I don’t think the postal service will save Kamala. I don’t think anything can “save Kamala”.
The early voting suggests Republican voters are heavy into voting and Democrats are pissed Beyoncé didn’t do a free concert the other day, along with other perceived grievances. Couple that with the Obama’s scolding black men for not supporting Kamala pissing off black men, Jewish people finally figuring out Democrats don’t like them one bit, Hispanic‘a knowing illegal immigration’s negative affect on their wages, and white men-the real ones- displaying their “toxic masculinity “ at the ballot box I think her omelet is cooked.
When Trump wins the riots ought to make the George Floyd displays of joy look tame.
Bezos is putting them on stronger footing for the new reality that appears to be forming. Trump’s tariffs stand to cost him billions, and he needs something to dangle to get deals done. Cleaning up a corrupt newsroom would certainly qualify. But this is only a half gesture so far. A true mea culpa on Russia collusion and returning the ill-gotten Pulitzer is perhaps the only way the paper can truly regain trust.
If Elon, RFKJr, Vance, Vivek, Tulsi, and company are truly pulling in a legion of outsiders to ride in on the Trump train to really drain the swamp this time around, the Post will have much to write about. A Kennedy assassination document dump may further tarnish the Post if it clings to its traditional role as the Deep State’s mouthpiece. It wouldn’t be the worst time for them to reboot their whole organization.
Didn't the Israelites have to wander in the desert for forty years for the golden calf fiasco?? After forty years all of the miscreants had assumed room temperature . The crew then moved into the promised land. I think it will take less than forty years to cleanse journalism. I'm placing my bet on twenty five years.
There is the equivalent of the motherlode of stories about to break, as nervous bureaucrats try to prevent firing with cause by becoming whistleblowers. Here the story in the Washington Times about Comey's directed "honeypot" against the Trump campaign in 2015-2016.
I was looking for "none of the above" because there is no saving the Left. But the only chance she has to steal this is if the Abortion cultists show up on election day in greater numbers than sane Americans wishing to save America from this Socialism that has melded into our system.
With the amount of cheating they do I don't think the Democrats ever win the popular vote. The voter rolls in NY are so corrupted, and from what I've been reading, more states are too. NJ, CA and IL have to be dirty as well. Nixon knew it was dirty in 1960. No one has ever held their feet to the fire so why change their tactics?
Brevity is the soul of wit, but for those who missed it and those in those Rio Linda who didn't understand it, I'm doing the work that you won't do. Trump is toast- that's what the lunatic left, MSM, and never-Trumpers are preaching to any goofballs stupid enough to listen. The Goofy Oddball Politicians: “This is just a big punch in the gut for Republicans who have sincerely and over a period of time been working to grow strong relationships and roots in Puerto Rican communities, particularly here in the state of Florida,” said former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, one of the featured guests at Trump’s New York City event, sparked a furor after referring to Puerto Rico as a “a floating island of garbage,” prompting some members of the GOP, like Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.), who is Puerto Rican, to come out against the remarks. And Tucker Carlson mocked Vice President Harris’s racial identity. In addition to his remark about Puerto Rico, the comedian also made a crude joke about Latinos in which he said “they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.” Most sane people would find that funny, you know, like it was a JOKE.
“These people have no sense of humor,” he wrote. “Wild that a vice-presidential candidate would take time out of his ‘busy schedule’ to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist. I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone … watch the whole set. I’m a comedian Tim … might be time to change your tampon.” They’re Americans. They’re not Black Americans or Latino Americans. They’re Americans.
My SIL was in the nosebleed section at MSG Sunday, event Agenda started at 2pm. About the comedian she said, he was making fun of every group, like comedians do, everyone understood the premise of jokes and laughing at themselves, and the Puerto Rican jokes were no different…. As Rush said, liberals see no mirth in ANYTHING…
The gift of laughter also includes the ability to laugh at yourself. Apparently, the lunatic left lacks the capability to comprehend that. Perpetual frowning is no way to go through life.
This reminds me that in the 1950s the Netherlands saw an epidemic of people being offended too. Back then and there it was not so much about racist stuff but religion, with various denominations sputtering against perceived offensive remarks about them by other denominations, or by the heathens. That's all over now, but people everywhere are good at finding things to be offended by.
Harry Truman had the best solution: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!"
