How in holy hell can the NYT put out a headline like that... "Long held fascination with genes and genetics? " 😳 I just cant with these assholes. Harris is doing splendidly...I'm cautiously optimistic, at least today. I drive by a house in Philly suburbs with Dump signs in their yard and assume they are either a) a racist b) a woman hate c) ignorant d) rich and really want that tax cut e) a Nazi.
An old lady across the street from me just hung a Trump flag outside her home (it's upside down because MAGAts are fumducks) and the old lady across from her just hung a "Harris/Walz" flag in response. Warmed my heart.
I would take an upside down Trump flag to be purposefully hung that way and mean F Trump. Maybe she’s having a spat with her husband who told her to go out and hang up their Trump flag :)
Yes, we wondered about that too, but that would be a very subtle signal and MAGAts are not deep thinkers. I think she lives alone and probably watches Fux News all day. Most likely she's just a MAGAt who doesn't know how to hang a flag.
We had a yard sign for Bob Ferguson, the current WA state AG (D-Awesome) who is running for governor but moved it to the highway so more people would see it. Got a small "Harris for president" sign in the window. It's good to know one's neighbors.
While I am in Germany where no one is hanging a Trump flag, the community I live in in the USA does not have any Trump signs out either. There, the worry would be attracting vandalism of their home by marauding bands of teenagers. So, one will see nice homes with Harris-Walz signs, and the elite private school in the neighborhood who has parents driving from other communities to bring their children, will not be loudly advertising their support for Trump if they still have it.
Most of them are just deluded haters. They hate anything they don’t understand, but they won’t make the effort it takes to understand. It’s just plain easier to hate.
Many Repugs, are Repugs in my opinion because they never put out the effort and sacrifice to reach any monetary goals. Or other goals. So it is too painful for them to accept their own lack of commitment and sacrifice so let’s just blame everyone else.
That's my theory. They expected to have the American Dream handed to them on a silver platter and are pissed it wasn't. As far as the educated wealthy are concerned it's all about the benjamins.
He's not fascinated. That's code for' let me use the excuse of genes' to punish, deport, torture, kill (the vermin--all others) in order to create a white supremicist country. He's only fascinated with himself and his money and power.
Yes, and that sociopath will gladly carry out the plan, started in the early 70s to " whitewash" America. It's chilling and we need to pay attention. Trump is a useful idiot, the pawn of larger forces that want America re-Mayflowered. Two books on this subject to set your hair on fire: Jane Mayer's Dark Money and Rachel Maddow's Prequel. OMG!
Fuckknuckle donny doesn’t know a thing about genes, but when it comes to the path of a hurricane he’s a weatherman, when it comes to doctoring he knows chlorine kills germs right? He is equally good at fucking up the most important and powerful presidential position in the world. It’s amazing how he never has made a mistake and that’s why he loves himself so deeply. Success is just making money, which he is horseshit at and has a lifelong record showing it’s true but in his own damaged brain he’s the best at that too. Evil has become power. 2nd grade has become his glass ceiling of learning.
I doubt that he does, but he *is* sure that his genes are high-quality just the same. It's just a pseudoscientific way of saying that he's innately better than anyone else around because he's white and rich. (And the rich part is because he's white and has superior genes.)
I have come to the same conclusion. His supporters are one, some, or all the things you listed. And if confronted with those, nearly all would deny that they hold those positons.
i used to work at a small market TV station in deep east Texas and yes the newsroom was just like today's Magas even back then, (1992). I was the only progressive in there.
it felt, to me, very hostile there...I lasted a year and left.
Oh, so true. The roots of what has become MAGA were always there in some quarters of our nation. Trump embodied and amplified grievances that stem from racism.
In Utah, the Mormons generally vote republican and the atmosphere is toxic if you admit that you are progressive. My dog's name is Birdie Sanders, and I make sure to say her entire name when I meet people. I'm getting a kitten in a few weeks and I am thinking about calling her Kamala Harris!
Yep, my nephew & my sister are like that; they vote for Trump & other very conservative Republicans, but if I were to tell them they are racist, they would vehemently deny that.
My nephew even said that when Biden said, during his 2020 campaign, that if given the opportunity, he would appoint the first female Black justice to the Supreme Court, that he broke the law against discrimination!!!!!
No matter how I tried to explain that those laws were put into place to try & correct the blatant & harsh discrimination against women & minorities, he refused to see it that way. So the idea of white male victimhood has really permeated society.
How, in God's name did our country get sooo fucked up !!! I put a lot of it down to the sorry state of our education.I went to schools in the 50s , we didn't have the resources available to fact check liars. We did however, have Civics; we learned about government processes at the local, state and federal level. Folks these days seem to have no idea how it is supposed to be, so they settle for crap that politicians dish out.
Like when the Tea Party sprang up after Obama was elected. Many of those were racists who all convinced themselves that they were not racists. Really? Why form immediately after his election? Why not come out from under their rocks during the terms of his predecessor, frat boy W, who wasted trillions on the unnecessary Iraq invasion?
I owned a small shop then and one of the drooling troglodytes came in SIX WEEKS after Obama was inaugurated moaning about how she wished "they" would impeach him, because "he's doing so much damage to the country."
How, I asked her. How is he damaging the country? What specifically is he doing?
Of course she couldn't answer, because the answer was "he's being Black!"
W wasted that money with the full support of the NYTimes. They so urged the US involvement in that war that when weapons of mass destruction were proven not to exist it was a major embarrassment for the Times pushing the US into that war. Their ineptitude was responsible for many people dying. They were forced to print an apology. As usual with their sense of righteousness it was barely an apology at all. The Times and the Bush administration were never held accountable for this deception. An account of this debacle can be found at fair.org (March 22, 2023)
Colin Powell's biggest regret was giving that speech at the UN asserting that Iraq had WMDs. The architects of the Iraq war in the Republican party should have been prosecuted for the death, destruction, and wasted money that followed.
