“Newspapers sealed their fate by turning radically left by defending the indefensible.”
About 30 years ago I walked into a Walmart in Frederick, Maryland where a table was set up in the entrance with a couple of guys trying to sell subscriptions to the Washington Compost, as some of us locals called it. One of them asked me if I wanted to sign up and I laughed and answered, “Why would I want to pay for that leftist rag?” His mouth dropped open and I left him standing there speechless. And that was back when the newspaper was still at least slightly sane.
Free advice to those subscription peddlers: Walmart doesn't seem like the best location to make your pitch. I'd suggest Trader Joe's, or better yet, an all-vegan grocery.
They pick Walmart and similar locations because it makes them appear "normal" and like the rest of us. Frankly, they might have better luck in front of The Society for the Study of Mental Health.
04/08/24: Stonesifer (WaPo Interim Zookeeper): "This is a really good business that we overshot on expense."
Had I uttered this gibberish when I was working for the Wall Street banks, my retirement would have been an involuntary one, and a lot sooner than the actual date when I threw in the towel (1994).
(The men in the white coats arriving with the nets at 1 World Trade Center would have been explained to me as a company mental health benefit as I was being custom-fitted for a straight-jacket.)
Stonesifer back in the day was a hardcore Hollywood/Microsoft DEI hire.
So where else but in the WaPoSwamp could she have ended up?
And let us not forget that she made a very nice dollar while intrepidly guiding WaPo's descent into Jeff Bezos's Rounding Number (Accounting) Money Pit.
My Spellcheck kept prodding me to change "Stonesifer" to "Teensier."
One look at her Wikipedia photo set my Spellcheck straighter than Mr. Bump.
Whoops! Bad comparison. OK, try again.
If you're gifting Ms Eighteen Stone a bathing suit this coming Christmas, use the Whoopie "Cheeseburger" Goldberg profile for the perfect fit.
The joke (not her, the punchline... OK, both) has legs! Although I very much doubt she's been able to see her legs since the age of about nine. Thank you.
Make no mistake about it: the professional Money-Printers know exactly what they're doing. As Milton Friedman said, everything is paid-for. Everything. Somehow. If you quit paying the guy who mows your grass, he'll stop doing it. The nurse taking care of you will find another job if you stop paying her. And they know that - and they also know that, since the gub'ment makes no product, all the money to pay for their profligacy must come from someone who earned it, and that's you, Mr. Taxpayer and Wage-Earner. But they can't stop cranking the printing press because the people who pay for it all haven't been born yet; we're paying for politicians of a generation ago, and our kids will pay for all the spending, borrowing, and money printing of this one. Since they don't have to face the people they robbed, it's Katie-bar-the-door.
The heinous part of inflation (money-printing) is that it is not only a tax on your paycheck; it's theft of what you have saved, too. That thousand dollars you worked so many hours to save is now worth only a few hours of labor - which if the math is to be believed, has devalued 97% since Nixon took the US off the gold standard in the fall of 1971. A dollar is now worth three cents. Think about that.
I laugh when I see the Stazi press say the economy is good and I’m paying $300 for groceries when 4 years ago they were $100, or I pay $5.30 for gas when 4 years ago it was $2.25. The only thing good about these last 4 years is it has exposed the evil in every aspect of this country. Hopefully the next few months will be calm, but I suspect given history we should buckle up.
Yes, Trump exposed the globalists and forced them to bust out of the closet and go full throttle out in the open. We now know exactly who is Public Enemy Number One. It's the DC cartel wing of the Globalist Party. Among Trump's many accomplishments, exposing these bastards is his greatest.
If DJT never accomplishes another thing we owe him a debt of gratitude for exposing the evil in our own government. But I pray he isn't done yet. We are now in the fixing stage.
Mark, November 3rd (two days before the election) has the potential to be a political earthquake (especially for John Paulson, which I jut discovered this afternoon).
Nor in this respect, am I. I am reporting on doing research on dozens of politicians and their supporters/hired staff, and November 3rd for many of them is off the charts in terms of potential for chaos. Beyond that general indication, I have no idea what will happen. Which doesn't concern me; what I've seen is plenty enough to be deeply concerned. We shall see.
