for the record, I called Taylor Swift a "pop singer" only after googling "is taylor swift a pop singer?" because I didn't want to get it wrong and incur the wrath of the Swifties
google's official answer is "Her debut album Taylor Swift was a country hit. Then she released her 2nd album Fearless, a country-pop. And then her album Speak Now, was also a version of country-pop with Rock. That is how she is now a famous pop singer."
I wouldn't have known any of that if I hadn't looked it up.
Did not, but I am in it...I am 86 and call myself an OLD SWIFTIE, but I have always been a die-hard fan of hers. She is brilliant in so many ways, and talented beyond belief, and I am just happy to stay alive until to vote AGAIN for JOE and ALLL DEMS to save us from the orange hitler wannabee. If she helps to encourage vote registration is a BEAUTIFUL THING and will support her forever.
75 here. I always liked her but didn't really listen often. Once she started encouraging people to vote I found out she's an amazing person. Now, since the eras tour, I've learned more about her and all the generous charity she does. If I could vote for Joe twice I would!!
When Kesha was blacklisted by Sony, for filing charges against her producer for raping her, her contract kept her from working. Taylor anonymously sent her a very large amount of money to help her survive. Taylor's mother let it slip, or we would never have known.
Good for us, Louise...I don't listen to her songs but have heard enough to know she is SUPER TALENTED, so we'll appreciate her when we VOTE AGAIN for Joe! He's been a keeper since he stood with BARACK!
At 70, I have recently become one. Now, I always found her music perfectly pleasant, but, being semi-deaf, had missed most of the lyrics. When she hit the headlines over politics, I FINALLY looked up her lyrics, and fell hard into Swifty-dom!
If you haven’t already seen it, look up the music video on YouTube of her song “Shake It Off” It is just so cute & self effacing. There’s even separate vids of the making of the video & she makes fun of herself
She crossed over to Pop with her hit "Shake it off" a song about ignoring the haters. She became a huge Pop Star and left the Country crap her stage father forced her into.
Don’t forget, you’ve got to ride on a train in a downpour on your way to prison for racing your truck to your dear, sweet mama’s bedside before she died.
In 1964, the American music duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel released a song titled The Sound of Silence. Garfunkel, one half of the duo and co-writer of the famous song, summed up the meaning of this song by stating, “this is a song about the inability of people to communicate with each other”
Yes, almost to hit one billion hits on youtube, Paul Simon said it was the 'best', everyone I have introduced to it have said it is the best cover ever. Actually group name is Disturbed. And it not only rocks it vibrates the house when i play it.
So many protest songs, I can think of more that you’d recognize - I’m not sure why there haven’t been anything like them these days. Maybe because the war back then was sending boys who we’d sat next to in class (or went to the prom with) to their deaths.
Just canceled my subscription to the NY Times. The fawning, ass-kissing article by Rebecca Davis O'Brien that referred to Trump as "tan" was the last straw.
Was that the one gushing over his stamina? Hello NYT? It ain't fucking stamina. It's mania. Mania is a mental illness. Why do you want your children in a world where the mental case has the nuclear button?
It's also a symptom of Dementia since the brain is, essentially dying. Every diagnosed mental illness (Mania, depression, schizophrenia, mood swings, rage, personality disorder, etc) are demonstrated in someone with cognitive decline.
I am not a doctor. I am speaking from experience. My maternal grandfather died from Dementia and my mother has a form of it called Pick's Disease. trump is DEFINITELY showing symptoms of some form of Dementia.
Some form of dementia exacerbated by his deep personality disorders. But no! Idiocy like cable news and the Times portray the symptoms as signs of vitality.
Sadly, I am not. I was ostracized by my family shortly after I got sober over 30 years ago. I was the first child that my mother had forgotten. That goes back further though. It didn't matter that I was trying to get better and change my life. I made my amends and they were accepted by all, but they snatched them back as soon as I turned around. I have accepted that. And I probably won't know when my mother passes. It's unfortunate, but I have did all that I am willing to do at this point.
I don't even know them anymore. My brother just died three weeks ago and I found out a week afterwards from a family member that lives out of state. My immediate family lives on the other side of town. My hands are clean and there is nothing I can do about their resentments however valid or invalid they are.
Again, I am so very sorry... I can't begin to imagine all you have been through. Knowing that you're at peace with the situation is a blessing in itself. Just keep moving forward and know it's their loss. Be well.
Having been sober now 23 years and counting I was not complete ostracized by my immediate family. But, the family I had married into( over 40 years ago) do not “trust” the newer me because I am not MAGA scum. These folks have their own issues and I can’t/ don’t even bother having a lucid conversation with them. The new version of me makes me some sort of “threat” to their political views. They just fail to realize I was ALWAYS a Dem …..I just smile, laugh to myself and try, which at times is extremely difficult, to keep my exposure to these people to a minimum.
I agree with you Donna. My own mother had dementia and when she was in the nursing home, I was around plenty of people with the same condition. Fugly orange definitely has it.
Fugly has been around for a long time. I use it often in mixed company and people understand the meaning ( fugly-fucking ugly) completely. I think that it should be added to the Urban dictionary. 😆
I think there are drugs involved too, some sort of prescription stimulant. The right one can make you feel omnipotent and smart and in control of your whole life, whether that's real or not -- sounds exactly like the asshole to me. They can also be hugely addictive.
