David Samuels: Barack Obama Created and Maintains an Echo Chamber Messaging System That Deranges and Perverts People's Thinking Every Day

David Samuels is the reporter who interviewed Obama's mental twin Ben Rhodes about Rhodes' creation of "echo chambers" to push the Iran deal and convince people that they were all wrong to think of the extremist Islamist terror state as a threat. In fact, Iran was and is a great Partner in Peace (TM) to the American people!

This is the interview that elicited Ben Rhodes' perfect explanation of how easy it is to change "elite" media opinion overnight -- "they literally know nothing," Rhodes said, so it is very easy to fill their heads with your propaganda. My own elaboration on that: Dummies and ignoramuses often know they're dumb and ignorant, and wish not to be. So if you give them some easy-to-understand (but completely false) slogans to fill that void, they will Seize and Pounce on those slogans uncritically. They felt intellectually empty and socially awkward; now you've empowered them with easy-to-understand propaganda that makes them feel In the Know and Part of the In Crowd.

Because you're providing them a huge service -- you're allowing them to no longer feel stupid and ignorant. And they will reward you by repeating your mantras and propagandas with the fervor of a cultist.

David Samuels now revisits those "echo chambers" deranging American thought and manufacturing "public opinion" out of nothing.

The whole article is worth reading. It's terrific.

I'll just excerpt the conclusory parts. But he builds up to this by noting, for example, how American "elite" opinion turned on Iran overnight.

How did that happen? How did the so-called "elites" go to bed knowing that Iran was a jihadist terror state one night and wake up the next morning knowing with even more passion that Iran was a friend to the United States and an important Partner in Peace (TM)?

So, as I said, read the whole thing over the weekend, but for now, here are the money paragraphs.

He describes this as a revolution in communications -- specifically the communication of mass propaganda -- as important as any of the major developments in mass media, like the telegraph or even the printing press.

The collapse of the 20th-century media pyramid on which Lippmann's assumptions rested, and its rapid replacement by monopoly social media platforms, made it possible for the Obama White House to sell policy--and reconfigure social attitudes and prejudices--in new ways. In fact, as Obama's chief speechwriter and national security aide Ben Rhodes, a fiction writer by vocation, argued to me more than once in our conversations, the collapse of the world of print left Obama with little choice but to forge a new reality online.
When I wrote about Rhodes' ambitious program to sell the Iran deal, I advanced the term "echo chambers" to describe the process by which the White House and its wider penumbra of think tanks and NGOs generated an entirely new class of experts who credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers and reporters to keep government spokespeople honest. In constructing these echo chambers, the White House created feedback loops that could be gamed out in advance by clever White House aides, thereby influencing and controlling the perceptions of reporters, editors and congressional staffers, and the elusive currents of "public opinion" they attempted to follow. If you saw how the game worked from the inside, you understood that the new common wisdom was not a true "reflection" of what anyone in particular necessarily believed, but rather the deliberate creation of a small class of operatives who used new technologies to create and control larger narratives that they messaged to target audiences on digital platforms, and which often presented themselves to their targets as their own naturally occurring thoughts and feelings, which they would then share with people like themselves.
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What I did not imagine at the time was that Obama's successor in the White House would not be Hillary Clinton but Donald Trump. Nor did I foresee that Trump would himself become the target of a messaging campaign that would make full use of the machine that Obama had built, along with elements of the American security state. Being physically inside the White House, it turned out, was a mere detail of power; even more substantial power lay in controlling the digital switchboard that Obama had built, and which it turned out he still controlled.
During the Trump years, Obama used the tools of the digital age to craft an entirely new type of power center for himself, one that revolved around his unique position as the titular, though pointedly never-named, head of a Democratic Party that he succeeded in refashioning in his own image--and which, after Hillary's loss, had officially supplanted the "centrist" Clinton neoliberal machine of the 1990s. The Obama Democratic Party (ODP) was a kind of balancing mechanism between the power and money of the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their New York bankers; the interests of bureaucratic and professional elites who shuttled between the banks and tech companies and the work of bureaucratic oversight; the ODP's own sectarian constituencies, which were divided into racial and ethnic categories like "POC," "MENA," and "Latinx," whose bizarre bureaucratic nomenclature signaled their inherent existence as top-down containers for the party's new-age spoils system; and the world of billionaire-funded NGOs that provided foot-soldiers and enforcers for the party's efforts at social transformation.
It was the entirety of this apparatus, not just the ability to fashion clever or impactful tweets, that constituted the party's new form of power. But control over digital platforms, and what appeared on those platforms, was a key element in signaling and exercising that power. The Hunter Biden laptop story, in which party operatives shanghaied 51 former high U.S. government intelligence and security officials to sign a letter that all but declared the laptop to be a fake, and part of a Russian disinformation plot--when most of those officials had very strong reasons to know or believe that the laptop and its contents were real--showed how the system worked. That letter was then used as the basis for restricting and banning factual reports about the laptop and its contents from digital platforms, with the implication that allowing readers to access those reports might be the basis for a future accusation of a crime. None of this censorship was official, of course: Trump was in the White House, not Obama or Biden. What that demonstrated was that the real power, including the power to control functions of the state, lay elsewhere.
Even more unusual, and alarming, was what followed Trump's defeat in 2020. With the Democrats back in power, the new messaging apparatus could now formally include not just social and institutional pressure but the enforcement arms of the federal bureaucracy, from the Justice Department to the FBI to the SEC. As the machine ramped up, censoring dissenting opinions on everything from COVID, to DEI programs, to police conduct, to the prevalence and the effects of hormone therapies and surgeries on youth, large numbers of people began feeling pressured by an external force that they couldn't always name; even greater numbers of people fell silent. In effect, large-scale changes in American mores and behavior were being legislated outside the familiar institutions and processes of representative democracy, through top-down social pressure machinery backed in many cases by the threat of law enforcement or federal action, in what soon became known as a "whole of society" effort.
At every turn over the next four years, it was like a fever was spreading, and no one was immune. Spouses, children, colleagues, and supervisors at work began reciting, with the force of true believers, slogans they had only learned last week, and that they were very often powerless to provide the slightest real-world evidence for. These sudden, sometimes overnight, appearances of beliefs, phrases, tics, looked a lot like the mass social contagions of the 1950s--one episode after another of rapid-onset political enlightenment replacing the appearance of dance crazes or Hula-Hoops.
Just as in those commercially fed crazes, there was nothing accidental, mystical or organic about these new thought-viruses. Catchphrases like "defund the police," "structural racism," "white privilege," "children don't belong in cages," "assigned gender" or "stop the genocide in Gaza" would emerge and marinate in meme-generating pools like the academy or activist organizations, and then jump the fence--or be fed--into niche groups and threads on Twitter or Reddit. If they gained traction in those spaces, they would be adopted by constituencies and players higher up in the Democratic Party hierarchy, who used their control of larger messaging verticals on social media platforms to advance or suppress stories around these topics and phrases, and who would then treat these formerly fringe positions as public markers for what all "decent people" must universally believe; those who objected or stood in the way were portrayed as troglodytes and bigots. From there, causes could be messaged into reality by state and federal bureaucrats, NGOs, and large corporations, who flew banners, put signs on their bathrooms, gave new days off from work, and brought in freshly minted consultants to provide "trainings" for workers--all without any kind of formal legislative process or vote or backing by any significant number of voters.
What mattered here was no longer Lippmann's version of "public opinion," rooted in the mass audiences of radio and later television, which was assumed to correlate to the current or future preferences of large numbers of voters--thereby assuring, on a metaphoric level at least, the continuation of 19th-century ideas of American democracy, with its deliberate balance of popular and representational elements in turn mirroring the thrust of the Founders' design. Rather, the newly minted digital variant of "public opinion" was rooted in the algorithms that determine how fads spread on social media, in which mass multiplied by speed equals momentum--speed being the key variable. The result was a fast-moving mirror world that necessarily privileges the opinions and beliefs of the self-appointed vanguard who control the machinery, and could therefore generate the velocity required to change the appearance of "what people believe" overnight.
The unspoken agreements that obscured the way this social messaging apparatus worked--including Obama's role in directing the entire system from above--and how it came to supplant the normal relationships between public opinion and legislative process that generations of Americans had learned from their 20th-century poli-sci textbooks, made it easy to dismiss anyone who suggested that Joe Biden was visibly senile; that the American system of government, including its constitutional protections for individual liberties and its historical system of checks and balances, was going off the rails; that there was something visibly unhealthy about the merger of monopoly tech companies and national security agencies with the press that threatened the ability of Americans to speak and think freely; or that America's large cultural systems, from education, to science and medicine, to the production of movies and books, were all visibly failing, as they fell under the control of this new apparatus. Millions of Americans began feeling increasingly exhausted by the effort involved in maintaining parallel thought-worlds in which they expressed degrees of fealty to the new order in the hope of keeping their jobs and avoiding being singled out for ostracism and punishment, while at the same time being privately baffled or aghast by the absence of any persuasive logic behind the changes they saw--from the breakdown of law and order in major cities, to the fentanyl epidemic, to the surge of perhaps 20 million unvetted illegal immigrants across the U.S. border, to widespread gender dysphoria among teenage girls, to sudden and shocking declines in public health, life expectancy, and birth rates.
Until the fever broke.

He then talks about Obama's role in this. Obama was not the creator of this system of public derangement -- he was the first product it sold.

The originator of this new style of Astroturf propaganda was Obama's mentor, the creepy David Axelrod. The neomarxist social media monopolies just allowed him to bring it to planetary scale through the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence.

you dont hate these people enough, unless youre at the point where you cant put in writing what youd want to do pic.twitter.com/zznIw7PICH
— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) December 20, 2024

The new narrative just dropped.

They are all referring to Elon as "President Musk" in order to get President Trump upset. Their goal is to drive a wedge between Trump and Elon.

Don't fall for it. https://t.co/bQ4ojCbHhp
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 19, 2024

Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
In August of 2020, Democrats told us Biden's brain was working fine and Trump was an insurrectionist Hitler.
Both claims were absurd.
Now we have the WSJ reporting that Biden was mentally disabled from day one of his administration, and the same Democrats are now claiming Trump is puppet of Elon Musk.

I'm sure everyone remembers the infestation of Astroturf propaganda deception agents who flooded the comments here in 2007-2008. All of these paid deceivers commented with the same script: "I'm a Concerned Christian Conservative who has voted Republican my entire life, but I see Obama as a different kind of Democrat who reflects true Christian Conservative values..."

For years and years we used to sockpuppet "Concerned Christian Conservative" comments.

Posted by: Ace at 02:17 PM

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1 45tg4e5tg4e5

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (I87yH)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 20, 2024 02:18 PM (GYt5+)

3
I typed some extra letters because of the lengthy content.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:18 PM (I87yH)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

5 What movie review is this?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

6 The sicko gay bars and bathhouses pioneered these leftwing "echo chambers." They were known as "scat rooms." It's where raging lunatic homos shit on each other. The Dumocraps adopted the concept wholesale, it seems.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

7 Dummies and ignoramuses often know they're dumb and ignorant, and wish not to be. So if you give them some easy-to-understand (but completely false) slogans to fill that void, they will Seize and Pounce on those slogans uncritically. They felt intellectually empty and socially awkward; now you've empowered them with easy-to-understand propaganda that makes them feel In the Know and Part of the In Crowd.