"'...this is the same person who last month pitched...a bible with public-domain text for $60, a portion of which goes into his pocket. This is the guy who...insisted that the stock for his social media company...was worth the investment. This is the guy who is pitching $400 sneakers and Trump-branded cologne...$99 NFTs, including a promotion in which buyers got a piece of the suit he wore in his mug shot.'"
Personally, I think it's brilliant - at least the donor/buyer gets something in return, instead of just giving away the $.
Stonesifer doesn't even do corporatespeak very well - abysmal, in fact. Buzbee is just a clown.
Not a cow, though, Brother Don - a bull.
The best part of the Bezos Post is that I don't have to read it.
None of this argument matters. People are looking at their receipts at the grocery store and gas station and elsewhere. That is all the proof they need to decide that Biden has economically destroyed this country and made life miserable. Period.
I paid double for a half tank of gas what I used to pay for a full one last week. $38 for 8 gal, used to be $22 for 18 gal. You cant gaslight people with shrinking wallets.
That's 71,000 higher-than-average paying jobs pulling more money from the taxpayers because the government never EARNS revenue; they TAKE it.
More than longing to see WAPO wither on the vine, I'd love to see the day our government gets RIGHT-SIZED. They take what they want and don't live by a budget so they can't say they overshot expenses. They don't know their costs and don't care.
The monthly jobs report is always bullshit, and a later date in the month, is revised downward in agate type immediately below an ad for truck loads of manure.
I saw where it used to be 22 private jobs to pay for 1 government job. that was yrs ago, who knows what the ratio is now. Especially since most jobs are part time and you have to have 3.
"lies, damn lies and statistics"......in spite of the cheery news from the trump camp i am hesitant to believe that he will regain the white house. there so many nefarious grubs on the right that it almost seems as though we're fighting a two fronted war and i don't trust the gop in dc (or states level for that matter) any more than i do the garbage on the left.
I disagree; have faith in the Almighty; Matthew 17:20: And He said to them, “Because of your meager faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
It is going to get very ugly come September and October. I hope DJT has dedicated SS people close to him. Marxists and the CIA have been very good at over throwing countries...............like ours.
While I desperately want Trump back in the White House, as a minister with an M.Div. (Master of Divinity) and over 40 years of ministry experience, I would say be careful putting too much stock in what any of these modern day "prophets" (or rich mega church preachers) say. Most of them don't pass God's (scripture's) sniff test.
Yes, it's always wise not to put your trust in princes -- Psalm 146:3. Same advice in Psalm 118. And, fools are put in many high places -- Ecclesiastes 10:5-6.
Even so, almost anybody would be an improvement over the corrupt moron presently in the White House. The one with incontinence of the mouth -- although the regular kind remains a strong possibility.
The D卐M☭CRAT's will implement some scheme to deny Trump the presidency in Nov 2024. If the bookies are offering goods odds on a Trump win in October 2024 you'll know the steal is in place..
I just love those cheery comments from the not-laid-off management when announcing RIFs: really good business, rightsizing, overshot expense, investment and re-imagine. Does Buzbee really mean they ran out of Covid (other people’s) money? What she doesn’t say is that no one bothers to read their stuff anymore, so the buying public isn’t buying their product.
Do you suppose they will re-imagine the Post as say a solar farm in NM? That’s a business that also lives on tax payer subsidies. What about re-imagining it as a data center for AI? Or a semiconductor fab? They are getting taxpayer big money, too? Too many choices.
And that increase in part time jobs is people having to get second/third jobs, as well as retirees re-entering the workforce, in order to pay for the astronomical increase in their most basic living expenses under this administration.
You see the older part timers more and more. Saw a lady stocking shelves in Walmart. Had to be in her mid 70's. She could barely walk with looked like bad hips. Some dude from the Daily Caller said no one should retire before 65. I disagree vehemently..
I see them as well. Disagree on retiring before 65, though, at least for me. I'm 75 and work every day. Fortunately I have my own full-time online business plus a substack podcast to keep me busy. For me that's the song is the key: "Don't let the old man in."
