Fuentes is among several conservative influencers and activists who once supported Trump but are now refusing to endorse him. On Friday night, Richard Spencer publicly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats down the ballot in Montana. In a phone interview with Newsweek on Saturday morning, he said Democrats are "more competent" than the GOP. Newsweek
Fascinating. Rats fleeing a sinking ship. Also, these climb downs will be isolating those MAGA high on rage and inciting civil violence. Deflation through slow very public humiliating failure is best.
Awesome work. As the bronzed face, rectal-lip imbecile is bullshitting about crowd size, the brilliant cameraman shows us that a camera doesn't lie. Hopefully, like the Vance, Don Jr. rally in Pennsylvania, those 10s of people will translate to the final outcome of the vote. For those who haven't voted yet, get it done and stay positive.
Someone in the main stream Press should remind the Trumpers that they can't change the rules of the game after kickoff. Donald complains "the election will be rigged" "the election was stolen" "Stop the Steal" but he doesn't complain when his favorite football team loses. Everyone in the Media, remind him that he accepted the rules of the game when he entered the campaign. Following the Rules is the American Way!
Here is a reminder for everyone that following the rules of campaigning can be more beneficial than being a clueless maverick. It is called Trump's Turnout Trouble.
Elon is a “genius” like Trump is a brilliant businessman. He’s the Sam Bankman-Fried of tech. Lying, fake, good at making people believe he’s smarter than them. A con and a scammer.
Correct! To all those idiots who continue to believe that Elon Musak founded Tesla & invented the electric car - please remind them that NO - That would be the engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who founded Tesla in 2003!
Kathleen Parker is Peggy Noonan-lite, and like Her Ladyship Peggington Noonington, she also has a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted stick up her butt. In other news, the Iowa pollster di tutti pollsters has Harris up 3 in a state the GOP thought they'd win by 11 back in July. Big implications for bordering states with similar demographics and leading cause of agita today in Trumpworld.
I had a run in with Parker via email in the early oughts—she insulted my intelligence and made derogatory comments regarding my decision to postpone having kids. She is a piece of shit.
Parker and Will, both built decades-long literary careers on snobbery and superiority. Convincing readers they actually had something substantive to say.
Yup, both extremely pedantic - talking down to us. They hate the fact that DJT is the nominee but can't accept the fact. Think Will coined the phrase lapdog of conservatism. Parker can't stand us great unwashed.
Yep. In WaPo since 250,000 of us canceled our subscriptions, they said mine is canceled but I’ll still have the ability to access it until April. So I breeze through and see the trolls and MAGA things are commenting to each other. The opinion page is always with the, Will, Wemple, Hewitt, and good Ol’ Kathleen. They don’t give a flying fuck what we want to read. As long as they’re our choice why would I read them.
My nerves are broken!
Cos we all know that Election Day is the beginning of the real bs.
Mine doesn’t run out until the beginning of June, but definitely got a cancellation message and they can’t automatically renew it. Maybe go back in to manage your settings and make sure your card can’t be used.
Parker is just plain awful. I canceled my print and digital subscriptions to the Post. Won’t have to see Wills and Parker any more. They and many other so-called MSM have let us down terribly.
Why isn’t the press covering the fact that if Trump wins, Alito and Thomas will retire on his watch. And Trump will appoint two more young, knuckle-dragging Christofascists to sit on the bench for the next two generations. Which means 5 out of 9 justices will have been appointed by the dumbest, most corrupt and mentality ill, popular vote-losing dioshit to ever occupy the Oval Office. And if anyone else retires or dies! It could be 6. HOW IN THE FUCK CAN WE LET THIS HAPPEN?
They’re not THAT smart. The editorial staff only lets their reporters dish out crumbs. I am curious to see what their articles will say after Kamala eviscerates the old garbage man.
Yes. Yes. And yes!!!! I’ve heard Harris mention this. But what I’ve heard was only part of a laundry list: “have you thought about …”, “we don’t need…”.
I’d think, considering m Roe and abortion issues, this would be used in an upfront full-throated, in your face, opportunity to educate as well as incite a voting riot in favor of Harris.
The gummy kick-in time gives me a chance to do a little comfort reading before I get sleepy. That way I don't get nightmares falling asleep to thoughts of another Trump Presidency (heaven forbid!).
Thank G-d our last name is so common and that her family comes from a different part of the country than my dad's did, because I do not want to be related to Kathleen even as like 12th cousins or something.
Adopt me. Be my Uncle Jeff. The one you sit with at a family gathering listening to an uncle from the other side of the family roll out with the Qanon, etc, and we sit there trying not to laugh too loud but doing the "get a load of this fuckin' guy" gesture.
I've definitely never heard the name aside from you! I have a friend with a similar name situation, and no one in her family knows where the fuck it came from.
I had a friend whose surname was Bimpson. Apparent misreading of Simpson. Her dad had no siblings and only had daughters. The name appears to have died with him because they all changed it when they married. (Happily. They all thought it was pretty ugly.)
I don’t understand the thinking of these writers either. How come I, not engaged with politics as the heart of my daily life, get it and they don’t?
fun fact: every Tiedrich of my generation had daughters — including me. so unless we magically become a matronymic country, the name Tiedrich will soon be no more
Hey, but the daughters don’t have to marry, you know, and they could have a kid with their last name being the dominate one. The Tiedrich name will live on!
Except- My sister isn't married but she had a son by a donor clinic. So although my brother died with no children at 32, my nephew will carry on my dad's last name: We are the Ant Family. J/K I don't want to reveal my last name lest I get fired. Hopefully my nephew will have children of his own.
Your future sons-in-law could legally change their last names to Tiedrich, especially if they already have siblings who will carry on their birth surnames. I know at least one but there are many who don't think it's a big deal--so they do it!
