who you want to be associated with right now."
You really can't hate these people enough.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (4780s)

432 OH NO Don LemonLess has announced he's leaving X

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (CIS44)

433 A wise man once told me that the message is loaded up into the adjectives.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:04 PM (YqDXo)
----------------

Shoot, I noticed decades ago loaded adjectives always preceded "Republican" while the vilest commie leftist was referred to as "Democrat."

I also noticed "name that party" long before it became a theme on Insty. But, I'm sure a lot of others noticed long before I did.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (tT6L1)

434 God hates you...

Richard Dawkins
@RichardDawkins

I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it, Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of the world at heart.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (TGPs7)

435 Motherfucking Thune.

That needs to be revisited after the new Congress is seated, and if it's still him, some people need to be primaried.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2024 01:08 PM (W5ArC)

436 Upon further reflection: Availability = Perfection

I rate this statement as "true."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (Q0kLU)

Seconded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:08 PM (QoyXi)

437 Oh, and Rogan is such a Trump fanboy in the Theo Von podcast, and you can tell he loved the election night party. The left screwed up, turning him from the dem plantation. The right is reaping all the benefits.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:08 PM (wcIbG)

438
Oh dear lord, I have Limelight stuck in my head. And not the covers I linked earlier.

Ok God, I get that you want me to suffer...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop

Oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly ... Auto Parts (yow!).

You're welcome!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 01:08 PM (xG4kz)

439 From the article Ace posted:

"Local newspapers have continued to die off, leaving much of the country without a trusted local news source. "

Until the legacy media grasp the obvious fact that the legacy media are dying off PRECISELY BECAUSE THEY ARE NO LONGER TRUSTED, they will continue their flat spin into the ground.

And if you think I'm going to help them grasp that, you are sadly mistaken. FUCK THEM ALL.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 13, 2024 01:08 PM (wtvvX)

440 I'm getting a Generac generator installed. Power and gas have been off for a while. Didn't realize it would take so long.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 01:08 PM (V4Nfb)

441 Turns out the reputation is mostly deserved. Grappa will indeed knock your socks off, but elegant it is not.
-------------
Yes. The Wiki page on it is interesting; and it was indeed homemade to avoid Revenuers!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:08 PM (hovnC)

442 347 Journalism majors thank the god they don't believe in for education majors keeping them off the bottom of the Entering Freshman SAT Scores list.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at November 13, 2024 12:55 PM (Lt3SL)
----
ROFLMAO

Where do we slot all the "Studies" majors?

Posted by: Ciampino - Didn't have Studies in South Africa at November 13, 2024 01:09 PM (i0xsb)

443 Richard Dawkins
@RichardDawkins

I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it, Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of the world at heart.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (TGPs7)

This is weird. Just odd. Cognitive dissonance on display.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:09 PM (QoyXi)

444 Scientist who doesn't understand people?

I feel like it might have been done before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
_________________

Are you suggesting sociologists understand people? Why? They don't understand anything else.

Scientists (some) can understand people, they just aren't interested in them. They view this pretty much like not bothering to understand the inmates of the primate enclosure at the zoo.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:09 PM (YqDXo)

445 OH NO Don LemonLess has announced he's leaving X

About which, no s***s were given by anyone.

Shoot, I noticed decades ago loaded adjectives always preceded "Republican" while the vilest commie leftist was referred to as "Democrat."

"Far right".

Posted by: Archimedes at November 13, 2024 01:09 PM (xCA6C)

446 TRUMP REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING TULSI FOR DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

==

somehow I am ok with this!

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2024 01:09 PM (V13WU)

447 Sharon,

When I started at the Space Center many years ago I worked with an older Apollo era engineer who had a sign up over his desk that read:

"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill,
every time."

I remember faintly resenting it then but many years later, I feel different for some reason.

Posted by: pawn at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (QB+5g)

448 The answer is legs.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (ksjMr)

449 Oh, and Rogan is such a Trump fanboy in the Theo Von podcast, and you can tell he loved the election night party. The left screwed up, turning him from the dem plantation. The right is reaping all the benefits.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:08 PM (wcIbG)
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Rogan sat down with Trump and Vance. Now imagine Rogan with Walz and Kamala. I do not believe either one of them can handle an environment which isn't tightly controlled.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (tT6L1)

450 The first I recall seeing long ago was some acid reflux product, an enormous purple pill animated to tumble through red rock canyons, while people wandered around gawking as though they had just arrived in Heaven and were waiting for an angel to show up and direct them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Prilosec
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024

***
That's it. And there was another, done in B & W, for some kind of herpes outbreak medicine. It featured an attractive, mature woman dancing barefoot, swimming, and doing all sorts of fun things you were supposed to believe were NOT possible without this med.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (J2vNu)

451 Turns out the reputation is mostly deserved. Grappa will indeed knock your socks off, but elegant it is not.
Posted by: zombie at November 13, 2024 01:01 PM

Same as most of the local product in Greece. It's raw, unaged brandy. Filter it, put it in oak for a while, and you'll have something decent. Otherwise...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (ZANHd)

452 TRUMP REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING TULSI FOR DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is reportedly under consideration for the role of Director of National Intelligence.

Gabbard served in Congress from 2013 to 2021.

The position requires Senate confirmation.

Source:
@JakeSherman
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:03 PM (TGPs7)
=====================
Good choice, but also, GREAT troll of the deep state!

