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Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Could I request more context about this columnist? I know why Bret Stephens is disliked but I don't know much about Weiss.

You can look up her editorials, they suck!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/books/review/bret-easton-ellis-white.html

This article in particular reads like it was written by a TPUSA member who was under deadline.

Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jul 14, 2020

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Thwomp
Apr 10, 2003

BA-DUHHH

Grimey Drawer

Grip it and rip it posted:

editorials, they suck!

FTFY.


I want to be able to debate terrible opinions without consequences. It’s the intellectual equivalent of “its just a prank bro!”

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

In economic news, this is a pretty bad sign


https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/wells-fargo-wfc-earnings-q2-2020.html

quote:


Wells Fargo on Tuesday posted its first quarterly loss since the Great Recession as the bank set aside $8.4 billion in loan loss reserves tied to the coronavirus pandemic.

The bank had a net loss of $2.4 billion in the second quarter, or a loss of 66 cents a share, worse than the 20 cents a share loss expected by analysts surveyed by Refinitiv. Revenue of $17.8 billion was also weaker than analysts' $18.4 billion estimate.


This is a big deal because of the big banks, Wells is most tied to the economy you and I experience as the real one - they make their money largely on retail banking and loan origination. That kept them insulated from the 2008 crash, but the opposite is happening here. Which means things in the real people economy are probably worse than they seem.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
And when she’s been accused by others of being an ardent zionist she responds that yes, she is. And some allegations of her trying to get people fired over banal stuff including just not wanting to hang out with her outside of work.

Apparently plenty of people who are wealthy and disagree with her about things like whether Palestinians deserve life find her pleasant enough in person to ignore these “differences of opinion.” When they don’t she rather publicly flips poo poo.

Otherwise she’s a pretty bad writer and if she thinks centrists are being oppressed, uh... what? It’s either a cynical lie or its just evidence of being detached from reality. It’s like she gets angry about someone being “woke” and equates that to a leftist takeover, when US govt is very far from left.

Her resignation letter is a good example of her poor writing, persecution complex, and insistence of a silent majority who backs her but is scared of leftists.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

mlmp08 posted:

Her resignation letter is a good example of her poor writing, persecution complex, and insistence of a silent majority who backs her but is scared of leftists.

She's also about to join another shithead in some kind of venture:

https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1283100440683479043?s=19

poo poo people being lovely, trying to get themselves fired from places for airing poo poo opinions, failing to get fired and quitting to say SEE HOW lovely THIS ALL IS when everyone is just like "nah, you're just lovely".

Very Greenwaldy.



Edit: also stupid that this is all a thing when poo poo like this is going on: https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1283106468569522176?s=19

We all figured newspapers would die just to economics, but instead, it's basically hedge funds and vulture capital.

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jul 14, 2020

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Platystemon posted:

I didn’t need to know that that was a thing that could happen.

There's a reason I refer to popcorn as "the sadomasochistic snack." It's because I once had a piece of a kernel in my gumline for nearly two weeks. When I was finally able to dislodge it, it definitely made my "Top 10 Best Feelings Ever" list.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Ahahahahaha Lincoln Project fired their video editor.

"I want to be a feminist but every time I call someone a c--- I get yelled at" - that guy

Washington Post's paywall posted:

A video editor who shaped the buzzy Lincoln Project ads needling President Trump is no longer affiliated with the Republican organization over a series of past tweets in which he used offensive slang for female anatomy to insult political rivals.

Ben Howe, who came of age politically making anti-Obama ads during the rise of the tea party, did not publicly tout his work for the super PAC formed by a group of high-level Republican operatives who have broken ranks with the party over Trump’s presidency until a recent interview with Vanity Fair. He was described in the article as “the creative mind, video editor, and, he said, sometimes narrating voice on many of the group’s ads.”

The 19th, a nonprofit news outlet, had emailed the Lincoln Project about a series of Twitter posts made by Howe in the years after Trump’s election that deployed female anatomy as an insult, calling rivals a “vagina” or “twat,” or in some instances using a more profane term.

