SkyDance Media Promises to Strip the Bias Out of CBS in Both "News" and "Entertainment"

This is a real changing of the (old, ancien) guard.

Is it possible that one legacy network actually realizes that as people cut the cords and abandon TV at accelerating rates it becomes even more crucial to appeal to the entire potential audience, not just the 15% of hard-left Timeline Witch Lunatics they'd rather appeal to?

Could might be!

Skydance Media has made a series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount, when its planned acquisition of the companies is complete. Skydance is also confirming the "elimination" of all "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" policies and initiatives at Paramount, which had been one of the most aggressive proponents of DEI in the entertainment business.
Should the Trump administration, as expected, approve the transaction, Skydance now says it will launch a "comprehensive review of CBS" focused on bias, as well as appoint an "ombudsman" to "evaluate complaints of bias or other concerns involving CBS," and eliminate Paramount's controversial Office of Global Inclusion.
"When it comes to the legacy national news media, change is long overdue," Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr told the Washington Free Beacon.

Meanwhile:

As you know, Jeff Bezos is attempting to change the Washington Post into an actual newspaper instead of a Democrat/Communist Party communications shop. His new regime at the Post sent out emails telling all of its woke ideologues that if they could not "align" themselves with the Post's new mission of being an actual newspaper -- and promoting fascist agenda items like free speech -- they should take the paper's voluntary buy-out package because otherwise they'll just be terminated with no large severance packages.

Essentially management asked employees to accurately classify themselves as either actual journalists or woke DEI hires and professional antifa propagandists, and make a sound prediction about what their future employment opportunities would be.

On Monday, it was reported that black DEI hire and professional homosexual Jonathan Capehart had correctly assessed himself as being likely to receive a pinkslip and so he self-deported.

From Instapundit, quoting The Wrap:

Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart is the latest prominent writer to leave the paper after owner Jeff Bezos revamped the opinion section, with the Pulitzer-winning commentator and frequent Trump critic reportedly accepting a buyout on Monday.
Capehart's buyout was first reported by Axios. He will remain the co-host of MSNBC's "The Weekend" and will still be a panelist on PBS "NewsHour" after leaving WaPo, where he has been since 2007.

And yesterday, Catherine Rampell, a smug communist grifter who looks like the ugly girl in The Last of Us who claims she's a "data-driven journalist" and whose "data-driven" deep dives into issues somehow always result in the conclusion that everything the left-wing Democrat Party tells you is 100% true, announced that she, too, understands that she's a DEI hire and so took the cowardly way out.

Catherine Rampell
@crampell
Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout.
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this--11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them...

Below: Catherine Rampell sniffs to Scott Jennings -- who of course she rushes to contradict using her "data-driven journalism" of just checking the DNC's talking points -- that she's "not a Democrat, [she's] a journalist."

Sure, Brunette Jan.

Never forget.
pic.twitter.com/1ZtEjpcR4H
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 23, 2025

People often say that they don't know who these media mutants are. Here's Bing's AI to tell you who this "data-driven journalist" who's definitely not just a Democrat shill is all about:

Prominent Themes in Rampell's Work
Rampell frequently addresses complex policy issues such as economic reform, immigration policies, healthcare, federal budget debates, and governmental accountability. She is recognized for combining solid data analysis with accessible writing to inform and influence public discourse. Her criticism and coverage include topics like Trump administration policies, immigration reforms, the federal budget's impact on social services, and broader economic trends.
Notable Articles
"First thing we do, let's fire all the statisticians" -- A critical look at the Trump administration's handling and defunding of federal statistics agencies, highlighting dangers to reliable data collection and transparency.
"What a $178 billion gift means for the immigration police state" -- Examines the expansion of funding for immigration enforcement and its societal impact.
"The GOP's big, fat warning sign to the bond market" -- Analyzes Republican budget legislation and its fiscal contradictions, emphasizing concerns over accounting practices and debt.
"Trump is finally building his wall, and we'll all suffer the consequences" -- Discusses the economic and political effects of Trump's border wall and associated immigration restrictions.
"RIP, MAHA" -- A piece on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" initiative, exploring promises vs. realities of health policy reform.
"Biden can easily lift the refugee ceiling. So why hasn't he?" -- Investigates refugee policy under the Biden administration, revealing delays in fulfilling pledges and pushing for change through public pressure.

See what I mean? Weird how all of her "data-driven deep-dives" always result in the conclusion Orange Man Bad, Republican Racist. It's almost as if she's not using the data to find the answers at all, but goes in knowing what her answers are and then just calls up left-wing "experts" to provide her the "data-driven" reasons why The Left Is Always Right.

But that's not all. Fat degenerate loser Philip Bump also announced that he's taking the coward's way out.

And who's he? Well he's been a real lolcow for the right for years. Like Catherine Rampell, he poses as a sophsticated evidence-based "journalist" and like Catherine Rampbell his evidence-based analysis also always results in finding The Left Is Always Right.

And then he melts down when people point out facts he's ignoring to get to his leftist talking point "conclusions." For example, he went on a podcast hosted by a fellow Democrat who's not nearly as much as a braindead shill as Bump is. The Democrat pointed out that while Bump keeps claiming there's "no evidence" that Joe Biden entered into corrupt dealings with his crackhead son, we have an email from Hunter Biden stating "I'm giving half of my salary to dad."

How does Bump respond? Well, after huffing and sweating a bit, he just says "I don't know what to make of that" so he makes nothing of it. He just ignores it like he always ignores all contrary evidence, which is a strange habit for an "evidence-based journalist" to have.

Here’s @pbump’s response to a simple question from @noam_dworman about what he as a journalist thinks of Hunter Biden’s text message to his adult daughter explaining that he has to give half his income to his father. The lack of curiosity is stunning. https://t.co/HuXKIMUVhC pic.twitter.com/Aa4dXZ6HJR
— a newsman (@a_newsman) September 1, 2023

Jonathan Turley mocked this flabby-titted lolcow at the time.

Dworman makes another valiant effort: "I have two issues here. One is Joe Biden's behavior and one is the issue of the press. The press actually bothers me more than Joe Biden."
Bump, however, has all but left the building: "Because you don't listen to the press. I'm sitting here and I'm telling you, you're wrong about these things, and you don't listen, and you continue to insist upon things that are, you know, parsing of language. And it's just, it's this is why I keep saying it's silly." He then says that he is leaving.
Dworman responded "Well, it's a shame because this is a good conversation."
Bump: "It's not a good conversation, because you refuse to listen to what I'm saying to you. You asked me on to present evidence. I keep telling you."
However, what he "keeps telling" Dworman and the public is to just accept his conclusions and not question his support and analysis.
Bump then walks out with a statement that captures perfectly the new media. He first attacks independent journalist Matt Taibbi and says that he has "an agenda."
Dworman delivers a haymaker in response and states "You have no agenda."
That is when Bump delivers his exit line that foreshadowed the Post statement on my column: "I do have an agenda ... My agenda is to do my best to try and present accurate information to the public. And I have an institution behind me to hold me to account when I don't do that, which I think is an important consideration."
Indeed, the Post would then stand entirely behind Bump and claim that all of his false statements were true. Even when other media have acknowledged that these claims were false, the Post insists that they remain true. Thus, the Post is now saying that the following are true despite findings by inspector generals and special counsels to the contrary: (1) Bill Barr did order the clearing of Lafayette Park for the Trump photo op, (2) Barr also lied when he denied the use of tear gas by federal personnel in Lafayette Park, (3) there was never any spying on the Trump campaign by the FBI, (4) Hunter Biden's laptop was seeded with Russian disinformation, and (5) the Clinton campaign was not behind false Russian collusion claims. It is all now deemed true by the Post. It appears that, if "Democracy dies in darkness," journalism more often dies in the light of day.

Few people know this, but this fat sweaty sack of failure gave a Tedx Talk -- you know, not a real Ted Talk, for whatever that's worth, but the junior-league night school discount Temu version of a Ted Talk -- in which he railed against "subjective media" -- media which just mindlessly reassures you that your ideological priors are correct, no matter what the contrary evidence is -- and demanded people only give credence (and obedience) to "institutions" which are completely objective and evidence-based, like his columns in the Washington Post.

As Jerry Seinfeld said: "It's a real scene, man."

He's arguing that the Mueller Report did not exonerate Trump, as everyone else saw it, but in fact only further proved his guilt, just like Philip Bump had believed all along.

Here's his precis of his spittle-flecked "talk:"

Misinformation isn't a result of social media. Social media is the accelerant that created chaos in the wake of a collapse in institutional confidence.
President Trump is the highest-profile spreader of misinformation, but he embraced and stoked misinformation and misinformation systems that already existed, rather than creating the problem.
In part, this is a function of the decline in authority. Once upon a time, people's understanding of the world was more carefully bounded by news outlets and political leaders. The collapse in trust in those institutions coupled with a social media sphere where you can always find someone who agrees with you has led to the growth of misinformation broadly -- but, more problematically, an actual marketplace for falsehoods in the media and in politics.

The absolute

AUDACITY [!!!]

of this flubber-faced floppy-dicked zero-T blob of flopsweat and sexual incompetence to instruct other people that they are reflexive partisans who choose to live in media bubbles that do not really inform them but only provide them with hacky propaganda that reassures them that all of their political biases are 100% correct.

Posted by: Ace at 05:21 PM

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1 Foist!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 05:22 PM (iJfKG)

2 Roomy.

With free cable!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 05:23 PM (iJfKG)

3 Kill them all for God shall know his own.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

4 I'll go get the slackers.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 05:23 PM (iJfKG)

5 'Columnizing'?

No. You don't get to coin verbiage like that.

Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2025 05:24 PM (oSEaw)

6
The graveyards are full of indispensable journalists.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 05:24 PM (HZi96)

7 Judges would have accepted:

'Fifth Columnizing'.

Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2025 05:24 PM (oSEaw)

8 >>>who looks like the ugly girl in The Last of Us

as in, the most ugly?

Posted by: brak at July 24, 2025 05:25 PM (jGJov)

9 I'll see it when I believe it.

Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2025 05:25 PM (pMi6S)

10 I don't read WaPo, so I don't know who any of these "reporters" are, but I hope Bezos can actually clean things up over there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2025 05:25 PM (2GCMq)

11 The First Turning keeps on rolling

Posted by: kallisto at July 24, 2025 05:25 PM (r6CG0)

12 Willowed

Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order.
Posted by: Kindltot
___________

The ADA and Rehab Act have been interpreted to require treatment in the least restrictive setting, so going to need the SC to change their Olmstead opinion. That's why a lot of inpatient facilities have closed, and we now have group homes of five or ten out in the neighborhoods. And halfway houses.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 24, 2025 05:22 PM

Can the Federal government build a city of the damned somewhere with nothing but group homes in it and force the insane to live there? They would be free to roam around the town but there are not roads leading to it.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 05:25 PM (jc0TO)

13 SkyDance Media Promises to Strip the Bias Out of CBS in Both "News" and "Entertainment".

Well - that's a little sand in my Va-Jay-Jay that I've had all day. Because I've read variations of this story all day.

You can't do that. You can't "strip the bias" out of people. People are what they are. Bias is what makes you. Its what makes me.

In the case of SkyDance Media ? They're big media. They're going to push a bias. Even if you set to sides against each other internally - to create negative feedback - one side will win and push their bias.

Because that's people. That's how they work.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 05:25 PM (ciJ04)

14 One can only hope some of this sanity will infect the Wall Street Journal, as they have been sliding down the Krazy Karen Kanal for years now.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 05:26 PM (Ft5W9)

15 >>In part, this is a function of the decline in authority. Once upon a time, people's understanding of the world was more carefully bounded by news outlets and political leaders. The collapse in trust in those institutions

He sniffed out the problem.

He's just unwilling to admit the smell of shit is coming from his freshly shit-in pants.

Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2025 05:26 PM (oSEaw)

16 As you know, Jeff Bezos is attempting to change the Washington Post into an actual newspaper instead of a Democrat/Communist Party communications shop.

I suspect the left cheering on Luigi the Murder has changed the perspective of some oligarchs like Bezos.

He bought a lot of good from the left byl funding leftwing orgs even though he is virtually a stereotype of an evil capitalist pig.

But when the left thinks it should be able to murder CEOs well, Bezos and his ilk appear to be reconsidering whether the old deal holds.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2025 05:26 PM (t0Rmr)

17 Willowed:

We need one Senator to issue a quorum call on the days the Senate is fake in session.

Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 05:27 PM (TN0g+)

18 I remember that fat degenerate loser Philip Bump interview when it happened. I actually sat through the whole thing.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 05:27 PM (3kTgY)

19 The only was for the "news" to be truly "unbiased" is to move the supposed "center-pint" of the political spectrum about 6 miles to the right, so that future "middle-of-the-road" coverage is actually what nowadays is slandered as "extreme right."

Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2025 05:28 PM (pMi6S)

20 These DNC mouthpieces have led some pretty cushy lives as a result of throwing in with satan.
I hope must of them are trust fund babies because they won’t be successful doing podcasts.

Posted by: kallisto at July 24, 2025 05:28 PM (r6CG0)

21 Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 05:26 PM (Ft5W9)

Competent journalists don't fear the Reaper.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2025 05:28 PM (gKWVE)

22 ... this flubber-faced floppy-dicked zero-T blob of flopsweat and sexual incompetence ...

Oh! The theme I've been waiting for all my life. Poetry. Sheer poetry, ace! An A+!

Posted by: Miss Shields at July 24, 2025 05:28 PM (wVcYX)

23 Expect to see more adult diaper and Ensure ads non-stop.

Boomers buy a lot of that shit.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 24, 2025 05:28 PM (/U5Yz)

24 only was = only way

Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2025 05:28 PM (pMi6S)

25
SkyDance sounds like such a stupid name, like they have Kokopelli in their logo.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 05:29 PM (HZi96)

26 Columnization = spreading columny.

Rowization > Columnization.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 05:29 PM (3kTgY)

27 In part, this is a function of the decline in authority. Once upon a time, people's understanding of the world was more carefully bounded by news outlets and political leaders. The collapse in trust in those institutions.

When, exactly ? The time when Walter Kronkite repeated the lies of 'Nam ?

This stinks to high heavens. When, exactly, should we trust experts ? Covid ?

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 05:29 PM (ciJ04)

28 In education, "data driven" is always code for "do whatever you want and claim some bullshit study supports it." Educational 'scientific' studies are done by people of the caliber of "Doctor" Jill, by the way, so they always prove their hypothesis correct (which means you should pay them millions for their totes awesome new way to learn math or whatever).

Posted by: the lower depths at July 24, 2025 05:29 PM (+b4rY)

29 So today President Trump signs an executive order aiming to get the mentally ill off the streets and into institutions where they can be treated, and also today The View crew announce they're going into hiatus?

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 05:30 PM (Ft5W9)

30 Ugly girl in the last if us

Wait are we talking the weight lifter gal, the lesbian gal or the zombie mushroom immune gal who looked like chunk in the TV show?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 05:30 PM (zZu0s)

31 >>This stinks to high heavens. When, exactly, should we trust experts ?

When there was no independent source there to fact check them in real time...

those are the halcyon days this fag is pining for.

Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2025 05:30 PM (oSEaw)

32 Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 05:26 PM (Ft5W9)

Competent journalists don't fear the Reaper.

--------

Yes, but some are victims of a thousand psychic wars...

Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 05:30 PM (TN0g+)

33 Ace, for example, in reality-based neutrality-assessment, is slightly left-of-center. Every now and then he's got a soft heart for a sob story. To be truly neutral you have to be a steely-eyed ultra-realist.

Posted by: zombie at July 24, 2025 05:31 PM (pMi6S)

34 I want to hear that SkyDance fires CBS employees by lashing them to the rim a large wheel and rolling them down hills into pits full of ravenous beasts.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 05:31 PM (c3YMA)

35 >>Wait are we talking the weight lifter gal, the lesbian gal or the zombie mushroom immune gal who looked like chunk in the TV show?

I don't think Chunk had Downs Syndrome...which that chick obviously does have.

Posted by: garrett at July 24, 2025 05:31 PM (oSEaw)

36 I get Skydance and Skybound mixed up all the time.

One owns Robert Kirkman's stuff, like Invincible.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 05:32 PM (xcxpd)

37 Imagine being a democrat voter in a blue city, having vagrants leave needles and crapping on your kid's playground, and breaking into your cars, houses and destroying your business, while forcing you to avoid them as they shoot up in your parking structure and block walking through your downtown because they are sleeping on the sidewalk, and your congress critter and state and city officials tell you that it is ILLEGAL to do anything about it.

This is the emancipation proclamation 3.0

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 05:32 PM (D7oie)

38 Lady Mormont is a waterhead.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 05:32 PM (jc0TO)

39 "I'm telling you, you're wrong about these things, and you don't listen"

QED

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 05:33 PM (3kTgY)

40 37 "Imagine being a democrat voter"

I'd rather not. Probably those people will find a way to claim that not being assaulted and stepping into feces is "white supremacy" or something.

Posted by: the lower depths at July 24, 2025 05:33 PM (+b4rY)

41 I read these posts, the subjects I never heard of and I do not give the squeakiest shart about, only to take in and savor Ace's trash talk.
Bravo, sir.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 24, 2025 05:33 PM (Mb1U/)

42 So today President Trump signs an executive order aiming to get the mentally ill off the streets and into institutions where they can be treated, and also today The View crew announce they're going into hiatus?

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma

I read somewhere (and I can't find where, but I believe it... because I want to) that the percentage of homeless in the US of A is almost exactly the percentage of people in mental institutions, when we had such things.

Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2025 05:35 PM (cPGH3)

43 SkyDance Media Promises to Strip the Bias Out of CBS in Both "News" and "Entertainment"

It's a trick, get an axe.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2025 05:35 PM (O7YUW)

44 "Imagine being a democrat voter"

-------

Its easy if you try...

Posted by: John L. at July 24, 2025 05:35 PM (TN0g+)

45 Fucking FedEx.

Your package will arrive between 10AM-Noon.

Your package will arrive between Noon-2PM

Your package will arrive between 2PM-4PM

Your package will arrive today.

Your driver is BRAYDON.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 05:35 PM (jc0TO)

46 SkyDance sounds like such a stupid name, like they have Kokopelli in their logo.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 05:29 PM (HZi96)

It's because they'll make Bump dance to Baby Elephant Walk as they cattle-prod him out the door of a helicopter.

At least that's what the name strongly suggests and I'll be disappointed in their false advertising if they don't make good on their brand promise.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 05:35 PM (c3YMA)

47 huffing and sweating
flubber-faced
floppy dicked
Fat degenerate
zero-T
fat sweaty
flabby titted
braindead

sack of failure
shill
blob of flopsweat and sexual incompetence
evidence-based journalist
loser
lolcow

You can combine these in any way and the essential meaning is preserved.

Posted by: H at July 24, 2025 05:35 PM (2gjbv)

48 In part, this is a function of the decline in authority.

From the people perpetually screeching about 'authoritarianism' ... are in fact authoritarians.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2025 05:36 PM (mlg/3)

49 I'm sure people want to respond to these "journalists" with " learn to code" as they said to coal miners and other blue collars. These "journalists" are so useless that I would not want to utilize anything with code in it that they had written.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 05:36 PM (8UsV6)

50 flubber-faced floppy-dicked zero-T blob of flopsweat and sexual incompetence
heh heh Ace channeling his inner Wizard of Oz

Posted by: Capatin Fantsatic at July 24, 2025 05:37 PM (VPPG8)

51 When there was no independent source there to fact check them in real time...

those are the halcyon days this fag is pining for.

