FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2023
Also, here's what it says in the Post: We're headed off on a brief trip and we won't be posting today.
That said, we scanned the front page of the (online) Washington Post at 5:45 A.M. This was the banner headline on the second news report from the top (with apologies to young women):
Young women are criticized for this vocal tic — but it helps whales survive
As of 5:45 this morning, that was the (online) Post's number two news report worldwide!
We're amazed by what's happening at the (online) Post. Also, by the fact that no one else seems to be amazed!
ReplyDelete"...Post's number two news report worldwide!"
Worldwide, dear Bob? Puh-leeze. We're reasonably certain that you're the only one reader of this scummy neocon publication, which owner has (surprise, surprise!) billions dollars worth of dealings with the Pentagon...
Thank God for Putin!
DeleteIf who you do business with matters you would have had a problem with your favorite twice impeached president, but you are a phoney sanctimonious cultist, therefore no.
DeleteI'd use they/ them pronouns to upset Mao, but no Right-winger cares about pronoun usage, in the least. They just like to punch down on the marginalized, because all they really care about is bigotry.
Delete"No" to what, dear dembot? To "who you do business with matters"? Because we are, in your dembot opinion a "phoney sanctimonious cultist"?
DeleteSee what we told you earlier about obvious logical fallacies? Get it?
Putin has never been impeached.
DeleteI kept it at one sentence to accommodate your cognitive issues, but clearly I was overestimating them. From here on out it will be monosyllabic words in short phrases.
DeleteMeh. No need to to overextend your mental abilities, dear Mrs. Unamused. Your usual moaning is perfectly adequate.
DeleteThe best man in the world is Vladimir Putin.
DeleteHe certainly thinks so...
DeleteGirls are obviously not important to Somerby. Neither are whales. He can click on National or on Politics if he wants to read something different at 5:45 am. Was there ever a person with less curiosity than Somerby?
ReplyDeleteMy paper has a story about Murdaugh first, then a story about the Commanders. I'm not a sports fan and I don't follow true crime. That left me 0 for 2, but you don't hear me whining about it, as if the paper were supposed to be tailored to my tastes and mine alone.
Right. Girls and whales are equally important.
DeleteOr in Somerby's case, equally unimportant.
DeleteKennedy raped his intern,
DeleteThis is another of those stories that circulate among detractors, such as that Hillary killed Vince Foster or Biden raped Tara Reade.
DeleteHe got her drunk and raped her. It's public knowledge.
DeleteShe was lucky. He could have left he in a car at the bottom of a river.
DeleteNewsweek published Mimi Alford's first-person book excerpt in 2003. It was unsubstantiated and appeared 40 years after JFK's death, so he obviously had no chance to rebut her account of anything. She was 19 at the time and never said he raped her. She said she never said no to him. It was described as an affair by historian Robert Dallek, who found staff rumors about an intern named Mimi in white house archives.
DeleteRape is a crime. Affairs between consenting adults are nobody's business.
Dalleck viewed it as rape.
Delete"Affairs between consenting adults are nobody's business."
DeleteYes, unless those nobodies are dembots in pursuit of their political targets.
John f Kennedy got his 19-year-old intern drunk and took her virginity during consensual sex on Jackie's bed. Rape had nothing to do with it. It was merely a bit of consensual adult fun between a 19 year old virgin and the man she was working for who was more than twice her age who got her drunk.
DeleteIt's not like the young virgin was innocent. She was practically begging for it.
DeleteMao, nice of you to take time out from the CPAC conference with your fellow right-wing crackpots, it bestow on us TDH followers your clever apercus.
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DeleteAh, an MA dembot gets triggered by a Chappaquiddick joke...
...we would like to take credit, but it's like taking candy from a baby...
Kennedy was the victim. The teenage virgin made him get on top of her and penetrate her repeatedly.
Deleteconsenting adults
DeleteDembots know how switch their "metoo" mode off, when it becomes inconvenient. Tara Reade is another case.
DeleteConsenting middle aged presidents and drunk teenage virgins? No one ever said there was any consent.
