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But what did he mean by that? An interesting report appears in this morning's New York Times.
By classic reckoning, it's an important report about some basic blocking and tackling regarding the future of Ukraine.
It deals with basic blocking and tackling. That helps explain why you won't hear much about it:
How Would Peacekeeping Work in Ukraine? These Experts Gamed It Out.
The publication of the detailed analysis was a sign that a cease-fire has gone from a theoretical exercise to an urgent and practical issue.
That's the dual headline on the report. In today's print editions, it appears inside the paper, on page A6, listed as "International" news.
You won't hear much about that report. On the paper's front page, not without reason, you find such reports as these:
NEWS ANALYSIS
‘You Can’t Pin Him Down’: Trump’s Contradictions Are His Ultimate Cover
President Trump’s shifting positions and outright lies have presented the American public with dueling narratives at every turn.
How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks
Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price.
Ambitious Democrats Have a New Game Plan: Yak It Up About Sports
Prominent leaders are flocking to sports radio shows and podcasts, an early sign of how the party is trying to reach apolitical young men who have tilted toward President Trump.
Full disclosure! As we left Morning Joe this morning, they had Pablo Torre on again. It's a recurrent booking which lets the crew yak it up about sports.
In theory, the news report on page A6 deals with a major, nuts-and-bolts question:
How could Ukraine's security be guaranteed in the aftermath of a ceasefire with the Russkies—or even as part of a full-blown "peace deal?"
That's the question to which President Zelensky kept returning during the Oval Office debacle. But sure enough! After roughly 42 minutes of yak, Professor Brabender's immortal anthropological thesis was validated again:
Where I come from, we only talk so long. After that, we start to hit.
After 42 minutes of talk, Vance and Trump began whaling away at The Chump They Suddenly Had on the Ground, Pesci-DeNiro style. The dramatic attack got lots of attention. Left unexplored, to this very day, were such nuts-and-bolts questions as these:
Why didn't the minerals deal get signed that day? More to the point, what was actually in the deal which was supposed to get signed that day?
Was the minerals deal which was supposed to get signed the same as the original deal—the original deal Zelensky had refused to sign?
Was the deal the same, or had it been changed? At the 20-minute mark of the Oval Office event, a reporter posed that question to Trump, and Trump declined to say.
What as in the minerals deal as it existed that day? Also, why didn't Trump go ahead and arrange for it be signed?
As far we know, Zelensky still wanted to sign the deal—so why was he sent away? Admit it—you still have no idea!
The mugging of Zelensky was widely discussed. To this day, the nuts and bolts of what happened that day have been almost wholly ignored.
The attack on Zelensky got lots of attention. The basic blocking and tackling has gone unexplored. So it will be with the news report which appears today on page A6—and that's because the toothpaste is now out of the tube, the toothpaste known as the madness.
The madness is out of the tube! A night assault—a revolt from below—is now underway in the world, or at least that's the way it appears to us denizens of Blue America.
Is the order rapidly fadin'? So wrote a 22-year-old savant, way back in 1963:
The Times They Are A-Changin’
[...]
The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
That's the way it looked back then. After that, that's the way things in this nation seemed to be a-goin'.
Today, "the first ones then" seem to be pushin' back! Once again, the times, they seem to be a-changin'. Or at least, that's the way it tends to seem to us Blues.
The oligarchs may be pushin' back! We refer, for instance, to this news analysis piece, once again in today's New York Times, this time on page A5:
NEWS ANALYSIS
Trump’s Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever
President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.
[...]
Ms. Miller said in an interview that she thinks Mr. Trump’s affinity for the Russian president boils down to “autocrat envy”—that he covets the power Mr. Putin has to make decisions in Russia without any constraints.
“Trump likes Putin because Putin has control over his country,” she said. “And Trump wants control over his country.”
Are the autocrats in the process of dividing up the world? Does that include a new autocrat within the bloc—an autocrat who now sits in the Oval Office?
That's the way it tends to look to us in Blue America. Over there, on the Fox News Channel, waves of messengers change lines on the fly, assuring viewers that, if the commander has decreed it, it will surely turn out right.
Blue America and Red America are being schooled two different ways. This week, we'll be posing a question to Blue America:
How did we ever get to this place? How did we get to the place where someone we tend to regard as mad is now reshaping the world?
(Instant disclosure: Tens of millions of neighbors and friends do not see President Trump that way.)