It pains me to think that nearly half of the voters in this country are racist, woman-hating, hopelessly stupid, greedy bastards. I'm going to spend the last two weeks of the race on an island in Greece. I may not come back.
It's not nearly half. The polls are wrong. He's not that close. At BEST he has 40% of the country, but they're noisier and they're more dedicated voters. Dems stay home too much. We need a better get-out-the-vote effort, because people will line up in the rain to demonstrate how much they hate something, but won't get out of bed to support it. (Just look at polls online about "if you had it to do over, would you have kids?" All the answers tend to be from angry and upset parents whose kids are driving them crazy; people who are happy or just not worked up don't waste their time answering.)
If his 40% are in the right place he could take the electoral college. #onepersononevote let the candidate with the most votes win. The electoral college is an archaic idea that no other country has.
Pretty much. I was in Minneapolis this weekend and saw Harris/Walz signs everywhere. I took a deep breath and smiled. It seems Roseanne (my Thorazine lost its punch) Barr and Gary Busey are the GQP's leading political advisors. I've reached my saturation level of KKKrazy.
My favorite Roseanne ancedote: after she and Tom Arnold divorced, she sniped that he had a small penis, to which he replied, "Even a 747 looks small when you land it in the Grand Canyon."
Back in the 1920s, my grandfather's mother and two youngest sisters worked in a laundry on the edge of the Greenwood district in Tulsa (they were white but close to destitute) and lived in a single room above it. The girls liked to party, though, and there was no shortage of oil field workers with good wages burning holes in their pockets. One night, the older daughter was arrested for public drunk and incarcerated in the state asylum at Vinita, where she was surgically neutered and died of tuberculosis (contracted at the asylum) 9 years later, barely 30 yrs old. (Rape and other abuse was not uncommon in places like this, so the sterilization was also handy for preventing awkward questions.)
This is what they did, and not just in Oklahoma: the hospital existed to further the cause of eugenics, and once you've been committed, you have to have money and influence to leave again. (The money and influence showed that you didn't have inherent genetic flaws, of course.) Her younger sister did better, fortunately -- ended up with a boyfriend wealthy enough to buy a home close to Woodward Park and because she was never arrested, she even got to have children.
And I'm sure you'll be shocked at this -- proponents of eugenics are alive and well and hanging out in the Republiscum party. The NYT coyly wink-winks at the "long-held fascination with genes and genetics" because it's a euphemism for the fucking truth, and this is what many conservatives still think: their superior biology is their destiny. Eugenics gives them cover -- it's science, you know, not prejudice! ... except, of course, that's total horseshit.
Many of the "old money" families made their fortunes because of opportunistic behavior in earlier times when laws and societal norms were much more lax. Exploitation and thievery were common. Bootlegging during Prohibition, for example, was very lucrative.
Such economic success often morphed into the affluent superiority complex with the attendant prejudices applied to anyone below them socioeconomically. Such abhorrent behavior in the mental hospitals. No wonder all those ghost hunter shows go to abandoned asylums and orphanages. So much abuse and suffering occurred there.
The legacy media so desperately wants to be as relevant as they were 30 years ago, but that ship has sailed, and Harris is doing all the venues that will reach the voters where they are.
And the legacy media just can't abide by their irrelevancy.
The thing is, Big K is really pretty normal. We are so used to blunder butt lying, flip-flopping, and just making up shit, we find it refreshing to hear someone talk to all kinds of people. Refreshing to hear someone give a shit about us.
I console myself that turd has a sentencing date toward the end of Nov. I think in Judge Merchan's courtroom. He has IIRC 5 weeks after the election to reply to Jack Smith's skinnied down insurrection case in Judge Chutkan's court. Could be interesting. If he wins, can he go to jail?
And that legacy media destroyed our trust with it’s sane washing, never calling a lie a lie, allowing a sociopath to get away with murder day in and day out, and contributing to the destruction of our democracy. How is it that they haven’t looked after their own existence? Do they believe there will be a free and fair press if the orange anus face wins? Their calculations have been shit.
It's puzzling that they do not seem to realize this. Is the pull of profit that strong? Are they that short sighted and oblivious? Just another aspect of our current zeitgeist that, in the words of Forrest Gump, "just don't make no sense"
Well, the owners themselves are "big rich"...I have a feeling that they think they will be fine even if Donny Dumbfuck does order the government to take over their newspapers or whatever. Not to mention that Donny has promised to continue his program of tax cuts for the wealthy while soaking us "mudsills" to become the sole support of the government tax base.
Also I very much doubt those media owners give a shite about all the "little people" who work for them and who will be out of a job (if they're lucky; in jail if they've written something that has offended Donny Facepaint). |
Corporate think is all about the next quarter. Maximize profits for the next quarter. Don't worry about what comes next. (Look at Wells Fargo, for just one example, opening credit cards in their customers' names without permission. Did they think that would never come back to bite them? Of course - because they didn't think beyond the immediate moment at all.)
When billionaires own the media, all they care about is this quarter's reports. Something that may or may not happen in January is far beyond their concern. And anyway, the "news" means "what just happened right now," not "what may happen." There's no percentage in, or market for, looking far ahead, because that's not their function.
Shitweasels-all of them! I had a shitweasel come to my house yesterday to talk us into supporting trump. (We have 4 signs in our front yard for Harris/Walz,one for Tammy Baldwin and 2 for local races)…..As she spewed lies, my husband and I asked her about Putin, Nazis, women’s rights, Affordable Care Act, economy, inflation…etc. She continually talked over us. After 20 minutes-(don’t ask me why it took us that long!)…We told her to FACT CHECK her lies that she repeated…she smiled and said-“vote for trump!”. I then shooed her away and poured myself a glass of wine! IDIOT SHITWEASELS!! She had a glittery TRUMP hat on…probably made in china!