Because you're providing them a huge service -- you're allowing them to no longer feel stupid and ignorant. And they will reward you by repeating your mantras and propagandas with the fervor of a cultist.

I mean, I suppose you could take some time and do some research...naaahhhhh, that's crazy talk.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (xCA6C)

8
Thanks for boiling it down, ace. I saw that article and knew I couldn't read it over coffee-and-a-bagel.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (I87yH)

9 Damn, that's a shit-ton of words.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (jFCkp)

10 You know who else was well versed in the fine art of propaganda?

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (i0F8b)

11 Musk should be sworn in at the Innaugural.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (YzqWW)

12 He then talks about Obama's role in this. Obama was not the creator of this system of public derangement -- he was the first product it sold.

I was going to make this point. Obama lacks the wit and/or discipline and creativity to have studied the situation and come up with a solution. He's a tool, in every sense of the word; a tool with a very elevated sense of his own competence.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (xCA6C)

13 I feel like we'll never be rid of the stench of Obama. Ugh.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (I0ZPN)

14 The originator of this new style of Astroturf propaganda was Obama's mentor, the creepy David Axelrod.

Who's more creepy?

David Axelrod

Jim Messina

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

15 He describes this as a revolution in communications -- specifically the communication of mass propaganda -- as important as any of the major developments in mass media, like the telegraph or even the printing press.

It also helps that the "elites" are gutless non-entities, desperately afraid that they might be excluded from the next orgy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:23 PM (ExV1e)

16 Did he go for Ginger or Marry Anne?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (YzqWW)

17 How did that happen? How did the so-called "elites" go to bed knowing that Iran was a jihadist terror state one night and wake up the next morning knowing with even more passion that Iran was a friend to the United States and an important Partner in Peace (TM)?
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Probably the same way it happened that Joe Biden was trying to get Putin into the WTO for years and Hillary got herself all a-flutter over Putin, and she approved the deal of Uranium to Russia, and Bill got half-a-mill for one speech.

Until it was Putinbad.

And then everybody who hates DC is doing Putin's bidding.

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (krQz2)

18 There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We can reduce the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (Gqoy+)

19
All this from a childhood stutter.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (+oR7L)

20 It also helps that the "elites" are gutless non-entities, desperately afraid that they might be excluded from the next orgy.

You have no idea what you're missing.

Posted by: Martha Raddatz at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM (xCA6C)

21 A literal bathhouse?

Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (tIIi9)

22 I guess when your college degree is in "All the President's Men" Studies, you don't learn much else about how the world works.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

23 I was going to make this point. Obama lacks the wit and/or discipline and creativity to have studied the situation and come up with a solution. He's a tool, in every sense of the word; a tool with a very elevated sense of his own competence.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (xCA6C)

And is married to a chick with a dick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

24 I remember when the elites ridiculed the idea of Russia being any sort of threat.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (j+LsA)

25 Ah, concern trolls.

Fun times.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (VoAdT)

26 16 Did he go for Ginger or Marry Anne?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:24 PM

Obama went for Gilligan.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (+oR7L)

27 24 I remember when the elites ridiculed the idea of Russia being any sort of threat.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (j+LsA)

Back in the 80's.

Posted by: Obama at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (i0F8b)

28 David Axelrod might be the managing director, but original blueprints were drawn by 19th century Marxism.

Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (rj6Yv)

29 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Sen. Chris Murphy just went on CNN and accused @elonmusk of "endorsing a neo-N*zi party” over Elon’s support of German political party AfD.
This is an insanely dishonest smear.
Murphy went on to fearmonger about the possibility of Trump supporting neo-N*zis:
"What we know is that what Elon Musk thinks tends to eventually be what the president of the United States thinks. And if the United States takes an official position in favor of neo-N*zis in Germany. I mean, it is absolutely catastrophic."
Democrats also called Trump H*tler and Republicans n*zis for the last four years, to put this outrageous slander into perspective.

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Well, I'm glad we got that straight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (L/fGl)

30
Obama went for Gilligan.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (+oR7L)

I don't know. The doughy fatbodies that have come out having blown him, he seems more of a Skipper kinda guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

31 If they are blaming Obama for what the DNC has always done, it's because they have someone "new" in the wings who will be part of the same old tired predictable operation.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (j+LsA)

32 30
Obama went for Gilligan.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (+oR7L)

I don't know. The doughy fatbodies that have come out having blown him, he seems more of a Skipper kinda guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

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Obama's definitely a Thurston kind of guy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:27 PM (GBKbO)

33 Who's more creepy?

David Axelrod

Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

Messina defines creepy.

Axelrod is just a malicious dork.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:27 PM (VoAdT)

34 Democrats: "Look at the beautiful garments on our new emperor!!!"

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:27 PM (j+LsA)

35 It is an excellent article. What impressed me most is that it brings out how Axelrod was the brains behind it. It even shows that he was initially reluctant to team up with Obama.

I am incapable of believing that The Lightwalker has even average intelligence, so I'm ready for that message.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (1bNHn)

36 Tanned, rested, and ready.

Posted by: Hillary Africanus at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (YzqWW)

37 The media has become so corrupt it is wise to be skeptical of things as harmless as reported baseball scores.

Posted by: electronic means at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (WVQot)

38 Sen. Chris Murphy just went on CNN and accused @elonmusk of "endorsing a neo-N*zi party” over Elon’s support of German political party AfD.

That's very apropos to Ace's post. These idiots have clearly all gotten marching orders to smear Elon. Why do you suppose that is? Could it be that he's insanely effective, and they fear him like no other, even Trump?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (xCA6C)

39 31 If they are blaming Obama for what the DNC has always done, it's because they have someone "new" in the wings who will be part of the same old tired predictable operation.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (j+LsA)

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What you are seeing is intrafactional rhetorical warfare, as different parts of the Democrat faction blame each other for the losses of this year.

The monolith has shattered, not that it was ever more than a monolith in more than name, and the Democrats are stabbing each other for control.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

40 Car attack in German Christmas market with multiple wounded/killed.

Probably a far right wing extremist

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (GUOwU)

41 Cone of Silence > Echo Chamber

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (Vyll1)

42 Messina defines creepy.

Axelrod is just a malicious dork.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:27 PM (VoAdT)

Messina molested pajama boy during the shoot, I've heard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

43 >>Obama's definitely a Thurston kind of guy.
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I'm pretty sure he draws a line at calling Big Mike "Lovey!"

Posted by: electronic means at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (WVQot)

44 The command has come down: Musk is the new Puppetmaster Dick Cheney.

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (i0F8b)

45
Probably a far right wing extremist
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (GUOwU)

Screaming "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

46 This was going on before Obama.

Hence El Rushbo's "The Montage".

A spliced clip of many, many, MANY different talking heads uttering the same specific phrase. Occasionally a variant, but 9 times out of 10, the same exact wording. EXACT wording.

It would be the different voices and a single sentence, or part of a longer sentence. You could hear the different newscasters and TV hosts. And you'd hear it for half a minute to a minute, covering the gamut.

The word gets out, but there's a kind of Mafia omerta in not ratting out the source and location of the mothership of this hivemind. Though "Journo-list" was probably one of those sources, at the time.

Posted by: Another Anon at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (QNMaY)

47 Who's more creepy?

David Axelrod

Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

Kenny Loggins ?

Posted by: Columbia Records Exec. at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (TTAGa)

48 I haven't read that article so maybe it mentions this.

(I know, I bring this up a lot.)

This all goes back to the Treglia speech written up in the WSJ in 2005 (google "astroturf politics, pew, treglia")

This is how they got campaign finance reform through. My thinking is that many (or most) key people are in astroturf bubbles created by china, google, and cia. This would be very easy with modern tech.

(also, I think Mitch McConnell is in an astroturf bubble and that explains his positions.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, time for a reckoning at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (s5wuY)

49 It should be illegal for the government to give any tax dollars to news orgs or individuals directly or indirectly via NGOs etc.

Not saying that this is what happens in these echo chambers, but I would be surprised if it didn't happen.

We know it happened with Reuters being bought to give bad press to Tesla. Shameful.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (fs1hN)

50 Who's more creepy?

David Axelrod

Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)
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Que Es Mas Espeluznante?

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (krQz2)

51 Excellent article by David Samuels. However, I think he is over-complicating this and giving too much credit to Obama and his handlers.

What they did wasn't so much a major revelation and revolution of disseminating and controlling thought and opinion.

What Gay Lightbringer and his handlers did was adopt high school mean-girl tactics, and apply them to the political arena. The insular cliques, the ostracizing anyone deemed uncool, the back-stabbing and rumor-mongering, the basic narrative and what's "in" and "cool" controlled by a self-appointed group of vapid narcissists? It's all there. Every bit of it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

52 Car attack in German Christmas market with multiple wounded/killed.

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7-Year-Old Girl Killed, 5 Others Injured in Elementary School Knife Attack: 'We Are Horrified'
Authorities said a 19-year-old was detained and put under police surveillance following the attack in Zagreb, Croatia

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It was an AR-15 knife.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (L/fGl)

53 The monolith has shattered, not that it was ever more than a monolith in more than name, and the Democrats are stabbing each other for control.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

Or, to put it another way - Time for a new delivery system for the same old drug.

Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (rj6Yv)

54 In fact, Iran was and is a great Partner in Peace (TM) to the American people!

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"Sparks of Divinity" and "Acts of Love" even;

Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (tIIi9)

55 Preezy Shit Midas is too stupid to do anything of the kind. at best he is the clueless face of an evil cabal. He is definitely a mastermind of anything more than barely hiding this evil cabal.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (17s+e)

56
Kenny Loggins ?
Posted by: Columbia Records Exec. at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (TTAGa)

Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

57
The way to emasculate Obama and Axelrod is to consistently refer to them as purveyors of false information. Congenital liars, as it were.

Do this everywhere and all the time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (i4sOa)

58 Because you're providing them a huge service -- you're allowing them to no longer feel stupid and ignorant. And they will reward you by repeating your mantras and propagandas with the fervor of a cultist.

"When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.

To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.

One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed.

A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."

-- Theodore Dalrymple

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (P5BPp)

59 Messina molested pajama boy during the shoot, I've heard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

So that's why he was hugging that cocoa mug like it would tell him that everything is still OK and he's still a good person.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (VoAdT)

60 If only there were something, I don't know, like a population, an electorate even, that wasn't so lazy, ignorant, dumbed-down, and prisoners to their bigotries and quarter-baked pseudo-ideologies and tribalism, maybe the country wouldn't be a bunch of 4-yrd olds waiting to be told what to think by the pre-school teacher.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (1m82a)

61 They didn't list Mohameds name or description.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (YzqWW)

62 Our "elite" don't care about convincing anyone.

They want to con them as quickly as possible and move on to the next con.

And are now absolutely astounded that no one trusts them or their "experts".