How did we ever get to this place? In our view, Ezra Klein started to provide an answer with a lengthy, important opinion piece in yesterday's New York Times. His piece goes to the nuts-and-bolts level of something we've been trying to tell you for years:
We Blues aren't as smart as we think we are. Also, nobody likes us!
That helps explain how we got to this place, if only as a result of a very narrow defeat in last November's election.
How did we ever get here? As the daily firehose of distractions continues, in what place do we actually find ourselves?
"It is Mussolini," Chris Matthews said. But what did he mean by that?
Tomorrow: He's got your Mussolini right here.
ReplyDelete"That's the question to which President Zelensky kept returning during the Oval Office debacle."
And why is it, in your TDS-ruined mind, Donald Trump's business to answer any idiotic questions asked by puppet-clowns of idiot-Democrats?
Thank you Soros-bot.
DeleteWatch out. George Soros is hiding in your closet.
DeleteI don't understand why it is OK for Musk to wholly fund Trump's campaign and now to run the govt in public, while Soros is a bogey-man evoked every time any Democrats says or does anything. Soros is 94 years old. His biggest "crime" in Republican terms has been donated money to the ACLU, in public and without subterfuge. How did he come to loom so large for Republicans?
DeleteHis biggest crime is funding the installation of leftist prosecutors to ruin cities and cause women and children to be raped and murdered.
DeleteSoros is not to blame for Trump's lifetime of sexual assault acts, including raping a 13yo.
DeleteRed states/areas have the highest levels of violent crime as well as other destructive behavior like child abuse, drug use, domestic violence, racism, etc.
Prosecutors are not raping women and children and they are not murdering anyone.
DeleteMaybe they should be, apparently those acts can get you elected president.
DeleteEven if I had more free time on my hands, why would I ever pay attention to something Donald Trump says?
ReplyDeleteThat's as big a waste of time as reporting what Newt Gingrich says.
What kind of "news analysis" fails to note that Trump is being blackmailed by Putin?
ReplyDelete“ As far we know, Zelensky still wanted to sign the deal”
ReplyDeleteThis is one of those issue where conservative media and liberal media present two completely different versions of reality. Conservative media report that Z was totally unwilling to sign the deal. If Z wanted to sign, he would have signed. And demanding conditions that were nonstarters, namely US boots on the ground or NATO membership’s, was a way of refusing to sign the deal.
"If Z wanted to sign, he would have signed."
DeleteThey were supposed to have lunch, then sign the deal. Zelensky got thrown out of the White House before he had a chance to sign anything.
The reasons expressed by Vance in his tirade against Zelensky make no sense, so it makes his faux outrage seems conjured up just to avoid signing the deal on Trump's part. If Trump had wanted to sign the deal, he could have done it right away. Zelensky wouldn't have come to the White House if he weren't going to sign, but perhaps Trump reneged on the security guarantee or decided to embarrass Zelensky in public (at Putin's command). That makes more sense than Zelensky showing bad faith at the last minute over something Trump hadn't promised.
DeleteWe all saw with our own eyes, Dickhead, the ignominious way those two clowns you voted for treated our ally. I did not need to have the event filtered thru liberal or conservative media. Why the fuck are we even extorting Ukraine for their minerals? Why, Dickhead?
DeleteAnd why are you yapping here instead of fighting for your ally down in the trenches, idiot-moonbat?
DeleteWhy aren't you, idiot Boris-bot?
DeleteAren't moonbats Dems? Someone here seems to be calling right wing commenters "soros-bot" and now "moon-bat". The latter term comes from Doonesbury. Name-calling isn't discussion, it is trolling. And again, I have to ask, why do we have so many right wing trolls here all of a sudden?
DeleteIt is a right wing vanity blog.
Delete"By classic reckoning, it's an important report about some basic blocking and tackling regarding the future of Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteIt deals with basic blocking and tackling."
What does this mean and why did Somerby repeat "blocking and tackling" twice in a row like this?
Somerby goes on to complain about this:
Delete"Ambitious Democrats Have a New Game Plan: Yak It Up About Sports
Prominent leaders are flocking to sports radio shows and podcasts, an early sign of how the party is trying to reach apolitical young men who have tilted toward President Trump."