I must be rude according to American standards. When someone representing another party comes to my door, I simply say: “I’ve already made up my mind, and your candidate is not in my orbit”. Now I’m Canadian and we’re known as very polite. Well, my being polite does not extend to people who want to spew their beliefs on my stoop.
Canadian here. That is very polite indeed. When I'm asked, "Can we count on your vote?" I recently responded, "Oh no. I cannot stand the sight of your man. He makes me want to slap his face."
I've kept opposition canvassers on the phone and on my doorstep until they finally exhaust themselves, then I say... 'Good, prevented you from talking to someone else for a half hour'
I give them a minute or so, tell them my position and ask if they’d like to meet my dog currently roaring at them with her head over the 5 foot high gate. They leave.
Pretty fkin' stooooopid of her to think she is going to change your mind when you have made your choices so clearly. Jesus Hussein Christ on a Peloton these people are all brain-dead.
It's that evangelical urge, feeding their inner fount of self-righteousness. The herd instinct for identification with a larger community and a unifying drive to vanquish the enemy. Except that these idiots are following the goldfish in the bowl that's had its brain removed.
Are there open carry states, or states that allow you to open your door to a stranger with a gun in your hand? I'm not advocating for firing on a maga door knocker, but if I could legally do it to a maga door knocker, it would make me smile.
That must have a been a very difficult 20 minutes to endure Tess. My level of disdain for these misinformed shitweasels spreading their toxic propaganda wouldn't allow me to tolerate 5 minutes. Fortunately, there are no Trump signs or flags in our neighborhood. However, the next city by us Simi Valley is very much MAGAville. Many of those GOP loyalists don't have a clue of what anus lips is proposing nor do they give a damn. What's even more fucked up and bizarre, a Catholic church in Simi Valley is hosting a speaking engagement for one of the biggest shitweasels
of them all, former General Michael Flynn. I'd probably be arrested or get my ass kicked if I went anywhere near that place.
I already contacted the Archdiocese and emailed one of the priests at the church. The Archdiocese got back to me pretty quickly but I never heard back from the church.
If I had my way, Flynn would be indicted first his pro-Putin and J6 activities, and I would be looking for a way to demote him and reduce or rescind his pension for being a traitorous shitweasel, to use your term
I'm grateful that I live in a gated community and don't have to endure that kind of garbage. It's a great relief not to have all kinds of people accosting you at your home. I know, I know, entitled much? Whatever. Peace in your home is every persons sacred right.
Remember, she’s in a cult and has most likely has been schooled to have a non answer for everything. One never knows how these conversations pan out..perhaps you planted one seed of doubt.. let’s hope.
Tess, you are one patient lady! I would have told her where to go, to never step foot on my property again, and then slammed the door. Oh, and then poured myself a shot of tequila and said to my husband, “Well, well, wasn’t that just bat shit crazy! Let’s toast to Kamala/Waltz saving us from this and winning the election.”
You were much too lenient. You should kicked her and her lies and her ugly MAGA hat off your property immediately. What I can't figure is why she would even approach a house with people who were clearly and enthusiastically supporting another candidate. Cognitive dissonance, indeed.
We totally got this. The legacy media are the buggy whip makers of the 21st Century. The market for their product is vanishing. The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico can go fuck each other on the ash heap of history.
I think in the silence of the night in a seedy alley way these crap heads of big time corp news paper are using the useless paper for a clean place in that alley to fuck their buddies.
Absolutely enraging to have to listen to MSM sane washing Trump with the bizarre lies that fall out of his mouth! And Little Mikey, what a sanctimonious, pathetic waste of air. Can’t wait for this election to be over, even though there may be something worse than January 6th before Trump crawls away. I’m ready for President Harris and my blood pressure to finally return to normal!
Little Goody Christian Two Shoes Mike has been showing us his horns and tail for over a year now. I mean, who needs a Porno No-No app linked to his son's phone? Can't sane-wash that.
I hate that closet case Holy Mike. He is straight out of central casting for the mild mannered, squeaky, clean demon seed. MFer is the kind of freak who makes couch fucking seem minor league amateur hour. He probably has a dungeon and names his whips.
The same MSM that kept airing war porn during the Iraq invasion. I've never seen such glee and breathless arousal as they all hyped Shock and Awe, showed off our big, bad weapons of war and kissed the asses of "Military Experts" while cheering on the destruction of a country based on outright lies about WMDs. Absolutely disgusting. And now Trump fluffing is the new insult to our intelligence.
Yes Kamala is doing just fine, while old, demented, stupid ass don-old gets free press. She has raised a billion dollars and none came from Egypt, or the Saudis, or Elmo musk or any of the wealthy billionaires that really want Donold to be president. From regular people like you and me.
What do Hillary and Kamala have in common? Why is it that we’ve never had a woman president? What are these self hating girls and angry boys in the mainstream press doing?
Question 1: Do you believe that Biden won the 2020 election?
Any answer other than “Yes,” ends the interview. This is basic, fundamental politics. If the opposition is afraid to answer, make them answer! No obfuscation, no changing the subject.
I suspect that the MSM simply can't stand the thought of a woman becoming president - especially a Black woman. Puts their entitled white male knickers in a bind, particularly Arthur Sulzberger, the arrogant and ignorant spoiled brat at the NYT. So glad I cancelled my subscription.
I'm hoping that it's really not, and the media is tricking us into thinking it's a close race.
Is it for clicks and eyeballs? OR is it to keep us scared so we won't get complacent?
I see Trump's rallies that are half full and the half who came are filing out while he's still speaking. I see Harris's rallies that are chock full of enthusiastic supporters.
I see Trump and Vance saying and doing horrible and stupid things. I see everyone's favorite movie stars and rock stars promoting Harris.
I see Trump not raising a billion dollars in a year (and the money he has raised with sweepstakes to meet him? turns out no one won any of them) and Harris making a billion dollars in three months.