Edited to add: your future daughters-in-law, however they identify, could change their surnames to "Tiedrich," too! I hope you understand what I'm trying to say...
I don't know why we still think women will change their name for marriage. I didn't, why would I. My name has never been anything other than my own. There are very few of us with my surname. You can count them on one hand.
it's a made up name. family legend has it that Aron Dietrich exited Ellis Island as Aaron Tiedrich, but anyone who could confirm that story is long dead
That makes sense—it was due to a matter of pronunciation. Ellis Island messed up a lot of names. There are still plenty of Dietrichs in areas of Pennsylvania where the Germans and Swiss settled in the 1700s.
My maternal great-grandfather (Johanovich) arrived at Ellis Island from Odessa with his 17 children and was an avid anti-Semite. He got confused when they asked what his name was, thinking the question was about his occupation (field man or farmer), so he exited with a Jewish name, Feldman. Karma exists.
The Anglos who worked at Ellis Island didn't spell the other European names too well and either screwed up or intentionally spelled them the way they thought they should be spelled. The Polish names fared the worst.
As I understand it, the officials at Ellis Island did not change any names. They copied them directly from the ship's manifests. Blame the purser. took the names from the ship's manifest. My GGrandfather made two trips. First he is listed as Geo Bear, Eng and the 2nd as George Baer, laborer. No 1 is correct. (He was an operating engineer.)
Most of our ancestors who reached Ellis Island exited with new names. My Ukrainian grandfather's first name was Gregory in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine), but exited as 'Harry", because it sounded more American!
Oddly enough, the city of Lemberg was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire for so long that today, if you want to fly from Munich to Lviv, Ukraine , the Munich airport screens will identify your destination as Lemberg!
I’m in the same boat ! A misspelling back in the day and My clans got its own branch on the tree of life! I can count family on my fingers and toes ! Well maybe two generations ago I could ! Still a very small branch !🌴
My maiden name is similar, if you have that name we are absolutely related. The only people with that name in the U. S. are immediate family members (6 total if you don’t include me with a double name -maiden and married, I’m difficult like that). The only other places the name is found is Spain and Argentina. Then I married a Thorpe, wonderfully unoriginal. A unique name is far more exciting, even when it has never once been pronounced properly.
WaPo Editor at Large Robert Kagan, who resigned in protest of the non-endorsement, pointed out that Bezos's stake in WaPo is chicken feed compared to Amazon.
Indeed. There is no reason to use Amazon. There are so many options out there. Not everything has to be delivered today. The neighbor across the street literally gets an Amazon delivery every single day. For awhile I thought she and the delivery driver had a thing.
I canceled my sub when William Lewis became publisher and I saw the direction that things were headed. I considered resubscribing just so I could cancel again but thought that would be counterproductive.
I canceled my subscription to the Washed-up Post a couple months ago, during the Democratic National Convention when I got sick of their bullshit. My subscription expires on Tuesday (perfect timing). In the meantime, I'm having fun calling out their complete and utter failures in the comments section of their crappy articles. Fuck mainstream media. I get straight up factual information right here and through other reliable sources like Brian Tyler Cohen and the Meidas Touch Network.
Canceling could only hurt reporters..but they'll survive. Is cancelling Amazon Prime a more effective punishment??. Its hard to get people on board for that no??
No, because it doesn't make the statement that cancelling WaPo does as a direct line. They'll just blame the current board, since Bezos stepped down from running Amazon.
Bezos hired a Murdoch tabloid, man who is a criminal, to run a once respected newspaper.
He has no journalistic ethics whatsoever, coming from the nasty UK racist tabloids. Bezos hired him to boost subscriptions so he cares. The cancellation may cause them to fire him and fix the issues saving the few good journalists jobs that are left.
I read an article once that was on the Huffington Post about negative positivity. I just looked on Google and it's there. I work with a boss who is on the Positivity Train. Beyond annoying. She comes in and says "Happy Monday" (or whatever day of the week it is) and other glib phrases . It's like that all the time with her. Not that you have to be going on like the world is coming to an end, but have respect for people and realize that everything is not always ok with everyone. I work in healthcare and it's far from being happy most days. Her pat greeting to everyone regardless of what's going on is just an irritant to us. I think if you go around acting like there's nothing to worry about, you negate people's feeling that have something to worry about (like this election). You aren't helping people, you are not validating their feelings about having real concerns. I had mentioned John Kasich's interview last week on MSNBC where he said we'll just be ok no matter what happens Tuesday. Easy for you to say John, as a white GOP male who probably is financially comfortable. I call that kind of comment patronizing at best.
Toxic positivity is a major tool in the multilevel marketing companies. They blow sunshine up your ass about financial independence, self determination, shitcan your 9-5, tell your boss to suck it, etc., etc., to obscure the fact that MLMs are scams, pure and simple.
The Prince and DeVos families are emblematic of the evangelical right. Hugely wealthy and so focused on insidious manipulations to control American society, gain political power, and line their own pockets through any means necessary, including scamming and borderline and openly illegal operations, all behind the facade of pious Christians. They are EVIL.
Damn! I'm one of those people. I'm unconsciously bubbly every day at work. Even when things are really bad, there is this underlying strata of sunshine in my heart that I can't help expressing. Now I know why my co-workers hate me (?). Unfortunately I may be incapable of changing it. I'll just try to be more sensitive and considerate.