There was a comment back during the apprentice where someone said he loved snorting adderall and he got good quality meth from the bikers in NJ back then. He has all the tell tale amphetamine symptoms including shitting his pants. If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck it’s Dawney T strung out on meth.
Fantastic, I canceled mine immediately after their relentless attack on Hillary and their burgeoning love of tfg had come to fruition. They are fully owned by the PPP……Pro Putin Party.
Sort of -- I don't remember details any more, but at some point after the USSR broke up, a couple of other organizations acquired it (or just started using it, maybe) -- I think one was a Russian Communist organization, and the other wasn't even Russian. Now Pravda's back in business (at least online) as Pravda.ru -- and when I checked on that to be sure it was still there, the FIRST pravda url that came up used the Ukraine top-level domain, .ua. So Pravda is apparently also a pseudo-Ukrainian publication now, too. Very highly truthful still, also. lol
I canceled about 18 months ago. So glad to have that constant stream of B.S. gone. If they publish anything out of the ordinary, I’m sure I’ll hear about it. Other than that unlikely possibility, I don’t feel like I’m being treated as a “mark” every time I renewed a subscription.
Left the trash paper it has become, a few years back. Maggie Hagerman, I just can't. I hear it's all AI entertainment, you can't sue a bot or the producer who made it, it's a bot too.
Welcome to the club. I canceled in early 2017, upset about Butter Emails, and the incredible idiocy of Maureen Dowd and Pope Ross Douthat, among others. (I miss Krugman, but not enough to help support the rest of them.) I have not regretted canceling as it seems things just keep getting worse there - at least on the editorial pages. It would appear they are in the tank for Republicans and Trump. I wonder if they understand they will be among the first people Trump and his christofascists put up against the wall. Apparently they think they will be the first people Trump has ever been loyal to in his long life. They should chat a little with some of the January 6 criminals now in prison instead of poorly educated Trump cultists in diners. Trump will not be a good little dementia patient like Reagan and let the oligarch's people run things for their benefit. The don't seem to understand that Trump is a genuine criminal who will have people who haven't properly admired him killed. Dead.
Yeah this is not Hunter S. Thompson's generation of journalism. I'm actually a little surprised I haven't heard of Rachel Maddow grabbing the camera in both hands and going "Dear fellow journalists, if you help him win, he's still going to harass or kill you the moment you do anything but endlessly praise him."
Maybe they'd listen to her. More likely they'd label her deep state and assume she was trying to scare them away to increase her viewership.
Because our media no longer cares about truth or safety or rights. They think we're safe forever and all they need is the clicks and the cash.
You'd think an industry defined entitely by words and images would by association have at least a basic familiarity with history, dictators, and the press's role in dictatorships.
We are ruled by American Oligarchs. It shows up in our MSM and everywhere else for that matter. If the GQP win our news with look like a Fathers Know Best sitcom. So will our education system. Christian White Nationalism will be the foundation of all future laws. As it has been. But, on steroids.
I don't know. It's just not us. This is global. The oligarchs are winning. How do we stop them? When so many voters want to be told what to do. They don't want to think for themselves. And then there's the fucking apathy. The other day a commenter was challenging me about Project 2025. Told me it was a Democratic rag magazine. And then laughed about it. This woman also laughed about women getting rape. Jesus H Christ! I told her she was dumber than a fucking doorknob. And blocked her.
I listen to Keith Olbermann's podcast (until he starts singing the Ode to Joy in the original German, anyway -- he CANNOT sing) and he's of the opinion that Rachel has become too cautious. They had a falling out (I know no details, def don't need to lol) -- but I'm thinking it's more like she's waiting for the best opportunity to go on the attack. I hope. A world that successfully shut up Rachel Maddow is not somewhere I want to live.
I agree. I also watch Deadline Whitehouse and it’s their commentators that I really like. Yes you could say they lean left, but really leaning left to me, is leaning into decency, higher standards, less corruption, less lying, concern for the world, climate change and all of its people and problems.
Rachel did a full 30-35” monologue at her show opening this Monday after the Trump crap about NATO. It was excellent, a history lesson & future consequences of LDFF take. If you missed it see if it’s on YT
Please do it. I canceled the Wapo a month ago. I also sent an e-mail to the Times specifying my reasons for canceling. Doubt if it'll do any good but it felt great.
I did it, you can too. there are just too many good sources of news not driven by corporate trump lovers, and both papers seep out across the country into most other mediums anyhow. The post continues to send me free articles even though I canceled a year ago. They are desperate as more like you and me cancel their crap.
I also love the Guardian. It is sane, clear headed, very well written, and gives a European perspective that is a relief after dealing with the bullshit spewing from the American media.
Me too, defending the forced birthers and normalizing their evil with that glowing review of the Human-puppy-mill in Texas, put me over the top with incandescent rage!
I confess to an addiction to the crossword puzzle. A really stupid reason to keep the subscription going, but I kept hoping they would wake up. Fat chance.
Rebecca Davis O'Brien used to work for the Wall Street Journal and is the latest addition to the NY Times' stable of right-wing assholes and Trump sycophants. Her ridiculous article was the final straw and I canceled my subscription today.
