Badera posted:

Am I the only one that thinks Taibbi is vastly overrated? I also remember reading about his time in Russia and being super disgusted by it.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

DING DING


aw gently caress



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/10/29/election-could-tip-historic-number-of-legislatures-into-republican-hands/

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Freep has their donation page up and this amazing image

Hazo posted:

This bums me out because every single Republican senator/governor/representative campaign ad is just a list of things they lazily opposed. Opposing affordable health care

Mister Adequate posted:

In all fairness, they were not at all lazy in their opposition to this one.

Mister Adequate posted:

In all fairness, they were not at all lazy in their opposition to this one.

quote:

"One time I was walking downtown and a guy yelled "fuzzy-wuzza-wuzzawoman!" I said thanks. Didn't start a march." - Wife.

I'm married. I cat-call my wife all the time. If "You look beautiful" is considered a cat call. All the time.

"Being told "Hey beautiful" is not offensive! Being told to vote solely based on my vagina is." - Wife.

Point is "Hey, you're beautiful! Have a great night." is not a cat call. Watch the vid, silly goose.

"Seriously what's the point? Uploading a vid where people say "Hi beautiful!" She's trying the "oh it's so hard to be hot" thing" - My wife

"If she were standing next to a prettier woman who got the cat calls, she'd be upset and jealous. Totally different vid" - My wife.

"The whole point to this girl uploading the video is to try and convince everyone she's hot" - My wife.

I've literally had guys look at my wife, look at me and give me a fist bump. Men like beautiful women. Shocker.

quote:

"The whole point to this girl uploading the video is to try and convince everyone she's hot" - My wife.

VideoTapir posted:

Someone married Stephen Crowder.

Notorious QIG posted:

They should probably film a half-dozen clips of Stewart staring at the camera speechlessly in order to have something to cut away to, otherwise yeah I'm inclined to agree.

radical meme posted:

Are you sure your not thinking of Mark Ames?

quote:

It's not ironic--Ames and Taibbi explicitly scorn the bourgeois safety net of irony--and it's not just a rhetorical stance. "You're always trying to force Masha and Sveta under the table to give you blow jobs," complains their first business manager, an American woman, in chapter six, "The White God Factor." "It's not funny. They don't think it's funny." "But...it is funny," replies Taibbi. They take particular glee in trashing several former female staff members in print, taking multiple potshots at the aforementioned business manager's "gorilla rear end." They're equally nasty to her replacement, who quit in disgust after they went on a four-month "brain-sucking speed binge."

And Ames's treatment of Russian teenage girls is documented with frightening glee. In the book he recounts one evening with an expat investment banker pal and what he thought were three 16-year-old girls:

"When I went back into the TV room, Andy pulled me aside with a worried grin on his face. 'Dude do you realize...do you know how old that Natasha is?' he said.

"'Sixteen?'

"'No! No, she's fif-teen. Fif-teen.' Right then my pervometer needle hit the red. I had to have her, even if she was homely."

After they do it, she tells him she has a three-month-old baby.

"It was hard to imagine that Natasha had squatted out a baby," Ames writes. "Her oval office was as tight as a cat's rear end....I'd slept with mothers before--they're a lot wider. Sex with them is like probing a straw in a mildew-lined German beer mug."

Later he learns that she's lying--she has no baby, but rather is four months pregnant. After she has an abortion, he writes about her in the Exile, suggesting that she be sterilized and awarded "one of those cheap trophy cups with the inscription 'World's Greatest Mom.'"

quote:

We have been pretty rough on our girls. We’d ask our Russian staff to flash their asses or breasts for us. We’d tell them that if they wanted to keep their jobs, they’d have to perform unprotected anal sex with us. Nearly every day, we asked our female staff if they approved of anal sex. That was a fixation of ours. “Can I gently caress you in the rear end? Huh? I mean, without a rubber? Is that okay?” It was all part of the fun.

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...Katya sat on my lap and told me she had some exciting news: she was pregnant, and I was the father!

I panicked. Children are my worst nightmare--worse than worst...

“No, Katya, you don’t understand. I cannot have a child. I do not like children. I hate them. They disgust me, physically.”

“But I can’t have an abortion,” she pleaded. “I was told that if I did, I’d never be able to have a child.”

I knew she was bluffing, so I countered with the RU-486 pill. I offered to fly to France, pick one up, and bring it back for her. “It’s totally safe,” I cheerily offered.

“I can’t do that,” she said. ‘I can’t kill our child.”

Right then, I stared at Katya with a look--I’m not sure how it appeared to her, but in my mind, I was starting to contemplate two courses of action: murder, or AWOL.

“What will you do, kill me?” she said, laughing nervously.

“Maybe, yeah,” I replied. “I’ll throw you off my balcony. I’ll make it look like an accident.”

She started to cry, but I was relentless. I told her that if she had the child, she would be killing me, so it was an act of self-defense. And if I didn’t kill her, then I would flee Moscow and she’d never find me....I was relentless. I attacked her the Russian way: I wore her down for hours during the KGB interrogation-style...

At 5:30 the next morning, Katya, acting the martyr, quietly slipped out of my apartment, made a beeline to the abortion clinic, and sucked the little fucker out.

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Literally within four minutes of arriving, some teenager with a face like Muttley's from Laff-A-Lympics fell off the bar and onto my shoulders. I carried her almost straight out to the coat check, then hurried her down to a taxi, ran her home, up my stairs, and into my apartment. The whole time she was begging me to take her back, to be careful, she was drunk, bla-bla-blah... After we were through, I had no idea what to do with her. She was bleeding and crying. As for me, I was depressed. I'd just shot a load large enough to repopulate North Korea. So I walked her over to my balcony, and held her in my arm, leaning her over the ledge.