The first step is solving your problem is recognizing you have it - lol. I’m sure your coworkers don’t hate you, but it is annoying to always have someone perky all the time. Especially in healthcare. This is not Perky Land. Doesn’t mean you have to be doom and gloom, just read the room. I’m sure there are other perkies in your workplace. Hang with them. If you feel a need to let the perky out, take a walk. I’m just giving you my opinion. Being around someone perky does not make me feel perky if I’m not feeling like that. It makes me irritated. I’m not a morning person. The last thing I can stand when I wake up early is someone eating around me, talking my ear off and being noisy. Give me an hour or two and I’m fine. I think it’s just a matter of respecting others’ boundaries. If people like perky, great. If they don’t, then just leave them alone. I’m not mixing perky with funny. If you’re funny, I can deal with you all the time. Perky, no. My boss is not funny. And her perky is fake. She’s extremely passive-aggressive underneath it all. And you can be perky about the fact that you don’t have me as a coworker - lol.
I had a physical therapist who always said "Happy Wednesday". It was never happy to go there. My late husband went with me once and the idiot said it. My husband said "WTF did you just say". He wasn't mad at the schmuck, just couldn't believe anyone is that stupid right out loud.
I have known people like that. Some are phony, some are trying to convince themselves, some are in Lala land, i. e. out of touch with reality, and some are sincerely trying to spread a little sunshine.
Of course, I’m a dentist and it’s not anyone’s favorite place to visit so we try to be pleasant. But yeah, I don’t say that kinda stuff unless the patient says it first
Oh thanks for reminding me of my dentist. He was one of the funniest people I have ever known. His wife would even drop by when I was there and we would yuck it up. Oh shit I think I'm smiling.
LOL. Healthcare has a lot of stupid. They always tell us to walk in someone else’s shoes. Well, if you do that, then you don’t make a Happy Day comment to someone who is ill and struggling. Your verbiage should be more like “what can I do to make your day go better for you”. It’s just so phony. I’ve heard so much bs in this profession that I need chest waders just to walk through the halls. Happy Monday - lol lol lol lol.
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD Television) is a multilingual American television broadcaster founded by adherents of the Falun Gong new religious movement ...
Publishers of Epoch Times, spreaders of Q-Anon, anti-vaccine propaganda, and that 2020 election was "stolen". I'm guessing that camera operator isn't part of that cult, or they wouldn't have panned to the bored "crowd"
"US news outlets aligned with Falun Gong, a religious movement locked in a decades-long conflict with the Chinese state, have been increasingly successful in promoting conspiracy narratives about Democrats, election fraud and communists to the pro-Trump right in America.
Experts say that in a future post-pandemic landscape, the cable news channel NTD, and especially the multimedia enterprise the Epoch Times, may amplify the efforts of Republicans to link Joe Biden and Democrats to the Chinese Communist party (CCP), and to harden US public opinion against China.
According to Angelo Carusone, president and CEO of the media watchdog Media Matters for America, these outlets, and especially the Epoch Times, were always critical of China, and somewhat right-leaning, but were not commonly counted as problematic during the 2016 election as spreading falsehoods across social media platforms like Facebook.
But in a telephone conversation, Carusone said Epoch Times pivoted hard from 2017 towards material which stoked conspiracy narratives, and began spending freely in order to make sure that their message was prominent on platforms like YouTube.
“After social media sites moved against the fake news outlets, it left a gap,” Carusone said. “What Epoch Times did so well was to step right into that gap.” And, he says, they secured their niche by handing money to big tech platforms."
God I hope you're right. I just don't fully understand the electoral process. When I went to bed in 2016 I was happy...then I woke up to this nightmare.
Easy Deb - we got this — their moronic candidate might get 45% of the vote/ but I think the WOMEN. in this country have had it with misogynists like him and will destroy him at the booth. Really, we got this. It’s not like Hilary ( not particularly
Exactly Deb. I woke up all feared out seeing that. I don’t know what I’ll do if it wins. I need more money to get out of here. Will have to sell my condo. If I’m going to Canada first I’ll need my car.
Yesterday on Substack, I saw more trolls in my feed and commenting than I’ve ever seen in one day. I suspect these idiots are trying to give their fear one last “hurray, we owned a lib” before Tuesday and a landslide victory for the candidate who isn’t a fascist. It’s not my usual m.o. to be a poor winner, but I’ll make an exception in this case. In fact, I’ll be happy to be a complete asshole about it.
"ooh! ooh! pick me! I know the answer!" 😂 My Subscription to WaPo ends in 10 days so I read George 'The Fossil' Will's column. No one in the comments had anything nice to say. And Kathleen? GTH! I feel relieved to be away from the corporate media. IF...IF we lose, it's on the press. They feed people straight up BS which leads right to the dictatorship they seem to want.
Add Ross Douthat from the times, and Bretbug Stephens who finally, grudgingly, admitted that Harris was ever so slightly better than Trump and that he would reluctantly pull the lever for her.
It’s gonna be an interesting day at the domicile. “Fall back” hangover, post-Halloween slide, the joy of having already cancelled my WaPo subscription… my wife figures the fat fuck will figure out some way to go even lower and more disgusting in the next two days, and so that’ll be interesting to suss out. She suggested that he’ll just drop trou and take a dump onstage but I suspect she’s wrong. Maybe he will confess to having tertiary syphilis to blunt the obvious dementia and get the brain worm voters to rally around him. I dunno. But something.
Also, even though that Ohio dipshit running mate of his likes to dress up like the fat fuck, I’d sure like to see him do that water bottle thing that Pence used to do. Before, y’know, the fat fuck tried to have him killed.
I haven’t opened the Times for two weeks and canceled the Post. My only source for the state of this election is Simon Rosenberg - and feel pretty optimistic as a result.
Fucking asswipe Bruce Anderson in my local paper’s headline has a similar theme-‘no matter who wins, the system will endure.’ OH REALLY?? Heard of P2025 ya douchebag?? So tired of these white people tell us we will be “fine”—and yes I am lily white!