That's what it sounds like to me.

In all fairness, at least one generation misses those days. They just argued about who should be the experts.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 05:37 PM (ciJ04)

52 There's nothing to save it's dead. Kids don't even watch ANY television shows. There's no future audience.

Posted by: Max Power at July 24, 2025 05:37 PM (Hucnr)

53 Shorter (and less impotent) Phillip Bump: Trust the Machine.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)

54 When, exactly ? The time when Walter Kronkite repeated the lies of 'Nam ?"

Yeah. The correct answer is "never".
Prior to the mid 20th century, "journalism" and "news" were commonly highly partisan, and all knew and understood.
"Mass media" killed off competition under cover supplied by government...

(Recall the Fairness Doctrine? )

Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 05:38 PM (tubbA)

55
"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." - Dr. Johnson

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 05:38 PM (HZi96)

56 Cloture was passed on the nomination of Emil Bove to be Federal judge , 50-48. Collins and Murk voted with the Dems. Looks like he'll be voted in today or tomorrow.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 05:38 PM (8UsV6)

57 On Monday, it was reported that black DEI hire and professional homosexual Jonathan Capehart had correctly assessed himself as being likely to receive a pinkslip and so he self-deported.
---

That once could have described Don Lemon. Today he is simply a black homosexual.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 24, 2025 05:38 PM (NXz8h)

58 Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout.

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Old & Busted: Colonizing.
New Hotness: Columnizing.

Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 24, 2025 05:38 PM (JT5Al)

59 @45/toby928: Your driver is BRAYingDONkey.

Fixed that for you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2025 05:38 PM (O7YUW)

60 I'm sure people want to respond to these "journalists" with " learn to code" as they said to coal miners and other blue collars. These "journalists" are so useless that I would not want to utilize anything with code in it that they had written.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 05:36 PM (8UsV6)

Nor I.

Most of them would be suited for jobs in the UK as sleeping policemen. Maybe. On their better days.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2025 05:39 PM (S/Y4j)

61 32 Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 05:26 PM (Ft5W9)

Competent journalists don't fear the Reaper.

--------

Yes, but some are victims of a thousand psychic wars...
Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 05:30 PM (TN0g+)

I see what you both did, there

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 05:39 PM (xcxpd)

62 It's not surprising that there's such a huge disconnect between the left and right.

I like to catch the 6:30 PM newscasts and tune into the CBC occasionally to catch the lies. It really is kind of rare when they report things that ace, thegatewaypundit, zerohedge, etc, post about.

If we tune into any media or talk to any lefties, we can't escape THEIR side of the story. But we know it's useless to engage them, and they are happy in their own bubbles.

So we end up with a situation where they are shocked, SHOCKED, that Biden's brain is tapioca pudding four years after we already knew that.

And they still have no knowledge of the grifting, or the groping of little girls.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY and NOT HOMELESS - New Life Creation - 14.7% at July 24, 2025 05:39 PM (jvJvP)

63
SKY DANCE

Wave your Feet in the air like you just don't care!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 24, 2025 05:40 PM (iJfKG)

64 I'm sure people want to respond to these "journalists" with " learn to code" as they said to coal miners and other blue collars. These "journalists" are so useless that I would not want to utilize anything with code in it that they had written.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

There's probably at least some limited demand for a Grindr type app that serves the fat and ugly gays. But it's probably owned by Tim Dillon, and he hates journalists, too, so they're likely shit outta luck.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 05:40 PM (c3YMA)

65 The dude wails about of a collapse of authority...and ties the media as part of the authority. What an idiot, the original like was that the media questioned authority and protected the people from authority.

He admits he is a tool of authority.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)

66 Biggest issue right now is the Epstein list. Trump is on it, and is obviously a pedophile. The GOP is doing everything it can to shield him, including going home early for the wee. ROFL

Posted by: Sid at July 24, 2025 05:40 PM (EiO0V)

67 If Wapo was smart, they would just fire everyone, close up the offices, buy The Hill and change the name.

They were perfectly situated to be a top US newspaper and instead they turned it into a fringe dog's dinner of unserious propaganda.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 24, 2025 05:40 PM (Mb1U/)

68 > Wave your Feet in the air like you just don't care!!!!

That's how you get pregnant.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 05:41 PM (lIio7)

69
I thought I'd take a nap. Diana complained bitterly. I let her out of her pen, whereupon she bolted for the bed. Now Rosalind is complaining.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 05:41 PM (HZi96)

70 Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart is the latest prominent writer to leave the paper after owner Jeff Bezos revamped the opinion section, with the Pulitzer-winning commentator and frequent Trump critic reportedly accepting a buyout on Monday.
Capehart's buyout was first reported by Axios. He will remain the co-host of MSNBC's "The Weekend" and will still be a panelist on PBS "NewsHour" after leaving WaPo, where he has been since 2007.

That guys sucks cock all over town. I don't know where xhe finds the strength.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 05:41 PM (jc0TO)

71 Sid, stop gargling bleach. And swallow.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 05:41 PM (xcxpd)

72 A lot of of people jerk around a bit when they're hanged. That's sort of a sky dance.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 05:41 PM (c3YMA)

73 Sid Sad

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 05:41 PM (jc0TO)

74 I wonder, the Colbert show, how long is he giong to keep up the F THE PRESIDENT I AM THE RESISTANCE thing up, because that is going to be kind of dull in a short time. I mean, duller than usual

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 05:41 PM (dfIr7)

75 "I see what you both did, there"

I AM THE ONE YOU WARNED ME OF!

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 05:42 PM (Ft5W9)

76 Who owns Skydance?

Posted by: Decaf at July 24, 2025 05:42 PM (unUNN)

77
A lot of of people jerk around a bit when they're hanged. That's sort of a sky dance.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 05:41 PM (c3YMA)

__________

The Spandau Ballet

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2025 05:42 PM (HZi96)

78 Biggest issue right now is the Epstein list. Trump is on it, and is obviously a pedophile. The GOP is doing everything it can to shield him, including going home early for the wee. ROFL
Posted by: Sid
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What's your favorite BOC album? What's your favorite Buck Dharma solo-artist song that should have been released under the BOC monicker?

Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 05:42 PM (TN0g+)

79 "Who owns Skydance?"

Larry Ellison's kid. He's a pilot, that's where he got the fey company name.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 05:43 PM (3kTgY)

80 The media controlled the narrative from the time television began being broadcast . They controlled everything. Once the Internet came into being the collapse of their control started. To paraphrase Hemingway the collapse of their control started" gradually the suddenly"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 05:43 PM (8UsV6)

81 He will remain the co-host of MSNBC's "The Weekend" and will still be a panelist on PBS "NewsHour" after leaving WaPo, where he has been since 2007.

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Oh his fallback gig is at PBS. I have some bad news for that mincey little ponce.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 24, 2025 05:43 PM (c3YMA)

82 “He also ran on vengeance”.

Let’s take this claim at face value for the moment, and agree with it as accurate.

Why is this wrong? Or put another way, what the fv&k did you think was going to happen? What did you expect?

Maybe, you leftists have made a few mistakes along the way. One of them being to mistake forbearance for weakness. I know it’s de rigeur to look at decency, honor, honesty and integrity as fatal character flaws and something to be scoffed at and taken advantage of.

I look forward to seeing you bastards getting roasted over a spit. Better than you deserve.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (DSQyT)

83 "I see what you both did, there"

I AM THE ONE YOU WARNED ME OF!
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 05:42 PM

I'm going to need more cowbell.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (jc0TO)

84 My Starlink was down for an hour and half during what was apparently a worldwide outage.

Checking a few news sites, I find this glitch is already being used as an excuse for frothing Elon-hatred by the usual suspects.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (3Uvxo)

85 75 "I see what you both did, there"

I AM THE ONE YOU WARNED ME OF!
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 05:42 PM (Ft5W9)

That's got to violate some Secret Treaty or other

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (xcxpd)

86 Speaking of getting pregnant, have y'all seen the new Gatorade and WNBA marketing campaign collaboration?

The tagline is, "LET HER COOK"

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (lIio7)

87 Posted by: Sid at July 24, 2025 05:40 PM (EiO0V)

Perhaps you should also go home early for the "wee" , because it sounds like you might have a problem with incontinent dribbling.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (2GCMq)

88 Sorry, still digesting 'columnizing at WaPo'. This will call for Tums, I expect.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2025 05:45 PM (XeU6L)

89 That's got to violate some Secret Treaty or other

I suggest we consult Astronomy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 05:45 PM (dfIr7)

90 82 “He also ran on vengeance”.

Let’s take this claim at face value for the moment, and agree with it as accurate.

Why is this wrong? Or put another way, what the fv&k did you think was going to happen? What did you expect?

Maybe, you leftists have made a few mistakes along the way. One of them being to mistake forbearance for weakness. I know it’s de rigeur to look at decency, honor, honesty and integrity as fatal character flaws and something to be scoffed at and taken advantage of.

I look forward to seeing you bastards getting roasted over a spit. Better than you deserve.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (DSQyT)

I VOTED for Trump for Vengeance. And I'm getting it, some of it at least.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 05:45 PM (xcxpd)

91 “He also ran on vengeance”.

We talking Trump again ? Because I only voted for Fred Flintstone with Orange Hair three times.

A big part of each of those votes was vengeance. I want more vengeance. A lot more.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 05:46 PM (ciJ04)

92 Catherine Rampell
@crampell
Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout.
_____________________

What? No more columnizing? Does that mean we have to give the land back to the Indians?

