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Crackbone posted:Wait, why is he changing his tune? It’s not like truth or evidence ever changed Fox’s propaganda. "Glenn's career is destroyed? Heh heh *cracks knuckles* My job here is done."
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Crackbone posted:Wait, why is he changing his tune? It’s not like truth or evidence ever changed Fox’s propaganda. They probably realized the story was so poo poo that it was having the opposite effect.
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Night10194 posted:Might have something to do with Murdoch deciding Trump's going to lose. That or some incoming oppo about the trump family.
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Oct 30, 2020 03:34
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Glenn Greenwald really chose the worst possible day to throw his tantrum, huh. Life comes at you fast!
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Oct 30, 2020 03:36
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It's not weird that Carlson would change his tune, but it's weird that he would do it on a dime like that. Wasn't it just last night he was complaining about the "stolen" documents?
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Oct 30, 2020 03:37
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pthighs posted:It's not weird that Carlson would change his tune, but it's weird that he would do it on a dime like that. Wasn't it just last night he was complaining about the "stolen" documents? The evidence thumb drive from Rudy was just a bootleg .avi of Homeward Bound.
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pthighs posted:It's not weird that Carlson would change his tune, but it's weird that he would do it on a dime like that. Wasn't it just last night he was complaining about the "stolen" documents? He tried to get UPS to lose it because it didn't contain anything
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pthighs posted:It's not weird that Carlson would change his tune, but it's weird that he would do it on a dime like that. Wasn't it just last night he was complaining about the "stolen" documents? It turns out that the intern accidentally copied swap.avi onto the thumb drive and poor Hunter has been scarred
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T. Bombastus posted:The fall of Taibbi is much more disappointing to me than Greenwald's poo poo. I came of age during the Bush administration, and Taibbi's writing was a huge contributor to my political development.
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ZobarStyl posted:Absolutely. Taibbi decided to simply look the part of a latter day Hunter S. Thompson rather than actually writing that way. My word though, the depth of Greenwald's self own is downright benthic. Why the gently caress would he think that editorial email chain made him look like anything but the dumbest, pettiest bitch in existence? Because there's a large following of people that will sniff his farts and call it pulitzer worthy. It's easy to create your own echo chamber online, and Glenn really seems to like getting high on his own supply. Matt's just a contrarian that got lost in fighting his posting enemies than actual journalism, but he's got a strang following of libertarian and leftist online types. Heck Yes! Loam! fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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Armitage posted:I wonder if we can put Greenwald on suicide watch if Trump loses. It's a small, petty thing and for a small, petty person, but the guy whose twitter account I'm going to on election night if the race is called for Joe Biden is going to be Scott Presler. That guy is the living embodiment of believing that Trump is infallible and if Joe Biden wins next week he might just blink out of existence due to sheer cognitive dissonance.
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If Biden wins these people will instantly pivot to stolen election/election fraud. They will not act on this in any way except via the tenor of their twitter whining.
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T. Bombastus posted:The fall of Taibbi is much more disappointing to me than Greenwald's poo poo. I came of age during the Bush administration, and Taibbi's writing was a huge contributor to my political development. Yeah it sucks because his article for Rolling Stone right before the 2006 midterms is one I will always remember fondly. Oh well.
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Tucker's 'changing his tune' because there's one media cycle left in this election, team fatherland is down by 10 and this Hunter Biden poo poo is weak, this election was supposed to be about the race war.
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DynamicSloth posted:Tucker's 'changing his tune' because there's one media cycle left in this election, team fatherland is down by 10 and this Hunter Biden poo poo is weak, this election was supposed to be about the race war. It's remarkable how unlucky his team has been in this election, and how poorly they've managed to play the cards they've been dealt. Biden's been running a pretty lousy campaign, all things equal, but Trump sees every bad move Biden makes and says, "You call that stupid? I'll show you stupid!" God's reached down and is planting the crown square on Biden's head. Oh! How magnanimous! 