I saw the opening skit on SNL last night with Harris. I thought it was funny and it was a nice change from the other slob pretending he's having oral sex at the podium, riding in garbage trucks and all of his other insane nonsense. MAGAs were lit up about it. You can always tell with them when you hit a nerve. She's just such a 180 from him. Lots of negative comments from them about the skit because he has nothing funny or charming to show the public. She reminds me in a way of Obama. Youthful, even though she's 60, fun, smart and has charisma. The GOP has absolutely no one like that, not even waiting in the wings. Her celebrity supporters are not even close to Kid Rock and the Hulk. I just want life back to normal politically. When didn't have to watch the news everyday to see what dumb/dangerous stuff our president had done or watch his supporters make utter fools of themselves by wearing maxi pads on their ears, diapers and waving 20 flags from their pick up truck.
Well Kamala is not a criminal conman who violated his oath of office. Or a sexual predator. Or took bribes for favors. And she likes pets. Has that going for her.
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD Television) is a multilingual American television broadcaster founded by adherents of the Falun Gong new religious movement ...
Kudos to the camera operator!!!
That was awesome...watching people leave as Dump drones on and on. 😂😂
About his crowd size no less! Wanker.
Wishing he’d leave, so we don’t have to Susan!
The empty seats all over the arena were truth to LDFF’s lies. That cameraman deserves a medal!
And notice that Richard Spencer, that other Nazi, endorsed Kamala.
Are you sure??
Fuentes is among several conservative influencers and activists who once supported Trump but are now refusing to endorse him. On Friday night, Richard Spencer publicly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats down the ballot in Montana. In a phone interview with Newsweek on Saturday morning, he said Democrats are "more competent" than the GOP. Newsweek
HOLY CRAP. Hell froze over. 😉
... Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
You expressed Spencer’s endorsement of Harris much better than I Susan!
https://www.newsweek.com/nick-fuentes-slams-donald-trump-supporters-it-cult-1979186
These fuckers still don't get a pass from me.
Sweet mother of Jesus on a halfshell Cassandra!
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/controversial-white-supremacist-endorses-kamala-harris-once-yelled-hail-trump-101730595681301-amp.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR04IwV4iQzSspotygjlsSyFnoLqfGOKQ_kcKKVSo8gjZybUyV8c4KHJJus_aem_5UpDqESEOe7pXZAgZxjcHw
Interesting that it made it into this newspaper and into Newsweek, but I haven’t seen it in major media here.
Good catch Marie!
Fascinating. Rats fleeing a sinking ship. Also, these climb downs will be isolating those MAGA high on rage and inciting civil violence. Deflation through slow very public humiliating failure is best.
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That video is absolutely, utterly, completely precious!!! 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
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Awesome work. As the bronzed face, rectal-lip imbecile is bullshitting about crowd size, the brilliant cameraman shows us that a camera doesn't lie. Hopefully, like the Vance, Don Jr. rally in Pennsylvania, those 10s of people will translate to the final outcome of the vote. For those who haven't voted yet, get it done and stay positive.
Sphincter-mouthed works as well.
Trump will try to get him fired.
His usual response Anne!
I have a bit more hope for the future after seeing the work of that courageous camera person.
Someone in the main stream Press should remind the Trumpers that they can't change the rules of the game after kickoff. Donald complains "the election will be rigged" "the election was stolen" "Stop the Steal" but he doesn't complain when his favorite football team loses. Everyone in the Media, remind him that he accepted the rules of the game when he entered the campaign. Following the Rules is the American Way!
Here is a reminder for everyone that following the rules of campaigning can be more beneficial than being a clueless maverick. It is called Trump's Turnout Trouble.
https://youtu.be/EZvQCIsu8Zs?si=NMM2KMBzYmJb98Xi
Trump needs to hope that Elon's GOTV machine works on election day, we have to hope that it fumbles like it has been.
Elon is a “genius” like Trump is a brilliant businessman. He’s the Sam Bankman-Fried of tech. Lying, fake, good at making people believe he’s smarter than them. A con and a scammer.
Correct! To all those idiots who continue to believe that Elon Musak founded Tesla & invented the electric car - please remind them that NO - That would be the engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who founded Tesla in 2003!
Exactly! Elon is a fake. I wish more people knew that he is full of shit.
His outfit can't even keep my solar panels functioning. Unacceptable.
Thanks Linda, your voice is always appreciated!!
Oh right. He is a fucking piece of shit through and through and will never change. Don’t think for a moment he would EVER do anything honestly.
Kathleen Parker is Peggy Noonan-lite, and like Her Ladyship Peggington Noonington, she also has a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted stick up her butt. In other news, the Iowa pollster di tutti pollsters has Harris up 3 in a state the GOP thought they'd win by 11 back in July. Big implications for bordering states with similar demographics and leading cause of agita today in Trumpworld.
I had a run in with Parker via email in the early oughts—she insulted my intelligence and made derogatory comments regarding my decision to postpone having kids. She is a piece of shit.
That's kinda making shit look bad.
LOL!
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I agree with your assessment whole-heartedly.
Anytime I read even part of her column, I feel nauseated..
She's a nasty, bigoted, southern Belle who flunked out of charm school, for sure. And racist to the bone, that's why she's trashing Madame VP.
Parker and Will, both built decades-long literary careers on snobbery and superiority. Convincing readers they actually had something substantive to say.
Yup, both extremely pedantic - talking down to us. They hate the fact that DJT is the nominee but can't accept the fact. Think Will coined the phrase lapdog of conservatism. Parker can't stand us great unwashed.
True dat Lou!
“Uppity crap”. Excellent and accurate description of the Will and Parker scribble.
Yep. In WaPo since 250,000 of us canceled our subscriptions, they said mine is canceled but I’ll still have the ability to access it until April. So I breeze through and see the trolls and MAGA things are commenting to each other. The opinion page is always with the, Will, Wemple, Hewitt, and good Ol’ Kathleen. They don’t give a flying fuck what we want to read. As long as they’re our choice why would I read them.
