Their behavior proves how stone-cold stupid most of them are, because they so clearly desperately want him back in office because he's good for clicks and views, but they don't seem to have caught on to the fact that he would ship 95% of them off to reeducation camps.
Last few times I've seen MSM they've been barking at President Biden and VP Harris for their thoughts about the latest round of Trump's diseased brain nonsense and conspiracy theories de jour.
You're spot on to the "why." CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN are owned - respectively - by Paramount Global (a company in major financial distress), Comcast-Universal, Disney (kind of having financial problems) and Warner Brothers-Discovery (a company with major financial problems). All these companies - I call them the intergalactic widgetmakers after 40 years of watching them fuck up Hollywood - want to sell the "legacy media" they own because they're circling the bowl in this world of streaming. But to do so, those media companies have to be "profitable" to attract an idiot who will buy them. They all lost half their viewers after Trump left in 2020. They all remember what Jeff Zucker the Fucker (as we used to call him here in Okeefenokee West) said when he was criticized for CNN showing Trump's hatealongs in 2016: "Donald Trump brings high ratings!" (high ratings = mucho dinero)
It's always: Follow. The. Money.
And the low achievers of the upper middle class who go to Jurnilizm Skool, where they are taught by failures too talentless to actually work in the field, and parrot back what the failure "teaches" them, are all in terror of being cut loose in the next "restructuring." So we get to what Orwell was talking about when he said it is difficult to get someone to see the truth when their paycheck demands they not see it.
I never liked absolutes. There are plenty of good journalists and just last night I was watching George Conway talk about the narcissism of the orangeman. And then the usual panel of talking heads.
But The Atlantic has a deep bench of hard hitting journalists, some for members of the GOP w articles calling out the lies, scams, lack of policies ( except the fascist project 2025). The New Yorker too. I look forward to Washington Week in Review where stupid statements, gibberish really, is picked apart. Even Hoover’s conservative/moderate, Firing Line, has had enough is the GOP craziness (or should I say weirdness?).
Despite many in the mainstream doing a poor job of exposing bribes and staying on the story, it still looks like it will be a blowout for Harris. If I were her I would not do pressers.
She could always make pressers contingent on how they start treating Karine Jean-Pierre. Just outrageous most of them don't have their credentials yanked.
He was at the convention last night, sticking a mic in front of Dems and asking some stupid, meaningless questions,like 'is Beyonce here?? Do you want her to come out?'...one Dem responded 'We're here to discuss issues,not your nonsense' Bravo!.
Mitch, you are so right. SHE doesn’t need to do pressers. THEY (MSM) need her—so they can ask her stupid questions and twist whatever she says. Nah. Who’s got time for that make-believe? Journalists are going to have to get serious before any credible politician answers their inane queries. Until then, read my lips.
I remember the CNN interview of Kaitlin Collins interviewing trump and he just steamrolled over her. It was a travesty. The CNN CEO lost his job over this.
She came from working for Tucker Carlson, so she wasn't ready for primetime. They promoted her over it, I believe it was a quid pro quo. Licht was a disaster, that was just the cherry on top. He was just doing what Malone the owner wanted him to do.
I had the sad misfortune to work at NBC when Jeff Zucker took over. Referred to by those of us in the trenches as, ‘that bullet-headed troll who took NBC from first to worst’, we all couldn’t believe our bad luck. Zucker was the kind of craphead who consistently failed upward, starting out as a numbers statistician for the Olympics and weaseling his way into producing the Today Show, then the head of NBC Entertainment and so on.
He’s running MSNBC, has an inappropriate relationship with an underling and gets sent to the wilderness. OK, good. Cue Jeff Shell. Shell, a very talented exec, is done in by a bunch of completely unsubstantiated rumors of hanky panky. Rumors are investigated and found wanting. Shell is shown the door regardless.
Flash forward to now. Ellison Jr. is taking over Paramount Global and wants to hire Jeff Shell. Suddenly, the rumors about him spout anew. Who’s behind them? My guess—the bullet-headed troll, who’s now with Redbird Capital and who made their own failed bid for Paramount Global.
There are many who fail up. Recently the WP’s editor tried to hire a British editor that did some unsavory things for the Murdock owned media overseas.
I remember when Discovery was a local cable channel with excellent programming ( based in Silver Spring , MD) and then the private equity/corporate execs got a hold of it and its never been the same.
I believe he did--at the Telegraph. Will Lewis, the CEO of WaPo, definitely did. He was involved in the hacking scandal up to his eyeballs.
I didn't know Chris Licht, but I believe he was a victim of his own hubris more than incompetence. He stepped on his own dick when he gave The Atlantic all that access. He made himself the story, which was a fatal error.
They expect to be on top of the third world country Project 2025 is planning on turning us into. Of course Trump is not, he is just going along to get along with his funders, because he will do all for money.
Project 2025; having 4 million military and police round-up and deport 20 million people,are you kidding?? The breath of that absolute stupidity is astounding,and a waste of ink on the paper it's printed on.
Not necessarily. 15-20 years ago, the FBI issued a report on white supremacist organizations infiltrating law enforcement. And there have been a number of cops and military personnel arrested in connection with J6.
I live in California,like most Blue states,we don't even cooperate with ICE, there's about 2 million cops in this country, even if half of them are MAGA-nized,not even enough door-kickers to do the job,and who decides who gets deported?? Judges and courts?? With legal warrants?? More than likely in Heritage Foundation world people will be rounded up by skin color,or whoever has a Harris/Walz yard sign?? Project 2025 is a Christofascist fever dream,maybe it might go over in some Red States,but never,ever in Blue states. It's the dipshit Heritage Foundation call for Civil War, where this moron Roberts thinks all the pesky Democrats will be willingly rounded-up into camps,and BTW,camps that don't even exist yet, I guess that 4 million strong workforce will have to build them first,HOT DAMM!! They'll probably hire some immigrants!! Build it nice folks!! It's your new home!! I like math sometimes...the math for Project 2025 doesn't add up.
Right. Trump is the fulcrum of the racist white Christian nationalist movement*, which has as a key goal the increase in white birth rates in the US in order to have a majority white, Christian country (hence the push for an abortion ban, a contraceptive ban, terrible deportation plans, border hysteria, etc.). It all fits together. (* Note: I am not calling all Christians/ evangelical Christians racist or supporters of this movement -- just noting that there is a movement well described by former NYT and now Intercept reporter James Risen here: https://theintercept.com/2024/08/10/republicans-trump-vance-racism-white-nationalism/
Although I haven't done my Google research, I have often heard on the news that this abortion ban particularly negatively impacts black and latino women. I guess the Heritage Foundation didn't do their research either.
The Times isn't mad Biden dropped out (the Ed Board said he should!!), they're mad he dropped out, endorsed Harris & the party fell in line. What they wanted was a blitz primary, DEMS IN DISARRAY headlines + a messy DNC b/c secretly (or not so secretly) they want Trump to win!
The legit Press could observe this truth. Every day. But that would shut down the adrenaline pumping, eyeballs generating, money grubbing "horse race".
Harris-Walz is a fried chicken dinner. Trump-Vance is a bowl of dogshit with glass shard sprinkles. (Thanks David Sedaris!) Every journalist knows this. But they are paid to try to sell us the dogshit.
Even if not shipped, almost certainly fired and replaced with the sycophant-de Jour who would occupy the position as long as Heinrich Miller, er, Steven Himmler, or the 5th Reichsführer found them acceptable.
Someone has to be the official media of the Dictator. So who shall it be??? As a result, they're all vying for relevance with Heir Fuhrer - which could explain the MSM's general deference to Trump and a pro-Trump bias - because ultimately they know that if they're not in his good graces come J625, they're going to get shafted big time. If nothing else, that filthy pig has a memory when it comes to the media, and they know it.
I have finally come around as well...ageism in this country is horrible...but seeing how things have turned around, Joe knew what he had to do. I do not for a minute believe there is infighting inside the Democratic party. Why would there be... they have found a backbone and a voice and are pushing back! 💙💙
I suspect there’s some sour grapes (thinking Schiff, maybe Pelosi, certainly the big money). So awed by how Pres Biden finessed his withdrawal from the campaign by pausing 20 minutes while we all freaked the fuck out and then endorsing VP Harris. I imagine he’d given some of the ageist, power & money elites an ultimatum of some sort, however well he phrased it so they wouldn’t respond by escalating.
