I have a theory (which is hardly original) that the owners of the NYTimes have never gotten over their multi-generational case of Imposter Syndrome. They have always wanted to be the news organ for the right people, the best people, while never quite feeling sure that those much-admired Best People consider the Timesmen as “top drawer” fellow plutocrats. When the paper goes badly off the rails — as when it soft-pedaled Hitler’s crimes and applauded American isolationists well after WWII was inevitable — it’s because the owners paying its reporters mistake the loudest bigots in Wall Street and Washington DC for the most important people.
So IMO, David Roberts makes an excellent point:
7. If NYT printed the *actual, real-life* sentiments of today's conservative masses, it would print a bunch of paranoid, Fox-generated fairy tales and belligerent expressions of xenophobia, misogyny, racism, and proud, anti-intellectual ignorance.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
9. The NYT's commitment to "intellectual diversity" doesn't go THAT far — not far enough to expose its readers to that reality. It is too invested in America's own Noble Savage myth, the idea that conservative Heartland Americans are more authentic & in touch w/ simple virtues.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
10. So NYT needs "a voice from the right," but not a voice from the ACTUAL right (which is oriented around white resentment, not any discernible governing philosophy). They need a voice from the Conservatism of the Mind, the noble, principles-base conservatism they imagine.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
12. It is no coincidence that these guys – Gerson, Douthat, Brooks, Stephens – have little voice or influence inside actual conservatism, or that they're all anti-Trump (unlike 95+% of Republicans). They are anomalies, idiosyncrasies, not representative of anything broader.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
18. In the name of "exposing readers to diverse viewpoints," NYT is, in practice, obscuring the true nature of today's right. Virtually the entire political elite & most NYT readers are in denial about what the right has become & that denial is increasingly dangerous.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
Right represented in media is a Potemkin Village : a coherent political conservatism not the actual seething loathing & hate https://t.co/thZFvz3Rnq
— Alastair Somerville (@Acuity_Design) March 11, 2018
… and, of course, this reflexive cringing makes the NYTimes a natural (sympathetic!) target for a certain shouty “developer” out of Queens (who’s never been accepted by the best people either, for reasons)…
(phone rings)
MAGGIE: hello
TRUMP: this is trump, you have no access
MAGGIE: this is the third time you've called me today
TRUMP: so here's why i hate jeff sessions https://t.co/tp5uNAYovZ— 229 days ago Trump promised 24-hr Hezbollah answer (@MattNegrin) March 11, 2018
"The writer of the story, Maggie Haberman, a Hillary flunky, knows nothing about me and is not given access." pic.twitter.com/ThRtDM4Khu
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) March 12, 2018
TenguPhule
I can’t tell who’s hand is up who’s ass to direct the puppet in the photo.
schrodingers_cat
Vichy Times prints garbage. Unfortunately, I only realized that in October 2016.
Her emailz, should be on their epitaph.
Villago Delenda Est
A meteor can not hit the Vichy Times building a nanosecond too soon. Fortunately, Krugman isn’t there.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat:
“Its not our place to judge the merits of their statements”
Corner Stone
I’m actually not sure what Michael Schmidt thought he was proving/communicating in that tweet.
NotMax
Ought they provide flat Earthers a berth in the Science section in the name of “intellectual diversity?” Have a Mennonite columnist as a regular in the Technology section?
Betty Cracker
Oh God, please, no:
lamh36
@christinawilkie
Trump: “We should have a new force called the Space Force. It’s like the Army and the Navy, but for space, because we’re spending a lot of money on space.”
my first reaction
my 2nd reaction and my feelings about our country being run by this idiot
Mary G
@TenguPhule: Textbook symbiosis. They are both getting something out of the relationship.
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: He was quoting Trump’s tweet about Haberman while providing visual evidence that Trump is a fucking liar.
? Martin
Ok, but that’s hardly a unique problem to the NYT. It seems to apply to nearly everyone in the media. Poe’s Law cannot be overcome.
patrick II
For those of you who wondered why Trump settled with Stormy as opposed to calling her a liar like he did the rest of his accusers — now you know.
