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That episode is loving _wild_. Though I guess every episode qualifies. I love every instance where you can hear the lawyer smiling.
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It must be immensely satisfying for a lawyer to complete tear apart a real POS on the record, especially when the POS in question is already found guilty, so there’s no fear of a chudge letting him go.
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Jan 26, 2022 13:43
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I gasped when the lawyer managed to get Alex Jones to inflate the estimated reach of his show to 10% of the English-speaking world. Like, holy gently caress Alex, you idiot. They are trying to establish damages. The reach of your lies is a key part of this. You absolute weapon.
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Jan 26, 2022 13:50
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This is as close as we’ll ever get to a Trump actually answering stuff in court. Enjoy it.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:03
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I'm still waiting for him to bang his head on an overhead beam, so his original personality as Bill Hicks may resurface.
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Jan 26, 2022 14:14
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Holy poo poo, Dan was at the loving deposition?
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Jan 26, 2022 15:29
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So Trump's site Truth is still in the works, with editor bots to keep it "a safe place" "for families ". Wonder if he'll have a Russian version? Whatever would he call it?
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Jan 26, 2022 15:36
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“Verified Truth.” Also wowza that lady in the other deposition is astoundingly ill prepared and batshit insane. The absolute lack of effort from Infowars on this is really a sight to behold.
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Jan 26, 2022 15:40
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In other legal news about the Trump circle the Matt Gaetz noose tightens a little more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-shock-jock-joe-ellicott-in-matt-gaetz-circle-pleads-guilty?ref=scroll “ “Big Joe” Ellicott, a former Florida shock jock with potentially key information about the sex trafficking ring involving Rep. Matt Gaetz, has pleaded guilty in federal court, The Daily Beast has learned. Ellicott is the long-time best friend of corrupt Florida tax official Joel Greenberg, who was Gaetz’s wingman in the underage sex operation, according to several sources with direct knowledge of their relationship. Last year, The Daily Beast revealed that Ellicott knew intimate details about the teenage girl who was paid for sex by the group—and actually texted what essentially amounted to a confession that they were scrambling to try and coverup details about their sex with a 17-year-old from the feds. … Joe Zwick, an attorney for Ellicott, told The Daily Beast that his client has been cooperating in the sex trafficking case against Gaetz. “
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Jan 26, 2022 16:58
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I'm still waiting for him to bang his head on an overhead beam, so his original personality as Bill Hicks may resurface. How dare you besmirch a good man's name like that. I do wonder what Bill would have to say about the world today.
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Jan 26, 2022 18:46
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MrUnderbridge posted:So Trump's site Truth is still in the works, with editor bots to keep it "a safe place" "for families ". The bots on Truther are going to be algorithm gamed so hard by people so that they’re somehow tricked into recognizing every MAGAworld hash tag as Sonic the Hedgehog porn or something so they just aggressively delete every not-tweet people post.
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Jan 26, 2022 20:47
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:How dare you besmirch a good man's name like that.
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Jan 26, 2022 21:02
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I do wonder what Bill would have to say about the world today. I wish Hunter Thompson had stuck around at least long enough to witness the Rise of Trump. Hunter was pretty broken for a good while and his stuff was hit and miss an awful lot as he got older and sunk deeper into his alcoholism but he was still capable of delivering that 9/11 commentary, the Nixon obituary and some sharp take downs of GWB. Trump would have led Thompson to suicide anyway had Hunter managed to delay it that long but I bet we would have gotten a few good pieces of sharp writing leading up to 09/2016 at least. He might have delivered a final "gently caress this I'm out good luck fuckers" that was worth reading.
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Jan 26, 2022 21:07
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Murgos posted:In other legal news about the Trump circle the Matt Gaetz noose tightens a little more: Even if he's caught dead to rights on it and it's technically illegal would he even face any pressure from republicans to resign over it?
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Jan 26, 2022 21:21
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I dunno, are you going to pressure him to resign for it?
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lol owned https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1486433143708176393?s=20
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Jan 26, 2022 21:34
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Republicans posted:Even if he's caught dead to rights on it and it's technically illegal would he even face any pressure from republicans to resign over it? No, because they'll just say it's all fake news lies made up by Dems to make him look bad. Then in five years right wingers will talk about how Gaetz was always a liberal RINO.
