It’s been a while since I’ve watched a superbowl, but I do remember that they had half the space for national ads, then half for local.
The local ads are still expensive for a local ad, well into the tens of thousands for a 30-second spot, but significantly less than the millions for a national ad.
You will likely see some ads for some local car dealerships as well.
Used cars? After airing ads for Republicans, the stations could use something to class things up a bit.
It won’t. But he can claim he tried to place it, but the lamestream media wants to silence him, so he’s posting the video online. He’ll get a bit of free publicity and a bunch more eyes on the video, for a lot less money than the Superbowl spot would have cost.
Probably one of Samantha Bee’s best-ever segments, where (avec clothespin!) she deep dives into book-banning and how it’s become such an effective weapon for the right.
Well worth the 16 minutes to sit back and enjoy both parts.
Well, here’s a new face for descanting the insalubrious on the commonweal - Republican house candidate Christian Collins, backed by Cruz, Hawthorn, and MGT (the latter - with their vaguely equine jaw and maxillo-structure - likely wanting to jump him).
For the love of Toppie Smellie there’s a photo I can’t find now where the fascist turkey is sitting back in a chair and giving the most gimlet-eyed look that would make Lee Von Cleef shart until he was dumping out both pant legs.
Great, so, this is a? the? young new face of the Republican party, making it nice and clear that…well…fuck post-secondary education with a dunce-cap on top, while Betsy DeVos probably would’ve been fapping away to the tweet in the article (oh has time to read, right?).
Looking forward to more up and comers like this.
Fine standing.
Missed edit window on total nitpick, but not sure when Lee became German. 
(Actually - one third, despite “Van” spelling.)
I was an atheist from about 5th grade onward. Perhaps he needs to close down the entire public education system.
Of course, I became an atheist while taking catechism classes because I started seeing huge holes in logic and rationality I was being told to believe was incontrovertible fact so, y’know …
No Qanon thread, and (R.) so fucking completely owns this shit, so here it goes…
Couple days ago saw on PBS Newshour an odd piece on how the yoga community is getting infiltrated by Qanon.
For the time being conspirituality will be my favourite new word, even though it’s been around for, what, a year? Do keep up, Guest.
Really wanted to link that LA Times piece but paywalled.
Actually this article goes on to concentrate more (hey, interestingly!) on the misappropriation of Orientalism.
Everything bloody else has cookies/adblocker stuff.
Nitpick: “Orientalism” is a term usually used nowadays to refer to ingrained Eurocentric/racist/etc. assumptions about “exotic” Asian cultures and their “mysterious wisdom” or “inscrutable” attitudes and so on and so forth. It’s not Orientalism per se but specific Asian cultural practices that are being “misappropriated” and exploited by ill-informed westerners.
(Yes, it’s true that “Orientalism” originally referred to the serious study by European scholars of Asian intellectual and cultural traditions in their own contexts. And no, I’m not claiming that any westerner who likes yoga or martial arts classes, etc., is necessarily “misappropriating” something that belongs to Asian people.)
Ah, sigh, if I’ll ever be able to put things as well as you.
Thanks.
Aw you’re sweet, thanks. (curtsey)
YEAH! Kimstu just curtsied me!
WOO-HOOOOOOOOOOO! 
::stupidly high fives the air::
yeah I’ll skulk along…
No need to skulk, I’d celebrate too.
Hey, one has to sieze upon every little scrap and morsel that’s thrown their way these days. 
Should’ve mentioned earlier that despite the age of these articles, I’m surprised this completely went under my radar first time around, and apologies if this is old news.
I’ve been writing about conspirituality for about a year now, although I think I started using the word sooner.
Missed the edit window
What I do object to is the prevalent idea that since the conspiritualists aren’t conservative, they’re liberals. Tie-dye and crystals don’t make you a liberal. My friends never voted - because it didn’t matter they’re all the same they’re all in on it together - and were vehemently not Democrats. Their fellow conspiritualists were the same way……they talked about in their meetings. Yes, they had meetings. Which I attended partly because I could at least challenge some of the bullshit, and partly because I have a very dark sense of humor. This was before Trump and Q.
No one gets to use them as the counterpoint in both sides.
There were also, as I came to realize, not very smart. They were both very attractive and personable so people tended to look past it. But the wife was a vocal believer in “pseudoscience”, she always talked about her love of pseudoscience, because she didn’t realize the word was pejorative. I didn’t fill her in because I have a dark sense of humor.
And she seriously thinks she channeling a spirit, because, according to her, sometimes she just says stuff that’s so freaking wise it couldn’t come out of the mouth of real human, so that’s the only possible explanation. To me, it sounds like the same stupid stuff she always says, only in a fake Italian accent.
So, how would you describe them? Did they support any candidates for office, or were they entirely apolitical? Where did they stand on the typical “culture wars” issues? Or did they just ignore those questions as well?
They believed that all first world governments were controlled by a secretive cabal. They believed that no matter what a candidate said or promised, once they were elected they would be blackmailed and controlled by the cabal. It didn’t matter whether they were Democrat or Republican, it was all the same.
And they didn’t vote or support candidates, they thought the whole system was a rigged charade.
In terms of cultural beliefs, it was a mixed bag. They were strongly against racism and in favor of equality. They were also strong believers in gun rights and had an anti- government mentality, they were strongly against governmental regulations of all kinds - which isn’t surprising since they believe the government murdered school children in cold blood in order to create an atmosphere of fear in order to pass laws they didn’t like.
Yeah, okay, I can see how that can be confusing.
Rick Scott’s manifesto isn’t even a thinly-veiled declaration that he wants to turn the US into a theocracy based on white supremacy. If you click the link to the 11-point plan in the article, you get to download and read a PDF of his plan, that includes such gems as:
We will protect the integrity of American Democracy and stop left-wing efforts to rig elections. Today’s Democrat Party is trying to rig elections and pack the courts because they have given up on Democracy. They don’t believe they can win based on their ideas, so they want to game the system and legalize voter fraud to stay in power. In true Orwellian fashion, Democrats refer to their election rigging plans as “voting rights”. We won’t allow the radical left to destroy our democracy by institutionalizing dishonesty and fraud.