Posted by: Orson at July 24, 2025 05:46 PM (dIske)

93 Fucking BRAYDON has arrived.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 05:46 PM (jc0TO)

94 86 Speaking of getting pregnant, have y'all seen the new Gatorade and WNBA marketing campaign collaboration?

The tagline is, "LET HER COOK"
Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (lIio7)

So the WNBA want women back in the kitchen?

I KNEW it!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 24, 2025 05:46 PM (xcxpd)

95 Hi everybody
Getting caught up with today's posts and I can't believe that Ace hasn't covered Sydney Sweeney's new ads for American Eagle.
The Morons must have really disapointed him today.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 24, 2025 05:46 PM (t/2Uw)

96 What's your favorite BOC album? What's your favorite Buck Dharma solo-artist song that should have been released under the BOC monicker?
Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 05:42 PM (TN0g+)

Du Hast.

I also liked his cover of Muskrat Love.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 05:46 PM (D7oie)

97 Expect to see more adult diaper and Ensure ads non-stop.

Boomers buy a lot of that shit.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 24, 2025 05:28 PM (/U5Yz)

And you, as well, junior, one day....

Posted by: Old man yelling at the sky at July 24, 2025 05:46 PM (5xuJ/)

98 that the percentage of homeless in the US of A is almost exactly the percentage of people in mental institutions"

Damn close. Mrs had data on that a few years back. Around 1970, estimated .20 to .22 percent (not all were in state institutions, so add private care). "Chronic homeless " runs .22 to .23 percent...

So, yeah.

Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 05:47 PM (tubbA)

99 A lot of of people jerk around a bit when they're hanged. That's sort of a sky dance.
Posted by: Yudhishthira
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You left out the part about their systems voiding.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 24, 2025 05:48 PM (XeU6L)

100 > So the WNBA want women back in the kitchen?

Apparently.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 05:48 PM (lIio7)

101 I shouldn't be surprised, but the idea that the exact same scrofulous crowd that pushed RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA have pivoted (like Hillary into a van) to EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN and they're dumb enough to think anybody gives them the slightest credence.

I mean, that's like window-licking territory.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 05:48 PM (Ft5W9)

102 and fucking BRAYDON didn't as me to sign for the package even though it says signature required AND THAT WAS THE ONLY REASON I WAS HANGING AROUND WAITING FOR THE PACKAGE.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 05:48 PM (jc0TO)

103 You know, I don't care much for FedEx.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 05:49 PM (jc0TO)

104 SkyDance Media Promises to Strip the Bias Out of CBS in Both "News" and "Entertainment".

Well - that's a little sand in my Va-Jay-Jay that I've had all day. Because I've read variations of this story all day.

You can't do that. You can't "strip the bias" out of people. People are what they are. Bias is what makes you. Its what makes me.

In the case of SkyDance Media ? They're big media. They're going to push a bias. Even if you set to sides against each other internally - to create negative feedback - one side will win and push their bias.

Because that's people. That's how they work.
Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 05:25 PM (ciJ04)

No you could. Just have people apply to produce an run a show on the network. Profit share, let anyone apply. Every month or so cancel all the unpopular shows and take applicants from the rest and give them a show. If some lib dude can carry an audience, he gets a good timeslot. Same with a conservative, or a batshit crazy dude. Have weeks with all new shows.

That would not be biased at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 05:49 PM (8avO+)

105 hmmm, maybe Amazon studios Bond will not be all that bad...

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 05:49 PM (g47mK)

106 Sadly, it appears South Park has gone fully off the deep end into TDS territory. Sure, they poke fun at everyone, but they've had it out for Trump more than most, and the teaser/trailer for the start of this season (also on Paramount) is weak and tiresome "jokes" the Left will seal clap as brave and challenging truth to power, or some such.

https://tinyurl.com/2zx7zs6d

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 24, 2025 05:50 PM (ycI94)

107 37 Imagine being a democrat voter in a blue city, having vagrants leave needles and crapping on your kid's playground, and breaking into your cars, houses and destroying your business, while forcing you to avoid them as they shoot up in your parking structure and block walking through your downtown because they are sleeping on the sidewalk, and your congress critter and state and city officials tell you that it is ILLEGAL to do anything about it.

This is the emancipation proclamation 3.0

---

This was me. (Well, the Democrat voter part was taken care of in 2001). Left Philly 5 years ago for a small, rural town. Best decision I ever made. I only venture back when I have no choice.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at July 24, 2025 05:50 PM (phEsr)

108 99 "Shepherds and Butchers" (2016) has all the graphic hangings you'd ever want to see.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 05:50 PM (3kTgY)

109 Is "columnizing" code for pulling a train?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 05:51 PM (8UsV6)

110 Wait are we talking the weight lifter gal, the lesbian gal or the zombie mushroom immune gal who looked like chunk in the TV show?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

She looks more like Sloth.

'ey you guy-uys!

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 24, 2025 05:51 PM (M0V4/)

111 they were smart enough to get whatshername to be one of the Bond girls, or the Bond girl..of course Bezzos believes in a healthy chest , like Mr. Osato, so that may the driving factor...

Posted by: runner at July 24, 2025 05:52 PM (g47mK)

112 > My Starlink was down for an hour and half during what was apparently a worldwide outage.

Apparently they messed up a satellite firmware update. The update screwed up their GPS synchronization, so the satellites didn't know their position. That screwed up data traffic routing. Boom. Worldwide outage.

That's the explanation I'm seeing. Might be wrong.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 05:52 PM (lIio7)

113 No you could. Just have people apply to produce an run a show on the network. Profit share, let anyone apply. Every month or so cancel all the unpopular shows and take applicants from the rest and give them a show.

Have you ever seen any network behave that way at all ? No - you have not. What you just recited is old school, high school, basic public school Capitalism econ.

Which is not how any corporation has worked in your lifetime, my lifetime, or any else's lifetime that posts here. Never worked that way in their "Greatest Generation" elders lifetimes either.

That's not how people behave.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (ciJ04)

114 @94 the WNBA players would miss putting the food in every pot or pan.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (8UsV6)

115 99 "Shepherds and Butchers" (2016) has all the graphic hangings you'd ever want to see.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird

I dunno, I want to see lots of hanging.

Oh, that kind? Nevermind!

Posted by: Pete Bootygig as Emily Litella at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (DgGvY)

116 Perhaps SkyDance Media has figured it out? There are millions to be made by moving to the center. Amazing that they haven't done it sooner.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (W/lyH)

117 My Starlink was down for an hour and half during what was apparently a worldwide outage.

Checking a few news sites, I find this glitch is already being used as an excuse for frothing Elon-hatred by the usual suspects.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (3Uvxo)

He's the ultimate villain AND how dare he cut my internet service for a second.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+)

118 that the percentage of homeless in the US of A is almost exactly the percentage of people in mental institutions"

The institutions were closed with the promise that the savings would be spent on the local communities to help care for the former mental patients. The money never appeared, and the untreated mentally ill got into trouble being incompetent and dangerous, and wound up in prisons.
Then it was considered cruel to keep such people in prisons, so they were relased to the their communities, where there was a promise to help with their upkeep. The money never arrived and they kept causing problems and went back and forth from the street to jail.
Then reform minded idiots got power and decided that the feral homeless were living their best life, and throwing them out of public spaces was cruelty, and they took advantage of both that and cheap Chinese fentanyl and lax drug laws and started massive encampments where they could be among their own kind to harm each other and the community, and businesses and anyone who couldn't run away, and there they are today, victimizing and being victimized in turn.
It is untenable, and is a huge source of graft for communities

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (D7oie)

119 I wonder, the Colbert show, how long is he giong to keep up the F THE PRESIDENT I AM THE RESISTANCE thing up, because that is going to be kind of dull in a short time. I mean, duller than usual
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

As long as there remain working lightbulbs in the studio's 'Applause' sign.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (M0V4/)

120 Damn close. Mrs had data on that a few years back. Around 1970, estimated .20 to .22 percent (not all were in state institutions, so add private care). "Chronic homeless " runs .22 to .23 percent...

So, yeah.
Posted by: man

The difference is the new availability of street drugs that used to actually cost some money.
A woman with no teeth was sitting on the south side of the apu store this afternoon... 94 in the shade... and I asked her why she was sitting there.
I'm not sure.
She couldn't have been 50.
So damned sad.

Posted by: MkY at July 24, 2025 05:54 PM (cPGH3)

121 @94 the WNBA players would miss putting the food in every pot or pan.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (8UsV6)

But they'd rebound and get it in the pot eventually

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)

122 the WNBA players would miss putting the food in every pot or pan.
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I could see Reese attempting to put a pan in the oven and instead clanking it off the door.

Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 05:54 PM (TN0g+)

123 "Apparently they messed up a satellite firmware update. The update screwed up their GPS synchronization, so the satellites didn't know their position. That screwed up data traffic routing. Boom. Worldwide outage."

Imagine the stress the engineers felt while fixing it. Ugh.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 05:55 PM (3kTgY)

124 LA, California, Oregon and Portland all seem to have gotten lots and lots of federal grants to help with the homeless, and LA and Oregon in particular seem completely unable to comply with requests for audits of those funds, and how they were spent.
If we let DOGS live like the homeless in Lee Park in Salem Oregon we would be IN JAIL for cruelty and neglect charges

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 05:55 PM (D7oie)

125 I know I give Trump a lot of stick about tariffs, but the truth is, that's my only gripe with Trump 2.0. The superlatives haven't been invented yet to properly describe just how superbly he's closed the border, his handling of Iran has been masterful, he seems to be holding BOTH Russia's and Ukraine's feet to the fire, he hasn't been hesitant to slap down the grifting "influencers" infesting MAGA, and he's actually dismantling the left-wing stranglehold on entertainment and education. Dude is just a stone-cold winner.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at July 24, 2025 05:56 PM (w6p9p)

126 Columnizer!!!

Posted by: My Degree has MotionSense at July 24, 2025 05:56 PM (4DY5T)

127 Perhaps SkyDance Media has figured it out? There are millions to be made by moving to the center. Amazing that they haven't done it sooner.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM

I suspect that the billions of $$$$ that was being cycled from the US government to associated ngo's and other organizations that was funding these left wings media outlets has dried up and they ain't got anymore money going forward, so they have been forced to change to an actual profit making format.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2025 05:56 PM (e5NfL)

128 Sorry if this was brought up before.

This is the old Fox News schtick. It didn't last long.

