How fragile must your ability to convince the country to vote for you be if editing an interview on a program watched by a tiny percentage of the voting population in a meaningless way can cost you the election? Our usual way to deal with the media favoring the other candidate (as if) is to campaign on issues and policy. But apparently that would interfere with discussions of a late golfer's penis.
"[A]s coherent as an infant on laughing gas, and that the less people see of him, the better the chances they will not realize that his brain is a howling void."
Wonkette, never change. I love you. We all love you. My flinkin' CATS love you.
I took a trip to Texass over the weekend and saw a total of FIVE PAB/Jumping Divans signs in deep red areas over a 12 hour road trip and ZERO red hats or bumper stickers. So obviously CBS and the next President Harris has caused MAGAt cultists to forget who he is and this is obviously going to cost him in the neighborhood of $10 billion as he will lose:
a) the election b) all of his court cases c) at least that much in legal fees and fines.
His base is apparently about as enthusiastic about him as we are.
Well, technically speaking this one is vastly more valid simply because the interview did actually happen. Completely falls apart after that, but at least the event in question isn't imaginary this time.
A jury trial?! What fun for 12+2. They could really make Trump's legal life painful, with the right 12+2. Is there a counter suit coming from CBS? If it plays out we could be in for another Fun Times with Lawfare.
Oh dear God. Because after Kacsmaryk it goes to James Ho and the Ho Ho Ho's of the Fifth Circuit. Meaning? We are all doomed. CBS will doubtlessly be required to reveal "Kamala" as truly stupider than "President Trump," whoever the hell that is.
2016 threw me for a loop. I did not believe it was possible he would be elected. It was late here when we got the results, because time zone. I turned to my cats, and I said, “he’s a bad man. He grabs pussies,“and they looked appropriately scandalized and horrified.
2020, my anxiety level was through the roof. I watched the election results with a friend, and turned to him at one point and said, “if he wins, I’m quitting my job selling my house and moving overseas.” And then Georgia came through and saved the cheerleader and the world. Thank you, Georgia.
This time I’m staying back a little bit, because I know that I cannot handle that level of stress that I went through last time. It seems implausible to me that he could win, but hell, it did before. I’m just trying to keep my wheels on the bike path, whatever it takes.
One strategy I use is to start making a Plan B. It can be completely ridiculous. I found a nice place for sale in Ireland for $7 million that could hold half of Wonkette night shift. If I give my brain something like that to work on, my brain doesn’t get too hung up on the fact that I don’t have $7 million. That’s a minor quibble. I just start calculating how many cats can hold, and which bedroom I want, and how far a walk to the beach it is. Sometimes we just have to treat our brains like they are toddlers, and give them a shiny distraction.
There will be time enough to make a more realistic plan later, if we need to take action.
2000 perplexed me. 2004 definitely created shock. How could we get so deep into a disturbing war on terror and the economic crisis that developed. Four MORE years to screw up the country? Yes, and there was the Great recession and wars we could no longer control, for no purpose whatsoever, except to further damage our reputation abroad.
I mean, literally every single one of his interviews, for YEARS, has been clipped and edited, EVERY SINGLE ONE, and even for him, this is outrageous, in every possible way. SHAMEFUL.
Maybe that's how CBS could respond—show unedited footage of him and then the parts that were actually broadcast not just on CBS itself but other outlets (including Fox News) and ask how the Harris interview edited for time is worse.
Trump's deep-seated bigotry means he cannot, despite all the evidence, accept that VP Harris is smarter and better than him. I think it has caused him to consistently underestimate her. Good.
I know he's supposedly a malignant narcissist, but from the first time I saw him I have thought manic. I've dealt with more manics (professionally) than one might think possible. I didn't need to see one running for President. They are a fountain of chaos.
It isn't. Nikki Haley got 20% of the REPUBLICAN vote in the primaries even after quitting her campaign. There's a lot of hate for PAB inside his own presumed voting base.
He doesn't realize that the "enemies within" are actually real Republicans.
The polls are close -- because they are engineered to be, says the cynic in me -- but every trend points to Harris. Every one. Here's a pretty persuasive argument:
I believe that too. Seems counterintuitive because he’s so fucking crazy that a lot of people are ready to see him gone and are gonna fight like hell to vote him out. Hopefully really high turnout at the polls. However they know that so they’re planning on claiming cheating before it’s even happened.
And we've anticipated this for four years. In 2020, the claims of cheating came as more or less a surprise; not this time. They'll run the same damn playbook that didn't work then.
Did the complaint actually refer to MVP as "Kamala" rather than Ms Harris? That's one of the classic ways of demeaning women, implying their not equal adults.