“Based on these unacceptable and offensive posts, and those that came to light last week, Ben Howe is no longer affiliated with the Lincoln Project, effective immediately,” Keith Edwards, the group’s spokesman, said in a statement.

Last week, the Daily Dot resurfaced tweets from Howe that defended Darren Wilson, the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. They were published by Talking Points Memo shortly after they were made in 2014 and have since been deleted.

Howe said he had written “ill advised” and “inexcusable” tweets and was grateful for the work he’d been involved in.

“Some people just need a tap on the shoulder to change. Others need a slap in the face. Me? I’ve often needed a piano dropped on my head. The piano fell years ago, but I suppose I’m still crawling out from under the wreckage in some ways,” he said in a statement. “I’m better than I’ve been. And I intend to be better than I am.”

Howe previously worked on an anti-Trump documentary film with the Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson and joined the group when it was founded late last year.

“I want to be a feminist but every time I call someone a [c---] I get yelled at,” Howe wrote in a June 2018 tweet.

Howe also responded to a June 2017 New York Times story about women being talked over and interrupted in the workplace by tweeting that it is “only when they won’t stop yapping about their period or whatever.”

Before Trump’s election, Howe wrote that Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton’s voice “makes me want to cut my ears off with a hacksaw” but that he still found Trump so distasteful he would vote for her.

Howe frequently criticized the Republican Party for helping elect a candidate who described assaulting women, referencing “Access Hollywood” footage that was published by The Washington Post before the 2016 election.

Howe’s parting from the Lincoln Project comes as the group seeks to show it can pivot to influencing voters after demonstrating it was able to provoke a response from Trump, who has called the group a “disgrace to Honest Abe” and its founders “LOSERS.”

The group raised $16.8 million last quarter and says it will soon expand its ground operations.

Doesn't make them any better, because Lincoln Project is absolutely going to turn 180 once trmup is gone and start making ads glorifying the next competent fascist they can find who has an R next to their name.

orange juche fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Jul 14, 2020

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
https://twitter.com/isaiah_kb/status/1283068548336586752?s=21

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


A Minnesota nice burn.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
The Republican objection to Trump is that he controls the mob that is the Republican electorate, and they don't.

GoGoGadget
Apr 29, 2006

Trump admin to remove CDC from hospital reporting chain. Anyone else heard about this?

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Bari Weiss's career started with trying to get people fired for saying Palestinians are human. The grievances in her letter are that her managers wouldn't fire everyone who thought she sucked. So when she talks about cancel culture, all you should hear is a resounding fart noise.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Proud Christian Mom posted:

The Republican objection to Trump is that he controls the mob that is the Republican electorate, and they don't.

Pretty much, they're going to bump trump out, and then they will shift messaging to using trump's playbook to control the white-hot shrieking ball of conservative rage at democrats. They want him gone so they get control back, but they absolutely are going to play the poo poo out of the trump playbook once he's gone.

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

orange juche posted:

Pretty much, they're going to bump trump out, and then they will shift messaging to using trump's playbook to control the white-hot shrieking ball of conservative rage at democrats. They want him gone so they get control back, but they absolutely are going to play the poo poo out of the trump playbook once he's gone.

That's going to be so much worse. As bad as his presidency has been, he's been to chaotic to actually accomplish all that much. The next republican is going to be just as evil but competent.

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Oh, Ghislaine Maxwell entered a not-guilty plea.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/MHackman/status/1283117410980171787?s=20

I am sure this administration will find another cartoonishly evil thing to do

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/MHackman/status/1283117410980171787?s=20

I am sure this administration will find another cartoonishly evil thing to do

That one probably affected enough college kids of no poo poo rich foreigners that they were able to get Jared or Ivanka to have a word.

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
I don't even understand the point. Just xenophobic cred to sate his base?

loving christ this election needs to come and go already.