My nerves are broken!
Cos we all know that Election Day is the beginning of the real bs.
Apparently Hewitt quit in a huffy today—lol!
Oh did you mean he quit in a Huff-a-La
I hope you saw SNL with Kamala last night. They started putting aLa on every word they said.
Did you also see that the Orange Shitstain is calling Kamala's appearance a donation in kind from NBC and calling it 'election interference'?
Oh yeah? What about all that couch time Orange has clocked on Fox & Friends? What would you call that?
I did see that—love it!! 👏
I thought they responded that I COULDN'T cancel because I'd paid through 6/5/25.
Mine doesn’t run out until the beginning of June, but definitely got a cancellation message and they can’t automatically renew it. Maybe go back in to manage your settings and make sure your card can’t be used.
Oh no maybe that’s what it said. I’m going to take a peek at the cancellation.
Miine says your subscription is canceled but you’ll have access until April whatever…
If I'm wrong, I'd love to know!
Parker is just plain awful. I canceled my print and digital subscriptions to the Post. Won’t have to see Wills and Parker any more. They and many other so-called MSM have let us down terribly.
Great appreciation for "pollster di tutti pollsters."
Actually I think Maureen Dowd has started her descent into Noonan land. Her columns have become self-parody.
I think she's been there for a while. I've always disliked her.
Started? isn't she the Reagan floozy?
Yes.
Loving this flip from being my red neighbors Ann!
It's Dobbs and the abortion ban that went into effect in IA over the summer.
I can’t find the post I was replying to. I looked at it because I take screenshots of everything that might affect me badly…
You're not the only one.
(To take screenshots? or to be unable to find a post to respond to? The former -- I don't know how to do. The latter -- constantly.)
Why isn’t the press covering the fact that if Trump wins, Alito and Thomas will retire on his watch. And Trump will appoint two more young, knuckle-dragging Christofascists to sit on the bench for the next two generations. Which means 5 out of 9 justices will have been appointed by the dumbest, most corrupt and mentality ill, popular vote-losing dioshit to ever occupy the Oval Office. And if anyone else retires or dies! It could be 6. HOW IN THE FUCK CAN WE LET THIS HAPPEN?
They’re not THAT smart. The editorial staff only lets their reporters dish out crumbs. I am curious to see what their articles will say after Kamala eviscerates the old garbage man.
Yes. Yes. And yes!!!! I’ve heard Harris mention this. But what I’ve heard was only part of a laundry list: “have you thought about …”, “we don’t need…”.
I’d think, considering m Roe and abortion issues, this would be used in an upfront full-throated, in your face, opportunity to educate as well as incite a voting riot in favor of Harris.
Gummies take too long to kick in. Xanax works so much more quickly!
The gummy kick-in time gives me a chance to do a little comfort reading before I get sleepy. That way I don't get nightmares falling asleep to thoughts of another Trump Presidency (heaven forbid!).
I completely understand!
Thank G-d our last name is so common and that her family comes from a different part of the country than my dad's did, because I do not want to be related to Kathleen even as like 12th cousins or something.
fun fact: I am related to every person named Tiedrich. there's only about a dozen of us
Adopt me. Be my Uncle Jeff. The one you sit with at a family gathering listening to an uncle from the other side of the family roll out with the Qanon, etc, and we sit there trying not to laugh too loud but doing the "get a load of this fuckin' guy" gesture.
I've definitely never heard the name aside from you! I have a friend with a similar name situation, and no one in her family knows where the fuck it came from.
I had a friend whose surname was Bimpson. Apparent misreading of Simpson. Her dad had no siblings and only had daughters. The name appears to have died with him because they all changed it when they married. (Happily. They all thought it was pretty ugly.)
I don’t understand the thinking of these writers either. How come I, not engaged with politics as the heart of my daily life, get it and they don’t?
fun fact: every Tiedrich of my generation had daughters — including me. so unless we magically become a matronymic country, the name Tiedrich will soon be no more
Hey, but the daughters don’t have to marry, you know, and they could have a kid with their last name being the dominate one. The Tiedrich name will live on!
Except- My sister isn't married but she had a son by a donor clinic. So although my brother died with no children at 32, my nephew will carry on my dad's last name: We are the Ant Family. J/K I don't want to reveal my last name lest I get fired. Hopefully my nephew will have children of his own.
Your future sons-in-law could legally change their last names to Tiedrich, especially if they already have siblings who will carry on their birth surnames. I know at least one but there are many who don't think it's a big deal--so they do it!
Edited to add: your future daughters-in-law, however they identify, could change their surnames to "Tiedrich," too! I hope you understand what I'm trying to say...
I don't know why we still think women will change their name for marriage. I didn't, why would I. My name has never been anything other than my own. There are very few of us with my surname. You can count them on one hand.
I don't, but no worries!
I kept my name, never had kids but definitely thought about giving them my last name if we had.
Dunno about the mainland but here in Hawaii I’ve heard of the husband taking the wife’s name if she had no brothers
That's a lovely tradition.
Daughters can keep their last names..so it won’t disappear after all.
Women often KEEP their maiden names. I kept mine. It certainly makes registering to vote in "some" states much easier!
At least we are talking about surnames not continuing. The DNA goes on, no matter what name descendants are called by.
Are you guys accepting honorary members?
What does the name mean, "rich in tea"?
it's a made up name. family legend has it that Aron Dietrich exited Ellis Island as Aaron Tiedrich, but anyone who could confirm that story is long dead
That makes sense—it was due to a matter of pronunciation. Ellis Island messed up a lot of names. There are still plenty of Dietrichs in areas of Pennsylvania where the Germans and Swiss settled in the 1700s.
