Gee, she sounds reasonable. That’s some damn good propaganda there. Unless, of course, you know that the story had already been vetted sixteen times to Sunday and cleared by everybody at CBS News.
... and Bari Weiss demanding changes to a 60-Minutes pre-vetted segment, right before air time, indicates to me that it was run by Miller et al, and they wanted "equal time." Bari Weiss will destroy the legendary CBS News.
Miller was asked for his input when the piece was being put together in the beginning and refused, as did a number of other administration spokesholes.
So, by insisting on getting their input at this late date, Weiss is giving them kill rights because she knows the question has been asked and answered.
WaPo has a weird editorial slant now but their columnists are still breaking real news. They are in DC and have amazing contacts. NYT is also doing amazing reporting, just skip the obvious morons.
Oh fucking Hell... Bari Weiss’s claim that the pulled 60 Minutes investigation on El Salvador’s CECOT prison “did not advance the ball” collapses under even light scrutiny. The segment had cleared editorial and legal review, was fully reported by a veteran correspondent, and was promoted for broadcast before being yanked hours ahead of airtime—an extraordinary step by any newsroom standard. The reporting contained first-hand testimony and documentation about the treatment of people deported by the U.S. government to a foreign mega-prison, which is the very definition of "advancing the ball" in investigative journalism. Pretending otherwise because the administration declined to participate turns government silence into a veto over scrutiny—an idea that reporters inside CBS explicitly rejected. That’s not editorial rigor; it’s capitulation dressed up as some lame-ass prudence. Weiss’s equally lame fallback—that it’s an “old story America already knows”—is equally thin. If that standard held, 60 Minutes would have shuttered decades ago. The point of the piece wasn’t to re-announce that El Salvador has a hardline prison policy; it was to examine the U.S. government’s role in sending people there and the human-rights consequences that followed. Calling that stale is convenient when the facts are uncomfortable. Taken together—her decision to pull a vetted investigation at the last minute and her post-hoc dismissal on X—the posture reads less like newsroom judgment and more like protective cover for an administration that would prefer less daylight on its actions. When journalism “doesn’t advance the ball” only after it risks embarrassing those in power, the problem isn’t the reporting—it’s the referee.
It's not credible for her to decide that it should be pulled for "not advancing the ball" hours before airing. In today's media climate, major stories get lost in the noise, and ordinary people never hear them. Someone posted in that twitter thread Jeff linked that they had not heard the story before CBS started promoting this segment. even political junkies can't keep up with everything, and part of what 60 Minutes does (did) is to shine a glaring light on stories people may not have heard about in depth.
Since her arrival at CBS she seems to want her 15 minutes of fame; the eriKa KirK interview, Dickerson and DuBois signing off and now this. CBS the new faux FOX.
Also don’t forget Tony Dekople, now to be anchoring the CBS Evening News. In one person, both white bread and rabid Israel apologist. Bye bye CBS Evening News.
What’s next? An exposé on how antisemitic Ms. Rachel is because some reactionary bitch put her on a blacklist so her mouth-breathing followers could dox and harass her?
I read in the NYTs a month or so ago that psychologists/psychiatrists had interviewed 40 of the ex-CECOT prisoners. They were interviewed individually and the story they told was haunting. The interviewers concluded they were telling the truth because of the similarity in their accounts.
I'm not making excuses for criminals, but due process and the admonishment of cruel and unusual punishment are still part of what makes America, well, America.
This is an important story the NYTs wasn't afraid to tell. I'm afraid the previosuly-most-excellent 60 Minutes is now just an arm of state media.
Thanks for this. I came to post a comment on how sickening CBS' capitulation to this administration is, then found your link. The comments under her bull**** defense were excellent.
Dude… no amount of drugs could get anyone to endure that. People say oh but when the felon is gone we’ll have JD. I say JD can’t even order doughnuts. 🤪
IDK, he said all the right and hateful things at the Turning Point hate fest. Will he dump his brown wife, marry Erica and lead the Nazi party? We live in interesting times...
It's not about saying all the right things. On any given day, Trump could take 6 different positions but MAGA doesn't care because he's TRUMP, the Golden One. He has a weird charisma to his base that can't be duplicated and which Vance certainly doesn't share. Most MAGAs don't feel the same way about Vance that Tammy Faye Kirk does.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't survive more than 2 more years of magats. I'm counting on their demise by the end of next year. How many lives have they ruined so far? How many lives have they ended? I think millions have grounds for a civil lawsuit....perhaps billions!
They will be the architects of their own demise. They can't help it...they have nothing good to offer, only ugliness and hate. The only benefits go to billionaires, and we know how that always ends..... "Twenty three, skidoo!"(Tale of Two Cities)
Even *if* Couchfuck ever sits behind the Resolute, there will be no Taking Over(TM)... by him. He's an empty suit operated by remote control from Palo Alto. What we would get is the spectacle of collapsed populist power supplanted by would-be Tech-bro suzerainty. There would then be the Reign Of The Twelve Kings whereby said bros tear each other apart as each pursues their individual dream of Yarvinesque monarchy. This will be attempted with no support from the former MAGA proles, who will have long since retreated back into the trailer parks from whence they shuffled.
