I did a dive through the shit-takes of the NYT Opinion twats (French, Klein, and Douthat in particular). The rot is all the way through their editorial decisions.
I cancelled my subscription the day after the 2016 election. They worked very hard and gave enormous amount of free coverage to the Orange Menace and I refuse to ever read their content again.
Yes, I agree. The NYT was a lot of the reason that we got Little Donnie FF in the first place. They"But her e-mail's ed" Hillary Clinton unmercilessly during the entire 2016 campaign and never let up.Back then, I thought things were not smelling quite right but I couldn't get my head around the Grey Lady doing such chicanery. I thought previously that some of their reporting was a bit biased but that they were, all in all,pretty reliable journalists.When they started"Old Man" pummeling Joe Biden right from the get-go, I KNEW they were beyond having journalistic integrity and that they were out for Biden's blood and here we are today. I finally cancelled my subscription back in November 2023 and have never looked back Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter to them that over half a million Americans died on his watch because of the idiocy of his handling the pandemic and also that he tried to overthrow our government?Evidently little sh*t like this(NOT) doesn't mean much to them.
Is there a way to cancel but still get the Sunday crossword? I don’t want to read a word of their shit, but please give me that last black and white page of the mag.
I can no longer do that, because I canceled my subscription, and it was the best thing I did for my sanity. In fact, while I will not be snuffing paint thinner, because I am reading Jeff, and he is making me laugh instead of get angry, we all should be at how shitty all of the coverage is. I think WaPo is getting the hint because they just published an article about how aging works where they were careful not to say how Trump actually could be evaluated, but at least they pointed out that aging could be a good thing. A no brainer to anyone who has know anyone over 90 like I have. Several people in my family have reached past that age, and I hope to as well, without being treated like an incompetent imbecile.
It's official. Trump has been normalized by the mainstream media, who is bound and determined to march us all into fascism whether we like it or not. It is incumbent upon EVERY one of us to ignore the fuckery going on by the Oligarchy-owned corporate media that BENEFITS when a chaos agent like Trump is in the White House.
Absolutely! And the strategy of wearing down the voters so the stress level is so high, the country is like a time bomb. Perfect conditions for fascism to take hold.
Deep breath and dig your heels in good people to defeat Agolf Shitler and his puppeteers. Your neighbours upstairs🇨🇦are counting on you!!
Ironically, the mainstream print media is literally writing themselves out of a job. If TRump becomes president again, he will control all media and 99% of them will lose their jobs. How stupid are they?
Only now, WE🇺🇸 have to keep OUR ‘eyes shut’ for 6 SOLID MONTHS - as those NYT OpEds fly out of the ark… mixed w/WaPo/Politico/et al… firehose relentless. (Not even including 🦊‼️)
"where Republicans and Democrats hold hands and feed each other grapes". 🤣🤣 But, isnt this what the assholes at Project 2025 wanted, for the media to be as corrupt as they are? It's working...I got into it on Facebook (yeah, I know, it was dumb) with some moron who absolutely believes Trump is the chosen one and "Pedo Joe" is the devil... no amount of facts or data would persuade him. I hate everybody...except you guys. 🙄
I never do this because it’s a frustrating waste of time, but I got into it with someone from Morehouse College on Twitter after President Biden made his speech there.
This person was trying to prove, along with others from Morehouse, that Joe Biden is a bad choice for president because of petty crap. I told them that if they don’t vote for Biden or don’t vote at all, we will get Trump and that will be the end of their freedom. Doubt that it changed their minds.
Why are seemingly intelligent people so fucking obtuse⁉️
I had the same experience arguing with a real live MAGAt. No matter how much I backed up my arguments with links to facts, he refused to believe any of it
Right? How crazy do you have to be to believe that. Even if Bloated Arse were to win (by cheating, of course, barf), it certainly wouldn’t be that kind of blowout.
I've gotten used to seemingly normal people who love trump, because I live in fantasy land. Mormons believe that a white salamander led a young boy to plates of gold sent from God. So...
Did you politely tell him that if he’s got no evidence Biden is a pedo, he must perforce shove his libel all the way up his ass until it reaches his tonsils?