My pessimistic opinion is that the ratchet clicked a little too far, so they'll ease up a little then start ratcheting again when the pressure is off.

Someone said that an organization that is not explicitly conservative will eventually fall Left. I think that's happening here.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 05:57 PM (fJiXH)

129 You know what I just realized that I hate about the conservative blogosphere, typified by Gateway Pundit, Insta, PJM, Powerline, etc.?

They often have posts headlined "So-and-so DEVASTATES These People With This Response!" and the article is about a five-word sound bite given on X or Fox News, and isn't even all that devastating anyway, but they never do this for people like Ace.

Okay, Instapundit occasionally, but when have the Hoft Brothers ever posted "Ace Brutalizes these People With this One Cruel Takedown!"

No, it's always the chosen cocktail party circuit losers TGP chooses to headline, whose discourse referenced by the blaring, bombshell headlines turns out to be standard milquetoast Twitter boilerplate, and not the very best in the fight like Ace, whose writing deserves Other Bloggers' acknowledgement a fuckton more than these dolts.

I don't fucking get it, this insularity the Right-o-sphere has. It's like a thousand bubbles, each self-contained and siloed away from each other, and I believe it's a serious source of weakness for our side.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 24, 2025 05:57 PM (GYGpZ)

130 No you could. Just have people apply to produce an run a show on the network. Profit share, let anyone apply. Every month or so cancel all the unpopular shows and take applicants from the rest and give them a show.

Have you ever seen any network behave that way at all ? No - you have not. What you just recited is old school, high school, basic public school Capitalism econ.

Which is not how any corporation has worked in your lifetime, my lifetime, or any else's lifetime that posts here. Never worked that way in their "Greatest Generation" elders lifetimes either.

That's not how people behave.
Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (ciJ04)

yeah, because they are stupid. They put on the Beverly Hillbillies because people liked it not because it fit their biases. If people liked All in the Family because of the conservative guy they just cashed the checks.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 05:57 PM (8avO+)

131 When word got out that WNBA players are getting like 80 grand a year, a lot of people were outraged! OUTRAGED!

My reaction was different: huh, okay, that seems about right for someone playing a sport for a living. I have two people; a welder and a basketball player. Who should earn more?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 05:57 PM (dfIr7)

132 The money never appeared,"

Sure it did. There's an entire "community mental health" industry funded by ... well, you know.

Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 05:58 PM (tubbA)

133 "Shepherds and Butchers" was where I really noticed Andrea Riseborough's acting range. She could be the next Tilda Swinton if she's not careful.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 05:58 PM (3kTgY)

134 Timeline Witches are the ones who took physics right after potions class at Bowdoin?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 24, 2025 05:59 PM (pIfcn)

135 Someone said that an organization that is not explicitly conservative will eventually fall Left. I think that's happening here.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 05:57 PM (fJiXH)

This is an observation, but I haven't gotten an explanation as to why it happens. What is the mechanism, and why does it work only one direction?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 05:59 PM (D7oie)

136 I don't fucking get it, this insularity the Right-o-sphere has. It's like a thousand bubbles, each self-contained and siloed away from each other, and I believe it's a serious source of weakness for our side.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 24, 2025 05:57 PM (GYGpZ)

There's a conservative blogosphere anymore? I just come to Ace.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 05:59 PM (8avO+)

137 Please think of the sea kittens.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 24, 2025 05:59 PM (aRzB+)

138 125 I was skeptical about the tariffs, but right now it seems no damage has been done, so I fold on that one.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 05:59 PM (3kTgY)

139 In part, this is a function of the decline in authority. Once upon a time, people's understanding of the world was more carefully bounded by news outlets and political leaders.

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In these words, this is a new one for me.

Progs pining for a return to "authority".

WTF? They aren't very good progs.

And they take no responsibility for the falsehoods they have spread.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2)

140 This is an observation, but I haven't gotten an explanation as to why it happens. What is the mechanism, and why does it work only one direction?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 05:59 PM

Organizations attract and promote Organizational Men. It's their nature.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 06:00 PM (jc0TO)

141 The money never appeared,"

Sure it did. There's an entire "community mental health" industry funded by ... well, you know.
Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 05:58 PM (tubbA)

They go to big expensive seminars at nice hotels and write reports. The unwell people got nothing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:00 PM (8avO+)

142 a welder and a basketball player. Who should earn more?"

Well, I can't shoot, and my welds look...bleh.

Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 06:01 PM (tubbA)

143 President Trump is the highest-profile spreader of misinformation, but he embraced and stoked misinformation. Phillip Bump, former propagandist for the Democrat party stationed at the WaPo.

Like the whole Russian bullshit was bullshit cuz that's what Bump is talking about. For years, the mainstream media quoted each other's articles to prove that Trump was a Russian agent.

Even I sitting around in my living room figured out that this was a fraud. Weird that all these professional journalists couldn't do it, sort of like it didn't want to.

Now that the whole world's changing around him his employment opportunities are going to be difficult. Seems to me the only thing he's qualified for is to write fiction from a political soft porn perspective. That's something he's been doing for years already.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 24, 2025 06:01 PM (NXz8h)

144 There's a conservative blogosphere anymore? I just come to Ace.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 05:59 PM

He occasionally links someone else.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 06:01 PM (jc0TO)

145
This is an observation, but I haven't gotten an explanation as to why it happens. What is the mechanism, and why does it work only one direction?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 24, 2025 05:59 PM

Because satan never sleeps.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 24, 2025 06:01 PM (gpah0)

146 Organizations attract and promote Organizational Men"

Bingo.

Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 06:02 PM (tubbA)

147 In these words, this is a new one for me.

Progs pining for a return to "authority".

WTF? They aren't very good progs.

And they take no responsibility for the falsehoods they have spread.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2)

Leftists always are authoritarians. They want you to listen to THEIR sitar music and smoke their kind of dope and fit into their utopia.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)

148 144 There's a conservative blogosphere anymore? I just come to Ace.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 05:59 PM

He occasionally links someone else.
Posted by: toby928

Drudge is still cool, right?

Posted by: Guy awakening from 10 year coma at July 24, 2025 06:03 PM (ycI94)

149 Phillip Bump is the female Sally Kohn.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at July 24, 2025 06:03 PM (7r63G)

150
professional homosexual
We'll he's got to do something for a paycheck now.

Posted by: DaveA at July 24, 2025 06:03 PM (FhXTo)

151 > When word got out that WNBA players are getting like 80 grand a year, a lot of people were outraged! OUTRAGED!

I knew a guy who was an amazing baseball player. He played for BYU. He had records at BYU. He only managed to make it to AA baseball. I believe he was earning somewhere around $20,000 per year.

That's what happens when you don't bring the crowds. You don't make much, even if you're an amazing athlete, which most WNBA players are not.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 06:04 PM (lIio7)

152 I don't fucking get it, this insularity the Right-o-sphere has. It's like a thousand bubbles, each self-contained and siloed away from each other, and I believe it's a serious source of weakness for our side.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 24, 2025 05:57 PM (GYGpZ)

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Probably because you think that the "right" is something.

It's not, it's a complement. The Left is the Left, because Marxists followed on the Jacobin tradition (which had nobody on the Right left--all executed--at the end of the French Revolution--and were starting in on somebody who had been a "friend" to the Right, namely Thomas Paine).

But the "Right" is everybody who does not want to live in Marx's imagination.

That's not a thing, as atheists tell me. It's a complement of a thing.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:04 PM (krQz2)

153 flubber-faced floppy-dicked zero-T blob of flopsweat and sexual incompetence

(I see I'm not the first to comment on this)

If only Ace could quit holding back and really let his creative juices flow, we might not have such tepid posts.

🤣

Posted by: mindful webworker - let 'er rip at July 24, 2025 06:04 PM (V4gxL)

154 In these words, this is a new one for me.

Progs pining for a return to "authority".

They usually are more coy about it, calling for "expertise" or "education" but that's always been what they mean

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 06:04 PM (dfIr7)

155 First Principles. Bureaucrats gotta bureaucrat.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 06:04 PM (jc0TO)

156 This is a country where the Boy Scouts...THE BOY SCOUTS...went woke.

I don't believe Skydance is doing anything other than saying what people want to hear so the deal goes through, then will change nothing.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 06:04 PM (fJiXH)

157 Ace has the best insults on the Web. Bar none.
I still use his insult “bug fuck insane” quite frequently.

Posted by: Jmel at July 24, 2025 06:05 PM (bVhJi)

158 My Starlink was down for an hour and half during what was apparently a worldwide outage.

Checking a few news sites, I find this glitch is already being used as an excuse for frothing Elon-hatred by the usual suspects.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 24, 2025 05:44 PM (3Uvxo)

He's the ultimate villain AND how dare he cut my internet service for a second.
Posted by: Oldcat

Let the anti Elon communists eat DSL lines were outages can last up to weeks if not months.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 24, 2025 06:05 PM (NXz8h)

159 a welder and a basketball player. Who should earn more?"

Well, I can't shoot, and my welds look...bleh.
Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 06:01 PM (tubbA)

Their is no should for this. If more people can weld acceptably than play basketball acceptably than ballplayers. If the players can't play they get nothing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:05 PM (8avO+)

160 she's "not a Democrat, [she's] a journalist."

