Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Maybe he's talking about the bomb at the Atlanta Olympic games? Oh wait, that wasn't a terrorist attack - it was done by a white guy.
Right but I think we can all agree that we clearly remember hearing Richard Jewell yelling 'Allahu akbar!' at the time.
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted for a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay-motivated bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 120 others.[1]
Was this already covered? Can't keep up with all the bullshit.
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Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Maybe he's talking about the bomb at the Atlanta Olympic games? Oh wait, that wasn't a terrorist attack - it was done by a white guy.
Oh, I'm sure he probably is. However, if he repeats the words "radical Islam" enough times, his supporters won't care/believe that it was actually a home-grown white Christian.
Nope, it's about making shit up in order to justify the curbing of the Bill of Rights. Make Government Bigger Again!
Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!
Also: There are three ways to not tell the truth: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The stream of bullshit and lies coming out of the White House is so strong, it kind of feels like I'm watching World War Z. It's impossible to escape, and I'm afraid it'll overwhelm everyone in time.
Black Lives Matter
2021-01-20: The first good night's sleep I had in 4 years.
Who is this Jake Tapper dude, and does he actually have some spine, or is it all for show and ratings? I've seen his name come up a few times now regarding pushing back on the bs more than the other news sheep.
LawBeefaroni wrote:Was this already covered? Can't keep up with all the bullshit.
Yeah, sorry, I let the thread down. Honestly cannot keep up...there's way too much. Someone warned me about that early on. Maybe I should just link to Politifact in the first post?
Let's just say there are lots of lies...LOTS. Daily. And the biggest liars are loudly criticizing everyone else for lying. It's mind-numbing, which I think is probably the goal. Well played, if so.
Also, speaking of lying liars and the lies they repeat, whither Kelly Ann Conway? Has her desiccated shell (with fully functioning, oversized mouth) been retired to a broom closet in the WH somewhere?
There is a great appearance by Jake Tapper on Colbert's Late Show where they talk about meeting on the campaign trail as junior reporters following McCain. He gets what's going on and is doing a pretty decent job standing his ground.
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." - Albert Einstein "I don't stand by anything." - Trump “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867 “It is the impractical things in this tumultuous hell-scape of a world that matter most. A book, a name, chicken soup. They help us remember that, even in our darkest hour, life is still to be savored.” - Poe, Altered Carbon
Touting the first jobs report of Donald Trump’s tenure, White House press secretary Sean Spicer claimed without evidence Friday that the jobs figures “may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.”
Spicer, addressing reporters at the afternoon briefing, did not back up the assertion that previous federal jobs reports were “phony,” as Trump repeatedly said during the campaign without backing up the claim. But Spicer nonetheless confirmed that the president believes the figures are legitimate now that they signal economic growth under his administration.
“In the past, the president has referred to particular job reports as phony or totally fiction,” a reporter asked. “Does the president believe that this jobs report was accurate and a fair way to measure the economy?”
“I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly,” Spicer said. “They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.”
Carpet_pissr wrote:And everybody laughed at that in a good-natured way... HA HA HA HA HA HA! Welp, that's Trump, amiright? Oh man, that is rich!
Too bad he's serious you wankers.
I'm seeing Twitter light up with indignant complaint about the reporters' laughter, but I don't think this is the press being complicit with Trump alt-reality. The initial question wouldn't have been asked that way if there weren't a sense that Trump's past claims were 100% bullshit.
Most of all, notice that no one took Spicer's/Trump's implication and reported it as truth. Spicer's answer is being reported as weird, not definitive.
Not sure if it's posted anywhere but Feb 15 and Feb 16 had higher gains. Also saw a media release by some flunky about the great feb 17 numbers next to the press release from last year about how they were too low.
tjg_marantz wrote:Not sure if it's posted anywhere but Feb 15 and Feb 16 had higher gains. Also saw a media release by some flunky about the great feb 17 numbers next to the press release from last year about how they were too low.
tgb wrote:Just thought I'd share the t-shirt that arrived the other day.
Love it. Must have.
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hepcat wrote:Wow, Trump dropped unemployment from 42 percent to 4.7 percent in less than 3 months!
Without passing any legislation or signing any EOs that actually had anything to do with jobs!
It's a festivus miracle!!
And in banks across the world
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
But the monkey in the corner
Well he's slowly drifting out of range
Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!
Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Maybe he's talking about the bomb at the Atlanta Olympic games? Oh wait, that wasn't a terrorist attack - it was done by a white guy.
Right but I think we can all agree that we clearly remember hearing Richard Jewell yelling 'Allahu akbar!' at the time.
Talk about Alt Facts... poor guy is still getting blamed for it.
Pretty much anything with a mic and voice recognition records info and stores it somewhere for a period of time. There have been court cases about subpoenas for Alexa data.
The idea that there is such a thing as a general contemporary privacy when we are nigh constantly surrounded by Internet enabled active electronic recording devices is kind of a happy naivete.
Edit, this was a timely thing to show up in my FB feed:
Pretty much anything with a mic and voice recognition records info and stores it somewhere for a period of time. There have been court cases about subpoenas for Alexa data.
The idea that there is such a thing as a general contemporary privacy when we are nigh constantly surrounded by Internet enabled active electronic recording devices is kind of a happy naivete.
Edit, this was a timely thing to show up in my FB feed:
And that's why A Brave New World is a much closer analog to our current situation than 1984.
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Pretty much anything with a mic and voice recognition records info and stores it somewhere for a period of time. There have been court cases about subpoenas for Alexa data.
The idea that there is such a thing as a general contemporary privacy when we are nigh constantly surrounded by Internet enabled active electronic recording devices is kind of a happy naivete.
Edit, this was a timely thing to show up in my FB feed:
And that's why A Brave New World is a much closer analog to our current situation than 1984.
Perhaps, but Lord of the Flies is probably closest of all.
I spent 90% of the money I made on women, booze, and drugs. The other 10% I just pissed away.
It doesn't have to be an either/or proposition. When Bannon is finished, you'll have A Brave New World for the exploiters and Nineteen Eighty-Four for the exploitees.
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