Maybe now they will take her off the "let her fly only after harassing her for an extra hour in every airport" list.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (0ws71)

453 Richard Dawkins
@RichardDawkins

I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it, Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of the world at heart.
_______________

GFY.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (YqDXo)

454 Oh dear lord, I have Limelight stuck in my head. And not the covers I linked earlier.

Ok God, I get that you want me to suffer...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop

It's the universal dream, for those who wish to see-ee--ee-eem.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (i24o9)

455 OH NO Don LemonLess has announced he's leaving X
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (CIS44)

And right after he mocked Pete Hegseth for not knowing anything about the military.

Bye Felecia. Have fun with the other bottom feeders at BlueSky.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (V4Nfb)

456 Part of the problem, really permanently at this point, for Operation Mockingbird media, is not simply the news itself. It's really holistic towards the entirety of network television.

People, via YouTube and other platforms, now have access to self-curated entertainment. And that entertainment doesn't work hand in hand with Teh Narrative.

Interested in sports? Well you can watch whatever podcaster, vlogger, insider, or even directly the athletes. No more having to choose between Stephen A. Smith or Jamelle Hill. F*ck the narratives and hot takes, I'll just watch the game or the athlete's channel,

And that applies across all aspects. I don't watch Fox News to get geo-political info. if I'm interested in a war, I'll watch a blogger that directly covers the war at length as his/her sole point of emphasis. And if I want to spend all of by entertainment time doing so, I'll do it.

Posted by: Just sayin at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (8VHs6)

457 > somehow I am ok with this!
Posted by: runner at November 13, 2024 01:09 PM (V13WU)

Yeah, me too. I know there are reasons not to like her, but somehow I still do. And it's not just because she's (semi) hot.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (W5ArC)

458 What is infuriating is that writers who put editorial in news stories would have been fired a decade or so ago. It was always a no-no in the days of non fake news.
---------
And the wire services like AP using straight news reports without unneeded adjectives etc.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (hovnC)

459 This is weird. Just odd. Cognitive dissonance on display.

Yeah, that is the strangest take I have ever seen

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (Hh1ER)

460 437 Oh, and Rogan is such a Trump fanboy in the Theo Von podcast, and you can tell he loved the election night party. The left screwed up, turning him from the dem plantation. The right is reaping all the benefits.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:08 PM (wcIbG)

The ONE Democrat who understood the importance of Rogan and went on his podcast?

John Fetterman. The one Democrat who I have actually come to respect.

And if you had told me two years ago that I would respect ANY Democrat, much less him, I'd have thought you insane.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (wtvvX)

461 >>> You should watch this solely to remind yourself that Joe Rogan and Theo Von are NOT thought leaders. That had to be one of the dumbest conversations I have ever listened to.
Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (z/jjr)

I don't need everyone in my life to be Thomas Sowell. They were fun dudes having a convo. The wrestling stuff bored me because I'm not into fighting, though I liked the bit about the hats in the olden days. But they are fun to listen to. The fact he can make me listen to a topic I don't care anything about and have a good time doing it is why he's on top in the podcasting world.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (wcIbG)

462 TRUMP REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING TULSI FOR DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is reportedly under consideration for the role of Director of National Intelligence.

Gabbard served in Congress from 2013 to 2021.

The position requires Senate confirmation.

Source:
@JakeSherman
Posted by: Mister Ghost
====

Put in a lower SES slot that does not require confirmation then fire everybody between her and El Presidente.

Instant Acting DNI.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 13, 2024 01:12 PM (/lPRQ)

463 Richard Dawkins
@RichardDawkins

I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it,
________________

Yet he consistently outwits you leftists, so if he's stupid, you must be even more stupid.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:12 PM (YqDXo)

464 Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it

So us voters are too? Gas him.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 13, 2024 01:12 PM (ROwtT)

465
This is weird. Just odd. Cognitive dissonance on display.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop

To the detriment of the latter, I often confuse Richard Dawkins with Richard Dawson. Which is a real injustice, because Richard Dawson has imparted more knowledge to me than that Dawkins clown.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 01:12 PM (xG4kz)

466 The answer is legs.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (ksjMr)

I HAVE legs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 01:12 PM (i24o9)

467 The prolonged wailing and gnashing of teeth by the liberals is making me wonder if their tears are as tasty and refreshing as say, Gatorade.... I mean, at this point I need to restore electrolytes.

Posted by: Schwinnnnnggggg at November 13, 2024 01:12 PM (MMLnE)

468 440 I'm getting a Generac generator installed. Power and gas have been off for a while. Didn't realize it would take so long.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
=======
Generators have to tap into your main power supply and your main gas supply. Neither are items that you want done in a hurry because the cost of a screwup is horrendous.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (ctrM5)

469 You should watch this solely to remind yourself that Joe Rogan and Theo Von are NOT thought leaders.
_______________

WTF is a "thought leader?" Besides being a garbage term?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (YqDXo)

470 I was so naive…. For years I thought Bob Woodward was a journalist when in reality he’s government deep state (CIA) on the WaPo payroll…. Just one of many likewise
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Operation Mockingbird

Posted by: Stu Podaso at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (oEWLd)

471 neutral to overwhelmingly negative news coverage
LOL neutral

Posted by: steevy at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (YbbtK)

472 Pulls off Thune face mask to reveal Tom Daschle.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (ogTiX)

473 448 The answer is legs.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (ksjMr)

What was the question?

Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

474 And why were they "ready to roll" on the comedian? Because they wanted to make you afraid to speak under Kamala. So why of all things would Priority One be getting people to self-censor in fear? 🤔

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (ksjMr)

475 "The Houthis have morphed from sandal-wearing fighters to rock stars," Michael Knights, who studies Iranian influence in the Middle East with Militia Spotlight, told Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom. "These are people who you want to be associated with right now."
You really can't hate these people enough.