I canceled WaPo about a month ago. Had it with them too. I stick to the Guardian, the Philly Inquirer, and various and sundry sane newsletters. Will Bunch, a columnist for the Inquirer, is terrific.
Jeff, I'm as sick of the media and the Republican kiss-asses as you are. We both despise the orange shit gibbon. But you know what? They're not the problem. The problem is our fellow countrymen. It's one thing to be brainwashed by Fox. But if you can sit and watch that miserable fuck go on at length for years just I-me-mying every goddamn sentence out of his mouth and not be given pause? Really, my asshole fascist proto-Nazi worthless bovine paisanos? Me me me me me, all week long, like a toddler with an empty tummy and a full diaper, or a heroin addict in a bad need of a fix. They can't see that? Are they fucking blind? Tens of millions of them, really?
fun fact: about a year ago I wrote a piece entitled "120% of Americans are dumb as shit" and ended up spending a month in facebook jail for "hate speech" when I linked to it there
Ah yes, the old "recto-cranial inversion" (I learned to swear politely, when I was a Wapo commenter, since they censor real adult language. My best one was Roger Stone is a self-admitted "Rodent-copulator". (the censors never caught it).
It's teribly fun, as I get to use phrases one wouldn't in real life, like ones you read as a teen in a Bronte sisters novel. Man those Victorians were verbose and flowery!
The best line: "Senator Fidel Cancun, Texas’s own unctuous jizz-stain". Jeff, I'm not sure how you consistently outdo yourself. 😂 A great piece...and another reminder that the GOP has really become an enemy of democracy and our way of life.
Perfect description of Cruz along with King Fuckface I. It's possible that Cruz's tenure will soon be over and that other repulsive stinky stain will be King Fuckface the Never.
Good one Jeff. My blood is boiling over this age shit. And humpty dumpster is in worse physical shape than anyone and is more likely to stroke out..I just wish it would happen sooner rather than later!
How they keep the fast food, druggie, alive should be written by the pathologist who does the death inquiry, at the time he expires, along with pictured organs. This would be a better deterrent from prescription drugs and fast food than any previous ad using eggs to deter the masses.
I’ll say it: Trump’s NATO comment borders on treason. But that is Trump jacking his jaw. The REAL problem is a craven GOP who think the MAGA vote is more important than our national security even world peace. It is a MAGA blind to treachery. Make no mistake, stepping out of NATO is serious business. My favorite quote from Pericles: It may have been wrong to take your empire. It is a far more dangerous thing to give it up.
Viz a Viz Taylor Swift: ha, ha. Wow the “BroFlakes” have really lost their stuff over a what should be a nothing burger. In fact, they have given her more political capital. As for the Jesus ads, really? The Right has turned Christianity into a Super PAC. Jesus must weep.
How is Trump still alive or not actively in an unknown detention facility for his domestic terrorism rhetoric? I’m honestly surprised there haven’t been any attempts on his life at this point…I can factually say that my time in the Marines, there were attempts by active duty personnel even to take out certain people. This was kept outside of the media and individuals were detained, convicted, and sent to barred facilities. Here we have a man doing the same thing but where’s the handcuffs?
Arguably there is legal grounds now for any whack job to grab a mic and say let’s nuke America home holding the button up to shouting cultists and now he can’t be arrested immediately, because the government has allowed Trump to…
I’m sorry but this Marine’s leash from her therapist and the hospital staff locally gets really tight when the same thoughts and words are mentioned.
Unrelated but important when where there be an international sign up form for the Palestinian defense coalition, a volunteer military of former service members and veterans who are taking the fight to the IDF?! 2500 Marines could easily Secure Gaza and make it an IDF and Israeli occupier free zone. Let Trump visit Netanyahu and crater the palace! Too much, see above about the double standard of free speech our “incompetent leaders” have set. Then again play stupid games and elect the mob bosses, degenerates, sex traffickers, and the high-school hooker (Beetlejuice Boebert) to power, you win stupid prizes.
Great article! Humor eludes me today…off to the white wizard 🤷🏻♀️ to “talk things out”
I'd just add that we are not talking just rhetoric with the Demented Don. He is a treasonous traitor guilty of insurrection that we all watched on television. He has stolen national security secrets and refused to return them when caught. He is a criminal.
Yes, he is all of that and much more! I think the msm must be in cahoots with Putin and company. I still blame them for a lot of the reason we got Diaper Don in 2016 and now they are doing it again. I also think that a lot of our "esteemed" Republican legislators must be Russian operatives too. How else to think about their shunning the rule-of-law, our Constitution and are backing a traitorous insurrectionist who courts the favor of Putin, MBS and Xi?
for the record, I called Taylor Swift a "pop singer" only after googling "is taylor swift a pop singer?" because I didn't want to get it wrong and incur the wrath of the Swifties
You weren’t wrong to check. She started her career as a country singer which all MAGA types assumed she was their gal.
google's official answer is "Her debut album Taylor Swift was a country hit. Then she released her 2nd album Fearless, a country-pop. And then her album Speak Now, was also a version of country-pop with Rock. That is how she is now a famous pop singer."