"But why let facts get in the way when you can sue CBS, producer of “60 Minutes,” for ten billion dollars over it? And no, that is not hyperbole. The lawsuit Trump’s idiot lawyers filed this week really claims Trump suffered damages “reasonably believed to be at least $10,000,000,000” because the show’s producers clipped one of Harris’s answers to make it shorter."
* Facts? Fakes? We don't need no stinking facts. Facts are a small detail that are to be overlooked when the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster is in full-blown bloviation mode;
* I think I have the quote right, but I refuse to subject myself to seeing/hearing the Fulvous Flatulence when it's not necessary: "normally I say not millions, billions with a 'B'." (From his recent interview with Preppy Le Pew when the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus said the Cheneys were responsible for wasting "$9 trillion -- not billion, trillion with a 'T';" the one where he riffed on Ms Cheney facing a firing squad;
* IMO, the amount is more than fair. A part of it is to account for CBS not pulling, or at the very least censoring, Stephen Colbert who every night, four nights a week, has been slandering his good name and sullying his sterling reputation;
* He needs the money to pay off his ever growing legal fees, fines, penalties and monetary judgements. The Wingnut Welfare he has been collecting -- including from some who have set a priority of throwing money at a billionaire rather than put decent food on the family table -- is no longer sufficient, do you have any idea how much it costs to keep Trump Force One airborne? (Don't forget that multi-state multiple day rally itineraries are rare rarity since the self-defining germaphobe has an aversion to hotels.)
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"likely because his advisors recognize that even on his best day he is about as coherent as an infant on laughing gas, and that the less people see of him, the better the chances they will not realize that his brain is a howling void"
And yet they continue to let him go out and play in the streets during rush hour in Manhattan -- unsupervised.
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"shave seconds here and there so the interview can cover a wide range of topics in a limited amount of time.
To Trump, however, this is yet another excuse, as if he needed one, to accuse the American media of actively working against him."
That because, at least in part, that when the Pumpkin Putrescence sits down for an interview with one of his lapdogs he'll give them three hours *live and unedited*.
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"CBS of purposely trying to make Harris sound coherent even though everyone knows she is a big stupid idiot"
As Karl Rove opined post Harris/Desert Sand Demi-Demon debate: "Trump called Harris 'dumb as a rock.' What does that make him?"
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"Harris is also referred to throughout as “Kamala,” while Trump is referred to as “President Trump.”"
I don't know why I keep getting pissed at the whining little insects circling the dim (and getting dimmer by the minute) that is the Mango Malignancy when they call him "President." He is not President of anything outside of his personal domain; here in the real America we have only one POTUS at a time, and it ain't him. He should be referred to as the disgraced and disgraceful ex-POTUS.
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"We have read enough lawsuits to know that referring to a subject by first name is not common. Here, it is a not-so-subtle sexist way of disrespecting the American vice president."
"We have read enough lawsuits to know that referring to a subject by first name is not common. Here, it is a not-so-subtle sexist [and racist] way of disrespecting the American vice president." [FIFY]
It is only proper to address one's servants (and those beneath you on the social ladder) by their first name only while they are expected to call you Ma'am/Ms last name or Sir/Mr last name.
The convention in legal writing is to refer to children by their first names (or initials). Adults are referred to by their last name.
More importantly, the lawyer who agreed to file this suit without factual or legal support should be sanctioned for violating Rule 11 (of Fed Rules of Civil Procedure fame).
How fragile must your ability to convince the country to vote for you be if editing an interview on a program watched by a tiny percentage of the voting population in a meaningless way can cost you the election? Our usual way to deal with the media favoring the other candidate (as if) is to campaign on issues and policy. But apparently that would interfere with discussions of a late golfer's penis.
"[A]s coherent as an infant on laughing gas, and that the less people see of him, the better the chances they will not realize that his brain is a howling void."
Wonkette, never change. I love you. We all love you. My flinkin' CATS love you.
I took a trip to Texass over the weekend and saw a total of FIVE PAB/Jumping Divans signs in deep red areas over a 12 hour road trip and ZERO red hats or bumper stickers. So obviously CBS and the next President Harris has caused MAGAt cultists to forget who he is and this is obviously going to cost him in the neighborhood of $10 billion as he will lose:
a) the election b) all of his court cases c) at least that much in legal fees and fines.
His base is apparently about as enthusiastic about him as we are.
Another attempt to silence the press. Another waste of his money. I’d like to sue Trump for making me lose IQ points listening to his babble.