Posted by: From about That Time a
Israel had already embarassed Hamas and Hezbollah. Iran trying to save face. Their turn will come.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (t/2Uw)

476 429 You should watch this solely to remind yourself that Joe Rogan and Theo Von are NOT thought leaders.

That had to be one of the dumbest conversations I have ever listened to.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (z/jjr)

--- ---

I had to stop when Theo Von said the map showing the party gains with red and blue arrows looked like his hair transplant.

Funny? Yes.
Serious political commentary?... No - especially 3 hours of it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (6ydKt)

477 The answer is legs.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (ksjMr)

What was the question?
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

I forgot.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (ksjMr)

478 Richard Dawkins
@RichardDawkins

I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it, Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of the world at heart.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (TGPs7)

Richard Dawkins the atheist?

Why should I listen to someone who denies the most basic fact in the universe, the existence of God?

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (v6JzV)

479 To the detriment of the latter, I often confuse Richard Dawkins with Richard Dawson. Which is a real injustice, because Richard Dawson has imparted more knowledge to me than that Dawkins clown.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 01:12 PM (xG4kz)
_________________

Dawkins should just shut up and stay in his own shitty little declining country.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (YqDXo)

480
WTF is a "thought leader?" Besides being a garbage term?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

** clears throat **

-- J'Noah Goldbrick, self-described "thought leader"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (xG4kz)

481 The answer is legs.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (ksjMr)

What was the question?
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

What does she got?

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (CIS44)

482 I don't believe the stages of grief are helping these idiots. Something new needs to be created centered only on their extreme hatred of PDT, or administering thorazine.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (2NHgQ)

483 And the wire services like AP using straight news reports without unneeded adjectives etc.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC)
=====
AP no longer has any competition in the US and its a monopoly. UPI faltered some time ago and Reuters has never been big in the US.

Time to break them up.

Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (ctrM5)

484 Far-Left UK Guardian took its football and Quit Xwitter

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:15 PM (RHGPo)

485 >>I don't need everyone in my life to be Thomas Sowell. They were fun dudes having a convo.

Re-watch Rogan spewing nonsense re. Abortion. That one segment alone highlights Rogan and his inability to grasp concepts.

I've said it before and I maintain my position that Rogan is no more intelligent than the average African Grey Parrot.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:15 PM (z/jjr)

486 I HAVE legs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 01:12 PM (i24o9)

Do they look like Karen Gillan legs?

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:15 PM (ksjMr)

487 Transparently evil? What has he actually done that you can say that about him?

Posted by: steevy at November 13, 2024 01:15 PM (YbbtK)

488 440 I'm getting a Generac generator installed. Power and gas have been off for a while. Didn't realize it would take so long.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
=======
Generators have to tap into your main power supply and your main gas supply. Neither are items that you want done in a hurry because the cost of a screwup is horrendous.
Posted by: whig at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (ctrM5)

Yep. These guys are pros and super nice, too.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 01:15 PM (V4Nfb)

489 432 OH NO Don LemonLess has announced he's leaving X

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (CIS44)

He prefers the Y chromosome anyway.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

490 Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of ~~the world~~ Elon Musk at heart.
_____________________________

Anyone who thinks anyone "has the welfare of the world at heart" shouldn't be allowed to cross the street by himself.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (YqDXo)

491 > WTF is a "thought leader?" Besides being a garbage term?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (YqDXo)

I detest that term.

It always puts me in mind of "1984" or Ayn Rand's "Anthem".

I'll be in charge of my own thoughts, thank you very much.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (W5ArC)

492 Richard Dawkins
@RichardDawkins

I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it, Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of the world at heart.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (TGPs7)

This is weird. Just odd. Cognitive dissonance on display.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:09 PM (QoyXi)

Oh, c'mon. Everyone knows that leftists have never been known for clear thinking and logic.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (g8Ew8)

493 Fight the Power!

Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home https://trib.al/lnXEoAG

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (TGPs7)

494 - J'Noah Goldbrick, self-described "thought leader"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024

***
I consider many here to be thought leaders.

I consider myself to be one.

Nobody else seems to realize it, but that's okay. A prophet is always without honor in his own country.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (J2vNu)

495 >>WTF is a "thought leader?" Besides being a garbage term?

A person who has opinions based in knowledge and fact, not supposition and the Trending List on X.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (z/jjr)

496 comedy YouTubers can say whatever they want with little consequence.

They hate free speech SO MUCH

Posted by: steevy at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (YbbtK)

497 "Far right"

I would have a stroke if a newsie said "far left".

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (ROwtT)

498 was never going to be Scott. The Senate doesn't want to look like they're Trump's puppets. And if it was always ever going to be between Cornyn and Thune, I'm glad it's Thune.

It is very easy to primary him if he steps out of line. Running a primary challenge in Texas is way too costly to be effective
===
This. Charlie Kirk is going to build infrastructure in state to help him. Carrot. Same can be turned to stick. Thune is a bad person, who can be motivated to do the right thing.

Posted by: It's politics at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (MMLnE)

499 Far-Left UK Guardian took its football and Quit Xwitter

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:15 PM (RHGPo)
_______________

Bye!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (YqDXo)

500 @RichardDawkins

The Hogan's Heroes/Family Feud guy? I thought he was dead.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (Y1sOo)

501 What exactly is a "power lesbian" ?

Posted by: steevy at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (YbbtK)

502 A person who has opinions based in knowledge and fact, not supposition and the Trending List on X.
Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (z/jjr)

Interesting. I don't give a fuck what they say either.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (ksjMr)

503 @446

>>somehow I am ok with this!

