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I AM GRANDO posted:Why did this one work? Because only reactionary freaks drink Budweiser? Chuds making it toxic to have around. Essentially, when there are so many beers, why pick the one that's potentially leading to an interaction you don't want to have?
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No one's going to stand and say "I must have some Bud Light! I demand to have some Bud Light!" It enjoys market position as a result of being a sort of default, which makes it particularly weak to any sort of boycott. There's no reason to drink Bud Light, and there are many reasons to prefer another beer whether you dislike Bud Light because you're a CHUD or because you hate how they've thrown the influencer they hired under the bus. Liquor as a market category is very weak to this sort of thing because most of the products are similar enough that you can trivially substitute one for the other, excepting perhaps some very high-end wine or very specific cocktail ingredients.
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Lately I've been hearing lots of chuds getting really obsessed over "The sound of Freedom" movie. It let's them pretend to take issues like human trafficking seriously. Their "gotcha" lately seems to be asking "where are the 8500 minors that Biden let across the border who are unaccounted for? (didn't a lot of them end up in Christian adoption agencies?). It really feels like the human trafficking angle is just an excuse to go Tough On Crime, Build the Wall, and Discredit our Enemies. Because all of the problems related to human trafficking can just get blamed on those three main concepts--had liberals not "abolished the police" then it wouldn't take plucky ex military volunteers to go rescue these children. Had Biden not kicked the border wide open there wouldn't be a massive supply of refugees to exploit. And anyone that questions or criticizes them can get dismissed as a pedophile and blamed as part of the problem after all they're kicking down doors and rescuing children, what are YOU doing about the problem ya sickos? It's annoying. I guess in a couple of months it'll get forgotten in favor of more screeching about voter fraud as the election campaign really kicks off.
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The concept of human trafficking was already on shaky factual grounds in the eyes of the public, but then Qanon came around and completely obliterated any reality-based discussion about it for right-wingers. It's like their perception of child molestation now, where it's this horrible thing done exclusively by The Other, and it's up to the average citizen to stand up and stop it, because you can inherently tell when it's happening in your community!! (Please ignore literally all facts about how it actually works, these are irrelevant while you're screaming at your local school board member for being gay.)
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PT6A posted:or very specific cocktail ingredients.
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From USCE Fox News just announced they will be holding a Town Hall with Trump on July 18th hosted by Sean Hannity. But, the Town Hall has to be pre-taped and aired later that night because one of the conditions was that they be able to edit out any potentially defamatory statements before it airs. 
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BiggerBoat posted:From USCE Holy poo poo it's going to be like 10 minutes long after that.
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Agents are GO! posted:Holy poo poo it's going to be like 10 minutes long after that. Well, they have to make sure it's fair and balanced and covers all the issues. I honestly don't know why they're bothering. Anything Trump says will be correct, parsed out of context the next day on talk radio and FOX as brilliance, Hannity's gonna toss soft balls at him that he will auto correct the answers to, and anyone watching it already worships DJT anyway. Trump, at this point, I don't think can win over that many more votes beyond his insane base. Maybe some disillusioned "undecideds" who have struggled under Biden but those types aren't going to sit down and watch a political town hall cable TV show. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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BiggerBoat posted:Hannity said on his show today that he "doesn't reveal his sources". I distinctly remember 100's of times he shat on real journalists for using anonymous sources in their articles. Yeah I’ve been meaning to ask since I’m always tempted to call in, too - it sounds like you tried to get on air but didn’t. Did they say why or just stuck on hold for awhile? Like I wonder if you say you’re an Evil Liberal you’d be more likely to be put on for Hannity to “be owned” by him. I believe some RW radio hosts also do a thing once a week where people who disagree with them call in and argue, but can’t recall whom
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sticksy posted:Yeah I’ve been meaning to ask since I’m always tempted to call in, too - it sounds like you tried to get on air but didn’t. Did they say why or just stuck on hold for awhile? Like I wonder if you say you’re an Evil Liberal you’d be more likely to be put on for Hannity to “be owned” by him. 