They wanted to skip over her and have a ‘brokered convention’ - and Joe was like ‘Uh, not so fast’ - and transferred HIS FULL SUPPORT to KH. That’s why EVERYONE has been somewhat ‘stunned’ since that particular Sunday (from what I’ve gleaned)… WAY TO GO, JOE! (and the outpouring of affection for this ‘steady’ man who steered us through the pandemic is REALLY annoying certain ppl ;) IMO ❤️🤍💙
The media, left right and center, loves to spend hours and days on, "When is it going to happen," What is he going to say," "What is the other side going to do" questions. By timing his announcement for after the Sabbath blowhards were done for the day, and making Harris almost a fait accompli, Biden deprived the media of hours of such conversation (if you can call it that.)
All media it seems has jumped on Fox News,and right -wing business model,because it's profitable, entertainment, opinions,polls and predictions,(how many polls?? Seems to me,2,3,4...A DAY!! Ridiculous),but mostly just sensationalism for viewers and clicks.
A large portion of the population wouldn’t know when to shit or with what to wipe their ass with if some half witted talking head didn’t tell them the process! WTF did people do before the M Media became their only way to make a critical decision ? Probably walked around like their leader with 💩shit running down their legs …I guess !😖🤮😅😂🤣🇺🇸
Joe learned a lesson I heard from Jesse Unruh when I worked in politics here in California 50 years ago: "If you can't take their money, drink their booze, fuck their women, and vote against them the next morning with a smile on your face, you have no business in this business." (Unruh was a political genius, the guy who invented the modern state legistlature)
This is why I found it strange, when during the media ‘pile-on’ Joe had to endure - a pod-bro said ‘he’d like to send both of these candidates to another planet’…. Wait what? IN WHAT WORLD are 🍊+ 😎 on the same page? OH LET ME GUESS - on the planet where your f’n podcast needs hip, compelling and never-ending content. THAT’S where we’ve allowed our 🇺🇸 statesmanship, diplomacy and national security to go. With the clickbait and 👀 metric. G-d help us.
My take: the polls and Dems convinced him he should step aside but he arranged Harris’ replacement on his own, for the same reasons he chose her as his VP: best person for the job. His masterful timing was the best part of the weekend, letting her step in and step up so by Monday the deal was done.
And the way they timed it, to circumvent the Sunday morning bobbleheads, was masterful. Made the press whine like the bunch of entitled babies they are.
It was so beautiful, wasn't it? Just such comfort telegraphed in the choreographed care, such meticulous attention to detail, altruism in a sphere where it's so vanishingly rare that it's pretty much incomprehensible to the jackals among us looking on. There are Ds that would have been in the streets if it were thrown to an open convention; I would have been, because that would've looked like my vote stolen, a guaranteed monumental momentum-losing fail. Too many pundits not ruling it out and not mentioning Harris. That was chaos. This was a perfect handoff with perfect timing to the correct, most qualified individual with the full-throated endorsement of the incumbent and looked like a completely lawful replacement that wouldn't get pushback. I was very "don't go, Joe," but after his announcement, I could admit how very exhausted he'd looked (since ~ Oct 2023) and was relieved for him.
It's also a comfort, since then, recalling "People get the government they deserve."
50 years in the Swamp Joe knows the alligators …back in 2020 Before Joe even won I’m sure he knew he had to have a dozen different fallback positions for re -election ..if he chose to run …the guy never gets blindsided by the opposition…he’s always 5 steps ahead . This hand off to Kamala was planned well in advance by them both …it had to be to work so well ….Joe didn’t just read the how to survive book 📖 He wrote the friggen thing ! 😎👍😅
I love how Kamala provides a stark contrast to the Orange Pustule. She is the opposite of him in every way -- smart, accomplished, female, sense of humor, humble, brown skin, happily married, prosecutor vs. felon, admired by the good guys and feared by the bad guys.
I think her aura of straight up professionalism is reassuring to ppl too… Men seem to like her, but then I’m in a 💙bubble. Best thing is they (Rs) only have 79 more days to smear her vs 2 solid years. Could be the perfect storm to get a woman in there… hm
I don’t think “sour grapes” fits w/ Pelosi, especially. She and others knew more than we did about Biden’s condition. Her lukewarm support for him prior to his dropping out was troubling to me at the time. But like Biden, her main goal was and is what’s best for the country.
I think that President Biden might have some health issues that the public is not aware of but that may be known to Pelosi and others. Maybe that lukewarm support was all in place for a perfect transition. Never, never underestimate Pelosi.
The only thing I’ll have a hard time forgiving is when she said ‘So you won 2020 - BRAVO😒’
WTAF, NANCY. We were kissing the g-dam ground when JOE WON 2020. He f’n SAVED US.
That statement was kinda sloppy coming from her tbh. As in f-straight-off sloppy. And I’m saying that as a D who has sat through a lot of her not-so-100% sharp press conferences.
Pelosi pushed for a contested Dem convention that would’ve been political suicide. Yeah, that’s just what we needed more Dem circular firing squads! Pelosi was a remarkable political operative and fundraiser, but she was wrong about that. Maybe it’s time for HER to step down.
She might have ‘it needs to be a man’ ingrained (due to tradition) - and she’s likely also thinking abt her legacy…. (Maybe setting up Schiff or Newsom?). Have heard she and Feinstein would try to block Harris - who knows if there’s anything to that…. But could be a woman thing. Pelosi is only human… I actually don’t think she’d be that petty if a Dem victory was at stake - but no one really saw this D excitement coming(?)
She is also the main D ‘money person’, and if the donors pull out - dealing w/it is just reality. I see her more as a middleman here, not necessarily the mastermind. But I can see Joe sticking in her craw, too ;) But srsly wth do I know - I usually guess wrong 🙄😂⁉️
Don’t forget that he negotiated the release of hostages along with calling Dem operatives to get behind Kamala as a candidate; all while fighting Covid
Will Rogers’s saying about not being a member of any organized party because he’s a Democrat; the “Dems in Disarray!” trope; the notion that getting Dems to agree is like herding cats: All that ‘conventional wisdom’ stuff is currently taking a back seat to the reignited hope and enthusiasm that’s now solidified into a ghatdam righteous movement. Don’t make us angry, MAGAts and Media. You don’t like us when we’re really, really angry.
IMHO, ageism is why the SubStack platform is so valuable. A high percentage of authors and contributors are ‘older’ (defined as 5 years older than the definer), have amazing credentials that combined with age gives them a high amount of ‘street cred’, which in turns makes their opinions and observations even more valuable. Want a high dose of ageism? Think about what life is like for a triple-dipper in the ‘ism’ world (me): an older 😯 woman 😦 working in a male-dominated field (engineering) 😮
We also remember things that happened politically long ago. So we have some excellent backstory to draw on and explain to the young’uns who might not have been history majors.
We can only FULLY COME AROUND to acceptance - IF SHE WINS. That is the key. Otherwise, keeping the successful man at the top of the ticket was always the safer bet (and she was right beside him). ALSO - if this sets Harris/Walz up for 8 YEARS - that’s a FULL VICTORY. But we have to wait and run against a vicious cheater bc we can’t disqualify him. For anything. Ever 🤷♀️⁉️
Your right as rain on that…the crazy bastard is going for COUP 2 for shit sure …if only to cover him dodging the jail cell and booking it to Venezuela 🇻🇪 or a dacha in Russia !🇷🇺 Vlad 🍯 Honey Pie guess who’s come to dinner Dollink! ……NYET !! someone find him a room on the sixth floor ……many windows !! 🪟
The deterioration of The Washington Post under Bezos's ownership has been a sorry spectacle. The lead story today is a "reminder" of the 1968 DNC clusterfuck because apparently Democrats aren't nervous enough for the WaPo editorial board. Here's the difference between the two conventions: 1968 was FIFTY-SIX years ago, or almost three generations of voters. We are not in Vietnam. Hubert Humphrey is nowhere to be seen, nor is the ghost of Bobby Kennedy. Not only was there no Internet, there weren't even telephone answering machines, faxes or TV remotes. It was, in short, a different world. I believe it was a very wise man who said the press can fuck straight off.