This lawsuit sounds almost exactly as valid as all those election fraud suits his team filed in 2020.
Well, technically speaking this one is vastly more valid simply because the interview did actually happen. Completely falls apart after that, but at least the event in question isn't imaginary this time.
Progress! Onward, upward, ever higher!
A jury trial?! What fun for 12+2. They could really make Trump's legal life painful, with the right 12+2. Is there a counter suit coming from CBS? If it plays out we could be in for another Fun Times with Lawfare.
Oh dear God. Because after Kacsmaryk it goes to James Ho and the Ho Ho Ho's of the Fifth Circuit. Meaning? We are all doomed. CBS will doubtlessly be required to reveal "Kamala" as truly stupider than "President Trump," whoever the hell that is.
CBS should respond that they produced Trump’s “60 Minutes” interview to his exact specifications.
Can any sane person even imagine a second Trump term? the most creative horror fantasy author could not come up with anything even close.
If everything turns to shit, we'll find out how close Margaret Atwood came
The closer it gets to the election the higher my anxiety goes. This lunatic could actually WIN. How have we come to this???
2016 threw me for a loop. I did not believe it was possible he would be elected. It was late here when we got the results, because time zone. I turned to my cats, and I said, “he’s a bad man. He grabs pussies,“and they looked appropriately scandalized and horrified.
2020, my anxiety level was through the roof. I watched the election results with a friend, and turned to him at one point and said, “if he wins, I’m quitting my job selling my house and moving overseas.” And then Georgia came through and saved the cheerleader and the world. Thank you, Georgia.
This time I’m staying back a little bit, because I know that I cannot handle that level of stress that I went through last time. It seems implausible to me that he could win, but hell, it did before. I’m just trying to keep my wheels on the bike path, whatever it takes.
One strategy I use is to start making a Plan B. It can be completely ridiculous. I found a nice place for sale in Ireland for $7 million that could hold half of Wonkette night shift. If I give my brain something like that to work on, my brain doesn’t get too hung up on the fact that I don’t have $7 million. That’s a minor quibble. I just start calculating how many cats can hold, and which bedroom I want, and how far a walk to the beach it is. Sometimes we just have to treat our brains like they are toddlers, and give them a shiny distraction.
There will be time enough to make a more realistic plan later, if we need to take action.
2000 perplexed me. 2004 definitely created shock. How could we get so deep into a disturbing war on terror and the economic crisis that developed. Four MORE years to screw up the country? Yes, and there was the Great recession and wars we could no longer control, for no purpose whatsoever, except to further damage our reputation abroad.
"How have we come to this???"
Not punishing Confederates commensurate with their crimes
for 400 years
Letting them get away with shit since then too.
That's what I meant
I didn't say 400 years *ago*
I said *for* 400 years
That meant "up to, say, yesterday"
I should've been more explicit, though, about the fact that I consider Donald a Confederate
Tucker, too
Hugh Hewitt, Stephen Miller, Ryan Gidursky, all of them
I consider them Confederates as well as Nazis because Hitler literally got his ideas from Jim Crow
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hitlers-american-model?srsltid=AfmBOooWVCrBVgq0uZiy3OIAk5oBizJcCR4FodudWOgoZQPMX-JYlRfu
"Hitler literally got his ideas from Jim Crow."
With the help of Eugenics from the US and a bit of Richard Wagner.
Sorry, the Confederate part threw me. I understand what you're saying now and fully agree.
I mean, literally every single one of his interviews, for YEARS, has been clipped and edited, EVERY SINGLE ONE, and even for him, this is outrageous, in every possible way. SHAMEFUL.
Maybe that's how CBS could respond—show unedited footage of him and then the parts that were actually broadcast not just on CBS itself but other outlets (including Fox News) and ask how the Harris interview edited for time is worse.
That's what any reputable journalist would do, immediately. Too bad we don't have any of them in the so-called "mainstream media."
Trump's deep-seated bigotry means he cannot, despite all the evidence, accept that VP Harris is smarter and better than him. I think it has caused him to consistently underestimate her. Good.
It's more than deep-seated bigotry, it's psychosis No joking, Trump is certifiably insane. He has a complete disconnect from reality.
I know he's supposedly a malignant narcissist, but from the first time I saw him I have thought manic. I've dealt with more manics (professionally) than one might think possible. I didn't need to see one running for President. They are a fountain of chaos.
Two things can be true
JFC.
He wept when he saw the latest poll numbers. How can this be close??
It isn't. Nikki Haley got 20% of the REPUBLICAN vote in the primaries even after quitting her campaign. There's a lot of hate for PAB inside his own presumed voting base.
