Oh, the wall to wall coverage of every last stupid, inconsequential detail - total oversaturation and totally nauseating. Charlie is right - the supposedly "liberal mainstream media" has learned nothing.
Re: “a clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower,” I couldn’t agree more. I do, however, make it a point—always—to characterize the former occupant of the Oval’s behavior as that of an enraged two-year-old of subnormal intelligence wielding a flamethrower. In a Walmart. On Christmas Eve.
It’s an important distinction, I believe. The clown may or may not have the sense not to use the flamethrower, but it’s a lock on the stupid sociopath.
I’m afraid when it comes to Formerly’s ever going the hell away, at all, and leaving America to straighten out its myriad shit in as much peace as it can still scrape together, it’s a solid case of abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Guys, couldn’t you lighten up a bit on the Trump shit? I hear you saying the legacy media is falling into the same Trump trap, how about you guys give it a fucking rest…
I know that Charlie is focused here on just how nakedly political the Wisconsin Supreme Court race has become. He's right, but the stakes aren't quite equal on both sides of this battle.
Forget abortion for a moment. Right now the Wisconsin legislature is owned by a party that maintains the support of slightly less than half the state. Because of the effectiveness of modern gerrymandering, Republicans have rigged the state's districts to perpetually guarantee near supermajority status. In general, since a state's district boundaries can only be changed by an act of its legislature, the only recourses to prevent a political party from maintaining such a stranglehold are the courts and public referendums. But sadly, only a minority of states even have some form of public referendum, and Wisconsin isn't one of them.
So we are left with only the courts. And that is why *the most important* question facing the Wisconsin legislature is the question of gerrymandering. All other issues are secondary, because if you fix the legislature, then the question of abortion rights and anything else ultimately goes to the people.
If you are a Republican or a conservative, you may like the fact that your party is in the pole position at the moment. But if you have any inclination to wonder if your party is becoming too extreme and too easily influenced by special interests on the right, you should welcome an environment in which it is compelled to maintain political health rather than become a fat cat with no sense of obligation to its constituency. As long as Republicans maintain their "better a fat cat than a Democrat" culture, the state will only devolve into another Florida, with a legislature ennobled to pass extremist legislation on things like abortion and gun rights which are even opposed by a majority of Republicans.
Thus, supporting the Democrat for the state Supreme Court in this case is actually a vote toward a more democratic Wisconsin, one where the public decides public policy, not the establishment of one party.
I know that it's hard to tell, but I truly do think we have passed a milestone marker where Trump's performative BS no longer helps him like it did as a celebrity, business owner or politician.
What a momentous day. Wisconsin; hopefully, backlash for the ludicrous permit-less carry law in Fool-ida; and, the incredibly unsettling Trump arraignment.
When I first heard of the indictment last week,my first thought was of the slow motion chase of OJ's white Bronco that would occur.The media didn't disappoint. But they haven't learned.And they have disappointed. DY
There is more to your list of legal cases against Trump.You can add a number of lawsuits that will be filed by police officers who suffered injuries on 1/6. DY
How utterly disheartening to turn on MSNBC and be subjected to live video of Trump traveling from Florida to NY. Seriously, they need to STOP this nonsense.
“ All Trump, all the time," summarized media watcher Aaron Rupar .”
I turned off MSNBC so many times yesterday. Surprised and disappointed when Nicole’s show started with a helicopter following his motorcade so changed the station and never went back. And won’t if this will be what they do. Indeed they’ve learned NOTHING about their help in 2016 in getting Trump elected. FREE advertising 24 x 7 for the Orange orangutan. And when there’s so much other actual news to cover. I expected this from CNN, but not MSNBC - YET AGAIN.
Thanks for running Cathy’s take on the war. She is so knowledgeable. I would like to add that The Devil is STILL here on Earth. He’s in the Kremlin, in Riyadh, in Mexico, in Belarus, in Turkey, in N Korea, in China, many versions in the US Congress, in the SCOTUS, and he’s being arraigned today.
Now that our actual newspapers have all gone away and the Sunday comic section has metastasized into a gazillion online offshoots, and the Kardashiens have aged out like that bag of three-week-old avocados lying forgotten in the back of the fridge, and the office water cooler has morphed into AM chardonnay in front of a screen in the guest bedroom, our country NEEDS a mindless narrative to draw it together for a few moments respite from the general awfulness enveloping our planet.
Mr. trump may be traitor/savior/insert preferred-descriptor-here, but he does serve a necessary purpose; he provides that hero/villain comic strip, that undeserving idiot collection, that national water cooler we're so sorely lacking in this brittle, discombobulated, society-at-a-crossroads. He's the locus of our human need to gawk and jeer, a repository of our deepest resentments, and an archetypal outlet for our basest inclinations. And THAT almost makes up for the seemingly endless tease of awaiting his karmic retribution. Just watch, after all this angst and schadenfreude delayed, he'll fizzle out like the final season of GOT.
Thank you to the Republican Accountability Project.
Congratulations to Wisconsin for picking sanity over insanity!
Oh, the wall to wall coverage of every last stupid, inconsequential detail - total oversaturation and totally nauseating. Charlie is right - the supposedly "liberal mainstream media" has learned nothing.