Phil is just a bump on the clump of TDS in the cesspool where the illness originated.Too bad we didn't quarantine the entire beltway in 2016.Now everywhere needs dis-infectant aka sunlight to curtail furthering the spread of TDS.This requires a MAGA 2024 victory and 3rd election of PDJT.
The gradual morphing of private enterprise into quasi-government environments has separated capitalists from businessmen. The easy to spot gibberish you hear from the Biden/Mayorkas/Garland ilk now comes from corporate America as well. Spending OPM is not an economy.
Thanks for writing the Washington Post's obituary. Those who have crapped up what used to be a newspaper get to read, before drawing their final breath, that nobody is mourning their demise. I call that a just dessert.
Bump writes, “ That little patter about not being able to afford a contribution is, instead, political rhetoric aimed at bolstering the idea that Americans are suffering inordinately under the Biden administration.”
STOP THE PRESSES! Trump is using political rhetoric!
“Newspapers sealed their fate by turning radically left by defending the indefensible.”
About 30 years ago I walked into a Walmart in Frederick, Maryland where a table was set up in the entrance with a couple of guys trying to sell subscriptions to the Washington Compost, as some of us locals called it. One of them asked me if I wanted to sign up and I laughed and answered, “Why would I want to pay for that leftist rag?” His mouth dropped open and I left him standing there speechless. And that was back when the newspaper was still at least slightly sane.
Free advice to those subscription peddlers: Walmart doesn't seem like the best location to make your pitch. I'd suggest Trader Joe's, or better yet, an all-vegan grocery.
LOL. Or the dopes waiting in line to buy an $8 cup of coffee!
And its not even GOOD coffee, its burnt. Gah
That's my opinion of Starbucks and their coffee. Don't like to be served by eunuchs with blue hair either.
They pick Walmart and similar locations because it makes them appear "normal" and like the rest of us. Frankly, they might have better luck in front of The Society for the Study of Mental Health.
I said the same thing to the Boston Globe when they called. It set the telemarketer on her heels. She was still defending the rag when I hung up.
Democracy dies every day on the cover of WaPo.
04/08/24: Stonesifer (WaPo Interim Zookeeper): "This is a really good business that we overshot on expense."
Had I uttered this gibberish when I was working for the Wall Street banks, my retirement would have been an involuntary one, and a lot sooner than the actual date when I threw in the towel (1994).
(The men in the white coats arriving with the nets at 1 World Trade Center would have been explained to me as a company mental health benefit as I was being custom-fitted for a straight-jacket.)
Stonesifer back in the day was a hardcore Hollywood/Microsoft DEI hire.
So where else but in the WaPoSwamp could she have ended up?
And let us not forget that she made a very nice dollar while intrepidly guiding WaPo's descent into Jeff Bezos's Rounding Number (Accounting) Money Pit.
My Spellcheck kept prodding me to change "Stonesifer" to "Teensier."
One look at her Wikipedia photo set my Spellcheck straighter than Mr. Bump.
Whoops! Bad comparison. OK, try again.
If you're gifting Ms Eighteen Stone a bathing suit this coming Christmas, use the Whoopie "Cheeseburger" Goldberg profile for the perfect fit.
My Favorite line from your comment is "Stonesifer back in the day was a hardcore Hollywood/Microsoft DEI hire." BRILLIANT!
P.S. Funny how Stonesifer didn't happen to mention that SHE herself --- handsomely compensated --- was part of the "expense."
The joke (not her, the punchline... OK, both) has legs! Although I very much doubt she's been able to see her legs since the age of about nine. Thank you.
Make no mistake about it: the professional Money-Printers know exactly what they're doing. As Milton Friedman said, everything is paid-for. Everything. Somehow. If you quit paying the guy who mows your grass, he'll stop doing it. The nurse taking care of you will find another job if you stop paying her. And they know that - and they also know that, since the gub'ment makes no product, all the money to pay for their profligacy must come from someone who earned it, and that's you, Mr. Taxpayer and Wage-Earner. But they can't stop cranking the printing press because the people who pay for it all haven't been born yet; we're paying for politicians of a generation ago, and our kids will pay for all the spending, borrowing, and money printing of this one. Since they don't have to face the people they robbed, it's Katie-bar-the-door.
