Have at it as the polls close in the special election for Pennsylvania-18.
Open thread
by David Anderson| 342 Comments
This post is in: Election 2018, Open Threads
Have at it as the polls close in the special election for Pennsylvania-18.
Open thread
by TaMara| 23 Comments
This post is in: Meetups and social events, Open Threads
March for Our Lives – Denver, CO
Colorado State Capitol
200 E Colfax Ave, Ste 136
Denver, CO 80203
When: Saturday, March 24, 2:00 PM On March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets to demand that their lives and safety become a priority and that we end gun violence and mass shootings in our schools today. March with us in Washington DC or march in your own community. On March 24, the collective voices of the March For Our Lives movement will be heard.
If you guys would like to set up a meet-up or organize to meet for the March, I will happily match you up. Send me an email at whats4dinnersolutions at live dot com and I will share with anyone else interested in meeting up. I’m hoping someone will step up to take the lead to organize the whole shebang.
I would love to tell you that I will be there, but I somehow let myself get very rundown the last month, I think I’m fine one day and the next day I’m just dragging. So I am going to pretend to be an adult and take care of myself and not over commit for the next few weeks.
For the rest of you, open thread.
Colorado Meet-Up and March For Our LivesPost + Comments (23)
This post is in: Excellent Links, Media, Open Threads, Decline and Fall, Our Failed Media Experiment
I have a theory (which is hardly original) that the owners of the NYTimes have never gotten over their multi-generational case of Imposter Syndrome. They have always wanted to be the news organ for the right people, the best people, while never quite feeling sure that those much-admired Best People consider the Timesmen as “top drawer” fellow plutocrats. When the paper goes badly off the rails — as when it soft-pedaled Hitler’s crimes and applauded American isolationists well after WWII was inevitable — it’s because the owners paying its reporters mistake the loudest bigots in Wall Street and Washington DC for the most important people.
So IMO, David Roberts makes an excellent point:
7. If NYT printed the *actual, real-life* sentiments of today's conservative masses, it would print a bunch of paranoid, Fox-generated fairy tales and belligerent expressions of xenophobia, misogyny, racism, and proud, anti-intellectual ignorance.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
9. The NYT's commitment to "intellectual diversity" doesn't go THAT far — not far enough to expose its readers to that reality. It is too invested in America's own Noble Savage myth, the idea that conservative Heartland Americans are more authentic & in touch w/ simple virtues.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
10. So NYT needs "a voice from the right," but not a voice from the ACTUAL right (which is oriented around white resentment, not any discernible governing philosophy). They need a voice from the Conservatism of the Mind, the noble, principles-base conservatism they imagine.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
12. It is no coincidence that these guys – Gerson, Douthat, Brooks, Stephens – have little voice or influence inside actual conservatism, or that they're all anti-Trump (unlike 95+% of Republicans). They are anomalies, idiosyncrasies, not representative of anything broader.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
18. In the name of "exposing readers to diverse viewpoints," NYT is, in practice, obscuring the true nature of today's right. Virtually the entire political elite & most NYT readers are in denial about what the right has become & that denial is increasingly dangerous.
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 11, 2018
Right represented in media is a Potemkin Village : a coherent political conservatism not the actual seething loathing & hate https://t.co/thZFvz3Rnq
— Alastair Somerville (@Acuity_Design) March 11, 2018
… and, of course, this reflexive cringing makes the NYTimes a natural (sympathetic!) target for a certain shouty “developer” out of Queens (who’s never been accepted by the best people either, for reasons)…
(phone rings)
MAGGIE: hello
TRUMP: this is trump, you have no access
MAGGIE: this is the third time you've called me today
TRUMP: so here's why i hate jeff sessions https://t.co/tp5uNAYovZ— 229 days ago Trump promised 24-hr Hezbollah answer (@MattNegrin) March 11, 2018
"The writer of the story, Maggie Haberman, a Hillary flunky, knows nothing about me and is not given access." pic.twitter.com/ThRtDM4Khu
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) March 12, 2018
This post is in: Open Threads
Let it not be lost on this day of sturm und drang that the Republican led investigation into Russian interference yesterday was canned. “Nothing to see here! Move along!”
You can bet that this investigation will be reopened once the house flips. How robust that investigation will be hinges upon filling those seats with more and better democrats.
So let’s see if we can get to 50k with the power of collective action! What we’ve got here is the fund that’s split between all eventual Democratic nominees in House districts currently held by Republicans.
by Betty Cracker| 353 Comments
This post is in: Goddamned Traitors, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Trump Crime Cartel, Trump-Russia, Assholes, General Stupidity, Sweet Fancy Moses!
…have been sacked:
JUST IN: Under Secretary of State Steve Goldstein is being fired for contradicting the account of Rex Tillerson’s dismissal, White House official tells @PeterAlexander
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) March 13, 2018
Jesus, what a fucking shit-show. Open thread!
“Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked…Post + Comments (353)
by David Anderson| 64 Comments
This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Not Normal
BREAKING: President Trump says CIA chief Pompeo to become Sec. of State, thanks Tillerson for his service, and elevates Gina Haspel to top CIA post. https://t.co/JqlOHLpp1U pic.twitter.com/AnOuIgyCXZ
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 13, 2018
Open thread
by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)| 16 Comments
This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture
Good Morning All,
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Today, pictures from valued commenter FlyingToaster.
After last week’s row-o-poles coming down on Arsenal Street, Watertown during a nor’easter, I’d hoped we were done. Instead, I was making the obligatory French Toast when this happened….
Taken on 2018-03-08
My front door.
My next door neighbor’s tree lost two branches, which took down the wires for my street, which broke the pole in front of my house. The upper half of the pole hit my porch roof post and took it out.
Taken on 2018-03-08
My front door.
This is what it looks like down my front steps. No, I don’t expect I’ll be getting that shovel back anytime soon. Those are live wires across the front landing.
Taken on 2018-03-08
My front door.
Oh, there’s the porch post… and the bannister… and the — oh fuck, the fire department says that it’s structurally unsafe to use the front steps…
Our power comes from the other side, and my driveway’s over there. So we’re okay, powered, and mobile. But holy moley, this sucks!
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