I wouldn't have known any of that if I hadn't looked it up.
You know there's specifically a fandom for being a Swiftie Over Fifty? It's not too late. :p
Did not, but I am in it...I am 86 and call myself an OLD SWIFTIE, but I have always been a die-hard fan of hers. She is brilliant in so many ways, and talented beyond belief, and I am just happy to stay alive until to vote AGAIN for JOE and ALLL DEMS to save us from the orange hitler wannabee. If she helps to encourage vote registration is a BEAUTIFUL THING and will support her forever.
75 here. I always liked her but didn't really listen often. Once she started encouraging people to vote I found out she's an amazing person. Now, since the eras tour, I've learned more about her and all the generous charity she does. If I could vote for Joe twice I would!!
When Kesha was blacklisted by Sony, for filing charges against her producer for raping her, her contract kept her from working. Taylor anonymously sent her a very large amount of money to help her survive. Taylor's mother let it slip, or we would never have known.
Good for us, Louise...I don't listen to her songs but have heard enough to know she is SUPER TALENTED, so we'll appreciate her when we VOTE AGAIN for Joe! He's been a keeper since he stood with BARACK!
You got that right!💙💙💙
LOVE THAT KIDDEN on the head of WHAT? Looks super fine dog type to me. Animals are so much smarter than human ones.
Over 70 as well!
86 here and a diehard SWIFTIE!
At 70, I have recently become one. Now, I always found her music perfectly pleasant, but, being semi-deaf, had missed most of the lyrics. When she hit the headlines over politics, I FINALLY looked up her lyrics, and fell hard into Swifty-dom!
If you haven’t already seen it, look up the music video on YouTube of her song “Shake It Off” It is just so cute & self effacing. There’s even separate vids of the making of the video & she makes fun of herself
Headed there right now! Thanks!
Me either. Thanks.
She crossed over to Pop with her hit "Shake it off" a song about ignoring the haters. She became a huge Pop Star and left the Country crap her stage father forced her into.
Good to know. So educational this crowd!
You're not officially a Republican country singer until you sing a song about marrying a family member.
And where 10 year olds get pregnant by their ministers
That's what MAGA rallies are, a dating opportunity for bigots and where married first cousins have their family reunions.
You might be MAGA if you go on the pull at family reunions.
Don’t forget, you’ve got to ride on a train in a downpour on your way to prison for racing your truck to your dear, sweet mama’s bedside before she died.
That album was gloriously dirty, and banned in the US for decades.
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I just love this comment!
I did not know this
Will check with my expert (granddaughter)….i can promise you an eye roll already.
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
Hear! Hear!
We have met the enemy, and he is Trump.
And the fawning, gutless, spineless GOP. INCLUDING Nikki Haley, whom I loathe.
"And also, inexplicably, really fucking stupid yet somehow still effective."
Isn’t that a Paul Simon song, the lyrics??
In 1964, the American music duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel released a song titled The Sound of Silence. Garfunkel, one half of the duo and co-writer of the famous song, summed up the meaning of this song by stating, “this is a song about the inability of people to communicate with each other”
Want a rock vibe to sound of silence?? Listen to Disturbia’s rendition of Sound Of Silence.. EPIC ROCK SONG they did a great job on this rendition!!!
Yes, almost to hit one billion hits on youtube, Paul Simon said it was the 'best', everyone I have introduced to it have said it is the best cover ever. Actually group name is Disturbed. And it not only rocks it vibrates the house when i play it.
Disturbed.. Sound of Silence 🙌🏽
Also see Dylan’s ‘the times they are a changing.’
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'
Yes. It was electrifying - and we thought we could do anything ….
We thought we could change the world peacefully. Nothing like a face full of tear gas to radicalize you.
*sigh*
We sure hope that the ones blocking up everything will get hurt….at the ballot box, bigly
Patti’s. I just this morning looked up thee lyrics to that and Slow Train too. Also American Tune written by Paul Simon. Willie sang that really well.
So many protest songs, I can think of more that you’d recognize - I’m not sure why there haven’t been anything like them these days. Maybe because the war back then was sending boys who we’d sat next to in class (or went to the prom with) to their deaths.
Patris, Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall. I read the lyrics of that too. I took my time.
That could very well be.
Talk about being prescient……..
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Cj2vqUwlJVG27gJrun92y?si=k14g7bHKRTiNpCE3lX0-lw
EPIC SONG
Thank you for that link. I LOVE that vocalist’s voice. Musical arrangement is great, just gave me chills. 💙💙💙
One of the first albums I ever bought. I was 14.
Love that song!!
Just canceled my subscription to the NY Times. The fawning, ass-kissing article by Rebecca Davis O'Brien that referred to Trump as "tan" was the last straw.
Was that the one gushing over his stamina? Hello NYT? It ain't fucking stamina. It's mania. Mania is a mental illness. Why do you want your children in a world where the mental case has the nuclear button?
It's also a symptom of Dementia since the brain is, essentially dying. Every diagnosed mental illness (Mania, depression, schizophrenia, mood swings, rage, personality disorder, etc) are demonstrated in someone with cognitive decline.
I am not a doctor. I am speaking from experience. My maternal grandfather died from Dementia and my mother has a form of it called Pick's Disease. trump is DEFINITELY showing symptoms of some form of Dementia.
