Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

People are weird.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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Late Night Open Thread: Good ‘News’, Bad Journamalism

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Many thanks to commentor Steeplejack for the link:


I told y’all Annie Linskey had a big future in journamalism, back when the Boston Globe hired her to hate-stalk Elizabeth Warren for challenging Sen. Scott Brown…

The Washington Post (which is currently paying Linksey) has more self-respect than the NY Post, which is why WaPo fell back on the time-tested ‘some people say… ‘ formulation.

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  1. 1.

    karen marie

    I’m not sure any of these “journalists” have ever met, much less owned a dog.

    PS:  Oooh, look!  First!  Not last!  Or have I prematurely killed this thread?

  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    You know…I’m not sure how serious these people are half the time. I just know they get paid a lot more than me to be this silly. That doesn’t encourage me to let these people exist.​

    EDIT: zweite!!!

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    Lurve duckies!

    Ending the day on a high note: CA fully vaccinated count nearly matches conformed case count: 3.4M to 3.60M. By next week the fully vaccinated count will be well in the lead and that lead will only grow.

    A year ago one would have never guessed either number to be possible.

  5. 5.

    Omnes Omnibus

    That Secret Service guy knows what he did. Also too, Ms Linskey is a dumb fuck at best.

  6. 6.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Yutsano: I often think that, but then as in the tweets here, they double down.

    Also, Linskey loses points for the wild-ass apostrophe

    and is there a jurisdiction where a dog would be put own for a bite like this one apparently is? first known aggression, no blood, skin not broken, etc.

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    I asked: ‘Can you also reassure the public that Major Biden will not be euthanized as a result of this?’

    He’s “Just asking questions.”. JAQing off, I believe it’s known as.

  10. 10.

    Dopey-o

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: and is there a jurisdiction where a dog would be put own for a bite like this one apparently is? first known aggression, no blood, skin not broken, etc.

    Common Law Adage: Every dog gets one free bite. The logic being  “He never bit anyone before, your Honor.”

  11. 11.

    something fabulous

    Yay, he’s back! Been wondering how he’d handle no more Former Guy (which I have to say I appreciate also for the sense of, “well, he USED to be a guy…” Just diminish him in every way.

  12. 12.

    something fabulous

    @dmsilev: And I am just loving Jen Psaki more each day. Did you see her response? Just the right amount of quietly shocked and disapproving: “Well, Major is of course a member of the Biden family, so no, there is no discussion of euthanization.”

  13. 13.

    moonbat

    It’s not just throwing chum in the water and see who bites usual “just asking a question” bullshit. This is malicious. I think these professional ankle biters are seriously pissed they haven’t left a mark on Biden or his unflappable press secretary yet and they are literally looking to draw blood.
    “I know! We’ll create a public furor such that they’ll put their own dog down because it’s the responsible thing to do!”
    Vicious creeps.​

  15. 15.

    Roger Moore

    @trollhattan: 

    A year ago one would have never guessed either number to be possible.

    ISTR that about a year ago people were starting to worry about how the whole country would get infected and how many people would die if we didn’t shut things down, so the number of infected would have been believable, if pessimistic, a year ago. That we would have an effective vaccine in less than a year- much less three- would have been seen as wildly optimistic.

  16. 16.

    Roger Moore

    @karen marie:

    I’m not sure any of these “journalists” have ever met, much less owned a dog.

    Which is kind of surprising; you’d expect at least one of them would have had somebody set their dogs on them by now.

  17. 17.

    Steeplejack

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    “No blood, skin not broken, etc.” I can’t even see this being reported. It’s news only because it’s the White House and the press corps is suffering PT*SD.

    * T = Former Guy.

  20. 20.

    Roger Moore

    @Steeplejack:

    It’s news only because it’s the White House and the press corps is suffering PT*SD.

    I think it’s less about PT*SD than it is about need to justify their existence.  The White House press corpse needs to produce “news” articles regularly or their employers will decide they’re useless and give up on them.  Former Guy was great for them because he always gave them something to write about without them having to go to any effort to find it.  Biden doesn’t do that, so they have to get their articles from somewhere.  They’re too lazy to research and chase down real news, so they’re left asking dumb questions and trying to gin up meaningless controversies.

  21. 21.

    patroclus

    I don’t want Major to be put down, but I think we should seriously consider putting Piers Morgan down.

  22. 22.

    sanjeevs

    From WSJ

    In recent weeks, according to the people, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has issued new subpoenas and requested recordings of local government meetings related to the Trump Organization’s failed attempt to create a luxury subdivision at Seven Springs, a 213-acre property that the former president bought for $7.5 million in 1995.