We have the stupidest, worst ruling class in our history.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (kAFFE)

63 45tg4e5tg4e5
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (I87yH)

Somewhere in North Dakota, a nuclear missle silo just opened up.
Thanks Blondie!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (FCbAQ)

64 Car attack in German Christmas market with multiple wounded/killed.

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7-Year-Old Girl Killed, 5 Others Injured in Elementary School Knife Attack: 'We Are Horrified'
Authorities said a 19-year-old was detained and put under police surveillance following the attack in Zagreb, Croatia

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It was an AR-15 knife.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (L/fGl)

It was worse. It was an AR-16 knife.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (VNX3d)

65 So now that the country overwhelmingly voted for Trump, they're saying he's alright but it's his friends who are dangerous? Wow they move fast.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (j+LsA)

66 Welp, done for the year. Is it too early for bourbon?

Re: Obama - he still sucks.

Re: Pres. Musk. MSM thinks they are too cute by half. Buncha retards.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (GTqXr)

67 "10 killed in Germany train crash
A head-on train crash in eastern Germany killed 10 people and injured at least 33 others, eight of them severely, local firefighters said."

Government already calling it act of terror ... no word on the "... and it's a Muslim" driver.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (Cus5s)

68 Hey I wonder why the man-hater chose to shoot so many girls and women?

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (j+LsA)

69 >It was worse. It was an AR-16 knife.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (VNX3d)

Even worse. It had the thing that goes up.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (GTqXr)

70 "the same Democrats are now claiming Trump is puppet of Elon Musk."

One becomes a puppet when ....

A) one is weak. Weak in mind, weak of morals, weak in integrity, weak in principles.
B) one is desperate for attention, love, friendship, money, power, etc.
C) one is coerced because one is weak, or desperate.

Which of these describes Donald Trump?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (4XwPj)

71 "artificial intelligence."

Yep. Sounds like a Kenyan homosexual to me.

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (0eaVi)

72 An assault knife with the black handle that goes up.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (YzqWW)

73 Who's more creepy?

David Axelrod

Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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On looks only Messina by one ugly mile.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 20, 2024 02:33 PM (17s+e)

74 63 45tg4e5tg4e5
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (I87yH)

Somewhere in North Dakota, a nuclear missle silo just opened up.
Thanks Blondie!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (FCbAQ)

Do.You.Want.To.Play.A.Game. ...

Posted by: W.O.P.R. at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (TTAGa)

75 62 Our "elite" don't care about convincing anyone.

They want to con them as quickly as possible and move on to the next con.

And are now absolutely astounded that no one trusts them or their "experts".

We have the stupidest, worst ruling class in our history.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (kAFFE)

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I think the elite cared about convincing us until 2010. The Tea Party was the breaking point when the uniparty decided that we had too much of a say, that we could undermine everything so much with a nearly 60 seat swing in one election, and they went overboard to "correct" that.

Obama was the focal point in 2012, to save his presidency. 2016 woke them up to realize that they weren't as powerful as they thought they were. They went nuts in 2020. 2024 saw the first real, organized pushback against the new regime that started in 2011.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

76 > He then talks about Obama's role in this. Obama was not the creator of this system of public derangement -- he was the first product it sold.
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This is almost always the case. No way Obama is some sort of evil genius. Evil yes. Genius... hardly. He's a pliable fool who once commanded the leftists with catchy phrases written by someone else. His voice was his/his/his stuttering incoherent bullshit.

Like *biden. And Harris.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (Q4IgG)

77 Joost Meerlo wrote about similar techniques used to mold public opinion in his 1956 book, The Rape of the Mind. The common thread is totalitarian regimes doing things to intentionally drive their populace crazy, and make the remaining sane people question their sanity (since everyone else is believing some crazy-pants propaganda).

Nothing new under the sun. It's part-and-parcel of the spiritual conflict. Once you perceive it, you can't unsee it.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (pJWtt)

78 A world communist government is inevitable, like Big Mike's cruel and painful lovin' on a hot sweaty Martha's Vineyard night.

Posted by: a wistful Barack writes on his journal at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (Ybyk2)

79 Elon Musk is the new Big Bad until he leaves when the DOGE job is done (as he said he would).

And then without missing a beat: We'll be right back to Trump is a Bond Villain.

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (krQz2)

80 31 If they are blaming Obama for what the DNC has always done, it's because they have someone "new" in the wings who will be part of the same old tired predictable operation.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (j+LsA)

The Clintons and the Obamas have been fighting for control of the Democrat party for going on 16 years now. Hillary!'s losses in 08 and 16 set the Clinton's control of the party way back, but they are the ones that play the long game while the Obamas are the Veruca Salt's of the party and want their golden goose right now.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (k1E2D)

81 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (pJWtt)

Seems a nick I've not seen in a while.

Welcome back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

82 No way Obama is some sort of evil genius. Evil yes. Genius... hardly. He's a pliable fool who once commanded the leftists with catchy phrases written by someone else. His voice was his/his/his stuttering incoherent bullshit.

Like *biden. And Harris.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (Q4IgG)

Obama still makes Dr. Evil look intelligent.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (VNX3d)

83 Varney had a bit this morning showing the press using marching order code words. "President Musk " "unelected" etc. The propaganda ministries are not going to go gently into the night

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (DopAq)

84 Obama was the focal point in 2012, to save his presidency. '

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

I read that as 'fecal point.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

85 in his 1956 book, The Rape of the Mind. The common thread is totalitarian
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I heard E Jean called this a sexy sexy book

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (j+LsA)

86 >It was worse. It was an AR-16 knife.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:31 PM (VNX3d)

AR-220, AR-221, whatever it takes.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (LxER7)

87 A public (or any more than a fringe % of a public) that can provide focus group/survey data indicating "grocery store gouging is causing inflation!!!" is actually effective political rhetoric is the problem.

These lightweight current Dems are no different than the idiot Clinton, who polled where to take August vacations.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (1m82a)

88 Who's more creepy?

David Axelrod

Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

Kenny Loggins ?
Posted by: Columbia Records Exec. at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (TTAGa)
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I'm alright. Don't noboody worry about me.

Posted by: Kenny Loggins at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (krQz2)

89 Obama? We’re not that lucky

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (QSrLX)

90 45tg4e5tg4e5
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:17 PM (I87yH)

You sunk my 3D battleship!!!

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (JRP2U)

91 Elon Musk is the new Big Bad until he leaves when the DOGE job is done (as he said he would).

And then without missing a beat: We'll be right back to Trump is a Bond Villain.

I mean, I'm right here! How come Elon gets all the hate/love? Buncha damn racists.

Posted by: Vivek at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (xCA6C)

92 "They felt intellectually empty and socially awkward; now you've empowered them with easy-to-understand propaganda that makes them feel In the Know and Part of the In Crowd."

========

Yes. Another example is "Climate Change"

I mean, what can be more IN THE KNOW than SCIENCE?! Right?

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (i7Q7S)

93
I heard E Jean called this a sexy sexy book
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:36 PM (j+LsA)

Then used it as evidence against Trump.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

94 14 Who's more creepy?

David Axelrod

Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

John "Pedodesta" Podesta.

Posted by: XTC at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (UnA8+)

95
This also raises serious alarms about AI snd reports that the feral government intends to take over many, if not all, aspects of its development.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (i4sOa)

96

It begins in Kindergarten and goes all the way through post-grad.

the educational system must be utterly purged of every single leftist and Democrat. Dissolve the damned teacher unions, the NEA and the Dept of Ed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (x0n13)

97 Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:34 PM (pJWtt)

Seems a nick I've not seen in a while.

Welcome back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

Thanks. I lurk more than I post anymore.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (pJWtt)

98 >>> Damn, that's a shit-ton of words.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (jFCkp

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I know, right? It's almost like ace doesn't want me to read the content.

Posted by: Turn 2 at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (JfxgE)

99
Hence El Rushbo's "The Montage".

A spliced clip of many, many, MANY different talking heads uttering the same specific phrase. Occasionally a variant, but 9 times out of 10, the same exact wording. EXACT wording.

GRAVITAS!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (63Dwl)

100 I thought only Republicans pounced or seized?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (g07/a)

101 Thanks. I lurk more than I post anymore.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (pJWtt)

Understandable. It happens.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

102

What really must be done to the Left is what Bill Ayers said had to be done to 25 million Americans once he and the Weathermen overthrew America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)

103 I thought only Republicans pounced or seized?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2024 02:38 PM (g07/a)

When did Republicans get upgraded to cats and other felines? I thought they were stuck at rodents.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (VNX3d)

104 I remember when the elites ridiculed the idea of Russia being any sort of threat.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (j+LsA)

They still do whenever they assure us that Uke drone forces will be in Moscow by or how it'd be totes okay to nuke Russia because they're a paper tiger.

Then, the next week, we're back to Putin is literally Genghis Khan, but worse because Khan was Mongolian and, therefore, Chinese (sort of).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (ExV1e)

105 What movie review is this?
Posted by: Sponge

The Parallax View

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (WXNFJ)

106 My favorite part:

"Until the fever broke. Today, Donald Trump is victorious, and Obama is the loser"

Indeed. TOTUS is a giant LOSER

Posted by: deadrody at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (OeYsY)

107 This also raises serious alarms about AI snd reports that the feral government intends to take over many, if not all, aspects of its development.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (i4sOa)

We need competing AI platforms, able to sniff out and counter malicious AIs.

I belive this is how some dystopian novels begin anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (fs1hN)

108 98 >>> Damn, that's a shit-ton of words.
Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 02:21 PM (jFCkp

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I know, right? It's almost like ace doesn't want me to read the content.
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Its his invisible barrel, it is.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (jFCkp)

109 What really must be done to the Left is what Bill Ayers said had to be done to 25 million Americans once he and the Weathermen overthrew America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)

But, he was just Jenny from the block.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

110 To be fair, Democrats represent our values, to the extent we have values.

Posted by: Big Penguin at December 20, 2024 02:41 PM (g07/a)

111 110 To be fair, Democrats represent our values, to the extent we have values.
Posted by: Big Penguin at December 20, 2024 0

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"It's your fault we lost the election!"
-Big Luxembourg

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

112 102

What really must be done to the Left is what Bill Ayers said had to be done to 25 million Americans once he and the Weathermen overthrew America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)

And to think he came ***this close*** to achieving that wet dream.

Posted by: browndog kicks dirt on that piece of shite at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (TTAGa)

113 This is the interview that elicited Ben Rhodes' perfect explanation of how easy it is to change "elite" media opinion overnight -- "they literally know nothing," Rhodes said, so it is very easy to fill their heads with your propaganda.

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

Remember this classic from DeathCare "Architect" & MIT "Economist" Jonathan Gruber a decade ago:

"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage, and basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass."

Well, he wasn't wrong about that ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (tIIi9)

114 I don't remember seeing this mentioned, but it looks like the Madison, WI police chief is moving to Seattle in the same role.

Failing up much?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (VNX3d)

115 don't remember seeing this mentioned, but it looks like the Madison, WI police chief is moving to Seattle in the same role.