I decided to lookup what the pedo charges were against him. One was an out of context remark about a former little girl who worked on his campaign, the other was the hair sniff(a fabrication) and the third was from Biden’s daughter’s diary about how she used to shower with her dad “(probably inappropriate)” we know about the diary because the hilariously-named “Project Veritas” bought a stolen copy.
There’s also a Russian operative named Tara Reade who claims he made her feel inappropriate. She lives in Moscow now
I’ve had that Tara Reide name thrown at me as “proof” that Biden has sexually assaulted a woman. I didn’t know she was a Russian agent who now lives In Moscow
Yeah, when I was there the fear of Putin was palpable. So she's a liar. But we already knew that from her constantly evolving fabrications. She also claimed to be a specialist in domestic violence, except she was found to have no training whatsoever. Many court cases she had testified in got reexamined as a result.
I surf around and follow some "never trump" republicans, who genuinely think that if they help us beat Trump, but that the R's can recapture the Senate, that in 2028, the fever will have broken, and we can go back to a functional two-party system, and MAGA will be in the dustbin of history.
Uh, that is some good shit you're smoking, who's your dealer?
Here are some of the real thing: The Lincoln Project, The Bulwark, Tim Miller, Joe Trippi, Al Hunt, Rick Wilson, Ben Meiselas, George Conway, Karen Agnifilo.
50 years ago I was great at arguing and debating. Now, not so much. But I did realize one thing: none, zipping, nada of my conversations changed anyone’s mind.
I am proud to have canceled my NYT subscription, and I grew up with that paper...but how I spend my money is the one tiny thing I have control over...it's the same reason I will never spend a dime or set foot in texASS or almost any red state...it's small, but if everyone did some of these things...
I know some amazing people from that state, but the people who run the state are downright vile and disgusting...and they are leaders of the great march backwards in this country, and I will do nothing to support that shit...they will never get a dime of my money
"My freinds are buried there, and some of them are dead."--Texas' own Austin Lounge Lizards. My nephew is down there, in what he calls "a blueberry in a bowl of tomato soup" in that state's capitol. He has a MARVELLOUS radio show which I will flaunt in the name of nepotism--please check out "DJ Saltandteppa" on his show Exclamation Point on KOOP radio.
Boy, that sounds really weird. I was born & raised in TX, but moved to NM in 1986. There are plenty of maga rethugs in the rural areas here where I actually live, & tons of Texans have cabins or summer homes here; but fortunately there are enough Dems in the bigger cities to have kept us blue…..so far. I sure hope we stay that way.
I agree MBM and I live in FL. If all the sane people would refuse to come here, the tourist industry would take a hit and we might get to oust some assholes who are fucking things up.
I made the same vow, even though nearly all of the family I have left is in TX. I just decided if they were going to be so evil as to vote for those horrible Rethuglikkkans then I just don’t need Togo there until they come to their senses. I also don’t want to spend a dime there for gasoline or anything else.
I am a Californian, born here and will probably cack here. Where I live are wild-eyed leftists priced out of Berkeley, but still keeping the faith. But I can tell you that two hours drive north of here, we got psalm-singing, spiral-eyed, meth-huffing, tire-swinging, banana eating, shaved MAGA apes that would make Alabamans turn up their noses at their infra-diggery. They're fucking everywhere.
As Rep Jasmine explained this evening on The Reidout, neither the Speaker nor any committee chairs will do anything to rein ol Marge in & she wasn’t just sit there & take it.
I just love Ms Crockett, one of the few good things from TX at the moment
Our choice is tequila. Whatever it takes to make us want to stop banging our heads against the wall to quiet the madness. It takes the edge off at least.
And a Bud Light chaser. You know, it’s been said that hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping someone else dies. My takeaway is obviously I’m not drinking enough poison.As for that hack maundering about centerism, I hear there’s an editorial writer position open at the Fort Fuck, Fuckistan Daily Bugle.
Fresh out of paint thinner, will substitute with my acetone nail polish remover. Bottoms up and cheers to the alternate universe currently spinning BS at the speed of light. The mainstream media has officially become owned. Fucking fools have sold their souls thinking there’s a profit to be made. What a joke.
