Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

He really is that stupid.

Republicans don’t trust women.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Books are my comfort food!

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

The revolution will be supervised.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

We won’t go back.

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This is absolutely Vogue territory — not something a political reporter should be throwing a snit over!

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  2. 2.

    SpaceUnit

    What bride doesn’t want to stop everything and field bad-faith questions from the DC press corps on her special day?  The nerve.

  4. 4.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    TCM has a interesting cultural documentary tonight: “The Automat”  Here’s a preview (link)

    “Many people have referred to them as palaces or even palaces for the people,” said Hurwitz. “It would not be unheard of for two completely different people, from different backgrounds, different walks of life, to be sharing a table.”

    Chita Rivera was just 17 when she arrived in New York to study dance. “The Automat was sort of our second home,” she said.

    Rocca said, “You make it sound so welcoming; you make it sound homey.”

    “It was. It took the place of my Mom and my family.”

    That coffee was so beloved, Mel Brooks even wrote a song about it

  5. 5.

    MazeDancer

    Mentioned this in the downstairs thread but bears repeating: The only liars in this mess is the press.

    Vogue took the beautiful photos of Naomi and FLOTUS before the wedding. As they do for most “events”. Because they are a fashion magazine, they want to control the lighting, hair, make-up, etc.

    All the “day of” photos were taken by the wedding photographer.

    Vogue was not there. Now, as it was a private event, Naomi could have invited the entire Vogue staff. She did not.

    Ashley Parker is a Biden attacker extraordinaire.

  6. 6.

    Butter Emails!

    My favorite part is that they are lying about the administration lying. Having Vogue take some pictures before the event does not mean the wedding isn’t private. Vogue did not cover the ceremony.

  7. 7.

    MomSense

    They’ve always been this bad.  I worked at the hotel where the WHPC stayed in Kennebunkport when George HW was president.  They are the kids who weren’t popular in HS but wished they were.  They do no work or research – they just talk to each other.  They are desperate for access and are socially aspirant.  I have so many stories from the time I spent with them.

  10. 10.

    MomSense

    Like I said, the WHPC were the kids who were not popular in HS and wished they were.  That they weren’t invited to this private event recalls a lot of rejection and painful memories for them.

    Fuckem.

  11. 11.

    pacem appellant

    My usual chorus is: NYT delenda sunt. Today, we’re finally adding the Bezos Post to the demand. It should have been soon, but eh, I get lazy, just like a common WHPC reporter. Our media have failed us. The only thing left to do is destroy them and start over. Without further ado:

    Acta NYT et WaPo delenda sunt.

  12. 12.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    It is of enormous significance.

    There have only been three prior midterm elections in the history of the country in which the party holding the White House has fared well.

    And so the Democrats really have achieved an historic victory, going against the conventional wisdom.

    ~ Presidential historian Allan Lichtman

    Professor Lichtman has correctly predicted the results of the last 10 presidential elections.

  13. 13.

    Alison Rose

    for folks wondering why this is news

    I’m still wondering, Maggie.

    And I’ll repeat my comment in a previous thread: As a Parker, I denounce Ashley’s shameful bullshit done under our shared name. HOW DARE YOU BESMIRCH OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SURNAME, MA’AM. You do not deserve to share it with such icons as Charlie, Sarah Jessica, Fess, and Bonnie*.

    (*Yep, of Bonnie-and-Clyde fame. Almost could’ve been my name too, if not for the inconvenient fact that my dad’s previous wife was named Bonnie. Too bad, because that would have been cool. I mean…the 1930s Bonnie was, you know, a bad person. But still kinda cool.)

  14. 14.

    MomSense

    @TheOtherHank:

    One of my jobs was to make copies of the daily press briefing that we received by fax every day from the press office.  I read it while I made copies and wrote a list of questions I would ask if given the chance.  I put one copy of the press briefing in every guest’s mailbox.  At the end of the day we threw all the copies away.  NOONE read them.  Well Mary Tillotson read them but everyone hated her because she actually asked HW about the woman everyone knew he was having an affair with.  She never got invited to go for a ride on HW’s cigarette boat and that was the prize they all coveted.
    I knew HW very well.  The day he came by for a press event and stopped to talk to me, kiss and hug me, was something.  All of a sudden I had a lot of interest.