Hey! Some trailer parks are nice! I lived in one on the California coast, next to Santa Cruz in Aptos, which was for 'prosperous retirees'. It was beautifully landscaped and had a charming rustic staircase down to the beach. The "trailers" looked like manufactured homes, with wood trim and completely hidden crawlspaces. It broke my heart to move into an apartment. MAGA's wouldn't have been within 50 miles.
But I grant you, most trailer parks are anything but park-like.
Yeah, I get Not All Trailer Parks objections every time I use this shorthand. It's stereotyping, and reprehensible, but these are harsh times. It's economically contextual, though, a manufactured home in Santa Cruz isn't in the same universe as one in rural Georgia.
I went to Palo Alto for a protest. The Palantir headquarters was on my walking route. Creepy! Peter Thiel might have been inside!
I live a few towns away in a 1952 starter house surrounded by new $6 million homes. Some of these new neighbors might lean Yarvinesque. I don’t know them yet, but they put up 12 foot high inflatable decorations, ghosts, turkeys, Santa bears. Is that a clue? There are quite a few Cybertrucks on the road. I take that as a clue.
I'd say 12 ft high inflatable lawn decorations are a more acceptable short- hand than trailer parks. There are plenty of reasons people may live in a trailer park, but there's just no excuse for those damn decorations. Ditto the space junk Nazimobiles.
No way that marriage survives the term. He will get divorced and marry Kirk's widow. The project 2025 billionaire overlords are like the movie moguls of old so a marriage of political "stars" isn't completely far fetched.
He can't order a doughnut because he's a hollow wooden puppet whose mouth and strings are controlled by Gyp-pedos. Hence his comment "Whatever makes sense" to the doughnut choice.
I hope Crockett's donations soared. She is a rock start. He is a shit bomb.
I think that Weiss is a German-Jewish name, so I wonder about Bari Weiss supporting a Nazi regime like Trump's. Seems like she is cutting off her nose to spite her face. Of course for her it may be all about the money. What a good capitalist.
I don't know if CBS will ever recover. It is early days yet. Look at companies in Germany that were complicit with Hitler, and yet IG Rheinmetall is still in business and they opened in 1889. I believe they were complicit in the Nazi regime, and now they are helping Ukraine build drones. Back under Hitler they helped Germany make war. At least they are on the right side now, so perhaps they have learned something. VW is still in existence and they supported Hitler. So did ThyssenKrupp. They are now a multinational company doing business around the world. So, if Germany is an example, people will forget transgressions of some businesses and others not.
What could happen instead is what happened to this law firm that Robert Hubbell talks about in his Substack today.
"The law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft was one of Wall Street’s oldest firms. Then it made a deal with the Trump administration, pledging to end the promotion of diversity and inclusion among its lawyers and to provide free legal services to clients of Trump’s choosing.
Cadwalader’s deal with the devil caused dozens of top partners to leave the firm, pushing it to the brink of collapse. Cadwalader has been forced to merge (as the junior partner) with a much larger global law firm. For all intents and purposes, Cadwalader will cease to exist.
There is a moral in Cadwalader’s demise for all of American business. Accountability will come for everyone—law firms, universities, media companies, and social media platforms. It may take a while, but it will happen. And remember, everything Trump touches dies.
Capitulating to Trump will be remembered as a sign of cowardice and treason, while opposing Trump will be viewed as an act of patriotic heroism. We are on the right side of history. Cadwalader, the Ellisons, and Bari Weiss are not. The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine."
Americans are realizing that they don't want to live in a fascist regime with all of the elements that go along with that, even if they did not realize it before the election. Now they learn. Many people lack experiences and imagination and need to actually experience things to learn. Many people actually took Trump at his word. Many of us know to be critical of what people tell us and look at how reliable they are. Some are learning now that Trump is a big liar at worst, and at best, is not able to do what he says he will do.
But… what about the bathroom problem? If I see them in a men’s room do I panic? Can I just ask them to use the “Family Restroom”? Are gays allowed in a Family Restroom?
Do I worry standing at the urinal that my butt might get a
This is just not an issue in many European countries. I love the airport bathrooms in Sweden because they don't have genders on the door. You just use the bathroom, and they put enough money into it that they have closets for each toilet instead of stalls where you could stalk people. I have been known to travel and take my young daughter and her friends to the mens bathrooms, also at the Opera when the mens has no line and the women's is snaking around the hallway. Ridiculously inefficient, and we don't segregate the bathrooms in our homes. I have also been at a conference where on the small intermission and lunch break I went to the mens bathroom with one man at the urinal, and I did not look at him. It would have been rude. However, it is also rude that at a conference with a handful of men and tens of women they have one bathroom for each gender.
They are gay and haters, which does not exempt them from the evil moniker. I know other hateful gay people, none of which I are my friends. I judge people by the content of their character not their superficial attributes. Being gay does not prevent people from being horrid assholes. The Republican party attracts them.
The Couch Casanova is trying his damnedest to illicit something other than “Wet Noodle” energy from the MAGA base but because he fucking sucks — like they all do — he falls face first.