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:The concept of human trafficking was already on shaky factual grounds in the eyes of the public, but then Qanon came around and completely obliterated any reality-based discussion about it for right-wingers. It's like their perception of child molestation now, where it's this horrible thing done exclusively by The Other, and it's up to the average citizen to stand up and stop it, because you can inherently tell when it's happening in your community!! (Please ignore literally all facts about how it actually works, these are irrelevant while you're screaming at your local school board member for being gay.) My favorite response is offering to help people become foster parents, as children who enter the system and/or age out without a support structure are far more likely to end up being homesless and sexually trafficked. Shockingly, as rage towards child trafficking rises the actual number of foster homes continues to decline. So all these vulnerable children that actually need protection here in America are ignored. Not to mention the majority of sexual assaults on children happen within families or religious structures, and we treat drug addicts worse than we do sexual abusers. But yeah, go see a Disney movie about it and then make a TikTok, instead of actually doing anything about the problem.
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sticksy posted:Yeah I’ve been meaning to ask since I’m always tempted to call in, too - it sounds like you tried to get on air but didn’t. Did they say why or just stuck on hold for awhile? Like I wonder if you say you’re an Evil Liberal you’d be more likely to be put on for Hannity to “be owned” by him. It just kept ringing. Never got to a call screener. The plan was to use a topic on something else (I forget what it was going to be), segue into terrorism and torture and then close with the waterboarding question and kinda sneak it in. I'd probably get off. I have emailed him a few times and gotten no response. email him https://hannity.com/contact/
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https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1187318029/fox-news-sued-ray-epps-defamation-jan-6 Fox News hit with another defamation lawsuit — this one over Jan. 6 allegations Sounds like this guy was at Jan 6th, had his life turn to poo poo since then and and now he's trying to make a buck off of it. Cant find a total for this lawsuit, or if anything will even come out of this. I 'm sure its nothing near Dominion or Smartmatics lawsuits. "Fox News has been hit with yet another defamation lawsuit, this time by Ray Epps, a former U.S. Marine turned Arizona wedding venue operator who was in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021." ""In the aftermath of the events of January 6th, Fox News searched for a scapegoat to blame other than Donald Trump or the Republican Party," the lawsuit begins. "Eventually, they turned on one of their own, telling a fantastical story in which Ray Epps — who was a Trump supporter that participated in the protests on January 6th – was an undercover FBI agent and was responsible for the mob that violently broke into the Capitol and interfered with the peaceful transition of power for the first time in this country's history." Other Fox stars also picked up the call, including Laura Ingraham and Will Cain." "Epps has said he and his wife had to sell their home — and give up their wedding business — and move to a mobile home in Utah. "He believed in Donald Trump and he believed the lies that Fox told," Teter says. "The fact that then Fox would take one of their viewers and turn him into the villain of one of their conspiracy theories demonstrates what we've known for a while, which is Fox News does not care [about its viewers]."" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ray-epps-capitol-riot-conspiracy-theory-b2122486.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/politics/jan-6-conspiracy-theory-ray-epps.html A Trump Backer’s Downfall as the Target of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory "On Jan. 8, 2021, just two days after the Capitol was attacked, Mr. Epps learned from a family member that the F.B.I. had issued a be-on-the-lookout alert in his name. He said he immediately called the bureau’s National Threat Operations Center, and his phone records show that he spoke to agents there for nearly an hour. The F.B.I. has repeatedly declined to comment on Mr. Epps, but his account of calling the operations center — and of sitting down for a formal discussion with federal agents in March 2021 — is backed by transcripts of those interviews reviewed by The New York Times. The interview transcripts show that Mr. Epps told agents that he had spent much of his time at the Capitol seeking to calm down other rioters, an assertion supported by multiple video clips. Mr. Epps, who questioned the results of the election, was also interviewed twice by the House select committee on Jan. 6. After his dealings with the panel were completed, officials released a statement saying he had told them that he never worked as an asset for, or an employee of, any federal law enforcement agency." Hmm, it looks like he hasnt even filed yet and is just looking for a lawyer to do it according to the NYT. "To that end, Mr. Epps and his wife have been searching for a lawyer to help them file a defamation lawsuit against several of the people who have spread the false accounts." e: Bonus post Mike Lindells final auction https://www.k-bid.com/auction/49530 OgNar fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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I've called in a few times to be ranted at by the host. The secret is to call as soon as the lines open. Joe Walsh wished me an offensive Merry Christmas, and I think Hugh Hewitt called me an idiot for thinking Trump brokered the Afghan Pulled Out, and also that it was good.