  15. 15.

    patrick II

    I have sometimes lied to my wife when she asks whether I like her dress. It will not lead me to lie about the efficacy of a vaccine that will save millions of lives.
    There is a difference, maggie

  22. 22.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Yet another hero identified in the Club Q mass shooting.

    The Military Times reports:

    The Navy has confirmed that a sailor was among the 18 injured in the Colorado nightclub shooting on Nov. 19 that also left five dead. Local officials and police said the sailor played a key role in stopping the shooting. Petty Officer Second Class Thomas James was among those injured, the Navy said in a statement released Tuesday but added that “James is currently in stable condition and we remain hopeful he will make a full recovery.”

    Also just another reminder that the person who stomped the gunman with her heels was actually a trans woman — not a drag queen — who wasn’t in the show (per the only drag queen actually in the club during the shooting).

  24. 24.

    Kay

    They don’t like the Bidens. Not sure what social offense the Bidens committed against the rigidly conventional and scolding press corps, but it must have been pretty bad.

  25. 25.

    MomSense

    @Spanky:

    I think a lot of people are attracted to power. He was an intelligent and interesting person and definitely had a master of the universe vibe.
    We talked at coffee hour after church about what I was studying at university and a couple  months later I got a call from an ambassador who was speaking at a symposium at my university.  We had lunch at the faculty hall.  Those were the days of landlines but my phone number was in my roommate’s name.
    Hate to admit it but I did feel special when that happened.  HW said he had a friend who was an ambassador and an alum and I would enjoy meeting him. I thought that was small talk.

    He also knew what car I drove and it had a “save Kennebunkport vote Democratic” bumper sticker on it.  He didn’t hold that against me.

  26. 26.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    this is the most braindead bothsideism I’ve ever seen.

    I didn’t have my glasses on and I initially read this as “braindead Broderism” – which is exactly the same thing.

  28. 28.

    Kay

    I wonder if journalists were more fun when they drank and smoked and went to state schools and didn’t have well-connected parents.

  30. 30.

    Jim Appleton

    @MomSense:   I’ve told this here before, please forgive.

    Was walking downtown Portland mid ’90’s, at the Benson Hotel there were HW and Barb on the sidewalk right in front of me, he getting into a limo, she apparently not.  Only one bodyguard who didn’t seem to mind that I was about to walk between him and his client.

    With them looking at me, I put my finger down my throat, puked, and continued on my way.

  31. 31.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @MomSense:

    Well Mary Tillotson read them but everyone hated her because she actually asked HW about the woman everyone knew he was having an affair with.

    Jennifer Fitzgerald?

  33. 33.

    eclare

    @Kay:   PJ O’Rourke did not go to a state school, but he drank, smoked, and seemed like fun from his writing.  Note>  I mainly read his travel writing.

  34. 34.

    Redshift

    @Butter Emails!: The supposed “lie” as far as I can tell, is that a reporter asked them about the juicy gossip that Vogue was covering the wedding, and was told no. And that was a “lie” (downgraded to a “loophole”) because they were doing a photo shoot two days before. But not the wedding.

    That’s really it. And idiots like Maggie Haberman try to pretend that “none of your goddamn business” is a troubling indication they might “lie” about bigger things.

  35. 35.

    mrmoshpotato

    Hot!  Damn!  Naomi Biden should tell the press corpse to go fuck themselves the second after her grandfather is longer in office.

  36. 36.

    Alison Rose

    @Kay: They don’t like any Democratic POTUS or VPOTUS. When was the last time the mainstream press was anything but snide, snippy, demeaning, and angerpants toward a Democrat in the White House? Biden, Harris, Obama, Clinton (including Hillary of course), Gore…I wasn’t alive during Carter’s presidency but I know they hated the fuck out of him too, and he’s basically the embodiment of Jesus, IMO.

    They hate Democrats, and for some reason, they think that makes them impartial.

  37. 37.

    Starfish

    @Redshift: Remember the Obama “scandal” when he dropped his press folks when he wanted to go have a fun time with his kids without being bothered?