Right! A guy I knew in art school used to wipe his turpentine-soaked brushes on his jeans. I think he wore the same pair everyday. One day he lit a cigarette and accidentally set his pants on fire.
I would like to see someone do a side-by-side comparison between German newspaper headlines during the rise of Nazism and MSM headlines during this Trumpist hell we're living through.
So Jeff, I’ve been reading your stuff for awhile now. Here’s what I like about you: you tell the truth and make me laugh. This election year is a nightmare and a circus all twisted together. And while we need to be serious about it, we also need to laugh at the absurdity of Trump. So when I read your articles, I laugh out loud at so many points. And you know what? It’s good to laugh. People who can write the truth and make me laugh are the smartest of all. So keep it up, Jeff. We need your opinion every single day.
The good news is that a tiny fraction of voters reads The New York Times. MAGAts certainly don't read it, and I'll make the safe prediction that the NYT won't persuade Biden voters not to vote for him. I used to read the publication cover to cover. Now I skim the headlines, and I told my husband I'm ready to cancel whenever he is. The Washington Post went downhill when Marty Barron left and they put Sally Buzbee (of People Weekly) in charge.
Same here, Ann. I want to cancel the NY times because it's in my name, but my husband says he'll just resubscribe anyway. But I started cursing them a couple years ago, a paper that I grew up on, like the Post, because they were the papers of record. Now they are just whoring for dollars, because biz was so great under the psychopath Trump. Fucking WHORES!
The TV networks certainly seem to have adopted the Fox business model of choosing conflict and click-bait-like stories to entertain their audience with rather than focusing on informing their audience on relevant issues as they should.
Two things happened during the Reagan administration that ruined journalism: He killed the Fairness Doctrine, and TV news divisions, which formerly operated as a public service, decided they needed to turn a profit.
So true. The Fairness doctrine was basically made irrelevant due to it's not applying to cable TV, which took over in the '90's. But the changes that started back then in corporate executive compensation from corporate stock options (and reductions in capital gains taxes) led to the decisions to maximize the stock price above all else, so no more 'free ride' for a public service TV news division that didn't generate high ratings for more ad revenue.
Jeff, you must submit your writings to the papers. I wish EVERYONE could see this. I know it is difficult to imagine, but most of the people never read anything and not anything like what you say. It is like they are blind to what is happening.
It's like- because they are blind. Sleepwalking. Hypnotized by little electronic gadgets and consumerism.
As Howard Beale mocked in Network:
"Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."
JFC, what is it going to take to get some responsible journalism back to the MSM. Yeah, there are a few reporters and opinion columnists worth their salt, no wait, many of them have either been shitcanned or moved on to publications that actually value journalistic integrity.
We will never get responsible journalism back to the MSM now that the corporate oligarchs have completely taken it over. And their ONLY concern is profit.
As Les Moonves clearly stated in 2016: "He may be bad for the country but he's great for our ratings!"
Exactly. This is the MAJOR problem with the mainstream media in this country. Even "liberal" MSNBC is owned by Comcast. And anybody who's ever had Comcast as their ISP knows they SUCK.
But at least the best journalists on MSNBC still are able to call out LDFF as a liar, & point out his craziness. They haven’t been completely muzzled…..yet.
I do like Jennifer Rubin, Ruth Marcus, E.J. Deione, and Dana Milbank at WaPo. Otherwise, I get my opinion pieces from Jeff, Jay Kuo, George Takei, Hemant Mehta, and JoeMyGod.
Ive never subscribed to the NYT and never will. I do think most of the MSM has been bought up by rich republican CEOs. I hope MSNBC can hang in there and continue their good work. But the rich and powerful are winning this game, all in the name of ignorance, fear and petty victimized anger of the populace. The republicans play a dirty game and they’re good at it.
I called every one of my federal reps & the WH & left messages with each of them that they need to quit playing nicey nicey & fight fire with fire. I practically screamed at them
“Why should we Democrats keep voting for you if, when you get power, you won’t use it”
This scotus fuckery has me about to pull my hair out!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
I did a dive through the shit-takes of the NYT Opinion twats (French, Klein, and Douthat in particular). The rot is all the way through their editorial decisions.