DeleteMimi Aldrin said there was consent. She was 19, which makes her legally able to give consent.
DeleteShe never used the word consent.
DeleteShe said it was out of the question that she could say no at any point in time while he was getting her drunk and taking her virginity on Jackie's bed.
DeleteIt's common for middle age bosses to get their virginal teenage subordinates drunk at work and have consensual sex with them on their wive's bed. Amirite?
Deletebetter trolling please
Delete1:43 - ... an hour after they met them.
DeleteI think we should all look at what Kennedy did as rape.
DeleteThe Right forgot to be upset with Kennedy's raping, just like they forgot to be upset with him lowering the top tax rate.
DeleteLong ago, Tucker Carlson cared about the truth.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tD2H6AX1fE&t=135s
While Trump is busily trying out different derogatory nicknames for DeSantis, Tom Sullivan has found it:
ReplyDelete"Gov. Wokety-woke DeWoke"
The Root has a roundup of Fox News' most racist lies:
ReplyDelete1. The great replacement theory.
2. In addition to covid denial, the station talked about the origins of the virus in a racist way.
3. Tucker Carlson said the police-violence protests were not about black lives but about the mob coming for you (his viewers).
4. Tucker Carlson went on a tirade on how the hiring rules have been altered under the Biden administration so that Karine Jean-Pierre, like Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown Jackson, was picked because she satisfied a Democratic diversity quota—and nothing else.
5. In 2019, Laura Ingraham—host of Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle”— rallied behind white supremacists who she believed were unfairly censored on social media, including Alex Jones, Candace Owens and Milo Yiannopoulos. Fox rallied behind Ingraham.
6. In 2013 Megyn Kelly declared that Jesus is white. “I just want the kids watching to know that,” she said. “How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy, of the story, and change Santa from white to Black?” Jesus, if he existed, was born in Palestine.
Cont.
Delete7. Before being fired by Fox News in 2017, Bill O’Reilly spent years saying that racism is not a real problem in America and that if it is, it’s white folks who suffer. During his “Talking Points Commentary” in 2016, O’Reilly said “the left in America is demanding that the Electoral College system put into place in 1787 be scrapped” because “the left wants power taken away from the white establishment.” He also said that the biggest desire for Democrats is that “white working-class voters [become] marginalized.”
8. In 2016, Michelle Obama gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention in which she mentioned the fact that the White House was built by slaves. In response, O’Reilly couldn’t help but say that those same slaves “were well-fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government.”
9. In 2022 during a broadcast, Fox News host Harris Faulkner told viewers that migrants at the southern border “make our country look like what they left” and “our people” are now forced to clean up their “excrement.”
10. In 2016, Jesse Watters did a series of mocking interviews in New York’s Chinatown. It was so horrible that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the segment. Two years later, Watters used his show to make jokes about a New York Times editorial board hire, Sarah Jeong.
https://www.theroot.com/here-is-a-roundup-of-fox-news-most-racist-lies-1850185203?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-03-04
Thanks for the laughs. Is that you, the "Digby Digby Digby" troll? You're making this up, right?
Delete...by the way, next time you do this, start from 10 and work your way up to NUMBER ONE!, the punch line: Sarah Jeong...
DeleteFrom Democratic Underground:
ReplyDelete"President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Medal of Honor to a Black Army Special Forces hero from the Vietnam War who has waited close to 60 years to receive the nation's top award for valor after the Army said the paperwork couldn't be found.
Then a 26-year-old captain, Paris Davis, now 83, led a company tearing through a larger enemy force, pushing the attack despite being shot, absorbing shrapnel and another bullet to get wounded comrades to safety, refusing to join them on the evacuation helicopter, choosing rather to stay and continue destroying the remaining adversaries.
"And although the men who were with him on that June day immediately nominated Captain Davis to receive the Medal of Honor, somehow the paper -- the paperwork was never processed, not just once, but twice. But, you know what Captain Davis said after learning that he would finally receive the Medal of Honor? Quote, 'America was behind me.'"
A colonel by the time he retired from the Army, Davis' first name "Paris" is inspired by the mythological figure featured in Homer's epic war poem "The Iliad."