He doesn't realize that the "enemies within" are actually real Republicans.
The polls are close -- because they are engineered to be, says the cynic in me -- but every trend points to Harris. Every one. Here's a pretty persuasive argument:
https://jasonstanford.substack.com/p/kamalas-winning-and-its-not-close?fbclid=IwY2xjawGStR1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRWOT6Igs_fJg56GFuqnxoahlubIqFBH1i0gNpnoe9ZnLdLQtKATGJ3dog_aem_fmv_J1U4XaZLkUO1IAoQUw
I believe that too. Seems counterintuitive because he’s so fucking crazy that a lot of people are ready to see him gone and are gonna fight like hell to vote him out. Hopefully really high turnout at the polls. However they know that so they’re planning on claiming cheating before it’s even happened.
And we've anticipated this for four years. In 2020, the claims of cheating came as more or less a surprise; not this time. They'll run the same damn playbook that didn't work then.
Did the complaint actually refer to MVP as "Kamala" rather than Ms Harris? That's one of the classic ways of demeaning women, implying their not equal adults.
And she is the Vice President of the United States. He is a private citizen.
"But why let facts get in the way when you can sue CBS, producer of “60 Minutes,” for ten billion dollars over it? And no, that is not hyperbole. The lawsuit Trump’s idiot lawyers filed this week really claims Trump suffered damages “reasonably believed to be at least $10,000,000,000” because the show’s producers clipped one of Harris’s answers to make it shorter."
* Facts? Fakes? We don't need no stinking facts. Facts are a small detail that are to be overlooked when the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster is in full-blown bloviation mode;
* I think I have the quote right, but I refuse to subject myself to seeing/hearing the Fulvous Flatulence when it's not necessary: "normally I say not millions, billions with a 'B'." (From his recent interview with Preppy Le Pew when the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus said the Cheneys were responsible for wasting "$9 trillion -- not billion, trillion with a 'T';" the one where he riffed on Ms Cheney facing a firing squad;
* IMO, the amount is more than fair. A part of it is to account for CBS not pulling, or at the very least censoring, Stephen Colbert who every night, four nights a week, has been slandering his good name and sullying his sterling reputation;
* He needs the money to pay off his ever growing legal fees, fines, penalties and monetary judgements. The Wingnut Welfare he has been collecting -- including from some who have set a priority of throwing money at a billionaire rather than put decent food on the family table -- is no longer sufficient, do you have any idea how much it costs to keep Trump Force One airborne? (Don't forget that multi-state multiple day rally itineraries are rare rarity since the self-defining germaphobe has an aversion to hotels.)
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"likely because his advisors recognize that even on his best day he is about as coherent as an infant on laughing gas, and that the less people see of him, the better the chances they will not realize that his brain is a howling void"
And yet they continue to let him go out and play in the streets during rush hour in Manhattan -- unsupervised.
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"shave seconds here and there so the interview can cover a wide range of topics in a limited amount of time.
To Trump, however, this is yet another excuse, as if he needed one, to accuse the American media of actively working against him."
That because, at least in part, that when the Pumpkin Putrescence sits down for an interview with one of his lapdogs he'll give them three hours *live and unedited*.
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"CBS of purposely trying to make Harris sound coherent even though everyone knows she is a big stupid idiot"
As Karl Rove opined post Harris/Desert Sand Demi-Demon debate: "Trump called Harris 'dumb as a rock.' What does that make him?"
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"Harris is also referred to throughout as “Kamala,” while Trump is referred to as “President Trump.”"
I don't know why I keep getting pissed at the whining little insects circling the dim (and getting dimmer by the minute) that is the Mango Malignancy when they call him "President." He is not President of anything outside of his personal domain; here in the real America we have only one POTUS at a time, and it ain't him. He should be referred to as the disgraced and disgraceful ex-POTUS.
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"We have read enough lawsuits to know that referring to a subject by first name is not common. Here, it is a not-so-subtle sexist way of disrespecting the American vice president."
"We have read enough lawsuits to know that referring to a subject by first name is not common. Here, it is a not-so-subtle sexist [and racist] way of disrespecting the American vice president." [FIFY]
It is only proper to address one's servants (and those beneath you on the social ladder) by their first name only while they are expected to call you Ma'am/Ms last name or Sir/Mr last name.
fnord
The convention in legal writing is to refer to children by their first names (or initials). Adults are referred to by their last name.
More importantly, the lawyer who agreed to file this suit without factual or legal support should be sanctioned for violating Rule 11 (of Fed Rules of Civil Procedure fame).