1968 was the year of war on our TV screens every dinner time and a dozen or so body bags coming home every day, and every teenage kid having to worry about the upcoming lottery and eying Canada, plus a couple of high-profile political murders (oh and the Biafra famine giving us our first taste of swollen belly kids on TV, and Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia, and the government of France collapsing-- and Israel/Palestine was no nicer a confrontation then either)
Since I canceled the NYT, I didnt read the Maureen column. I don't have to because that headline pissed me right off. B.I.T.C.H. And Joe Biden? He nailed it. 😂😂 The press in this country will be responsible for our undoing...and we cant allow it. Scott Dworkin, Jeff Tiedrich, Jay Kuo, Joyce Vance, Earl Stephens... you guys are doing what is needed, to call out this BS BIAS!! Keep up the fabulous work! Lets share this everywhere!!
Maureen Dowd has turned my stomach since she built her early career on sliming the Clintons, when she'd get herself invited to White House events and stand over the buffet table mocking the hors d'oeurves as "tacky." She's another national "head monkey."
I have a degree in journalism (Kent State, 1975). The next time someone asks me what I do for a living, I’m considering saying “used car salesperson”. That should get me more respect.
For decades I have been saying that when an autopsy is done on America, the media (a/k/a traitorous, lying, whoring stenographers) will be found as the cause of death.
"... wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." -- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, Paris Jan. 8. 1789
I think O'Donnell and the rest of the MSNBC A-team took a week to get ready for the Democratic convention. Either that or they did fire O'Donnell for calling out his journalism colleagues (?) on their biased for Trump coverage.
The MeidasTouch Network is pretty awesome too,but even then sometimes I have to turn off because I can't listen to Orange Fuhrer's constant bitching and whining.
Mary Trump, Robert Reich,Democracy Docket, Brian Tyler Cohen, Heather Cox Richardson.... but of course, I never miss our favorite, the best, Jeff Tiedrich 💙 doing amazing work, without which I feel I'd unravel. Reading all of you lovely people's thoughts helps me so much to cope. Pointing out the outrageousness occurring and the gaslighting that the corporate media is foisting upon us continually, and often with a lot of laughter to help us. PS. I'm very sad the orange demon is coming to AZ again, to the small town of Sierra vista (i once lived there) and at their hospital, a guy drove a car with a hideous profile sticker in his driver side window of the orange pos. It'sa disturbinghate symbol to see every day you go to work, like seeing a confederate flag., but anyway, the good news is, on their community board, while for every 3 that were excited, there'd be one or two that adamantly pushed back-this is better than in the past over there. One guy said, " culters gotta cult", i loved it, and so did many others. We've been having some crazy lightning filled monsoons, maybe it will rain on the evil ones hate rally, maybe a big bolt of lightning will take out the perfect target🤞
Okay but wait! Dismiss The Guardian if you want, but don't miss the columns of Marina Hyde. I usually have no idea who she's talking about (it's Brit politics), but she's hilarious and smart. Her takes on Trump and US politics are great. Follow her on Twitter.
I dunno about you guys, but the mere idea of ANYONE from the new American Fascist party calling Kamala a fascist and a communist has to be the loudest projection yet. These angry-about-everything shitweasels have been working feverishly for years to make it impossible for anyone else to win an election. And for about a minute they were super duper proud of their shiny new spit polished plan to control everything - until the rest of the country projectile-vomited all over it. So now they’re all Elmer Fudd about it. Of course, they’re still gonna do it if they ever manage to cheat their way into a permanent reich. But where was I? …. Oh yeah. What a bunch of utter fucking hypocrites
Aaaaanddd this is why I stopped reading NYT (except for the Pitchbot) and WaPo (because who needs the pain). I just can’t with these columnists anymore. However, I’ll be happy to send bananas to the monkey in Trump’s brain. He’s doing a bang up job. The press could learn from him.
speaking of bananas - that was one of the breakfast items on that table… maybe it was just decoration, or maybe it was there because many people eat one with their overpriced cereal… but, bananas pricing have not be “ - gouged” they are about the same as 5-10 years ago.
Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live said that when Trump was hosting SNL, the cast found out that Trump can’t read. He couldn’t read the cue cards. He couldn’t read the script either.
I think that’s why Trump can’t stick to the teleprompter and goes off on his nonsensical tangents.
Wharton should cringe. They took his daddy's money and graduated his pathological illiterate ass while he spent his time posing on his bed in a bathrobe, trying to look like Hugh Hefner.
Michael Cohen testified all the Trump brats were complicit in the financial frauds going on for years,and the morons all went with the 'I didn't know what I was signing',(yep,Wharton grads? Sure...)or 'I don't remember'...they're a goddamn bad circus act.
But here's where UPA has made a major mistake, as has the media. There are TWO Wharton schools.
One is Wharton College, the other is Wharton School of Business. The latter is where you go for an MBA, the former for an undergraduate degree.
I haven't done enough research on it and I've even seen conflicting info on Google, but I've read that donOLD actually went to Wharton College, and NOT Wharton SB. But when anyone says he went to Wharton, it's automatically assumed he went to the School of Business, since that's what's commonly referred to as "Wharton".
My husband had a degree in International Relations from GW and was accepted into Wharton after serving as a Ranger captain in Vietnam (leader of a LRRP—Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol—team) and a 10-year business career in London. He would have been in his late ‘30s then. The Dean asked to meet him before classes started and said, basically, that he would be in classes with young recent college graduates and probably be bored out of his mind. He suggested that a better option would be night school at a Philly college (I no longer remember the name) because his fellow students would include people who were older with established careers. It’s too bad that Dean wasn’t around when Trump was accepted. He might have suggested cosmetology school; think of all the money it would have saved him. But maybe some of you have better ideas.
Thank you. Unfortunately, Steve’s last battle was with Agent Orange—a.k.a. heart failure—and he put up an incredible fight. I was told many times that the end is near (if he were still with us, he would be cracking up thinking about a certain line from Blazing Saddles), and every time, except once, he shocked the doctors by waking up, sitting up, and asking me to please bring him some decent food. We were very active in Chapter 39 of Veterans for Peace. P.S. He did continue his education far beyond what I’ve mentioned here, including becoming a bronze sculptor. I wish I could post a photo here of his last piece. It’s of a soldier sitting on what’s left of the wall of a bombed out home in Iraq, his head bowed and in his hands. There was not enough time left to finish his legs, or a little child’s sandals and teddy bear behind the wall. Steve called this piece “Betrayed.” He died before he could finish it.
My sincere condolences to you and family. My brother -in-law suffered from the effects of AO as well. He passed away from suffering a heart attack as well . He was in Vietnam 1969-1970.
He has trouble reading and he has trouble thinking rationally, being hindered by a crippling mendacity and his pathological narcissism. And being a decrepit dolt.
Noel Casler questioned the orange, execrable, mewing- wastrel’s illiteracy years ago. Why would anyone believe he’s learned to read anything other than See Jane Run at this point?
I think he's got severe dyslexia. That's only my opinion, and I have no qualifications to back it up except being a mom and a perennial school volunteer who worked with a lot of kids. Being dyslexic would prevent Dumpy from being a winner in his dad's eyes, so Dumpy hid it from everybody he could.
tRump is the abject failure of the education system. His older sister did his homework when he was at home. His father wrote big checks to ‘fix’ his grades. He paid people to take the SAT for him and, I’d kill to see his unaltered college transcripts.
“Donald Trump may have a long undiagnosed learning disability that for decades has interfered with his ability to process information,” Mary Trump said.
Maureen Dowd is another human incapable of change. Her latest waste-of-space column should earn her a week strapped to a chair, eyes taped open with no ear plugs in front of an endless loop of Don Snorleone’s greatest hits. She’d still be a shitty journalist, but she'd have a taste of what it’s been like to hear her brainless screeds for what seems like eternity.
I kinda feel like all of them (including Carville and Schmidt?!) are just trying to stay relevant and continue to collect the big paycheck. And we are paying the price :/
Jesus Christ. My apologies to anyone who is offended by that but what in the ever loving fuck is wrong with the MSM. Do they want to anoint Donnie dipshit because he makes better copy? it’s be what, 9 years and they still cannot figure it out.
Meanwhile, the hatchet job they are doing on the Harris/Walz ticket is beyond infuriating. You’d have to invent a new word for how pissed off I am. The NYT and WaP have been cancelled. I highly doubt my cancellation will make a difference in their bottom line, but it’s my only way to protest their stupidity.
linda, perhaps one person cancelling the NYT and WaPo won't make a difference, but thousands of us will. I cancelled several months ago and will NEVER go back. And I tell anyone in my network to do the same. Eventually they will get the message and FUCK THEM for not getting it sooner. When the shit rains down from a not-if-I-can-stop-it tRump 2.0 term, may it fall first and hardest on them.