  45. 45.

    Kay

    @Alison Rose:

    I think they believe Biden is dumb- as in “not that smart”. His magic power seems to be that he is consistently underestimated. It’s almost funny at this point, it’s so predictable.

  47. 47.

    Redshift

    @MomSense: Yes. No news story is ever broken by the White House Press Corps. Their mission is to be seen asking an Important Question at a press conference, or reporting from an an overseas trip with the big man.

  48. 48.

    Alison Rose

    @Starfish: God, the way they treated Chelsea was so gross. I mean, sure, shitheads like Limbaugh were the worst, but the regular press wasn’t much better. She and I are the same age and I remember thinking how horrible it would been to have to go through puberty as maybe not the prettiest preteen girl in the world in front of the whole damn nation. It was hard enough for me doing it just in front of my schoolmates. I always wished I could meet Chelsea and just give her a hug.

  49. 49.

    Matt McIrvin

    @David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: I think Lichtman’s predictions are at least a little bit fudged: he predicted a Gore win in 2000 and a Trump win in 2016. He claims his goal changed in advance from a popular-vote to an electoral-vote prediction, but that distinction has always seemed a bit post-hoc to me.

  50. 50.

    Kay

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It’s funny how many libertarians and conservatives went there. A FEDERAL grant school. It’s uber “public”,  really- would not exist but for Big Government.

  51. 51.

    delphinium

    Damn-if these low-grade, whiny, attention seekers aren’t starting to make Peter Doocy look good.

  54. 54.

    Geminid

    @Kay: I remember how radio host Neal Boortz would gripe about “government schools,” at least when he wasn’t bragging about being a Texas A&M grad.

  55. 55.

    MomSense

    @Redshift:

    The photographer with one of the wire services (I think it was AP) told me that the only purpose of the WHPC was to be there in case something happened like the assassination of JFK.  He told me that when the helicopter takes off the photographers point their cameras at the chopper and hold the motor drive while the tv cameramen would film the takeoff and landing just in case something went wrong and the chopper crashed.  He told me they all knew that they were only there to cover a catastrophe, that they weren’t expected to cover news, and they were all stupid shits.

  56. 56.

    Kay

    I worry less about national political media since the midterms. They completely ignored Dobbs, barely covered it at all, and voters figured it out just fine without them.

    Arguably it’s better for the country if they stick to issues like Vogue taking pictures of the bride.

  57. 57.

    Kay

    @Geminid:

    A grant signed by George Washington!

    Maybe Paul Ryan doesn’t know it’s a public school. They sort of put on airs as a fake private school, honestly. People are always “it’s all BRICK” and I think “yeah, that’s PRETTY FANCY, brick”.

  60. 60.

    Geminid

    @Kay: I think that for most people this controversy will reflect poorly  on the media and reflect well on the President’s decision to cut them out.

  61. 61.

    James E Powell

    @Kay:

    Not sure what social offense the Bidens committed against the rigidly conventional and scolding press corps, but it must have been pretty bad.

    The list of offenses is long, but includes being Democrats, winning the election, being decent people, and failing to provide a steady flow of gossip & juvenile behavior.

    Perhaps my favorite press complaint of the Biden era was that when reporters asked a White House person about some policy matter, the White House would not answer, but instead they would have the people responsible for that policy matter call them.

  63. 63.

    Kay

    @Geminid:

    I can’t forgive them for the nastiness around Hunter Biden’s drug addiction. I know so many people with drug addicted adult children So, so many. Was ir necessary to release and promote that heartbreaking Biden voicemail? It has nothing to do with Biden’s work.

  65. 65.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So, the press is throwing a hissy fit over not being invited to the wedding. Gods are these people pathetic.

  67. 67.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

     Dec. 6, 1950

    Mr. Hume:

    I’ve just read your lousy review of Margaret’s concert. I’ve come to the conclusion that you are an “eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay.”

    It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you’re off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work.

    Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!

    Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope you’ll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry.

    Harry S. Truman​

  72. 72.

    leeleeFL

    FFS, these dipshits give me the WORST headache!  Why the fuck would Naomi want any of them at her wedding?  Are they her friends?  I think not!  They can all go pound sand!