Amazing how paperwork gets lost, twice...
DeleteIs he going to toss it, like Special Envoy Kerry?
DeleteIs that why you think the paperwork got lost, twice?
DeleteWell, you should probably ask "Democratic Underground" about the details.
Delete...could it be that some clerk wasn't happy about "baby-killers" getting medals?
In that case, other people's paperwork would have been lost too. Not just this one guy's.
DeleteMaybe this one guy killed more babies than other people.
Delete"...refusing to join them on the evacuation helicopter, choosing rather to stay and continue destroying the remaining adversaries" sounds a bit mucho-macho, if you know what we mean...
Maybe you just like to defend racists.
DeleteMeh. We aren't defending this guy, so eager to kill as many Vietnamese peasants as possible.
DeleteThe Vietnam was over in the 1970s.
DeleteThe nickname of Paris in the Iliad was Alexander.
DeleteCNN still employ fact-checker Daniel Dale, who has been checking remarks made at CPAC. Among them was this one:
ReplyDelete"Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a former college and high school football coach, said, “Going into thousands of kids’ homes and talking to parents every year recruiting, half the kids in this country – I’m not talking about race, I’m just talking about – half the kids in this country have one or no parent. And it’s because of the attack on faith. People are losing faith because, for some reason, because the attack [on] God.”
Facts First: Tuberville’s claim that half of American children don’t have two parents is incorrect. Official figures from the Census Bureau show that, in 2021, about 70% of US children under the age of 18 lived with two parents and about 65% lived with two married parents.
About 22% of children lived with only a mother, about 5% with only a father, and about 3% with no parent. But the Census Bureau has explained that even children who are listed as living with only one parent may have a second parent; children are listed as living with only one parent if, for example, one parent is deployed overseas with the military or if their divorced parents share custody of them.
It is true that the percentage of US children living in households with two parents has been declining for decades. Still, Tuberville’s statistic significantly exaggerated the current situation. His spokesperson told CNN on Thursday that the senator was speaking “anecdotally” from his personal experience meeting with families as a football coach."
This is how right-wing memes start and get repeated. Then the next thing you know, someone is saying earnestly that there are little boxes in the hallways of public schools for children who identify as furries.
Next time Somerby claims that the mainstream media doesn't fact-check right-wing nonsense, remember this guy (Daniel Dale). Here is his webpage:
https://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/fact-check-politics
little boxes = litter boxes
DeleteI identify as a helicopter. My pronoun is it.
DeleteIt's odd that dembots are so embarrassed of their being ferrets and shitting into litter boxes.
Delete...it would've been so much worse if they were defecating into human footwear...
The Right-wing is a bunch of bigots, no matter how they identify themselves.
DeleteThat is all.
That explains why Mexicans are fleeing the Democratic party.
DeleteThe Democrat party.
DeleteIt was changed last month to the DemocratX Party.
DeleteMexicanx are fleeing the Democratx party.
DeleteRead about Ukraine:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ft.com/content/2df2b398-bea7-4484-b3ac-f584b6dbe417
“Hundreds of schoolgirls were taken to hospitals across Iran on Saturday, state media reported, as suspected chemical attacks on the country’s girls schools continued,” Bloomberg reports.
ReplyDelete“Saturday marked possibly the worst day so far in a wave of unexplained illnesses dating back to November: at least 300 girls in more than a dozen cities were treated for various symptoms of unknown origin, according to reports by state-run and semi-official news agencies.”
From The Root:
ReplyDeleteThe illiterate backwoodsman or rapper (and hence by inference the savage or semi-civilized man), whose mind is occupied merely by his surroundings, and whose range of thought, in place of being diffused over an illimitable horizon, is confined within very moderate limits, develops remarkable powers of observation and an accuracy of memory in regard to localities, and the details of his daily life, surprising to the scholar who has mentally to travel over so much more ground, and, receiving daily so many and so far more complex ideas, can naturally grasp each less firmly, and is apt to lose them entirely in the haze of a period of time which would still leave those of the uneducated man distinguishable or even prominent landmarks. Variations in traditions must, of course, occur in time, and the same histories, radiating in all directions from centres, vary from the original ones by increments dependent on proportionately altered phases of temperament and character, induced by change of climate, associations and conditions of life; so that the early written history of every country reproduces under its own garb, and with a claim to originality, attenuated, enriched, or deformed versions of traditions common in their origin to many or all which is why black Democrats are all leaving the party.