They make it sound like it's a toss up, but it looks like it's a slam dunk.
I agree. I love the moment when the payment hits the audience's Venmo accounts and they start streaming out. You know the person who set up the time is like "Dammit! If he'd just start on time and quit rambling on and on, he'd be finished before they all leave!"
As long as it's just a little bit. The people I want to make very uncomfortable are Republican politicians and their enablers in corporate media. They're the ones who make dark satirical headlines like mine seem plausible.
What Jeff is telling us overtly, Kamala is telling us by her actions - the MSM are rapidly becoming irrelevant. I am a 70 year old guy and I still read the MSM (except CNN) mostly for actual news. I get all the political commentary from MSNBC and the Substacks and a blog I follow. If you have not yet watched and listened to Howard Stern's interview with her, you will find it fascinating and heartwarming. It is an hour-long chat. That is not avoiding interviews.
I just love that story! I think I saw Colbert or someone do a skit about the story of Kamala and her sister cheering the toddlers poop down the toilet. Funny. Relatable.
Can someone please explain to me how any of this makes sense? WHY are these news outlets coddling Trump like this? ALL they have to do is REPORT THE NEWS (as in the actual facts). They don’t even have to spin anything to show how fucked up Donny is. How does normalizing Trump even help their cause? Do they understand what will happen to freedom of the press if he gets back into the WH????
I think they're engaging in this click bait to get eyeballs, which sells. Thats what advertisers want...solid viewership. Not to mention that the owners of corporate media want the further tax cuts Dump has promised. In summary, it's all about their bottom line. Journalistic standards be damned.
I don't really have an answer but I have a guess. I looked at WaPo today and they had an op-ed from Bob Woodward. It was the "most read" article according to their stats.
Now, I had no interest in that op-ed. I'm furious with Woodward and his ilk for hoarding important information so they can write books. There's a time to think of your bottom line and a time to do what you can to save democracy, and this is the second thing, and he still couldn't do it. So there was no way I was clicking on that op-ed, but I bet a whole lot of people did to say pretty much exactly what I just said here. Plus the headline was click-baity as hell, which might have grabbed a few extra clicks.
If you expand that to all of legacy media, trying to keep ad dollars flowing, then articles that make us mad are just as good for them as articles we want to read, because advertisers don't look at content, they just count clicks.
That's the best guess I have for this. That, and they can't be arsed to think about what the future might be, and the billionaires who own them want tax cuts and can always flee the fascists here and go live in one of their 15 other homes somewhere else, like Switzerland.
How in holy hell can the NYT put out a headline like that... "Long held fascination with genes and genetics? " 😳 I just cant with these assholes. Harris is doing splendidly...I'm cautiously optimistic, at least today. I drive by a house in Philly suburbs with Dump signs in their yard and assume they are either a) a racist b) a woman hate c) ignorant d) rich and really want that tax cut e) a Nazi.
An old lady across the street from me just hung a Trump flag outside her home (it's upside down because MAGAts are fumducks) and the old lady across from her just hung a "Harris/Walz" flag in response. Warmed my heart.
I would take an upside down Trump flag to be purposefully hung that way and mean F Trump. Maybe she’s having a spat with her husband who told her to go out and hang up their Trump flag :)
Yes, we wondered about that too, but that would be a very subtle signal and MAGAts are not deep thinkers. I think she lives alone and probably watches Fux News all day. Most likely she's just a MAGAt who doesn't know how to hang a flag.
We had a yard sign for Bob Ferguson, the current WA state AG (D-Awesome) who is running for governor but moved it to the highway so more people would see it. Got a small "Harris for president" sign in the window. It's good to know one's neighbors.
LOL!
Hope so.
Perhaps the upside down flag is a statement...
While I am in Germany where no one is hanging a Trump flag, the community I live in in the USA does not have any Trump signs out either. There, the worry would be attracting vandalism of their home by marauding bands of teenagers. So, one will see nice homes with Harris-Walz signs, and the elite private school in the neighborhood who has parents driving from other communities to bring their children, will not be loudly advertising their support for Trump if they still have it.
The kids are alright.
Love “fumducks”! :D
Most of them are just deluded haters. They hate anything they don’t understand, but they won’t make the effort it takes to understand. It’s just plain easier to hate.
Many Repugs, are Repugs in my opinion because they never put out the effort and sacrifice to reach any monetary goals. Or other goals. So it is too painful for them to accept their own lack of commitment and sacrifice so let’s just blame everyone else.
That's my theory. They expected to have the American Dream handed to them on a silver platter and are pissed it wasn't. As far as the educated wealthy are concerned it's all about the benjamins.
Neoliberal Oligarchs are attempting to own all our ass. That's what Project 2025 is. We fucking own you.
Interesting
Absolutely correct, Sharon!
Donny’s fascination with genes reminds me of Josef Mengele, same Nazi vibe.
He's not fascinated. That's code for' let me use the excuse of genes' to punish, deport, torture, kill (the vermin--all others) in order to create a white supremicist country. He's only fascinated with himself and his money and power.
Exactly my point. He’s fascinated how his genes are so good when everyone else’s are deportable.
He has the worst genes of anyone 💙✌🏻
Yes, and that sociopath will gladly carry out the plan, started in the early 70s to " whitewash" America. It's chilling and we need to pay attention. Trump is a useful idiot, the pawn of larger forces that want America re-Mayflowered. Two books on this subject to set your hair on fire: Jane Mayer's Dark Money and Rachel Maddow's Prequel. OMG!
How can he explain his spawn? Only their mothers’ genes?
Their immigrant mothers were from white-skinned European countries, that’s different in his eyes.
He just doesn’t like the genes of those dark-skinned people from shithole countries.
He makes me sick 🤢
I agree...and that scares the hell outta me.
He probably doesn't even know what a gene is. He's just weaving tropes.
