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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2020 / Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Chris Cillizza Will NOT Be Out-Jingo’d

Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Chris Cillizza Will NOT Be Out-Jingo’d

by Anne Laurie|  January 7, 20204:01 am| 35 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Foreign Affairs, Grifters Gonna Grift, Open Threads, Warren for President 2020, Assholes, Our Failed Media Experiment

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WATCH: Sen. Elizabeth Warren says that "people are asking" why the Iran strike took place now. #MTP #IfItsSunday@ewarren: "We know Donald Trump is very upset about this upcoming impeachment trial. But look what he's doing now. He is taking us to the edge of war." pic.twitter.com/ChR29Usv6x

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 5, 2020

UpChuck Todd spends ten minutes of high-dollar Sunday tv time trying to gotcha Warren, but Chris ‘The Mad Bitcher’ Cillizza goes straight for ‘SHE SAID LONG WORDS WHICH IS ELITIST & PROBABLY UNAMERICAN’…

I rarely tweet about stuff like this but I can’t hold back here. Chris, this is embarrassing. Every statement is true & consistent. The reason you were able to cherry-pick her many comments is b/c she’s the only candidate who’s done multiple interviews & media avails about it.

— Kristen Orthman (@KristenOrthman) January 6, 2020

Also lol at Warren being tied with Sanders after all the "calling Soleimani a murderer is warmongering" posts

— veto players stan account (@Convolutedname) January 6, 2020

This is straight up slander from Chris Cillizza. We laugh at how dumb Cillizza is because he’s truly dumb. But we also forget that shit like this defines narratives. It’s Warren right now but this will be Biden if he’s the nominee in September. This brand of journalism is bad. https://t.co/eVvKy1QzjE

— David Gordon (@davidagordon9) January 6, 2020

Chris just wants there to be a nice noisy horse race until the election, when he dearly hopes we will elect whichever Repub daddy eventually gets shoved to the top of the ticket.

Let’s all keep in mind how good it will feel when The Mad Bitcher has a public breakdown as the Democrats celebrate our new president, come November!

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  1. 1.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 7, 2020 at 4:20 am

    QuinnipiacPoll – Black Voters in South Carolina — November 18

    Biden…………….44%
    Wilmer…………..10%
    Warren……………8%
    Booker…………….2%
    Pete…………………0%

    Ben Smith reveals the idiocy and insensitivity of the MSM. You can’t win the nomination if you have anemic support among POC.  And they’re not going to warm up to a socialist clown who says “most drug dealers are Black”

  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 7, 2020 at 4:30 am

    I got an idea. Now here me out – we bomb Iran with Chris Cillizza.

  3. 3.

    Anne Laurie

    January 7, 2020 at 4:32 am

    @mrmoshpotato: I’m just afraid that would violate the Geneva conventions against the use of poisons!

  4. 4.

    montanareddog

    January 7, 2020 at 4:59 am

    @Anne Laurie: I am just afraid that would violate the Geneva conventions against the use of poisons! weapons of mass distraction.

    FTFY and I will now let myself out.

  5. 5.

    JPL

    January 7, 2020 at 5:01 am

    @montanareddog: groan

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 7, 2020 at 5:05 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Why do you hate Iranians so much? What did they ever do to you?

  7. 7.

    JPL

    January 7, 2020 at 5:14 am

    Cillizza should be assigned to interview someone he can understand, e.g. Louie Gohmert.

  8. 8.

    Baud

    January 7, 2020 at 5:14 am

    Cillizza knows all the ladies be shifty.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    January 7, 2020 at 5:59 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: If I am reading that correctly, 1/3 of POC have not expressed a preferem=nce yet.  Not engaged yet (seems unlikely) or not crazy about anyone?

  10. 10.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 7, 2020 at 6:08 am

    @WaterGirl: The poll was from mid-November, quite a bit has changed in the race since then.

  11. 11.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 7, 2020 at 6:11 am

    @WaterGirl:  altogether 20% said “do not know”.  There were some other candidates who had points, Kamala had 6%, Steyer had 4%, a couple others had 1%. I didn’t include them cuz Kamala has dropped out and I didn’t want to type in all the stragglers.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    January 7, 2020 at 6:13 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Then I demand to see the early January numbers!  :-)  Seriously, though, thanks for catching the date.

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:  1/5 is less alarming than 1/3.  Still seems a bit high, but maybe not so high for November.

  13. 13.

    SFAW

    January 7, 2020 at 6:15 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I got an idea. Now here me out – we bomb Iran with Chris Cillizza.

    Interesting idea. But, two things to consider:

    1) As Ozark noted (or hinted at), delivering Cillizza as a payload into/onto Iran might be considered a war crime against that nation

    2) As any engineer knows, you need to test out the “breadboard” before you release to production. Therefore Cillizza should first be dropped — during a practice run (or as many as it takes to work out the features bugs) — onto Mar-a-Loco, from about 20,000 feet.

  14. 14.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 7, 2020 at 6:26 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I always thought it was a mistake to focus on who has the best programs, when we face a mortal threat in Dump.

    Kamala knew that.  And despite all of her programs, Warren didn’t take off until she started taking a 2X4 to Dump.

    The rebuttal was “you just can’t win an election opposing Dump, you have to excite the base with single payer”.

    This new war has focused the mind.