The problem with an authoritarian built around personalism Vs ideology is that it will always fracture and die when the leader dies. Their scramble for relevance is showing panic. They know Donnie’s days are severely numbered.
Back in the times of Politically-Correct cancellations (remember that? so dreamy....), I had a younger acquaintance jump all in my shit because I used the antiquated term "Darkest Africa". The assumed implication was obviously racist, the quaint 19th Century meaning was reference to how little the continent had been explored at the time. That I was indelicate for such a delicate time was not at all outweighed by his being a prissy little shit.
Not really 'bad' in the sense of *BAD*, just bad faith. A mere irritant to me. But not completely harmless. It appears that such sophistry was a non-trivial factor in pissing off those who became the alt-Right, then MAGAs. I wouldn't go so far as to say that using disingenuous accusations as a way to exercise power over people 'got us' Donald Trump. It was all part of a wonderful stew of Leftist over-reach and neglect. But that's for another day.
hah - I've been writing about my recent Cdn hospital experience (no out of pocket of course) - Brazilian surgeon, African anesthetist (also my fam doc), staff mostly east and south Asian, recovery ward nurses mostly gay men (!) and they came in black, white, Chinese and middle-eastern - granted, most of us elderly patients were white, but we're on our way out
Yet another irony of "Has Feminism failed Women" bullshit "debate" is that more than 50 years ago, CBS was the channel that hosted the Mary Tyler Moore show, a program about a divorcee (that part always went unsaid) who moved across the country to make it on her own. That show could not be greenlit at today's CBS. Barri Weiss, a Jewish lesbian, owes much to the legacy of the Mary Richards character, an independent woman in the workplace who was running a news room.
Unlike that character, who was extremely loyal to her whacky workplace family, Weiss has no problem selling out to make a buck. She's foolish if she thinks, assuming our current timeline plays out unchanged, her project 2025 overlords would allow "her kind" to stay in a white-male-Christian-heterosexually-dominated USA. Or maybe she is just so selfish and greedy she believes she will be able to afford a Trump condo on the big beautiful Trump branded Gaza strip (she seems to be not just pro-Israel, but also pro genocide and anti-Palestine) when they kick her ass out of the country.
Who cares what happens to everyone else as she pulls the ladder up behind her. In the meantime she will have hers, as for everyone else, let them eat cake.
Great article that brings calmness and clarity. I would also pose the question "Have Women Failed Feminism?" Look at Usha Vance's face, a woman who took the educational opportunities of this country and sold them out in silent marriage to a puppet man.
Bari Weiss was a political commentator No experience as a journalist or editor. Let's be clear--she is there for a reason. To gut the independence of CBS News.
We just got home last night from 8 glorious days in the Galapagos, and the wifi sucked. So I missed 90% of the shit going on in the hellscape we refer to as the USA. I know I have a lot of catching up to do, but for now, I’m just SOOOO relieved to find out that someone is finally speaking up for the white man!
Do you know any DECENT commercial banks? I left them in the 70s. Credit Unions have served me admirably. They do every service I've ever needed, including a money transfer to French Polynesia to bring my dead husband home. AND with without a hassle.
I ditched Comerica when they screwed me over, went to Fifth Third which has always been OK-- now Comerica and Fifth Third are merging and I don't know which corporate culture will prevail.
I wonder if the women on their board of directors and in their executive suite have either resigned because they shouldn't be working or resigned because they should be protesting that their company sponsored this shit. Either way, this is a losing debate for them.
Thank you for your columns...they're one of the few things keeping us sane lately. I agree with what you said about Margaret Brennan. We used to love her show, but realized very early on in Trump's current (I like to call it the "Reign of Terror") that she had drastically done an about-face into a right-wing toady. At this rate, we're relying on The Guardian for any accurate news.
I'd love to see Peter Thiel, Mike Johnson (the limpest dick in congress, as I recall), or Elmo answer that question. Five minutes of dead silence interrupted by the occasional um, I mean, uh, that's....
Actually I don’t ever remember Margaret Brennan holding MAGA feet to the fire in her questioning. I used to watch her show but after trump “won” again, I had to stop. It just became too ridiculously apologetic for crazy shit. Like anything they were saying was even .05% truthful. I honestly can’t understand how these people live with themselves. It’s all too soulless. They all sold themselves out.
One thing we can count on is the total lack of charm&ease with others of the tech bros. I think the plan was JD would be VP&Elon would be permanently parked in the oval. Many of us were surprised at how actually stupid&revolting Musk was. There’s also Elon’s complete incompetence.
JD fills me,at least, with a sense of revulsion. His name changes, his fluid opinions? The puzzle of his marriage? His book? Obsequiousness towards Trump…
Yup, I think you're right, Suki. The single most defining feature of these fuckups is their inability to play well with others. Even if they were good at anything besides being assholes, wanting to fuck over everyone on the planet & the planet itself...it's gonna be a factor that bites ya in the ass.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit: Bari Weiss defended her decision in an editorial call this morning
https://x.com/grynbaum/status/2003109023705387478
sorry to force you to click on Elon's Nazi Bar, I'm not seeing this reported anywhere elae
ok, here's a bluesky link
https://bsky.app/profile/bengoggin.bsky.social/post/3malhlp6prs2p
Gee, she sounds reasonable. That’s some damn good propaganda there. Unless, of course, you know that the story had already been vetted sixteen times to Sunday and cleared by everybody at CBS News.