I am too, because at the end of the day, these people are faces and implementers of the Presidents agenda and policy priorities.

The bigger issue is that none of these people are going to be confirmed, which is why Trump has been pushing for the ability to have recess appointments.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (XV/Pl)

504 Do they look like Karen Gillan legs?

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:15 PM (ksjMr)

Those aren't real. She was ripped apart and reassembled using other parts when she lost to me in a leg competition.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (i24o9)

505 448 The answer is legs.

*checks notes* that's not what i got

Posted by: deep thought at November 13, 2024 01:18 PM (v3pYe)

506 Which explains why the day before the election, and election day, all I saw on every channel was stuff on Puerto Rico and how disgusted their cherry picked interviews were about the joke. They were trying to build a narrative. /i]

Was talking with a right leaning no terribly political person I know. She pointed out "Have you ever noticed that everyone in the media says exactly the same thing like they are all reading from the same script...?"

I pointed out she was 100% correct of course...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 01:18 PM (oZhjI)

507 I've said it before and I maintain my position that Rogan is no more intelligent than the average African Grey Parrot.

Yeah he's not very smart, but he's curious, and likes to ask questions. It works really well in his niche. He is dumb and simple, but wants to learn things and wants to be exposed to new concepts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:18 PM (Hh1ER)

508 What exactly is a "power lesbian" ?

Posted by: steevy at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (YbbtK)

I'm thinking Tater-esque.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 01:18 PM (i24o9)

509 Not saying Rogan can't be entertaining.

Just that he's not someone to go to for informed opinion.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (z/jjr)

510 "For years I thought Bob Woodward was a journalist when in reality he’s government deep state (CIA) on the WaPo payroll…. Just one of many likewise"

It's just a coincidence that newlywed Katharine Graham and her husband bought their DC pied a terre from Wild Bill Donovan.

Posted by: barbarausa at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (enw9G)

511 Did DOCTOR Jill give PDT back the underwear she stole from Melania, during this morning's meet at the WH?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (ZtgZZ)

512 A person who has opinions based in knowledge and fact, not supposition and the Trending List on X.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (z/jjr)
________________

That's all it takes to be a "thought leader?" That's very sad.

Bottom line: only nitwits talk about "thought leaders." I speak from experience with business guys with room temperature IQs babbling about them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (YqDXo)

513 Well, if the media weren’t a government/Democratic party mouthpiece…

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (BNivA)

514
The Hogan's Heroes/Family Feud guy? I thought he was dead.

Posted by: one hour sober

That was Richard Dawson, someone who had a far greater positive impact on society.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (xG4kz)

515 CNN, mess-nbc and cnn all lost around 25% viewership on election night vs 2020 election night.

It’s a dead business model walking.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (g/4UX)

516 Did DOCTOR Jill give PDT back the underwear she stole from Melania, during this morning's meet at the WH?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (ZtgZZ)
_________________

Why not? It wouldn't fit DOCTOR Jill anyway.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (YqDXo)

517 Oh, c'mon. Everyone knows that leftists have never been known for clear thinking and logic.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (g8Ew

Yeah, but you would expect him to throw Elon under the bus, who has made his admiration for Trump clear. And you figure that Elon has spent some time with Trump over the last few months and if anything has become MORE... fervent?

Shit makes sense to people. It is usually still bullshit, but they tend to smooth out inconsistencies with their reasoning or feelings.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (QoyXi)

518 That was Richard Dawson, someone who had a far greater positive impact on society.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 13, 2024 01:19 PM (xG4kz)

Just don't go on the Fued with your Grandma.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (CIS44)

519 Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home https://trib.al/lnXEoAG
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM

WTAF is a "power lesbian"?! Can you get one at Home Depot?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (ZANHd)

520 It's like the legacy media doesn't get that their job is to sell Ivory Snow and Banquet frozen dinners.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (ogTiX)

521 501 What exactly is a "power lesbian" ?

Posted by: steevy at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (YbbtK)

Came up this morning. I think you can get one via Husqvarna under Electric Scissoring...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (ynpvh)

522 Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home

Paging Leon Trotsky to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (ROwtT)

523 I'm getting a Generac generator installed.

I'm going with manual transfer switch and large traditional generator.

Posted by: Same Old Same Old at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (Ua9Fu)

524 496 comedy YouTubers can say whatever they want with little consequence.

They hate free speech SO MUCH
Posted by: steevy at November 13, 2024 01:17 PM (YbbtK)

I know? RIGHT?

Posted by: Colbert the witless at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (aUQkY)

525 The answer is legs.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (ksjMr)

What was the question?
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

What does she got?
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (CIS44)

Does she know how to use them?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at November 13, 2024 01:21 PM (ufFY8)

526 I don't think Rogan is stupid.
I think he hasn't spent much time thinking seriously about politics in his life, like most California liberals.

It's obvious he's only just started trying to better understand history and politics in the past few years.

He was a Bernie Bro, so at least he's making progress.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2024 01:21 PM (6ydKt)

527 20 years ago the big “bombshell” about Nazi generals would have ended a campaign. This time around other than the most partisan Dems, everyone just shrugged because they know it’s all bullshit.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:21 PM (g/4UX)

528 512: “thought leader”. A phrase that must be binned.

If a “thought leader” is needed, no one is thinking.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at November 13, 2024 01:21 PM (BNivA)

529 The answer is legs.
Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:10 PM (ksjMr)

What was the question?
Posted by: Piper at November 13, 2024 01:13 PM (p4NUW)

I forgot.
Posted by: ...

We're here to help.