-
Same difference.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 24, 2025 06:05 PM (L/fGl)

161
Of course, egoists like Rampell, Bump, and Capehart are not going away. But the CNN and MSNBC guest slots are not limitless, and I'm not sure who cares about another shyty podcast. Maybe if they play video games or do crank calls.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:05 PM (HL/Ld)

162 152 Set theory applied to politics adroitly!

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 06:05 PM (3kTgY)

163 I wonder, the Colbert show, how long is he giong to keep up the F THE PRESIDENT I AM THE RESISTANCE thing up, because that is going to be kind of dull in a short time. I mean, duller than usual
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

As long as there remain working lightbulbs in the studio's 'Applause' sign.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 24, 2025 05:53 PM (M0V4/)

Until the president of CBS goes on stage with a vaudeville hook, or accompanied by two guys who work out carrying cattle.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2025 06:06 PM (S/Y4j)

164 Leftists always are authoritarians. They want you to listen to THEIR sitar music and smoke their kind of dope and fit into their utopia.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)
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Yeah but "In my day, we had AUTHORITY!" doesn't sound very progressive, does it?

Putting it out there adjacent like that--that's new to me.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:06 PM (krQz2)

165 Drudge is still cool, right?
Posted by: Guy awakening from 10 year coma "

Sure. There's also this bike riding guy posting on the Bush TANG memo, and a pundit pimping curly light bulbs...

Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 06:06 PM (tubbA)

166 According to GatewayPundit: Ron Klain, who was Puddinhead's Chief of Staff, is singing like a canary before the House Oversight Committee

Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2025 06:06 PM (K7yuL)

167 156 This is a country where the Boy Scouts...THE BOY SCOUTS...went woke.

I don't believe Skydance is doing anything other than saying what people want to hear so the deal goes through, then will change nothing.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 24, 2025 06:04 PM (fJiXH)

About how I felt about the Columbia post earlier today. If the bulk of the personnel isn't getting turned over, there's not gonna be anything but lip service.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 24, 2025 06:06 PM (V9cMX)

168 They usually are more coy about it, calling for "expertise" or "education" but that's always been what they mean
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 06:04 PM (dfIr7)
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Exactly. But apparently, you can find one dumb enough to give the whole thing away.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:07 PM (krQz2)

169 a welder and a basketball player. Who should earn more?"

Well, I can't shoot, and my welds look...bleh.
Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 06:01 PM (tubbA)

Their is no should for this. If more people can weld acceptably than play basketball acceptably than ballplayers. If the players can't play they get nothing.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:05 PM

I will bet that if Michael Jordan had an interest in welding, he would be laying down a row of dimes in very short order.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)

170 Ace has the best insults on the Web. Bar none.
I still use his insult “bug fuck insane” quite frequently.
Posted by: Jmel at July 24, 2025 06:05 PM

I wish Gutfeld would sometimes recite whole Ace posts verbatim.

The world needs this.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 24, 2025 06:07 PM (GYGpZ)

171 and betting on them.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)

172 yeah, because they are stupid. They put on the Beverly Hillbillies because people liked it not because it fit their biases. If people liked All in the Family because of the conservative guy they just cashed the checks.

They haven't made any decision like that regarding public programming in twenty years. My man, corporations do not exist any longer to simply "create profit".

Again - and we can talk this all night - what you are spouting is old school Capitalism. Muh Corporations. They have not worked that way for a long time.

Capitalism is a theory. It doesn't span the scope of Human Nature. Most people, get this, are not Capitalists. Most people are happy with Less as long as they're neighbor has Even Less.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 06:07 PM (ciJ04)

173 When the Charlottesville antifa riot was going on, Drudge's headline was "make America hate again".
I quit reading that saladtosser after that.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 24, 2025 06:07 PM (K7yuL)

174 Drudge is still cool, right?
Posted by: Guy awakening from 10 year coma at July 24, 2025 06:03 PM (ycI94)

From the first I was suspicious of this 'thing' for the Oscars.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)

175
I get Skydance and Skybound mixed up all the time.

I got it mixed up with Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 24, 2025 06:08 PM (63Dwl)

176 157 Ace has the best insults on the Web. Bar none.
I still use his insult “bug fuck insane” quite frequently.
Posted by: Jmel at July 24, 2025 06:05 PM (bVhJi)

If I can be informed while laughing, I tell you that's money well spent.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 24, 2025 06:08 PM (gpah0)

177 If Drudge had a comment section, it would run on Minx 0.1 Beta.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 06:09 PM (jc0TO)

178 anything but lip service."

We're still on various journo types, yes?

Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 06:09 PM (tubbA)

179 If you want to base you life on envy there are both religions as well as economic systems for you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 06:10 PM (zZu0s)

180 Sayonara to the View.

*raises glass*

Happy Days!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 06:10 PM (1UEDr)

181 Even dedicated conservative organizations will fall to the left. Too many examples to list, but say

The Boy Scouts of America

Note well the left is only satisfied by ruining existing organizations. There were some demographic and cultural issues working against the Scouts but demanding via lawsuit homosexuals be allowed as Scoutmasters was not helpful.

Why don’t the fairies start their own group? Why must existing organizations be forced into compliance? There’s your answer. They don’t want to start their own organization and further any given group is not allowed to define itself. How’s that for Orwellian? This is how you get a court to require say, an Atheist in charge of a Prayer group. Bullshit like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 24, 2025 06:10 PM (DSQyT)

182 Most people are happy with Less as long as they're neighbor has Even Less.

I find no experience or history in life to support this theory. If You had broadband and had your internet cutback to 14.400 baud, would you be happy because your neighbor had just 7200 baud? If you got cut back to only 1 gallon of gas a week for driving if your neighbor only got half a gallon?

No, you'd both be mad, but your neighbor would be even more mad because its unfair they get even less.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 06:10 PM (dfIr7)

183 They haven't made any decision like that regarding public programming in twenty years"

20? CBS's rural purge has entered the chat...

Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 06:10 PM (tubbA)

184 "If Drudge had a comment section, it would run on Minx 0.1 Beta."

If Drudge had comments, not even a dozen datacenters could handle the load. Somebody would have to add more lanes to the internet.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 06:11 PM (3kTgY)

185 Jeff Bezos and Amazon should create a new 007 for a new age.

Brazilian intelligence agent Bondo, Jaime Bondo, 000 buckshot.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 24, 2025 06:11 PM (S/Y4j)

186
I'll see it when I believe it.
Posted by: zombie

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lol I think you did that on purpose?

But anyways, Ellison, Jr. is fixing to buy Bari Weiss's Free Press and "align" that with CBS News. The Free Press is already something you can see (if you subscribe, which I don't), but Free Press talk is free on YouTube.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:11 PM (HL/Ld)

187 I can't remember when I stopped going to drudge. It was a good while back though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

188 The primary drive of Man is to be happy at home.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 06:11 PM (jc0TO)

189 I get Skydance and Skybound mixed up all the time.

I got it mixed up with Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective

While playing Skyrim

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 06:12 PM (dfIr7)

190 The View is history and I expected multi-Flaming Skulls in celebration.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 06:12 PM (1UEDr)

191 The primary drive of Man"

Small block Chevy.

Oh

Posted by: man at July 24, 2025 06:12 PM (tubbA)

192 The View is history and I expected multi-Flaming Skulls in celebration.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2025 06:12 PM

IT'S A HIATUS!!

Posted by: The View at July 24, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)

193 I will bet that if Michael Jordan had an interest in welding, he would be laying down a row of dimes in very short order.

And learn to keep his tongue in his mouth.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 24, 2025 06:13 PM (/y8xj)

194 Ron Klain? dammit!!! I had Brennan as the spoiler...there goes my dollar

Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2025 06:13 PM (8uzBS)

195 Capitalism is a theory. It doesn't span the scope of Human Nature. Most people, get this, are not Capitalists. Most people are happy with Less as long as they're neighbor has Even Less.
Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 06:07 PM (ciJ04)

so you admit now that corporations did work that way now? Lol.

no capitalism is a practice. If you want to have the best chance, be lean and mean yourself and promote the shows people want to watch. If your system can't make money. Top down command driven systems usually fail when they start to ignore or shape the customers in ways they don't want to go.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:14 PM (8avO+)

196 If you're ever asking the question "who should earn more between profession X or profession Y", then you either don't understand or don't accept the fundamental premise of liberal economics.

If A pays X more than B pays Y, then that's none of my fucking business. There is no inherent value to any labor of any kind.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 06:15 PM (RlmPm)

197 lol I think you did that on purpose?

But anyways, Ellison, Jr. is fixing to buy Bari Weiss's Free Press and "align" that with CBS News. The Free Press is already something you can see (if you subscribe, which I don't), but Free Press talk is free on YouTube.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:11 PM (HL/Ld)

If its aligned, its hardly free anymore

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:15 PM (8avO+)

198 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 06:10 PM (dfIr7)

I don't r even know or care what most of my neighbors have.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2025 06:15 PM (2GCMq)

199 > The View is history and I expected multi-Flaming Skulls in celebration.

Probably. But we don't have confirmation yet. All we know is they're calling it a hiatus. I personally wouldn't whip out the triple flaming skull just yet.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 06:15 PM (lIio7)

200 National Review and The Weekly Standard are still the centerpiece of conservative thought and values, right? I always loved Bill Kristol...did Jonah ever figure out if a hot dog is a sandwich?

Posted by: Guy awakening from 10 year coma at July 24, 2025 06:16 PM (ycI94)

201 If SkyDance was serious about this bias they claim to want to deal with, they'd have canned Colbert yesterday and sent him packing with no recourse on his contract.

And...