Some form of dementia exacerbated by his deep personality disorders. But no! Idiocy like cable news and the Times portray the symptoms as signs of vitality.
They are all bending over backward to prove that they are 'objective' and 'unbiased..' It's disgusting.
💔I'm sorry about your Mom...
Ditto here. Mom full blown Alzheimer’s.. that OrangeDoucheFuck can’t string a sentence together. It’s not Alzheimer’s.. he’s just fucking stupid.
💔 Gosh... I'm so very sorry about your Mom as well... Hopefully you're able to walk that journey with her...
Sadly, I am not. I was ostracized by my family shortly after I got sober over 30 years ago. I was the first child that my mother had forgotten. That goes back further though. It didn't matter that I was trying to get better and change my life. I made my amends and they were accepted by all, but they snatched them back as soon as I turned around. I have accepted that. And I probably won't know when my mother passes. It's unfortunate, but I have did all that I am willing to do at this point.
I don't even know them anymore. My brother just died three weeks ago and I found out a week afterwards from a family member that lives out of state. My immediate family lives on the other side of town. My hands are clean and there is nothing I can do about their resentments however valid or invalid they are.
Again, I am so very sorry... I can't begin to imagine all you have been through. Knowing that you're at peace with the situation is a blessing in itself. Just keep moving forward and know it's their loss. Be well.
Having been sober now 23 years and counting I was not complete ostracized by my immediate family. But, the family I had married into( over 40 years ago) do not “trust” the newer me because I am not MAGA scum. These folks have their own issues and I can’t/ don’t even bother having a lucid conversation with them. The new version of me makes me some sort of “threat” to their political views. They just fail to realize I was ALWAYS a Dem …..I just smile, laugh to myself and try, which at times is extremely difficult, to keep my exposure to these people to a minimum.
How sad for you. What a shame that your family wants to engage in petty feuds. It sounds to me as though you took the high road. The loss is theirs.
I agree with you Donna. My own mother had dementia and when she was in the nursing home, I was around plenty of people with the same condition. Fugly orange definitely has it.
I like your new word. Think mixed company could handle the new word, Charlotte??😂😂💙
Fugly has been around for a long time. I use it often in mixed company and people understand the meaning ( fugly-fucking ugly) completely. I think that it should be added to the Urban dictionary. 😆
That's the one. I gagged when I read it. Enough.
I think there are drugs involved too, some sort of prescription stimulant. The right one can make you feel omnipotent and smart and in control of your whole life, whether that's real or not -- sounds exactly like the asshole to me. They can also be hugely addictive.
There was a comment back during the apprentice where someone said he loved snorting adderall and he got good quality meth from the bikers in NJ back then. He has all the tell tale amphetamine symptoms including shitting his pants. If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck it’s Dawney T strung out on meth.
He also appears to have lost his teeth.
There's a sign for you.
Yes, the funny sound he makes when he pronounces some words sounds like loose dentures
And it’s how Hitler kept his military loyal, and mean, and unconscionable.
Yes. Nazis have a long history with amphetamines.
The drug was called Previtin.
Thank you, I did not know that.
It’s the methylated amphetamines that he loves to snort up his nose.
And Adderall
Fantastic, I canceled mine immediately after their relentless attack on Hillary and their burgeoning love of tfg had come to fruition. They are fully owned by the PPP……Pro Putin Party.
They seem to think that they will be safe if Trump is re-elected. Apparently no one at the Times has ever read any history.
They are vying for a seat at the table as trump could crown them the next Pravda.
Is Pravda(Truth)still alive in Russia?
Sort of -- I don't remember details any more, but at some point after the USSR broke up, a couple of other organizations acquired it (or just started using it, maybe) -- I think one was a Russian Communist organization, and the other wasn't even Russian. Now Pravda's back in business (at least online) as Pravda.ru -- and when I checked on that to be sure it was still there, the FIRST pravda url that came up used the Ukraine top-level domain, .ua. So Pravda is apparently also a pseudo-Ukrainian publication now, too. Very highly truthful still, also. lol
I canceled about 18 months ago. So glad to have that constant stream of B.S. gone. If they publish anything out of the ordinary, I’m sure I’ll hear about it. Other than that unlikely possibility, I don’t feel like I’m being treated as a “mark” every time I renewed a subscription.
Left the trash paper it has become, a few years back. Maggie Hagerman, I just can't. I hear it's all AI entertainment, you can't sue a bot or the producer who made it, it's a bot too.
Welcome to the club. I canceled in early 2017, upset about Butter Emails, and the incredible idiocy of Maureen Dowd and Pope Ross Douthat, among others. (I miss Krugman, but not enough to help support the rest of them.) I have not regretted canceling as it seems things just keep getting worse there - at least on the editorial pages. It would appear they are in the tank for Republicans and Trump. I wonder if they understand they will be among the first people Trump and his christofascists put up against the wall. Apparently they think they will be the first people Trump has ever been loyal to in his long life. They should chat a little with some of the January 6 criminals now in prison instead of poorly educated Trump cultists in diners. Trump will not be a good little dementia patient like Reagan and let the oligarch's people run things for their benefit. The don't seem to understand that Trump is a genuine criminal who will have people who haven't properly admired him killed. Dead.