Posted by: ZZ Top at November 13, 2024 01:21 PM (w9Wax)

530 What the crap is a "power" lesbian? It makes them sound like a power tool. (Cordless or plugin?)

We don't make rhymes about murderers any more, like the "Lizzie Borden had an axe" poem. Too bad, a rhyme about Corey Burke and an ice pick could have promise. I don't have Muldoon's gifts so I won't try.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (wcIbG)

531 527 20 years ago the big “bombshell” about Nazi generals would have ended a campaign. This time around other than the most partisan Dems, everyone just shrugged because they know it’s all bullshit.
Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:21 PM (g/4UX)

=======

We got three more "campaign ending bombshells" in the week following that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

532 519 Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home https://trib.al/lnXEoAG
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM

WTAF is a "power lesbian"?! Can you get one at Home Depot?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (ZANHd)

YOUR WORDS ARE VIOLENCE!

Posted by: Howling BBC Feminist Manifesto Choir at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (aUQkY)

533 What exactly is a "power lesbian"

Maybe they are Wicked dot com's version of Power Rangers?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (oZhjI)

534 Thune, the prick, is in charge.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (mzM2O)

535 Milo is Back!

MILO
@Nero

Just want to add my voice to the chorus praising
@realDonaldTrump
for the diversity of his cabinet appointments. We have white neocons, white civnats, based white edgelords, white veterans. It’s like a Benetton catalogue of the conservative mind.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (TGPs7)

536 I'll do my own thinking, don't need a thought leader.

Posted by: Same Old Same Old at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (Ua9Fu)

537 I thought the answer was: C.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (Z8Yh2)

538 OH NO Don LemonLess has announced he's leaving X
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (CIS44)

And right after he mocked Pete Hegseth for not knowing anything about the military.

Bye Felecia. Have fun with the other bottom feeders at BlueSky.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (V4Nfb)

It would be funny if we could convince BlueSky members that they must in airborne to post, even if it's only jumping on a trampoline. Flying in a plane or balloon is required for longer posts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (VNX3d)

539 Was talking with a right leaning no terribly political person I know. She pointed out "Have you ever noticed that everyone in the media says exactly the same thing like they are all reading from the same script...?"
_________________

Have you noticed that they characterize someone as "far-right" 10,000 times as often as they characterize someone as "far-left?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (YqDXo)

540 One of my Jewish friends, who has contacts in Israel, told me that the Mosad had the encryption on Thomas Crooks emails broken, and that they all traced back to Iran, as did the financing for the second shooter's trips all over the world.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (Da7Vv)

541 That was Richard Dawson, someone who had a far greater positive impact on society.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Apparently that guy was a huge asshoe when he was on Hogan's Heroes. He thought the show should have revolved more around his character.

Dude was married to Diana Dors, though.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (v6JzV)

542 Informed opinions aren't much better than regular opinions. Every deranged leftist thinks they are "informed" and they have the credential, reading time, and radio listening hours to back it up.

Why is this country so apart from the others on things like Global Warming (don't buy it) and Creation (do buy it)? Is it due to being better "informed"?

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (ksjMr)

543 Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home
-------
You can pick your family but not your friends.

Wait...

Posted by: zombie leon trotsky at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (hovnC)

544 And, the GOP Senate totally misreads the lessons of the last election.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (QAkQ3)

545 News is reporting Thune is new Senate majority leader, which is a travesty but not surprising.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (Hh1ER)

546 528 512: “thought leader”. A phrase that must be binned.

If a “thought leader” is needed, no one is thinking.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at November 13, 2024 01:21 PM (BNivA)

Most thought leaders are over rated

Posted by: Jack Handy at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (aUQkY)

547 Ha, I try to come up with a weak joke about power lesbians, and the Horde is on it. Bravo.

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (wcIbG)

548 Anybody describing themselves as a "thought leader" brings to minds the scene in "Welcome Back Kotter" where Arnold Horshack proclaims "I have an aura"

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (RHGPo)

549 WTAF is a "power lesbian"?! Can you get one at Home Depot?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (ZANHd)
_________________

They're the ones who take 18 v batteries.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (YqDXo)

550 Isn't a power lesbian a carpet beater?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (ZbsBz)

551 I don't think Rogan is stupid.
I think he hasn't spent much time thinking seriously about politics in his life, like most California liberals.

It's obvious he's only just started trying to better understand history and politics in the past few years.

So basically he's a person, and the more he talks with people who don't just agree with him, but rather go deeply into their areas of expertise, the more his views on things change.

Fascinating.

Posted by: Just sayin at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (8VHs6)

552 Richard Dawkins
@RichardDawkins

I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it, Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of the world at heart.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:07 PM (TGPs7)

This is weird. Just odd. Cognitive dissonance on display.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 13, 2024 01:09 PM (QoyXi)
______

Dawkins is trying too hard even for a leftwing drone. All he left out of that juvenile rant was "... and a smelly poopy-head who likes farts."

He's also another Brit who desperate wants to see a weak and subservient USA.

His book The Selfish Gene was brilliant. But that was almost 50 years ago. He spent the next 50 years duckspeaking NPC drone goulash. He's now just an old bitter narcissist cockhead.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

553 Just a thought: If you're a 'journalist', and you're asking "What Went Wrong (TM)?" regarding the election, then maybe, JUST MAYBE, you're part of the problem at its root.