The heinous part of inflation (money-printing) is that it is not only a tax on your paycheck; it's theft of what you have saved, too. That thousand dollars you worked so many hours to save is now worth only a few hours of labor - which if the math is to be believed, has devalued 97% since Nixon took the US off the gold standard in the fall of 1971. A dollar is now worth three cents. Think about that.
Somewhere up in heaven, Milton Friedman is saluting you. He couldn't have said it better. WOW!
THANK YOU, JIM WILLS! YOUR ASTUTE SUMMATION HAS MADE MY DAY! love from a tired but not beaten grandma
I laugh when I see the Stazi press say the economy is good and I’m paying $300 for groceries when 4 years ago they were $100, or I pay $5.30 for gas when 4 years ago it was $2.25. The only thing good about these last 4 years is it has exposed the evil in every aspect of this country. Hopefully the next few months will be calm, but I suspect given history we should buckle up.
Yes, Trump exposed the globalists and forced them to bust out of the closet and go full throttle out in the open. We now know exactly who is Public Enemy Number One. It's the DC cartel wing of the Globalist Party. Among Trump's many accomplishments, exposing these bastards is his greatest.
Sorry Gary, didn't read your reply before I posted basically the same. Great minds I guess ........
If DJT never accomplishes another thing we owe him a debt of gratitude for exposing the evil in our own government. But I pray he isn't done yet. We are now in the fixing stage.
GMTA Mark.
Mark, November 3rd (two days before the election) has the potential to be a political earthquake (especially for John Paulson, which I jut discovered this afternoon).
Don, please expand on your thoughts. I’m not that bright :)
Nor in this respect, am I. I am reporting on doing research on dozens of politicians and their supporters/hired staff, and November 3rd for many of them is off the charts in terms of potential for chaos. Beyond that general indication, I have no idea what will happen. Which doesn't concern me; what I've seen is plenty enough to be deeply concerned. We shall see.
"'...this is the same person who last month pitched...a bible with public-domain text for $60, a portion of which goes into his pocket. This is the guy who...insisted that the stock for his social media company...was worth the investment. This is the guy who is pitching $400 sneakers and Trump-branded cologne...$99 NFTs, including a promotion in which buyers got a piece of the suit he wore in his mug shot.'"
Personally, I think it's brilliant - at least the donor/buyer gets something in return, instead of just giving away the $.
Stonesifer doesn't even do corporatespeak very well - abysmal, in fact. Buzbee is just a clown.
Not a cow, though, Brother Don - a bull.
The best part of the Bezos Post is that I don't have to read it.
More like a steer. A bull still has b@lls.
damn, weellll now my monitor is clean, so is the desk.
None of this argument matters. People are looking at their receipts at the grocery store and gas station and elsewhere. That is all the proof they need to decide that Biden has economically destroyed this country and made life miserable. Period.
I paid double for a half tank of gas what I used to pay for a full one last week. $38 for 8 gal, used to be $22 for 18 gal. You cant gaslight people with shrinking wallets.
Mr. Surber - thank you for reading the Bezos' Bird Cage Liner so we don't have to.
"71,000 government jobs added."
That's 71,000 higher-than-average paying jobs pulling more money from the taxpayers because the government never EARNS revenue; they TAKE it.
More than longing to see WAPO wither on the vine, I'd love to see the day our government gets RIGHT-SIZED. They take what they want and don't live by a budget so they can't say they overshot expenses. They don't know their costs and don't care.
Financial morbid obesity.
The monthly jobs report is always bullshit, and a later date in the month, is revised downward in agate type immediately below an ad for truck loads of manure.
The jobs report like everything coming out of this WH is just cow manure and propaganda.
Phew. 😮💨 Spot on DJ
I saw where it used to be 22 private jobs to pay for 1 government job. that was yrs ago, who knows what the ratio is now. Especially since most jobs are part time and you have to have 3.
