You know, Fox turned into a hardcore porn channel so gradually I didn’t even notice.
I’ve been praying that with all the lawsuits flying around, FOX"news" gets taken down hard…
I mentioned in another thread how some of my conservative friends are mad at Biden because of the high cost of lumber.
That pretty much shows there was nothing actually incriminating on the laptop.
Well, Carlson is running for President and has to build viewership. What better way than to offer free porn?
Seriously, he is running. He’s following Donald’s lead in going openly-but-a-tad-short-of-KKK racist:
Carlson is being backed by all those excited by his vision of a White America, including Hillbilly Elegy author J. D. Vance:
Note that this worshipful tweet is explicitly about the Carlson embrace of “Great Replacement” (white supremacist) ideology.
There are a lot of interesting responses to Vance’s praise for Carlson; one succinct one from the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent:
If all those Republicans would get down off their crosses, the lumber supply would go through the roof, and prices would go WAY down.
OK, so position your legs on the cross so one foot is directly atop the other. Center the nail pointy end down, pound into place. Take second nail, hold in finger tips directly over the palm, pound into place. Hold third nail in other hand same way and then…what?
Ethical dilemma: if asked for assistance with third nail, what do you do?
I suppose your friend hates the free market, and wishes Biden would nationalizer the lumber industry, and the government could institute a Great Five Year Plan To Increase Lumber Production With Glorious Workers.
Or alternatively, he’s fucking stupid.
Not really an issue. They don’t want to suffer, they just want to be seen to be suffering.
Really more “people I knew from high school” on Facebook. Not exactly Nobel Prize winning economists.
It’s the reason why more progressive types get frustrated dealing with conservatives. Because they are fucking stupid. You can’t argue with fucking stupid using logic and reason. Because their fucking stupid mind works as follows:
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Republican in charge: Everything good that happens is because a Republican is in charge. Everything bad that happens is because Liberals are not doing what the Republicans told them to do.
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Democrat in charge: Everything bad that happens is because a Democrat is in charge. Or more accurately, everything that happens is bad because a Democrat is in charge. High lumber prices, job loss, taxes, war in the Middle East, peace in the Middle East, can’t find my lost car keys - all Biden’s fault.
What!? It’s Biden’s fault now? When did we stop saying “Thanks Obama”? How am I supposed to keep up with all of these things? I’ve got my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it; I’m swamped.
My Pillow guy is hiring investigators to find out why Fox won’t have him on any of their shows.
I wonder how much it would cost me to find out why they don’t have me on any of their shows.
Misery Theatre?
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Greene announced earlier this week that she raised a staggering $3.2 million during the first quarter of the year with more than 100,000 individual donations. Her campaign team adds that 98 percent of the donations were under $200.
“I am humbled, overjoyed, and so excited to announce what happened over the past few months as I have been the most attacked freshman member of Congress in history,” she wrote on Twitter. “ . . . The political ruling class fears the people because it’s the people that can take away what they love most. Power. Because it’s power that brings them everything else. I am one of the people and the people are with me, and I will always be with them. WE are just getting started!”
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But Greene’s fundraising total and the support it signifies has alarmed her detractors, who warn she represents a dangerous side of American politics bent of waging divisive battles over race and the growing diversity in the country.
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A Republican operative familiar with her first-quarter fundraising numbers expressed astonishment that when Greene posted a video of herself working out in her D.C. hotel room after falsely claiming that gyms in the city were closed due to the pandemic, it prompted roughly 5,000 individuals to donate that weekend. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss fundraising disclosures that remain private until detailed in Greene’s FEC filing.
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My bold.
Hey, lying works. Trumpy proved that over and over.
I always heard you don’t touch third nails. Two are fine, but that third is a killer.
Albany, New York County Legislator resigns after saying gay people should be sent off to an island where they can die.
When I first read this I thought, “Why is this a stupid Republican idea? He apologized and resigned like a responsible adult[1].” Then I tripped over[2] the responsible conduct bar that the Republicans have lowered and I realized that I was thinking of Republican politicians like toddlers who are being potty-trained - happy with them doing something we expect as a basic minimum from every other human being on the planet.
[1] As contrasted with the Alabama politician who lied about his affair until the tape came out.
[2] Technically I stumbled over the hole in the ground where the bar is buried.
To be fair, the article doesn’t really support your (or its own headline’s) interpretation of this statement. Langdon said, in the context of a diatribe at a right-wing conference to the effect that same-sex relationships are not “perpetual”,
To me, that’s very clearly not advocating that homosexuals should be shipped off to an island to go extinct, but simply observing that if a homosexual population were isolated in exclusively same-sex relationships for decades, the population would go extinct. Which is true.
Of course, it’s still hella homophobic to advocate discrimination against homosexuals on the basis of religious doctrines demanding that sex must be linked with reproduction.
It’s also plenty stupid to imagine that an isolated population of homosexual people, even if none of them were willing to engage in opposite-sex sexual activity, wouldn’t figure out effective strategies of artificial insemination to be able to reproduce. (And since the next generation, like human populations in general, would most likely be majority-heterosexual, reproduction thereafter would work the same way as in most human populations.)
So this deservedly-former legislator definitely qualifies for the “Stupid Republican Idea” category. But AFAICT he did not actually endorse a policy of sending gay people “off to an island where they can die”.
You win the Footenote of the Day award.
Yes, but in that 40-year period, there would be lots of children born to heterosexual couples, some of whom would turn out to homosexual. Do we ship them off to the island, in which case its population would be continually replenished; or do they stay on the heterosexual mainland, and we’re right back where we started?
Langdon seems to be thinking of “them” and “us”. Put “them” on an island and “they” will die out and “we” will be rid of them. It doesn’t seem to occur to him that they are us.