Failing up much?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (VNX3d)

I question the timing.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (j+LsA)

116 The assassination of the head of UHC came at just the perfect time for the MSM. They were able to transfer the latent anger that the people have that they were lied to by the media about Biden to anger at the healthcare system. They have to be careful, however, because if they were to extend the logic of the origin of the anger to its proper source, it would lead directly to Obamacare. So, they will assiduously avoid pulling that particular string to hard, just in case the young mob comes to that conclusion themselves.

Under no circumstances does the media want the public to know that they are indeed the 'enemy of the people' that Trump accused them of being. Now that Trump has ridden the preference cascade to a 55% approval rating, ABC paying $16 million to not have court discovery show that the Fifteen Minute Trump Hate was a media op is a small price to pay to keep their necks free from the lampposts that would be waiting for them if it were to come out.

They will ride Luigi as far as they need to, to save their own skins.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (fJJtc)

117 That's very apropos to Ace's post. These idiots have clearly all gotten marching orders to smear Elon. Why do you suppose that is? Could it be that he's insanely effective, and they fear him like no other, even Trump?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (xCA6C)

And it might have worked... before Musk bought Twitter and started hanging regularly with Rogan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (ExV1e)

118 112 And to think he came ***this close*** to achieving that wet dream.
Posted by: browndog kicks dirt on that piece of shite at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (TTAGa)

He would've had to disarm us and be assured that the military circa 1968 would obey his orders.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (x0n13)

119 Chop has a new police chief.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (YzqWW)

120 The whole article is worth reading. It's terrific.
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Yes it is Ace. Thanks for sharing it.

Posted by: scampydog at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (2bFN5)

121 "They felt intellectually empty and socially awkward; now you've empowered them with easy-to-understand propaganda that makes them feel In the Know and Part of the In Crowd."

========

Yes. Another example is "Climate Change"

I mean, what can be more IN THE KNOW than SCIENCE?! Right?
Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (i7Q7S)

One of Mrs. Cop's sisters and brother-in-law are raving loon Leftists. This brother-in-law was talking about the wonders of the electric car and didn't know how to respond to a mechanical engineer (me), a civil engineer (another brother-in-law) and a fire fighter captain (a nephew) all rebut his arguments and tell him EVs are a terrible idea.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (pJWtt)

122 10 killed in Germany train crash
A head-on train crash in eastern Germany killed 10 people and injured at least 33 others, eight of them severely, local firefighters said."

Government already calling it act of terror ... no word on the "... and it's a Muslim" driver.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 02:32 PM (Cus5s)

You don't get head-on train crashes unless somebody on the line throws the switch at the wrong time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (8zz6B)

123
We need competing AI platforms, able to sniff out and counter malicious AIs.

Colossus vs Guardian

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (63Dwl)

124 It's kinda fun to watch all these mouthpieces who sang one tune wrt Trump and another wrt Obama/Biden/Echo Chambers try to resurrect their credibility.

It doesn't much matter how much they outwardly and publicly "reflect" on their previous positions and reports. It was a lie before; they are liars forever more.

For example, Van Jones (not to pick on him alone but there will now be legions like him), who has been a chief spinner and propagandist and hopscotches to truth every once in a while when he sees the DNC position drifting too far into space. They are instrumental in this institutional communication lie machine. That they mouth some words after the conceived and applied operation has failed to reclaim lost "intellectual" ground remains as offensive as their initial crime.

They can continue to pound sand forever. They are crooked. That they now validate some position I/we had because it was truth is corrupt because the goal is simply repositioning for a more favorable future for themselves when they'll reinitiate the machine once again.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (aXxgO)

125 88 Who's more creepy?

David Axelrod

Jim Messina
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

Kenny Loggins ?
Posted by: Columbia Records Exec. at December 20, 2024 02:30 PM (TTAGa)
---
I'm alright. Don't noboody worry about me.
Posted by: Kenny Loggins at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (krQz2)

Kenny loggins needs to lay off the filler or whatever he's doing to his face, he looks creepy.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (1gLn1)

126 It warms my heart to think about how furious the commies that created this echo chamber system must still be at twitter for deciding to sell in 2022. In this new digital age losing control of twitter was probably a much bigger problem than Rush Limbo had been.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (UKUm3)

127 With regard to the Dem hissie fit about Elon's role in the ongoing budget battle:

Scott Jennings Drops the Mother of All Truth Bombs on CNN

Jennings zeroed in on Jayapal’s slip of the tongue. “She let the mask slip right at the end. She said, ‘Who’s the president right now?’” he noted.

Jennings went on to cite a recent Wall Street Journal exposé revealing that Joe Biden hasn’t actually been in charge over the past four years, and that unelected staffers and cabinet members have basically been running the government.

"Joe Biden, who we rarely hear from, The Wall Street Journal reported today has been diminished for the last four years, and we've had unelected people running around running the federal government, apparently."

Jennings didn’t stop there. He turned Jayapal’s criticism of Trump and Musk back on the Democrats, pointing out their glaring hypocrisy. “If that is what they’re worried about, if they’re worried about people who aren’t Donald Trump, you know, running the government or having influence, I wonder where they’ve been the last four years,” he quipped.

https://is.gd/U4L27e

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (xCA6C)

128
Kenny loggins needs to lay off the filler or whatever he's doing to his face, he looks creepy.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (1gLn1)

Seems his role on Archer went to his head.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

129 He would've had to disarm us and be assured that the military circa 1968 would obey his orders.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (x0n13)

Oh, I was bringing forward his vision to "COVID YEARS".

They almost grasped their Brass Ring right there.

Posted by: browndog kicks dirt on that piece of shite at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (TTAGa)

130 Remember this classic from DeathCare "Architect" & MIT "Economist" Jonathan Gruber a decade ago:

"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage, and basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass."

Well, he wasn't wrong about that ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Vivek for Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (tIIi9)

Thank goodness for Elon. that mini porkulus CR might yet survive, but he derailed it by exposing it and opening a lot of heretofore LIV eyes at the sausage making process.

The Elites cannot abide by that. He is a real threat, as is of course PDT.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (x0n13)

131 "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage, and basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass."

Well, he wasn't wrong about that ...

Posted by: ShainS"

Thankfully the Biden regime insanity manage to flip a few million Dems. The rest are even more stupid than when that was written.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (GUOwU)

132
Gassss chamber > echo chamber

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (9sGg5)

133 126 It warms my heart to think about how furious the commies that created this echo chamber system must still be at twitter for deciding to sell in 2022. In this new digital age losing control of twitter was probably a much bigger problem than Rush Limbo had been.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (UKUm3)

What's even funnier is that Elon actually wanted to back out of his purchase of Twitter once he had a chance to look at the books. "No takebacks!" they said and threatened to sue him to force him to buy Twitter.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (fJJtc)

134 We need competing AI platforms, able to sniff out and counter malicious AIs.

Colossus vs Guardian
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (63Dwl)
_______

Props for the obscure reference. Very underrated movie. Way ahead of its time.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

135 I think Musk will follow Trump ad President.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (YzqWW)

136 I think Musk will follow Trump ad President.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (YzqWW)

I mean, Owebama wasn't born here either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)

137 @AP A car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in Germany

Those diabolical cars out there just running people over willy-nilly. Somebody should do something.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (CwhoI)

138 If you aren't properly blocking car access to European Christmas markets using bollards and fences, you are doing something very, very wrong. Almost seems intentional at this point.

Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)

139
Those diabolical cars out there just running people over willy-nilly. Somebody should do something.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (CwhoI)

Common sense car control, NOW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

140 134 We need competing AI platforms, able to sniff out and counter malicious AIs.

Colossus vs Guardian
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2024 02:44 PM (63Dwl)
_______

Props for the obscure reference. Very underrated movie. Way ahead of its time.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

Puny, compared to the M-5 ...

Posted by: zombie Richard Daystrom at December 20, 2024 02:50 PM (TTAGa)

141 ...: "If they are blaming Obama for what the DNC has always done, it's because they have someone 'new' in the wings who will be part of the same old tired predictable operation."

The King is Dead; Long Live the King.

Yep. Now, the slot may be vacant of a body at the moment, but the crown and scepter is just waiting for the right mold to harden.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 20, 2024 02:50 PM (aXxgO)

142 If you aren't properly blocking car access to European Christmas markets using bollards and fences, you are doing something very, very wrong. Almost seems intentional at this point.
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)

"What?"

- -- - - - - Claus Schwab Looking to Kill a few Billion

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

143 I wonder where they’ve been the last four years,” he quipped.
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Jennings is pretty good at the panel of talking heads game, even always being outnumbered. To be fair though, his fellow panelists are idiots.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (fs1hN)

144 Us Claudia Tenney rNY a dude?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (YzqWW)

145 I really despise the term 'elites'. They're anything but elite. In fact, most of the so called 'elites' couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (3Ope8)

146 Jennings is pretty good at the panel of talking heads game, even always being outnumbered. To be fair though, his fellow panelists are idiots.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (fs1hN)

If he's not careful, he'll wind up suiciding in a park somewhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

147 I think Musk will follow Trump ad President.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (YzqWW)

He can't; born in South Africa. Not a "native born" American citizen.

Of course that didn't stop a certain dusky-hued fellow who claimed to have been born in Kenya when he wrote a book and ran for U.S. Senate.

Besides, Elon Musk aspires to be Benevolent Dictator of Mars.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (pJWtt)

148

Thank goodness for Elon. that mini porkulus CR might yet survive, but he derailed it by exposing it and opening a lot of heretofore LIV eyes at the sausage making process.

The Elites cannot abide by that. He is a real threat, as is of course PDT.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:46 PM (x0n13)

The USA owes Musk quite a lot of gratitude for buying twitter. I also think Musk would be in jail if Trump hadn't won the election.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (1gLn1)

149 So finally the tools that shit weasel Obama used to be a shit weasel are exposed. That explains the complete and utter meltdown the Left had and is still having when Musk took over Twitter.

In other news, it appears that Islamic cultural enrichment has incurred in Madeburg, Germany when somebody drove a car into a Christmas market. And just like that, 2016 Berlin repeats itself.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (e+6P0)

150 i've thought for a long time that others who worked for/with obama would subtly put ideas in obama's head and then congratulate him for his brilliance when he repeated the same ideas thinking they were his.

obama hasn't had an original thought in his life

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (CWTWj)

151 "Puny, compared to the M-5 ...
Posted by: zombie Richard Daystrom

Any computer that can be talked into offing itself is not that smart.

Posted by: Cap'n Quirk at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (vFG9F)

152 Because you're providing them a huge service -- you're allowing them to no longer feel stupid and ignorant. And they will reward you by repeating your mantras and propagandas with the fervor of a cultist.

I'll just excerpt the conclusory parts. But he builds up to this by noting, for example, how American "elite" opinion turned on Iran overnight.
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Notice how fast changes in usage occur. For example, people woke (?) up one morning and saying "of color" - i.e., a triumph of Marxist PR - became de rigeur. If the approved usage had been "of color" then Reds would demand the usage be "colored" - and the woke instantly comply. I suspect the Reds just to amuse themselves.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:52 PM (YqDXo)

153 President Musk? We clearly could do worse.

In fact, we have done worse.

Actually, we ARE doing worse.