So, it is OK for Somerby to talk about sports using a football metaphor, but wrong if the Dems do it, or maybe he just dislikes it when the NY Times reports on it? As usual, it is hard to tell what Somerby's actual beef is with anyone, except that his tone is relentlessly negative and journalists and Dems are always wrong.
To your point, Somerby misappropriates Brabender, who was talking about hitting balls (and even so the quote is likely fictional, Bouton was not writing history). In reality, Brabender was a gentle giant who literally wept when he once accidentally hit another player with a ball.
DeleteSomerby is a bitter, angry person, so it is unsurprising that he has a such a warped vision of humanity.
Brabender was not talking about hitting balls. He was talking about hitting people. What meaning would the quote have if he was talking about hitting baseballs?
DeleteLearn to think.
um Brabender was a baseball player, he was definitely talking about hitting balls.
Delete"Learn to think" what a laugh.
um, but what's the answer to my question?
DeleteDid Brabender mean to say, 'Where I'm from, we only talk so long. Then we start to play baseball.'?
If you believe that, then I repeat my exhortation.
If you want to know, go look the quote up in Ball Four, the BASEBALL book written by Jim Bouton. Somerby never quotes anything in context.
DeleteBrabender was talking about baseball; Bouton was a prankster, whereas Brabender had a serious love for baseball.
DeleteBrabender do not come from a rough area of street fighters, he came from an area of down to earth, matter of fact people who preferred to get to work instead of standing around yapping and joking like Bouton preferred to do.
Your misguided smugness aside, maybe if you are unfamiliar with the context, you could misinterpret the quote, particularly with Somerby weaponizing it the way he does, but in reality Brabender was talking about baseball - he was not a fighter, he was not a violent person, he was a gentle person and he spent his youth practicing baseball for hours every day.
Great idea. Do you have a link to an online copy of Ball Four? No? Then how do you know the context?
DeleteI read the book when I was in middle school, which is basically its intended audience.
DeleteIt is still in print.
Brabender was talking about baseball, Somerby is a POS.
I read the book too. And if you think Brabender's quote meant, 'Where I'm from, we only talk so long. Then we start to play baseball', you didn't read it with much comprehension.
DeleteYou did not read the book, because it is clear Brabender is talking about baseball.
DeleteEven with broader context, you double down on your nonsense; you are arguing in bad faith, therefore your comments are irrelevant.
It is shitty of Somerby to misuse a quote, because it falsely debases Brabender, who in reality abhorred violence.
"it is clear Brabender is talking about baseball."
DeleteGreat. Sounds like you know the context. What was the context in which Bouton quoted Brabender? Be as specific as you can.
Already given, so the burden is now on you.
DeleteDoubling down is admirable when you are defending a righteous position, but in your case, you're just a troll defending the indefensible, which is that Somerby once again quote mines and weaponizes quotes out of context to create false impressions and to maliciously debase someone else's good character.
Why didn’t Brabender say “ … we start pitching”? The first pitch is the actual start of the game.
DeleteThis is like explaining why the sky is blue to a six year old.
DeleteIn baseball, there is typically one pitcher, but multiple hitters (including the pitcher).
Bouton's book is a mythical romp though that time of pro baseball.
It is comical to pretend to think it is an actual word for word quote. Duh. It also was not presented as some kind of declarative statement of an official position or stance, it was presented as an offhand, off the cuff response to Bouton's clowning around.
Somerby is bebasing someone's good character to make a point that represents the opposite of what the speaker stood for; where I come from that indicates Somerby's lack of a moral compass.
Why is the sky blue?
DeleteI’ve never been sure what Somerby means by that Brabender quote. Who is supposed to be saying it to whom?
DeleteIt's bullpen talk, meaning these are jocks (pitchers) sitting around in the bullpen watching the excruciatingly slow-moving game of baseball as it was in that era, trying to think of ways to make each other laugh.
DeleteThe joke was (and it is a joke, something one commenter in particular doesn't seem to realize) that where Brabender's from if people disagree, they talk for a while but soon get tired of being so rational, then they engage in fisticuffs (it's a male thing about what a tough part of the world you're from).
Except that isn't what Brabender meant or what was said. That is a rehash of Somerby's version. The solution would be for Somerby to place the quote in its actual context. He never does that when "borrowing" (aka stealing) anyone's words (in this case Bouton, not Brabender). Look what he does with Dylan and Robert Frost and e.e. cummings, and Yeats and his other favorite sources of out-of-context quotes.