Dear friends, good morning to you all. It gives me such joy to be a part of this group and to follow the leadership of the historical Oracle having said that, I'm sure you're beginning to understand that I'm not a brainwashed, all out, stand with your party to the death guy. And, my problem is, I allowed my daughters to practice critical thinking, which is against the grain of many of my super conservative born again evangelicals. Case in point. I just voted for the Democrat attorney general in the state of Indiana, because of the Republican one was a dumbass and stated that he will make laws and prosecute anybody that violates any understanding of the six-week heartbeat rule. The problem with that and I have first hand experience, sort of, is my daughter's abortion. Hold on before you throw me in the tub of boiling oil. The baby aborted itself but it's still called an abortion. So she called the very Catholic, (in South bend is there anything not very Catholic and to refresh your memory Notre Dame is in Roseland just north of South bend?) Anyway when she reported her self-aborting baby without clarification) the staff at the emergency room jumped on her like she was a piece of s*** excuse my French and made her weep and cry for half an hour until the manager got on and was a little bit more sensitive and they went ahead and scheduled a DNC which you have to do after every abortion. Fast forward to recent events and the last dumbass DA prosecuted a common sense gynecologist woman and earn the wrath of women oriented, maybe I should say critical thinking women everywhere which included my two daughters because I unfortunately taught them how to be critical thinkers against the advice of all my friends at first (but now they love my daughters because they're fearless.) So now I have a young girlfriend younger than my daughters and she's my girlfriend because we live in the same apartment complex and my two daughters and even my support staff of another homeschooled woman who takes care of my foot whenever my real bloodline daughter is out of town in Mexico or California because he's a travel agent, is also a critical thinker. Ellie and her mother have stood outside abortion clinics and silently protested which according to the first amendment is our right to do. But at least unlike the Palestinian Hamassholes they didn't violate property or yelling in people's faces or whack them or signs but this is the difference between men and women. Duh. The Democratic party (and don't start being an a****** and making up all sorts of snide remarks you male oriented Republicans!!) is oriented around women and it's been that way since the Garden of Eden but of course being wildly experimental like we are from time to time they get carried away. For example, if you allow a woman to spend all the money she wants all the time and never stop her you're on your road to bankruptcy until you get a divorce and some of us don't like to divorce. So I'm walking into a new world and I'm carrying a big stick and I'm taking names and kicking ass because I am going to be from this point on fiercely bipartisan and I'm not going to stand by and let people process pepper with criticism about beautiful Democratic women. I may be a little bit more quiet and not defend Hillary but still even my daughters understand my strong feelings on that idiot did I say idiot excuse me question All right no that's a question mark silly secretary it's a good thing she's an AI she can take this criticism anyway I'm going to stop my rant I'm going to post it in my shepherd's journal and warn your friends before they read it cuz I'm not pulling back my punches as much as I used to My favorite initials now are F A F O. And yes I love watching a good beat down.
For clarification, I fell in love with my young neighbor, am I repeating myself? When she was listening to one of my stories and believe me you don't want to hear all my stories because you'll have the same impression She looked at me in shock bewilderment and admiration and said you are one crazy ass m***********. So now you know why she's my girlfriend and my daughter's love her. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. MAD DOG
The poll is another Horshack test- save Kamala from what? I choose Biden, who has and will continue to save her from the presidency and further embarrassment.
Who are the dumbasses among your readership who would want you to be the conservative columnist of the Washington Post? That would only prove the folly of casting pearls before swine.
Besides which, it would be at the expense of this forum, and you would get pennies on our dollars there. You’d be a total bitch to live with, and your awesome wife would cash out.
Bezos is rich because of his hard work, intellect, and ability to understand his customers. America is changing and so must the Post. Bezos sees his own polls, it say’s landslide. FJB
10/29/24: May I ask, if Bezos is endowed with the "ability to understand his customers," why did he either initiate or merely tolerate his Amazon-Orwellian political commissars to censor (destroy) the book reviews of tens of thousands of his "customers"?
If his intellect is so sharp, then why did he wait until the last minute to step in to halt the WaPo endorsement of Kookamunga Harris?
--- "... the Beltway (as the once credible Wall Street Journal dubbed it..."
Amazon and its subsidiaries are dependent on Government contracts too(Amazon cloud contract, Blue Origin etc). I do not agree with overt book banning/ shadow banning, however when your business is dependent on the Stazi power, you compl, fight or die.
Thank you; agreed. Only problem is that Amazon actively, wholeheartedly went after book and other product reviews with the enthusiastic intent of censorship. Never did they exhibit any signs that they were being coerced.