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 7, 2020 at 6:27 am

    The British ship Norham Castle was 40 miles from Krakatoa at the time of the explosion. The ship’s captain wrote in his log, “So violent are the explosions that the ear-drums of over half my crew have been shattered. My last thoughts are with my dear wife. I am convinced that the Day of Judgement has come.”2

    In general, sounds are caused not by the end of the world but by fluctuations in air pressure. A barometer at the Batavia gasworks (100 miles away from Krakatoa) registered the ensuing spike in pressure at over 2.5 inches of mercury1,2. That converts to over 172 decibels of sound pressure, an unimaginably loud noise. To put that in context, if you were operating a jackhammer you’d be subject to about 100 decibels. The human threshold for pain is near 130 decibels, and if you had the misfortune of standing next to a jet engine, you’d experience a 150 decibel sound. (A 10 decibel increase is perceived by people as sounding roughly twice as loud.) The Krakatoa explosion registered 172 decibels at 100 miles from the source. This is so astonishingly loud, that it’s inching up against the limits of what we mean by “sound.”

    When you hum a note or speak a word, you’re wiggling air molecules back and forth dozens or hundreds of times per second, causing the air pressure to be low in some places and high in other places. The louder the sound, the more intense these wiggles, and the larger the fluctuations in air pressure. But there’s a limit to how loud a sound can get. At some point, the fluctuations in air pressure are so large that the low pressure regions hit zero pressure—a vacuum—and you can’t get any lower than that. This limit happens to be about 194 decibels for a sound in Earth’s atmosphere. Any louder, and the sound is no longer just passing through the air, it’s actually pushing the air along with it, creating a pressurized burst of moving air known as a shock wave.

    Closer to Krakatoa, the sound was well over this limit, producing a blast of high pressure air so powerful that it ruptured the eardrums of sailors 40 miles away. As this sound travelled thousands of miles, reaching Australia and the Indian Ocean, the wiggles in pressure started to die down, sounding more like a distant gunshot. Over 3,000 miles into its journey, the wave of pressure grew too quiet for human ears to hear, but it continued to sweep onward, reverberating for days across the globe. The atmosphere was ringing like a bell, imperceptible to us but detectable by our instruments.

    I have read a number of explanatories of the “sound heard round the world”, this one describes the dynamics of it better than the rest I have read.

  16. 16.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 7, 2020 at 6:30 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: DEMs want someone who can beat the fuck out of trump. The rest of the get-able electorate need something more.

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    January 7, 2020 at 6:31 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    172 db at 100 miles? Holy shit.

  18. 18.

    SFAW

    January 7, 2020 at 6:34 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    The rest of the get-able electorate need something more.

    Well, according to some, only a shouty, finger-wagging, sanctimonious, not-a-Corp-o-Dem-like-Elizabeth-Warren, not-exactly-transparent guy from Brooklyn Vermont can provide that “something more.”

  19. 19.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 7, 2020 at 6:39 am

    @SFAW: I’d have been right there with that captain in thinking it was the end of the world.

    @SFAW: Everybody has their own idea of what they “need,” but I wasn’t referring to Wilmer’s Wags. I was thinking of places like the suburbs of STL.

  20. 20.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 7, 2020 at 6:47 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: You don’t remodel the kitchen when the house is on fire.

  21. 21.

    SFAW

    January 7, 2020 at 6:47 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Everybody has their own idea of what they “need,” but I wasn’t referring to Wilmer’s Wags. I was thinking of places like the suburbs of STL.

    Didn’t think otherwise, just saw an opportunity to take a cheap shot at Vermont Jesus.

  22. 22.

    SFAW

    January 7, 2020 at 6:49 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    You don’t remodel the kitchen when the house is on fire.

    You country boys with your homespun wisdom. Or something.

  23. 23.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 7, 2020 at 6:50 am

    @SFAW: Heh, “country boys”.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    January 7, 2020 at 6:50 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    The rest of the get-able electorate need something more.

    Our dilemma is that the “more” that some of them need is different and often inconsistent with the “more” that the rest of them need.

  25. 25.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 7, 2020 at 6:57 am

    @Baud: All you need is LoveBaud!

  26. 26.

    SFAW

    January 7, 2020 at 7:01 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    What — isn’t Glendale in the boonies of LA? Flyover country?

  27. 27.

    Baud

    January 7, 2020 at 7:04 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    You kid, but my strategy is to stay a shadowy figure who voters can project their dreams and desires onto.

  28. 28.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 7, 2020 at 7:06 am

    @Baud: Yeah, there is a sweet spot in every election but I don’t where.what it is at any particular point in time. Obama found it. We have to find it again.

  29. 29.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 7, 2020 at 7:17 am

    @SFAW: We don’t get many planes flying over Glendale, except that bomber that flew over last week.

  30. 30.

    SFAW

    January 7, 2020 at 7:34 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    except that bomber that flew over last week.

    I was hoping it was a practice run for dropping Cillizza, but I realized I wouldn’t want to do that to you or the Greater LA area.

  31. 31.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 7, 2020 at 8:09 am

    @SFAW: “Jamie wants big boom.”

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 7, 2020 at 8:34 am

    @Baud: As long as you continue to absorb all visible that strikes you, this strategy should be successful.

  33. 33.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 7, 2020 at 8:44 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: All visible light, that is. Need caffeine.

  34. 34.

    cleek

    January 7, 2020 at 9:08 am

    don’t forget that, statistically speaking, essentially nobody knows who Chris Cillizza is, let alone cares what he thinks about anything.

  35. 35.

    mapaghimagsik

    January 7, 2020 at 10:21 am

    In a sane media environment, Clizzilla would be looking for a new job.

    We’re not in a sane media environment where congresscritters can literally pass around doctored images as proof and no one bats and eye.

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