The day began with the spouse and I both home resting with Covid. He told me he had some good news and bad news. He started with Kissinger's death, followed by the news of Shane MacGowan's death, and I understood if there is a god, he's a mean son of a bitch.
Didn't Barbara Walters call him a "gentleman?" Sure, he carpet bombed Cambodia and masterminded a violent coup, but he always remembers birthdays and holds open doors! So gallant.
Watching on mute. If you're interviewing your colleague about a subject, how can that colleague pretend to be objective about it? Chryon called him a Giant of Diplomacy. Puke.
That semi-sentient tuber in the Senate was decrying the fall in volunteers for military service and was trying to blame it on LGBTQ+/abortion/wokeness etc.
Rep. Crane has evidently not seen a single movie from the 1940s that routinely show military men dressing up IN DRAG to entertain their fellow troops during, y'know, THE WAR.
This. Is. Not. A. New. Thing.
Also too and apropos, "Eli Crane"? What? Was "Ellie Mae" too obvious?
It's really hairy out there. I wouldn't have gone out except that I had no wine AND (more importantly) I finally found a place that has COVID shots, so I went and got covid and flu--seriously, our town had NO covid--I've been searching for over a month. So I got those--I need to get shingles but I always have a massive reaction to all vaccines, so I'm putting that off as the thing I can cope with most (I had shingles already and it was actually not the worst thing ever--I could cope with it, but the last flu I had had me praying for death, and I just don't want Covid and I don't want to give it to anyone).
I wondered that too--my doctor said yes, so I'm going with that. I felt like it was one of those one and done illnesses, but (horribly) that's not the case.
There's an article by Robert Kagan over at WAPO arguing that we are much, much closer to a Trump dictatorship than many people think and giving him serious good odds to win the election. Scare read.
I've been saying he has a good chance of being re-elected forever.
All it would take is some bad economic news ahead of the election. Shit, all of the economic news now is awesome and a good portion of the country thinks we're in the depths of Great Depression II and will soon have to sell their children to some Mexican cartel to make ends meet. (Thanks mainstream media).
And U.S. 'Murkans have memories that would make an Etch-A-Sketch go, "Fuck, that was fast." So come election time they might want to "shake things up" or "send a message" to the Democrats and pull the lever for fascism.
He talks about that, but thinks PAB will defy the courts as he has defied every other institutional restraint and norm. Kagan is a heavyweight thinker and writer.
One of the few journos a left like me appreciated.
Everything else aside I see the timing. He has been a long-time critic of Kissinger and I can't help but think the MSNBC establishment didn't want him pissing on the grave.
I get the fact that MSNBC is a Comcast production, who’d probably prefer to not be operating a left wing cable news network.
But every single casual political observer already thinks it is. I’m not saying “be propaganda like Fox”, but might as well lean into being unapologetically left wing? Just because it would be really profitable as a go to source for info for the 30% of the country who are consistently liberal in most things?
Let me see, how do I say this, Go Fuck Yourself. I take no sides in this conflict but that doesn't mean that other people don't. The propaganda war on both sides goes to the highest levels. Fact: Mehdi Hasan was fired for being too pro-Palestine. His boss is the CEO of Comcast.
There was a story on NPR a few days ago about Israeli Palestinians being fired from their jobs.
One woman they spoke with posted video on her social media of her Jewish co-workers saying pro-genocid-y things and she got fired. But not her co-workers.
Another story outlined all the journalists that have been killed since the war started and how it sure seems intentional.
Some Jews are truly righteous. Werewolf, for example. Then you've got assholes like Bibi and his fellow fascists who are terrorizing the West Bank. So, they're like all religious groups. Good and bad.
I don't know. But a man as powerful as the CEO of Comcast may be taking calls from people like Bibi. The propaganda war in this conflict is even bigger than the physical one. Israeli leaders would hate the Mehdi Hasan show very much.
I wonder who's Kissinger now.
The day began with the spouse and I both home resting with Covid. He told me he had some good news and bad news. He started with Kissinger's death, followed by the news of Shane MacGowan's death, and I understood if there is a god, he's a mean son of a bitch.
Fox host mocked for saying Joe Biden isn't a real man because he used a straw - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/fox-host-mocked-for-saying-joe-biden-isnt-a-real-man-because-he-used-a-straw/
Jesse, it's obvious that you want something, bigger, thicker and meatier in your mouth than a plastic straw.
Just come out and be happy with it.
Jesse has some things to work out.
As long as it wasn't in a can of beer, who gives a flying fuck.
Dijon mustard, tan suit, etc., etc., to infinity....
It was a MILKSHAKE!