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Panfilo posted:Lately I've been hearing lots of chuds getting really obsessed over "The sound of Freedom" movie. It let's them pretend to take issues like human trafficking seriously. Their "gotcha" lately seems to be asking "where are the 8500 minors that Biden let across the border who are unaccounted for? (didn't a lot of them end up in Christian adoption agencies?). Woke up to multiple people I know personally on social media talking about how you HAVE to go see this movie. People who are definitely not consciously right wing by any stretch, so its getting good exposure outside the intended audience.
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Tatsuta Age posted:Woke up to multiple people I know personally on social media talking about how you HAVE to go see this movie. People who are definitely not consciously right wing by any stretch, so its getting good exposure outside the intended audience. That's because the broad premise is easy to agree with. Sex trafficking is bad. People that work to stop it are good. And from there you just go further down the rabbit hole. Both the main actor and the guy he's playing are Qanon loons but it's no surprise these details are absent from the film, because the Adenochrome stuff would obviously scare off the normies. And this also makes the film easy to defend. If you are critical of it then it makes you come off as condoning human trafficking. Tying it to Qanon actually helps chuds, because they can falsely claim progressives think ALL sex trafficking is a made up Qanon conspiracy this has been the attack vector for the right regarding this film lately.
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Live by the sword, die by the sword. Fox News lived off these cable fees which are...disappearing and will unsurprisingly cause issues for funding. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/13/fox-news-faces-headaches-as-cord-cutting-kills-off-its-artificially-inflated-subscriber-totals/ Techdirt posted:there is one thing that’s likely to cause some serious trouble for Fox News’: the continuing rise of cord cutting. A huge chunk of Fox News’ revenues technically come from consumers that don’t actually watch the channel, but pay for it through traditional, dated cable TV channel bundles.
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The Islamic Shock posted:Correct. The only thing I could think of that I couldn't easily substitute is Patron orange liqueur for a specific cocktail. And you can probably substitute it with either a triple sec or a curacao, depending on what kind of orange liqueur Patron's is. (Looks like it's more like a triple sec.) I would think the only un-substitutable things are the ones where there's a recipe that nobody knows, like Chartreuse, although there's a lot of work happening now to find the best replacements now that the monks are basically giving up selling Chartreuse.
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Brian Kilmeade had a Russia/Ukraine "expert" on today to mostly talk about all the ways Biden is 100% responsible for that poo poo show and lob out some crumbs out on why and how Trump would have solved it, this never would have happened or some poo poo I'm sure you guys can just make up in your mind and be right about. But the thing that struck me most was that they got into a conversation about Wagner and that whole loving thing. Noted January 6th apologist Brian Kilmeade actually said (paraphrasing) "never a good idea to attempt a coup" and they both had an agreeable chuckle about it. I wanted to dive into the radio, take over the broadcast, bring up Trump and his MAGA goons and then strangle this guy who speaks to millions of people every day. Because, to me, it's almost the same thing. Isn't this exactly what those Q's attempted? A coup? I mean, I know the logistics, the motivations, the circumstances, the methods and certainly the stakes are rather drastically different but I'd like to have puked listening to this right wing cheerleader talk about how violent coups are a really bad idea.
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Panfilo posted:Uh oh The strike started and now he's doing what every billionaire does when the money gets threatened. Try to form an alliance with fascists to divide the workers against each other instead of accepting a fractional pay cut
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“We’re not wading into culture wars,” says strike-breaking bourgeoisie who donates millions to reactionaries seeking political power.
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Panfilo posted:Uh oh I think you guys might wanna watch that interview. These are some incredibly dramatic headlines that don't match what he said which isn't that he's going to back down. They don't want to be dragged into culture wars.
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:I think you guys might wanna watch that interview. These are some incredibly dramatic headlines that don't match what he said which isn't that he's going to back down. What a conservative make a claim that’s directly refuted by the evidence he’s providing to support his claim? Never seen that happen before. Did gas light have a smell? Or was it before they started adding sulfur compounds?
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Murgos posted:What a conservative make a claim that’s directly refuted by the evidence he’s providing to support his claim? Never seen that happen before. The New London School Disaster happened in 1937, after which odorants were added to natural gas by law to make leaks more noticeable. Gaslight the movie, from which "gaslighting" derives, was released in the US in 1944. It was based on a 1938 play.