I cancelled my subscription the day after the 2016 election. They worked very hard and gave enormous amount of free coverage to the Orange Menace and I refuse to ever read their content again.
Yes, I agree. The NYT was a lot of the reason that we got Little Donnie FF in the first place. They"But her e-mail's ed" Hillary Clinton unmercilessly during the entire 2016 campaign and never let up.Back then, I thought things were not smelling quite right but I couldn't get my head around the Grey Lady doing such chicanery. I thought previously that some of their reporting was a bit biased but that they were, all in all,pretty reliable journalists.When they started"Old Man" pummeling Joe Biden right from the get-go, I KNEW they were beyond having journalistic integrity and that they were out for Biden's blood and here we are today. I finally cancelled my subscription back in November 2023 and have never looked back Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Don’t forget Maureen Dowd. She still has a job there? Actually, I don’t care.
I think she's just an AI avatar at this point...
The mainstream media is on the bag for Trump even after the disaster that was the Trump administration.
Yeah, I guess it doesn't matter to them that over half a million Americans died on his watch because of the idiocy of his handling the pandemic and also that he tried to overthrow our government?Evidently little sh*t like this(NOT) doesn't mean much to them.
🎯Yes, disasters sell papers.
Me, too. And WaPo. Plus, I do not watch any of the network news broadcasts--cancelled my cable subscription! Who needs the aggravation??
Biden has a Rolex, Biden has a Peleton, what ridiculous made-up controversies, they pushed from day 1.
Me as well. I increased my donations to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood instead.
And worth every penny! Great improvement.
🏆🏆🏆🏆
Me, too. And so glad I did!
Is there a way to cancel but still get the Sunday crossword? I don’t want to read a word of their shit, but please give me that last black and white page of the mag.
Yes, you can cancel the news & keep your subscription to just the puzzles
And yet tRump always called it the failing NY times
Maybe Sulzberger is still seeking tRump's approval?
Don’t forget that with trump, it’s Oppositeville.
Same. Sometimes I click on an article not realizing it's NYT, and hit their paywall. I am glad that paywall is there to warn me.
🎯And pretty much refused to print anything critical, about the criminal, and "But her emails"-ed us to death.
I can no longer do that, because I canceled my subscription, and it was the best thing I did for my sanity. In fact, while I will not be snuffing paint thinner, because I am reading Jeff, and he is making me laugh instead of get angry, we all should be at how shitty all of the coverage is. I think WaPo is getting the hint because they just published an article about how aging works where they were careful not to say how Trump actually could be evaluated, but at least they pointed out that aging could be a good thing. A no brainer to anyone who has know anyone over 90 like I have. Several people in my family have reached past that age, and I hope to as well, without being treated like an incompetent imbecile.
https://wapo.st/4bupxdd
Linda: I noticed that article as well.
Which was an excellent piece btw. I only miss the NYT for being able to sarcastically comment on their awful takes.
Jeff, for God's sake, don't drink the paint thinner!
Douchehat is a dumbass I can't believe they pay him.
Agree!
MAGA Haberman is the worst, but she doesn't write for the OpEd pages. She is her own class of fuckwad.
She is a shitbird of maximal proportions. Her "holier than thou" attitude and how she comes off in segments is just fucking shameful.
💵💵💵
Yes, I want to know that answer too! Man, he became quite the turncoat. Nothing that Biden does is satisfactory for him. He can kiss my white ass!
It's official. Trump has been normalized by the mainstream media, who is bound and determined to march us all into fascism whether we like it or not. It is incumbent upon EVERY one of us to ignore the fuckery going on by the Oligarchy-owned corporate media that BENEFITS when a chaos agent like Trump is in the White House.
The question must be asked: cui bono?
Absolutely! And the strategy of wearing down the voters so the stress level is so high, the country is like a time bomb. Perfect conditions for fascism to take hold.
Deep breath and dig your heels in good people to defeat Agolf Shitler and his puppeteers. Your neighbours upstairs🇨🇦are counting on you!!
I'm a dual citizen that moved to the US from Canada back in 2009 after Obama got elected because I thought the country had finally come to its senses.
How wrong I was.
It was a glorious eight years, though!
Eight years of much easier breathing, at least.