Posted by: pookysgirl, cuddled up with an arthritic cat at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (dtlDP)

154 It warms my heart to think about how furious the commies that created this echo chamber system must still be at twitter for deciding to sell in 2022. In this new digital age losing control of twitter was probably a much bigger problem than Rush Limbo had been.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 20, 2024 02:45 PM (UKUm3)

What's even funnier is that Elon actually wanted to back out of his purchase of Twitter once he had a chance to look at the books. "No takebacks!" they said and threatened to sue him to force him to buy Twitter.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 02:47 PM (fJJtc)
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I recall that Musk even sued in DE chancery to get out of the deal. The whole thing was just so odd. Musk never really wanted to buy it. They never wanted to sell it. Then all of a sudden, they did want to sell it. Musk backtracked. They forced him to buy it.

I think they went from "Twitter is too awesome for Musk to own" to "Twitter is a basket case not worth pennies on the dollar, so we should stick Musk with this turd" in the space of 24 hours. Musk was always mostly along for the ride.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

155 Zero hedge has the car video. Looks like it was going about 50 miles an hour. How the fuck is that possible?

Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (q177U)

156 I stayed up way too late last night browsing YouTube and things got weirder the longer I watched. I recall a not-so-obvious deepfake of Musk saying something concerning, although I don't recall exactly what. But while YouTube will slap a "misinformation" warning on videos to emphasize that the 2020 election was definitely not stolen and that Covid shots are safe and effective and no one is experiencing adverse reactions, there was no warning about misinformation on these videos purporting to show Musk making some nefarious statements that could trigger a dangerous reaction.

Posted by: Emmie at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (Sf2cq)

157 143 I wonder where they’ve been the last four years,” he quipped.
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Jennings is pretty good at the panel of talking heads game, even always being outnumbered. To be fair though, his fellow panelists are idiots.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2024 02:51 PM (fs1hN)

Anyone who comments here could do as good, or perhaps a better job against those mediocrities.

The question is:

Why is he, now, allowed to question the powers that be?

Posted by: browndog barking at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (TTAGa)

158 And it might have worked... before Musk bought Twitter and started hanging regularly with Rogan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (ExV1e)

One billionaire out of how many steps off the reservation, and he's suddenly the personification of capitalist evil.

All the other billionaires who foot the bill for your goofy bullshit are just lucky philanthropists, though. They're fine.

Scumbags.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (VoAdT)

159 138 If you aren't properly blocking car access to European Christmas markets using bollards and fences, you are doing something very, very wrong. Almost seems intentional at this point.
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)

Or maybe they and we could stop importing people that want to destroy us and are incompatible with life in the west.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (1gLn1)

160 If you aren't properly blocking car access to European Christmas markets using bollards and fences, you are doing something very, very wrong. Almost seems intentional at this point.
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)

This should be true for any large open space where people can gather. Parks, sports fields, etc. Jersey barriers, bollards, fences, gates, whatever it takes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (8zz6B)

161 I just saw where the Minnesota House is temporarily under R control because some elected D was disqualified (residency requirements?)

This could be interesting.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (EG0V3)

162 I mean, I'm right here! How come Elon gets all the hate/love? Buncha damn racists.
Posted by: Vivek at December 20, 2024 02:37 PM (xCA6C)

It would be hilarious if he posted that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (ExV1e)

163
control over digital platforms, and what appeared on those platforms, was a key element in signaling and exercising that power.

......

And then the fever broke.

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I wish there was someone to get into the Obamas' heads right now. Are they mad as hell that their game is up, or are they counting their millions and moving on? I guess we'll see in 2028.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (I87yH)

164 I was going to make this point. Obama lacks the wit and/or discipline and creativity to have studied the situation and come up with a solution. He's a tool, in every sense of the word; a tool with a very elevated sense of his own competence.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (xCA6C)
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This. As said many times before, he's the CPUSA's lawn jockey. Born and bred, came up through the Red farm system, and ultimately made it to the show.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (YqDXo)

165 I'm dreaming of a white Christmas ....

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (LkLld)

166 Yeah, I think it' time to give a year-end contribution to The Tablet.

Posted by: Corndog at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (vCfXW)

167 Musk was always mostly along for the ride.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

I do love the attitude of saying "welp, let's see what we can do with this pile of nonsense."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:55 PM (VoAdT)

168 Kid intelligently decides not to get too close to notorious kid-sniffer Biden.

http://tiny.cc/rk82001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (Odg76)

169 they had started this wurlitzer with Clinton, despite his moderate face, he had pushed the steps that would lead to the subprime bubble with the CRA revisions, the Motor Voter Fraud starter kit, the woke generals,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (dJR17)

170 This should be true for any large open space where people can gather. Parks, sports fields, etc. Jersey barriers, bollards, fences, gates, whatever it takes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (8zz6B)

Or just round up the sandmaggots and kick them the fuck out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (BI5O2)

171 "Those diabolical cars out there just running people over willy-nilly. Somebody should do something.

Posted by: Citizen Cake

We must ban Christmas markets. For the children.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (GUOwU)

172 I feel like we'll never be rid of the stench of Obama. Ugh.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 20, 2024 02:22 PM (I0ZPN)
________________

And how and why did he get elected? Because he's black(ish).

And how and why did he get selected by the Reds? Because he's black(ish).

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (YqDXo)

173 Article really needs an editor. Too much word salad like "... operatives could create and operationalize mutually reinforcing networks of activists and experts to validate a messaging arc that would short-circuit traditional methods of validation and analysis ..."

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (1VvJB)

174 161 I just saw where the Minnesota House is temporarily under R control because some elected D was disqualified (residency requirements?)

This could be interesting.
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - is a man who works and pays his bills strong and independent or just normal? at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM (EG0V3)

That's not who we are!

Posted by: Minnesota Republican Party at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (fs1hN)

175
http://tiny.cc/rk82001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (Odg76)

He's got hairy legs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

176 Fox is reporting the driver of the car that plowed into the Madeburg Christmas market has been arrested. Remarkably, not, there is no information about the name, background of the driver.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (e+6P0)

177
If you aren't properly blocking car access to European Christmas markets using bollards and fences, you are doing something very, very wrong. Almost seems intentional at this point.
Posted by: Max Power

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For years, people have been posting pictures on X of those ugly, interfering bollards in European Christmas markets. I guess Magdeburg had to FAFO.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:58 PM (I87yH)

178 No word on Mohamed's last name.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (YzqWW)

179 And it might have worked... before Musk bought Twitter and started hanging regularly with Rogan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (ExV1e)
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It surprised the hell out of me when Rogan bit the bullet and endorsed Trump.

I felt that he was leaning that way. I felt that he was frustrated with the DNC-media complex, but I thought he would reserve endorsing a candidate.

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (krQz2)

180 Wesley Clark who was in on war in Kosovo, had an earlier role at WACO, but he couldn't get the Army Chief of Staff role,

the CIA had been made dumb and blind, thanks to Deutch's purge, they ignored the Northern Alliance and the threat Obama posed,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (dJR17)

181 If you aren't properly blocking car access to European Christmas markets using bollards and fences, you are doing something very, very wrong. Almost seems intentional at this point.
Posted by: Max Power at December 20, 2024 02:49 PM (q177U)

Leftists will have some idea, "If this, then Utopia" and when reality intervenes, they have cognitive dissonance. Since Muslim migrants are good and peaceful, any actions to the contrary cannot be undertaken.

Case in point: look at the reaction of the DEI-hire police chief at Madison, WI. When asked if the school had metal detectors, his response was "Why would they need metal detectors since a school is a 'Safe Space(tm)'?" -- despite that fact that they just had a mass casualty event in a school a few hours earlier.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (pJWtt)

182 24 I remember when the elites ridiculed the idea of Russia being any sort of threat.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 02:25 PM (j+LsA)

Back in the 80's.
Posted by: Obama at December 20, 2024 02:26 PM (i0F8b)

And in 2022. This idea was what was beind the strategy that a few sanctions would cause Russia to collapse and Ukraine to be the army that would control the successor states for looting.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (n7h9X)

183 173 Article really needs an editor. Too much word salad like "... operatives could create and operationalize mutually reinforcing networks of activists and experts to validate a messaging arc that would short-circuit traditional methods of validation and analysis ..."
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (1VvJB)

What does this even mean? I've never met anyone in real life that speaks like this. I guess I'm sheltered.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (1gLn1)

184 Evaburg and Zsazsaburg are next!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (VoAdT)

185 Until it was Putinbad.
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The trigger: when Putin banned adoption of Russian kids by Americans, because of the faggot problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (YqDXo)

186 Or just round up the sandmaggots and kick them the fuck out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (BI5O2)

Well, that should be done in any case. But do you think that stooned coont in madison would not have used a car instead of a pistol, if she had the former and not the latter?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (8zz6B)

187
Article really needs an editor. Too much word salad like "... operatives could create and operationalize mutually reinforcing networks of activists and experts to validate a messaging arc that would short-circuit traditional methods of validation and analysis ..."
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This

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Yes. I'm glad ace excerpted the good parts because I'm not sure I can read a whole long article like that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (I87yH)

188 Obama went to Chicago after school because that's where Alinsky was based. Hillary almost did the same but she went to Arkansas to fleece the rubes instead.

Rules For Radicals. It's a cookbook.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (LkLld)

189 Sen. Chris Murphy just went on CNN and accused @elonmusk of "endorsing a neo-N*zi party” over Elon’s support of German political party AfD.

That's very apropos to Ace's post. These idiots have clearly all gotten marching orders to smear Elon. Why do you suppose that is? Could it be that he's insanely effective, and they fear him like no other, even Trump?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM (xCA6C)

Time for Musk to strike back with massive slander lawsuits. And, maybe have a couple of gentlemen have a little "talk" with Shitheel Murphy. Maybe tell him to calm down. Yeah. Calm down. *wink*wink*

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (iODuv)

190 after that initial crash, driver kept going, running down more people ... now 11 dead, 60 more injured

Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (Cus5s)

191 I have observed that these society-influencing liars have a particular strategy that is quite effective. They appeal to a person's desire to think well of themselves. They promise that if you believe a certain way and say and do certain things (that just happen to promote globalist goals) that means you are a good person, a smart person. Others who believe and act differently are not good and not smart. So you get to think well of yourself and look down on others.

Posted by: Emmie at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (Sf2cq)

192 "Credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers and reporters to keep government spokespeople honest."

Here's the thing - nobody is in charge of this process. The people generating these mems are also captured by them.

I've always thought, what possible advantage is it for the U.S. to advantage Iran? Even the advocates of that, aren't advantaged. The answer is the advocates are also captured by the ideology they push, right up to the top. Obama pushes it because he pushes it. There is no reasoning there. He's as captured by theses stupid ideas as everyone else.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (nLFEI)

193 And how and why did he get elected? Because he's black(ish).

And how and why did he get selected by the Reds? Because he's black(ish).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (YqDXo)
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Unpossible. Our system hates black and blackish people!

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (krQz2)

194 Anyone who comments here could do as good, or perhaps a better job against those mediocrities.

Posted by: browndog barking
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No way. Maybe most of us could in writing, but it's a totally different talent in that setting.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Dm8we)

195 Unpossible. Our system hates black and blackish people!
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (krQz2)

And they're not allowed to vote!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

196 Fun fact : my Dad was in the payroll dept at Universal when The Forbin Project came out. He wrote a program to print out a press release from Colossus announcing it.