People who have a gun to their head don’t show you a picture of themselves with a gun to their head.
In recent times, Doctors promoted vaccines, some of the time because they believed in them, most of the time because hospitals would not let you work or State licensing boards would pull your license. There were few dissidents.
They long ago passed the point where right and wrong meet. The little incremental changes will do nothing to change their image. Sometimes the products of human endeavors reach a point of irrelevance and the WaPo and NYT and WSJ are all vying for the same life ring now. But it’s too late to save them. People, readers, are vindictive as hell.
Have you noticed all of the Bud Light commercials during football games? They're trying to change their image but I doubt if many are back to drinking that tasteless swill.
10/29/24: Super Bowl halftime show, they burn the Bud Light veep at the stake (the one who commission that piece of garbage in the tutu in the new ads).
I say, shit can the Pulitzer because it salutes the least likely girl to get laid, instead of the one most likely to drown in admirers. Instead, award the Putz Prize...that would be more appropriate. Just imagne a "tell it like it is" award for an impartial rag that prints both sides of a story, and gets out of the way for the readers to decide. PS: lemme know when it happens.
Things like the Pulitzer endure because they started as a worthy idea. They still are. It’s only when humans start to use them in a corrupted way that they lose meaning. Don’t get rid of the Pulitzers in our life, get rid of the corrupt people who use them for their own purposes.
Bezos is a very rich man because he created a market place that made pricing transparent and increased price competition by an order of magnitude. It made price gouging almost impossible. Then his newspaper wanted to endorse a candidate that believes that inflation is caused by price gouging and promises to fix inflation by fighting price gouging. Imagine his despair.
Oh my, I read some of the comments in the WaPo comments section. No wonder there is such a huge divide in this country. Those readers are nuts and so filled with self righteousness of their perceived eliteness and disdain of their fellow Americans. Quite the bubble.
You will never win an argument by Losing your mind.
I’ve seen and read people on both the Left (mostly) and on the Right do this.
It particularly pains me when it happens on the Right because it denigrates and obscures whatever their actual point might have been, as well as just making them look like a rabid loon.
“Keeping your head about you while all those around you are losing theirs” may at times seem to be a tall order, but it will assure your argument the issue, and not your behavior.
Great clarity on this topic. Money is not the root of all evil, but excessive love of money or the total lack of money are the problems. The Catholic hospitals run by nuns knew this. The nuns used to say “No margin,no mission”. In other words, a broke guy can’t give you a job.
And you can’t help anybody if you’re broke.
Communism breaks everything it touches. This is by design. That’s why predictably we see the Left simultaneously backpedaling on failed initiatives and doing the same stupid stuff that failed in other areas.
Everything was better before politics ate the world. Maybe the pendulum is starting to swing back the other way. Most of us would like nothing better than to talk about this acrimonious stuff a lot less so we can focus on positive things.
Billionaires like money. That’s good and bad. That money if properly channeled in the right direction can buy a lot of dumb politicians. We’ve seen this to excess on the Left. Maybe the billionaires are starting to realize that much more left means much less money.
About money, I can contribute a popular Dutch saying:
"Geen geld, geen Zwitsers" --
Literally, 'No money, no Swiss.'
It dates from a time when Switzerland was a very poor country, so a lot of men hired themselves out as mercenaries, to whichever ruler happened to be involved in a war -- and could pay. The same was true at various times of other nationalities, like the Germans -- the Hessians in particular, and also in the Middle Ages the French, the British and others.
The only way there can be a repatriation of the news, whether in print or otherwise, to the truth, will be for them to get out from under the boot of the government.
They are riddled with sources and operatives from government telling them what to report, feeding them leaked, even classified information and even threatening them to tow the party line or be cast into the wilderness.
Today, One running any news organization, who genuinely wants to be fair and balanced, would require having an ethical spine of steel, the courage of a lion, and a hefty bank account to back it all up.
But I do believe it would prosper greatly in time, and even become a leader of the pack, like water in a desert of thirsty people.
To the best of my knowledge (for I just realized I have not opened a newspaper in many, many months), they remain the place where official government notices are published, which I'm sure they would not want to do without.
Craigslist as much as anything killed the newspaper’s cash cow: Classified Advertising. The Saturday morning paper used to be loaded with garage sale ads generating $$$. Then, for free, people opened the app on their phone and used Google Maps to hit the garage sale trail. I asked a local newspaper exec about it and she dismissed my question like I was school boy.