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: Sure. But does that actually *help* MAGA Habs?
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: Ball gag. Guaranteed.
ruemara
@lamh36: Good god.
I could cheerfully push entire trainloads of people off a cliff. They brought this to pass.
TenguPhule
@Betty Cracker: Sex tapes.
Because you know its always the worst case scenario.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
I gotta admire Stormy. Trump thinks he’s the one in charge? haha
TenguPhule
@lamh36: Nobody told him yet that we’ve signed a treaty banning the militarizing of space. I presume.
schrodingers_cat
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): More spine than all the R Congress critters put together.
Yarrow
@Betty Cracker: You know we’re not going to get out of this without some #TrumpDickPics being made public.
Baud
Y’all are being too hard on the NYT. They’re doing the best that they can.
TenguPhule
@Yarrow: And animated into a cheerful cartoon series on the Late Show.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
I see what you did there.
Johnny Gentle (famous crooner)
Wait, so it would somehow be better of the NYT ran an opinion column or two from an actual standard-bearer of today’s misogynist, xenophobic, raving-lunatic GOP? All hell would break loose. There’d be boycotts, endless twitter outrage, letter-writing campaigns, etc., etc. The column would be canceled within a few weeks, and Maggie Haberman would scold our liberal intolerance.
Is the point that the NYT is somehow maintain a fiction for its delicate readers by hiding the “real” GOP? C’mon. Everyone knows what the GOP now stands for. If the NYT really is committed to the bullshit “balance” thing in the editorial pages (as most newspapers are), then I’d rather some genteel and mostly irrelevant mope like Will, Brooks, Douthat, etc. At least they’ll occasionally buck their party’s extremes, or at least hearken back to the good ol’ days when conservatism was about deficits and taxes or whatever.
Corner Stone
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Stormy and her new lawyer are certainly playing this out in a very intelligent and well thought through manner. They are boxing Trump in.
TenguPhule
@Johnny Gentle (famous crooner):
That would be an improvement over the current situation.
cope
When this country finally pulls out of its current full-power nose dive in 30 or so years (assuming it does), it sure won’t be due to the efforts of any of the major media outlets, it will be due to the bottom-up work of countless individuals.
I am unlikely to live that long so I will just have to take that as an item of faith. None of our previously reliable institutions (education, media, politics) will undo the vile, rancid, poisonous, hateful and willfully ignorant actions of the Trump papacy, only the actions of committed individuals are capable of delivering us from evil.
Calouste
@Yarrow: The affair was in 2006, which preceded the introduction of the iPhone. Hopefully we will be spared that.
Gin & Tonic
Just measured 16″ of snow on the front lawn. It’s still snowing.
hellslittlestangel
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): She’s the Vladimir Putin of the porn world.
hellslittlestangel
Oh brother. I can already hear him whining that that was a lousy deal.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic: Power?
MomSense
The gold curtains trump installed in the oval are hideous.
Lyrebird
@patrick II: Generally agreed, but I will squeak up about phrasing, calling Stormy an “accuser”. I am more troubled by the possibility of people equating consensual, maybe even paid-for, activity with harassment and assault than I am by the possibility of some private, maybe even tawdry, images coming to light.
Baud
@MomSense: Impeachably hideous?
lamh36
the election of Donald Trump has emboldened racist whtie folk WAYYYY more than the election of Barack Obama…but of course many in the MSM and many of GOP supporters/voters alike…don’t want to admit it and rather ignore it or speak around it rather than confront it head on…
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So, have the Deplorables decided Rex Tillerson was really an Obama appointee yet?
Yarrow
@Corner Stone: Stormy knows Trump’s game and is better at it than he is. It’s fantastic to watch.
TenguPhule
@lamh36:
I do not like where this is going. Those marines don’t have a choice about attending.
