@emilyslist stands in solidarity with the @UAW workers. For years, the Big Three auto companies have raked in profits while workers continue to get left behind. It's time to put people over profit and ensure every worker gets a fair contract.
— Laphonza Butler (@LaphonzaB) September 25, 2023
… But Jonathan Martin’s well-insulated fellow ‘journalists’ all chortled at his retort!
Who asked for your empty theater criticism, hack?
— American Eagle Kaiju (@TonyMoonbeam) September 25, 2023
Aw they were *this* close to getting your approval but they blew it! https://t.co/Tg2EoZOx0x
— Not up for trouble, please stop asking (@agraybee) September 25, 2023
Are you issuing this ultimatum to all advocacy groups expressing solidarity or just the women?
— Caitlin Legacki ??????? (@caitleg) September 25, 2023
Exhibit…I lost count a long time ago actually…that calling Politico Tiger Beat on the Potomac is an insult to the original.
— Atticus (@AtticusLabrador) September 25, 2023
The unwritten rule of political journalism is that hypocrisy, real or imagined, is the only vice you can critique from a "neutral" standpoint. Therefore, if you don't have any standards or principled, you're functionally immune. If you do, it's open season. https://t.co/TthSTJ4Uq5
— Nathan Goldwag ???? (@GoldwagNathan) September 25, 2023
Alison Rose
I’m sure Jonathan thought he’d landed a sick burn there. Poor lil’ buddy
Also, if you’ve never read There Is Power in a Union by Philip Dray, I highly recommend.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
I imagine “major donors” are rich enough to be able to afford a Tesla without a car loan/lease, so they likely own it out right, bought with liquid cash/credit. What good would it do to give up the Tesla now? Tesla already has their money. Service costs would be peanuts to Tesla, wouldn’t it?
It’s such a stupid tweet on so many levels
Trivia Man
They used to say a 5 day work week was a pipe dream
32 hours or bust!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Catching up on the Maddow interview with Cassidy Hutchinson. My goodness. John Boehner acting like her creepy uncle at a wedding? Matt Gaetz stalking her at Camp David? I almost certainly won’t read this book, don’t know if I’m motivated enough for a spite-purchase.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Know who else owns a Tesla?
Hint: rhymes with Schlump.
Suzanne
I’m sure this smart guy really thought he’d landed a blow there.
Jay
Any word on how the TIFG’s “Scabby the Rat” speech at the Scab Factory went, or is that tomorrow’s entertainment?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
Trump owns a Tesla? But I thought EVs were WOKE!!?
Or are those ok because Musk owns it?
NotMax
@Jay
That’s yet to come.
Today in South Carolina he blamed windmills for killing whales.
Not making this up.
sdhays
@Jay: I thought Biden was tomorrow and the Crime Ball was Wednesday.
Crime Ball spent the day either committing another crime on camera or pretending to.
As one does.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Person, woman, man, camera, TV!
to be precise, he seemed to think he ran against Obama in ’16, ’20 and maybe now
MisterDancer
Tracks with my time as a Senate Office Page, decades ago. Too many “men” in Washington, and elsewhere, convinced any women they see as attractive is theirs for the “taking”.
I’ve got to hit the sack, but…yeah.
sdhays
@NotMax: Didn’t he claim they cause cancer while he Preznit?
We need to figure out how to weaponize the windmills in Trump’s “mind”.
moonbat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Obama lives in his head rent free. I’m pretty sure a big chunk of his refusal to accept that he lost in 2020 is because it was to Obama’s former VP.
sdhays
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Are you aware Joe Biden is old?
dmsilev
@NotMax:
To be fair, flying whales are virtually extinct. I’m sure there’s a connection.
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He’s been running against Obama since he started pushing the birther crap. Ramped up when Obama made fun of him at Nerd Prom.
Jay
@sdhays:
forgot about the gun thing today,……..
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
From WaPo in 2015:
chris green
That. I paid cash for mine years back, I hate phony stark more than anyone, I’ll never buy one of his alpha-test-quality cars again. But until mine dies i don’t see any reason to replace it. Especially since it’s old enough that I have unlimited free supercharging which elon has to pay for.