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BiggerBoat posted:Isn't this exactly what those Q's attempted? A coup? They 100% did, but it failed and thus they'd never admit to the failure. These people would only be comfortable admitting it when they are assured absolute victory; marching non-Cis non-Christians to death camps immediately before they turned on the non-Protestant Christians. Once they're done with those out groups they'll keep devouring everything until there is nothing left alive.
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I do find this funny because his Twitter views have consistently gone down every time on each new video https://twitter.com/asharma/status/1679810105070477313?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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FlamingLiberal posted:I do find this funny because his Twitter views have consistently gone down every time on each new video I mean, I think part of the reason his Twitter views nosedived was because his previous audience was turned off by how lovely his production values were on Twitter; I was shocked when Knowledge Fight covered them to find that they were basically just 2000’s era 15 minute vlog posts. No wonder the Fox News audience dropped off. So this isn’t, on its face, the worst idea, except that I don’t think Twitter has the monetization power to make it worthwhile.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I do find this funny because his Twitter views have consistently gone down every time on each new video His last "media company" and website failed, maybe this one will be better! It's pretty obvious that Tucker was never the real talent behind his top-rated show, he only inherited the producers and writing team behind the O'Reilly Factor when Bill suddenly got ousted. And then Bill became a nobody with a newsletter.
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Carlson's interview with Andrew Tate was such a blockbuster, just imagine all the hucksters and rightfully-maligned personalities he could validate! (Tate distilling his online presence down to "I told boys to hit the gym and stand up for themselves, what's wrong with that?" and "Guess which voting machines* the corrupt politicians in Myanmar used?" makes him a particularly ideal shitheel for selling what a shameless interviewer Carlson is.) *For the record, Myanmar used paper ballots and is only now considering going electronic
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It is odd how quickly their audience just memory holes people who used to be Big Stars. Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter...Tucker. I think it has something to do with the fact that these people are basically churned out of a loving factory and there's always another rear end in a top hat right there who's willing to speak the same bullshit. At the end of the day, most RWM figures are just salespeople and essentially "opine" simply by reading what they're told without a hint of moral integrity or original ideas. When you think of them in this light, it's a lot like salespeople at a business like a car lot. You're only as good as last month's numbers, nobody's going to remember you if you quit or get fired, and there's always another dude named Larry who's more than willing to lie to people to make money. Most of these types aren't particularly smart, obviously have no scruples about anything so long as they make money, and are easily replaceable for the most part. Some have more charisma and talent than others (Rush comes to mind. At least he was original) but there's a line out the door at FOX news and Sinclair Media of people who are more than willing to say anything for six figure salaries. ... Somewhat related to vanishing RWM figures and also thread relevant: the gently caress ever happened happened to the Drudge Report? I monitor and subject myself to some of this poo poo and I haven't so much as heard the word "Drudge" mentioned in probably more than five loving years. Maybe longer. Did he get cast out as a Never Trumper, retire, die or just fade out like MySpace? He must have committed a cardinal sin somewhere.
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BiggerBoat posted:It is odd how quickly their audience just memory holes people who used to be Big Stars. Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter...Tucker. I think it has something to do with the fact that these people are basically churned out of a loving factory and there's always another rear end in a top hat right there who's willing to speak the same bullshit. iirc there was a fallout with Trump leading up to the 2020 election, and Drudge sold the site at some point.
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Hell I remember even back in 2016 the Drudge Report was getting flak from MAGA people about not slavishly praising DJT enough, I think it was a long term "eh, gently caress it" consideration rather than any specific moment that made him verboten.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:I mean, I think part of the reason his Twitter views nosedived was because his previous audience was turned off by how lovely his production values were on Twitter; I was shocked when Knowledge Fight covered them to find that they were basically just 2000’s era 15 minute vlog posts. No wonder the Fox News audience dropped off. Yeah and his first episode is racist propaganda for Russia for their invasion. That's not even a popular issue amongst republicans if I recall, with near 50% supporting Ukraine, so not surprising he lost about that many for his next video.
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Mercury_Storm posted:Yeah and his first episode is racist propaganda for Russia for their invasion. That's not even a popular issue amongst republicans if I recall, with near 50% supporting Ukraine, so not surprising he lost about that many for his next video.
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FlamingLiberal posted:That probably didn't help, no. Surprised he didn't go with some of his usual Nazi shtick for the first episode I mean he accused Zelenski of having ratlike features and drinking Christian blood. You can't get much more nazi than that
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