My new favorite paper is County Highway. Quaint and quirky with little nuggets of fun. Current issue has pieces on Wisconsin Supper Clubs and a Cattleman’s Feast. I hope Don is a fan.
I have re-read this twice, it is meaty. The adage that newspaper and television news credibility were better several decades ago misses one big point: yes they may have been better, but the bias was stronger, disguised by a far slower pace to life itself. Walter Cronkite was forced to admit that yes, he was a bit on the liberal side. The premise that capitalism can save newspapers has undeniable strength to it, but for a whole host of reasons, it also has severe impediments to its implementation. Those reasons include the appetite in modern corporate America to lose money in favor of advocacy or “narrative control.” Bezos’ 77 million loss could be set off by any number of gimmicks involving himself and the swamp. Ideological control is far deeper in our Society than “MSM.” It has spread vigorously through Law schools, Divinity schools, public education, “higher” education, the entire federal bureaucracy, several streets include K and Wall, publishing and entertainment…including music. Remember “by the time we got to Woodstock…”? I am diving back in for another re-read.
And yet, despite all that 'daunting' infiltration of our media and institutions, we have the most powerful force in the universe on our side-- Reality itself.
The tyrannical instinct and false premises behind Marxism, DEI, identity politics, the oppressor/victim psyche, etc. etc., are not consistent with the nature of Reality, and of that which is capable of everything positive and constructive.
Democratic control of the country for the last 4 years has shown just how grim and destructive their ideology is. It is devoid of anything inspiring or uplifting to the human spirit. It is devoid of any spirituality (tho it often tries to cloak itself in "religious sounding" things--like Obama aping the vocal style of "pastor" Jeremiah Wright). It crushes out freedom, and the essential energy of each individual's inherent impetus to BE and DO things. Reality is continually brimming with new Life, joy, expansiveness, growth, creating, building; and an underlying love and cherishing of all beings.
The Left can beat itself against the Rock of Reality all it wants, but it will never overturn Reality.
My photographic objectives are to “show what is right with the world.” I did not come to realize that until I had been doing it for four or five years. You have restated a similar theme, which I admire.
I find Bezos gesture of no longer endorsing candidates a bit self-serving at this point. He was okay with their bias while the Marxists ran the congress. Now it looks like their rein of terror may be over and Bezos needs some new buddies. Newspapers have always been biased or at least leaned a certain way when reporting. But when papers and their journalists stopped vetting candidates equally and stopped reporting on news events that did not help their biased ideology, they may as well have kissed their livelihood, their honor, and our constitution goodbye. The Post has a long way to go to ever atone for their corruption. I think it is too late for most of the biased papers and media outlets to get their honor and prestige back. Im not rooting for them to do so any longer. But let’s hope in the case of the Washington Post that Mr Bezos is better at resurrecting a newspapers honor than he is at picking girlfriends. I mean, come-on, what would all those bird cages do if there were no newspapers left?
I don’t think the postal service will save Kamala. I don’t think anything can “save Kamala”.
The early voting suggests Republican voters are heavy into voting and Democrats are pissed Beyoncé didn’t do a free concert the other day, along with other perceived grievances. Couple that with the Obama’s scolding black men for not supporting Kamala pissing off black men, Jewish people finally figuring out Democrats don’t like them one bit, Hispanic‘a knowing illegal immigration’s negative affect on their wages, and white men-the real ones- displaying their “toxic masculinity “ at the ballot box I think her omelet is cooked.
When Trump wins the riots ought to make the George Floyd displays of joy look tame.
None of the above is the appropriate response to the poll.
Agreed. I picked "Tim" since he has the same chance to save her as the rest of the options.
I went for the rarified poll air of a 1%’er….the Big Guy FJB got my ballot…
The only thing that will save her is dominion programmers.
by using the word aught i assume you mean will.
So, thirty will six? Interesting name for a military cartridge.
Bezos is putting them on stronger footing for the new reality that appears to be forming. Trump’s tariffs stand to cost him billions, and he needs something to dangle to get deals done. Cleaning up a corrupt newsroom would certainly qualify. But this is only a half gesture so far. A true mea culpa on Russia collusion and returning the ill-gotten Pulitzer is perhaps the only way the paper can truly regain trust.