And then there’s “Christians” like most of my close & extended family members who know he’s a morally bankrupt person, but voted for him anyway because of his promise to appoint those anti abortion scotus justices & other federal judges.
I think they know. And do it anyway. It may be the monumental smug arrogance and hubris that makes them believe that they'll be "OK" and "It won't happen to US."
But you aren’t just one person cancelling; in the comments of several Substacks, especially Jeff Tiedrich’s, many, many NYT subscribers say they have cancelled, including me.
Joe asked Lester "What about all his lies" 28 times and Lester couldn't say shit. Heads would roll in Cronkite 's day.
Joe is already going after General Mills and Exxon. Why? Because he can. Greedflation is obvious to anyone who looks, and was caused by decades of Republicans giving big business free passes to do whatever they want. Which is to jack up prices and make more PROFIT!.
The Toddler King really does have a toddler's understanding of the world and how reality works. I wish millions more people could see that.
It truly is infuriating that the Egyptian bribe story is for all intents a purposes, dead. Why? Wouldn’t that story get the “clicks” the MSM seems to crave? I guess that’s subjective. When every single media corporation is run by conservatives, this is what to expect. Bias. Bill Barr should be investigated and indicted at the very least.
This trump era is at least consistent. Most corrupt president, most corrupt SCOTUS, most corrupt attorney general. I sure hope they will live in infamy and serve as a lesson for future generations of how not to run a self-governed and free nation.
If and when the Dems get total control of the WH and Congress, deep shame on them if they don't pass laws to prevent some of this nonsense and illegally behavior. Like felons can't run for any federal office. Age and term limits. Supreme Court ethic rules. They've had control of the government before and didn't do any of the above.
Maybe Harris/Walz will take a tougher line than the go-alongs before them. And while they are at it, maybe revamp election laws to limit the amount of money that can be contributed, including by Super Pacs and dark money Pacs. It has gotten completely out of hand, thanks to Citizens United.
They have no policy to run on, so they're using the weaponization of Congress to attack Walz, and the media is just taking it in stride. Nothing about how that is actually ABUSE OF POWER, and the reality that their guy has connections to Russia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Brazil and Venezuela. The fact that he sells awards and promises billionaires in oil companies a Quid Pro Quo. The media is an absolute dumpster fire.
GOP has no policy beyond attacking those they vilify for political gain. I heard Adam Kinzinger talk about the idea as a politician of "punching up" against those with more power and influence who are abusing their postion. GOP punches down only, at those who they can smash. Cruelty as a political strategy is their forte.
Wish Joe would have created a federal ‘Committee for (Media) Accountability’. Top-tier ppl whose JOB it is to debunk, track down and press charges where appropriate 😡🇺🇸
Their behavior proves how stone-cold stupid most of them are, because they so clearly desperately want him back in office because he's good for clicks and views, but they don't seem to have caught on to the fact that he would ship 95% of them off to reeducation camps.
The oligarch media owners want their tax cuts and Kamala intends to increase their taxes.
They are big mad.
Bingo
Last few times I've seen MSM they've been barking at President Biden and VP Harris for their thoughts about the latest round of Trump's diseased brain nonsense and conspiracy theories de jour.
Selfish greedy jagoffs
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You're spot on to the "why." CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN are owned - respectively - by Paramount Global (a company in major financial distress), Comcast-Universal, Disney (kind of having financial problems) and Warner Brothers-Discovery (a company with major financial problems). All these companies - I call them the intergalactic widgetmakers after 40 years of watching them fuck up Hollywood - want to sell the "legacy media" they own because they're circling the bowl in this world of streaming. But to do so, those media companies have to be "profitable" to attract an idiot who will buy them. They all lost half their viewers after Trump left in 2020. They all remember what Jeff Zucker the Fucker (as we used to call him here in Okeefenokee West) said when he was criticized for CNN showing Trump's hatealongs in 2016: "Donald Trump brings high ratings!" (high ratings = mucho dinero)
It's always: Follow. The. Money.
And the low achievers of the upper middle class who go to Jurnilizm Skool, where they are taught by failures too talentless to actually work in the field, and parrot back what the failure "teaches" them, are all in terror of being cut loose in the next "restructuring." So we get to what Orwell was talking about when he said it is difficult to get someone to see the truth when their paycheck demands they not see it.
Follow. The. Money.
I never liked absolutes. There are plenty of good journalists and just last night I was watching George Conway talk about the narcissism of the orangeman. And then the usual panel of talking heads.
But The Atlantic has a deep bench of hard hitting journalists, some for members of the GOP w articles calling out the lies, scams, lack of policies ( except the fascist project 2025). The New Yorker too. I look forward to Washington Week in Review where stupid statements, gibberish really, is picked apart. Even Hoover’s conservative/moderate, Firing Line, has had enough is the GOP craziness (or should I say weirdness?).
Despite many in the mainstream doing a poor job of exposing bribes and staying on the story, it still looks like it will be a blowout for Harris. If I were her I would not do pressers.
There are good ones. They're just not the majority. Kamala should follow your advice.
If she doesn’t then she’ll give the failing NYT a really big mad. Oh well…………guess they’ll have to bite that big one too.
She could always make pressers contingent on how they start treating Karine Jean-Pierre. Just outrageous most of them don't have their credentials yanked.
Peter Doocy makes every press conference with Karine Jean-Pierre into a Fox News primetime soundbyte.
He and his dad are the Doocy Dickheads.
He was at the convention last night, sticking a mic in front of Dems and asking some stupid, meaningless questions,like 'is Beyonce here?? Do you want her to come out?'...one Dem responded 'We're here to discuss issues,not your nonsense' Bravo!.
Mitch, you are so right. SHE doesn’t need to do pressers. THEY (MSM) need her—so they can ask her stupid questions and twist whatever she says. Nah. Who’s got time for that make-believe? Journalists are going to have to get serious before any credible politician answers their inane queries. Until then, read my lips.
I remember the CNN interview of Kaitlin Collins interviewing trump and he just steamrolled over her. It was a travesty. The CNN CEO lost his job over this.
She came from working for Tucker Carlson, so she wasn't ready for primetime. They promoted her over it, I believe it was a quid pro quo. Licht was a disaster, that was just the cherry on top. He was just doing what Malone the owner wanted him to do.
Or better yet ZP. “Read my mind”. Then she makes it very clear doesn’t plan or have to say anything to them.
A++ post TC.
And "hatealongs"!!! Gonna 'borrow' that for awhile.
It's open source! :-)
Brilliant post TC!!!
Thank you.
Ah…
I had the sad misfortune to work at NBC when Jeff Zucker took over. Referred to by those of us in the trenches as, ‘that bullet-headed troll who took NBC from first to worst’, we all couldn’t believe our bad luck. Zucker was the kind of craphead who consistently failed upward, starting out as a numbers statistician for the Olympics and weaseling his way into producing the Today Show, then the head of NBC Entertainment and so on.
He’s running MSNBC, has an inappropriate relationship with an underling and gets sent to the wilderness. OK, good. Cue Jeff Shell. Shell, a very talented exec, is done in by a bunch of completely unsubstantiated rumors of hanky panky. Rumors are investigated and found wanting. Shell is shown the door regardless.
Flash forward to now. Ellison Jr. is taking over Paramount Global and wants to hire Jeff Shell. Suddenly, the rumors about him spout anew. Who’s behind them? My guess—the bullet-headed troll, who’s now with Redbird Capital and who made their own failed bid for Paramount Global.
Show business…ain’t it grand?
Did you know Chris Licht?
There are many who fail up. Recently the WP’s editor tried to hire a British editor that did some unsavory things for the Murdock owned media overseas.
I remember when Discovery was a local cable channel with excellent programming ( based in Silver Spring , MD) and then the private equity/corporate execs got a hold of it and its never been the same.
I’m not sure if Robert Winnick, the failed WP hire worked for the Murdochs
I believe he did--at the Telegraph. Will Lewis, the CEO of WaPo, definitely did. He was involved in the hacking scandal up to his eyeballs.
I didn't know Chris Licht, but I believe he was a victim of his own hubris more than incompetence. He stepped on his own dick when he gave The Atlantic all that access. He made himself the story, which was a fatal error.