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Oct 30, 2020 03:55
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Handsome Ralph posted:Yeah it sucks because his article for Rolling Stone right before the 2006 midterms is one I will always remember fondly. Oh well. His articles explaining the fuckery behind the 2008 financial meltdown were really good and did a lot to get me onto the Sanders bandwagon.
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I'd wager it's come to his attention that his coronaviruse response resembles snyder's response to flint. And that michigan's dem gov is v popular. He's lost michigan and he's in the denial stage.
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Crackbone posted:Wait, why is he changing his tune? It’s not like truth or evidence ever changed Fox’s propaganda. He's not really changing his tune. What he's saying is supposed to be a justification and a subtle, "bless his heart" deniable dig at Hunter: "Look, he is so sketchy that we have published all this rock solid evidence that is completely tied to Joe Biden, but there are also a lot of other accusations against Hunter, and out of the goodness of our heart we aren't going to broadcast them. He's a hosed up broken dude and you should totally judge him for it, but we are very kind people who won't give details. Instead, we'll let you, the viewer, fill in the specifics." E: Try re-watching the video, and think of how somebody who's convinced that Tucker has unimpeachable journalistic standards, and who believes that Patriot Agents are waging a secret war with the Deep State to expose horrible Qonspiracies, would hear what he's saying Space Gopher fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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eggyolk posted:His articles explaining the fuckery behind the 2008 financial meltdown were really good and did a lot to get me onto the Sanders bandwagon. Seriously Griftopia was the first just straight political book I read when I was finally coming out of my "politics is for nerds" phase and into my "politics is for nerds but also impacts everyone" phase.
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There’s some gossip around that people want the Trump campaign to hammer the economic numbers but he keeps being a giant baby and doubling down on the Hunter stuff. Maybe this is Tuckers way of trying to steer Trump because we all know he takes his cues from Fox.
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PerniciousKnid posted:Ring is on the wrong finger. I mean, you can always flip it in Photoshop. In case you're envisioning him "stretching" something, of course. eggyolk posted:His articles explaining the fuckery behind the 2008 financial meltdown were really good and did a lot to get me onto the Sanders bandwagon. I'm hoping he'll revert back to being a useful commentator once this strangest and most irritating of elections is over.
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ryde posted:There’s some gossip around that people want the Trump campaign to hammer the economic numbers but he keeps being a giant baby and doubling down on the Hunter stuff. Maybe this is Tuckers way of trying to steer Trump because we all know he takes his cues from Fox. Oh wow, you forced everyone back to work and encouraged state level Republicans to kill all pandemic changes, and economy kinda recovered but Covid is literally at the worst level it's ever been. Great job 
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ryde posted:There’s some gossip around that people want the Trump campaign to hammer the economic numbers but he keeps being a giant baby and doubling down on the Hunter stuff. Maybe this is Tuckers way of trying to steer Trump because we all know he takes his cues from Fox. I don't think the economic numbers would really help them when a lot of people are still underemployed or even unemployed right now because of COVID-19.
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It turns out that GDP growth is not a be-all end-all measure of human flourishing. Who knew?
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Elotana posted:It turns out that GDP growth is not a be-all end-all measure of human flourishing. Who knew? yeah it's weird how loudly shouting 33.1 PERCENT QUARTERLY GDP GROWTH over and over at somoene that lost their job of 25 years in april isn't the panacea for trump he loving thinks it is :thinking:
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Honestly what I take away from the Greenwald thing is it's terrifying how easy it is to make people fall into the propaganda hole. A lot of us assume we're too aware/too smart for it to work on us and it seems to be a short path from there down to conspiracytown because if you assume it doesn't work on you then what you're seeing must be real/accurate. It's honestly pretty terrifying to realize how easy it is to manipulate people by pointing at something they feel in their gut. It also makes me genuinely scared that I'm falling into similar traps and straight up not realizing it. Thankfully most of the things I feel like I believe in are things I can assume are verifiable truth but god knows that depending on how the election goes my brain is going to be super vulnerable to conspiracy theories considering all the verifiable fuckery going on.
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Elotana posted:It turns out that GDP growth is not a be-all end-all measure of human flourishing. Who knew? You better watch where you say this, you might be labeled a terrorist with accusations like that!