If Elon, RFKJr, Vance, Vivek, Tulsi, and company are truly pulling in a legion of outsiders to ride in on the Trump train to really drain the swamp this time around, the Post will have much to write about. A Kennedy assassination document dump may further tarnish the Post if it clings to its traditional role as the Deep State’s mouthpiece. It wouldn’t be the worst time for them to reboot their whole organization.
Didn't the Israelites have to wander in the desert for forty years for the golden calf fiasco?? After forty years all of the miscreants had assumed room temperature . The crew then moved into the promised land. I think it will take less than forty years to cleanse journalism. I'm placing my bet on twenty five years.
If we’re not all blown to smithereens by then.
Oh, tut tut. Remember, damn the torpedoes.
…and full speed ahead!
👍😉
In the words of Dan Daly, "do you want to live forever?"
(Yelled at his company of Marines just before chasing the Germans out of Belleau Wood)
There is the equivalent of the motherlode of stories about to break, as nervous bureaucrats try to prevent firing with cause by becoming whistleblowers. Here the story in the Washington Times about Comey's directed "honeypot" against the Trump campaign in 2015-2016.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/29/whistleblower-james-comey-fbi-honey-pot-spies-infi/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
Not to mention the fantastic piece by Mollie Hemingway of the Federalist chronicling what a lying manipulator Jake Tapper is.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/29/jake-tapper-is-lying-about-cnns-key-role-in-the-russia-collusion-hoax/
Popcorn (God willing) forthcoming).
I was looking for "none of the above" because there is no saving the Left. But the only chance she has to steal this is if the Abortion cultists show up on election day in greater numbers than sane Americans wishing to save America from this Socialism that has melded into our system.
i agree so the question is...which group is bigger or prone to vote? abortionists or the sane?
I really think it will be the courts. She may be the first Democrat to not will the popular vote.
With the amount of cheating they do I don't think the Democrats ever win the popular vote. The voter rolls in NY are so corrupted, and from what I've been reading, more states are too. NJ, CA and IL have to be dirty as well. Nixon knew it was dirty in 1960. No one has ever held their feet to the fire so why change their tactics?
Brevity is the soul of wit, but for those who missed it and those in those Rio Linda who didn't understand it, I'm doing the work that you won't do. Trump is toast- that's what the lunatic left, MSM, and never-Trumpers are preaching to any goofballs stupid enough to listen. The Goofy Oddball Politicians: “This is just a big punch in the gut for Republicans who have sincerely and over a period of time been working to grow strong relationships and roots in Puerto Rican communities, particularly here in the state of Florida,” said former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, one of the featured guests at Trump’s New York City event, sparked a furor after referring to Puerto Rico as a “a floating island of garbage,” prompting some members of the GOP, like Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.), who is Puerto Rican, to come out against the remarks. And Tucker Carlson mocked Vice President Harris’s racial identity. In addition to his remark about Puerto Rico, the comedian also made a crude joke about Latinos in which he said “they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.” Most sane people would find that funny, you know, like it was a JOKE.
“These people have no sense of humor,” he wrote. “Wild that a vice-presidential candidate would take time out of his ‘busy schedule’ to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist. I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone … watch the whole set. I’m a comedian Tim … might be time to change your tampon.” They’re Americans. They’re not Black Americans or Latino Americans. They’re Americans.
My SIL was in the nosebleed section at MSG Sunday, event Agenda started at 2pm. About the comedian she said, he was making fun of every group, like comedians do, everyone understood the premise of jokes and laughing at themselves, and the Puerto Rican jokes were no different…. As Rush said, liberals see no mirth in ANYTHING…
The gift of laughter also includes the ability to laugh at yourself. Apparently, the lunatic left lacks the capability to comprehend that. Perpetual frowning is no way to go through life.
This reminds me that in the 1950s the Netherlands saw an epidemic of people being offended too. Back then and there it was not so much about racist stuff but religion, with various denominations sputtering against perceived offensive remarks about them by other denominations, or by the heathens. That's all over now, but people everywhere are good at finding things to be offended by.
Harry Truman had the best solution: "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!"