Posted by: Corndog at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (vCfXW)

197 The problem with this whole approach is that while it was very influential with the establishment, it didn't reach the voters. Nobody sane thought Iran was for peace and stability, we all knew they were raging Islamic lunatics in power. So this whole "echo chamber" thing may have worked on elites and people in charge of culture and entertainment, it never trickled down to the public consciousness.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (RsS92)

198 I have observed that these society-influencing liars have a particular strategy that is quite effective. They appeal to a person's desire to think well of themselves. They promise that if you believe a certain way and say and do certain things (that just happen to promote globalist goals) that means you are a good person, a smart person. Others who believe and act differently are not good and not smart. So you get to think well of yourself and look down on others.

Posted by: Emmie at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (Sf2cq)
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It's an appeal to awakening narcissism.

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (krQz2)

199 187 I think the guy got paid by the word. I don't care how many times you say "permission structures," it's still horseshit.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (1VvJB)

200
No way. Maybe most of us could in writing, but it's a totally different talent in that setting.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Dm8we)

He's not wrong, here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

201 183 What does this even mean? I've never met anyone in real life that speaks like this. I guess I'm sheltered.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (1gLn1)

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*removes card from envelope*

Words spoken by Shakespeare's editor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

202 This seems to largely presume that the leftist agot prop media were unwilling dupes.

I am not ready to credit them with such generous attributes. Some, sure. Most? I am not so sure.

There are some gatekeepers who were more likely willing participants, and then you have the retarded newsreaders who will read and say anything for a check.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (i24o9)

203 >>>Sen. Chris Murphy just went on CNN and accused @elonmusk of "endorsing a neo-N*zi party” over Elon’s support of German political party AfD.

On CNN? Then nobody heard it.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (CwhoI)

204 184 Evaburg and Zsazsaburg are next!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (VoAdT)

...and after that, the Gabor sisters.

Posted by: Consultant to the Stars at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (TTAGa)

205 I think they went from "Twitter is too awesome for Musk to own" to "Twitter is a basket case not worth pennies on the dollar, so we should stick Musk with this turd" in the space of 24 hours. Musk was always mostly along for the ride.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 20, 2024 02:53 PM (iFTx/)

Twitter had always been designed to lose money, and to be a back door through which the FBI, DOJ, and all the other alphabet agencies could control the social networks. I suspect they decided Musk should go ahead and bankrupt himself on it, since no one believed it could be run profitably. All of those huge valuations were of the same cloth as Kamala's Iowa poll numbers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (wyMQY)

206 I shudder to think what would be going on right now if Musk had not gotten control of Twitter.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (e+6P0)

207 Sen. Chris Murphy just went on CNN and accused @elonmusk of "endorsing a neo-N*zi party” over Elon’s support of German political party AfD.

The Dems aren't happy unless they're insulting someone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

208 What does this even mean? I've never met anyone in real life that speaks like this. I guess I'm sheltered.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (1gLn1)

its administrator-speak.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 03:03 PM (n7h9X)

209 So now Democrats WANT Trump in charge and making decisions.

Geez talk about going whichever way the wind blows...

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (j+LsA)

210 179 And it might have worked... before Musk bought Twitter and started hanging regularly with Rogan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 20, 2024 02:43 PM (ExV1e)
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It surprised the hell out of me when Rogan bit the bullet and endorsed Trump.

I felt that he was leaning that way. I felt that he was frustrated with the DNC-media complex, but I thought he would reserve endorsing a candidate.
Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (krQz2)

If Kamala had taken the opportunity to show up on Rogan's show, he would not have endorsed anyone.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (fJJtc)

211 I shudder to think what would be going on right now if Musk had not gotten control of Twitter.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (e+6P0)

Trains and camps and showers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

212 Look at the tulip craze in Holland, circa, 1634. Nobody thought "I should start a tulip craze". The originators and most fervent supporters didn't think that - they legitimately thought the price of tulips should be much higher and go to infinity.

Iran supporters support Iran because Obama supports it. Obama supports Iran because Obama think he is smarter than everyone else, hence whatever he thinks is right must be right.

Supporting Iran is something Obama elaborately justifies to himself, then sells to others. What we get wrong is assuming there is some nefarious plan - there isn't. there enever was. It is all just heightened self-regard.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (nLFEI)

213 They laughed when Elon bought Twitter.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (j+LsA)

214 I think the greatest triumph by the Democrats in the last 10 years has been flipping the media entirely into their camp. I mean they leaned Democrat for decades before that, but when Trump won they just threw aside any pretense at doing new work or reporting. It all became opinion all the time, and only from one perspective.

Its like the Blues Brothers "we have both kinds, country and western!" But in this case, its "we have both left and far left!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (RsS92)

215 He describes this as a revolution in communications -- specifically the communication of mass propaganda -- as important as any of the major developments in mass media, like the telegraph or even the printing press.

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Thanks for the recommendation & reference, Ace.

[Tangentially related observation from sometime last year IIRC:]

Christopher Rufo makes an interesting point in his latest book "America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything" (heard him interviewed about it on radio).

The American Marxist cultural revolution of the '60s and '70s failed because they couldn't seize the means of PHYSICAL production -- the American middle class was too prosperous, despite the globalist elites War on Domestic Manufacturing (and prior to the information age economy).

They then "retooled and seized upon" Herbert Marcuse's strategy of taking over all the institutions beginning with the academy.

Now they've succeeded because they have effectively seized the means of KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION, and COMMUNICATIONS production.

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (QohHq)

216 AFD which is the pro Israel party,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (dJR17)

217 210 If Kamala had taken the opportunity to show up on Rogan's show, he would not have endorsed anyone.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (fJJtc)

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Even if she had becoming a puddled mess of nonsense, Rogan still wouldn't have taken a side because he would have found some wisdom or other in the word salad that doesn't actually mean anything.

Kamala was simply in a no win scenario. Show up, she reveals herself. Don't show up, she loses a chance to appeal to a powerful podcaster.

Maybe she shouldn't have sucked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

218 >>>Sen. Chris Murphy just went on CNN and accused @elonmusk of "endorsing a neo-N*zi party” over Elon’s support of German political party AfD.

On CNN? Then nobody heard it.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (CwhoI)

Zelensky's Ukraine army in 2022 was about 30 percent actual N*zis. All the other German parties support Ukraine. Not sure of AfD's position on that, but they want out of NATO/EU.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (n7h9X)

219 No way. Maybe most of us could in writing, but it's a totally different talent in that setting.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:01 PM (Dm8we)

Come to a MoMe, and listen to the well thought out, cogent arguments ... and the calling of BULLSHIT.

Yes, being on camera and being able to be articulate is an acquired talent, but it's not rocket surgery.

Posted by: browndog parries at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (TTAGa)

220 Who was that absolute unit of a madman in the beginning of the 30 years war who would drag a bunch of mercenaries around and basically fight anything in front of him for whoever was paying him that day? Gabor something or other. Or maybe not Gabor. I forget.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (VoAdT)

221 Its like the Blues Brothers "we have both kinds, country and western!"

"Stein... that's a jew name, isn't it?"

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (9sGg5)

222 213 They laughed when Elon bought Twitter.
Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (j+LsA)

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More like...they did everything in their power to prevent Musk from buying Twitter while they told their True Believers that Twitter would collapse technologically without 20,000 censors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

223 Or just round up the sandmaggots and kick them the fuck out.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2024 02:56 PM (BI5O2)

Dude you have such a way with words. It always cracks me up. I'm so glad that your little girl is doing so well: when she was born it was sounding rather dire.

However, I do disagree with you on the individual oubliettes within the 1100 acres in DC. There would have to be dividing walls and that's just an unnecessary expense. Just excavate one giant pit and dump them in. Drop in a few edged weapons and tell them, "Bon appetit!"

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (pJWtt)

224 I think the greatest triumph by the Democrats in the last 10 years has been flipping the media entirely into their camp. I mean they leaned Democrat for decades before that, but when Trump won they just threw aside any pretense at doing new work or reporting. It all became opinion all the time, and only from one perspective.

Its like the Blues Brothers "we have both kinds, country and western!" But in this case, its "we have both left and far left!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (RsS92)

That goes back to the Clinton Era at least. Trump Derangement made it impossible to hide.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (n7h9X)

225 Look at climate change - if you wanted to solve the problem, the slowest and most expensive way is wind and solar. That is not my opinion - it is a mathematical fact. So why do so many people insist on solving the problem using the most expensive and inefficient means? Because very smart people have fooled themselves into thinking it isn't the slowest and most expensive solution. In fact, the 'Smart" people are the worst. They "know" things. They are able to quite convincing fool themselves, along with everyone around them.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (nLFEI)

226 I shudder to think what would be going on right now if Musk had not gotten control of Twitter.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 03:02 PM (e+6P0)
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I see The Lord's hand in that.

I really don't know what America is to God, but it seems to be something He wants to keep around at least a little longer to show the benefits of a system that almost runs like the Meek have inherited the Earth (as opposed to the traditional rule of Strong Men).

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (krQz2)

227 DOW up 1.5%... seems the market likes the looming Government shutdown... you know... like the rest of us do.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (QAkQ3)

228 Supporting Iran is something Obama elaborately justifies to himself, then sells to others. What we get wrong is assuming there is some nefarious plan - there isn't. there never was. It is all just heightened self-regard

It helps to look back in time at the forces that shaped leftist thought. Post WW2 they were all convinced that the causes of the war and the rise of fascism came from borders, disparities in power, and individualism. If we got rid of all that, then war would cease.

For the leftists who back Iran (the Obama mob family) they think a powerful Iran will bring peace by unifying the Islamic world and giving a feeling of strength and self worth to Muslims.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (RsS92)

229 Obama et al aren't just scamming us, they are scamming themselves.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (nLFEI)

230 If Kamala had taken the opportunity to show up on Rogan's show, he would not have endorsed anyone.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2024 03:04 PM (fJJtc)

I dunno.

If she did brazen it out, and make a complete ass out of herself as she does with everything she attempts.... it might have been an even more forceful endorsement of Trump anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (VoAdT)

231 They're not laughing now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (YzqWW)

232 230 If she did brazen it out, and make a complete ass out of herself as she does with everything she attempts.... it might have been an even more forceful endorsement of Trump anyway.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (VoAdT)

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Rogan is borderline retarded and would have found common cause with Kamala.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

233 They laughed when Elon bought Twitter.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (j+LsA)

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He lost $40 billion on that deal that saved free speech and helped Trump win this year -- and his wealth has increased by $200 billion since that election.

What an idiotic dumbass ...