Redshift
@NotMax: And if I recall correctly, he doesn’t drive, so they’re just the automotive version of gold toilets.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
flood the airwaves and the ‘tubes and whatnot
wjca
No doubt the 2ANJs (2nd Amendment Nut Jobs) are ecstatic. After all, they think any restrictions on the ability to buy guns is anathema. But they were already in Trump’s camp, and absolutely not voting D under any circumstances, so no actual gain there.
NotMax
@Redshift
He has been spotted behind the wheel of the Rolls. But mostly, yes, is chauffeured around.
Wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn his driver license has expired but he drives regardless.
Alison Rose
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: But Biden occasionally pauses to fend off a stutter so clearly he is intellectually inferior.
Redshift
@Alison Rose:
It’s just so dumb. You could plausibly argue that an organization taking donations from someone who works against their purpose is hypocritical. But donors who take a personal action that’s just not as supportive as they could be of another organization you’re expressing support for? That’s not hypocrisy, that’s a fishing expedition that came back empty.
C Stars
I feel like this commentary by the politico chap is somehow of the same species or genus as David Brooks’ whiskey hot take last week. Just pointless, self-important, tone deaf xit.
HumboldtBlue
There is talk that Taylor Swift (a noted Philadelphia Eagles fan) is now in a union with Travis Kelce, a large man who plays tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, and who is the brother of Jason Kelce, the Eagles’ center and star of a documentary on Amazon.
Yes, sports is our gossip rag.
C Stars
@HumboldtBlue: I avoid celebrity/sports news like the plague. But why was a football player in a documentary about Amazon?
wjca
I just can’t see the downside of getting your opponents to help your efforts to oppose them. Real hypocracy only happens if you argue for doing one thing while doing the opposite. So if you got your opponents to donate by lying about your position, that might qualify.
But just taking their money, no strings attached? That’s only a problem for those who demand absolute purity on every point for someone to be allowed to ally on any issue. It may be a feel-good stance. But it pretty much guarantees zero progress towards your claimed ideal.
HumboldtBlue
@wjca:
Well, I was going to make up a story about how the Kelce brothers were working to fund groups that protect the Amazon rainforests, but that would be a lie (to my knowledge) and instead point out the documentary is ON Amazon video.
C Stars
HumboldtBlue:
Well sure. I dislike Amazon almost as much as I do celebrity gossip. Amazona non grata.
Was hoping it was an expose (starring an American FB player??) about Amazon’s terrible labor practices.
TriassicSands
That would be plausible, except that Trump is incapable of losing or admitting he’s lost to anyone. I’d agree that beating Obama’s VP would have been a very attractive for TIFG, but winning in 2016 would probably have been as much of a victory over Obama as it was over Hillary. Alternatively, the possibility of losing to Hillary, a woman, would have been horrifying to that fascist POS. But, on the other other hand, Trump’s brain is such a diseased swamp of greed, vengeance, fantasies of violence, and other toxic delusions who knows what is going on in there. So, anything is possible, because trying to decipher his insanity is bound to lead to madness.
I will always believe that being humiliated by Obama at the Correspondents’ Dinner is what made Trump finally decide to quit threatening to run for president (just another way to get free publicity, which is Trump’s heroin) and take the leap. And the rest, as they say, is criminal trials, um, history.
HumboldtBlue
@C Stars:
Well, there’s always Journey, who’s a bad witch.
Sebastian
Jonathan Martin is an idiot but it was quite useful that he brought up boycotting Tesla. It’s an idea worth exploring.
Geoduck
@NotMax: Everything is personal, and he never forgets a grudge. He hates windmills because he feels they ruined the view at his Scottish golf course.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I don’t believe that Trump even knows how to drive. By the way, are all of his cars gold? Except for the electric blue Diablo, of course.
Chetan Murthy
@Alison Rose:
A long, long time ago, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr. (the father) penned a manifesto for increased taxation of the rich; Buffett pointed out that his admin assistant paid a higher effective tax rate than he did, and that that was wrong. Some right-winger wrote (probably in the WSJ editorial section, I don’t remember) that if Buffett thought he was undertaxed, all he had to do was to donate his money to the Treasury — nothing was stopping him — and so he should shut his yap. He went on to say that to not do so, was *hypocrisy*.