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Jan 26, 2022 21:56
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Today on his radio program he was railing against the vaccines. WHile opposite him Charlie Kirk had on mike lindell doing the same.
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Jan 26, 2022 23:28
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Republicans posted:Even if he's caught dead to rights on it and it's technically illegal would he even face any pressure from republicans to resign over it? I don’t think not being in prison is a requirement to be a house member so no.
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Jan 27, 2022 01:25
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So a couple of days ago Neil Young wrote a letter to Spotify saying that it was irresponsible of them to perpetuate misinformation about Covid through Joe Rogan's podcast, and ended by saying "If you're going to keep him, I want my music off your service, you can have Joe Rogan or me, not both." Spotify has now started removing Neil Young's music.
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Jan 27, 2022 01:43
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People are saying he doesnt even own the rights to much of his music anymore and cant even do that. But whatever, maybe it will encourage other musicians to do the same.
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Jan 27, 2022 02:04
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Cool, cool. https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1486335962754002948?s=20 Fox viewers will thank Fox for telling them the truth about vaccines as they hack out a lung and die in the hospital
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Jan 27, 2022 03:45
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FlamingLiberal posted:Cool, cool. Crazy that FNC literally decimates its viewership every night but continually maintains more eyeballs on them than any other network lmao. Maybe the Warhammer Orks had it right
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Jan 27, 2022 03:52
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Are they still the most watched network? I thought CNN overtook them a few years ago.
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Jan 27, 2022 04:00
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Mercury_Storm posted:Are they still the most watched network? I thought CNN overtook them a few years ago. It's not even close, in most time slots all the combined opposition doesn't even compared https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/tue...54-demo/499187/ As a caveat, I dug through a lot of sources for this and this was the most presentable. If there's a more industry standard source that got overwhelmed by private SEO let me know. I would, in fact, love to be wrong
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Jan 27, 2022 04:06
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The only people who watch TV these days are the people who would watch Fox. TV ratings day by day become even less relevant as viewership in general declines. https://variety.com/vip/fading-ratings-viewership-declines-in-key-cable-genres-1235144463/
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Jan 27, 2022 06:22
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Fox has always had a massive audience, with the huge caveat that their audience is also the most geriatric, which advertisers don't like. If their audience shrinks yet skews younger, it might actually benefit them financially.
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There's also been studies that basically show that Fox News' dominance is owed largely to the fact that their audience watches nothing but Fox News. CNN viewers tend to watch a little MSNBC, a little PBS, a little whatever. Fox News viewers just leave Fox News all day. Its why Fox does weird things like air Christmas specials. They gotta fill those hours.
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They're also the default "waiting room" network in the US. Like I hadn't seen actual fox for years until having a doctor's appointment last week. There was a segment of some talking head going "Biden says votes will be valid if his voting rights bill passes and invalid if it doesn't pass" and then a list of countries most hostile to christians. India had shot up the list and mysteriously they never mentioned the other abrahamic religion practiced by vastly more indians than christianity that Modi's hate is directed towards.
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Jan 27, 2022 11:43
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:How dare you besmirch a good man's name like that. There's an extremely high chance he would have essentially become Alex Jones. Remember back in the day Hicks was extremely open to conspiracy thinking, just listen to one of his JFK routines. And his other pet bugbear? George Bush snr and the first Iraq War. 9/11 happens under another Bush. Who uses it as an excuse to attack Iraq. That is going to break his brain. I'd put real money he goes 9/11 truther and metastasized from there. Combine that with that he would clearly have loved podcasting and he probably steals Jones lunch money and takes the niche that he fills for himself. Deptfordx fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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STAC Goat posted:There's also been studies that basically show that Fox News' dominance is owed largely to the fact that their audience watches nothing but Fox News. CNN viewers tend to watch a little MSNBC, a little PBS, a little whatever. Fox News viewers just leave Fox News all day. Its why Fox does weird things like air Christmas specials. They gotta fill those hours. That's my inlaws unfortunately. Unless it's sports or something being streamed its Fox News. And they'll have it on almost constantly from when they get up to when they go to sleep.