They do choose whether or not to become fellow Nazis with the Unclean one.
lamh36
Apparently they included a vivid pic, so beware of clicking the link…
I’m no dog owner, but I do know, if I were, I’d just have to get off the plane rather than let them put my damn dog in the overhead compartment…smh…
I had flights where dogs were on the plane, and just had to stay under the front of the seat? Is that not the policy everywhere?
Cermet
@NotMax: They do! It is their on the staff climate denier.
efgoldman
@Baud:
Fuckem
Baud
@lamh36: Not clicking. How horrible.
TenguPhule
@lamh36:
bastards.
Hoodie
They’re just carrying on the fine tradition of Walter Duranty. The Times is like the Custer (Richard Mulligan) character in Little Big Man, who knows a muleskinner when he sees one. In a way, the wingnuts are right about the Times, they do think they’re better than anyone else, to the point of creating their own fantasy version of politics.
Cermet
@TenguPhule: The treaty is no nukes stationed in orbit; all other weapons are allowed – see anti-satellite weapons, for instance.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Power!
Brachiator
I love this. Says so much about Trump and the NYT
As much as Trump rails about “fake news” and sucks at the teat of Fox News, he craves the approval and legitimacy that he can only get from the NY Times, since it is still the newspaper of record.
OTOH, the Times is clinging to its reputation as the Official Journal of the Establishment, even though, like most other traditional media, it is becoming slowly and inexorably irrelevant.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@lamh36: He really has the mind of a 14 year old, but they could call it “Spacey”
Baud
@efgoldman: You’ve convinced me.
Our big problem is that we don’t have any media that is focused on serving us. Viewed in the best light, we have one set of media focused on the general public, which includes the right, and a right-wing media that serves the right wing. There’s no real competition for our ears and eyeballs.
efgoldman
@Cermet:
AK-47s?
TenguPhule
@Cermet: I would have thought that Kinetic energy weapons in LEO would have been an obvious bad idea to everyone. Its not like you need nukes if the mass if big and dense enough.
NotMax
@Cermet
What is it the kewl kidz say? Now I haz a sad.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic: Nice.
Corner Stone
@lamh36: This is unforgivable, if early reporting is true. I have flown many times on flights where someone has a pet in a lap sized pooch carrier. I’m always like, “Whuh?” but it never seems to end up being a problem for anyone. Somebody should have their balls sued off.
MomSense
@Baud:
I would impeach him and make his prison garb out of them.
MomSense
@Gin & Tonic:
The wind is ferocious. I’m tired of these storms.
patrick II
@Lyrebird:
Donald Trump has been accused of all sorts of illicit sex. Fondling genitals, pedophelia, rape, and, in Daniel’s case, consensual sex outside of marriage. You may not take the last one seriously since it was consensual, but there are many who at least pretend to. One of Stormy’s friends is on the list of people thought of as accusing Trump, so we may hear about more than just Stormy’s relationship. What they have in common is that they have had some sort of sexual relationship with Trump that would hurt him politically if it came to light, so they have been been silenced by a man with power and money.
Corner Stone
@Yarrow: Well, she certainly knows “the game” and is beating Trump at it. It does make me wonder why she settled for such a small amount of hush money? Maybe thought he couldn’t win and wanted to cash in when possible? Isn’t the risk to reward better to wait and see if you don’t absolutely need the money for something right away?
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Only fly but once year. The last few times there were people with dogs on their laps without any type of carrier (or even a leash).
r€nato
@Calouste: uhhhh… listen young ‘un, cellphones took pictures and some even took videos before the iPhone… not very good pictures and not HD or 4K video, for sure.
lamh36
@TenguPhule: if you saw the pic that Acosta posted, it’s seems to be less diverse than any recent pic of military events I’ve seen.
It’s a small perspective, but finding any “obvious” soldier of color is almost like finding Waldo
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/973672206642307072
kindness
I read down on that Twitter feed. Do you see the number of people who claim to be good conservatives who don’t like Trump yet they continue to vote for the fascism that has taken over the party?
More like the classic ‘good Germans’.