Fuckknuckle donny doesn’t know a thing about genes, but when it comes to the path of a hurricane he’s a weatherman, when it comes to doctoring he knows chlorine kills germs right? He is equally good at fucking up the most important and powerful presidential position in the world. It’s amazing how he never has made a mistake and that’s why he loves himself so deeply. Success is just making money, which he is horseshit at and has a lifelong record showing it’s true but in his own damaged brain he’s the best at that too. Evil has become power. 2nd grade has become his glass ceiling of learning.
Extremely well said! Your first two sentences say it ALL.
Someone handed him some copy and he went with it.
I doubt that he does, but he *is* sure that his genes are high-quality just the same. It's just a pseudoscientific way of saying that he's innately better than anyone else around because he's white and rich. (And the rich part is because he's white and has superior genes.)
A style of pants.
That is my favourite head-canon: Barron is not his son, but his Clone. That is why he was named after his alias back in the 90s.
I've long wondered about that.
I have come to the same conclusion. His supporters are one, some, or all the things you listed. And if confronted with those, nearly all would deny that they hold those positons.
i used to work at a small market TV station in deep east Texas and yes the newsroom was just like today's Magas even back then, (1992). I was the only progressive in there.
it felt, to me, very hostile there...I lasted a year and left.
Oh, so true. The roots of what has become MAGA were always there in some quarters of our nation. Trump embodied and amplified grievances that stem from racism.
Protecting white privilege since 1619.
I’m sure that was painful. Sorry you had to experience that.
In Utah, the Mormons generally vote republican and the atmosphere is toxic if you admit that you are progressive. My dog's name is Birdie Sanders, and I make sure to say her entire name when I meet people. I'm getting a kitten in a few weeks and I am thinking about calling her Kamala Harris!
((( )))
Ahh the tea-party years where it began to thrive.
It is the likeliest place to find active Klan in all of Texas!
I agree although they are spread out in Texas. But yeah.
Yep, my nephew & my sister are like that; they vote for Trump & other very conservative Republicans, but if I were to tell them they are racist, they would vehemently deny that.
My nephew even said that when Biden said, during his 2020 campaign, that if given the opportunity, he would appoint the first female Black justice to the Supreme Court, that he broke the law against discrimination!!!!!
No matter how I tried to explain that those laws were put into place to try & correct the blatant & harsh discrimination against women & minorities, he refused to see it that way. So the idea of white male victimhood has really permeated society.
I was just appalled.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention my family members live in the Texas hill country.
How, in God's name did our country get sooo fucked up !!! I put a lot of it down to the sorry state of our education.I went to schools in the 50s , we didn't have the resources available to fact check liars. We did however, have Civics; we learned about government processes at the local, state and federal level. Folks these days seem to have no idea how it is supposed to be, so they settle for crap that politicians dish out.
All can be true at the same time. In fact they usually go hand in hand.
Like when the Tea Party sprang up after Obama was elected. Many of those were racists who all convinced themselves that they were not racists. Really? Why form immediately after his election? Why not come out from under their rocks during the terms of his predecessor, frat boy W, who wasted trillions on the unnecessary Iraq invasion?
I owned a small shop then and one of the drooling troglodytes came in SIX WEEKS after Obama was inaugurated moaning about how she wished "they" would impeach him, because "he's doing so much damage to the country."
How, I asked her. How is he damaging the country? What specifically is he doing?
Of course she couldn't answer, because the answer was "he's being Black!"
Wow, he was so damned efficient to damage the country that much in 6 weeks. Yeah, she didn’t like him because of his race. Obviously
W wasted that money with the full support of the NYTimes. They so urged the US involvement in that war that when weapons of mass destruction were proven not to exist it was a major embarrassment for the Times pushing the US into that war. Their ineptitude was responsible for many people dying. They were forced to print an apology. As usual with their sense of righteousness it was barely an apology at all. The Times and the Bush administration were never held accountable for this deception. An account of this debacle can be found at fair.org (March 22, 2023)
Colin Powell's biggest regret was giving that speech at the UN asserting that Iraq had WMDs. The architects of the Iraq war in the Republican party should have been prosecuted for the death, destruction, and wasted money that followed.
Trump: Black people are genetically prone to crime.
NYT: Trump has a fascination with genetics.
This is Onion level headline writing.... Jesus... Fuck.
It pains me to think that nearly half of the voters in this country are racist, woman-hating, hopelessly stupid, greedy bastards. I'm going to spend the last two weeks of the race on an island in Greece. I may not come back.
It's not nearly half. The polls are wrong. He's not that close. At BEST he has 40% of the country, but they're noisier and they're more dedicated voters. Dems stay home too much. We need a better get-out-the-vote effort, because people will line up in the rain to demonstrate how much they hate something, but won't get out of bed to support it. (Just look at polls online about "if you had it to do over, would you have kids?" All the answers tend to be from angry and upset parents whose kids are driving them crazy; people who are happy or just not worked up don't waste their time answering.)
If his 40% are in the right place he could take the electoral college. #onepersononevote let the candidate with the most votes win. The electoral college is an archaic idea that no other country has.
Yep, a relic put in the Constitution for the benefit of the slave holding states, to entice them to join the “United” States of America. 🤬
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dang wish i could go....I have too much baggage here.....it may be worth it to just up and walk away...i need to get my passport ready
All of the above.
I mean, when I'm even in the presence of a Dump supporter, I feel uncomfortable and anxious. I hate them all.
Some are all the above.
Pretty much. I was in Minneapolis this weekend and saw Harris/Walz signs everywhere. I took a deep breath and smiled. It seems Roseanne (my Thorazine lost its punch) Barr and Gary Busey are the GQP's leading political advisors. I've reached my saturation level of KKKrazy.
My favorite Roseanne ancedote: after she and Tom Arnold divorced, she sniped that he had a small penis, to which he replied, "Even a 747 looks small when you land it in the Grand Canyon."