The Trump administration is targeting "The View."
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As NewsBusters has documented in recent days, ABC News program, The View had made some pretty incendiary and heinous accusations against President Trump; accusing of everything from “crimes against humanity” to “treason.” The White House had apparently had enough, because in a statement to Fox News on Wednesday, the administration called out the show and warned them to straighten up before they get “pulled off-air.” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr also hinted that the administration could be scrutinizing The View.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2025 06:17 PM (Q4IgG)

202 The View is history and I expected multi-Flaming Skulls in celebration.

It will be back BUT I fully expect a change in staff. Its pretty obvious that for a season or so they have been leaned on by the network trying to dial back their insane and stupid. But they could not restrain themselves and went nuts. so the network said: OK we're redoing this, you're off the air for a while as we rework this show and get rid of the really lunatic idiots.

But can the View survive without Whoopi and Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin? That's who the idiot women who watch it tune in for.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 06:17 PM (dfIr7)

203 One thing I'm having trouble wrapping my cerebral lobes around is: CBS is a publicly traded company, right? There's stockholders, right? CBS management supposedly has a fiduciary duty to protect the stockholders investment, right? So how do the schmendricks in charge at CBS justify keeping a 40 million dollar a year loser on the air? Make it up in volume? Good PR, Lord save us? Serving the community values oh good Lord don't even.
Why hasn't the mother of all lawsuits been filed by some nice shark-like class-action lawyer. How the hell do they get away with it?

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 06:17 PM (Ft5W9)

204 I can't remember when I stopped going to drudge. It was a good while back though.

my oldest computer is hooked up to my TV...the first link in the 'favorites' bookmarks is still Drudge. I may check it out someday

Posted by: DanMan at July 24, 2025 06:17 PM (8uzBS)

205 Probably. But we don't have confirmation yet. All we know is they're calling it a hiatus.

One bit I read about it said that they do it every summer, they're just starting a little earlier than usual this year. Don't know if that's correct or not.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 24, 2025 06:17 PM (/y8xj)

206 If you're ever asking the question "who should earn more between profession X or profession Y", then you either don't understand or don't accept the fundamental premise of liberal economics.

If A pays X more than B pays Y, then that's none of my fucking business. There is no inherent value to any labor of any kind.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 06:15 PM (RlmPm)

A welder fixing the Yorktown to head out to Midway Island in 2 days is a national hero. One burning passersby and welding gates shut is a nuisance and criminal.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:17 PM (8avO+)

207 All the fascists do, mainly, is disagree with the Marxists that the state has to go.

Also they don't think all "arbitrary values" should be removed, because cultures aren't strictly rational, and so could come under fire as "arbitrary".

But to leftists, they are on the "Right" because they resist moving into Marx's imagination. They're not trying to reach the 6th Phase of Man.

But on the other hand Marxists have never been able to dispense with the state and China likes it's style and Russia like's its style, because you have stakeholders up top, who like the way they are running things (like a STATE).

Because there is no pragmatic exit for Marxism--and Mussolini realized this when he fell out as a socialist, National fascism can be just a Dictatorship (In the Name) of the Proletariat that knows it's not going away. And where all the values of culture have to be flattened, to concentrate people on the Revolution alone.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:17 PM (krQz2)

208 I don't r even know or care what most of my neighbors have.

I don't even know the names of my neighbors LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 06:18 PM (dfIr7)

209 All the chickens are coming to roooost! Right Rev?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 24, 2025 06:18 PM (wBaIH)

210 Love Scott Jennings.

When Abby Ohillips said "he ran on getting people who were out to get him" Jennings missed that softball.

The "left" has been conditioned in the last 40 years to say anything they want about the right (McCain (spit) affair, Romney's dog and car elevator) and expected no return fire.

Now that there's incoming from Trump, they act as though it's Nagasaki or Hiroshima. That's why everything that doesn't fit to their view is at a minimum, a microagression. There can be no opposition.

Case in point: Pierce Morgan's interview with Joy Reid. To be even questioned is an offense.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 24, 2025 06:18 PM (JkCto)

211 I still check Drudge. It's a fast one-page way to see the headlines. I figure that when nuclear war breaks out, he'll have the scoop, and be the first aggregator to post it. I don't want to be late for that.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 06:19 PM (3kTgY)

212 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 24, 2025 06:18 PM (dfIr7)

I don't know all their names, only people who have been here a long time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2025 06:19 PM (2GCMq)

213
The View goes on summer hiatus every year. Save the Valu-Rite for the day they get canceled.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:19 PM (HL/Ld)

214 I do like in the Scott Jennings clip that the girls are arguing that Trump ran on "vengeance." Well, one man's vengeance is another man's justice. Either way... Yes.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 24, 2025 06:19 PM (MZ+PY)

215 Hell, I got to ace through drudge back in the day. Besides ace, WZs was one of the last ones I still went to *spit*.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 06:19 PM (cp5sT)

216 It's all very sad.

Posted by: mrp at July 24, 2025 06:19 PM (rj6Yv)

217
27 In part, this is a function of the decline in authority. Once upon a time, people's understanding of the world was more carefully bounded by news outlets and political leaders. The collapse in trust in those institutions.

When, exactly ? The time when Walter Kronkite repeated the lies of 'Nam ?

This stinks to high heavens. When, exactly, should we trust experts ? Covid ?
Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 05:29 PM

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The problem Bump sees is not that they were lying. They were lying and are lying, and he doesn't care. It's that people stopped believing them. His institutional mojo is gone. He can't run and tell his dad anymore. Dad is gone and he's on his own.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 24, 2025 06:19 PM (HAafC)

218 The Marxists hate the fascists not because they do anything they wouldn't do, but because they are heretics to Marxism.

And thus a left-biased media has deemed them "right-wing".

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:20 PM (krQz2)

219 Capitalism has become warped into crony capitalism because the left has jacked up the size of government and taxation so high that businesses have to cooperate to even survive. Then the favorites of the government get their taste of corporate profits as well as government checks in the form if "projects"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2025 06:20 PM (8UsV6)

220 Why hasn't the mother of all lawsuits been filed by some nice shark-like class-action lawyer. How the hell do they get away with it?
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 06:17 PM (Ft5W9)

Ask the guy who tried to Save Disney with such a suit. It was expensive and failed in the end. And these days you'd have to do an Elon and fire everyone down to the Janitors.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:20 PM (8avO+)

221 Well, one man's vengeance is another man's justice. Either way... Yes.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 24, 2025 06:19 PM (MZ+PY)

'Let the hero born o woman
Crush the Serpent with his heel.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 06:20 PM (cp5sT)

222 It's all very sad.

Don't bogart all the bread, man.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 24, 2025 06:21 PM (/y8xj)

223 When, exactly ? The time when Walter Kronkite repeated the lies of 'Nam ?

This stinks to high heavens. When, exactly, should we trust experts ? Covid ?
Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 05:29 PM
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He's only looking at it from his own paradigm.

He probably has no idea that there are other ways to see it. And ways, I think, that are less skewed.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:21 PM (krQz2)

224 > Even I sitting around in my living room figured out that this was a fraud

i knew it was b.s. but what sealed it was when the hill failed to make her concession speech. the plot became thicker that night while we were all partying

Posted by: cherries in season at July 24, 2025 06:21 PM (dLPaQ)

225 > One bit I read about it said that they do it every summer, they're just starting a little earlier than usual this year. Don't know if that's correct or not.

Apparently that's correct. In 2024 they went on hiatus from early August to early September.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 06:22 PM (lIio7)

226 Check top of insty for Sydney Swreney in an American eagle ad. Hel-lo.

Kind of makes me think of a denim leisure suit. I am completely ok with that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 06:22 PM (cp5sT)

227 Suggested titles for Biden's reminisce.

https://is.gd/iPBbfq

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 24, 2025 06:22 PM (L/fGl)

228 I still check Drudge. It's a fast one-page way to see the headlines. I figure that when nuclear war breaks out, he'll have the scoop, and be the first aggregator to post it. I don't want to be late for that.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 06:19 PM (3kTgY)

It was saved for a while on my list for that...then I realized I didn't need to see a single newspaper's website to get information.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:22 PM (8avO+)

229
Why hasn't the mother of all lawsuits been filed by some nice shark-like class-action lawyer. How the hell do they get away with it?
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma

===============

Paramount Global, the parent company, is in the black. I guess they don't mind shoveling money from the profitable subs to sinkholes like The Late Show.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:22 PM (HL/Ld)

230
"Trump is finally building his wall, and we'll all suffer the consequences"

Can I get another order of consequences, please?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 24, 2025 06:23 PM (y9nCu)

231 The craziest thing is these people...believe they are fair nd balanced.

Looking at that CNN video - it's one person against five shrieking harpies, who interrupt, and make points such as "you can't possibly believe that..."

How is pardoning the J6ers getting "vengeance" on the left? He could just feel sorry for them. But anything you do to thwart their will is immediately categorized as "violence" twoard their cause.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 24, 2025 06:24 PM (D1vbu)

232 220 Why hasn't the mother of all lawsuits been filed by some nice shark-like class-action lawyer. How the hell do they get away with it?
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 06:17 PM (Ft5W9)

Ask the guy who tried to Save Disney with such a suit. It was expensive and failed in the end. And these days you'd have to do an Elon and fire everyone down to the Janitors.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:20 PM (8avO+)

It's hard to imagine how fantastically expensive such lawsuits are, for both sides. In the millions, easily, with no guarantee of getting a dime back.
We mentioned last thread how Hulk Hogan's lawsuit led to the destruction of Gawker. Well, the Hulkster didn't do it himself; billionaire Peter Thiel hated Gawker and its editor for personal reasons, and so he quietly financed the entire lawsuit for hulk. Pumped millions in it, I don't think he got much back, but that wasn't what he wanted. He wanted to see Gawker destroyed and its editor humiliated, and he got his wish.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2025 06:24 PM (uWKK8)

233 "Check top of insty for Sydney Swreney in an American eagle ad. Hel-lo."