DeleteIt makes me suspect that Somerby never took an English class at Harvard, since no professor would let him bend other people's words to his own meaning, the way he routinely does. It is considered academically dishonest to do this. Mischaracterizing Brabender is no different than saying that Dylan's poor immigrant refers to Trump.
Where I come from, we only talk for so long. Then we play dominoes.
Delete"We Republicans aren't as smart as we think we are. Also, nobody likes us!"
ReplyDeleteFTFY
They control all three branches after a two decade campaign by every elite institution to eradicate them. That doesn't prove anything. They don't have to be very smart to be smarter than Democrats.
DeleteTemporarily. Cheaters sometimes win -- that is what the Republicans in power now demonstrate. Criminals have been shown to be dumber than average. There is already a correction in progress based on public response to Musk and local election results. And Trump's unfavorability ratings are skyrocketing over the past month, showing that no one seems to like him any more, and even Republicans don't like Musk (for good reasons).
DeleteRepublicans are where they are entirely because they scoff at integrity and have cheated their way into power.
DeleteBeing good at grifting does not equal being smart.
This should be Trump's honeymoon phase, but after only able to get 30% of the electorate with more people voting for someone else, Trump is already underwater in the polls.
Also check out Tesla stock, both inventory and shares.
Elite institutions didn’t try to eradicate the Republicans. Elite institutions support Republicans.
DeleteElite institutions may support Republicans but students tend to skew liberal, except for organized groups funded by conservatives, such as Turning Point or Young Republicans.
Delete
ReplyDeleteFor all intents and purposes, Ukraine, the republic created in 1991, seized to exist in February 2014, when the legitimately elected government was overthrown, and most of its territory was taken over by Western intelligence services and their neo-Nazi henchmen on the ground.
Thanks, fascist-bot.
DeleteIn November 2013, the Ukrainian Government of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych decided not to sign a planned Association Agreement with the European Union and demonstrations ensued in the capital Kyiv. These ‘Euromaidan’ demonstrations turned violent in early 2014 and, in February that year, some European foreign ministers mediated a compromise, involving a unity government and early elections.
DeleteAfter the collapse of a power-sharing agreement on 22 February 2014, President Yanukovych disappeared from Ukraine* and a new government was installed by the Ukrainian parliament.
* I think Yanukovych is living on Putin's yacht
DeleteHeh, thanks for the laughs, Soros-bot. Yes, of course, the country's president was beamed up to Vladimir Putin's yacht, for no apparent reason or purpose.
Is this the best "narrative" idiot-DemocRats could come up with? Of course it is.
You are welcome, Putin-bot.
Delete12:28,
DeleteHey dum-dum bot. 10:52 gave an apparent reason: popular protests drove Yanukovych from office.
U don't read so gud.
Protests already ended by that time, Soros-bot, with the official agreement on early elections and more, signed by all sides. And then Neo-Nazi squads attacked the presidential office, so he had to run away. The ruling party was already decimated by that time; its office burned, security guard murdered.
Delete21 November 2013: Ukraine’s President Yanukovych suspends trade and association talks with the EU, opting to revive economic ties with Russia. Protests begin in Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan).
Delete6 December 2013: President Yanukovych meets Russian President Putin for talks, to lay the ground for a new “strategic partnership” between the two countries.
December 2013 – February 2014: Anti-government protests continue, with some turning violent.
21 February 2014: President Yanukovych and opposition leaders sign an EU-mediated peace pact that includes plans for presidential elections before the end of the year.
22 February 2014: Ukraine’s parliament votes to impeach President Yanukovych and he flees the country.
27 February 2014: Dozens of pro-Russia gunmen seize government buildings in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and raise the Russian flag. The move comes a day after President Putin put Russia’s military on high alert.
1 March 2014: Russia’s parliament approves President Putin’s request for Russian forces to be used in Ukraine.
21 March 2014: President Putin signs a law formalising Russia's takeover of Crimea from Ukraine.
Petro Poroshenko was elected in 2014.
DeleteVolodymyr Zelenskyy (a Jew!) was elected in 2019.
It is "ceased" not "seized", Putin-bot.
Nazis are fascists, Putin is a fascist, Zelensky is a democratically elected leader.
Putin-bots trying to gaslight Americans is funny and sad at the same time, indicating the meaninglessness of the lives of Russians, brought about by the fascistic policies of Putin.