Always!
So well said. Absolutely agree with your points, If I recall correctly, I believe it was Upton Sinclair quote.
If it was, Orwell would have approved. :-)
I hesitated to mention it, because I'm sure Orwell said something very similar!
Exactly right.
And probably pretty stupid too,to think Orange Fuhrer won't seize any assets and companies that he wants.
They expect to be on top of the third world country Project 2025 is planning on turning us into. Of course Trump is not, he is just going along to get along with his funders, because he will do all for money.
Project 2025: taking 900 pages to say 14 words.
Project 2025; having 4 million military and police round-up and deport 20 million people,are you kidding?? The breath of that absolute stupidity is astounding,and a waste of ink on the paper it's printed on.
Not necessarily. 15-20 years ago, the FBI issued a report on white supremacist organizations infiltrating law enforcement. And there have been a number of cops and military personnel arrested in connection with J6.
I live in California,like most Blue states,we don't even cooperate with ICE, there's about 2 million cops in this country, even if half of them are MAGA-nized,not even enough door-kickers to do the job,and who decides who gets deported?? Judges and courts?? With legal warrants?? More than likely in Heritage Foundation world people will be rounded up by skin color,or whoever has a Harris/Walz yard sign?? Project 2025 is a Christofascist fever dream,maybe it might go over in some Red States,but never,ever in Blue states. It's the dipshit Heritage Foundation call for Civil War, where this moron Roberts thinks all the pesky Democrats will be willingly rounded-up into camps,and BTW,camps that don't even exist yet, I guess that 4 million strong workforce will have to build them first,HOT DAMM!! They'll probably hire some immigrants!! Build it nice folks!! It's your new home!! I like math sometimes...the math for Project 2025 doesn't add up.
Right. Trump is the fulcrum of the racist white Christian nationalist movement*, which has as a key goal the increase in white birth rates in the US in order to have a majority white, Christian country (hence the push for an abortion ban, a contraceptive ban, terrible deportation plans, border hysteria, etc.). It all fits together. (* Note: I am not calling all Christians/ evangelical Christians racist or supporters of this movement -- just noting that there is a movement well described by former NYT and now Intercept reporter James Risen here: https://theintercept.com/2024/08/10/republicans-trump-vance-racism-white-nationalism/
Although I haven't done my Google research, I have often heard on the news that this abortion ban particularly negatively impacts black and latino women. I guess the Heritage Foundation didn't do their research either.
@scarylawyerguy
The Times isn't mad Biden dropped out (the Ed Board said he should!!), they're mad he dropped out, endorsed Harris & the party fell in line. What they wanted was a blitz primary, DEMS IN DISARRAY headlines + a messy DNC b/c secretly (or not so secretly) they want Trump to win!
CHECKMATE 😎🍦🇺🇸
💯💯💯💯
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Oct 2017: "He's a fucking moron."
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/04/politics/rex-tillerson-trump/index.html
The legit Press could observe this truth. Every day. But that would shut down the adrenaline pumping, eyeballs generating, money grubbing "horse race".
Harris-Walz is a fried chicken dinner. Trump-Vance is a bowl of dogshit with glass shard sprinkles. (Thanks David Sedaris!) Every journalist knows this. But they are paid to try to sell us the dogshit.
BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO BUY ALL MEDIA!!! sorry about the all-caps,but I think it's important.
Or candidates. AIPAC has spent much more on Republican candidates this time around: https://prospect.org/politics/altercation-aipac-goes-full-trump/
Also primarying the squad.
That’s pretty much in line what many of the founding fathers feared !
Even if not shipped, almost certainly fired and replaced with the sycophant-de Jour who would occupy the position as long as Heinrich Miller, er, Steven Himmler, or the 5th Reichsführer found them acceptable.
They remind me of the factory and business owners, who happily worked with the Nazis until it was their turn to get displaced.
Or throw them off if a building
Someone has to be the official media of the Dictator. So who shall it be??? As a result, they're all vying for relevance with Heir Fuhrer - which could explain the MSM's general deference to Trump and a pro-Trump bias - because ultimately they know that if they're not in his good graces come J625, they're going to get shafted big time. If nothing else, that filthy pig has a memory when it comes to the media, and they know it.
I know, I have accepted that we needed a reset. However, I will always love Joe. And his response to the question was perfect.
I have finally come around as well...ageism in this country is horrible...but seeing how things have turned around, Joe knew what he had to do. I do not for a minute believe there is infighting inside the Democratic party. Why would there be... they have found a backbone and a voice and are pushing back! 💙💙
I suspect there’s some sour grapes (thinking Schiff, maybe Pelosi, certainly the big money). So awed by how Pres Biden finessed his withdrawal from the campaign by pausing 20 minutes while we all freaked the fuck out and then endorsing VP Harris. I imagine he’d given some of the ageist, power & money elites an ultimatum of some sort, however well he phrased it so they wouldn’t respond by escalating.
They wanted to skip over her and have a ‘brokered convention’ - and Joe was like ‘Uh, not so fast’ - and transferred HIS FULL SUPPORT to KH. That’s why EVERYONE has been somewhat ‘stunned’ since that particular Sunday (from what I’ve gleaned)… WAY TO GO, JOE! (and the outpouring of affection for this ‘steady’ man who steered us through the pandemic is REALLY annoying certain ppl ;) IMO ❤️🤍💙
The media, left right and center, loves to spend hours and days on, "When is it going to happen," What is he going to say," "What is the other side going to do" questions. By timing his announcement for after the Sabbath blowhards were done for the day, and making Harris almost a fait accompli, Biden deprived the media of hours of such conversation (if you can call it that.)
It was so beautiful 🥹🇺🇸
I've always thought of it as, "Here's the next horrible thing you can do nothing about..."
👆💀
All media it seems has jumped on Fox News,and right -wing business model,because it's profitable, entertainment, opinions,polls and predictions,(how many polls?? Seems to me,2,3,4...A DAY!! Ridiculous),but mostly just sensationalism for viewers and clicks.
A large portion of the population wouldn’t know when to shit or with what to wipe their ass with if some half witted talking head didn’t tell them the process! WTF did people do before the M Media became their only way to make a critical decision ? Probably walked around like their leader with 💩shit running down their legs …I guess !😖🤮😅😂🤣🇺🇸
And I thought the 🦊 demographic was shrinking… has to have been since 2016/post Covid? And a whole bunch of new voters coming of age in the interim?🙏
🎯And after the RNC, that was masterfully done.
I really had NO IDEA that Joe was THAT GOOD… great f’n instincts. My g-d.
In my ‘dumpster diving’ amongst various posters - I’ve read 3 things abt Biden that are hard to identify immediately:
1. His steadiness is his major attribute (boring for most of his career - priceless during a crisis).
2. He’s been known for taking campaign contributions then never quite going full ‘ROI’.
Now that’s talent… :)
3. He’s very good at saying ‘NO’ to ppl in DC who should NEVER get a ‘YES’… that’s where being a swamp creature comes in 100% handy.
Again - things I read, hope not ftom bots! - but fascinating nonetheless…🥃
Joe learned a lesson I heard from Jesse Unruh when I worked in politics here in California 50 years ago: "If you can't take their money, drink their booze, fuck their women, and vote against them the next morning with a smile on your face, you have no business in this business." (Unruh was a political genius, the guy who invented the modern state legistlature)
This is why I found it strange, when during the media ‘pile-on’ Joe had to endure - a pod-bro said ‘he’d like to send both of these candidates to another planet’…. Wait what? IN WHAT WORLD are 🍊+ 😎 on the same page? OH LET ME GUESS - on the planet where your f’n podcast needs hip, compelling and never-ending content. THAT’S where we’ve allowed our 🇺🇸 statesmanship, diplomacy and national security to go. With the clickbait and 👀 metric. G-d help us.
And I did not realize how powerful his endorsement would be… This has been a real masterclass in ‘how sh-t works’😂‼️
He's been long enough in the game to have honed those instincts!
I know but the carnival barkers are so distracting… you forget that the quiet ones are usually more dangerous 🙃😂😅
And he did it without talking to a single one of those media SOBs
🎯😁😁😁😁👍
My take: the polls and Dems convinced him he should step aside but he arranged Harris’ replacement on his own, for the same reasons he chose her as his VP: best person for the job. His masterful timing was the best part of the weekend, letting her step in and step up so by Monday the deal was done.