... and Bari Weiss demanding changes to a 60-Minutes pre-vetted segment, right before air time, indicates to me that it was run by Miller et al, and they wanted "equal time." Bari Weiss will destroy the legendary CBS News.
I don't think it was so much about equal time as it was just killing the story entirely. Miller has no defense, and he knows it.
Miller was asked for his input when the piece was being put together in the beginning and refused, as did a number of other administration spokesholes.
So, by insisting on getting their input at this late date, Weiss is giving them kill rights because she knows the question has been asked and answered.
Yeah, I think hitler sounded reasonable to a bunch of racists who were part of his aryan nation.
Most appreciated! I haven't clicked on Nazi Bar links in over a year now.
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Ass kissing dope. I dropped The Post long ago. Maybe it's time to let The Times go too.
I dropped both last year.
WaPo has a weird editorial slant now but their columnists are still breaking real news. They are in DC and have amazing contacts. NYT is also doing amazing reporting, just skip the obvious morons.
Nope. I turned off the TV on November 5, 2024, unsubbed from WaPo and NYT before that.
To do otherwise is to support them and 'reasons' are excuses. Fuck 'em completely.
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WAY past time. Way.
Yeah, but I like the recipes….🥹
The internet has huge realms of free recipes just search for it by name.
thank you!
Thank you because I’m proud to say I’m a never Twitterer.
me too, never
Same the name was turn off and the original owner a douche-bro.
Oh fucking Hell... Bari Weiss’s claim that the pulled 60 Minutes investigation on El Salvador’s CECOT prison “did not advance the ball” collapses under even light scrutiny. The segment had cleared editorial and legal review, was fully reported by a veteran correspondent, and was promoted for broadcast before being yanked hours ahead of airtime—an extraordinary step by any newsroom standard. The reporting contained first-hand testimony and documentation about the treatment of people deported by the U.S. government to a foreign mega-prison, which is the very definition of "advancing the ball" in investigative journalism. Pretending otherwise because the administration declined to participate turns government silence into a veto over scrutiny—an idea that reporters inside CBS explicitly rejected. That’s not editorial rigor; it’s capitulation dressed up as some lame-ass prudence. Weiss’s equally lame fallback—that it’s an “old story America already knows”—is equally thin. If that standard held, 60 Minutes would have shuttered decades ago. The point of the piece wasn’t to re-announce that El Salvador has a hardline prison policy; it was to examine the U.S. government’s role in sending people there and the human-rights consequences that followed. Calling that stale is convenient when the facts are uncomfortable. Taken together—her decision to pull a vetted investigation at the last minute and her post-hoc dismissal on X—the posture reads less like newsroom judgment and more like protective cover for an administration that would prefer less daylight on its actions. When journalism “doesn’t advance the ball” only after it risks embarrassing those in power, the problem isn’t the reporting—it’s the referee.
It's not credible for her to decide that it should be pulled for "not advancing the ball" hours before airing. In today's media climate, major stories get lost in the noise, and ordinary people never hear them. Someone posted in that twitter thread Jeff linked that they had not heard the story before CBS started promoting this segment. even political junkies can't keep up with everything, and part of what 60 Minutes does (did) is to shine a glaring light on stories people may not have heard about in depth.
Yes, that's why Baby Ellison hired her, to put a stop to that.
Thanks for the summary, David Simpson. You saved me time for baking today.
I thought you said "barking". I was with you on that one!
When you serve the unreconstructed it's perfectly fine to play in our fucking faces.
Ah well, CBS is fully fucked.
State Television brought to us by the Silicon Valley’s Tech Bro’s!
Turn 'em off and leave 'em off.
John Prine said it best, "blow up your TV..."
Thank you. Excellent observations.
Well said David, couldn’t agree more!
Restacked, and you given full credit, of course.
I don’t buy Weiss’ drivel any more than I buy the NYT’s drivel
Since her arrival at CBS she seems to want her 15 minutes of fame; the eriKa KirK interview, Dickerson and DuBois signing off and now this. CBS the new faux FOX.
Also don’t forget Tony Dekople, now to be anchoring the CBS Evening News. In one person, both white bread and rabid Israel apologist. Bye bye CBS Evening News.
She's an apologist as well, and can excuse any atrocity.
What “ball” are they advancing?
⚽️🏀⚾️🥎🎾🏐🏉🏈🎱????
Bari is just another facist tool
Rather, whose balls is she advancing?
no thanks....my computer is banned from the nazi bar!
I self banned!😝
Same here😊
I was banned from TWITTER, about 9 years ago.
Same here....which I consider one of my CROWNING ACHIEVEMENTS!
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Well, what award do I get? I never joined Twitter or X - can I get a FIFA peace ribbon too?