Brianna: I am too & it is especially & double disturbing to see all this here
If trump if elected and our trump wannabe defeated, you might consider spending more time here. But until then, it’s chaos in North America.
My spouse is Canadian, we live in FL. he keeps muttering sotto voce "I'm just a guest here."...
We are now catering to Los IQanon MAGA TRASH TREASON SCUM in the name of bothsidesism. Too bad MAGA TRASH MEDIA/GRU PROPAGANDA does NOT RECIPROCATE
I bought a 1000-watt, solar-powered generator. It’s time to realize we have a grid they will F with.
Mine’s only 500 watts, thinking of getting a bigger one.
We’re gonna need an end run to end ALL END RUNS 😞
Ironically, the mainstream print media is literally writing themselves out of a job. If TRump becomes president again, he will control all media and 99% of them will lose their jobs. How stupid are they?
VERY stupid indeed. We know Trump considers everyone left of Fox News as "the Enemy of the People".
Sufficiently dumb.
Reminds me of that scene in ‘Raiders’ (where Indy and Marion are tied back to back to the stake) as the bad guys open the Ark… “KEEP YOUR EYES SHUT!”
Only now, WE🇺🇸 have to keep OUR ‘eyes shut’ for 6 SOLID MONTHS - as those NYT OpEds fly out of the ark… mixed w/WaPo/Politico/et al… firehose relentless. (Not even including 🦊‼️)
Also: this is what happens when they write about the same damn thing and only the one thing for eight excruciating years.
They now have to create situations to write about because they have reached the end of the universe.
“Chaos agent” indeed. As he’s said himself, “I am the storm.”
"where Republicans and Democrats hold hands and feed each other grapes". 🤣🤣 But, isnt this what the assholes at Project 2025 wanted, for the media to be as corrupt as they are? It's working...I got into it on Facebook (yeah, I know, it was dumb) with some moron who absolutely believes Trump is the chosen one and "Pedo Joe" is the devil... no amount of facts or data would persuade him. I hate everybody...except you guys. 🙄
I never do this because it’s a frustrating waste of time, but I got into it with someone from Morehouse College on Twitter after President Biden made his speech there.
This person was trying to prove, along with others from Morehouse, that Joe Biden is a bad choice for president because of petty crap. I told them that if they don’t vote for Biden or don’t vote at all, we will get Trump and that will be the end of their freedom. Doubt that it changed their minds.
Why are seemingly intelligent people so fucking obtuse⁉️
I had the same experience arguing with a real live MAGAt. No matter how much I backed up my arguments with links to facts, he refused to believe any of it
I finally told this idiot he was in a cult and that he should move to North Korea where the government will be exactly what he's wishing for. DAMN!
Yep, I got into with some nut, who insisted Trump will win 45 states in a landslide. 🤔🙄😂
Damn- I can’t believe how stupid and vulnerable people can be. 🤦♀️
Sweet fucking baby jesus.
Right? How crazy do you have to be to believe that. Even if Bloated Arse were to win (by cheating, of course, barf), it certainly wouldn’t be that kind of blowout.
Another Scrotus stop-the-count like they pulled in Bush/Gore.
Just like he did last time. And won the Vietnam war single-handed. Was the first astronaut on the sun.
Your brain cells are way too valuable for that.😃
They do their own “research”; remember? 🤪
Which consists of sitting on the toilet, reading Qnuts on twitter.
I've gotten used to seemingly normal people who love trump, because I live in fantasy land. Mormons believe that a white salamander led a young boy to plates of gold sent from God. So...
OMG. 🤦♀️
Did you politely tell him that if he’s got no evidence Biden is a pedo, he must perforce shove his libel all the way up his ass until it reaches his tonsils?
No but I’ll go back and tell him. 😂. Honestly… these people! 🤦♀️
I decided to lookup what the pedo charges were against him. One was an out of context remark about a former little girl who worked on his campaign, the other was the hair sniff(a fabrication) and the third was from Biden’s daughter’s diary about how she used to shower with her dad “(probably inappropriate)” we know about the diary because the hilariously-named “Project Veritas” bought a stolen copy.