Granted, Putin has pulled off an economic "miracle", with both high interest rates and high inflation, all while killing off the ruble. LOL!
Like I said, Soros-bot, Neo-Nazi squads attacked the presidential office, shooting at his car, and he had to run.
DeleteAfter he ran away, they did try to impeach him, but failed, for several reasons.
"Finally, the constitution demands that at least three quarters of the constitutional membership of the Verkhovna Rada vote for the removal of the President in the final step. However, instead of the required 338 parliamentary deputies only 328 voted for the removal of the President."
https://www.denederlandsegrondwet.nl/id/vjicc5jt4ayk/nieuws/assessing_the_legality_of_the_power
Your Nazi fantasy aside, in early 2014 Yanukovych signed an agreement to resign and have an interim government.
DeleteYanukovych was aligned with Putin - both fascists, and had instituted a coup of sorts himself, refusing to join the EU partnership as the Rada had approved, and returning to the 1996 constitution.
Then Yanukovych fled, as he had been planning for several days to do, so Rada voted unanimously to remove Yanukovych so they could have a functioning interim government (the 338 vote requirement is for impeachment, so it's a gray area).
There was then an interim government followed by an election. Petro Poroshenko was democratically elected, and then was defeated by Zelensjy in 2019, Ukraine's current deomcratically elected president.
"in early 2014 Yanukovych signed an agreement to resign and have an interim government."
DeleteHe didn't, Soros-bot. This is a DemocRat lie.
"(the 338 vote requirement is for impeachment, so it's a gray area)."
You brought it up, Soros-bot : "Ukraine’s parliament votes to impeach President Yanukovych", and that was another DemocRat lie. Just like all the rest of the drivel you're peddling here.
"And then Neo-Nazi squads attacked the presidential office, so he had to run away."
DeleteSource?
Surprisingly, you can even get it from the Reptiloid-controlled wikipedia, if you ignore (plenty of) wikipedia's Reptiloid bullshit. "After the riot police vanished, Andriy Parubiy reported that Euromaidan self-defence had peacefully gained control over Kyiv and its government buildings,[209] and that the military was standing with the opposition." Andriy Parubiy being, without a doubt, a full-fledged Neo-Nazi. ("In 1991 he founded the far-right Social-National Party of Ukraine together with Oleh Tyahnybok;[11] the party combined radical nationalism and neo-Nazi features (by its name and the "Wolfsangel"-like sign)")
Delete"We Blues aren't as smart as we think we are. Also, nobody likes us!"
ReplyDeleteFirst, Somerby is not any shade of blue. Second, what is the evidence that "nobody likes us"? It doesnt' come from elections. Seems to me nobody likes Musk and he is MAGA not blue. Third, why doesn't Somerby refer to the right as "reds" if he is going to call the left "blues"?
How many people like it that Musk/Trump may destroy social security, ruin health care, fire Veterans, stop cancer research, and so on? Why is Somerby focused on who likes or doesn't like "Blues" when voters are experiencing severe buyer's remorse? I agree with 10:38 -- anyone worrying about dislike for Democrats is not paying attention to what is really going on politically.
Somerby is magenta.
Delete"How did we ever get to this place? How did we get to the place where someone we tend to regard as mad is now reshaping the world?"
ReplyDeleteIf you're sayin' wait a minute who we have to stop this? We had one but you didn't want that lady in office...
Imagine believing in pregnant men and identifying the other side as mad.
DeleteAnyway as we speak the Black Lives Matter plaza is in the process of dismantling finally. Nature is healing.
We had one but you didn't want that lady in office...
DeleteSo now you, troll, along with everyone else, will get to pay higher prices in order to live, lose your health care and pension, see friends and neighbors lose their jobs (no one thinks someone like you would work for the govt yourself), catch measles and die, while our planet produces more natural disasters so that you can roll coal in a massive truck plastered with Trump stickers...
Because you wouldn't vote for Hillary or Kamala, neither of which is transgender or believed in pregnant men, but they did believe in improving the lives of everyone in our country, including under-educated right wingers, and neither of them ever sold meme coins or gold-plated sneakers or would turn the govt over to a billionaire illegal immigrant in order to go golfing.
"Nature is healing" just like covid went away on its own without any help from modern medicine. I don't imagine any baby on this earth minds who gives it life.