Yeah this is not Hunter S. Thompson's generation of journalism. I'm actually a little surprised I haven't heard of Rachel Maddow grabbing the camera in both hands and going "Dear fellow journalists, if you help him win, he's still going to harass or kill you the moment you do anything but endlessly praise him."
Maybe they'd listen to her. More likely they'd label her deep state and assume she was trying to scare them away to increase her viewership.
Because our media no longer cares about truth or safety or rights. They think we're safe forever and all they need is the clicks and the cash.
You'd think an industry defined entitely by words and images would by association have at least a basic familiarity with history, dictators, and the press's role in dictatorships.
We are ruled by American Oligarchs. It shows up in our MSM and everywhere else for that matter. If the GQP win our news with look like a Fathers Know Best sitcom. So will our education system. Christian White Nationalism will be the foundation of all future laws. As it has been. But, on steroids.
Education system already in the shitter. Standardized testing and teaching to it stuck the knife in and twisted it. The bleeding out didn’t take long.
That's exactly what my friends who are teachers say. They taught them how to take tests. It's not hard to expose those vulnerabilities.
Bubble kids only learn how to fill in a bubble on a test sheet. No critical thinking skills or knowledge about personal responsibility.
This is the year America dies. The only question is how it will be reborn.
I don't know. It's just not us. This is global. The oligarchs are winning. How do we stop them? When so many voters want to be told what to do. They don't want to think for themselves. And then there's the fucking apathy. The other day a commenter was challenging me about Project 2025. Told me it was a Democratic rag magazine. And then laughed about it. This woman also laughed about women getting rape. Jesus H Christ! I told her she was dumber than a fucking doorknob. And blocked her.
Sad to say, Americans have long had a fascination for authoritarians.
The moment another planet to live on is a viable option, I'm there. Try me again in three lifetimes.
That's really bargain-basement, bottom-dwelling stupid, on her part.
She is exactly who they mean by "Useful idiot".
Entirely* Still get fewer typos with autocorrupt off than on. Good to see majoring in English wasn't a total waste.
I feel your pain. :)
I listen to Keith Olbermann's podcast (until he starts singing the Ode to Joy in the original German, anyway -- he CANNOT sing) and he's of the opinion that Rachel has become too cautious. They had a falling out (I know no details, def don't need to lol) -- but I'm thinking it's more like she's waiting for the best opportunity to go on the attack. I hope. A world that successfully shut up Rachel Maddow is not somewhere I want to live.
I agree. I also watch Deadline Whitehouse and it’s their commentators that I really like. Yes you could say they lean left, but really leaning left to me, is leaning into decency, higher standards, less corruption, less lying, concern for the world, climate change and all of its people and problems.
Rachel did a full 30-35” monologue at her show opening this Monday after the Trump crap about NATO. It was excellent, a history lesson & future consequences of LDFF take. If you missed it see if it’s on YT
Yeah I noticed I hadn't heard much about her since Biden took over.
Cancelled my over Valerie Plame.
Me too. Well, not just Valerie Plame, but NYT's role in the whole fucking Iraq mess and its aftermath.
Oh, yes! Backing the Bush Cheney lies. Then helping Comey destroy Hillary. grrr🤬
Tan like a greasy rotisserie chicken.
It was a terrible, lopsided and cheap- shot article.
Cancelled the NYT too, last week .
I've been thinking of canceling my NY Times subscription lately, too, along with my Wapo one. Good for you!
Please do it. I canceled the Wapo a month ago. I also sent an e-mail to the Times specifying my reasons for canceling. Doubt if it'll do any good but it felt great.
I did it, you can too. there are just too many good sources of news not driven by corporate trump lovers, and both papers seep out across the country into most other mediums anyhow. The post continues to send me free articles even though I canceled a year ago. They are desperate as more like you and me cancel their crap.
I subscribe to the Guardian and to the Philadelphia Inquirer, which has a great columnist, Will Bunch.
I love The Guardian. It is the most fair of all the periodicals I read.
I also love the Guardian. It is sane, clear headed, very well written, and gives a European perspective that is a relief after dealing with the bullshit spewing from the American media.
Agree!
Me too, defending the forced birthers and normalizing their evil with that glowing review of the Human-puppy-mill in Texas, put me over the top with incandescent rage!
I'm about to do the same. Fed up.
About Time! 😂 I beat you by three month!
I confess to an addiction to the crossword puzzle. A really stupid reason to keep the subscription going, but I kept hoping they would wake up. Fat chance.
Geez how does that woman not know what bronzer is? And it's not like there aren't huge "reverse racoon" marks of fishbelly-white around his eyes!
Rebecca Davis O'Brien used to work for the Wall Street Journal and is the latest addition to the NY Times' stable of right-wing assholes and Trump sycophants. Her ridiculous article was the final straw and I canceled my subscription today.
Ah, thank you for the explanation. WaPo just hired a National Review propagandist, so I expect they'll get even worse, also.
I canceled WaPo about a month ago. Had it with them too. I stick to the Guardian, the Philly Inquirer, and various and sundry sane newsletters. Will Bunch, a columnist for the Inquirer, is terrific.