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Back in the 1920s, my grandfather's mother and two youngest sisters worked in a laundry on the edge of the Greenwood district in Tulsa (they were white but close to destitute) and lived in a single room above it. The girls liked to party, though, and there was no shortage of oil field workers with good wages burning holes in their pockets. One night, the older daughter was arrested for public drunk and incarcerated in the state asylum at Vinita, where she was surgically neutered and died of tuberculosis (contracted at the asylum) 9 years later, barely 30 yrs old. (Rape and other abuse was not uncommon in places like this, so the sterilization was also handy for preventing awkward questions.)
This is what they did, and not just in Oklahoma: the hospital existed to further the cause of eugenics, and once you've been committed, you have to have money and influence to leave again. (The money and influence showed that you didn't have inherent genetic flaws, of course.) Her younger sister did better, fortunately -- ended up with a boyfriend wealthy enough to buy a home close to Woodward Park and because she was never arrested, she even got to have children.
And I'm sure you'll be shocked at this -- proponents of eugenics are alive and well and hanging out in the Republiscum party. The NYT coyly wink-winks at the "long-held fascination with genes and genetics" because it's a euphemism for the fucking truth, and this is what many conservatives still think: their superior biology is their destiny. Eugenics gives them cover -- it's science, you know, not prejudice! ... except, of course, that's total horseshit.
Many of the "old money" families made their fortunes because of opportunistic behavior in earlier times when laws and societal norms were much more lax. Exploitation and thievery were common. Bootlegging during Prohibition, for example, was very lucrative.
Such economic success often morphed into the affluent superiority complex with the attendant prejudices applied to anyone below them socioeconomically. Such abhorrent behavior in the mental hospitals. No wonder all those ghost hunter shows go to abandoned asylums and orphanages. So much abuse and suffering occurred there.
It's a matter of vision. Like the true MAGAts, they can NAZI (Pronounced: They can not see)
Or all of the above.
Don't forget: f) sTupid, REALLY stupid, with a capital T
Or maybe... f) all of the above
You forgot "f) all of the above."
The legacy media so desperately wants to be as relevant as they were 30 years ago, but that ship has sailed, and Harris is doing all the venues that will reach the voters where they are.
And the legacy media just can't abide by their irrelevancy.
Boo fucking hoo
And everywhere I've seen her,VP Harris is absolutely killing it!! She's amazing....
Well, she's educated, experienced, intelligent, articulate, SANE, and is concerned with the nation and our people. Him? None of those.
The thing is, Big K is really pretty normal. We are so used to blunder butt lying, flip-flopping, and just making up shit, we find it refreshing to hear someone talk to all kinds of people. Refreshing to hear someone give a shit about us.
Intelligent, professional, empathetic ☑️
I console myself that turd has a sentencing date toward the end of Nov. I think in Judge Merchan's courtroom. He has IIRC 5 weeks after the election to reply to Jack Smith's skinnied down insurrection case in Judge Chutkan's court. Could be interesting. If he wins, can he go to jail?
And that legacy media destroyed our trust with it’s sane washing, never calling a lie a lie, allowing a sociopath to get away with murder day in and day out, and contributing to the destruction of our democracy. How is it that they haven’t looked after their own existence? Do they believe there will be a free and fair press if the orange anus face wins? Their calculations have been shit.
It's puzzling that they do not seem to realize this. Is the pull of profit that strong? Are they that short sighted and oblivious? Just another aspect of our current zeitgeist that, in the words of Forrest Gump, "just don't make no sense"
It’s not about profit right now. It is about billionaires, domestic terrorists, that own the MSM and need tRump to win. Period.
Well, the owners themselves are "big rich"...I have a feeling that they think they will be fine even if Donny Dumbfuck does order the government to take over their newspapers or whatever. Not to mention that Donny has promised to continue his program of tax cuts for the wealthy while soaking us "mudsills" to become the sole support of the government tax base.
Also I very much doubt those media owners give a shite about all the "little people" who work for them and who will be out of a job (if they're lucky; in jail if they've written something that has offended Donny Facepaint). |
Corporate think is all about the next quarter. Maximize profits for the next quarter. Don't worry about what comes next. (Look at Wells Fargo, for just one example, opening credit cards in their customers' names without permission. Did they think that would never come back to bite them? Of course - because they didn't think beyond the immediate moment at all.)
When billionaires own the media, all they care about is this quarter's reports. Something that may or may not happen in January is far beyond their concern. And anyway, the "news" means "what just happened right now," not "what may happen." There's no percentage in, or market for, looking far ahead, because that's not their function.
Geoff, 💯
Shitweasels-all of them! I had a shitweasel come to my house yesterday to talk us into supporting trump. (We have 4 signs in our front yard for Harris/Walz,one for Tammy Baldwin and 2 for local races)…..As she spewed lies, my husband and I asked her about Putin, Nazis, women’s rights, Affordable Care Act, economy, inflation…etc. She continually talked over us. After 20 minutes-(don’t ask me why it took us that long!)…We told her to FACT CHECK her lies that she repeated…she smiled and said-“vote for trump!”. I then shooed her away and poured myself a glass of wine! IDIOT SHITWEASELS!! She had a glittery TRUMP hat on…probably made in china!
I must be rude according to American standards. When someone representing another party comes to my door, I simply say: “I’ve already made up my mind, and your candidate is not in my orbit”. Now I’m Canadian and we’re known as very polite. Well, my being polite does not extend to people who want to spew their beliefs on my stoop.
Canadian here. That is very polite indeed. When I'm asked, "Can we count on your vote?" I recently responded, "Oh no. I cannot stand the sight of your man. He makes me want to slap his face."
Well, that makes two of us who were at the back of the line when manners were doled out. 😆
Make that three!!!
I would not be so polite. I’d say, “He makes me want to kick him in the balls. Fucking Nazi!”