Jager
I wouldn’t be surprised if trump suggested to Stormy that she bring an entire Vivid crew and he and Stormy would do an entire one off porn film, a classy, big time production, costumes, the best lighting, maybe a gold ball gag, gold handled whips, it would be the best porn film ever! He could sit and watch it in the privacy of his bedroom while eating cheeseburger and fish sandwiches, large fries please.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: I’m not really clear on the whole “pet flying with me” issue. I find it baffling, tbh. But in multiple flights now where it has happened I don’t think there’s been an issue I can recall.
ETA, my comments on this incident are more about the open cruelty by an employee of the airline. There is no way I would have put a pet in an overhead bin. Lawsuit coming at you in 3…2…1
different-church-lady
The readers, perhaps. The employees? I’m not so sure anymore.
lamh36
@Corner Stone: AGREED!
Ian G.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees the endless “white guys in trucker hats in diners outside Youngstown” stories as a bunch of noble savage condescension.
And the simple truth about Times conservatives are that they’re the kind of righties who can appear at a Manhattan cocktail party. NY high society would invite Ross Douthat to a party, but sure as fuck not Dana Loesch.
rikyrah
This twitter thread was blistering, because it was on point and full of NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!!
different-church-lady
@Gin & Tonic: Boston says BRING IT!
NotMax
@r€nato
Also webcams, security cams, intentionally set up ‘fun’ cams.
*cough* Tommy Lee & Pamela Anderson *cough* – 1995.
Ramalama
While I love DR Roberts’ writing – I was following him when he was writing for Grist – all this talk of the NYT makes me want to admonish everyone to watch the film “Manufacturing Consent” where Noam Chomsky makes mincemeat of the ‘all the news that’s fit to print’ organization.
lamh36
https://media1.giphy.com/media/9G3wg7lH5DpxC/giphy.gif
lamh36
I think we ALL know which non-Democrat we’re talking bout here…
NotMax
@Corner Stone
I don’t get it either.
Corner Stone
@lamh36: There is nothing about JT’s ensemble and accessories that makes sense, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t pull it off nicely.
different-church-lady
@lamh36:
“I’m sorry, Mrs. Trump, but there’s very little we can do about your husband at this point.”
different-church-lady
@Corner Stone: 1) The whole pets on a plane thing is completely out of hand.
2) But until we fix it, someone needs to be sued for that until their fillings fall out.
danielx
@Betty Cracker:
My thought exactly. I would gladly pay 130 large, if I had it, to not have to think about that possibility.
Gelfling 545
@lamh36: You’re going to want to save those gifs. You’ll be able to use th m more and more as this mess continues to boil over.
p.a.
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: No. Starfleet.
lamh36
Per CNN: Source says…Trump looking to fire Vet Affairs Sec and may replace him w/Rick Perry…
SMH
lamh36
If this type of bullshit isn’t enough for folks who can to leave this damn administration in droves…smh…or at least an inside coup to bring Chump down…smh
NotMax
So much winning.
lamh36
Does Manafort think he’ll be “safer” from Russian assassination attempts in federal prison or I guess while under house arrest?
The Pale Scot
@lamh36: Next school shooter fer sur
trollhattan
Because you can’t possibly keep track without a bracket, here’s another.
“John who? Never heard of the guy.”
Gelfling 545
@Yarrow: The one saving grace is that it won’t be visible to the unaided eye, debate remarks not withstanding. I had hoped, however that suffering humanity could be spared the sight of Trump in a state of nature.
SFAW
@NotMax:
I was tired of all the winning 16 months ago.
Corner Stone
@trollhattan: TRUMP: I have a lot of people that bring me coffee. I don’t speak to them very much.
Obvious Russian Troll
@NotMax: Not all Mennonites reject technology. Some sects do, yes (like the Old Order Mennonites), but certainly not all of them.
I personally have had a Mennonite boss when I worked for a technology company. He’d been a programmer and systems administrator and could be pretty prickly when it came to religion, but overall was a good boss.
bystander
Anthony Weiner must be spinning in his grave.