You get the FIFA "Common Sense Award".
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That's part of what I like about you!
As Tennessee Holler commented on Bluesky, "what a crock of shit."
What’s next? An exposé on how antisemitic Ms. Rachel is because some reactionary bitch put her on a blacklist so her mouth-breathing followers could dox and harass her?
I can’t fucking wait.
I mean, is that better than the Greenland thing?
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-week-started-fucking-stupid
Nazi Bari on the Nazi Bar?
"Assume the best intent of our colleagues", okay sure Bari.
I read in the NYTs a month or so ago that psychologists/psychiatrists had interviewed 40 of the ex-CECOT prisoners. They were interviewed individually and the story they told was haunting. The interviewers concluded they were telling the truth because of the similarity in their accounts.
I'm not making excuses for criminals, but due process and the admonishment of cruel and unusual punishment are still part of what makes America, well, America.
This is an important story the NYTs wasn't afraid to tell. I'm afraid the previosuly-most-excellent 60 Minutes is now just an arm of state media.
You can change that link from x.com to xcancel.com and avoid giving the Nazi bar any traffic.
Thanks for this. I came to post a comment on how sickening CBS' capitulation to this administration is, then found your link. The comments under her bull**** defense were excellent.
Well balls!
Oh I don’t even want to hear Bari’s excuse
It’s on Bluesky now too.
I've been banned from Bluesky , it sucks , in my never to be humble opinion.
lamest excuse ever
Ha! Big wheel of Moron is right. 😂
Will CBS ever recover? And isn’t Bari gay? MAGA isn’t supposed to like gay people are they? 🤷♀️
JD went on to discuss Jasmine Crocketts fingernails and I’m confident her donations soared since he’s a racist piece of shit.
I could have written a whole post just on JD's speech — but that would have meant listening to the whole thing. ugh
Dude… no amount of drugs could get anyone to endure that. People say oh but when the felon is gone we’ll have JD. I say JD can’t even order doughnuts. 🤪
if Donny can't finish out his term, I'm kinda perversely looking forward to President Couchfuck. he's so repellent, no way MAGA follows him anywhere
Agree. He doesn’t have what it takes to have a cult following.
IDK, he said all the right and hateful things at the Turning Point hate fest. Will he dump his brown wife, marry Erica and lead the Nazi party? We live in interesting times...
It's not about saying all the right things. On any given day, Trump could take 6 different positions but MAGA doesn't care because he's TRUMP, the Golden One. He has a weird charisma to his base that can't be duplicated and which Vance certainly doesn't share. Most MAGAs don't feel the same way about Vance that Tammy Faye Kirk does.
Usha Vance may do the dumping.
Interesting times is right! 🤣. I think Usha might be just as extreme as her husband….
Donnie and his Bondo Bimbo are doing their best to destroy whatever remaining reasons The Base has to follow dear leader down the rabbit hole.
They loathe the couch fucker. MAGA could end in our lifetimes!
It had better because I'm not going to hang around until I'm 150 years old just to see the end of the movie.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't survive more than 2 more years of magats. I'm counting on their demise by the end of next year. How many lives have they ruined so far? How many lives have they ended? I think millions have grounds for a civil lawsuit....perhaps billions!
Arne: I will be here with you till then too!! LOLOLOL!
Absofuckinglutely Jeff, he’s a liar and as toxic as anyone in the Republican Party!
But there are too many others who want the ultimate power and will fight him for it.
A 'leader' without followers is just a guy taking a walk.
All I want for Christmas at this point is the obituaries of trump, Vance, Miller, Johnson, Bannon, the MAGA Republicans and Weiss.
Need to add Noem and Bondi to that list. Throw in Susie Wiles too.
Kegbreath.
He needs to be tried and hanged, or face a firing squad.
Get DAMIEN, too,
Barron " Lurch " trump.
Hahaha..Lurch! Love it!
They will be the architects of their own demise. They can't help it...they have nothing good to offer, only ugliness and hate. The only benefits go to billionaires, and we know how that always ends..... "Twenty three, skidoo!"(Tale of Two Cities)
I’d like to write those obits. 😂😂
And I for one don’t think that’s too much to ask for.
And while you’re at it, toss in RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz.
Just look at his wife's expression as she has to listen to his racist blithering.
I do wonder what will happen to the Donnie Demento cultists' devotion when JustaDick takes over......
Even *if* Couchfuck ever sits behind the Resolute, there will be no Taking Over(TM)... by him. He's an empty suit operated by remote control from Palo Alto. What we would get is the spectacle of collapsed populist power supplanted by would-be Tech-bro suzerainty. There would then be the Reign Of The Twelve Kings whereby said bros tear each other apart as each pursues their individual dream of Yarvinesque monarchy. This will be attempted with no support from the former MAGA proles, who will have long since retreated back into the trailer parks from whence they shuffled.
Hey! Some trailer parks are nice! I lived in one on the California coast, next to Santa Cruz in Aptos, which was for 'prosperous retirees'. It was beautifully landscaped and had a charming rustic staircase down to the beach. The "trailers" looked like manufactured homes, with wood trim and completely hidden crawlspaces. It broke my heart to move into an apartment. MAGA's wouldn't have been within 50 miles.