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (QohHq)

234 For the leftists who back Iran (the Obama mob family) they think a powerful Iran will bring peace by unifying the Islamic world and giving a feeling of strength and self worth to Muslims. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (RsS92)

But that is just delusion. They don't have a clue that will work.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (nLFEI)

235 President Musk!

Posted by: Akshulee Enpecey at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (OA79/)

236 Trump: God Emperor
Musk: Grand Inquisitor

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (QAkQ3)

237 That goes back to the Clinton Era at least. Trump Derangement made it impossible to hide.

The Trump era made them go full into it. Remember, the press used to try to hide their bias. With Trump's inauguration the New York Times ran a front page story about how they are abandoning everything to oppose Trump. That they weren't going to do news, they were going to do year-long anti-Trump projects to destroy him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (RsS92)

238 We're just getting to the part of the cartoon where Wiley looks down.

Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (FhXTo)

239 PA woman fraudulently registering fake voters got caught because someone noticed clusters of similar names coming from one app user.

How many people didn't get caught because they used a free app to come up with a more random distribution of names.

Additionally, as one commenter noticed, one of the woman's fake voters was AUTOMATICALLY ACCEPTED BY THE SYSTEM because she didn't include a SSAN and a DOB. Other registrations lacking pertinent information trigger a HAVA letter which is sent to the registrant asking for more information.

http://tiny.cc/sl82001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (Odg76)

240 Lol

CBC ... 'journalists' questioning one of our subhuman parasites....aggressively.

"Why is the Prime Minister avoiding talking to us? He's literally going to every backdoor in the city to avoid us!"

Trudeau is no stranger to backdoors, I'm sure.

Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (jvJvP)

241 Messina molested pajama boy during the shoot, I've heard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 02:29 PM

What was worse was that he never called me afterward!

Posted by: Pajama Boy at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (kgE5c)

242 Trump: Superman
Musk: Batman

Posted by: Josephistan at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (y9ksN)

243 Rogan is borderline retarded and would have found common cause with Kamala.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

Counterpoint: She would likely have started talking smack about weed smokers while draining his studio dry of Buffalo Trace.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (VoAdT)

244 Anyone who comments here could do as good, or perhaps a better job against those mediocrities.

Posted by: browndog barking
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No way. Maybe most of us could in writing, but it's a totally different talent in that setting.

Concur. I often wonder if Jennings gets advance notice of the questions and issues to be discussed on a particular show, and then develops and practices his answers. If not, he's way out of the norm for being able to speak extemporaneously.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (xCA6C)

245 They then "retooled and seized upon" Herbert Marcuse's strategy of taking over all the institutions beginning with the academy.

Now they've succeeded because they have effectively seized the means of KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION, and COMMUNICATIONS production.

Posted by: ShainS -- President-Elect Musk will appoint Vivek to Speaker Of The House! at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (QohHq)
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Taking over institutions is Adorno's idea. IIRC.

Adorno predates the Frankfort School.

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (krQz2)

246 242 Trump: Superman
Musk: Batman
Posted by: Josephistan at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (y9ksN)

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Vance: Krypto

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

247 I have observed that these society-influencing liars have a particular strategy that is quite effective. They appeal to a person's desire to think well of themselves. They promise that if you believe a certain way and say and do certain things (that just happen to promote globalist goals) that means you are a good person, a smart person. Others who believe and act differently are not good and not smart. So you get to think well of yourself and look down on others.
Posted by: Emmie at December 20, 2024 03:00 PM (Sf2cq)

There's a reason why Pride is usually ranked as the worst of the Deadly Sins.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (pJWtt)

248 They laughed when Elon bought Twitter. Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (j+LsA)

I'm not convinced Musk won't eventually make a butt load of money from Twitter.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (nLFEI)

249 Trump: Superman
Musk: Batman
Posted by: Josephistan at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (y9ksN)

That makes Vivek Robin.

LULZ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

250 Come to a MoMe, and listen to the well thought out, cogent arguments ... and the calling of BULLSHIT.

Yes, being on camera and being able to be articulate is an acquired talent, but it's not rocket surgery.
Posted by: browndog parries
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There are no libshits at a MoMe to piss you off. Jennings keeps his cool. If any of us was on a CNN panel it would turn into Jerry Springer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Dm8we)

251 They don't have a clue that will work.

Well yeah, of course not. But they feel that its true, and are in such a titanium-clad bubble that they are convinced of their worldview. No one questions it, no one who matters.

Remember, they were ABSOLUTELY convinced that they were the majority, that the right was a tiny stupid dying minority of old white people, and that Trump only won by a technicality, not the support of the popular vote. Nobody THEY knew thought the way we do.

That's why they were so convinced that there could not have been fraud in 2020; of course Trump didn't win the popular vote, his supporters are a small minority. But this recent win... terrified and confused them. They are starting to understand that they are not the vast majority.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (RsS92)

252 There's a reason why Pride is usually ranked as the worst of the Deadly Sins.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (pJWtt)

And the worst season ever.

Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (jvJvP)

253 Trump: Superman

Posted by: Josephistan at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (y9ksN)

"Faster than a speeding bullet...."

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (j+LsA)

254 But that is just delusion. They don't have a clue that will work.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:09 PM (nLFEI)
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SPOILER: It won't.

But they'll feel good that they *tried* despite all the carnage they've caused.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (BpYfr)

255 Chicago seems to be the capitol for this Marxist/Mafia Machine. Obama's mentor Frank Marshall Davis spent much of his young adult life there. "(December 31, 1905 -- July 26, 1987) was an American journalist, poet, political and labor movement activist, and businessman."

Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2024 03:13 PM (Cus5s)

256 There are no libshits at a MoMe to piss you off. Jennings keeps his cool. If any of us was on a CNN panel it would turn into Jerry Springer.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Dm8we)

Lol ...

Point taken.

Posted by: browndog parries at December 20, 2024 03:13 PM (TTAGa)

257 There are no libshits at a MoMe to piss you off. Jennings keeps his cool. If any of us was on a CNN panel it would turn into Jerry Springer.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Dm8we)

I would swing a chair at the average CNN host in a heartbeat.

"Good morning, thanks for joining u----"

***THWACK!!!*****

"Owww! You dick!"

"WARAIOTOKO RULES!!!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:13 PM (VoAdT)

258 > Who was that absolute unit of a madman in the beginning of the 30 years war who would drag a bunch of mercenaries around and basically fight anything in front of him for whoever was paying him that day? Gabor something or other. Or maybe not Gabor. I forget.

Ernst von Mansfeld?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 20, 2024 03:14 PM (Odg76)

259 They laughed when Elon bought Twitter. Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (j+LsA)

I'm not convinced Musk won't eventually make a butt load of money from Twitter.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (nLFEI)
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That was his plan.

X-streaming has not been kicked off.

X as an pay exchange is still in the works.

He hasn't begun to make money with X, even though traffic was trending to the pre-exodus levels.

He named it X literally because he thought it could do about everything.

Like tweet your order to a pizza place, and the pizza place charges your X account.

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (krQz2)

260 Who's more creepy?
David Axelrod
Jim Messina

They both creepy as hell.

Posted by: DRIED UP REPTILE JAMES CARVILL at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (oOc/o)

261
They both creepy as hell.
Posted by: DRIED UP REPTILE JAMES CARVILL at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (oOc/o)

Hello, Pot?

It's me. Kettle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)

262 That's why they were so convinced that there could not have been fraud in 2020; of course Trump didn't win the popular vote, his supporters are a small minority. But this recent win... terrified and confused them. They are starting to understand that they are not the vast majority.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (RsS92)

I think it has astounded all of us that Trump's win has knocked the stuffing out of them the way it has. They truly believed it was not possible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (wyMQY)

263 They appeal to a person's desire to think well of themselves. They promise that if you believe a certain way and say and do certain things (that just happen to promote globalist goals) that means you are a good person, a smart person.

Yeah, that works really well on a lot of people. There are others who find this extremely annoying and off-putting, but that's not a majority.

I watched a video of a girl who was a leftist and eventually came to her senses. She explained what it was like to grow up that way: you felt helpless, hopeless, and endlessly frustrated. They are bombarded with a host of insoluable problems which no one person can possibly even hope to change: climate change, institutionalized racism, sexism, etc etc etc.

The only way she could find to cope was to find others of the same mind set to empathise with and demonstrate. It gave them a sense of use, purpose, and hope. Eventually she figured out it was all crap and lies, but until then it was this self-feeding madness that forced people to gather in these pods of like thinking and shut out anyone else.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:16 PM (RsS92)

264 What really must be done to the Left is what Bill Ayers said had to be done to 25 million Americans once he and the Weathermen overthrew America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)

And to think he came ***this close*** to achieving that wet dream.

Posted by: browndog kicks dirt on that piece of shite at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (TTAGa)
_________________

See also Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Salvador Allende ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

265 262 I think it has astounded all of us that Trump's win has knocked the stuffing out of them the way it has. They truly believed it was not possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (wyMQY)

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The biggest surprise since has been Democrat officials continuing to support the popular vote of presidents.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

266
There are no libshits at a MoMe to piss you off. Jennings keeps his cool. If any of us was on a CNN panel it would turn into Jerry Springer.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 20, 2024 03:11 PM (Dm8we)

I would lose my sh*t and be making faces and rolling my eyes and making jack off motions with my hands. I could never do that.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 03:16 PM (1gLn1)

267 260 Who's more creepy?
David Axelrod
Jim Messina

They both creepy as hell.
Posted by: DRIED UP REPTILE JAMES CARVILL

John Podesta is creepier than both of them.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 20, 2024 03:17 PM (sAmhv)

268 Biden Admin Hiring 1,200 DEI Bureaucrats Before Handing Over to Trump

The jobs offer annual salaries of up to $310,000 and could inflate the federal payroll by $160 million annually.

Daily Wire reporter @lukerosiak explains how the Biden administration is sabotaging the Trump administration before President Biden packs his bags.

"It seems like an effort to sandbag the Trump Administration in the same way as auctioning off pieces of the border wall or signing union contracts that extend through 2029."

https://bit.ly/49LrUbD

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 03:17 PM (P5BPp)

269 He named it X literally because he thought it could do about everything.

Like tweet your order to a pizza place, and the pizza place charges your X account.

Yeah X is more generic, it allows him to use it for a bunch of other products. Plus all the big advertisers are coming back LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:17 PM (RsS92)

270 224 I think the greatest triumph by the Democrats in the last 10 years has been flipping the media entirely into their camp. I mean they leaned Democrat for decades before that, but when Trump won they just threw aside any pretense at doing new work or reporting. It all became opinion all the time, and only from one perspective.

Its like the Blues Brothers "we have both kinds, country and western!" But in this case, its "we have both left and far left!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:05 PM (RsS92)

That goes back to the Clinton Era at least. Trump Derangement made it impossible to hide.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (n7h9X)

The beautiful irony is that by doing that, they killed it all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:17 PM (wyMQY)

271 don't remember seeing this mentioned, but it looks like the Madison, WI police chief is moving to Seattle in the same role.

Failing up much?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 02:42 PM (VNX3d)
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David Hogg nods in approval.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:18 PM (YqDXo)

272 Many conservatives don't believe in the existence of these biological puppets.

Maybe alien hardware is being used on the target population. A ray gun to keep the kids off your mental front yard.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 03:18 PM (ABbDT)

273 Space X

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (j+LsA)

274 as far as competitors to X - it's hilarious to watch places like Bluesky burn themselves to the ground.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (wyMQY)

275 There's a reason why Pride is usually ranked as the worst of the Deadly Sins.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:10 PM (pJWtt)

And the worst season ever.
Posted by: Stateless at December 20, 2024 03:12 PM (jvJvP)

I'd forgotten about those scumbags trying to re-purpose June from being dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Sin of Sodom.