Not the Root
DeleteThe Root (comt.)
DeleteThe beautiful mythology of the Greek nation, comprising a pantheon of gods and demigods, benign for the most part, and often interesting themselves directly in the welfare of individual men, was surely due to, or at least greatly induced by, the plastic influences of a delicious climate, a semi-insular position in a sea comparatively free from stormy weather, and an open mountainous country, moderately fertile. Again, the gloomy and sanguinary religion of the Druids was doubtless moulded by the depressing influences of the seclusion, twilight haze, and dangers of the dense forests in which they hid themselves—forests which, as we know from Cæsar, spread over the greater part of Gaul, Britain, and Spain; while the Viking, having from the chance or choice of his ancestors, inherited a rugged seaboard, lashed by tempestuous waves and swept by howling winds, a seaboard with only a rugged country shrouded with unsubdued forests at its back, exposed during the major portion of the year to great severity of climate, and yielding at the best but a niggard and precarious harvest, became perforce a bold and skilful mariner, and, translating his belief into a language symbolic of his new surroundings, believed that he saw and heard Thor in the midst of the howling tempests, revealed majestic and terrible through rents in the storms pursuing our consideration of the effects produced by climatic conditions, may we not assume, for example, that some at least of the Chaldæans, inhabiting a pastoral country, and being descended from ancestors who had pursued, for hundreds or thousands of years, a nomadic existence in the vast open steppes in the highlands of Central Asia, were indebted to those circumstances for the advance which they are credited with having made in astronomy and kindred sciences. Is it not possible that their acquaintance with climatology was as exact or even more so than our own? The habit of solitude would induce reflection, the subject of which would naturally be the causes influencing the vicissitudes of weather. The possibilities of rain or sunshine, wind or storm, would be with them a prominent object of solicitude; and the necessity, in an unfenced country, of extending their watch over their flocks and herds throughout the night, would perforce more or less rivet their attention upon the glorious constellations of the heavens above, and lead to habits of observation which, systematized and long continued by the priesthood, might have produced deductions accurate in the result even if faulty in the process not unlike blacks and Mexicans leaving the Democratic party.
Anyone who isn't a bigot, or isn't perfectly fine with bigotry, left the Republican Party more than two decades ago.
DeleteWhy did Somerby not post Friday or Saturday? Did he have to attend CPAC?
ReplyDeleteFunny, but that might not be exactly helpful.
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ReplyDeleteSmoking weed, feeling fine
When suddenly I see a blue light behind
Uh, caller dickhead, check out my crack
I think I got a bear on my back
He's on my ass and that's no joke
But I'm gonna leave that blue light motherfucker in the smoke
10-4
Said hih, ha, hih, ha, hih, ha, ha
Hih, ha, hih, ha, hih, heh, heh
1-2, I said fuck you
3-4, your mammy's a whore
5-6, check out this dick, yeah
While I was going around the corner, doing about 80
Looking between the thighs of some big pussy lady
While checking out the thighs of this fine ho
I could tell she had a lotta ass below
But stopped up ahead for a bite to eat
I said, "Hey bitch, give me some of this fine meat"
She said, "I got it here, so come on with it
But just make sure you got enough meat to get it"
I said, "My hands are large, and my prick is bigger
Just open up your thighs while I pull my trigger, yeah"
I grabbed the bitch by the hair and then headed for the room
She had a fine body, but a face like a coon
She sat on the bed and pulled off her clothes
As the funk from her pussy started fuckin' with my nose
Suddenly I find that it all was a waste
Cause there was a big prick staring me in the face
I kicked it with my feet and hit it with my hand
What I thought was a bitch was nothing but a man
An you know what I did then, huh