Notahippie
Feb 4, 2003

Kids, it's not cool to have Shane MacGowan teeth

Mustang posted:

I don't even understand the point. Just xenophobic cred to sate his base?

loving christ this election needs to come and go already.

You're giving them too much credit. Everybody involved with immigration in this administration is cartoonishly evil and actively looking for any way to gently caress over foreigners regardless of the political calculation involved.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
A banner few hours for old, fat, white, cheddarbrained racists.

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1283130468871876608?s=19

https://twitter.com/CHueyBurns/status/1283131382429028353?s=19

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Death cult, RWM and politicans continues to be a death cult

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
WH brought Gorka back. Jesus christ.

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer
He told you

HE TOLD YOU HIS RETURN WAS IMMINENT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nglVo9rj2Nk




HAAAAAIIILLL GOOORRRRRKKAAAAAA

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

The return of the Dragon of Budapest has been foretold.

in adjacent news
https://twitter.com/ByRogerYu/status/1283095102567653378?s=20

Sarern
Nov 4, 2008

:toot:
Won't you take me to
Bomertown?
Won't you take me to
BONERTOWN?

:toot:

Brute Squad posted:

The return of the Dragon of Budapest has been foretold.

in adjacent news
https://twitter.com/ByRogerYu/status/1283095102567653378?s=20

Those trees should just take a cold shower or eat some corn flakes.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
My Tinder profile just links to that article

literally this big
Jan 10, 2007



Here comes
the Squirtle Squad!

literally this big fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jul 14, 2020

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

'nut glut' deserves a pulitzer

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Fallom posted:

'nut glut' deserves a pullitzer

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

Milo and POTUS posted:

My Tinder profile just links to that article

My condolences to your broken branch

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

A fun thing about the farming business is that if the crops do poorly that year, it's bad, but if it's a bumper crop, that's also bad. And if it's a normal crop but demand is down? Better believe that's bad.

Small wonder everyone sells the family farm.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013
Nut Glut doing some seriously heavy lifting in that tweet.

loving glorious.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

facialimpediment posted:

She's also about to join another shithead in some kind of venture:

https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1283100440683479043?s=19

poo poo people being lovely, trying to get themselves fired from places for airing poo poo opinions, failing to get fired and quitting to say SEE HOW lovely THIS ALL IS when everyone is just like "nah, you're just lovely".

Very Greenwaldy.



Edit: also stupid that this is all a thing when poo poo like this is going on: https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1283106468569522176?s=19

We all figured newspapers would die just to economics, but instead, it's basically hedge funds and vulture capital.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNirsV1rLA

cerebral
Oct 24, 2002

Best Friends posted:

A fun thing about the farming business is that if the crops do poorly that year, it's bad, but if it's a bumper crop, that's also bad. And if it's a normal crop but demand is down? Better believe that's bad.

Small wonder everyone sells the family farm.

Family nut farmer here, and this is painfully true. It's doubly true when you elect someone who decides the best thing for farmers is to shred the markets they spent decades building and replace them with welfare. And the majority of farmers will cheer you as you do this, just so long as you identify as a republican.

Lake of Methane
Oct 29, 2011


There is no paraphrasing there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL8dcWtkGtY

Arven
Sep 23, 2007

Lake of Methane posted:

There is no paraphrasing there.

Doesn't matter, it's already being defended as "Well he's technically correct, more white people are killed by cops every year! :eng101:"

Don't expect the same boomers who can't understand how tax brackets or inflation work to understand statistics proportional to population either.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
A story in three parts that is hilarious in all ways.

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1283011450332745730

https://twitter.com/LokayFOX5/status/1283210103374729216

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1283211513025699841

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



You’re out of your drat mind if you ever thought anyone has a chance against a guy like tuberville in alabama. Dude isn’t quite Saban level, but he’s well known enough that everyone is gonna vote for him. He could run on any platform and mop the floor with Sessions by saying he’s gonna ensure the tide get at least three natties in his time in office.

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maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
I want to follow up on that by saying gently caress Nick Saban

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