Posted by: sicnarF at November 13, 2024 01:24 PM (00Aa3)

554 I thought it was Argentina who had "los desaparecidos."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:56 PM (YqDXo)

they both did, it was part of the Plan Condor that was cooked up as a CIA anti-communist plan. I think Paraguay had some missing too, but not a lot. Brazil did something similar.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 01:24 PM (D7oie)

555 I wound call Rohan a Cali liberal. He’s from a working class Boston background and is still a Boston working class guy at heart. It’s why he was attracted to Bernie, ie, the “fight for the working man” thing. Bernie would destroy the working man of course, but his message is seductive to a lot of people.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:24 PM (g/4UX)

556 544 And, the GOP Senate totally misreads the lessons of the last election.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (QAkQ3)

This is about me, isn’t it?

Posted by: Senator John Cornyn at November 13, 2024 01:24 PM (BNivA)

557 ~~Most~~ ALL thought leaders are over rated

They are the people the cognitively disenfranchised look to for their opinions. The blind leading the blind.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:25 PM (YqDXo)

558 Dawkins should just shut up and stay in his own shitty little declining country.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:14 PM (YqDXo)

I'm really, really looking forward to Trump's first visit to the UK. I want DJT to deliver an EPIC speech that spells out the new US Energy Policy that includes the death of the Green New Deal, that phantasmagoria confection embraced by the Left. Starmer wouldn't like that, not at all. Good.

Posted by: mrp at November 13, 2024 01:25 PM (rj6Yv)

559 BNO News @BNONews 5h
The Guardian says it’s leaving Twitter/X, calling it a “toxic media platform” with “far-right conspiracy theories and racism”

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 3h
X is where fake news goes to die.

https://tinyurl.com/mv2fzbu2
cartoon
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM (hovnC)

Amazingly, Community Notes is one of the greatest forces for good ever created.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2024 01:25 PM (ExV1e)

560 You get far more useful opinions from an average IQ person with experience than a 130 IQ person that is "informed".

This is why Trump is known for talking to "everybody" on jobs.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (ksjMr)

561 Fake Indian says a 20 year combat veteran isn't qualified to be SecDef.

Fake Indian has no problem with transgender luggage thief being deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (mzM2O)

562 I saw Power Lesbians open for Red Hot Chili Peppers in Boulder, CO circa 1997.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (g/4UX)

563 Criminal media personalities are the most grossly overpaid people in society.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (ZbsBz)

564
Cornyn would have been worse. Not by much though.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (+oR7L)

565
Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home https://trib.al/lnXEoAG
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (TGPs7)

What is a 'power' lesbian?

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (DJ7uY)

566 I wound call Rohan a Cali liberal. He’s from a working class Boston background and is still a Boston working class guy at heart. It’s why he was attracted to Bernie, ie, the “fight for the working man” thing. Bernie would destroy the working man of course, but his message is seductive to a lot of people.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:24 PM (g/4UX)
__________________

So we have finally found a "stupidity leader."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (YqDXo)

567 Is Susan Powter a lesbian?

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (v6JzV)

568 Go go, Power Lezzies...

Posted by: Jetto at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (afWHS)

569 WTAF is a "power lesbian"?! Can you get one at Home Depot?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2024 01:20 PM (ZANHd)

I presume she's the one who wears the strap-on in the family.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (Q0kLU)

570 >> You get far more useful opinions from an average IQ person with experience than a 130 IQ person that is "informed".

You get even more from a person with experience and a 130 IQ.

Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (z/jjr)

571 Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home https://trib.al/lnXEoAG
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (TGPs7)
_________________

Been there.

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (YqDXo)

572 The media is quoting an unnamed defense contractor lobbyist as saying Hegseth is the worst thing that could possibly happen. So that sounds like an endorsement to me.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

573 Isn't a power lesbian a carpet beater?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 13, 2024 01:23 PM (ZbsBz)

Whatever it is, it is psycho AF.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (i24o9)

574 Dawkins is one of the "new atheists" who are now quite old and played. He recently admitted he'd rather live in a civilization based on Christian principles than atheist ones.

He wrote two books one year, one of which said that there's no good evidence that Jesus existed and the other that stated that history proves that Jesus clearly existed. The "no such Jesus" book was his popular book meant for Reddit moderators, and his "Jesus was real" book was for academics.

I just cannot take him seriously.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (Hh1ER)

575 What’s the opposite of a power lesbian?

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (g/4UX)

576 NOOD Thune

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (CIS44)

577 Ice axe! That's how they got Trotsky

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (lmXzp)

578 Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X (Elon helped Trump win)

Advertisers Plan Return To X To Get In "Good Graces Of Elon"
"Trump's victory may well mean brands give X a second chance in 2025."

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (RHGPo)

579 People that know things know they can't know it all. So when a midwit says you think you know everything, it is funny.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (Z8Yh2)

580 I'll do my own thinking, don't need a thought leader.
Posted by: Same Old Same Old at November 13, 2024 01:22 PM (Ua9Fu)

If you're having second thoughts, you're two steps ahead of many people.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (VNX3d)

581 Hey dad, can I axe you something?

Posted by: Power Leabo at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (afWHS)

582
575 What’s the opposite of a power lesbian?

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (g/4UX)

Brian Stelter

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (mzM2O)

583 @559

>>Amazingly, Community Notes is one of the greatest forces for good ever created.

What The Guardian doesn't realize that if it is or isn't on X, any time they post on whatever platform they slink off to, it will more than likely be cross-posted on X and ripped apart, anyways.