Re: “a clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower,” I couldn’t agree more. I do, however, make it a point—always—to characterize the former occupant of the Oval’s behavior as that of an enraged two-year-old of subnormal intelligence wielding a flamethrower. In a Walmart. On Christmas Eve.
It’s an important distinction, I believe. The clown may or may not have the sense not to use the flamethrower, but it’s a lock on the stupid sociopath.
I’m afraid when it comes to Formerly’s ever going the hell away, at all, and leaving America to straighten out its myriad shit in as much peace as it can still scrape together, it’s a solid case of abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Guys, couldn’t you lighten up a bit on the Trump shit? I hear you saying the legacy media is falling into the same Trump trap, how about you guys give it a fucking rest…
I know that Charlie is focused here on just how nakedly political the Wisconsin Supreme Court race has become. He's right, but the stakes aren't quite equal on both sides of this battle.
Forget abortion for a moment. Right now the Wisconsin legislature is owned by a party that maintains the support of slightly less than half the state. Because of the effectiveness of modern gerrymandering, Republicans have rigged the state's districts to perpetually guarantee near supermajority status. In general, since a state's district boundaries can only be changed by an act of its legislature, the only recourses to prevent a political party from maintaining such a stranglehold are the courts and public referendums. But sadly, only a minority of states even have some form of public referendum, and Wisconsin isn't one of them.
So we are left with only the courts. And that is why *the most important* question facing the Wisconsin legislature is the question of gerrymandering. All other issues are secondary, because if you fix the legislature, then the question of abortion rights and anything else ultimately goes to the people.
If you are a Republican or a conservative, you may like the fact that your party is in the pole position at the moment. But if you have any inclination to wonder if your party is becoming too extreme and too easily influenced by special interests on the right, you should welcome an environment in which it is compelled to maintain political health rather than become a fat cat with no sense of obligation to its constituency. As long as Republicans maintain their "better a fat cat than a Democrat" culture, the state will only devolve into another Florida, with a legislature ennobled to pass extremist legislation on things like abortion and gun rights which are even opposed by a majority of Republicans.
Thus, supporting the Democrat for the state Supreme Court in this case is actually a vote toward a more democratic Wisconsin, one where the public decides public policy, not the establishment of one party.
I know that it's hard to tell, but I truly do think we have passed a milestone marker where Trump's performative BS no longer helps him like it did as a celebrity, business owner or politician.
I’d like to know how 34% of people polled think permitless carry is a good idea? How can 6% have NO OPINION? Really? This is just crazy.
What a momentous day. Wisconsin; hopefully, backlash for the ludicrous permit-less carry law in Fool-ida; and, the incredibly unsettling Trump arraignment.
This is all very unsettling.
When I first heard of the indictment last week,my first thought was of the slow motion chase of OJ's white Bronco that would occur.The media didn't disappoint. But they haven't learned.And they have disappointed. DY
There is more to your list of legal cases against Trump.You can add a number of lawsuits that will be filed by police officers who suffered injuries on 1/6. DY
How utterly disheartening to turn on MSNBC and be subjected to live video of Trump traveling from Florida to NY. Seriously, they need to STOP this nonsense.
“ All Trump, all the time," summarized media watcher Aaron Rupar .”
I turned off MSNBC so many times yesterday. Surprised and disappointed when Nicole’s show started with a helicopter following his motorcade so changed the station and never went back. And won’t if this will be what they do. Indeed they’ve learned NOTHING about their help in 2016 in getting Trump elected. FREE advertising 24 x 7 for the Orange orangutan. And when there’s so much other actual news to cover. I expected this from CNN, but not MSNBC - YET AGAIN.
Thanks for running Cathy’s take on the war. She is so knowledgeable. I would like to add that The Devil is STILL here on Earth. He’s in the Kremlin, in Riyadh, in Mexico, in Belarus, in Turkey, in N Korea, in China, many versions in the US Congress, in the SCOTUS, and he’s being arraigned today.
Will our nation hold? IDK.
Now that our actual newspapers have all gone away and the Sunday comic section has metastasized into a gazillion online offshoots, and the Kardashiens have aged out like that bag of three-week-old avocados lying forgotten in the back of the fridge, and the office water cooler has morphed into AM chardonnay in front of a screen in the guest bedroom, our country NEEDS a mindless narrative to draw it together for a few moments respite from the general awfulness enveloping our planet.
Mr. trump may be traitor/savior/insert preferred-descriptor-here, but he does serve a necessary purpose; he provides that hero/villain comic strip, that undeserving idiot collection, that national water cooler we're so sorely lacking in this brittle, discombobulated, society-at-a-crossroads. He's the locus of our human need to gawk and jeer, a repository of our deepest resentments, and an archetypal outlet for our basest inclinations. And THAT almost makes up for the seemingly endless tease of awaiting his karmic retribution. Just watch, after all this angst and schadenfreude delayed, he'll fizzle out like the final season of GOT.
Music up, and FADE.
Re the Trump circus, that will NOT happen in the courtroom, Elie Honig said yesterday on CNN. The judge is in charge, not Trump.