Homosexuals aren't intrinsically bad people, but it is a disordered sexual passion, and most of them were sexually abused during their formative years. We want to break the cycle of abuse rather than celebrating it.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (pJWtt)

276 They truly believed it was not possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:15 PM (wyMQY)

All the people who trusted in The Cheat to win it for their team, but are too little to have anything to do with The Cheat itself, are amazed that the people who actually do the heavy lifting decided it wasn't worth the candle to buy another four years of absolutely shit-canning the Democrat brand with some drunken prostitute they scraped off the streets of San Francisco.

Take the L. Take the draft picks. Call it a building year.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (VoAdT)

277 Fox is reporting the driver of the car that plowed into the Madeburg Christmas market has been arrested. Remarkably, not, there is no information about the name, background of the driver.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 20, 2024 02:57 PM (e+6P0)
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Because there's no need to elucidate the obvious.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (YqDXo)

278 Biden Admin Hiring 1,200 DEI Bureaucrats Before Handing Over to Trump

The jobs offer annual salaries of up to $310,000 and could inflate the federal payroll by $160 million annually.

This is one of those college girl "I'LL FIX THAT TRUMP" pipe dream things. They can't hire that many people in the three weeks they have before Trump takes office (holiday breaks etc) and he can just gire them all right away.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (RsS92)

279 Twitter was worth $40 billion when they never made a profit.

Now it's worth $9 billion and is likely to be profitable.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:20 PM (nLFEI)

280 Car attack in German Christmas market with multiple wounded/killed.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2024 02:28 PM

Video: https://bit.ly/4iQBf6b

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Deliberate mass murder

Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray

CONTENT WARNING: Gruesome footage of the moment a vehicle drove straight through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 03:21 PM (P5BPp)

281 as far as competitors to X - it's hilarious to watch places like Bluesky burn themselves to the ground.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2024 03:19 PM (wyMQY)
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I saw this meme using the urinal reference that everybody knows.

X: Two guys at a row of urinals with 3 urinals between each other.

Threads: Two guys pissing right next to each other.

Bluesky: Two guys turned toward each other, pissing on each other.

I laughed out load because that is so appropo of what I've been reading about Bluesky.

Posted by: Axeman at December 20, 2024 03:21 PM (krQz2)

282 Biden Admin Hiring 1,200 DEI Bureaucrats Before Handing Over to Trump

The jobs offer annual salaries of up to $310,000 and could inflate the federal payroll by $160 million annually.

The Federal hiring process can take months to years (no, I'm not kidding) so it will be interesting to see how they accomplish this in a month or two.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 03:21 PM (xCA6C)

283 The video of the car driving through the German Christmas market is horrific. There will be more then one dead.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 20, 2024 03:22 PM (2NHgQ)

284 I'm late to the party having taken a long nap so commenting on that basement garage fire:
I know I'm being pedantic but ..... is there any fire that isn't a thermal fire? Isn't that the definition of fire, a thermal event? That is a vehicle fire or a battery fire. Can't even say a chemical fire as all fires are eventually chemical even if started by electrical or nuclear energy.

Posted by: Ciampino - Burn baby burn? at December 20, 2024 03:22 PM (i0xsb)

285

It really was better for the country that Trump lost to Biden.

Maybe he played some 3D chess on that one.

Posted by: E Buzz at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (JROaS)

286 Funny thing is, when you get to the end, I don't think the media (shocker!) has come close to reflecting the true sea change in the Middle East and how badly Iran's influence in the region has suffered due to Israel's response to 10/7 and what appears to me to be Turkey's opportunistic undermining of Assad in Syria.

If you had one of those animated bar charts with relative influence or military power in the region, you'd see Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah reduced to virtually nothing much like we was the biggest companies in America eclipsed by Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook, seemingly overnight.

Posted by: deadrody at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (OeYsY)

287 NOOD German Christmas Attack

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (VNX3d)

288 Biden Admin Hiring 1,200 DEI Bureaucrats Before Handing Over to Trump

The jobs offer annual salaries of up to $310,000 and could inflate the federal payroll by $160 million annually.

The Federal hiring process can take months to years (no, I'm not kidding) so it will be interesting to see how they accomplish this in a month or two.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2024 03:21 PM (xCA6C)
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Heh. A DEI bureaucrat makes more than a Congresscritter. That's gotta stick in their craw.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (BpYfr)

289 nood ... Christmas market attack

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at December 20, 2024 03:23 PM (pJWtt)

290 Or maybe they and we could stop importing people that want to destroy us and are incompatible with life in the west.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 20, 2024 02:54 PM

Elon Musk @elonmusk

He did

Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray

Almost a decade ago, UAE Foreign Minister HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed warned Europe of what would happen if they continued down their path of suicidal altruism by inviting dangerous fanatics into their nations. They should have listened.

https://bit.ly/3P4xaO3

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (P5BPp)

291 Commentary on the German Christmas fair attack. Goes to X.

https://tinyurl.com/528ztjps

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (iODuv)

292 The beautiful irony is that by doing that, they killed it all.

Same thing with entertainment. They rammed into Ludicrous Speed to the left, locked down the entire country to regain power in the White House, and then had a huge strike in Hollywood. Its like watching Sideshow Bob walk into a whole street full of rakes. They did it all to themselves.

Now nobody watches network TV or cable any more, and streaming is dying of money starvation. Disney made a ton of money this year but they lost billions last year. They STILL haven't made one thin dime on Star Wars or Lucasfilm. The highest rated show in the world is... a podcast by a pot smoking knucklehead who just asks interesting questions and has fun.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (RsS92)

293 Evaburg and Zsazsaburg are next!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2024 02:59 PM (VoAdT)

...and after that, the Gabor sisters.
Posted by: Consultant to the Stars

In Hungarian, "dahlink" is "dragam".

Posted by: Miklos is happy for assist at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (xesY+)

294 Look at climate change - if you wanted to solve the problem, the slowest and most expensive way is wind and solar. That is not my opinion - it is a mathematical fact. So why do so many people insist on solving the problem using the most expensive and inefficient means? Because very smart people have fooled themselves into thinking it isn't the slowest and most expensive solution. In fact, the 'Smart" people are the worst. They "know" things. They are able to quite convincing fool themselves, along with everyone around them.
Posted by: El Mariachi at December 20, 2024 03:07 PM (nLFEI)

The explanation is simple, and has a long history.

Case in point...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nKIX0QLGlzw

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2024 03:24 PM (y9nCu)

295 284 ..... is there any fire that isn't a thermal fire? Isn't that the definition of fire, a thermal event? That is a vehicle fire or a battery fire. Can't even say a chemical fire as all fires are eventually chemical even if started by electrical or nuclear energy.
Posted by: Ciampino - Burn baby burn? at December 20, 2024 03:22 PM (i0xsb)
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Fires are defined by the fuels. Class A, B, C, and D. Effectively, EV fires are a Class D burning metal fire. That's what makes them so dangerous. Self sustaining at high temperatures and extremely difficult to extinguish

Posted by: deadrody at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (OeYsY)

296 They say the truck ran through the bollards at the Christmas market. They need Clinton-strength bollards like we have here in the US.

Posted by: jeannebodine at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (N79S3)

297 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2024 03:25 PM (bss/y)

298 Maybe she shouldn't have sucked.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

Then she wouldn't have got very far at all.

Posted by: ... at December 20, 2024 03:26 PM (j+LsA)

299 I remember most people never witnessed a terrorist killing a hostage back in the later 2000s.
People choose not to be influenced.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 20, 2024 03:27 PM (ABbDT)

300 Kamala was simply in a no win scenario. Show up, she reveals herself. Don't show up, she loses a chance to appeal to a powerful podcaster.

Maybe she shouldn't have sucked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 20, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)
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Then she wouldn't have had any political career whatsoever.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2024 03:28 PM (YqDXo)

301 ***The originator of this new style of Astroturf propaganda was Obama's mentor, the creepy David Axelrod. The neomarxist social media monopolies just allowed him to bring it to planetary scale through the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence.
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Axelrod is creepy enough for this but it's hard to think that Bill Ayers & Wife were not hip deep in this nightmare creation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (Drm1A)

302 Christopher R Taylor: "I think the greatest triumph by the Democrats in the last 10 years has been flipping the media entirely into their camp. I mean they leaned Democrat for decades before that, but when Trump won they just threw aside any pretense at doing new work or reporting..."

I'd say it was actually their greatest failure. By going sooo universally overboard against Trump (and the reality that MAGA/Trump brought because we were living it), everyone saw the endless lies. It was so outlandish and in your face - for years - that most normal people couldn't help but see the game being played. It made too significant a number of new critics to look at ALL media as dishonest and incredible.

There was no plausible deniability to hostile enemedia anymore.

I pray that the electorate doesn't forget this enemedia dynamic for the next forty to fifty years.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 20, 2024 03:29 PM (aXxgO)

303 My favorite part of this election is the missing 81 million voters from last election. Where did they go? Why didn't they vote for Kamala? Trump must have cheated somehow

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2024 03:31 PM (NQtI0)

304 299 I remember most people never witnessed a terrorist killing a hostage back in the later 2000s.
People choose not to be influenced.
Posted by: humphreyrobot
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They all should have been made to witness what they did to Danny Pearl. Not driving that home was a sin. Not obliterating them is Bush's shame forever.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 03:33 PM (Drm1A)

305 They believed the endless lives and lived it Until some recent event turned the lights on And then they saw and knew that it was all a lie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 20, 2024 03:37 PM (Drm1A)

306 I usually cannot stand smarty pants pseudo-intellectual think pieces, like this, where they manage to expand one witty X post into 30 pages of annoying literary masturbation, even when I agree with the author's point, but this article was fantastic. I could not stop reading it until I was done. I had not done that since the passing of the great Angel Codevilla.

Posted by: tommylotto at December 20, 2024 03:42 PM (6QQM8)

307 Imma need a permission structure that will validate muh tentacle porn....

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at December 20, 2024 03:50 PM (EoQd1)

308 usually cannot stand smarty pants pseudo-intellectual think pieces, like this, where they manage to expand one witty X post into 30 pages of annoying literary masturbation, even when I agree with the author's point, but this article was fantastic. I could not stop reading it until I was done. I had not done that since the passing of the great Angel Codevilla
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I completely agree with this commenters review.guy is real deal. No shit. Fantastic, dense, but insightful, and violently accurate.

Posted by: Simplemind. at December 20, 2024 03:57 PM (EoQd1)

309 What really must be done to the Left is what Bill Ayers said had to be done to 25 million Americans once he and the Weathermen overthrew America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2024 02:40 PM (x0n13)

I'd like to start with Ayers.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 20, 2024 03:58 PM (hwLGC)

310 Obama in Prison with Clinton(Bill)as his Cellmate the perfect pair THE SCREWBALL COUPLE

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 20, 2024 05:25 PM (wGqjj)

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