These people clearly don't understand what time it is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (XV/Pl)

584 Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home https://trib.al/lnXEoAG
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (TGPs7)

What is a 'power' lesbian?
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 13, 2024 01:26 PM (DJ7uY)
__________

They don't scissor. They power chain saw.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 13, 2024 01:28 PM (iFTx/)

585 572 The media is quoting an unnamed defense contractor lobbyist as saying Hegseth is the worst thing that could possibly happen. So that sounds like an endorsement to me.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (2ocoG)

Oh no!! A defense contractor doesn’t like someone who might stop the flow of billions of dollars to defense contractors. I’m shocked.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:29 PM (g/4UX)

586 Bonus result from the old media's downfall: I'm pretty sure that more people are also ignoring the ads on TV. People now assume that everything on TV is BS, so they tune out political commercials too. Kamala can spend $1 billion ads, but it doesn't matter if nobody trusts them.

Posted by: Dave at November 13, 2024 01:29 PM (nLwaa)

587 The media is quoting an unnamed defense contractor lobbyist as saying Hegseth is the worst thing that could possibly happen.

I read where another said "who the ($*@ is that??" Another very strong positive

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:29 PM (Hh1ER)

588 3 days ago

I think I've seen this movie before ...

Taylor Lorenz: (formerly of WaPo)

Over the past several days, Meta's Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies.

The conspiracies range from skepticism about vote tallies in key swing states, to allegations of a criminal coverup by Biden to force the Democrats to lose in order to (somehow eventually?) take down Trump, to claims of Russian interference with voting technology.

One pervasive conspiracy as of Saturday morning centered around Elon Musk, alleging that the billionaire hacked the election through his Starlink satellite internet company, which conspiracy theorists claim is part of the voting machine supply chain. (This is false, and ironically Musk himself pushed a debunked Dominion voting machine conspiracy theory at a Trump rally last month).

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (RHGPo)

589 The media has become confused with two words: Cause and Noticed.

They often think noticing something is wrong is the cause of the problem.

Posted by: El Mariachi at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (nLFEI)

590 Just a thought: If you're a 'journalist', and you're asking "What Went Wrong (TM)?" regarding the election, then maybe, JUST MAYBE, you're part of the problem at its root.

Posted by: sicnarF at November 13, 2024 01:24 PM (00Aa3)
_________________

If your world view predicted a certain outcome that did not come to pass, maybe you need to rethink your world view, huh? Because it's obviously at odds with reality.

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (YqDXo)

591 I thought all the leftists already left Twitter right after Elon bought it.

They’re like Rick Wilson who has left the GOP 20 times.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (g/4UX)

592 Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home
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I got banned from Huffpo for making a screwdriver-drink joke about their columnist here...

Lesbian stabs estranged lover 222 times before killing herself moments before police arrive
Updated: 12:59 EST, 30 October 2008

A crazed lesbian murdered her ex-lover by stabbing her 222 times with a screwdriver before shooting herself dead.

Jealous Carol Anne Burger, a writer from Florida, US, murdered Jessica Kalish and stuffed her body in the backseat of her BMW.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 01:30 PM (hovnC)

593 You get even more from a person with experience and a 130 IQ.
Posted by: garrett at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (z/jjr)

Sure but much harder to find than either the "informed" or the 100 IQ with experience.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (ksjMr)

594 Isn't "crazed lesbian" redundant?

Posted by: Jetto at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (afWHS)

595 Taylor Lorenz: (formerly of WaPo)

Over the past several days, Meta's Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies.
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Ah, a new Lorenz(t) transformation.

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at November 13, 2024 01:31 PM (YqDXo)

596 Wait, is Elric going third person... or is Stormbringer speaking through him?

Hope he's not speaking through him. Stormbringer didn't actually speak until the very end after he betrayed Elric...(if memory serves..been a couple decades or so since i read the series..)

Posted by: Nelly at November 13, 2024 01:32 PM (bcr4y)

597 For a split second I read it as power Lesbian Cory Booker. And it kinda fits.

Posted by: It is Go Time Donald at November 13, 2024 01:32 PM (g/4UX)

598 What exactly is a "power lesbian"
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Maybe they are Wicked dot com's version of Power Rangers?

Great example of topical humor because a few days ago, no one would have known why that was funny. Or admit it if they did.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (/y8xj)

599 New York Post
@nypost

Couples are turning to kinky sex to save their relationships: survey https://trib.al/inoW05G

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (TGPs7)

600 Meta's Threads is 'overrun' with liberal election fraud conspiracies
Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism
Taylor Lorenz
Nov 09, 2024

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

601 John Fetterman. The one Democrat who I have actually come to respect.

And if you had told me two years ago that I would respect ANY Democrat, much less him, I'd have thought you insane.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 13, 2024 01:11 PM (wtvvX)

Rogan also got him to show his ass, so maybe the others were wise

Posted by: Kindltot at November 13, 2024 01:34 PM (D7oie)

602 A crazed lesbian
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Now THERE'S a first.

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at November 13, 2024 01:35 PM (YqDXo)

603 BabylonBee: Biden Administration Declares Trump Cabinet Picks ‘Unqualified’

The party responsible for appointing a Transportation Secretary whose only relevant experience was an apparent love of for toy trains has declared Trump's cabinet picks "unqualified." The Democratic Party, fresh off appointing a dude who wears dresses as a health minister, a guy who steals women's luggage as nuclear weapons officer, and a Joker-costume-wearing lesbian who can't answer questions as Press Secretary, felt that Trump's choices did not have the proper credentials for their jobs.

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (RHGPo)

604 New York Post
@nypost

Couples are turning to kinky sex to save their relationships: survey https://trib.al/inoW05G

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (TGPs7)
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Forget it. If you have to resort to that, it's time to drop back into punt formation.