But I grant you, most trailer parks are anything but park-like.
It’s a way of punching down — synonymous with “redneck white trash.” And we wonder why working-class voters don’t flock to the liberal-Dem side.
Yeah, I get Not All Trailer Parks objections every time I use this shorthand. It's stereotyping, and reprehensible, but these are harsh times. It's economically contextual, though, a manufactured home in Santa Cruz isn't in the same universe as one in rural Georgia.
I went to Palo Alto for a protest. The Palantir headquarters was on my walking route. Creepy! Peter Thiel might have been inside!
I live a few towns away in a 1952 starter house surrounded by new $6 million homes. Some of these new neighbors might lean Yarvinesque. I don’t know them yet, but they put up 12 foot high inflatable decorations, ghosts, turkeys, Santa bears. Is that a clue? There are quite a few Cybertrucks on the road. I take that as a clue.
I'd say 12 ft high inflatable lawn decorations are a more acceptable short- hand than trailer parks. There are plenty of reasons people may live in a trailer park, but there's just no excuse for those damn decorations. Ditto the space junk Nazimobiles.
Well said.
No way that marriage survives the term. He will get divorced and marry Kirk's widow. The project 2025 billionaire overlords are like the movie moguls of old so a marriage of political "stars" isn't completely far fetched.
Yeah. I don't think Usha is enjoying her new life as a trad wife and political prop. At all.
I hope they disappear 🙄
Amen.
He can't order a doughnut because he's a hollow wooden puppet whose mouth and strings are controlled by Gyp-pedos. Hence his comment "Whatever makes sense" to the doughnut choice.
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we should ALL be so unlucky OH FUK!
Thank you for your service, Jeff.
I got 5 minutes through the TurningPoint thing and got mad enough to hit my fucking monitor.....now I need a new monitor.
No need to inflict that kind of suffering on yerself.
How can couchfuckMcgee’s wife stand him!?🤢🤮🤮
A L M O S T as Vile as The Pedo Felon…
Brilliant article as usual Jeff.
I apologize because I am white. Never did before, never even thought about it - but I do now!
Do I count? White - yet Jewish?
where do I stand? I’m confused by that worthless piece of dung’s comments!
Nobody needs that kind of torture!!
I hope Crockett's donations soared. She is a rock start. He is a shit bomb.
I think that Weiss is a German-Jewish name, so I wonder about Bari Weiss supporting a Nazi regime like Trump's. Seems like she is cutting off her nose to spite her face. Of course for her it may be all about the money. What a good capitalist.
I don't know if CBS will ever recover. It is early days yet. Look at companies in Germany that were complicit with Hitler, and yet IG Rheinmetall is still in business and they opened in 1889. I believe they were complicit in the Nazi regime, and now they are helping Ukraine build drones. Back under Hitler they helped Germany make war. At least they are on the right side now, so perhaps they have learned something. VW is still in existence and they supported Hitler. So did ThyssenKrupp. They are now a multinational company doing business around the world. So, if Germany is an example, people will forget transgressions of some businesses and others not.
What could happen instead is what happened to this law firm that Robert Hubbell talks about in his Substack today.
"The law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft was one of Wall Street’s oldest firms. Then it made a deal with the Trump administration, pledging to end the promotion of diversity and inclusion among its lawyers and to provide free legal services to clients of Trump’s choosing.
Cadwalader’s deal with the devil caused dozens of top partners to leave the firm, pushing it to the brink of collapse. Cadwalader has been forced to merge (as the junior partner) with a much larger global law firm. For all intents and purposes, Cadwalader will cease to exist.
There is a moral in Cadwalader’s demise for all of American business. Accountability will come for everyone—law firms, universities, media companies, and social media platforms. It may take a while, but it will happen. And remember, everything Trump touches dies.
Capitulating to Trump will be remembered as a sign of cowardice and treason, while opposing Trump will be viewed as an act of patriotic heroism. We are on the right side of history. Cadwalader, the Ellisons, and Bari Weiss are not. The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine."
Let us hope we do not forget.
Thanks for this. Gives me hope. I have to remain hopeful. You’re so right “ accountability will Come for everyone”. ✌️
Americans are realizing that they don't want to live in a fascist regime with all of the elements that go along with that, even if they did not realize it before the election. Now they learn. Many people lack experiences and imagination and need to actually experience things to learn. Many people actually took Trump at his word. Many of us know to be critical of what people tell us and look at how reliable they are. Some are learning now that Trump is a big liar at worst, and at best, is not able to do what he says he will do.
I hope that happens to Paul Weiss, the first law firm to capitulate
Ditto!
Peter Thiel and Scott Bessent are gay, so maybe it’s okay if you’re on their side 👹
But… what about the bathroom problem? If I see them in a men’s room do I panic? Can I just ask them to use the “Family Restroom”? Are gays allowed in a Family Restroom?
Do I worry standing at the urinal that my butt might get a
look over?