Corner Stone
@Gelfling 545: Don’t worry about it. The video will only last about 15 seconds or so. A gallon of bleach mixed in a mop bucket should wash out your eyes after.
debbie
I’m to the point where I almost go into a rage whenever I see that fucking thumbs-up gesture.
SFAW
@Yarrow:
Unless she had zoom capability on the camera, it will be “nothing to see here, folks.”
NotMax
WSJ:
Marched out forcibly, straight into a cushy position in the re-election cabal, per other reporting.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
So…. I gather this is a thing he said, this is not a parody?
lamh36
@Gelfling 545: Oh… I have a folder full of GIFs…lol…they’ve come in mighty handy during this administration
FlyingToaster
@different-church-lady@Gin & Tonic: You two stop that right now or I’ll turn this car around.
Jeebus, we’ve got ~14 inches, with 4 to go. I DO NOT NEED MORE SNOW.
I just finished dinner and as soon as HerrDoktor finishes his shift, I’ll go do round 3 with the snowblower.
WarriorGirl has done two rounds of shoveling a path to the front. One of my lovely neighbors, avoiding the broken pole between my sidewalk and the street, had done the sidewalk.
At 5 tomorrow morning we’ll get up and break through the wall at the end of the driveway; there’s no point in doing so until the last plow, and that will be after the last flake (currently projected at 4am).
Corner Stone
@bystander:
ME: But he’s not dead!
HRC: *PEW* *PEW* *PEW*
HRC: You were saying?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SFAW: that’s what I was thinking, if he’s not hung like a butterfly, he’d be leaking that tape the way he leaked that selective portion of his tax return
SFAW
@bystander:
Pseudolus: “Anthony Weiner is alive.”
bystander: “This will kill him.”
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Guessing he came up with that last year after the SecDef told him about our boats that drive underwater.
“Underwater boats? That’s GREAT! We should have boats that go into space. SPACE BOATS, YEAH!!!”
Elizabelle
@Gelfling 545:
I wonder if he dyes it too. Um, no I don’t.
But one does wonder what is in Melania’s prenup.
debbie
@lamh36:
Did you read the comments? Someone’s depicted the PDB as a kiddie’s menu!
lamh36
With Chump taking all the oxygen out of the news at the top…is it just me, or have things like this shit…been happening more than ever underneath…in the past year, there seems to have been more domestic/homegrown terrorism against people of color in the first year of Chump than in the first 4 years of Obama?
SFAW
@FlyingToaster:
So, changing the name to Snowtown? (Until it all melts, when the name will revert.)
Corner Stone
@Elizabelle:
I don’t think it’s strong enough. Because if it had any enforcement clauses favorable to her, wouldn’t she have invoked it by now?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@efgoldman:
Well there is physics, shoot an AK47 in micro gravity and that cosmonaut is likely to flying back against the wall.
I gather the reason for no war in space is it’s not as fun as killing down here on earth.
FlyingToaster
@SFAW: So the name shifts with the phase of the precip? Hmmm, interesting idea.
SFAW
@debbie:
Yeah, I saw that. It was awesome.
lamh36
FlyingToaster
@SFAW: @FlyingToaster: HerrDoktor suggests that come July, we’ll be Steamtown.
Bill Arnold
Since open thread,
this NYMag piece Tillerson’s Firing Brings America Closer to War With North Korea amped up my fears about possible impending war, including nuclear war. Praise due to Eric Levitz for generous linkage, though would be nice to see some primary source links.
Not easy to TL;DR. Here are a few snips:
Yarrow
@Gelfling 545: @SFAW: He’s probably terrified that smallness of his member will be confirmed via photos or videos. He’ll do whatever it takes to keep that from happening.
NotMax
@lamh 36
As per usual, Sarah what’s her face intoning “The president has full confidence in [insert name]” translates to “Better pack yer bags, bub. Stat.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Off the record, Gowdy continued, “he told me about at a meeting of the He-Man Woman-Haters’ Club. I told him about the Benghazi hearings, and showed him how I say Ssssid-Kneee BLOOM-en-thawll. We laughed and laughed…”
debbie
@Bill Arnold:
I saw the word “Bolton” and could go no further. What a joke. As if Trump will be in charge of anything at those talks.