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at November 13, 2024 01:39 PM (YqDXo)

605 sock off

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:40 PM (YqDXo)

606 603 BabylonBee:
Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:36 PM (RHGPo)

The Bee seems to have been way too slow on this one.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at November 13, 2024 01:40 PM (+qdHL)

607 @DailyMail
Power lesbian Corey Burke murders her father with an ice axe in Election Night meltdown at Seattle home https://trib.al/lnXEoAG
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 13, 2024 01:16 PM (TGPs7)
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Burke, a training manager at Jeff Bezos' rockets and spacecraft company, confessed to killing her father after he refused to turn off the lights, according to charging documents seen by DailyMail.com.

Refused to turn off the lights? Bastard!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (YqDXo)

608 Forget it. If you have to resort to that, it's time to drop back into punt formation.
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That sounds kinky.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2024 01:44 PM (AdHga)

609 Bonus result from the old media's downfall: I'm pretty sure that more people are also ignoring the ads on TV. People now assume that everything on TV is BS, so they tune out political commercials too. Kamala can spend $1 billion ads, but it doesn't matter if nobody trusts them.

Posted by: Dave at November 13, 2024 01:29 PM (nLwaa)
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Maybe it's all the mixed-race and homosexual couples featured in the ads.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:45 PM (YqDXo)

610 The media is quoting an unnamed defense contractor lobbyist as saying Hegseth is the worst thing that could possibly happen.
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To him.

As for the worst thing that could possibly happen to him, he hasn't seen anything yet.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 01:46 PM (YqDXo)

611 Former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, conservative lawyer who argued Bush 2000 recount case, dead at 84

His wife, Barbara Olson died on Flight 77 on 9/11

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2024 01:52 PM (RHGPo)

612 I thought Richard Dawson married one of the contestants on his show?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at November 13, 2024 02:43 PM (iNp3L)

613 Watch for them to propose something like the BBC. Not only will it be wall-to-wall prog propaganda, you'll have to pay for it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2024 12:23 PM (EsZUh)

This won't happen. I'm still hoping for NPR to be cut loose from the Feds.

The problem even for them with a "USBC" is that it would either 1) start out without a culture they control, and it would take time to change that. 2) It would start with no credibility and would not add any until it had been around a while. 3) And if it is started as an adjunct to the MSM it would be in the same crisis they are now.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:01 PM (n7h9X)

614 Meta's Threads is 'overrun' with liberal election fraud conspiracies
Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism
Taylor Lorenz
Nov 09, 2024
Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at November 13, 2024 01:33 PM (RHGPo)

I hear them. Lets all sign off on making vote tampering an impossible task.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:04 PM (n7h9X)

615 That's pretty big talk from Goldberg of The Atlantic. He's been the source of the worst slanderous lies against Trump for the entirety of his campaign and administrative history. I judge everything from the Atlantic to be tainted and worthless, and its disturbing how much of media and DC regards it as credible and insightful.

Posted by: Kyle Kiernan at November 13, 2024 03:11 PM (zeSfh)

616 He wrote two books one year, one of which said that there's no good evidence that Jesus existed and the other that stated that history proves that Jesus clearly existed. The "no such Jesus" book was his popular book meant for Reddit moderators, and his "Jesus was real" book was for academics.

I just cannot take him seriously.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 13, 2024 01:27 PM (Hh1ER)

There isn't that much more information that Julius Caesar existed.

Josephus wrote about Christians and Jesus around the time of Vespasian, about 50 years after the crucifixion. Its hard to get by with a lot that close to a real event.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:11 PM (n7h9X)

617 Another tip: stop calling this shit "journalism," because that provides the perpetrators with an implicit excuse for publishing their opinions.

Call them "reporters," and insist that they report the facts, without an editorial comments.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 13, 2024 12:46 PM (YqDXo)

I won't call them reporters, that is a noble blue collar profession. Journalists are hacks writing lies in their diaries. If I respect someone in news I call them a reporter.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:13 PM (n7h9X)

618 “Does anyone have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon? And the way the defense situation has been operating for the last several years? I mean, from the Afghanistan pullout, which was an extreme debacle for which no one was held accountable. We've had spy balloons flying over the United States. We built a $300 million pier as a public relations stunt, which wound up killing an American service member.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 13, 2024 12:25 PM (hovnC)

I will give the Pentagon a little credit in the Ukraine war - they consistently braked the system as they could in the escalation game and deploying more threatening weapons that might have turned the war even hotter. Not a lot, but some.

Balanced with that, the offensive they planned for Ukraine in the South summer before last was absolute ass. Announcing it 6 months in advance was bad enough, but driving down a mined road in a cluster with one mine clearing vehicle which the russians just blew up and stalled the offensive was the dumbest thing in the history of warfare. Units lost half their vehicles without seeing the Russians and didn't even touch the first line of defense.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 13, 2024 03:20 PM (n7h9X)

619 I went Cold Turkey on the M.S. Media over 20 years ago and I'm not going back

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at November 13, 2024 04:37 PM (wGqjj)

620 Pet shop owners, it's time to face reality: a lot of people no longer believe what we're telling them about the parrot's troubling stillness. There's been a growing perception, in certain segments of the population, that the parrot might even be dead. Now, the parrot might be dead on rare occasions, but I remain confident that most of the time, it's definitely alive and kicking. Well, not kicking, exactly, but maybe quietly contemplating its existence.

Anyway, we need to be realistic here. There are malign forces on the Internet, enabled by insufficient censorship, spreading wild rumors about the parrot's supposed demise. It may be hard to accept, but there are naive consumers of media who trust a live stream video showing a parrot not moving, eating, or drinking for 48 days and counting, over our own assurances that same parrot is hale and hearty!

Posted by: DaveL at November 13, 2024 05:49 PM (9w232)

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