Shoofly Pie anyone? Funny Cake? https://www.dietrichsmeats.com/
Yep, Vito Andolini became Vito Corleone 😂
My maternal great-grandfather (Johanovich) arrived at Ellis Island from Odessa with his 17 children and was an avid anti-Semite. He got confused when they asked what his name was, thinking the question was about his occupation (field man or farmer), so he exited with a Jewish name, Feldman. Karma exists.
17 children? oh my, that woman was pregnant & birthing every day of her young life and her 20’s/30’s. 👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻
Ellis island workers wrote names as their ears heard it, not how it was spelled. It’s amazing how often this happened.
Busack is similarly odd. Seems like it should be CH on the end. They only have us in the Ohio valley, pretty much
The Anglos who worked at Ellis Island didn't spell the other European names too well and either screwed up or intentionally spelled them the way they thought they should be spelled. The Polish names fared the worst.
my maternal grandfather entered Ellis Island as Yitzhak Dymant and exited as Jack Diamond, which is just about the coolest name ever
My grandfather came from Poland and they fked up his last name at Ellis Island to the point that we are the only "Skabronskis" in the world.
As I understand it, the officials at Ellis Island did not change any names. They copied them directly from the ship's manifests. Blame the purser. took the names from the ship's manifest. My GGrandfather made two trips. First he is listed as Geo Bear, Eng and the 2nd as George Baer, laborer. No 1 is correct. (He was an operating engineer.)
Most of our ancestors who reached Ellis Island exited with new names. My Ukrainian grandfather's first name was Gregory in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine), but exited as 'Harry", because it sounded more American!
Oddly enough, the city of Lemberg was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire for so long that today, if you want to fly from Munich to Lviv, Ukraine , the Munich airport screens will identify your destination as Lemberg!
Studying the bags under Reince Preibus’s eyes. Scared, bro?
Haha, when I hear his name I always think of prick and priapism
spilling it
I’m in the same boat ! A misspelling back in the day and My clans got its own branch on the tree of life! I can count family on my fingers and toes ! Well maybe two generations ago I could ! Still a very small branch !🌴
Make sure they all vote!!!
My maiden name is similar, if you have that name we are absolutely related. The only people with that name in the U. S. are immediate family members (6 total if you don’t include me with a double name -maiden and married, I’m difficult like that). The only other places the name is found is Spain and Argentina. Then I married a Thorpe, wonderfully unoriginal. A unique name is far more exciting, even when it has never once been pronounced properly.
Oh, my husband's family name is also unique. There are only five of us in the US. We can't hide from anything. Screen name is not the actual name.
Indeed Alison!
I cancelled my WaPo subscription the minute the “editorial board” declined to make an endorsement.
Same here...and I dont miss it.
I miss Jennifer Rubin and Karen Tumulty and a few others. Otherwise WaPo can go rot.
Alexandra Petri too…
Alexandra is a national treasure.
Last I heard there were 200k cancellations. Anyone know how many now?
Jen Rubin in her Friday podcast said that more than 250K cancellations in the wake of their abject cowardice.
That will leave a mark
WaPo Editor at Large Robert Kagan, who resigned in protest of the non-endorsement, pointed out that Bezos's stake in WaPo is chicken feed compared to Amazon.
Indeed. There is no reason to use Amazon. There are so many options out there. Not everything has to be delivered today. The neighbor across the street literally gets an Amazon delivery every single day. For awhile I thought she and the delivery driver had a thing.
With that many occasions of contact, it could lead to one
I saw over 250,000 - I think it was actually in the Post! 😆
Unfortunately, that's only about 10% of their subscribers.
I enjoyed the statement it made, though.
That is in a very short time however. It will continue and it will make a statement.
They still have it at 250,000 yet you know it’s got to be more than that…
Ditto
I canceled my sub when William Lewis became publisher and I saw the direction that things were headed. I considered resubscribing just so I could cancel again but thought that would be counterproductive.
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I canceled my subscription to the Washed-up Post a couple months ago, during the Democratic National Convention when I got sick of their bullshit. My subscription expires on Tuesday (perfect timing). In the meantime, I'm having fun calling out their complete and utter failures in the comments section of their crappy articles. Fuck mainstream media. I get straight up factual information right here and through other reliable sources like Brian Tyler Cohen and the Meidas Touch Network.
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Canceling could only hurt reporters..but they'll survive. Is cancelling Amazon Prime a more effective punishment??. Its hard to get people on board for that no??
Cancelling absolutely hurts journalists.
No, because it doesn't make the statement that cancelling WaPo does as a direct line. They'll just blame the current board, since Bezos stepped down from running Amazon.
Bezos hired a Murdoch tabloid, man who is a criminal, to run a once respected newspaper.
He has no journalistic ethics whatsoever, coming from the nasty UK racist tabloids. Bezos hired him to boost subscriptions so he cares. The cancellation may cause them to fire him and fix the issues saving the few good journalists jobs that are left.
Cancelling Prime will hardly put a dent in their operation, they have millions upon millions of Primers out there
I’m not one of them. Never used Amazon or watched Amazon Prime.
For some reason, Amazon has people believing it matters. Beats me.
I read that over 250,000 of us did!
Did as well!
I read an article once that was on the Huffington Post about negative positivity. I just looked on Google and it's there. I work with a boss who is on the Positivity Train. Beyond annoying. She comes in and says "Happy Monday" (or whatever day of the week it is) and other glib phrases . It's like that all the time with her. Not that you have to be going on like the world is coming to an end, but have respect for people and realize that everything is not always ok with everyone. I work in healthcare and it's far from being happy most days. Her pat greeting to everyone regardless of what's going on is just an irritant to us. I think if you go around acting like there's nothing to worry about, you negate people's feeling that have something to worry about (like this election). You aren't helping people, you are not validating their feelings about having real concerns. I had mentioned John Kasich's interview last week on MSNBC where he said we'll just be ok no matter what happens Tuesday. Easy for you to say John, as a white GOP male who probably is financially comfortable. I call that kind of comment patronizing at best.