I cancelled mine a couple of months ago.
Can women be color blind?
Jeff, I'm as sick of the media and the Republican kiss-asses as you are. We both despise the orange shit gibbon. But you know what? They're not the problem. The problem is our fellow countrymen. It's one thing to be brainwashed by Fox. But if you can sit and watch that miserable fuck go on at length for years just I-me-mying every goddamn sentence out of his mouth and not be given pause? Really, my asshole fascist proto-Nazi worthless bovine paisanos? Me me me me me, all week long, like a toddler with an empty tummy and a full diaper, or a heroin addict in a bad need of a fix. They can't see that? Are they fucking blind? Tens of millions of them, really?
fun fact: about a year ago I wrote a piece entitled "120% of Americans are dumb as shit" and ended up spending a month in facebook jail for "hate speech" when I linked to it there
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” The party of Q skews to the stupidest possible result.
― George Carlin
Yessir, amigo. Which is why I vent in your space. Have I forgotten to say thank you?
I've done so many 30 dayers in the FB Hoosegow that they gave me my own cell. 😉 ask for it next time
Reminds me of Emma Goldman in Reds. Hahaha. Good one!
"Alll that she wants is another baby
She's gone tommorrow, boy."
:p
" Never underestimate the power of STUPID people in large numbers ".
* George Carlin
So hate speech got you banned, not bad arithmetic?
The only way to avoid Facebook jail is to lie on all of your posts.
Not surprising.
They're not blind. They love what Trump is selling - hate.
Well said, Kerry. It's absolutely astonishing.
All of this! His supporters are the problem. He is who he is but he would not be a threat without their support.
Kerry just tens? Way past tens. ( unfortunately)
Form letter: “I am cancelling my subscription to The NY Times due to my concerns about the age of the editorial staff.”
I regret only that it's likely to go directly over their heads (which admittedly, are rectally located.)
Ah yes, the old "recto-cranial inversion" (I learned to swear politely, when I was a Wapo commenter, since they censor real adult language. My best one was Roger Stone is a self-admitted "Rodent-copulator". (the censors never caught it).
Medical terminology is rather perfect for certain sites. Thanks for the hint.
Oh yes, I'm a retired surgical assistant! I have a lot of them!
And I’m a retired X ray tech. We should do well then.
My medical brother-in-arms!
He canoodles ratties
Oh very good!
He shares space with rabies hosts.
There’s also recto-cranial obstruction.
Oh yes, a classic!
Nothing starts off the day like outwitting a censor!
Yes, I love to get one by, and make everyone else chuckle!
Well, at least you wouldn't need any "brain builder bs, games etc when being creative with your vocabulary!
It's teribly fun, as I get to use phrases one wouldn't in real life, like ones you read as a teen in a Bronte sisters novel. Man those Victorians were verbose and flowery!
Indeed and high snark!
😂😂😂
Glad to see you're feeling better Charlie.
Lol 😉
That's a good one. I'm going to do the same today. Thank you.
😂
😂😂😂
Love that!
LOVE THAT!
The best line: "Senator Fidel Cancun, Texas’s own unctuous jizz-stain". Jeff, I'm not sure how you consistently outdo yourself. 😂 A great piece...and another reminder that the GOP has really become an enemy of democracy and our way of life.
Jeff is the chef's kiss.
Also, I remember looking up in an urban dictionary DJT is Designated Jizz Towel
Seems spot on to me!
Check out the dictionary definition of "Trumpery" --https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trumpery
Just perfection!
Ahahaha hahaha worthless idiot.
Apt.
My Dad called that, " Letting one fly ". 💩🪰
HAHA!!!!
OMG,must remember for next troll experience when they suggest "derangement syndrome" or whatever the fuck they call it, hahaha
The best part of him ran down his fathers leg
OMG! I spit coffee on that one. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Or was left in the bed of the pickup truck. 🤷♀️
LMAO
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣
Perfect description of Cruz along with King Fuckface I. It's possible that Cruz's tenure will soon be over and that other repulsive stinky stain will be King Fuckface the Never.
Susan-- I couldn’t agree more--it’s a perfect description of Cancun Cruz!😂😂😂
Good one Jeff. My blood is boiling over this age shit. And humpty dumpster is in worse physical shape than anyone and is more likely to stroke out..I just wish it would happen sooner rather than later!
Hopefully, Trump will be eating dirt with Rush soon.
And hopefully Melania will have him cremated just to flush his ashes down the golden throne at Mar-A-Lago while her and Barron wave buh bye.
But it will take her 15 or 20 flushes.🙄
😂
There's a coxswain in his head yelling
" STROKE STROKE STROKE ! "
C' mon already !
How they keep the fast food, druggie, alive should be written by the pathologist who does the death inquiry, at the time he expires, along with pictured organs. This would be a better deterrent from prescription drugs and fast food than any previous ad using eggs to deter the masses.
Well, the deplorables have clearly exceeded the basket.
We need a bigger basket.
Nah, I'd prefer less deplorables. :-)
Fewer!
Yes! Fewer! Damn grammar. :-)
True
My favorite comment of the day!