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I've kept opposition canvassers on the phone and on my doorstep until they finally exhaust themselves, then I say... 'Good, prevented you from talking to someone else for a half hour'
😂 excellent response. I’d use it but I’ve not been blessed with a lot of patience, on par with my lack of manners.
I give them a minute or so, tell them my position and ask if they’d like to meet my dog currently roaring at them with her head over the 5 foot high gate. They leave.
Crude. But effective.
Exactly. I would have treated them like Jehovah’s Witness: Buh-bye!
Exact same type of response, but I speak about their God and my God. The baffled look on their faces is priceless
One day Canada will conquer the world: then we'll all be sorry!
I doubt it, we’re better known for our peace keeping role, albeit we’re now mainly in a couple of African countries. But thanks for the nice comment.
Pretty fkin' stooooopid of her to think she is going to change your mind when you have made your choices so clearly. Jesus Hussein Christ on a Peloton these people are all brain-dead.
Jesus Hussein Christ on a Peloton -- that was good for a hearty LOL.
Someone so ignorantly immersed in the cult probably gets off on spewing out the cult mantra to "non-believers" even if it's futile
It's that evangelical urge, feeding their inner fount of self-righteousness. The herd instinct for identification with a larger community and a unifying drive to vanquish the enemy. Except that these idiots are following the goldfish in the bowl that's had its brain removed.
Doesn't it just come down to the fact that they are dysfunctional control freaks?
Are there open carry states, or states that allow you to open your door to a stranger with a gun in your hand? I'm not advocating for firing on a maga door knocker, but if I could legally do it to a maga door knocker, it would make me smile.
Mary, my apologies but I'm gonna have to steal that one. Tiedrich couldn't do better...
Ditto.
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I don't know how you could do that for 20 minutes. I'd have said NO THANKS and shut the door in her face immediately.
Damn- should have slammed the door on her ass right away!
I guess we thought we make her think about what she was saying… nope!
She's lucky you didn't just tell her to FUCK OFF
That would be by usual reply- what was I thinking! lol
That must have a been a very difficult 20 minutes to endure Tess. My level of disdain for these misinformed shitweasels spreading their toxic propaganda wouldn't allow me to tolerate 5 minutes. Fortunately, there are no Trump signs or flags in our neighborhood. However, the next city by us Simi Valley is very much MAGAville. Many of those GOP loyalists don't have a clue of what anus lips is proposing nor do they give a damn. What's even more fucked up and bizarre, a Catholic church in Simi Valley is hosting a speaking engagement for one of the biggest shitweasels
of them all, former General Michael Flynn. I'd probably be arrested or get my ass kicked if I went anywhere near that place.
And churches are not supposed to be political. Revoke their tax exempt status if they can’t abide by that
I already contacted the Archdiocese and emailed one of the priests at the church. The Archdiocese got back to me pretty quickly but I never heard back from the church.
Let me second revoking that! Revoke!!!
If I had my way, Flynn would be indicted first his pro-Putin and J6 activities, and I would be looking for a way to demote him and reduce or rescind his pension for being a traitorous shitweasel, to use your term
I'm grateful that I live in a gated community and don't have to endure that kind of garbage. It's a great relief not to have all kinds of people accosting you at your home. I know, I know, entitled much? Whatever. Peace in your home is every persons sacred right.
I have beehives on my front porch. Some open minded folks are fascinated, the less open minded run away or freak out. Works well for solicitors.
I would have had to let the dog out.
That was my thought.
Remember, she’s in a cult and has most likely has been schooled to have a non answer for everything. One never knows how these conversations pan out..perhaps you planted one seed of doubt.. let’s hope.
Tess, you are one patient lady! I would have told her where to go, to never step foot on my property again, and then slammed the door. Oh, and then poured myself a shot of tequila and said to my husband, “Well, well, wasn’t that just bat shit crazy! Let’s toast to Kamala/Waltz saving us from this and winning the election.”
You were very nice to her. She wouldn't have lasted two minutes at my front door.
I wasn’t really that nice…I told her she was in a cult and had many eye rolls!🤭
I would keep a can of mace around for that sort.
I'm thinking I should keep a vuvuzela horn handy for the next few weeks
Thankyou Tess for keeping the door knocker occupied for so long!
You were much too lenient. You should kicked her and her lies and her ugly MAGA hat off your property immediately. What I can't figure is why she would even approach a house with people who were clearly and enthusiastically supporting another candidate. Cognitive dissonance, indeed.
Clearly she doesn’t know how to read!
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We totally got this. The legacy media are the buggy whip makers of the 21st Century. The market for their product is vanishing. The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico can go fuck each other on the ash heap of history.
I think in the silence of the night in a seedy alley way these crap heads of big time corp news paper are using the useless paper for a clean place in that alley to fuck their buddies.
A vivid image I will never get out of my head. ;-)
Yes I conceived that description from my disdain for these subhumans who just pile crap up.
Huzzah!!
Absolutely enraging to have to listen to MSM sane washing Trump with the bizarre lies that fall out of his mouth! And Little Mikey, what a sanctimonious, pathetic waste of air. Can’t wait for this election to be over, even though there may be something worse than January 6th before Trump crawls away. I’m ready for President Harris and my blood pressure to finally return to normal!
Does Holy Mike Johnson know his Commandments? Bearing false witness not okay? Fucking hypocrite
Little Goody Christian Two Shoes Mike has been showing us his horns and tail for over a year now. I mean, who needs a Porno No-No app linked to his son's phone? Can't sane-wash that.
I hate that closet case Holy Mike. He is straight out of central casting for the mild mannered, squeaky, clean demon seed. MFer is the kind of freak who makes couch fucking seem minor league amateur hour. He probably has a dungeon and names his whips.
The same MSM that kept airing war porn during the Iraq invasion. I've never seen such glee and breathless arousal as they all hyped Shock and Awe, showed off our big, bad weapons of war and kissed the asses of "Military Experts" while cheering on the destruction of a country based on outright lies about WMDs. Absolutely disgusting. And now Trump fluffing is the new insult to our intelligence.