"lies, damn lies and statistics"......in spite of the cheery news from the trump camp i am hesitant to believe that he will regain the white house. there so many nefarious grubs on the right that it almost seems as though we're fighting a two fronted war and i don't trust the gop in dc (or states level for that matter) any more than i do the garbage on the left.
The GOP is actively giving congress to the Dems in a last ditch effort to deny DJT the presidency. Just pathetic.
I disagree; have faith in the Almighty; Matthew 17:20: And He said to them, “Because of your meager faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Faith and prayer. Our country has changed sooo much. If we dont get it stopped, we may not have a country.
Actually, I think we have them surrounded from the inside. I'm 100% behind him but not all that sure he's going sit in Oval Office ever again.
It is going to get very ugly come September and October. I hope DJT has dedicated SS people close to him. Marxists and the CIA have been very good at over throwing countries...............like ours.
God said thru Kim Clement 2 terms.. I believe God (never said consecutive terms)
While I desperately want Trump back in the White House, as a minister with an M.Div. (Master of Divinity) and over 40 years of ministry experience, I would say be careful putting too much stock in what any of these modern day "prophets" (or rich mega church preachers) say. Most of them don't pass God's (scripture's) sniff test.
Yes, it's always wise not to put your trust in princes -- Psalm 146:3. Same advice in Psalm 118. And, fools are put in many high places -- Ecclesiastes 10:5-6.
Even so, almost anybody would be an improvement over the corrupt moron presently in the White House. The one with incontinence of the mouth -- although the regular kind remains a strong possibility.
Right. Never, ever trust a Republican.
Never ever trust a Democrat
NEVER trust a politician - or a government worker, either municipal, state, or Federal, and that includes a teacher in a government-controlled school.
The D卐M☭CRAT's will implement some scheme to deny Trump the presidency in Nov 2024. If the bookies are offering goods odds on a Trump win in October 2024 you'll know the steal is in place..
what overhead, all the WA post does is re-edit the daily script from the DNC
Or from the White House.
Or both, along with Hamas?
I just love those cheery comments from the not-laid-off management when announcing RIFs: really good business, rightsizing, overshot expense, investment and re-imagine. Does Buzbee really mean they ran out of Covid (other people’s) money? What she doesn’t say is that no one bothers to read their stuff anymore, so the buying public isn’t buying their product.
Do you suppose they will re-imagine the Post as say a solar farm in NM? That’s a business that also lives on tax payer subsidies. What about re-imagining it as a data center for AI? Or a semiconductor fab? They are getting taxpayer big money, too? Too many choices.
DEI is death
DEI = DIE
TDS has multiple symptoms and seems mostly prevalent in news rooms the world over.
And that increase in part time jobs is people having to get second/third jobs, as well as retirees re-entering the workforce, in order to pay for the astronomical increase in their most basic living expenses under this administration.
You see the older part timers more and more. Saw a lady stocking shelves in Walmart. Had to be in her mid 70's. She could barely walk with looked like bad hips. Some dude from the Daily Caller said no one should retire before 65. I disagree vehemently..
I see them as well. Disagree on retiring before 65, though, at least for me. I'm 75 and work every day. Fortunately I have my own full-time online business plus a substack podcast to keep me busy. For me that's the song is the key: "Don't let the old man in."
Phil is just a bump on the clump of TDS in the cesspool where the illness originated.Too bad we didn't quarantine the entire beltway in 2016.Now everywhere needs dis-infectant aka sunlight to curtail furthering the spread of TDS.This requires a MAGA 2024 victory and 3rd election of PDJT.
The gradual morphing of private enterprise into quasi-government environments has separated capitalists from businessmen. The easy to spot gibberish you hear from the Biden/Mayorkas/Garland ilk now comes from corporate America as well. Spending OPM is not an economy.
Thanks for writing the Washington Post's obituary. Those who have crapped up what used to be a newspaper get to read, before drawing their final breath, that nobody is mourning their demise. I call that a just dessert.
Bump writes, “ That little patter about not being able to afford a contribution is, instead, political rhetoric aimed at bolstering the idea that Americans are suffering inordinately under the Biden administration.”
STOP THE PRESSES! Trump is using political rhetoric!
Bump is dumb as a stump.