And the way they timed it, to circumvent the Sunday morning bobbleheads, was masterful. Made the press whine like the bunch of entitled babies they are.
AND did it right after the Repub convention & the Vance pick 😁!
Dark Brandon, outsmarting Repubs for 50 years and counting.
Killin’ it!!! 🔥
It was so beautiful, wasn't it? Just such comfort telegraphed in the choreographed care, such meticulous attention to detail, altruism in a sphere where it's so vanishingly rare that it's pretty much incomprehensible to the jackals among us looking on. There are Ds that would have been in the streets if it were thrown to an open convention; I would have been, because that would've looked like my vote stolen, a guaranteed monumental momentum-losing fail. Too many pundits not ruling it out and not mentioning Harris. That was chaos. This was a perfect handoff with perfect timing to the correct, most qualified individual with the full-throated endorsement of the incumbent and looked like a completely lawful replacement that wouldn't get pushback. I was very "don't go, Joe," but after his announcement, I could admit how very exhausted he'd looked (since ~ Oct 2023) and was relieved for him.
It's also a comfort, since then, recalling "People get the government they deserve."
Almost like he saved the D’s, too… from themselves… smdh
50 years in the Swamp Joe knows the alligators …back in 2020 Before Joe even won I’m sure he knew he had to have a dozen different fallback positions for re -election ..if he chose to run …the guy never gets blindsided by the opposition…he’s always 5 steps ahead . This hand off to Kamala was planned well in advance by them both …it had to be to work so well ….Joe didn’t just read the how to survive book 📖 He wrote the friggen thing ! 😎👍😅
Think Chicago 1968
And the enthusiasm, and joy from the voters, confirms the media vultures were entirely wrong!
I love how Kamala provides a stark contrast to the Orange Pustule. She is the opposite of him in every way -- smart, accomplished, female, sense of humor, humble, brown skin, happily married, prosecutor vs. felon, admired by the good guys and feared by the bad guys.
I think her aura of straight up professionalism is reassuring to ppl too… Men seem to like her, but then I’m in a 💙bubble. Best thing is they (Rs) only have 79 more days to smear her vs 2 solid years. Could be the perfect storm to get a woman in there… hm
R’s had been smearing Hillary since the late 80’s. They knew she was the smartest person in the room, so they had to ruin her with lies & innuendo
Men except Brett "I love beer" Kavanaugh. 😂😂
I don’t think “sour grapes” fits w/ Pelosi, especially. She and others knew more than we did about Biden’s condition. Her lukewarm support for him prior to his dropping out was troubling to me at the time. But like Biden, her main goal was and is what’s best for the country.
I think that President Biden might have some health issues that the public is not aware of but that may be known to Pelosi and others. Maybe that lukewarm support was all in place for a perfect transition. Never, never underestimate Pelosi.
The only thing I’ll have a hard time forgiving is when she said ‘So you won 2020 - BRAVO😒’
WTAF, NANCY. We were kissing the g-dam ground when JOE WON 2020. He f’n SAVED US.
That statement was kinda sloppy coming from her tbh. As in f-straight-off sloppy. And I’m saying that as a D who has sat through a lot of her not-so-100% sharp press conferences.
Srry.
When did she say this? I must have missed it.
To be clear - her thinking was/is sharp - just getting the words out smoothly sometimes not… still - that’s what they’re slamming Joefor amirite
Pelosi pushed for a contested Dem convention that would’ve been political suicide. Yeah, that’s just what we needed more Dem circular firing squads! Pelosi was a remarkable political operative and fundraiser, but she was wrong about that. Maybe it’s time for HER to step down.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/19/pelosi-support-open-nomination-biden-drop-out-00169893
Well, she has stepped down. If Dems get the majority back, Hakeem will be the Speaker.
She might have ‘it needs to be a man’ ingrained (due to tradition) - and she’s likely also thinking abt her legacy…. (Maybe setting up Schiff or Newsom?). Have heard she and Feinstein would try to block Harris - who knows if there’s anything to that…. But could be a woman thing. Pelosi is only human… I actually don’t think she’d be that petty if a Dem victory was at stake - but no one really saw this D excitement coming(?)
Obama too :/ But hopefully time will heal wounds…
She is also the main D ‘money person’, and if the donors pull out - dealing w/it is just reality. I see her more as a middleman here, not necessarily the mastermind. But I can see Joe sticking in her craw, too ;) But srsly wth do I know - I usually guess wrong 🙄😂⁉️
I never know what’s going on anymore. This thought goes through my mind at least three times a day. I’m old and so tired of ALL the bullshit.
The press also misquotes, to imply a struggle where there is none. One of the quotes supposedly against Biden was taken out of context.
Agreed.
Don’t forget that he negotiated the release of hostages along with calling Dem operatives to get behind Kamala as a candidate; all while fighting Covid
(bahahahaha)
Will Rogers’s saying about not being a member of any organized party because he’s a Democrat; the “Dems in Disarray!” trope; the notion that getting Dems to agree is like herding cats: All that ‘conventional wisdom’ stuff is currently taking a back seat to the reignited hope and enthusiasm that’s now solidified into a ghatdam righteous movement. Don’t make us angry, MAGAts and Media. You don’t like us when we’re really, really angry.
😂😂😂😂
IMHO, ageism is why the SubStack platform is so valuable. A high percentage of authors and contributors are ‘older’ (defined as 5 years older than the definer), have amazing credentials that combined with age gives them a high amount of ‘street cred’, which in turns makes their opinions and observations even more valuable. Want a high dose of ageism? Think about what life is like for a triple-dipper in the ‘ism’ world (me): an older 😯 woman 😦 working in a male-dominated field (engineering) 😮
We also remember things that happened politically long ago. So we have some excellent backstory to draw on and explain to the young’uns who might not have been history majors.
Same here. Substack favorites are how I get my news now.
Awesome insight - thx!
Thank you for calling out the Ageism!
Just a few social media wannabes hunting for clicks themselves.
reporter: “do you have any regrets?”
Joe: “talking to you guys.”
🍧🍧🍧🍧🍧🍧Sweet!🍧🍧🍧🍧🍧🍧🍧
In fact, I bet Joe secretly wishes he could turn this back on these guys and blow some poison gas at them like Trump.
I'd settle for a middle-finger salute!🖕
“blow poison gas...” 🤣🤣 took me a few seconds to figure that one out
We can only FULLY COME AROUND to acceptance - IF SHE WINS. That is the key. Otherwise, keeping the successful man at the top of the ticket was always the safer bet (and she was right beside him). ALSO - if this sets Harris/Walz up for 8 YEARS - that’s a FULL VICTORY. But we have to wait and run against a vicious cheater bc we can’t disqualify him. For anything. Ever 🤷♀️⁉️
Regardless of what we say, TFG is going to make our lives a living hell.
Win or lose…
Your right as rain on that…the crazy bastard is going for COUP 2 for shit sure …if only to cover him dodging the jail cell and booking it to Venezuela 🇻🇪 or a dacha in Russia !🇷🇺 Vlad 🍯 Honey Pie guess who’s come to dinner Dollink! ……NYET !! someone find him a room on the sixth floor ……many windows !! 🪟
Defenestration is such a lovely word.
8 years of Harris/Walz followed by 8 years of Buttigieg/Cortez
The deterioration of The Washington Post under Bezos's ownership has been a sorry spectacle. The lead story today is a "reminder" of the 1968 DNC clusterfuck because apparently Democrats aren't nervous enough for the WaPo editorial board. Here's the difference between the two conventions: 1968 was FIFTY-SIX years ago, or almost three generations of voters. We are not in Vietnam. Hubert Humphrey is nowhere to be seen, nor is the ghost of Bobby Kennedy. Not only was there no Internet, there weren't even telephone answering machines, faxes or TV remotes. It was, in short, a different world. I believe it was a very wise man who said the press can fuck straight off.
Oh, Ann. This was a poem.
Huzzah!!
1968 was the year of war on our TV screens every dinner time and a dozen or so body bags coming home every day, and every teenage kid having to worry about the upcoming lottery and eying Canada, plus a couple of high-profile political murders (oh and the Biafra famine giving us our first taste of swollen belly kids on TV, and Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia, and the government of France collapsing-- and Israel/Palestine was no nicer a confrontation then either)
Yes, all of that. May we never experience another year like 1968.