You try to drink a full milkshake from the cup, you end up wearing it down your front, *Jesse.*
Watters should review the thousands of pictures of PAB where he is pursing his lips.
Gross.
To be a real man, you have to use two hands to lift the glass to your mean little mouth.
Two tiny hands.
The surprising dating life of Henry Kissinger, West Wing ‘playboy’.
WaPo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dies-dating-life-playboy/
Didn't Barbara Walters call him a "gentleman?" Sure, he carpet bombed Cambodia and masterminded a violent coup, but he always remembers birthdays and holds open doors! So gallant.
“I wonder who’s Kissinger now?”
Old joke
He almost ruined Gloria Steinem for me.
This gets the barfing gnome
https://substack.com/@chickenatemyballot/note/c-44536668?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knkk0
ain't going near that one
Andrea Mitchell is singing Kissinger's praises on MSNBC.
*sigh*
Mrs. Greenspan? Of course she is.
I'm going to have to go listen to stupid YouTube videos of some dubious topic. I'm not up to dealing with this tool at the moment.
It's over, I think. You should be safe now.
Watching on mute. If you're interviewing your colleague about a subject, how can that colleague pretend to be objective about it? Chryon called him a Giant of Diplomacy. Puke.
"a Giant of Diplomacy"
They spelled "Atrocity" wrong.
I saw her in passing this morning and thought I can't deal with her and this event--she's very much someone I see swooning for the Kiss.
GROSS.
Of course she is.
She's hoping for a warm welcome when she follows him.
Same kind of whitewashing we got when Nixon and Jesse Helms passed.
"While at times controversial..."
Don't get me started on the Reagasm.
Mrs. Greenspan will one day join him in Hell.
Republicans attacking the military again. US Coast Guard this time.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/gop-congressman-insults-admiral-who-disagreed-that-drag-queens-are-hurting-military-recruitment
Republicans standing up to the experts again.
Politics over competence, which seems like an exceptionally bad idea when we're talking about the military. But hey, what do I know?
More than most Rethugs.
That semi-sentient tuber in the Senate was decrying the fall in volunteers for military service and was trying to blame it on LGBTQ+/abortion/wokeness etc.
Self awareness is not in his playbook.
these people are running the country, folks....
𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑈.𝑆. 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦, 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝐶𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑝. 𝐸𝑙𝑖 𝐶𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑒 (𝑅-𝐴𝑍) 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠.
Rep. Crane has evidently not seen a single movie from the 1940s that routinely show military men dressing up IN DRAG to entertain their fellow troops during, y'know, THE WAR.
This. Is. Not. A. New. Thing.
Also too and apropos, "Eli Crane"? What? Was "Ellie Mae" too obvious?
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/drag-entertainment-world-war-ii
Now there's a gay old time!
The GOP where the only thing that is sacred is trump.
Um...you need to be in the military a minimum of 20 years, at least, to reach flag rank. Although Crane probably has no idea what "flag rank" means.
Those frothing fascist fuckwits do not deserve the security the military that they insult and demean provides them.
Performative nonsense for the drooling base.
Kissingers?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c2/23/fb/c223fbdf180d6d93caa9fb976167cda7.jpg
Don't scare me like that, I thought for a second that he'd multiplied.
What you did there, see it I do!
Because there's already jut SO MUCH liberal media.
‘𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞’: 𝐌𝐒𝐍𝐁𝐂 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 ‘𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞’ 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐡𝐢 𝐇𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐧
WTF are they doing?
Dust up brewing in the press room and it's of a racial source.
Fuck. It ended the briefing immediately.
Skepti, I missed the "racial source" aspect. Can you elaborate? Was it that nutcase "All Africa News" guy again?
Yes. He made a point of fussing about "...the African man" being passed over for some vital inquiry.
How about she passed over a constantly annoying man whose questions are often irrelevant to the current topic.
Black woman slaps around Black man. Film at 11.
He was well deserving of the swift kick he received.
I was in a meeting. What did I miss?
Some African reporter took umbrage at being passed over for a question was the apparent impetus.
Emergency Nap Time for the bratty toddlers
Reporters talking over each other trying to ask the Admiral a question, and Karine just shut the whole thing down after a warning went unheeded.
I'm sure this is bad for Biden.
I cannot recall ever having seen a White House press briefing end like that.
Well, so much for the press briefing. The toddlers started throwing juice boxes at each other.
It only took 100 years for Kissinger to do something right.
OT snow day!