Few 22 year olds have the genius insight that times change.
ReplyDeleteWho knew?
Who is Somerby trying to fool?
Me.
DeleteThe filth that Democrats embrace was on full display with a "transgender" pervert singing a vulgar, blasphemous song at a gathering, with Bernie Sanders (now at the right of Democrats) thanking it at the end. We don't bully degenerate transgenders enough.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guve7Y856kY
DeleteFilth like this?
No not like Rudy clowning in drag or Tom Hanks clowning in drag on his 80's sitcom.
DeleteLike this. https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1898900731618586954
How can you tell when Rudy's clowning and when he's not?
DeleteIf Bernie were singing the song that you dislike, you might have a point. Is everyone on a stage responsible for whatever anyone else says, especially given that this is a nation that believes in free speech (except you apparently don't). Some singing offended you? Boo hoo.
DeleteRudy doing it himself is far different than Bernie being on the same program as someone you seem to hate because you don't like his free expression. Proud to be an American means tolerating those you do not agree with, asshole.
From the video, the singer is not dressed in drag. Looks like jeans and a shirt to me. Do you blindly recirculate the hate spewed by this guy because you have too much time on your hands? Did David Bowie also offend you?
To clarify, the hate is being spewed by Robby Starbuck on X, not the singer, who is singing a song with controversial lyrics. Singers do that sometimes.
DeleteBumper stickers calling for Musk’s assassination https://x.com/amuse/status/1899054730988409172
ReplyDeletewomp womp
DeleteDickhead, why does Elon have so many DEI hires working on his SpaceX? We only want the best.
DeleteU.S. Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs and programs, said several judges with knowledge of the warnings.https://www.reuters.com/world/us/judges-face-rise-threats-musk-blasts-them-over-rulings-2025-03-05/
DeleteGo fuck yourself, Dickhead in Cal.
Old enough to remember when psycho Democrats camped outside of Kavanaugh and Barrett’s homes.
DeleteFuck right off.
Yup they were terrifying with their cups of coffee and poster boards.
DeleteScary stuff!
On June 8, 2022, Nicholas Roske traveled to the home of Brett Kavanaugh, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, with plans to break into Kavanaugh's home, kill him, and then commit suicide.
DeleteHow was Roske apprehended? lol!
DeleteRoske had nothing to do with Dems protesting.
Political leaders are constantly under threat from lunatics, mostly from lunatics on the right.
Nicholas Roske is such a scamp. Is there anything he won't do to own the Right?
DeleteWhat is more trans than our Republican male leaders?
ReplyDeleteLook how how they modify themselves to affirm their inner sense of themselves:
eyeliner
caked on makeup
hair implants
spray painting scalp
tan spray
penile implants
lifts in shoes
ingesting various hormones
using steroids
taking various drugs
And after all that, they still have pasty white flabby bodies with man boobs, so that they have to harass women and pay for sex provided by pimps like Epstein.
These Republican leaders are some of the least masculine "men" around, which is fine, and compliments our female Republican leaders, who DO display as masculine with their features sculpted by plastic surgeons with cartoonish jaws and lips and enhanced oversized chests.
This is all fine, Republican men do not need to be masculine, but they can fake it as much as they want, and Republican women can eschew looking naturally feminine as much as they want, it is a free country.
Paid sex is good sex.
DeleteYou forgot to mention that they tan their balls (as Tucker Carlson advocated to enhance manliness)
DeleteNot one mention of the Klein oped shows the commentators here are not serious. You’re here for sport and to feed your ego and sooth the loneliness that comes from isolation.
ReplyDeleteamirite?
Klein is a centrist corporatist with neoliberal leanings, and his opinion piece is behind a paywall at the NY Times, a corporate publication for neoliberals, not for progressive Dems.
DeleteYour thoughts about "ego" and "soothing" are nicked straight from one of the regular commenters here, and in typical Republican fashion are merely confessions about your own issues.
Everything is seen as about Trump. Yesterday The NY Times had an excellent article about a SCOTUS case involving religious based charter schools. The case has nothing at all to do with Trump. Yet the article begins “While the country holds its breath for the Supreme Court’s responses to the Trump administration’s serial depredations…”
ReplyDeleteAnd yet again, to the chagrin of Bob Somerby, the NY Times referred to "Trump", and not "longtime failed businessman, adjudicated rapist, and self-admitted sexual predator, Donald J. Trump".