And yet, crazy as that period was, there was no movement to make Charlie Manson the President.
I'm glad he's dead, at the rate the republicans are going he'd be a shoe-in.
Since I canceled the NYT, I didnt read the Maureen column. I don't have to because that headline pissed me right off. B.I.T.C.H. And Joe Biden? He nailed it. 😂😂 The press in this country will be responsible for our undoing...and we cant allow it. Scott Dworkin, Jeff Tiedrich, Jay Kuo, Joyce Vance, Earl Stephens... you guys are doing what is needed, to call out this BS BIAS!! Keep up the fabulous work! Lets share this everywhere!!
Serious Dark Brandon.😈😈
Maureen Dowd has turned my stomach since she built her early career on sliming the Clintons, when she'd get herself invited to White House events and stand over the buffet table mocking the hors d'oeurves as "tacky." She's another national "head monkey."
Dowd is a "content churning" middlebrow with an ignorant mean streak.
Some idiot piece she wrote was the cancel NYT subscription tipping point for me back in 2017.
Agree!!!
I have a degree in journalism (Kent State, 1975). The next time someone asks me what I do for a living, I’m considering saying “used car salesperson”. That should get me more respect.
Sadly
For decades I have been saying that when an autopsy is done on America, the media (a/k/a traitorous, lying, whoring stenographers) will be found as the cause of death.
"... wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." -- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, Paris Jan. 8. 1789
that's right... and Lawrence O'Donnell Too! although it seems like he is on vacation 300 days of the year.
I haven't seen him this week. I hope MSNBC didn't fire him.
I think O'Donnell and the rest of the MSNBC A-team took a week to get ready for the Democratic convention. Either that or they did fire O'Donnell for calling out his journalism colleagues (?) on their biased for Trump coverage.
No, he wasn’t fired. I watched him do a vacation handoff to Ali Velshi last Friday. This past week was a planned absence.
Lawrence is the best thing MSNBC has got going for them.
The MeidasTouch Network is pretty awesome too,but even then sometimes I have to turn off because I can't listen to Orange Fuhrer's constant bitching and whining.
+ The Status Kuo.
Lucian K. Truscott too.
Yes! I forgot about Lucian. And Jay Kuo writes The Status Kuo. He's so good!!
Mary Trump, Robert Reich,Democracy Docket, Brian Tyler Cohen, Heather Cox Richardson.... but of course, I never miss our favorite, the best, Jeff Tiedrich 💙 doing amazing work, without which I feel I'd unravel. Reading all of you lovely people's thoughts helps me so much to cope. Pointing out the outrageousness occurring and the gaslighting that the corporate media is foisting upon us continually, and often with a lot of laughter to help us. PS. I'm very sad the orange demon is coming to AZ again, to the small town of Sierra vista (i once lived there) and at their hospital, a guy drove a car with a hideous profile sticker in his driver side window of the orange pos. It'sa disturbinghate symbol to see every day you go to work, like seeing a confederate flag., but anyway, the good news is, on their community board, while for every 3 that were excited, there'd be one or two that adamantly pushed back-this is better than in the past over there. One guy said, " culters gotta cult", i loved it, and so did many others. We've been having some crazy lightning filled monsoons, maybe it will rain on the evil ones hate rally, maybe a big bolt of lightning will take out the perfect target🤞
You forgot Wonkette
YES! OOPS! So many good ones...awesome alternatives to the BS MSM!!
I also the The Meidas Touch & Legal AF to get honest reporting
Enjoy both of those, and Brian Taylor Cohen, too.
The Guardian has really been craptastic for several months now, I completely stopped using their app or reading it.
I swear these mofos are just trolling us now, and honestly they need to be held fucking accountable!!
And what about the email “hack”—where did that go?? And did anyone even mention rump calling Pennsylvania North Carolina??
Okay but wait! Dismiss The Guardian if you want, but don't miss the columns of Marina Hyde. I usually have no idea who she's talking about (it's Brit politics), but she's hilarious and smart. Her takes on Trump and US politics are great. Follow her on Twitter.
Sorry, don’t do twatter either LOL! I have read her stuff in the past though and seem to recall enjoying it.
Oh! I missed that last one!
And oh my god Vance mentioned Epstein on a show this AM while trying to diss Harris…it’s in that link I just posted too!!
I missed that but it is delicious.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-harris-election-2024-dnc-live-updates-b2598033.html
You mean the “hack” instigated by Roger Stone that released all public information?
I dunno about you guys, but the mere idea of ANYONE from the new American Fascist party calling Kamala a fascist and a communist has to be the loudest projection yet. These angry-about-everything shitweasels have been working feverishly for years to make it impossible for anyone else to win an election. And for about a minute they were super duper proud of their shiny new spit polished plan to control everything - until the rest of the country projectile-vomited all over it. So now they’re all Elmer Fudd about it. Of course, they’re still gonna do it if they ever manage to cheat their way into a permanent reich. But where was I? …. Oh yeah. What a bunch of utter fucking hypocrites
Nevermind the ignorance about the opposing philosophies of Communism and Fascism. It's like calling someone a skinny fatso.
Or a MAGAt with both an American flag and a Confederate flag. Pick a fkin' side! Jeezuz these people are soooooo stoooooopid!
Aaaaanddd this is why I stopped reading NYT (except for the Pitchbot) and WaPo (because who needs the pain). I just can’t with these columnists anymore. However, I’ll be happy to send bananas to the monkey in Trump’s brain. He’s doing a bang up job. The press could learn from him.
I'm hanging on to my WaPo for Jennifer Rubin.
Yes, me too. I'll be gone after Kamala wins.
Me too. And Jeff Sietsema’s restaurant column!
😂😂😂
I abandoned print media years ago.
Nah, I’m happy to do it as my part for the good of the country. Appreciate the offer!
You're a good citizen Kay-El!
speaking of bananas - that was one of the breakfast items on that table… maybe it was just decoration, or maybe it was there because many people eat one with their overpriced cereal… but, bananas pricing have not be “ - gouged” they are about the same as 5-10 years ago.
And don't miss the uncooked sausages sitting in the hot sun.
It was just one banana. How much could it cost, ten dollars?
Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live said that when Trump was hosting SNL, the cast found out that Trump can’t read. He couldn’t read the cue cards. He couldn’t read the script either.
I think that’s why Trump can’t stick to the teleprompter and goes off on his nonsensical tangents.
Wharton is cringing every time stuff like this comes out
Wharton should cringe. They took his daddy's money and graduated his pathological illiterate ass while he spent his time posing on his bed in a bathrobe, trying to look like Hugh Hefner.
I’m barfing at that image - ugh
Me too! 🤮😂
Michael Cohen testified all the Trump brats were complicit in the financial frauds going on for years,and the morons all went with the 'I didn't know what I was signing',(yep,Wharton grads? Sure...)or 'I don't remember'...they're a goddamn bad circus act.
It’s Wharton’s own damn fault for taking an unqualified nitwit.
They took Fred Trump's money, they had to take the unqualified nitwit to keep up their side of the bargain.
You contribute enough money,you get a college building with your name on it.
But here's where UPA has made a major mistake, as has the media. There are TWO Wharton schools.
One is Wharton College, the other is Wharton School of Business. The latter is where you go for an MBA, the former for an undergraduate degree.
I haven't done enough research on it and I've even seen conflicting info on Google, but I've read that donOLD actually went to Wharton College, and NOT Wharton SB. But when anyone says he went to Wharton, it's automatically assumed he went to the School of Business, since that's what's commonly referred to as "Wharton".
I was thinking about correcting this assumption but you beat me to it. Wherever the bloated yam went someone else did his work.
Because Trumpy has been claiming this complete fairy tale for decades.
My husband had a degree in International Relations from GW and was accepted into Wharton after serving as a Ranger captain in Vietnam (leader of a LRRP—Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol—team) and a 10-year business career in London. He would have been in his late ‘30s then. The Dean asked to meet him before classes started and said, basically, that he would be in classes with young recent college graduates and probably be bored out of his mind. He suggested that a better option would be night school at a Philly college (I no longer remember the name) because his fellow students would include people who were older with established careers. It’s too bad that Dean wasn’t around when Trump was accepted. He might have suggested cosmetology school; think of all the money it would have saved him. But maybe some of you have better ideas.
Too bad. If he had gone to cosmetology school, he would have better makeup today
Thank your husband for his service and his due diligence after his service in continuing his education. I applaud his endeavors.