Yes Kamala is doing just fine, while old, demented, stupid ass don-old gets free press. She has raised a billion dollars and none came from Egypt, or the Saudis, or Elmo musk or any of the wealthy billionaires that really want Donold to be president. From regular people like you and me.
My fondest hope is that she wins sizably and the legacy media is perceived as the dinosaur it is.
Maybe a libral billionaire will buy out the MSM.
I'd watch that movie. A great ending!
What do Hillary and Kamala have in common? Why is it that we’ve never had a woman president? What are these self hating girls and angry boys in the mainstream press doing?
Best idea I have heard yet, Jeff.
Question 1: Do you believe that Biden won the 2020 election?
Any answer other than “Yes,” ends the interview. This is basic, fundamental politics. If the opposition is afraid to answer, make them answer! No obfuscation, no changing the subject.
Multiple choice question: did Trump lost the 2020 election?
A) Yes B) No
Failure to answer A or B will end this interview. Buh-bye!
Lose, not lost. Lol!
They can save themselves a trip down to the studio then (or Zoom call)..no need to talk to these block head Republitards.
We know they lie and twist facts anyway.
So all good… block them out right away!
Why is that so hard? DO IT
I suspect that the MSM simply can't stand the thought of a woman becoming president - especially a Black woman. Puts their entitled white male knickers in a bind, particularly Arthur Sulzberger, the arrogant and ignorant spoiled brat at the NYT. So glad I cancelled my subscription.
Me too. Don’t miss it at all!
LOL. I discovered it is possible to live without the crossword puzzle!
inject their tears right into my fuckin veins
Truly....
W and I cannot stress this enough T A F is going on? How is this election even within 20 points?
I'm hoping that it's really not, and the media is tricking us into thinking it's a close race.
Is it for clicks and eyeballs? OR is it to keep us scared so we won't get complacent?
I see Trump's rallies that are half full and the half who came are filing out while he's still speaking. I see Harris's rallies that are chock full of enthusiastic supporters.
I see Trump and Vance saying and doing horrible and stupid things. I see everyone's favorite movie stars and rock stars promoting Harris.
I see Trump not raising a billion dollars in a year (and the money he has raised with sweepstakes to meet him? turns out no one won any of them) and Harris making a billion dollars in three months.
They make it sound like it's a toss up, but it looks like it's a slam dunk.
I agree. I love the moment when the payment hits the audience's Venmo accounts and they start streaming out. You know the person who set up the time is like "Dammit! If he'd just start on time and quit rambling on and on, he'd be finished before they all leave!"
Betsy, 💯
"Josef Mengele's experiments reveal a lifelong fascination with twins"
EXACTLY. this is why I love ALL my commenters. I'm always going to see at least one thing I wish I'd been clever enough to think of
"A Peek Inside Jeffrey Dahmer's Freezer Reveals a Cook with an Adventurous Palate"
Jim, you are a seriously sick shit. Hope we don't live in the same state. You make me just a little bit uncomfortable.
As long as it's just a little bit. The people I want to make very uncomfortable are Republican politicians and their enablers in corporate media. They're the ones who make dark satirical headlines like mine seem plausible.
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You have a career waiting at the N Y Times.
Thanks for providing a forum for engaging and literate people. I also love the commenters (and you).
"Vlad the Impaler's Front Yard Showcases his Unconventional Take on Landscaping"
What Jeff is telling us overtly, Kamala is telling us by her actions - the MSM are rapidly becoming irrelevant. I am a 70 year old guy and I still read the MSM (except CNN) mostly for actual news. I get all the political commentary from MSNBC and the Substacks and a blog I follow. If you have not yet watched and listened to Howard Stern's interview with her, you will find it fascinating and heartwarming. It is an hour-long chat. That is not avoiding interviews.
We must flush the toilet.
I just love that story! I think I saw Colbert or someone do a skit about the story of Kamala and her sister cheering the toddlers poop down the toilet. Funny. Relatable.
Saw that also. She was helping her sister potty train sis's kid.
Can someone please explain to me how any of this makes sense? WHY are these news outlets coddling Trump like this? ALL they have to do is REPORT THE NEWS (as in the actual facts). They don’t even have to spin anything to show how fucked up Donny is. How does normalizing Trump even help their cause? Do they understand what will happen to freedom of the press if he gets back into the WH????
I think they're engaging in this click bait to get eyeballs, which sells. Thats what advertisers want...solid viewership. Not to mention that the owners of corporate media want the further tax cuts Dump has promised. In summary, it's all about their bottom line. Journalistic standards be damned.
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Vhat are dese ‘standards’ dat you speak of?
😂😂😂 They have none.
Perhaps they are vying to be state propaganda TV if tRump wins
If he wins, they will be, whether they want to or not. NYT can save the T from "Times' as it becomes "TASS"
Billionaires, Stephanie. They own the MSM, lock, stock and barrel.
I don't really have an answer but I have a guess. I looked at WaPo today and they had an op-ed from Bob Woodward. It was the "most read" article according to their stats.
Now, I had no interest in that op-ed. I'm furious with Woodward and his ilk for hoarding important information so they can write books. There's a time to think of your bottom line and a time to do what you can to save democracy, and this is the second thing, and he still couldn't do it. So there was no way I was clicking on that op-ed, but I bet a whole lot of people did to say pretty much exactly what I just said here. Plus the headline was click-baity as hell, which might have grabbed a few extra clicks.
If you expand that to all of legacy media, trying to keep ad dollars flowing, then articles that make us mad are just as good for them as articles we want to read, because advertisers don't look at content, they just count clicks.
That's the best guess I have for this. That, and they can't be arsed to think about what the future might be, and the billionaires who own them want tax cuts and can always flee the fascists here and go live in one of their 15 other homes somewhere else, like Switzerland.