If @EndWokeness thinks Dat Big Ass is going away, he's more optimistic than I.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 06:24 PM (3kTgY)

234 DEI has made so much money for paramount over the years, how can they possibly ditch it?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 24, 2025 06:25 PM (D1vbu)

235 The Marxists hate the fascists not because they do anything they wouldn't do, but because they are heretics to Marxism.

And thus a left-biased media has deemed them "right-wing".
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:20 PM (krQz2)

They aren't heretics, they are competition. There's not a sliver of difference between commies and fascists. They were easy to convert from one to another.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:25 PM (8avO+)

236 "Paramount Global, the parent company, is in the black. I guess they don't mind shoveling money from the profitable subs to sinkholes like The Late Show."

Oh, OK; it's the benefit of CBS being part of International Agglomnatron Industries.

Pity.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 24, 2025 06:25 PM (Ft5W9)

237
I don't read WaPo, so I don't know who any of these "reporters" are, but I hope Bezos can actually clean things up over there.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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I wonder who reads it. It's paywalled online. Who is actually influenced by these "powerful" media outlets? Who changes their thinking or their understanding of current events because of what they read in the WaPo?

Just part of the liberal echo chamber.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:25 PM (HL/Ld)

238 Someone said that an organization that is not explicitly conservative will eventually fall Left. I think that's happening here.
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Rush Limbaugh originated that thought. It basically surmises that if an organization doesn't put guardrails in place, sooner or later the do-gooder will pile "pie in the sky" ideal after ideal until the organization is no longer about the organization and instead trying to save the planet or pioneer for social justice.

Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

239 Pumped millions in it, I don't think he got much back, but that wasn't what he wanted. He wanted to see Gawker destroyed and its editor humiliated, and he got his wish.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 24, 2025 06:24 PM (uWKK

The money presumably went to Hulk. The vengeance went to the backer.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:26 PM (8avO+)

240
Oh, OK; it's the benefit of CBS being part of International Agglomnatron Industries.

Pity.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma

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I think that's how it works. Properties that are ACTUALLY entertaining support those that aren't. But if I were a shareholder, I'd still be asking about $40mil sinkholes!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:26 PM (HL/Ld)

241 Capitalism is a theory. It doesn't span the scope of Human Nature. Most people, get this, are not Capitalists. Most people are happy with Less as long as they're neighbor has Even Less.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 06:07 PM (ciJ04)

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Capitalism is a word Marx made up. I believe in private property and the Free Market.

Though, I'm not a Laissez-faire-ist.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)

242 Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

I thought it was Richard Conquest?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 06:27 PM (cp5sT)

243 I've often wondered what the world would be like if the Left had its way without ... resistance. And then I watched a documentary on what we know about the surface of Venus and then I ... knew.

Posted by: mrp at July 24, 2025 06:27 PM (rj6Yv)

244 "It was saved for a while on my list for that...then I realized I didn't need to see a single newspaper's website to get information."

I scan dozens of sites every morning, even including dreaded NYT, WaPo, CNN, Reuters, etc. I don't rely on any one aggregator to limit my searches.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 06:27 PM (3kTgY)

245 Capitalism is just a thing that happens whether you like it or not.

Liberalism is the ideology that likes it and tries to let it happen unfettered, and not twist humanity into brutal loops trying to forestall the inevitable.

Conservatism is a mechanism to allow Liberalism to perpetuate itself and guard against people with power thinking they can do better.

Maybe I'm wrong, but i feel like it's a cogent way of defining the terms in a colloquial way.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2025 06:27 PM (RlmPm)

246 Though, I'm not a Laissez-faire-ist.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)

Adam Smithy?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 06:28 PM (cp5sT)

247 I don't read WaPo, so I don't know who any of these "reporters" are, but I hope Bezos can actually clean things up over there.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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I wonder who reads it. It's paywalled online. Who is actually influenced by these "powerful" media outlets? Who changes their thinking or their understanding of current events because of what they read in the WaPo?

Just part of the liberal echo chamber.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:25 PM (HL/Ld)

The only moves I've heard him make is to hire vapid influencers from unis and the bubble. At least in the old days the reporters might have some contact with the town they lived in to ground them. With the internet this is no longer relevant.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:29 PM (8avO+)

248 The Democrats official X account just published a hilarious self-own. It's a chart of the price of cheese, alcohol, dairy, produce, meat, and other grocery prices.

The headline says, "U.S. Grocery Prices Reached Record Highs In 2025"

The chart X axis is time from Oct 2019 to Oct 2024. It shows all of those prices skyrocketing in January 2021 when Biden took office.

http://tiny.cc/kr7q001

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 06:29 PM (lIio7)

249 If I want to know what the WaPo or NYT says my MiL will tell me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2025 06:31 PM (JvZF+)

250 Capitalism is just a thing that happens whether you like it or not.

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Is the invisible hand here in the room with us now?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 24, 2025 06:31 PM (L/fGl)

251 Progressivism, communism, Marxism, Tory Conservatism, even Big L Libertarianism IMO, all the ism believe they Know how to order society and are willing to use coercion to do it.

A good polity should have few laws and change them seldom because the laws merely enforce what the vast majority of citizens would do anyway.

Posted by: The View at July 24, 2025 06:32 PM (jc0TO)

252 I've often wondered what the world would be like if the Left had its way without ... resistance. And then I watched a documentary on what we know about the surface of Venus and then I ... knew.
Posted by: mrp at July 24, 2025 06:27 PM (rj6Yv)

You can see it in places where it gained ascendancy. Nazi Germany. the USSR. Red China. Pol Pot's Cambodia.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:32 PM (8avO+)

253 dammit.

Posted by: toby928 at July 24, 2025 06:32 PM (jc0TO)

254
The headline says, "U.S. Grocery Prices Reached Record Highs In 2025"

The Democrats official X account just published a hilarious self-own. It's a chart of the price of cheese, alcohol, dairy, produce, meat, and other grocery prices.

http://tiny.cc/kr7q001
Posted by: bonhomme

lol this answer:

https://x.com/magills_/status/
1948508695819583861

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:32 PM (HL/Ld)

255 North Korea.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 06:33 PM (cp5sT)

256 Though, I'm not a Laissez-faire-ist.
Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)

Adam Smithy?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 24, 2025 06:28 PM (cp5sT)
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Maybe. I'm more of a market type. The market must be upheld, which is why we have anti-monopoly laws, so that we can continue to reap the benefits of competition.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:33 PM (krQz2)

257 A good polity should have few laws and change them seldom because the laws merely enforce what the vast majority of citizens would do anyway.
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Yes. Much of what passes/pretends to be "economic policy" doesn't reconcile with the simple eloquence of what we learn from supply and demand curves.

Posted by: Crusader at July 24, 2025 06:34 PM (TN0g+)

258 Can a welfare state accurately be called capitalist?

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 06:35 PM (3kTgY)

259 Nood Act Blue investigation.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 06:36 PM (lIio7)

260 nood

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 06:36 PM (3kTgY)

261 Someone said that an organization that is not explicitly conservative will eventually fall Left. I think that's happening here.
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Rush Limbaugh originated that thought.

Robert Conquest

Posted by: Oddbob at July 24, 2025 06:36 PM (/y8xj)

262 I think that's how it works. Properties that are ACTUALLY entertaining support those that aren't. But if I were a shareholder, I'd still be asking about $40mil sinkholes!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2025 06:26 PM (HL/Ld)

The real question the shareholders should ask is the News division universally respected as a good source for news? Well these days, no, even leftists don't think that. Where is the 40 million dollar loss coming from? Its not from getting news, since the cost of getting and spreading information is about 0. So its waste and bad personnel and the fact that the program is no longer about news, but propaganda. And that could be done spending about 0 money.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)

263 Can a welfare state accurately be called capitalist?
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2025 06:35 PM (3kTgY)

Its a mixed economy, but until you pay your wives and kids a salary and can fire them there's always a mix with social norms.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 24, 2025 06:38 PM (8avO+)

264 Jeepers ace.

That brought a tear to my eye.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 24, 2025 06:38 PM (FIi2g)

265 Nood Act Blue investigation.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 24, 2025 06:36 PM (lIio7)
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I don't know how to act blue.

Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2025 06:40 PM (krQz2)

266 I find no experience or history in life to support this theory.

You don't see it now ? You never saw the rise of Socialist and Communist regimes ?

You don't acknowledge - while bitching about it - that media and tech corporations, as well as the Big Three Auto Makers, chased things entirely opposite what their paying public asked for ?

Friends - this gets old. People, write large, are not Rational Actors. This is a great big blind spot here.

Hence, Capitalism. People are not rational, in the macro. They do NOT believe in "a rising tide lifts all boats". That's not how people, in groups, work. Never has. Never will.

Posted by: Long Memory at July 24, 2025 06:47 PM (ciJ04)

267 261 Someone said that an organization that is not explicitly conservative will eventually fall Left. I think that's happening here.
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Rush Limbaugh originated that thought.

Robert Conquest
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John O’ Sullivan. Third time’s the charm.

Posted by: He learned almost too late that Moron is a feeling creature at July 24, 2025 06:58 PM (7kSOl)

268 And the FCC just approved the deal to sell CBS/Paramount to Skydance.

Posted by: beckster at July 24, 2025 07:14 PM (NLtte)

269 SkyDance hired John Lassiter who was responsible for nearly every Pixar hit.
He annoyed staffers because he insisted on quality movies.
Ended up getting fired over inappropriate hugging.

Posted by: MikeN at July 24, 2025 07:53 PM (HVZOH)

270 Nic update

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