Wonkette seems to be getting wonkier by the day. Today when I clicked on I got a "Subscribe" window where I had to swing the mouse around to figure out how to move on. Three forensic clicks later I was able to see some articles. And now here, in comments, the story is gone. Is this the new Wonkette from now on? I mean, if I have to pay in order to get access it kinda sucks. Since I am a broke-ass substitute teacher... and it's Summertime, and my student loan payments will resume in September or October! Once school starts up and the $$ starts rolling in again, I will do some donations, but never a subscription.
If the paywall screen pops up when you first navigate to wonkette dot com, that's just Substack doing Substack things. There's an X in the upper right corner which I found very easily and without complaint. And yes, clicking on all comments does redirect us to a comments-only page, sans article, which is inconvenient. But it's not the literal end of the world. We can still read the article, we can still comment and interact with the rest of the wonketariat. It's a small change with some mild inconveniences, but it saves our favorite publication a butt ton of money so that they can keep existing and giving us lots of posts for free every day. This is the price of business when the majority of readers make the decision (for mostly completely legitimate reasons, like "I am a broke-ass substitute teacher") to not subscribe.
I guess the good thing about the GQP ignoring all of Trump's bad behavior is that we don't have to be subjected to pictures of his small, misshapen penis.
I was reading the Washington Post fact finder on this and basically they decided both sides had good points. Ignoring the fact that much of the Senate investigation happened while Trump was president, a Trump appointed prosecutor stayed on the job through indictment and plea bargain, and that prosecutor stated twice that he had a free hand to do whatever he wanted to do. But these two alleged whistle blowers say that is a lie and the DOJ interfered. So both sides have equally valid points. In other words, typical Washington Post both sides bullshit.
Maybe the problem was the guy complaining wanted the prosecutor to go down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole and the prosecutor decided he did not want to pull a John Durham and be laughed out of court by a jury for presenting a stupid case. Therefore decided that since Hunter paid the IRS the past due taxes and penalties, which was their main concern, and few people are even prosecuted for the gun violation, a plea bargain gets him a conviction he may not get by taking it to a jury, even on reduced charges.
"Kennedy’s presidential campaign chairman, Dennis Kucinich, the former congressman and past presidential contender, sat in the front row behind him during the more-than-three-hours hearing."
This is my favorite excerpt from an article about TODAY's stupid hearing, the one with RFK.
"I swear this whole thing is a class reunion, possibly for all the background characters who survived one of the high school slasher flicks of the 1980s because they were too boring for the killer to even bother with. The whole thing has a "slightly drunken afterparty down at the Applebee's" vibe to it."
Wonkette seems to be getting wonkier by the day. Today when I clicked on I got a "Subscribe" window where I had to swing the mouse around to figure out how to move on. Three forensic clicks later I was able to see some articles. And now here, in comments, the story is gone. Is this the new Wonkette from now on? I mean, if I have to pay in order to get access it kinda sucks. Since I am a broke-ass substitute teacher... and it's Summertime, and my student loan payments will resume in September or October! Once school starts up and the $$ starts rolling in again, I will do some donations, but never a subscription.
If the paywall screen pops up when you first navigate to wonkette dot com, that's just Substack doing Substack things. There's an X in the upper right corner which I found very easily and without complaint. And yes, clicking on all comments does redirect us to a comments-only page, sans article, which is inconvenient. But it's not the literal end of the world. We can still read the article, we can still comment and interact with the rest of the wonketariat. It's a small change with some mild inconveniences, but it saves our favorite publication a butt ton of money so that they can keep existing and giving us lots of posts for free every day. This is the price of business when the majority of readers make the decision (for mostly completely legitimate reasons, like "I am a broke-ass substitute teacher") to not subscribe.
K. Thx. Also, what's a "Substack"?
Mr. Shapely sounds like a label for off-brand Spanx.
Criminal as well, looks like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iFoKluGXDw
Could be worse. Marge Trailer Queen could have flashed pics of her own chanchered coony. I guess she's saving those for drumpf.
Or Anonymous will send her some sort of fuck you.
You could say that the whole thing was some cock-and-bull hearing with actual cock and lots of bull(shit).
I guess the good thing about the GQP ignoring all of Trump's bad behavior is that we don't have to be subjected to pictures of his small, misshapen penis.
🤢 Did not need to think about that Super Mario mushroom today
I thought the same thing 🧟♀️
as my ancestors say: that can oxidise on my ass
There are times when the appropriate rebuttal to an argument is a firm kick delivered swiftly to the nether regions.
Balls.
I was reading the Washington Post fact finder on this and basically they decided both sides had good points. Ignoring the fact that much of the Senate investigation happened while Trump was president, a Trump appointed prosecutor stayed on the job through indictment and plea bargain, and that prosecutor stated twice that he had a free hand to do whatever he wanted to do. But these two alleged whistle blowers say that is a lie and the DOJ interfered. So both sides have equally valid points. In other words, typical Washington Post both sides bullshit.
Maybe the problem was the guy complaining wanted the prosecutor to go down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole and the prosecutor decided he did not want to pull a John Durham and be laughed out of court by a jury for presenting a stupid case. Therefore decided that since Hunter paid the IRS the past due taxes and penalties, which was their main concern, and few people are even prosecuted for the gun violation, a plea bargain gets him a conviction he may not get by taking it to a jury, even on reduced charges.
I'd like to see more prosecutions of that gun violation for all those meth heads out there with their arsenals.
My first reaction to seeing a picture of this Shapely person was "My, but Raphael Cruz has put on weight, lately"
Are his feet like this too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY0euTz38FI
"This is why God made her."
Count your blessings
One by one
And you'll be surprised
At all the Lord has done
(wrong)
Can someone who knows how please set Taylor-Greene's & Comer's statements to the banjo music from Deliverance, please?
How about the slave-torture organ from Michael Moorcock's Elric series?
don't expect any help on that from the White House. They're too busy setting all their statements to Biden campaign commercials.
Talk about the damned things writing themselves...
in other hot committee action:
"Kennedy’s presidential campaign chairman, Dennis Kucinich, the former congressman and past presidential contender, sat in the front row behind him during the more-than-three-hours hearing."
Wait, what? Dennis Kucinich? Oh geez Edith!
I heard Kucinich was at the fabled fart feast as well. Disappointing.
Well that changes everything! If he's got Dennis K on his side there's no stopping him now! Dennis has got his finger on the pulse of the Nation.
"It spells trouble for Biden". I just post that everywhere regardless of the topic and so far I have got job offers from Politico and NYT
It is the new version of "this is good news for John McCain."
Whaaar this whistleblower?
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-whistleblower-irs-employee-treasury-political-appointee-2019-10
This is my favorite excerpt from an article about TODAY's stupid hearing, the one with RFK.
"I swear this whole thing is a class reunion, possibly for all the background characters who survived one of the high school slasher flicks of the 1980s because they were too boring for the killer to even bother with. The whole thing has a "slightly drunken afterparty down at the Applebee's" vibe to it."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/20/2182403/-Robert-F-Kennedy-Jr-stars-in-another-Republican-weaponization-hearing-it-s-again-a-shit-show
One of the best things to do on DKos is read anything by Hunter. Avoid the comments. They should adopt the policy of Wonkette and not allow them.
I agree. He also wrote the article someone linked to about the history of Hunter's Laptop. I think it's linked in this story, too.
Yeah, their comments kind of suck.