    Mr. Trump has valued the property at up to $291 million in financial statements that the New York attorney general’s office, which is also investigating Seven Springs, said were given to financial institutions. Inflating assets to help secure loans or other financial benefits can be a state criminal offense, legal experts said.

  24. 24.

    mrmoshpotato

    The Washington Post (which is currently paying Linksey)

    Are they hiring?  I could blather stupid shit on Twitter, a day’s work in an hour, and I don’t need an expense account.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Roger Moore:

    Former Guy was great for them because he always gave them something to write about without them having to go to any effort to find it.

    That’s pretty much what I meant: PTS(eparation)D(isorder). They’re trying to exercise muscles that have completely atrophied in the last four years.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    That anyone, anywhere, is spending more than five seconds of their time on this makes me sulky.

  27. 27.

    piratedan

    Annie Linskey is one of those journos for whom her job allows her to be a “professional mean girl”.  Never has to justify a bad take, never has to provide any context and is “shielded” from criticism by her profession.

    I automatically discredit anything with her as the author because she’s simply a bad faith actor who will take a kernel of truth and cast it in the light that is the least favorable setting for anyone on the left.

    Just put her on the list with Glenn Greenwald, Mags Haberman, Meagan McArdle, Ken Vogel et al.

    They play for the other side .

  28. 28.

    Roger Moore

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    They’re trying to exercise muscles that have completely atrophied in the last four years.

    Those muscles were never very strong to begin with.  I remember the Obama years, when they spent the same kind of time making mountains out of molehills.

  32. 32.

    TS (the original)

    It wasn’t only Elizabeth Warren that Annie Linskey attacked – it was also Hillary Clinton – over and over. Another one who helped the last guy win in 2016. Every time she posts on WaPo now I add a comment  as to her negative approach to democrats.

  33. 33.

    Martin

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, Dems should make one thing clear in ‘bipartisan’ talks:

    If you negotiate changes to a bill, and then don’t vote for that bill, we will never negotiate with you again and we will explain why from the WH podium. If you know now you won’t vote for it, the door is over there.

  35. 35.

    Ruckus

    @patroclus:

    What did the oven ever do to you?

    I mean I know why you think pm should be put down, and you aren’t in bad company with that thought, but still he is at least 5% human. I’m not agreeing to more than 5% though…..

  37. 37.

    Mary G

    The Biden administration isn’t leaking like the Former Guy’s, when staffers were either trying to stab each other in the back, or kiss up to the Bloat, or get him to pay attention to something, so these “reporters” can’t just sit on their couches takin phone calls from Kellyanne/Jarvanka, etc.

  38. 38.

    TS (the original)

    @patroclus:

    As I read, no doubt on twitter, if the only thing the Megan/Harry interview did was to remove Piers Morgan from TV screens, they have done the world a great service.

  40. 40.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @Ruckus: Amen. Whenever I read of Piers Morgan’s antics, I think that he is the rare case where the wise thing to do is follow the example of Jeremy Clarkson. (Except that apparently Clarkson broke his hand in the process, which is why I advocate using a baseball bat instead.)

  42. 42.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Opinion | I Was a Lifelong Democrat. Then Biden Went 47 Days Without Holding a Solo Press Conference.— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) March 9, 2021

    LOL

    Doug is something else.

  43. 43.

    sab

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR: Piers Morgan inherited the Larry King Show that ran for a quarter of a century being midwestern nice. He came in being Murdoch Brit nasty and blew up the franchise in a couple of months. Came to America for the money. Didn’t understand the market. Incompetent!?!?

    Now he hates us because he blew his one shot at us and our money.  So Harry and his very classy lady and child are fair game to that slug.

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    @piratedan:

    Linskey’s (or Linskeys) apparent raison d’etre is to (help) bring down a leading Demon-rat. She tried her hardest with Hillary in 2016. [ETA: And, as TS pointed out, Senator Professor Warren last year.] She may have been out of practice, but she’s just getting warmed up for Speedy Joe. Although, in fairness, I don’t think I’ve seen her use the “just asking/saying” device, so fond of the traitorous Rethuglican mofos and their ass-lickers.

  47. 47.

    Uncle Cosmo

    Piers Morgan is leaving Good Morning, Britain to join the staff of Good Riddance, Cousins!

  48. 48.

    cintibud

    RE: Major Biden – This calls for an appearance of Elvira Gulch. I had to look up the name. That is the woman at the beginning of the Wizard of Oz who takes Toto away from Dorothy and rides off on her bike with Toto in a basket. These reporters are her spiritual descendants.

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