Paul Krugman had the proper retort: he pointed out once upon a time, for rich people (typically men) to argue for some change to the laws that would disadvantage themselves, was viewed not as hypocrisy, but as civic-mindedness. And that once upon a time, civic-mindedness was viewed as a good thing. In short, there’s nothing wrong with keeping your Tesla while still pushing our government to rein in Kums (a)Lone, nothing wrong at all.
[Of course, our little buddy Martin has a different motive in mind I think: he also doesn’t like EVs, and wants to see people stop using them.
ETA: Krugman also argued that there was nothing hypocritical about arguing for a change to the laws, while following those laws to the letter, even to one’s own profit.
Redshift
@wjca:
Fair point. The risk is if you become dependent enough on their money that it does have an influence whether it’s explicit or not. But if it’s one of many, sure.
piratedan
watching the Maddow interview with Hutchinson. I thought Rachel handled her gently (which to be honest, I didn’t have an issue with) and tried to reconfirm some of the more sensitive details of the insanity that took place regarding the events surrounding the nearly called on insurrection act ploy. She also touched lightly upon the skeevyness of certain GOP persons and she confirmed that those things happened and yet, she’s still a believer in the GOP and wants the party to repudiate Trumpism… so she’s still something of a naif politically but if you’ve been in the GOP tribe since a wee bairn, it’s really gonna be hard to make that break when it’s been your entire life.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
No, but the vroom-vroom impractical motorbike is.
frosty
That’s been my thoughts too. It was a funny bit but very costly if we’re right. OTOH the only benefit from TFG-years and COVID lockdown is that fucking “Nerd Prom” may be dead dead deadski.
Anyway
Reminds me of complaints that Al Gore could not advocate for policies to combat climate change because he used commercial flights…
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
The Federalist is attacking …. [checks notes]…. Taylor Swift (link)
Please proceed, Governor
Villago Delenda Est
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
It’s crap like this that inspired my nym. Wipe them out. All of them.
Villago Delenda Est
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Everyone at The Federalist is on the tumbrel manifest.
NotMax
@Villago Delenda Est
But is it an ET — electric tumbrel?
//
Jay
@NotMax:
Nope, it is hauled by the outraged public,
the guillotine is how ever solar powered, but through radiant solar steam power, so it takes a while to heat up,……
anticipation, anticipation, it’s making me wait,…….
slackerjax
@NotMax: I wonder if he actually paid for any of them…
prostratedragon
Watching The Great Escape, see that David McCallum just died, Monday 25th. R.I.P.
Baud
Regardless of whether that retort was a sick burn (it wasn’t), why is a professional reporter engaging in mockery on Twitter? It’s extremely unprofessional behavior.
Baud
@NotMax:
Good 70s funk band name.
opiejeanne
@piratedan: Cassidy’s still pretty young, 27-28? Took me until I was 30 to start to see the light about who was running the party and how awful they were.
Kathleen
@Baud: Most of the Beltway Political Propaganda Complex stenographers engage in that behavior. It makes them “cool” and “edgy”. It also buttresses their prospects for employment at the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment when their beloved fascist overlords assume their rightful places again.
Baud
@Kathleen:
It makes them untrustworthy IMHO. The equivalent of talking about who they voted for. Especially when straight reporters do it, as opposed to professional opinion havers.
ETA: And that would go for reporters mocking right wing people too, if there were any doing it. Maybe someone like Alexandra Petri could do it, because she’s a humorist.
Michael Bersin
On Sunday I drove the three hours to Wentzville, Missouri to cover the UAW Local 2250 rally in support of their stand up strike at GM. Representative Cori Bush (D) was there. And she brought a friend from New York.
Representative Cori Bush (D) – UAW Local 2250 Stand Up Strike Rally – Wentzville, Missouri – September 24, 2023
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@piratedan:
She’s smart. To say otherwise would give Dump’s lawyers an ability to dismiss her as a partisan, with an axe to grind.
Paul in KY
@dmsilev: Good point. Hadn’t thought of that…
Paul in KY
@Steeplejack: Gold tone.