  73. 73.

    RSA

    @Kay:

    They don’t like the Bidens. Not sure what social offense the Bidens committed against the rigidly conventional and scolding press corps, but it must have been pretty bad.

    The Bidens are middle class and don’t care who knows it.  For social climbers in the press, isn’t that enough to earn disdain?

  75. 75.

    leeleeFL

    FFS, these dipshits give me the WORST headache!  Why the fuck would Naomi want any of them at her wedding?  Are they her friends?  I think not!  They can all go pound sand!

  76. 76.

    raven

    Report from the beach. It was a really pretty day with a north wind. I fished for 10 hours and didn’t have a bite. It was great!

  83. 83.

    raven

    @eclare: We are on the “Emerald Coast” of Florida at Seagrove Beach. Incredible white sand beaches and emerald water. It was fairly chilly, especially since I went out into the water all day to cast.

  88. 88.

    Kay

    I wonder where they draw the line. Can the Bidens have a big, but private, party? What about a party after a Christening or something? Why would they consider this wedding public?

  89. 89.

    Ruckus

    @Kay:

    I don’t believe that the president kisses their asses and that is a faux pas of unbelievable proportions in their world. Now someone that does kiss their asses will get good press because they think that person actually likes them. Joe just doesn’t seem to play their game of kiss ass so he must hate them and every word they utter. Plus for some of them he’s not their type – you know someone like a bush or raygun or maybe even a trump. On the other hand they may have orders from above, the person that signs the check may set the tone and questions.

  90. 90.

    Kay

    @Ruckus:

    He’s sort of famously nice to them though:

    Jun 21, 2014, 4:10 PM Vice President Joe Biden hosted his annual media picnic at his official residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory Saturday. Reporters, their children, and members of Biden’s family were all in attendance and, as in year’s past, Biden picked up a super soaker and engaged in a water fight with the children and some members of the press.

    They seem to respect and admire people who treat them like shit. There’s no cure for that.

  93. 93.

    raven

    @eclare: It’s funny, our friends moved two BOQ’s from Eglin in the 80’s. They are funky old school beach houses  about 1/2 mile from Walton Dunes. It has exploded in the 17 years we’ve been coming here and there are not many of the old Florida places left. This lot is worth a million dollars now.

  95. 95.

    Ruckus

    @Kay:

    They seem to respect and admire people who treat them like shit. There’s no cure for that.

    No there really isn’t. Is it that they want to be the cool kids but have zero clue about who the cool kids are or how to be the cool kids when they no longer are kids? I wonder if being told repeatedly that they are not the news, not the important part of the job, their visions are unimportant might be part of the problem. There are people who don’t feel the limelight has to shine on them 24/7. I worked, as I’ve stated here many times, in Pro Sports and was seen at events and wearing a tux and speaking at awards banquets and did not feel the need to be in the limelight because I wasn’t the rational for the show in the first place. I was a worker not a participant. The press plays a similar role but they are also in competition for the best or worst response to those questions. We may not see it that way but they likely do and their jobs and paychecks may depend on it.

  96. 96.

    Citizen Alan

    @MomSense: My personal take is that pundit-journalists are people who have the strong desire to be high class prostitutes but aren’t sexually appealing. This is just the next best way for them to degrade themselves for lots of cash.

  97. 97.

    M31

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Holy shit, what a bunch of clueless cretins.

    once again, even knowing it will be worse than you think, it’s even worse than that, how is that possible?

  98. 98.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @HumboldtBlue: I wish CSPAN and other outlets would ID the putzes who ask these silly questions

    ETA: As Brian Schatz might put it, the important thing to say about wedding photo-a-lago is that two days ago there was a terrorist hate crime in the city that is home to the Air Force academy by the grandson of a 1/6 supporting politician, and Putin continues attempted genocide in Ukraine.

  99. 99.

    Citizen Alan

    @Kay: I maintain the absolute worst thing to ever happen to journalism was the proliferation of college journalism schools. Because it ensured that the top jobs in the jounalistic profession would be earmarked for the people whose parents could afford to buy their credentials from an Ivy League.