My daughter, who is a therapist, says it’s called toxic positivity, and her clients complain about all the time. So, I hear you!!
Toxic positivity is a major tool in the multilevel marketing companies. They blow sunshine up your ass about financial independence, self determination, shitcan your 9-5, tell your boss to suck it, etc., etc., to obscure the fact that MLMs are scams, pure and simple.
Yes, and Betsy De Vos was sec’y of education. I’m surprised she didn’t make all the schools in America order supplies through Amway.
No joke! Gawwwd…I despise her and her bro, Erik Prince.
The Prince and DeVos families are emblematic of the evangelical right. Hugely wealthy and so focused on insidious manipulations to control American society, gain political power, and line their own pockets through any means necessary, including scamming and borderline and openly illegal operations, all behind the facade of pious Christians. They are EVIL.
She's probably crooked enough to wanna do that but smart enough not to try, as far as we know.
How do we know she didn't?
Yea! I knew my Debby Downer attitude about everything was the right approach. Lol.
Damn! I'm one of those people. I'm unconsciously bubbly every day at work. Even when things are really bad, there is this underlying strata of sunshine in my heart that I can't help expressing. Now I know why my co-workers hate me (?). Unfortunately I may be incapable of changing it. I'll just try to be more sensitive and considerate.
I noticed I’m throwing the fucks a lot more and more loudly. Probably my neighbors hear me. Which is a great thing for me!
The first step is solving your problem is recognizing you have it - lol. I’m sure your coworkers don’t hate you, but it is annoying to always have someone perky all the time. Especially in healthcare. This is not Perky Land. Doesn’t mean you have to be doom and gloom, just read the room. I’m sure there are other perkies in your workplace. Hang with them. If you feel a need to let the perky out, take a walk. I’m just giving you my opinion. Being around someone perky does not make me feel perky if I’m not feeling like that. It makes me irritated. I’m not a morning person. The last thing I can stand when I wake up early is someone eating around me, talking my ear off and being noisy. Give me an hour or two and I’m fine. I think it’s just a matter of respecting others’ boundaries. If people like perky, great. If they don’t, then just leave them alone. I’m not mixing perky with funny. If you’re funny, I can deal with you all the time. Perky, no. My boss is not funny. And her perky is fake. She’s extremely passive-aggressive underneath it all. And you can be perky about the fact that you don’t have me as a coworker - lol.
I had a physical therapist who always said "Happy Wednesday". It was never happy to go there. My late husband went with me once and the idiot said it. My husband said "WTF did you just say". He wasn't mad at the schmuck, just couldn't believe anyone is that stupid right out loud.
I have known people like that. Some are phony, some are trying to convince themselves, some are in Lala land, i. e. out of touch with reality, and some are sincerely trying to spread a little sunshine.
The guy I mentioned just was repeating what he read somewhere. No brains, no headaches.
I feel kinda like a little shit now.
Of course, I’m a dentist and it’s not anyone’s favorite place to visit so we try to be pleasant. But yeah, I don’t say that kinda stuff unless the patient says it first
Oh thanks for reminding me of my dentist. He was one of the funniest people I have ever known. His wife would even drop by when I was there and we would yuck it up. Oh shit I think I'm smiling.
Don’t. It’s not gonna change anything
I will still be a little shit. Making up for lost time.
Ooopkay then 😂
Sorry to ruin your grinchy mood 🤣
You made it better. Appreciate it.
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LOL. Healthcare has a lot of stupid. They always tell us to walk in someone else’s shoes. Well, if you do that, then you don’t make a Happy Day comment to someone who is ill and struggling. Your verbiage should be more like “what can I do to make your day go better for you”. It’s just so phony. I’ve heard so much bs in this profession that I need chest waders just to walk through the halls. Happy Monday - lol lol lol lol.
Sounds like we have a negative Nellie in sector 6. Time for a little reNeducation.
Kasich plays the role of sane white male christian republican, with his head lodge firmly up his posterior, he knows he'll be fine.
Double like.
What great camera person! Our true reporters!!
He may likely lose his job and get death threats now.
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD Television) is a multilingual American television broadcaster founded by adherents of the Falun Gong new religious movement ...
Publishers of Epoch Times, spreaders of Q-Anon, anti-vaccine propaganda, and that 2020 election was "stolen". I'm guessing that camera operator isn't part of that cult, or they wouldn't have panned to the bored "crowd"
Falun Gong is a religious movement? That's hilarious.
It's true. From the Guardian.
"US news outlets aligned with Falun Gong, a religious movement locked in a decades-long conflict with the Chinese state, have been increasingly successful in promoting conspiracy narratives about Democrats, election fraud and communists to the pro-Trump right in America.
Experts say that in a future post-pandemic landscape, the cable news channel NTD, and especially the multimedia enterprise the Epoch Times, may amplify the efforts of Republicans to link Joe Biden and Democrats to the Chinese Communist party (CCP), and to harden US public opinion against China.
According to Angelo Carusone, president and CEO of the media watchdog Media Matters for America, these outlets, and especially the Epoch Times, were always critical of China, and somewhat right-leaning, but were not commonly counted as problematic during the 2016 election as spreading falsehoods across social media platforms like Facebook.
But in a telephone conversation, Carusone said Epoch Times pivoted hard from 2017 towards material which stoked conspiracy narratives, and began spending freely in order to make sure that their message was prominent on platforms like YouTube.