There’s also a Russian operative named Tara Reade who claims he made her feel inappropriate. She lives in Moscow now
Thanks for this. Good to have!
I’ve had that Tara Reide name thrown at me as “proof” that Biden has sexually assaulted a woman. I didn’t know she was a Russian agent who now lives In Moscow
She has a Putin fetish, so it was hard for them to tell her what to say.
She said she was "more comfortable" in Moscow. It's a comfortable town, I guess--depends on who you know.
Yeah, when I was there the fear of Putin was palpable. So she's a liar. But we already knew that from her constantly evolving fabrications. She also claimed to be a specialist in domestic violence, except she was found to have no training whatsoever. Many court cases she had testified in got reexamined as a result.
I surf around and follow some "never trump" republicans, who genuinely think that if they help us beat Trump, but that the R's can recapture the Senate, that in 2028, the fever will have broken, and we can go back to a functional two-party system, and MAGA will be in the dustbin of history.
Uh, that is some good shit you're smoking, who's your dealer?
Nah, sounds like the wrong never trumpers.
Here are some of the real thing: The Lincoln Project, The Bulwark, Tim Miller, Joe Trippi, Al Hunt, Rick Wilson, Ben Meiselas, George Conway, Karen Agnifilo.
Save your sanity quit FB and its evil influence.
You’re so right! 🤦♀️
That's for damn sure.
50 years ago I was great at arguing and debating. Now, not so much. But I did realize one thing: none, zipping, nada of my conversations changed anyone’s mind.
I forget who said, "preach to the choir, because the choir leads the congregation."
I am proud to have canceled my NYT subscription, and I grew up with that paper...but how I spend my money is the one tiny thing I have control over...it's the same reason I will never spend a dime or set foot in texASS or almost any red state...it's small, but if everyone did some of these things...
We were delighted to discover there are roads OUT of Tex-ass. And took 287N the fuck out of there.
My GF and I were in a Fort Worth Safeway, looking at greeting cards, discussing which we'd like to send to relatives in Seattle.
While we were browsing, an older woman came up with her eyes all narrowed suspiciously, and asked us, "What are you-all DOING here?"
We looked at each other, then replied in unison, "We were wondering the same thing."
I know some amazing people from that state, but the people who run the state are downright vile and disgusting...and they are leaders of the great march backwards in this country, and I will do nothing to support that shit...they will never get a dime of my money
I decided the same thing, despite most of my family still living there.
"My freinds are buried there, and some of them are dead."--Texas' own Austin Lounge Lizards. My nephew is down there, in what he calls "a blueberry in a bowl of tomato soup" in that state's capitol. He has a MARVELLOUS radio show which I will flaunt in the name of nepotism--please check out "DJ Saltandteppa" on his show Exclamation Point on KOOP radio.
Unfortunately, due to circumstances I may be moving to that area. My daughter lives in Ft. Worth.
I hope she is not of reproductive age.
Boy, that sounds really weird. I was born & raised in TX, but moved to NM in 1986. There are plenty of maga rethugs in the rural areas here where I actually live, & tons of Texans have cabins or summer homes here; but fortunately there are enough Dems in the bigger cities to have kept us blue…..so far. I sure hope we stay that way.
I agree MBM and I live in FL. If all the sane people would refuse to come here, the tourist industry would take a hit and we might get to oust some assholes who are fucking things up.
Huzzah, MtBoy!
With you 💯💯💯
I made the same vow, even though nearly all of the family I have left is in TX. I just decided if they were going to be so evil as to vote for those horrible Rethuglikkkans then I just don’t need Togo there until they come to their senses. I also don’t want to spend a dime there for gasoline or anything else.
I am a Californian, born here and will probably cack here. Where I live are wild-eyed leftists priced out of Berkeley, but still keeping the faith. But I can tell you that two hours drive north of here, we got psalm-singing, spiral-eyed, meth-huffing, tire-swinging, banana eating, shaved MAGA apes that would make Alabamans turn up their noses at their infra-diggery. They're fucking everywhere.
Jasmine went short of going toe to toe with Marjorie.
And brilliantly, at that.
With dignity, courage and a can of whoop ass!
Where is Jerry Springer? And we’re paying for this bs.