No, but they are Looking 🤭👹
This is just not an issue in many European countries. I love the airport bathrooms in Sweden because they don't have genders on the door. You just use the bathroom, and they put enough money into it that they have closets for each toilet instead of stalls where you could stalk people. I have been known to travel and take my young daughter and her friends to the mens bathrooms, also at the Opera when the mens has no line and the women's is snaking around the hallway. Ridiculously inefficient, and we don't segregate the bathrooms in our homes. I have also been at a conference where on the small intermission and lunch break I went to the mens bathroom with one man at the urinal, and I did not look at him. It would have been rude. However, it is also rude that at a conference with a handful of men and tens of women they have one bathroom for each gender.
They are gay and haters, which does not exempt them from the evil moniker. I know other hateful gay people, none of which I are my friends. I judge people by the content of their character not their superficial attributes. Being gay does not prevent people from being horrid assholes. The Republican party attracts them.
I know. It was just a snarky remark 👹
He’s also jealous of her eye makeup.
I’m donating as many bucks (💰💵💲💸) to Jasmine Crockett’s campaign as soon as possible!!!!
CBS won't have to "recover", as long as they have contracts to televise sports.
True dat Outdoor.
Sad, but true!!
I’m bummin’ only one spin of Wheel of Moron and it’s Sofa Poker.
🤣🤣🤣
Isn’t every GOP member a racist piece of shit, as well Susan?
Seems to be the case.
Yes, she's the female equivalent of Peter Thiel, minus the money.
The Couch Casanova is trying his damnedest to illicit something other than “Wet Noodle” energy from the MAGA base but because he fucking sucks — like they all do — he falls face first.
The problem with an authoritarian built around personalism Vs ideology is that it will always fracture and die when the leader dies. Their scramble for relevance is showing panic. They know Donnie’s days are severely numbered.
Dear Lord, let it be so. I can't pass until he is dead. I'll have to hang on until that blissful day.
Practice self care my friend — maybe part of that self care is relishing in him melting before our eyes.
I guarantee you are in better shape than him. I give him about 6-9 months left at most judging all the health stuff he’s obviously has going on.
It's still to long for me.
6-9 days is too long
🙏🙏🙏
Couch Cassanova.....I need to use this in a future writing.
Haha yeah it’s my favorite term for him.
you ok if we appropriate that for thistleandmoss.com ?
Absolutely!! Share away!! I love it!
Couch Casanova. 🤣🤣🤣
On being white. Trump heard Canada is called “The Great White North” so he thinks it must be for whites onlly. That might explain things.
Does the same reasoning apply to South Africa? It’s in the “South” where he has many “fans”
Back in the times of Politically-Correct cancellations (remember that? so dreamy....), I had a younger acquaintance jump all in my shit because I used the antiquated term "Darkest Africa". The assumed implication was obviously racist, the quaint 19th Century meaning was reference to how little the continent had been explored at the time. That I was indelicate for such a delicate time was not at all outweighed by his being a prissy little shit.
That is so funny. I didn't ever equate that term with black skin. At least the young one was defending the people and that is encouraging.
He was. His defense was against an attack that didn't exist. He wasn't stupid, it was performative, it made him feel good about himself.
Is that bad? At least he was feeling good about a decent thing and not a Nazi thing. I'll give him a pass.
Not really 'bad' in the sense of *BAD*, just bad faith. A mere irritant to me. But not completely harmless. It appears that such sophistry was a non-trivial factor in pissing off those who became the alt-Right, then MAGAs. I wouldn't go so far as to say that using disingenuous accusations as a way to exercise power over people 'got us' Donald Trump. It was all part of a wonderful stew of Leftist over-reach and neglect. But that's for another day.
" Shades " of Omerosa. ( sp ? )
She said the saying " That's the pot calling the kettle black "
was racist . 🙄
Not everybody is born with knowledge of history, and I wouldn't put a lot of money on current curricula in grade and high schools either.
I knew a young man who thought the enemy in Vietnam were called the "Viet Kahn".
hah - I've been writing about my recent Cdn hospital experience (no out of pocket of course) - Brazilian surgeon, African anesthetist (also my fam doc), staff mostly east and south Asian, recovery ward nurses mostly gay men (!) and they came in black, white, Chinese and middle-eastern - granted, most of us elderly patients were white, but we're on our way out
Yes, we are. There is really no stopping the course of history. I'm old and don't really give a rat's. It's all good to me.
Might also explain his, uh, understanding of "political asylum."
Yet another irony of "Has Feminism failed Women" bullshit "debate" is that more than 50 years ago, CBS was the channel that hosted the Mary Tyler Moore show, a program about a divorcee (that part always went unsaid) who moved across the country to make it on her own. That show could not be greenlit at today's CBS. Barri Weiss, a Jewish lesbian, owes much to the legacy of the Mary Richards character, an independent woman in the workplace who was running a news room.
Unlike that character, who was extremely loyal to her whacky workplace family, Weiss has no problem selling out to make a buck. She's foolish if she thinks, assuming our current timeline plays out unchanged, her project 2025 overlords would allow "her kind" to stay in a white-male-Christian-heterosexually-dominated USA. Or maybe she is just so selfish and greedy she believes she will be able to afford a Trump condo on the big beautiful Trump branded Gaza strip (she seems to be not just pro-Israel, but also pro genocide and anti-Palestine) when they kick her ass out of the country.