Fair Economist
@lamh36:
It’s not just you. I don’t remember the exact numbers but white supremacist terrorism is way up under Trump.
Steve in the ATL
Apropos of nothing, props to whoever came up with this for the pie filter:
geg6
I’m as nervous as if I lived in the district and not next door but I can’t wait another hour and a half for the polls to close. Please, please, please let Lamb pull this out! I need some sign of sanity at this point.
p.a.
I have to get on the ball and claim my Italian citizenship so I can sleep better: once I’m Italian the current US gvt dysfunction will not seem so out of the ordinary. Cheaper than psychotropic drugs… ??♂️
Baud
@geg6:
And you came here?
WaterGirl
@lamh36: I snorted when I read that. Geez.
Mary G
@lamh36: I was just reading a twitter thread on that:
ruemara
@lamh36: They will go down with the ship. All of the GOP are like this.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
SUPERMAX , maybe
lamh36
@WaterGirl: Rolled my eyes so hard…I may have given myself a headache…smh
TenguPhule
@Baud:
We are a little island of sanity in a nation full of crazy.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Would love to see their faces as they pretend to engage with her on this. She is a joke.
SFAW
@Yarrow:
I had kind of assumed that from the beginning.
Dick Tock, Motherfucker?
NotoriousJRT
@hellslittlestangel:
Which makes me think a video would command more than $100k and change.
Just One More Canuck
@MomSense: My parents had shag carpeting in their house. But it was 1973.
Cermet
@TenguPhule: If only one had cheap enough lift capability, then mass drivers would be an issue. Currently, only nukes have that level of striking power so people have a treaty on stationary orbits of these weapons. Maybe when people do go to Mars (and lose their marbles in the trip there due to cosmic radiation) AK-47’s can be used against each other; surely these will be provided by Musk in case there are Martians (he and Gates seem to worry about such ‘highly probable” types of events …lol.)
SFAW
@WaterGirl:
Didn’t she get in here on a so-called “Einstein” visa? Answer me THAT, libtard!
Bill Arnold
@debbie:
Bolton still has his mustache, or did on Mar 10, 2018. It was rumored that that was what kept him from getting such a White-house job in 2017. He’s the essence of anti-diplomacy, IMO. And very or partly wrong about some important things. (Probably I should write it up in supported detail.)
Also, wikipedia on Mike Pompeo is also sobering. As usual with high profile subject in the news, if something seems off View History.
If there is a nuclear war, it will be partly the fault of Fox News. They are much of what is fed into the maw of the chaos that is Donald Trump’s mind.[1] It would be nice if some of their personalities (including perhaps R.Murdoch) started experiencing some realistic fears.
[1] Hyperbolic yes, but that is his mind style (intuition-driven). Served him well in real estate/branding when he was younger, along with competent underlings who could instantiate his desires. All three of which he is lacking now. (He’s older, the US presidency is not real estate, and his direct underlings are largely not competent. There are a few exceptions yes.)
WaterGirl
@lamh36: If Connor Lamb doesn’t win tonight, I may have to dig out your gif of the lawn chair guy and watch it over and over as I rock in the corner.
p.a.
@SFAW: The one Married…with Children that wasn’t shown originally was censored because the plot had Al and Peg at a honeymoon hotel that was surreptitiously filming its guests. Marcy and whoever she was married to that season, and Al and Peg sued the owners. Al’s lawsuit was dismissed because the tape was so brief there was no evidence of consummation…
Feebog
@rikyrah:
I’ve been in the Super Max. Nobody getting in, nobody getting out.
Aleta
As a journalism and accuracy thing, I wondered last week why Josh Marshall jumped from the word “photos” to publish “pn-s pics” in his TPM headline and his tweets. The only source he mentioned in that story is the legal document, so it seems at odds with the image of the site he’s gone after.
Seems like he’s worked overtime to expand and be regarded as one of the most reputable web news sources. So why drop those stricter standards — Is it just because ‘prn star’ makes him giggly?