It's really hairy out there. I wouldn't have gone out except that I had no wine AND (more importantly) I finally found a place that has COVID shots, so I went and got covid and flu--seriously, our town had NO covid--I've been searching for over a month. So I got those--I need to get shingles but I always have a massive reaction to all vaccines, so I'm putting that off as the thing I can cope with most (I had shingles already and it was actually not the worst thing ever--I could cope with it, but the last flu I had had me praying for death, and I just don't want Covid and I don't want to give it to anyone).
Can you get shingles a second time?
Yes. Not chancing that, #1 was bad enough
Affirmative.
So you have to get the shot every year?
I wondered that too--my doctor said yes, so I'm going with that. I felt like it was one of those one and done illnesses, but (horribly) that's not the case.
Sounds about right. My favorite CVS that is really convenient no longer has weekend hours and isn't vaccinating.
This is what happens when you treat staff like shit.
Right? Same here. The guy who gave me the shots was really nice and it didn't seem as aggro as it's been at my local place where I usually go.
Are you okay? I was laughing (though it's not funny) earlier about how a person wouldn't know where you lived except for the big police presence.
They are very sweet--I know you train them and such...when the police are good they can be very good.
The problem is all the bad apples in the barrel.
OT: Come on, everybody! Sing with me!
🎶 This story has broken…. 🎶
https://www.wmnf.org/florida-gop-chair-christian-ziegler-husband-of-moms-for-liberty-cofounder-accused-of-sexual-battery-by-alleged-menage-a-trois-lover/
That tracks.
"Moms for Sexual Liberty?"
“Moms for Hypocrisy.”
Par...
There's an article by Robert Kagan over at WAPO arguing that we are much, much closer to a Trump dictatorship than many people think and giving him serious good odds to win the election. Scare read.
Win or stolen.
"stollen"
I've been saying he has a good chance of being re-elected forever.
All it would take is some bad economic news ahead of the election. Shit, all of the economic news now is awesome and a good portion of the country thinks we're in the depths of Great Depression II and will soon have to sell their children to some Mexican cartel to make ends meet. (Thanks mainstream media).
And U.S. 'Murkans have memories that would make an Etch-A-Sketch go, "Fuck, that was fast." So come election time they might want to "shake things up" or "send a message" to the Democrats and pull the lever for fascism.
We should probably put him in jail then.
At a minimum. With no access to social media.
He talks about that, but thinks PAB will defy the courts as he has defied every other institutional restraint and norm. Kagan is a heavyweight thinker and writer.
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WTF? Really?
‘Outrage’: MSNBC slammed for canceling ‘vital voice’ Medhi Hasan
https://www.rawstory.com/outrage-msnbc-slammed-for-canceling-vital-voice-medhi-hasan/
""Hasan has come under fire recently over his coverage of the Gaza war, specifically from conservative critics angry over his pro-Palestinian stance,"
Mehdi is a fantastic journalist, this is ridiculous.
But don't worry, if Trump gets in the WH, he'll cancel MSNBC altogether, why bother with non-ass-kissing journalists?
One of the few journos a left like me appreciated.
Everything else aside I see the timing. He has been a long-time critic of Kissinger and I can't help but think the MSNBC establishment didn't want him pissing on the grave.
But six hours of Morning Joe is okay, with his right-leaning blather.
I get the fact that MSNBC is a Comcast production, who’d probably prefer to not be operating a left wing cable news network.
But every single casual political observer already thinks it is. I’m not saying “be propaganda like Fox”, but might as well lean into being unapologetically left wing? Just because it would be really profitable as a go to source for info for the 30% of the country who are consistently liberal in most things?
I don't want to point fingers, but the CEO of Comcast which owns MSNBC is Jewish.
A little too much judenhasse in your coffee this morning Dorothea?
Let me see, how do I say this, Go Fuck Yourself. I take no sides in this conflict but that doesn't mean that other people don't. The propaganda war on both sides goes to the highest levels. Fact: Mehdi Hasan was fired for being too pro-Palestine. His boss is the CEO of Comcast.
And?
There was a story on NPR a few days ago about Israeli Palestinians being fired from their jobs.
One woman they spoke with posted video on her social media of her Jewish co-workers saying pro-genocid-y things and she got fired. But not her co-workers.
Another story outlined all the journalists that have been killed since the war started and how it sure seems intentional.
I'm inclined to believe that this is a personality conflict that goes far beyond any religious differences.
Some Jews are truly righteous. Werewolf, for example. Then you've got assholes like Bibi and his fellow fascists who are terrorizing the West Bank. So, they're like all religious groups. Good and bad.
I don't know. But a man as powerful as the CEO of Comcast may be taking calls from people like Bibi. The propaganda war in this conflict is even bigger than the physical one. Israeli leaders would hate the Mehdi Hasan show very much.
Modi is a vile sack of bullshit.