Thank you. Unfortunately, Steve’s last battle was with Agent Orange—a.k.a. heart failure—and he put up an incredible fight. I was told many times that the end is near (if he were still with us, he would be cracking up thinking about a certain line from Blazing Saddles), and every time, except once, he shocked the doctors by waking up, sitting up, and asking me to please bring him some decent food. We were very active in Chapter 39 of Veterans for Peace. P.S. He did continue his education far beyond what I’ve mentioned here, including becoming a bronze sculptor. I wish I could post a photo here of his last piece. It’s of a soldier sitting on what’s left of the wall of a bombed out home in Iraq, his head bowed and in his hands. There was not enough time left to finish his legs, or a little child’s sandals and teddy bear behind the wall. Steve called this piece “Betrayed.” He died before he could finish it.
I would share a photo if there were a way to do that.
My sincere condolences to you and family. My brother -in-law suffered from the effects of AO as well. He passed away from suffering a heart attack as well . He was in Vietnam 1969-1970.
"Donald J. Trump was the dumbest goddamned student I ever had." -- Former Prof. Wm. T. Kelly, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
I bet. 😂
He has trouble reading and he has trouble thinking rationally, being hindered by a crippling mendacity and his pathological narcissism. And being a decrepit dolt.
Noel Casler questioned the orange, execrable, mewing- wastrel’s illiteracy years ago. Why would anyone believe he’s learned to read anything other than See Jane Run at this point?
I think he's got severe dyslexia. That's only my opinion, and I have no qualifications to back it up except being a mom and a perennial school volunteer who worked with a lot of kids. Being dyslexic would prevent Dumpy from being a winner in his dad's eyes, so Dumpy hid it from everybody he could.
Either illiterate or dyslexic or both.
probably both layered on stop of a profound stupidity.
And malignant narcissism
And world-class ADHD.
tRump is the abject failure of the education system. His older sister did his homework when he was at home. His father wrote big checks to ‘fix’ his grades. He paid people to take the SAT for him and, I’d kill to see his unaltered college transcripts.
“Donald Trump may have a long undiagnosed learning disability that for decades has interfered with his ability to process information,” Mary Trump said.
I think his disability is simply his narcissistic inability to acknowledge that he doesn't already know everything.
He has a real disability. It could be dyslexia or illiteracy or both.
Maybe he’s autistic and a savant at deception lies antisocial behavior and assholism ?
Maureen Dowd is another human incapable of change. Her latest waste-of-space column should earn her a week strapped to a chair, eyes taped open with no ear plugs in front of an endless loop of Don Snorleone’s greatest hits. She’d still be a shitty journalist, but she'd have a taste of what it’s been like to hear her brainless screeds for what seems like eternity.
And when she’s done do Kathleen Parker next.
"Celebrity"death match: Maureen Dowd vs. Kathleen Parker.😂😂
HAHA! I hope they both lose! 😂😂
😅😅😅
I kinda feel like all of them (including Carville and Schmidt?!) are just trying to stay relevant and continue to collect the big paycheck. And we are paying the price :/
Yup!
You mentioned Kathleen Parker before I could get to it. She makes me sick.
Read Sweaty Spice’s column. He’s had Parker as Human Garbage three times. 😉
Jesus Christ. My apologies to anyone who is offended by that but what in the ever loving fuck is wrong with the MSM. Do they want to anoint Donnie dipshit because he makes better copy? it’s be what, 9 years and they still cannot figure it out.
Meanwhile, the hatchet job they are doing on the Harris/Walz ticket is beyond infuriating. You’d have to invent a new word for how pissed off I am. The NYT and WaP have been cancelled. I highly doubt my cancellation will make a difference in their bottom line, but it’s my only way to protest their stupidity.
linda, perhaps one person cancelling the NYT and WaPo won't make a difference, but thousands of us will. I cancelled several months ago and will NEVER go back. And I tell anyone in my network to do the same. Eventually they will get the message and FUCK THEM for not getting it sooner. When the shit rains down from a not-if-I-can-stop-it tRump 2.0 term, may it fall first and hardest on them.
When the retrumplicans realize what is happening under a trump 2.0 term they won’t know what the fuck to do. I will NOT feel a tad bit sorry for them.
Thank you, Bobk
Donnie’s like catnip to MSM. They’re addicted to him and never gonna give it up.
It's all about the money. I've read from several sources that many rich people hate trump but vote for him in order to get tax breaks. Disgusting.
And then there’s “Christians” like most of my close & extended family members who know he’s a morally bankrupt person, but voted for him anyway because of his promise to appoint those anti abortion scotus justices & other federal judges.
I think they know. And do it anyway. It may be the monumental smug arrogance and hubris that makes them believe that they'll be "OK" and "It won't happen to US."
Reason why I never wasted my money on any of them
But you aren’t just one person cancelling; in the comments of several Substacks, especially Jeff Tiedrich’s, many, many NYT subscribers say they have cancelled, including me.
Joe asked Lester "What about all his lies" 28 times and Lester couldn't say shit. Heads would roll in Cronkite 's day.
Joe is already going after General Mills and Exxon. Why? Because he can. Greedflation is obvious to anyone who looks, and was caused by decades of Republicans giving big business free passes to do whatever they want. Which is to jack up prices and make more PROFIT!.
The Toddler King really does have a toddler's understanding of the world and how reality works. I wish millions more people could see that.
I’m starting to think of the MSM as a leisure service of the RNC.
It's the marketing arm of the RNC, of which Putin is the Chairman.
It truly is infuriating that the Egyptian bribe story is for all intents a purposes, dead. Why? Wouldn’t that story get the “clicks” the MSM seems to crave? I guess that’s subjective. When every single media corporation is run by conservatives, this is what to expect. Bias. Bill Barr should be investigated and indicted at the very least.
This trump era is at least consistent. Most corrupt president, most corrupt SCOTUS, most corrupt attorney general. I sure hope they will live in infamy and serve as a lesson for future generations of how not to run a self-governed and free nation.
If and when the Dems get total control of the WH and Congress, deep shame on them if they don't pass laws to prevent some of this nonsense and illegally behavior. Like felons can't run for any federal office. Age and term limits. Supreme Court ethic rules. They've had control of the government before and didn't do any of the above.
Maybe Harris/Walz will take a tougher line than the go-alongs before them. And while they are at it, maybe revamp election laws to limit the amount of money that can be contributed, including by Super Pacs and dark money Pacs. It has gotten completely out of hand, thanks to Citizens United.
I suppose that because the statute of limitations has reportedly run out, people won’t care about another Trump crime and MSM need not follow up now.
I wonder if an Egyptian bribe qualifies as treason, a crime which is exempt from the federal and some states’ statute of limitations.
It's illegal in any case. Some enterprising journalist missed a career opportunity here.
Unfortunately it doesn't. Treason is specifically outlined in the Constitution, and it states "enemies of the US" which Egypt is not.
It is a shame that bribery is a cause for impeachment, but not for prosecution at this late date.
They are probably too lazy or incompetent to investigate the matter.
You are correct about Maureen Dowd’s column yesterday. She wouldn’t know a coup if it invaded the US Capitol.
Which it did
About time the Democrats stopped cowering and started fighting back. They should have been doing this a long time ago.
I live for it
They have no policy to run on, so they're using the weaponization of Congress to attack Walz, and the media is just taking it in stride. Nothing about how that is actually ABUSE OF POWER, and the reality that their guy has connections to Russia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Brazil and Venezuela. The fact that he sells awards and promises billionaires in oil companies a Quid Pro Quo. The media is an absolute dumpster fire.
GOP has no policy beyond attacking those they vilify for political gain. I heard Adam Kinzinger talk about the idea as a politician of "punching up" against those with more power and influence who are abusing their postion. GOP punches down only, at those who they can smash. Cruelty as a political strategy is their forte.
Wish Joe would have created a federal ‘Committee for (Media) Accountability’. Top-tier ppl whose JOB it is to debunk, track down and press charges where appropriate 😡🇺🇸
I have all my fingers and toes crossed that the Dems pull a prominent republican out of the hat at the DNC and they publicly back Kamala/Tim!
Adam Kinzinger or Liz Cheney would be good.
Hey — and just like that! 😀
https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1825186386162425905?s=61&t=vL-e0wjBn_-1Lfp4PRodpw
I’d settle for Taylor Swift.