As Rep Jasmine explained this evening on The Reidout, neither the Speaker nor any committee chairs will do anything to rein ol Marge in & she wasn’t just sit there & take it.
I just love Ms Crockett, one of the few good things from TX at the moment
https://youtu.be/kMnJKXTaD6E?si=emEM4XqG7blGCmsu
This is pretty good. Check it out.
He’s amazing, thank you!
Texas Number One!
Buy me a gallon too, I’ll Venmo you.
Hell, we might need a 55-gallon drum by the time this next election is over with.
Hmmmm, yes, I better make more room in the shed.
Don't forget the lemons. A twist always helps.
I’ll stick to vodka. Only the kind made in the USA though, Koval, Cirrus. No putin vodka.
Ketel One from Holland is pretty bad ass.
My personal favorite! 🍸🍸
That’s the one I buy
If you live close to a Total Wine store, you might try Esme, a French made vodka that makes the best martinis. A little bit of heaven on earth.
Yep, Total Wine (wine heaven, also bourbon) keeps the hubs and I relatively sane.
TW has amazing options! I have tried a couple of others and will keep an eye out for Esme.
I bought an organic vodka from my local shop which is just excellent: https://prairieorganicspirits.com/
I’ve seen it on the shelf! Thanks for the recommendation.
Our choice is tequila. Whatever it takes to make us want to stop banging our heads against the wall to quiet the madness. It takes the edge off at least.
I don’t know if they sell Russian vodka here
Smirnoff is distilled in Poland.
And Stoly is Lithuanian or Estonian, one of the two
Well, we shouldn’t be!!! There’s supposed to be sanctions on them for invading Ukraine 🇺🇦
Who needs 'em. Between the Grocery Outlet and Costco, we got loads of inexpensive vodka.
And a Bud Light chaser. You know, it’s been said that hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping someone else dies. My takeaway is obviously I’m not drinking enough poison.As for that hack maundering about centerism, I hear there’s an editorial writer position open at the Fort Fuck, Fuckistan Daily Bugle.
😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
Thinking alike! I was about to write: ✍️ pick me up some! I need to bleach my hair.
I’ll have a gallon too but it has to be chocolate flavored!
Have you had that merlot flavored with Dutch chocolate, it is divine!
Mmmmmm, chocolate….
Fresh out of paint thinner, will substitute with my acetone nail polish remover. Bottoms up and cheers to the alternate universe currently spinning BS at the speed of light. The mainstream media has officially become owned. Fucking fools have sold their souls thinking there’s a profit to be made. What a joke.
Just don't smoke if you use acetone..unless of course your wearing a red hat.
Right! A guy I knew in art school used to wipe his turpentine-soaked brushes on his jeans. I think he wore the same pair everyday. One day he lit a cigarette and accidentally set his pants on fire.
Painters are walking WMD's
Oh, the stories I could tell!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up toluene .
😂😂
Journalism is up to places like Substack now.
I would like to see someone do a side-by-side comparison between German newspaper headlines during the rise of Nazism and MSM headlines during this Trumpist hell we're living through.
Maybe the Lincoln Project could tackle that great idea!
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/656843-new-lincoln-project-ad-compares-donald-trumps-plans-for-america-to-nazi-germany/
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/656843-new-lincoln-project-ad-compares-donald-trumps-plans-for-america-to-nazi-germany/
I have this feeling Lincoln Project has done this or something similar.
So Jeff, I’ve been reading your stuff for awhile now. Here’s what I like about you: you tell the truth and make me laugh. This election year is a nightmare and a circus all twisted together. And while we need to be serious about it, we also need to laugh at the absurdity of Trump. So when I read your articles, I laugh out loud at so many points. And you know what? It’s good to laugh. People who can write the truth and make me laugh are the smartest of all. So keep it up, Jeff. We need your opinion every single day.
The good news is that a tiny fraction of voters reads The New York Times. MAGAts certainly don't read it, and I'll make the safe prediction that the NYT won't persuade Biden voters not to vote for him. I used to read the publication cover to cover. Now I skim the headlines, and I told my husband I'm ready to cancel whenever he is. The Washington Post went downhill when Marty Barron left and they put Sally Buzbee (of People Weekly) in charge.