DeleteTsk, tsk.
So you don't think the Times should mention Trump's serial depredations? Do we have to be reminded so often of the president's serial depredations, eh?
DeleteIn America, what we call our president: Trump (or Musk)
ReplyDeleteIn Russia, what they call our president: Agent Krasnov.
I say: press needs to start referring to him as Agent Krasnov.
Delete"In Russia, what they call our president: Agent Krasnov."
DeleteIf they do, that's because they make fun of you, morons.
Touch a nerve, 1:15?
DeleteIf they do, that's because they make fun of you, morons.
DeleteThey fear me in Russia. They would never dare to make fun of me.
Off the topic: Kevin Drum has died.
ReplyDeleteSad news.
DeleteVery sad news, indeed. He was a deep thinker.
DeleteFuck.
DeleteI will miss Kevin. I learned a lot from him.
DeleteThere is something deeply wrong with Chris Matthews.
ReplyDeleteTrump's bloodbath today on Wall Street.
ReplyDeleteOf course, they are just using the excuse to manipulate the market into a roller coaster, so they can more easily make money off of it.
I want you to undergo euthanasia.
DeleteThat Times article is very critical of Trump, but it fails to give him credit for changing the narrative. There was no talk of peace during Biden's reign. Now, peace is a possibility.
ReplyDeleteSurrender, you mean, Dickhead. What the fuck do the Ukrainians need Donald J Chickenshit for to do that?
DeleteDavid, Trump has gotten us talking about recession though, fuckface. I'll give him that much, he's changed the narrative from robust rebounding economy to fucking negative gdp and recession. You must be very proud.
DeleteVery true, David. Trump has underscored that there's a new enemy to fear: the United States.
Delete"You must be very proud."
DeleteLOL.
As a Republican voter, David in Cal neither cares about the economy, nor knows how it works.
If FDR had made peace with Hitler, David wouldn’t be annoying us today.
DeleteAt this point, Trump is a Russian asset until proven otherwise.
Delete"Changing the narrative"?
ReplyDeleteMore like reversing 75 years of support for European security.
Yes, if "European security" is newspeak for "World War III".
DeleteQiB - He changed the narrative to Europeans doing more for their own security. Europeans are strengthening their militaries
DeleteMore generally Trump changed the narrative on the US paying more than our fair share, in NATO, in WHO, in climate change, in tariffs, etc.
Trump changed the narrative, from Republican voters pretending to care about grocery prices to Republican voters not caring at all about grocery prices.
DeleteThey do care about grocery prices, idiot Soros-bot.
DeleteAsk them in October 2028 if they are satisfied with the grocery prices. Comprende?
Europe will be independent of the US. Is that better or worse for Russia? Only time will tell.
DeleteWhat the fuck am I supposed to do about it? Why are you even bring it up?
DeleteAm I supposed to have anxiety and fear about Trump and fucking Europe?
DeleteIf you’re worried about Trump and Europe, go do something about it.
DeleteYou are such a lying little cunt, David. Clinton, Obama, and Biden did the same thing with NATO countries getting to increase their defense budgets. We just went over this less than a week ago, but you ran away from the discussion BECAUSE YOU DON'T FUCKING WANT TO KNOW. No, orange chickenshit isn't the only president that pushed NATO countries to increase their military spending, but he is the first horse's ass to publicly state that he would tell Russia to do "whatever the hell they want to Poland", and then you fucking crawled thru the sewer naked to give that maniac your fucking vote.
DeleteI don't consider abrogating treaties to be "changing the narrative." It is acting in bad faith, as when Trump used to contract for work and then not pay his contractors, or this past month when he has gone back on all of his campaign pledges.
DeleteTrump doesn't seem to understand how the USA benefits from a peaceful and stable Europe. His sense that NATO has cheated the US and owes us money because other nations haven't paid their fair share is perhaps accompanied by a sense that we will never be invaded and have the NATO nations come to our rescue, the way European nations may require, so he doesn't see why we need NATO. That's because he doesn't understand how we benefit from peace and collaboration with those European nations. His stupidity may get us into a war with our former allies, just as his stupidity about tariffs has gotten us into hostilities with Canada.
"He changed the narrative to Europeans doing more for their own security."
DeleteBecause the world's leading democracy abandoned them to Putin doing "whatever the hell he wants."