“After social media sites moved against the fake news outlets, it left a gap,” Carusone said. “What Epoch Times did so well was to step right into that gap.” And, he says, they secured their niche by handing money to big tech platforms."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/30/falun-gong-media-epoch-times-democrats-chinese-communists
Well that's not crazy 😜
I agree it is bizarre, but to me all cults are.
Sweet Jesus.
I'm so fucking sick of this shit.
And scared.
Don't be. We're going to win. Look at the calendar, it doesn't say 2016.
God I hope you're right. I just don't fully understand the electoral process. When I went to bed in 2016 I was happy...then I woke up to this nightmare.
Easy Deb - we got this — their moronic candidate might get 45% of the vote/ but I think the WOMEN. in this country have had it with misogynists like him and will destroy him at the booth. Really, we got this. It’s not like Hilary ( not particularly
liked) and her Comey problem in 2016…
WE GOT THIS!
Hillary did win the popular vote. If it weren’t for the Electoral College, she would have been President.
Exactly Deb. I woke up all feared out seeing that. I don’t know what I’ll do if it wins. I need more money to get out of here. Will have to sell my condo. If I’m going to Canada first I’ll need my car.
Oh man please don’t happen again…
Yesterday on Substack, I saw more trolls in my feed and commenting than I’ve ever seen in one day. I suspect these idiots are trying to give their fear one last “hurray, we owned a lib” before Tuesday and a landslide victory for the candidate who isn’t a fascist. It’s not my usual m.o. to be a poor winner, but I’ll make an exception in this case. In fact, I’ll be happy to be a complete asshole about it.
There has been a significant uptick in the number of troll accounts and the frequency in which they are flooding the zone with shit.
Part of me thinks that Musk might be urging his fandom on Twitter to target Substack writers who are insufficiently fascistic or conservative.
Instagram too is chock full lately, I keep reporting them as spam!
Steve Bannon's signature strategy is to "flood the zone" with chaos. Now that the wide streak of bum piss is out of prison, he's active again.
"ooh! ooh! pick me! I know the answer!" 😂 My Subscription to WaPo ends in 10 days so I read George 'The Fossil' Will's column. No one in the comments had anything nice to say. And Kathleen? GTH! I feel relieved to be away from the corporate media. IF...IF we lose, it's on the press. They feed people straight up BS which leads right to the dictatorship they seem to want.
Add Ross Douthat from the times, and Bretbug Stephens who finally, grudgingly, admitted that Harris was ever so slightly better than Trump and that he would reluctantly pull the lever for her.
These fucking guys all suck hairy donkey balls
Hairy donkey balls. FOR THE WIN! 😂
Douthat and Stephens are inexcusable.
Douthat came to my school a few days before T💩p won and in an assembly claimed he had no doubt he’d lose. Fucking twatwaffle.
Ah Douchehat, he's a weird one, and funny looking too.
It’s gonna be an interesting day at the domicile. “Fall back” hangover, post-Halloween slide, the joy of having already cancelled my WaPo subscription… my wife figures the fat fuck will figure out some way to go even lower and more disgusting in the next two days, and so that’ll be interesting to suss out. She suggested that he’ll just drop trou and take a dump onstage but I suspect she’s wrong. Maybe he will confess to having tertiary syphilis to blunt the obvious dementia and get the brain worm voters to rally around him. I dunno. But something.
Also, even though that Ohio dipshit running mate of his likes to dress up like the fat fuck, I’d sure like to see him do that water bottle thing that Pence used to do. Before, y’know, the fat fuck tried to have him killed.
I haven’t opened the Times for two weeks and canceled the Post. My only source for the state of this election is Simon Rosenberg - and feel pretty optimistic as a result.
Frank Bruni, Sam Sifton and Margaret Renkl are the main reason I’ve kept my NYT subscription. Oh, Wordle, too.
You can play Wordle, Connections, Strands, and Spelling Bee etc without a subscription. I do every day.
You don't need a subscription to NYT to do Wordle. I love Wordle but not the NYT!
Fucking asswipe Bruce Anderson in my local paper’s headline has a similar theme-‘no matter who wins, the system will endure.’ OH REALLY?? Heard of P2025 ya douchebag?? So tired of these white people tell us we will be “fine”—and yes I am lily white!
P2025 sounds like an engine light code, and it is! Common Problems That Trigger the P2025 Code:
Fuel tank temperature sensor failure
Powertrain Control Module (PCM) failure
Wiring issue
Rear end leak ?
It's implied.
What they are saying is they'll be fine, and get tax-cuts again.
I saw the opening skit on SNL last night with Harris. I thought it was funny and it was a nice change from the other slob pretending he's having oral sex at the podium, riding in garbage trucks and all of his other insane nonsense. MAGAs were lit up about it. You can always tell with them when you hit a nerve. She's just such a 180 from him. Lots of negative comments from them about the skit because he has nothing funny or charming to show the public. She reminds me in a way of Obama. Youthful, even though she's 60, fun, smart and has charisma. The GOP has absolutely no one like that, not even waiting in the wings. Her celebrity supporters are not even close to Kid Rock and the Hulk. I just want life back to normal politically. When didn't have to watch the news everyday to see what dumb/dangerous stuff our president had done or watch his supporters make utter fools of themselves by wearing maxi pads on their ears, diapers and waving 20 flags from their pick up truck.
Well Kamala is not a criminal conman who violated his oath of office. Or a sexual predator. Or took bribes for favors. And she likes pets. Has that going for her.
Or has 32 felony convictions, is a rapist, is a sociopath, and narcissistic personality, and never shuts the fuck up!
The camera operator is absolutely the most unsung hero of this whole endless shit show!! 👏👏👏👏😂👏👏👏👏🤣
New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD Television) is a multilingual American television broadcaster founded by adherents of the Falun Gong new religious movement ...
Ok… whatever their reason for exposing the truth… I commend them for that act.