  100. 100.

    eclare

    @raven:   I’m sure, I’ve been to Seagrove and Seaside.  But my fave is St. George Island.  When I lived in ATL not a bad drive, unfortunately it’s much further now.

  101. 101.

    catothedog

    @Alison Rose:

    They hate Democrats, and for some reason, they think that makes them impartial.

    It’s domination. Beggars cant be chosers.

    We have Fox, who is completely aligned with Republicans, and give  them an unchallenged platform.

    Once in a while CNN, NBC, MSNBC agree with Democrats on some cultural issues. Otherwise – economically, racially, and everything else that matters to government policy, they are mostly aligned with Republicans. The so-called “liberal media” is mostly aligned with the billionaires and Republican policy goals.

    Democrats cannot go on any of those outlets and spew unchallenged views (like Republicans on Fox). They get questioned, criticized and will be given gotcha interviews and questions, and cut-off from answering.

    Democrats have to put up with it, because they have no other media options to reach the public

    If a Republican appearing on CNN/NBC/MSNBC were to get the same treatment as these channels gives Democrats, the Republican will simply NOT show up to that CNN/NBC/MSNBC again, and the channel will lose all Republican guests for its shows.

    Republicans can credibly threaten to boycott these channels because they always have Fox to get media exposure and reach their voters.

    Democrats, cannot play hardball with CNN, NBC, MSNBC, etc because Dems don’t have a fallback option, a channel of their own.

    Until Democrats have a captive media channel like Fox, which they can use as a Dem party mouthpiece to reach Dem aligned voters  through thick and thin, the “liberal” “independent” media will treat Dems like shit. There needs to be one rabid liberal media channel like Fox, to keep these “independent” channels in line.

  103. 103.

    Glidwrith

    @Kay: Biden faithfully served under a black man and beat their mango-colored seven-deadly-sin walking gossip column.

  104. 104.

    Geminid

    @M31: Now its not a race to the bottom so much as a race through the bottom

    Those Republicans are running hard, too.

  108. 108.

    Kay

    @Citizen Alan:

    I used to talk to Tom Troy, the politics reporter at the Toledo Blade. I would see him at events leaning against a wall in the back with a yellow legal pad so I would try to get him to tell me what he thought of the event or the candidate. I liked him- he was kind of sarcastic and …inscrutable. Anyway! He’s retired now.

    Former Toledo Blade assignment editor, politics writer, retired 2022 after 42 yrs in Oh., Md., Del., Pa. What am I doing now? This, among other things.

  110. 110.

    different-church-lady

    I disagree with this political viewpoint.

    OK, that’s our problem right there: politeness and respect to a fault. The appropriate response is, “YOU’RE A FUCKING DOLT IF YOU THINK THESE TWO THINGS ARE EQUIVALENT!”

  112. 112.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon 2h

    I think there’s a real chance McCarthy comes to the House floor, hat in hand like a broken-down vaudevillian, and begs. Or he tries to walk like a man for once in his life and dares them to vote against. Either way it will be a disgrace.

    I do like the imagery, especially broken-down vaudevillian, but I’m inclined to think they’ll push him over the top with some, but not too much, drama, maybe three rounds of voting. Then he’ll give a sad, pathetic attempt at a tuff guy speech and serve for less than a year and Marge and that coked-up Chuckie doll Gym Jordan will have pulled their approval ratings down to the proverbial 27%

  113. 113.

    different-church-lady

    @Alison Rose: Maggie, I’m not wondering why this is news. What I’m wondering is WHY DO YOU KEEP MAKING IT NEWS, WHICH IS THE ONLY REASON IT’S NEWS IN THE FIRST FUCKIN’ PLACE?

  115. 115.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Citizen Alan:

    The great sportswriter Jim Murray once said something along the lines of — “the best way to learn to be a reporter is to work the NYPD beat at the Daily News.”

    I think every person wanting to be an actual news reporter should start out covering sports. The basics are all the same except with sports you have several knowns — the parties involved, the time and place of the event, a guaranteed outcome and access to the parties involved for interviews as well as a stat sheet with the pertinent information for each team and each player.