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The Glumslinger posted:Oh wow, you forced everyone back to work and encouraged state level Republicans to kill all pandemic changes, and economy kinda recovered but Covid is literally at the worst level it's ever been. Great job I mean, tbf, Americans are dumb as poo poo when it comes to job numbers and equating the Dow with THE ECONOMY(tm).
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Lol let's leave hunter alone so joe biden and the aoc death squad doesn't hang me after the election *Pops a Hillary's America dvd in and hits play*
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Majorian posted:It's remarkable how unlucky his team has been in this election, and how poorly they've managed to play the cards they've been dealt. Biden's been running a pretty lousy campaign, all things equal, but Trump sees every bad move Biden makes and says, "You call that stupid? I'll show you stupid!" God's reached down and is planting the crown square on Biden's head. Biden's been running an incredibly solid campaign. He's had an incredibly solid, stable lead. He's raised more money than other candidate in history, by leagues. His gaffes have been few, even for Biden, and have received little to no coverage outside of the politics-obsessed chatter circles. He's going to the states that make sense. He didn't flub any of his debates or town halls. His VP has had no major scandals or flubs.
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Taerkar posted:I don't think the economic numbers would really help them when a lot of people are still underemployed or even unemployed right now because of COVID-19. That’s true but Trump sycophants are idiots that think number goes up means the economy is good for your average person.
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This is probably a stupid question, but can someone be pardoned in advance for crimes not investigated/indicted? Could Trump, for example, say on 1/19 "I hereby pardon myself, Ivanka, Jared, etc. for any crimes committed on or prior to this day." ?
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Shooting Blanks posted:This is probably a stupid question, but can someone be pardoned in advance for crimes not investigated/indicted? Could Trump, for example, say on 1/19 "I hereby pardon myself, Ivanka, Jared, etc. for any crimes committed on or prior to this day." ? the answer to your question is TBD pending a 6-3 decision
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Star Man posted:This post made me look up what would happen if there was a nuclear explosion on the moon. I am now reading about something called Project A119. 21 years ago last September. Never forget. https://youtu.be/uLAsBzOOhLQ Esplanade fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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Tucker has no beliefs of his own. He is a bought-and-paid mouthpiece for billionaires, and he is somehow wholesome enough to beguile and bewitch an entire generation of codgers who are, at all times, milliseconds away from signing away all their assets for 10,000,000 Iraqi dinar or commemorative plates or whatever. The Hunter Biden story didn't incept every boomer the way Clinton's email bullshit did because a) it wasn't announced by the FBI director, b) it didn't directly implicate Joe of anything and c) it's a lazy, flimsy scandal because nepotism is rampant in every loving layer of employment in this country. No one cares and he's distancing himself. He is a well-lubricated weathervane, pivoting with ease.
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Pick posted:Biden's been running an incredibly solid campaign. He's had an incredibly solid, stable lead. He's raised more money than other candidate in history, by leagues. His gaffes have been few, even for Biden, and have received little to no coverage outside of the politics-obsessed chatter circles. He's going to the states that make sense. He didn't flub any of his debates or town halls. His VP has had no major scandals or flubs. Yeah, the campaign has been somewhere between underwhelming and alienating for the left, but we can't say it hasn't been solid because all the metrics that matter are there, and he hasn't had any notable fuckups. Could he have done literally anything and won because he's the Not Trump? Would appealing to the left make the numbers even better? Maybe, maybe not, but we know this way is working.
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I really hope so because Taibbi circa 2008 (when i started reading him) to 2012 was really good. But I also wonder if he’s just broken in too many ways, and it’s probably time for a younger, new generation of gonzo-type journalists to come of age. I gave up on Taibbi after the midterms when it was clear he was losing it.
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LeeMajors posted:Tucker has no beliefs of his own. He is a bought-and-paid mouthpiece for billionaires, and he is somehow wholesome enough to beguile and bewitch an entire generation of codgers who are, at all times, milliseconds away from signing away all their assets for 10,000,000 Iraqi dinar or commemorative plates or whatever. He's a white supremacist OP
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