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STAC Goat posted:There's also been studies that basically show that Fox News' dominance is owed largely to the fact that their audience watches nothing but Fox News. CNN viewers tend to watch a little MSNBC, a little PBS, a little whatever. Fox News viewers just leave Fox News all day. Its why Fox does weird things like air Christmas specials. They gotta fill those hours. My FIL skips around all the news channels so he can, “get a cross section of all the views”. Last summer we were visiting and I sat down in the same room to read. He clicks over to some fox panel show and the host during his lead in drops a holocaust comment and follows it with, “if you believe it happened”. My FIL is Jewish (also MD & PhD so usually quite rational) and I ask him, “do you think you are getting any kind good faith discussion here if the lead in is casual holocaust denial?” He turned it off and didn’t have it on again while I was around but I expect that was just to shut me up. I can’t tell if he’s hate watching it or actually thinks there is some value to their point of view.
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STAC Goat posted:There's also been studies that basically show that Fox News' dominance is owed largely to the fact that their audience watches nothing but Fox News. CNN viewers tend to watch a little MSNBC, a little PBS, a little whatever. Fox News viewers just leave Fox News all day. Its why Fox does weird things like air Christmas specials. They gotta fill those hours. I've only got anecdotes to go on but I think this may not be a thing going forward, pretty much every FNC devotee I know is now mixing in some Newsmax and OANN because FNC has done something to piss them off (vaxx mandate for studios, etc) or they just think it's too liberal now. It's basically the default thing to have on in most public spaces like waiting rooms and under Trump at least was mandated to be tuned to in government facilities, but I wonder how that is counted in the ratings edit - that said it's not like anybody actually stopped watching it so I'm dubious if this ever has any effect on their overall viewership
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Epic High Five posted:under Trump at least was mandated to be tuned to in government facilities What?
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Twelve by Pies posted:So I've now seen two political cartoons in addition to the Carlson/Kelly segments on the "woke M&Ms" thing and holy gently caress it just completely amazes me how their brains are this goddamn broken. It is literally unbelievable that changing some shoes on some cartoon candy characters has become a hill to die on in the culture war. Global warming can't get rid of humanity fast enough. Hopefully crows, roaches, dolphins, or whatever life form becomes dominant in the future will do better. I’ve been thinking a lot about one of the last things my father ever said to me, which is that he liked being angry and enjoyed the emotion of extreme anger so much that he looked for tv shows that he knew would make him angry, and there was nothing else he wanted to do more than that, not even go on a nice vacation with my mother or, presumably, visit with me when I was in town. That tells me more than anything else that I’ll never understand them and that if we need to understand our enemy in order to stop them, I’ll never be able to help.
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Best Knowledge Fight ever
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Deptfordx posted:There's an extremely high chance he would have essentially become Alex Jones. We know exactly what gen x comedians metamorphose into as the world around them changes, and Bill was on his way. Remember that footage of him calling a woman the c-word for three minutes because she left during his act? If you enjoyed what Dave Chapelle has become, you would love aging Bill Hicks.
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Wasn't an XO or anything but there were some leaked messages from early on in the admin along the lines of telling department heads (FDA in the case of the leak) to change all monitors/TVs under their control to play FNC. Not sure how widespread it was but it's extremely believable and hopefully I'm not remembering wrong, as all I can find is an article from the UK press. The response appeared to have been "sorry I can't change those" which given the person on the other end was probably Rudy-tier was probably devastatingly effective. Quite possible other departments relented but also maybe they wanted just the FDA for some reason, god only knows with that admin
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I AM GRANDO posted:I’ve been thinking a lot about one of the last things my father ever said to me, which is that he liked being angry and enjoyed the emotion of extreme anger so much that he looked for tv shows that he knew would make him angry, and there was nothing else he wanted to do more than that, not even go on a nice vacation with my mother or, presumably, visit with me when I was in town. Anger and outrage are literally physically and psychologically addictive.
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How are u posted:Anger and outrage are literally physically and psychologically addictive. The American Experiment will end because people got bored with being mostly happy and things being kind of okay.
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