    I had a journalist friend ask me after I moved from news radio back to print and began covering courts and crime if my earlier experience as a sportswriter carried over to the court reporting I was turning out (she was surprised I settled in quickly, I do admit it was very daunting at first). I told her damn right, I had to learn a whole new vocabulary for the courts along with its very parochial practices (a lot of call and response to be honest), but the basics were the same.

    There was a scheduled hearing, all the parties were known, there would be an outcome even if it was a continuance, and the details of the issue at hand were readily available in the filings.

    Interviews were far more difficult — DAs don’t wanna talk, defense attorneys don’t wanna talk unless it’s to their advantage and asking a mother bout the proceedings regarding the murder of her daughter were heartbreaking and very hard to do — but the process was very similar and very familiar.

  116. 116.

    Kay

    @Citizen Alan:

    And his paper is owned by the nutty Right wing Block Family, who go more insanely Right every year. Maybe that’s why he retired:

    A day after Trump supporters pushed and struck local police, allegedly with lead pipes, broke windows, and occupied the U.S. Capitol offices and chambers, journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade are calling out their ownership group Block Communications and its family, alleging their politics are playing a part in recent news coverage of the events.
    According to a press release from the Toledo and Pittsburgh NewsGuilds unions, which represent journalist at both papers, Blade Executive Editor Kurt Franck issued an edict to all Blade web staff, saying they could not refer to those rioting in Washington as “Trump supporters,” despite the event being Donald Trump-branded, and an event the president encouraged.

    The guilds’ presser also highlights that the politics of the Blocks goes beyond just John Robinson. Susan Allan Block, the wife of Allan Block, who owns Block Communications Inc. with his brother John Robinson, posted on social media today in support of the insurrection carried out by Trump supporters.
    On Facebook, she wrote in all caps, “NO PEACE! NO UNITY! NO CONCESSION! NO LEGITIMACY TO A STOLEN ELECTION! THER [sic] ARE 70 MILLION TRUMP SUPPORTERS WHO WILL NOT FALL IN LINE.”

    Fair and balanced.

  119. 119.

    HumboldtBlue

    @different-church-lady:

    I hope not, but who knows at this point.

    @eclare:

    Oh, they are the most pedantic fucks in the universe and if you miss even the most insignificant detail or get even the most trivial detail incorrect you will fucking hear about it.

  122. 122.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Lyrebird:

    That’s what’s pissed me off as well, Trump lied repeatedly every fucking day, and it was never called out for being that, lies, the hemmed and hawed and used passive language, but with Biden, BAM! Lies are back! It’s a fucking miracle!

  123. 123.

    Kabiddle

    This morning 6am listened to Morning Joe yell about republicans planning to investigate all manner of people associated with democrats rather than addressing kitchen table issues like inflation, health care, homelessness. Yet not one minute did Joe et al address during morning prime time the kitchen table issues of inflation (price gouging), health care (monopolies), or homelessness (priced out of reach). Not one minute. Blah.

  124. 124.

    Princess

    Biden should have put them in a cage in the very back of the reception hall where the guests could insult them as they passed by. That’s what they want, right? They liked it when Trump did it, right?

  126. 126.

    sab

    @Kay: Bidens are nice wholesome people wanting to do good. Press are social climbing courtiers wanting to be important in DC when they were born elsewhere. Always climbing.

  127. 127.

    sab

    @Kay: Nice people being nice to other people who weren’t important? Blew up their whole social structure pecking order.

  128. 128.

    sab

    @RSA: For God’s sake! Jill Biden teaches in a community college and does not whine that she isn’t teaching in the Ivy Leagues. What is wrong with that woman? And she is FLOTUS!

    //

  129. 129.

    VOR

    @Alison Rose: True. But they loved the Trump White House. Endless drama, huge amounts of leaking. Everyone was backstabbing each other by leaking to the press. An endless parade of people coming and going. Everyday the question “what did he do now?” so they always had a story topic. No need to learn anything about policy.

    TFG had a press secretary who never held a press conference. No, seriously. Stephanie Grisham was press secretary from July 2019 – April 2020 and held zero press conferences in that 9 month period. She published a book titled “I’ll take your questions now”.

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