I know I posted these email addresses before, but for those in the back who might not have seen it: Send your thoughts about their shitty reporting:
editorial@nytimes.com
michael.shear@nytimes.com
david.halbfinger@nytimes.com
Shared widely. Thanks.
The P01135809 OnlyFans who cried big salty tears about the Super Bowl missed a great game. They’re the real losers of this year’s Bowl.
They were all lying _ every one of those blowhards watched it.
Just like they did during the Kapernick knee boycott.
Ever notice how everything Trump wants is something we fought a war to stop?
We were ruled by monarchs. We said fuck that and threw tea to the sea
We were threatened by fascists. We said fuck that and stomped them into the dirt.
Now we've got a quarter-to-third of the country begging for a fascist monarch in office.
Oh you poor, stupid summer children...
I’ll say it: Trump’s NATO comment borders on treason. But that is Trump jacking his jaw. The REAL problem is a craven GOP who think the MAGA vote is more important than our national security even world peace. It is a MAGA blind to treachery. Make no mistake, stepping out of NATO is serious business. My favorite quote from Pericles: It may have been wrong to take your empire. It is a far more dangerous thing to give it up.
Viz a Viz Taylor Swift: ha, ha. Wow the “BroFlakes” have really lost their stuff over a what should be a nothing burger. In fact, they have given her more political capital. As for the Jesus ads, really? The Right has turned Christianity into a Super PAC. Jesus must weep.
Jesus would smite these fuckers with hail and brimstone.
You can safely take this as a sign that his return is overhyped.
Jesus is such a procrastinator. 😉
Why isn't Jesus more like you?
Awesome quote from Pericles, Thanks.
https://www.yorku.ca/pswarney/Texts/thuc-2-63.htm
My version of Jesus just rolls his eyes
Little Donnie is the boy who farts in church to get attention. Then declares his allegiance to the devil. And the parishioners say "isn't that cute?"
A really good one!
How is Trump still alive or not actively in an unknown detention facility for his domestic terrorism rhetoric? I’m honestly surprised there haven’t been any attempts on his life at this point…I can factually say that my time in the Marines, there were attempts by active duty personnel even to take out certain people. This was kept outside of the media and individuals were detained, convicted, and sent to barred facilities. Here we have a man doing the same thing but where’s the handcuffs?
Arguably there is legal grounds now for any whack job to grab a mic and say let’s nuke America home holding the button up to shouting cultists and now he can’t be arrested immediately, because the government has allowed Trump to…
I’m sorry but this Marine’s leash from her therapist and the hospital staff locally gets really tight when the same thoughts and words are mentioned.
Unrelated but important when where there be an international sign up form for the Palestinian defense coalition, a volunteer military of former service members and veterans who are taking the fight to the IDF?! 2500 Marines could easily Secure Gaza and make it an IDF and Israeli occupier free zone. Let Trump visit Netanyahu and crater the palace! Too much, see above about the double standard of free speech our “incompetent leaders” have set. Then again play stupid games and elect the mob bosses, degenerates, sex traffickers, and the high-school hooker (Beetlejuice Boebert) to power, you win stupid prizes.
Great article! Humor eludes me today…off to the white wizard 🤷🏻♀️ to “talk things out”
I'd just add that we are not talking just rhetoric with the Demented Don. He is a treasonous traitor guilty of insurrection that we all watched on television. He has stolen national security secrets and refused to return them when caught. He is a criminal.
And the cherry on top is that he is a predator who now owes $88 million dollars to just one of the women he assaulted.
And has a ruling awaiting from Judge Engoron yet wants to talk about “unpaid bills”….eat a bag of dicks you orange buffoon 😂
Thank you for reminding me! Popcorn and champagne on the grocery list!
I’m getting Strawberries with my Champagne!
Raspberries
Okay, me too! 🥳
Yes, he is all of that and much more! I think the msm must be in cahoots with Putin and company. I still blame them for a lot of the reason we got Diaper Don in 2016 and now they are doing it again. I also think that a lot of our "esteemed" Republican legislators must be Russian operatives too. How else to think about their shunning the rule-of-law, our Constitution and are backing a traitorous insurrectionist who courts the favor of Putin, MBS and Xi?
MSM is a bunch of rich white dudes that don't want to pay taxes.
Exactly right. Walter Cronkite is rolling over in his grave.
🎯And they aren't real fond of democracy, either.
I keep thinking there must be some patriotic snipers, meeting at the ASS ASS INN, to save us all from Benedict Donald
Did Ol’ Joe really post that?! The RFK jr commercial, did you see that shit? Did you just have too much dignity to kick that dead dog?
it's a tweet from Biden's account, but I'm sure it's his comms people who posted it
Marvelous!
Our party all groaned in unison over that RFK jr ad and the washing feet propaganda…really glad they had to pay 💰 of cash to get ridiculed.
I heard that Kennedy had to apologize to the family for using old JFK advertisement in his ad.
I wondered about that.
Re: the RFK noxious putrid excrescence, I considered taping it in case I ever needed an emergency emetic…
Well, Dark Brandon’s scheme worked, but let’s don’t forget Agent Swift’s Mojo-Stealing Ray.
Wait wait I thought it was a spell?
Cuz MAGA "knows" all those empowered ladies are actually Deep State Witches!
😂😂
Another great article! Thank you!!!