Dear friends, good morning to you all. It gives me such joy to be a part of this group and to follow the leadership of the historical Oracle having said that, I'm sure you're beginning to understand that I'm not a brainwashed, all out, stand with your party to the death guy. And, my problem is, I allowed my daughters to practice critical thinking, which is against the grain of many of my super conservative born again evangelicals. Case in point. I just voted for the Democrat attorney general in the state of Indiana, because of the Republican one was a dumbass and stated that he will make laws and prosecute anybody that violates any understanding of the six-week heartbeat rule. The problem with that and I have first hand experience, sort of, is my daughter's abortion. Hold on before you throw me in the tub of boiling oil. The baby aborted itself but it's still called an abortion. So she called the very Catholic, (in South bend is there anything not very Catholic and to refresh your memory Notre Dame is in Roseland just north of South bend?) Anyway when she reported her self-aborting baby without clarification) the staff at the emergency room jumped on her like she was a piece of s*** excuse my French and made her weep and cry for half an hour until the manager got on and was a little bit more sensitive and they went ahead and scheduled a DNC which you have to do after every abortion. Fast forward to recent events and the last dumbass DA prosecuted a common sense gynecologist woman and earn the wrath of women oriented, maybe I should say critical thinking women everywhere which included my two daughters because I unfortunately taught them how to be critical thinkers against the advice of all my friends at first (but now they love my daughters because they're fearless.) So now I have a young girlfriend younger than my daughters and she's my girlfriend because we live in the same apartment complex and my two daughters and even my support staff of another homeschooled woman who takes care of my foot whenever my real bloodline daughter is out of town in Mexico or California because he's a travel agent, is also a critical thinker. Ellie and her mother have stood outside abortion clinics and silently protested which according to the first amendment is our right to do. But at least unlike the Palestinian Hamassholes they didn't violate property or yelling in people's faces or whack them or signs but this is the difference between men and women. Duh. The Democratic party (and don't start being an a****** and making up all sorts of snide remarks you male oriented Republicans!!) is oriented around women and it's been that way since the Garden of Eden but of course being wildly experimental like we are from time to time they get carried away. For example, if you allow a woman to spend all the money she wants all the time and never stop her you're on your road to bankruptcy until you get a divorce and some of us don't like to divorce. So I'm walking into a new world and I'm carrying a big stick and I'm taking names and kicking ass because I am going to be from this point on fiercely bipartisan and I'm not going to stand by and let people process pepper with criticism about beautiful Democratic women. I may be a little bit more quiet and not defend Hillary but still even my daughters understand my strong feelings on that idiot did I say idiot excuse me question All right no that's a question mark silly secretary it's a good thing she's an AI she can take this criticism anyway I'm going to stop my rant I'm going to post it in my shepherd's journal and warn your friends before they read it cuz I'm not pulling back my punches as much as I used to My favorite initials now are F A F O. And yes I love watching a good beat down.
For clarification, I fell in love with my young neighbor, am I repeating myself? When she was listening to one of my stories and believe me you don't want to hear all my stories because you'll have the same impression She looked at me in shock bewilderment and admiration and said you are one crazy ass m***********. So now you know why she's my girlfriend and my daughter's love her. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. MAD DOG
Somewhere in your comment I lost your point.
He would have made it shorter, but he ran out of time😊
Next to you Don Catturd is my hero.
The poll is another Horshack test- save Kamala from what? I choose Biden, who has and will continue to save her from the presidency and further embarrassment.
Who are the dumbasses among your readership who would want you to be the conservative columnist of the Washington Post? That would only prove the folly of casting pearls before swine.
Besides which, it would be at the expense of this forum, and you would get pennies on our dollars there. You’d be a total bitch to live with, and your awesome wife would cash out.
We like you too much to do that to you!
Dons cat would run away too.
Both sides of a topic? WOW! What a concept.
Bezos is rich because of his hard work, intellect, and ability to understand his customers. America is changing and so must the Post. Bezos sees his own polls, it say’s landslide. FJB
10/29/24: May I ask, if Bezos is endowed with the "ability to understand his customers," why did he either initiate or merely tolerate his Amazon-Orwellian political commissars to censor (destroy) the book reviews of tens of thousands of his "customers"?
If his intellect is so sharp, then why did he wait until the last minute to step in to halt the WaPo endorsement of Kookamunga Harris?
--- "... the Beltway (as the once credible Wall Street Journal dubbed it..."
WSJ is garbage. Thank you, Don!
Amazon and its subsidiaries are dependent on Government contracts too(Amazon cloud contract, Blue Origin etc). I do not agree with overt book banning/ shadow banning, however when your business is dependent on the Stazi power, you compl, fight or die.
Thank you; agreed. Only problem is that Amazon actively, wholeheartedly went after book and other product reviews with the enthusiastic intent of censorship. Never did they exhibit any signs that they were being coerced.