Now he turns “video” into “sex tape.” I guess it’s for the clicks. Or maybe he’s so frazzled he’s letting off steam.
I can think of lots of other videos or photos that T would still be desperate to conceal. (The two of them in robes in a Hollywood bungalow. Or his wig lying in the twisted sheets next to a shark toy she’s squeaking at him, etc.)
I can’t picture the paranoid, secretive, never-honest T emailing photos of his pns to anyone. Wrong generation.
trollhattan
@Feebog:
That’s one tour I’d just as soon pass on.
The way you get to an inmate is through a corrupt guard. In the Trump Era everything’s for sale.
Elizabelle
@Aleta: Yeah. I tire of purported sex tapes, and any “golden” news of the sort.
It’s a distraction, and possibly not true, and eyes on the more important stuff. Besides, if it blows up as untrue, it’s more evidence of libtard gullibility.
The abuse of nondisclosure agreements, and Trump’s extremely clumsy lawyering up, is more provable and interesting in the long run.
Aleta
Re Manafort: by Rachel Weiner at Wapo around March 8 I think
Mnemosyne
@Yarrow:
True fact: the Nazis actually had a minor propaganda campaign assuring party members that having a small, er, member was the sign of being intellectually superior, unlike those untermenschen with their big dicks.
If you look at the surviving nude statues that were created by Nazi artists, they all have teeny tiny peni$es. ?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Aleta: @Elizabelle: I suspect this is one of those cases where trump is shooting himself in the foot by letting the secret stay, officially, a secret. He had a fling with a porn star, and she may have a few titillating or embarrassing details, but nothing much worse than what we already know.
rikyrah
USED TO BE ON THE GOP PAYROLL
I may not like Tester, but he votes more with us than against us…
Just more GOP ratphucking.
Aleta
@NotMax: Everyone who’s left the administration is probably headed for much bigger money, which seems to be a win for them, not the opposition. Maybe they always planned to make some powerful-sounding connections (that they could claim on paper at least) and leave after that.
El Caganer
Have they announced yet when Stormy Daniels is joining Mueller’s team?
rikyrah
@TenguPhule:
I’m so glad Wolff stomped all over her book and made it, and her, useless.
Corner Stone
This asshole RWNJ on Tweety’s show is destroying any attempt at conversation or analysis. I don’t know why they keep doing this.
Corner Stone
@rikyrah: Yes. Now what is she going to write about? How warm he liked his shower water?
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
different-church-lady
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I trust exit polls as far as I can throw them.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@different-church-lady: To paraphrase LBJ: I rather have the exit polls inside the tent pissin out then outside the tent pissin in.
different-church-lady
@FlyingToaster: Look at it this way: it’s not snow, it’s drought protection.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: fingers crossed… six minutes till polls close?
I wonder if Saccone’s tantrum from yesterday– my opponent hates this country and god– pushed any voters Lamb’s way
raven
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: You know the drill. . .
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Saccone blew it when he forgot to say “Merry Christmas”
Elizabelle
Polls closed in Pennsylvania, unless a site has a line.
Wonder how quickly the results will arrive.
The Golux
@Yarrow:
Weird that Stormy Daniels had an electron microscope handy.
The Simp in the Suit
@Johnny Gentle (famous crooner): The sheer awfulness and stupidity of modern conservative “thought” can be be presented in print without resorting to the unicorns farting rainbows like what the NYT does. For instance, WaPo features that idiot Ohioan newspaper editor, Gary Fucknozzle, who at least writes about what he sees outside his storefront windows. It’s not pretty, as you say, but it’s much closer to the vapid reality of the right than any of the bilge barfed out onto the pages of the Gray Dismal Lady.
enplaned
I think the right adjective for the NYTimes is “plutographic”. So, when quoting the NYTimes, use that characterization. “The plutographic NYTimes stated…”
This is the newspaper of record for the wealthy of NYC. They may have vaguely liberal social opinions, but there’s a limit when you have enough wealth to afford a multimillion co-op apartment.