Who cares what happens to everyone else as she pulls the ladder up behind her. In the meantime she will have hers, as for everyone else, let them eat cake.
P.S. I normally don't like to cross post, but my wife wrote more about this, this morning, and I am having a hard time containing my outrage (https://vajenda.substack.com/p/has-feminism-failed-women-is-not )
Edward R. Murrow is twirling in his grave. And says he's glad he's dead. 'Cause so is CBS news.
I have a wonderful biography of Murrow. I found it face down this morning. Coincidence?
I am reminded of Phyllis Schlafly and the Ladies Against Women
Great article that brings calmness and clarity. I would also pose the question "Have Women Failed Feminism?" Look at Usha Vance's face, a woman who took the educational opportunities of this country and sold them out in silent marriage to a puppet man.
Bet she didn’t realize what was going to happen when hubby told her “I’m going to be the Veep!! Ain’t that wunnerful honey pie? The VP!!!”
I remember the SCANDAL, when .Murphy Brown had a baby !
Ezra Klein should never be taken seriously again after saying Charlie Kirk was "doing politics the right way." He should receive only mockery.
He was OK while at The American Prospect, but working for the NYT has rotted his brain
It’s all so exhausting, (but the line) “Fox News for people who know which fork is for salad” will get me through another day!
Bari Weiss was a political commentator No experience as a journalist or editor. Let's be clear--she is there for a reason. To gut the independence of CBS News.
incompetent, this last minute stuff - unless in-yer-faces was intentional
Breaking news, NASA scientists have just decoded the first transmission from 3i/Atlas! It's " What the fuck is wrong with Donald Trump?"
Was the reply EVERYTHING?!?!
We just got home last night from 8 glorious days in the Galapagos, and the wifi sucked. So I missed 90% of the shit going on in the hellscape we refer to as the USA. I know I have a lot of catching up to do, but for now, I’m just SOOOO relieved to find out that someone is finally speaking up for the white man!
You didn’t miss anything except the fall&collapse of American society, and the rise
of American Stupidity.
😂🤣😂
You see any blue footed boobys
YES!!! 😊
lol!!!!
And a hearty fuck you to bank of america for sponsoring that dreck!!
I've always refused to do business with B of A because they forked me over once. Now I see that my decision was justified. Unfortunately, my mom
uses B of A and I'm in charge of her finances. Ugh.
Do you know any DECENT commercial banks? I left them in the 70s. Credit Unions have served me admirably. They do every service I've ever needed, including a money transfer to French Polynesia to bring my dead husband home. AND with without a hassle.
I ditched Comerica when they screwed me over, went to Fifth Third which has always been OK-- now Comerica and Fifth Third are merging and I don't know which corporate culture will prevail.
Same here with avoiding them—and my late mom used them but I was finally able to close that account this year.
I wonder if the women on their board of directors and in their executive suite have either resigned because they shouldn't be working or resigned because they should be protesting that their company sponsored this shit. Either way, this is a losing debate for them.
Thank you for your columns...they're one of the few things keeping us sane lately. I agree with what you said about Margaret Brennan. We used to love her show, but realized very early on in Trump's current (I like to call it the "Reign of Terror") that she had drastically done an about-face into a right-wing toady. At this rate, we're relying on The Guardian for any accurate news.
I'd like someone to explain to me the difference between the spirit of the law and the intent.
I'd love to see Peter Thiel, Mike Johnson (the limpest dick in congress, as I recall), or Elmo answer that question. Five minutes of dead silence interrupted by the occasional um, I mean, uh, that's....
The Reign of Error
It’s one of those mornings. Again. Jeez.
Thanks for helping me hang in with my homies.
Actually I don’t ever remember Margaret Brennan holding MAGA feet to the fire in her questioning. I used to watch her show but after trump “won” again, I had to stop. It just became too ridiculously apologetic for crazy shit. Like anything they were saying was even .05% truthful. I honestly can’t understand how these people live with themselves. It’s all too soulless. They all sold themselves out.
I feel sick in my stomach today
As the news makes my insides all gray
A lunatic cluster
A pedophile luster
It's another sad Trumplefuck day.
Add it to your book! Nice one!
I will! Thank you!!
One thing we can count on is the total lack of charm&ease with others of the tech bros. I think the plan was JD would be VP&Elon would be permanently parked in the oval. Many of us were surprised at how actually stupid&revolting Musk was. There’s also Elon’s complete incompetence.
JD fills me,at least, with a sense of revulsion. His name changes, his fluid opinions? The puzzle of his marriage? His book? Obsequiousness towards Trump…
The bros revolting nature may save us.
Yup, I think you're right, Suki. The single most defining feature of these fuckups is their inability to play well with others. Even if they were good at anything besides being assholes, wanting to fuck over everyone on the planet & the planet itself...it's gonna be a factor that bites ya in the ass.
revolting works for the head honcho