People who have a gun to their head don’t show you a picture of themselves with a gun to their head.
In recent times, Doctors promoted vaccines, some of the time because they believed in them, most of the time because hospitals would not let you work or State licensing boards would pull your license. There were few dissidents.
Don't forget the USPS giving him a break so he ships Amazon products for free.
10/29/24: Very interesting. Obviously, just like Obama running the Biden WH, Bezos never "retired" from Amazon...
10/29/24: Highly recommended!
https://uncoverdc.com/2024/10/29/jeff-bezos-isnt-based
They long ago passed the point where right and wrong meet. The little incremental changes will do nothing to change their image. Sometimes the products of human endeavors reach a point of irrelevance and the WaPo and NYT and WSJ are all vying for the same life ring now. But it’s too late to save them. People, readers, are vindictive as hell.
Have you noticed all of the Bud Light commercials during football games? They're trying to change their image but I doubt if many are back to drinking that tasteless swill.
10/29/24: Super Bowl halftime show, they burn the Bud Light veep at the stake (the one who commission that piece of garbage in the tutu in the new ads).
10/29/24: Highly recommended!
https://uncoverdc.com/2024/10/29/jeff-bezos-isnt-based
10/29/24: Highly recommended!
https://uncoverdc.com/2024/10/29/jeff-bezos-isnt-based
I say, shit can the Pulitzer because it salutes the least likely girl to get laid, instead of the one most likely to drown in admirers. Instead, award the Putz Prize...that would be more appropriate. Just imagne a "tell it like it is" award for an impartial rag that prints both sides of a story, and gets out of the way for the readers to decide. PS: lemme know when it happens.
Things like the Pulitzer endure because they started as a worthy idea. They still are. It’s only when humans start to use them in a corrupted way that they lose meaning. Don’t get rid of the Pulitzers in our life, get rid of the corrupt people who use them for their own purposes.
Bezos is a very rich man because he created a market place that made pricing transparent and increased price competition by an order of magnitude. It made price gouging almost impossible. Then his newspaper wanted to endorse a candidate that believes that inflation is caused by price gouging and promises to fix inflation by fighting price gouging. Imagine his despair.
Clever you are.
Oh my, I read some of the comments in the WaPo comments section. No wonder there is such a huge divide in this country. Those readers are nuts and so filled with self righteousness of their perceived eliteness and disdain of their fellow Americans. Quite the bubble.
You will never win an argument by Losing your mind.
I’ve seen and read people on both the Left (mostly) and on the Right do this.
It particularly pains me when it happens on the Right because it denigrates and obscures whatever their actual point might have been, as well as just making them look like a rabid loon.
“Keeping your head about you while all those around you are losing theirs” may at times seem to be a tall order, but it will assure your argument the issue, and not your behavior.
Love the Kipling quote. I've always tried to live by it.
One of my all time favorite poems!
For those who might enjoy a re-read:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---
My dad made me memorize at 6.
Gave a framed copy to my grandsons. Hope they look at it from time to time.
Wonderful! It’s all about building a righteous character.
Excellent, though a bit long. I saved vs 1, 2 and 4.
Great clarity on this topic. Money is not the root of all evil, but excessive love of money or the total lack of money are the problems. The Catholic hospitals run by nuns knew this. The nuns used to say “No margin,no mission”. In other words, a broke guy can’t give you a job.
And you can’t help anybody if you’re broke.
Communism breaks everything it touches. This is by design. That’s why predictably we see the Left simultaneously backpedaling on failed initiatives and doing the same stupid stuff that failed in other areas.
Everything was better before politics ate the world. Maybe the pendulum is starting to swing back the other way. Most of us would like nothing better than to talk about this acrimonious stuff a lot less so we can focus on positive things.
Billionaires like money. That’s good and bad. That money if properly channeled in the right direction can buy a lot of dumb politicians. We’ve seen this to excess on the Left. Maybe the billionaires are starting to realize that much more left means much less money.
About money, I can contribute a popular Dutch saying:
"Geen geld, geen Zwitsers" --
Literally, 'No money, no Swiss.'
It dates from a time when Switzerland was a very poor country, so a lot of men hired themselves out as mercenaries, to whichever ruler happened to be involved in a war -- and could pay. The same was true at various times of other nationalities, like the Germans -- the Hessians in particular, and also in the Middle Ages the French, the British and others.