When I cancelled my subscription this May, I made sure the Times knew why
I did too
Same here, Ann. I want to cancel the NY times because it's in my name, but my husband says he'll just resubscribe anyway. But I started cursing them a couple years ago, a paper that I grew up on, like the Post, because they were the papers of record. Now they are just whoring for dollars, because biz was so great under the psychopath Trump. Fucking WHORES!
The problem is that the rest of the media takes its cue from the old Grey Lady.
Looks to me like the media including the NYT takes their cue from Fox, promoting conflict and click bait.
The TV networks certainly seem to have adopted the Fox business model of choosing conflict and click-bait-like stories to entertain their audience with rather than focusing on informing their audience on relevant issues as they should.
Two things happened during the Reagan administration that ruined journalism: He killed the Fairness Doctrine, and TV news divisions, which formerly operated as a public service, decided they needed to turn a profit.
So true. The Fairness doctrine was basically made irrelevant due to it's not applying to cable TV, which took over in the '90's. But the changes that started back then in corporate executive compensation from corporate stock options (and reductions in capital gains taxes) led to the decisions to maximize the stock price above all else, so no more 'free ride' for a public service TV news division that didn't generate high ratings for more ad revenue.
Good breakdown. Fuckery on a grand scale, makes me nauseated.
I wish she were the Old Grey Lady.
Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee were the top.
Just when I am at the end of my rope, I read Jeff and my tears end with laughter! More paint thinner!
msm nyt infected by maggots.
Just now cancelled my nyt subscription. The archives are great, but my patience has ended with the nyt shitshow.
Thank you Dark Jeff✨
Jeff Tiedrich : Presenting the Darkness with a dose of levity to ease the anger.
A shot of Darkness w/a chaser of levity
(Srry Jeff has me waxing poetic today)
THAT's what I meant to say!
Thanks for letting me meddle ;) !!!
Jeff, you must submit your writings to the papers. I wish EVERYONE could see this. I know it is difficult to imagine, but most of the people never read anything and not anything like what you say. It is like they are blind to what is happening.
It's like- because they are blind. Sleepwalking. Hypnotized by little electronic gadgets and consumerism.
As Howard Beale mocked in Network:
"Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."
JFC, what is it going to take to get some responsible journalism back to the MSM. Yeah, there are a few reporters and opinion columnists worth their salt, no wait, many of them have either been shitcanned or moved on to publications that actually value journalistic integrity.
We will never get responsible journalism back to the MSM now that the corporate oligarchs have completely taken it over. And their ONLY concern is profit.
As Les Moonves clearly stated in 2016: "He may be bad for the country but he's great for our ratings!"
Robert Reich points out that most of our media is owned by just a handful of corporations and we all know that corporations love fascism. IMO
Exactly. This is the MAJOR problem with the mainstream media in this country. Even "liberal" MSNBC is owned by Comcast. And anybody who's ever had Comcast as their ISP knows they SUCK.
To paraphrase Bart Simpson 'they both suck and blow at the same time"
But at least the best journalists on MSNBC still are able to call out LDFF as a liar, & point out his craziness. They haven’t been completely muzzled…..yet.
For now, I think you’re spot on. Trump losing might produce a course correct, but I’m not going to hold my breath.
"may be" as if it's debatable.
And that is just so sickening
I do like Jennifer Rubin, Ruth Marcus, E.J. Deione, and Dana Milbank at WaPo. Otherwise, I get my opinion pieces from Jeff, Jay Kuo, George Takei, Hemant Mehta, and JoeMyGod.
Ive never subscribed to the NYT and never will. I do think most of the MSM has been bought up by rich republican CEOs. I hope MSNBC can hang in there and continue their good work. But the rich and powerful are winning this game, all in the name of ignorance, fear and petty victimized anger of the populace. The republicans play a dirty game and they’re good at it.
And the Democrats need to get their heads out of their asses and wise up.
I called every one of my federal reps & the WH & left messages with each of them that they need to quit playing nicey nicey & fight fire with fire. I practically screamed at them
“Why should we Democrats keep voting for you if, when you get power, you won’t use it”
This scotus fuckery has me about to pull my hair out!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Like, now.