"Throw her over," Johnny Jr. advised me.
"What?"
"You know you want to," he said. "Just pick her up and throw her over. You'll feel better, I promise."

But I didn't have the energy. Instead, I passed out on the floor, and woke up the next morning, with Muttley beside me. It took me a long time to get rid of her, but I did.

Tab8715 posted:

How old was he?

VitalSigns posted:

What the gently caress did I just read. I hope that's all made up.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Wait, are those stories Taibbi or Ames?

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Wait, are those stories Taibbi or Ames?

Nckdictator posted:

Nah, Ames had sex with a child, Taibbi 'just' harassed women

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/beast-in-the-east/Content?oid=902762

http://fredrikdeboer.com/2014/10/30/the-exile-guys-have-a-lot-to-answer-for/





and this 'wonderful' column where Ames writes.

http://exiledonline.com/old-exile/vault/bardak/chen/chen41.html

Nckdictator posted:

The abortion and club/balcony one is Ames, so is the underage sex as far as I can tell from various blog posts.

Phone posted:

Early to mid-20s. He wrote a real tryhard article about how he gets to take the moral high ground since he saved himself for marriage while simultaneously reminding you every 2 sentences that he's having a lot of sex.

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Sex. Some of us do it, most of us like it and we all think about it…. A lot. I know I do (though I was told that it’s normal). Gettin’ busy really isn’t the taboo subject that it once was.

Whereas once upon a time the conversation was relegated to whispers behind closed doors, nowadays it’s discussed openly and without shame. As a stand-up comedian, I’ve seen hacks openly depict the most depraved, explicit sexual acts they can think of just to get a laugh out of the audience. Clearly, telling wiener jokes is no longer the treading of new territory that it once was.

Funnily enough, today there is one area of sex that when discussed, still makes people’s posteriors pucker with discomfort… abstinence.

The idea of abstinence has become somewhat of a punchline in this country. From the myth of unrealistic “abstinence only” education, to the media’s constant portrayal (and mockery) of young, nerdy, out of touch Christians riddled with chastity pendants, the message on abstinence being pumped through pop-culture is clear; If you’re abstinent it’s either because A) you’re ugly or B) you’re a loser. In my case, it was often both.

Maybe it’s just the lack of fun-factor, or maybe it started with harlotry being misused as a fulcrum for women’s liberation, but if you so much as suggest to someone that abstinence might be beneficial, you’ll often find yourself vilified as a judgmental jackass faster than Bill Maher can throw up his dainty hands.

Sure, Michelle Obama can run around the country and condemn little fatties for inhaling Little Debbies, but if you try and apply that same helpful, healthful concept to sex, it’s seen as pushy and/or prudish.

Listen, one doesn’t need to be religious (nor a rocket scientist) to see the value of abstinence. Let’s disregard the immediately eliminated risk of increasingly popular STD’ and STI’s. Heck, let’s even discount the statistical data showing that sexual exclusivity seems overwhelmingly conducive to a successful marriage .Abstinence also provides an incomparable bond of trust in a relationship.

Yes, I admit it, I’m in a long-term relationship and I’m abstinent. Scandalous, I know. It’s an incredibly difficult thing to do (mostly for me, because she’s way out of my league), and that’s what makes it so important.

I can tell you beyond any doubt, that my lady is able to control herself and stick to her values regardless of circumstance. Just as surely, she can say the same about me (Ben&Jerry’s benders notwithstanding). It is that display of self-control, that tangible example of living your principles through your life’s walk that ensures her that I won’t be jumping on the first well-proportioned opportunity that comes my way.

By the same token, I can rest easy knowing that my dame won’t be trying to bed Jersey Shore’s “The Situation” anytime soon. -- Though he does have great abs.

Strong trust is the result. Constantly we hear cries of women aimed at their supposedly overly jealous boyfriends, “What’s the matter? Don’t you trust me?”

No, he doesn’t. You slept with him on the first date and there is no reason for him to think that you wouldn’t do the same when a better offer comes along.

While we’re on the subject, has the whole floozie shtick really empowered any women out there? I would imagine that immediate sexual gratification being assumed in modern relationships would do more damage to your gatekeeper status than good. I’d also have to imagine that sex with someone whom you share trust, loyalty and open communication would be far more liberating than the thrill of any one-night stand you could enjoy.

Then again, what do I know? I’m just a young, sexless, STD-free-moron in love. You should try it sometime...though I’m not here to judge.

Pharmaskittle posted:

Like I can barely understand writing that as some kind of crazy erotica fiction and only being a little afraid of going to jail but holy poo poo why would you ever write that of it were true, you loving lunatic

Pharmaskittle posted:

Like I can barely understand writing that as some kind of crazy erotica fiction and only being a little afraid of going to jail but holy poo poo why would you ever write that of it were true, you loving lunatic

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

quote:

At age 12, Crowder began working as a voice actor as the character Alan "The Brain" Powers on the children's television series Arthur.

Phone posted:

You forgot to bold "As a stand-up comedian,".

e: what in the gently caress


Him growing up in Quebec makes some sense for his isolationist mindset, though.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Oh gently caress you

StevenCrowder catcall tweets also his wife sounds like a real winner

Badera posted:

Part of it is that they're fourth-rate Hunter S. Thompson copycats. I've never liked Taibbi.

beatlegs posted:

He's probably hoping if he keeps upping the outrago-meter some major liberal blog will mention him, it'll get picked up by MSNBC and then he'll be a big rightwing hero. The best thing to do is just ignore the little twit.

Tab8715 posted:

Does crowder have a temper tantrum when you call him out like Hannity does?