The only way there can be a repatriation of the news, whether in print or otherwise, to the truth, will be for them to get out from under the boot of the government.
They are riddled with sources and operatives from government telling them what to report, feeding them leaked, even classified information and even threatening them to tow the party line or be cast into the wilderness.
Today, One running any news organization, who genuinely wants to be fair and balanced, would require having an ethical spine of steel, the courage of a lion, and a hefty bank account to back it all up.
But I do believe it would prosper greatly in time, and even become a leader of the pack, like water in a desert of thirsty people.
To the best of my knowledge (for I just realized I have not opened a newspaper in many, many months), they remain the place where official government notices are published, which I'm sure they would not want to do without.
Craigslist as much as anything killed the newspaper’s cash cow: Classified Advertising. The Saturday morning paper used to be loaded with garage sale ads generating $$$. Then, for free, people opened the app on their phone and used Google Maps to hit the garage sale trail. I asked a local newspaper exec about it and she dismissed my question like I was school boy.
My new favorite paper is County Highway. Quaint and quirky with little nuggets of fun. Current issue has pieces on Wisconsin Supper Clubs and a Cattleman’s Feast. I hope Don is a fan.
YES
Very good point. I had forgotten that.
I have re-read this twice, it is meaty. The adage that newspaper and television news credibility were better several decades ago misses one big point: yes they may have been better, but the bias was stronger, disguised by a far slower pace to life itself. Walter Cronkite was forced to admit that yes, he was a bit on the liberal side. The premise that capitalism can save newspapers has undeniable strength to it, but for a whole host of reasons, it also has severe impediments to its implementation. Those reasons include the appetite in modern corporate America to lose money in favor of advocacy or “narrative control.” Bezos’ 77 million loss could be set off by any number of gimmicks involving himself and the swamp. Ideological control is far deeper in our Society than “MSM.” It has spread vigorously through Law schools, Divinity schools, public education, “higher” education, the entire federal bureaucracy, several streets include K and Wall, publishing and entertainment…including music. Remember “by the time we got to Woodstock…”? I am diving back in for another re-read.
And yet, despite all that 'daunting' infiltration of our media and institutions, we have the most powerful force in the universe on our side-- Reality itself.
The tyrannical instinct and false premises behind Marxism, DEI, identity politics, the oppressor/victim psyche, etc. etc., are not consistent with the nature of Reality, and of that which is capable of everything positive and constructive.
Democratic control of the country for the last 4 years has shown just how grim and destructive their ideology is. It is devoid of anything inspiring or uplifting to the human spirit. It is devoid of any spirituality (tho it often tries to cloak itself in "religious sounding" things--like Obama aping the vocal style of "pastor" Jeremiah Wright). It crushes out freedom, and the essential energy of each individual's inherent impetus to BE and DO things. Reality is continually brimming with new Life, joy, expansiveness, growth, creating, building; and an underlying love and cherishing of all beings.
The Left can beat itself against the Rock of Reality all it wants, but it will never overturn Reality.
True, but before the Left comes to terms with reality, it can do an awful lot of mischief.
My photographic objectives are to “show what is right with the world.” I did not come to realize that until I had been doing it for four or five years. You have restated a similar theme, which I admire.
It's one battle in a long war John. This ain't gonna be easy.... Just like growing old, it's not for sissy's.
True-there is no upside-but we enjoyed movies and music that the youth of today will never know.
Yes Jake….at the very least, several successful election cycles. Progressives have a hundred year head start.
I find Bezos gesture of no longer endorsing candidates a bit self-serving at this point. He was okay with their bias while the Marxists ran the congress. Now it looks like their rein of terror may be over and Bezos needs some new buddies. Newspapers have always been biased or at least leaned a certain way when reporting. But when papers and their journalists stopped vetting candidates equally and stopped reporting on news events that did not help their biased ideology, they may as well have kissed their livelihood, their honor, and our constitution goodbye. The Post has a long way to go to ever atone for their corruption. I think it is too late for most of the biased papers and media outlets to get their honor and prestige back. Im not rooting for them to do so any longer. But let’s hope in the case of the Washington Post that Mr Bezos is better at resurrecting a newspapers honor than he is at picking girlfriends. I mean, come-on, what would all those bird cages do if there were no newspapers left?
Let's wait and see what he does vs what he says. Stopping the endorsement was step one. What will he do next?
Hmmm, I dunno, not even about those girlfriends. Did he pick them, or was it the other way around? Seems probable to me.