ShortStack posted:

Isn't Fables just some thinly veiled pro-Israel stuff?

Popular Thug Drink posted:

iirc the author makes a big point about how the arabian folklore characters are working hand in hand with the western folklore characters as equal partners

also they weaponize sleeping beauty by sneaking her into the enemy capital and having her prick her finger, putting the whole city to sleep

it's a weird series that really has nothing to do with israel making that comparison even more baffling

Dexo posted:

Especially since she's probably the form that the GOP needs to take if they want to have any type of success of the presidential level again.

TrixRabbi posted:

He also just raised the rent on his own campaign in his own building. It's a nice racket.

Unrelated, another thing driving 2020 will be how much Clinton can undo the right-wing vote stacking. Can she restore the VRA and block voter ID laws? That's going to greatly benefit the left if it can be done. The districts also get redrawn that year so gerrymandering will make a big difference.

Extensive Vamping posted:

If a bubble should occur in an environment of austerity, and then burst, would anyone know the difference? I was in the workforce during the Clinton presidency, so I remember what an actual functioning economy looks like. We haven't had one in the United States for about two decades. Until consumers have actual money to spend, we're hosed.

deoju posted:

Can a campaign or super PAC buy their candidate's book to give away? Seems like a way to straight up money launder. Your cut wouldn't be huge, but you'd still be making money.

Zerilan posted:

Didn't Trump already do this?

nine-gear crow posted:

Bingo. When it comes to Glenn Beck, there's no there there. The man is an ideological mercenary, ready to say and do whatever it takes to get the biggest paycheck and the most amount of attention out of it.

Goatman Sacks posted:

Greta Van Susteren is jumping ship

https://www.facebook.com/greta/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf

ErIog posted:

Saying that a woman working for a company where sexual abuse is happening should just quit in order to make a stand is a dumb and bad opinion that you should be ashamed of. Yeah she's a scientologist with bad opinions. She still deserves a work environment free of sexual abuse, and she shouldn't have to give up her nightly show in order to make that a reality.

You're talking about just voluntarily crossing a guy who worked for Nixon who used the FNC budget as a slush fund to hire private investigators to dig up dirt on a journalist doing an unauthorized biography. So I think any women working at FNC can be excused for not blowing the whistle earlier (as long as they're weren't enabling Ailes behavior).

Josh Marshall at TPM is reporting that it may have had to do with her playing hardball negotiating a pay raise after Gretchen Carlson accused Ailes publicly. I guess that's implying she may have tried to use something connected to Ailes as leverage, but

Apparently Greta van Susteren's husband is saying also that there may be litigation over her firing.

So since Ailes departure, unsurprisingly, not much has changed. Murdoch is a snake that put Bill Shine in charge despite him and Dianne Brandi being implicated countless times in these sexual harassment claims. This is like the hacking scandal. It's just getting started.

Dirt posted:

If they ever drop the wait list, I hope someone makes a thread about it GBS.

The Reagan Book (conservative Facebook knockoff) thread was amazing and basically lead to the site shutting down. I doubt it ever had any real substantial user base though, it was 99% goons when I checked it out.

Dr. Faustus posted:

Challenge accepted.

fishmech posted:

Last I checked, the only people who listened to satellite radio are a) truckers b) your weird uncle who also has a fancy stereo system set up c) people in rental cars d) people who buy new cars and have those trial subscriptions.

Jurgan posted:

I hate when people say this. The election isn't over. Nothing is guaranteed. I hope you're helping to get out the vote over the next two weeks, not just counting on it taking care of itself.

Xibanya posted:

I just don't get how these people, who spend all their time crying about tyranny and censorship and propaganda think that most domestic news agencies and nearly all foreign ones are somehow in a conspiracy to advance the Soros agenda or something but plucky little Brietbart knows the truth. Oh wait I do, it's cognitive dissonance

Wikkheiser posted:

I think Yiannopolous has had a shitstorm headed his way for a long time. But I also think this says something about the right, as he was brought down in this case by the right -- not the left, which has been trying and failing to bring him down for awhile with no success.

This guy, a senior Breitbart reporter, had this to say earlier:

https://twitter.com/stranahan/status/833860824066248704

Now, this guy is a disingenuous snake and a close friend of Steve Bannon. But he also said a few revealing things.

One is that Milo was a "free speech guy" and implied that he was getting above his station and his role. Stranahan also took umbrage at Milo claiming credit (apparently) for Trump's victory, implication being that people with more power and influence were not pleased by that. Who does this British queer think he is? Milo needed to be taught "humility" and -- amazingly -- Stranahan justified this punishment as a form of Christian ethics.

There are some alt-righters who claim this whole thing was a setup. I believe Milo said exactly what he said. But I wouldn't rule out a setup at least in the timing. His appearance on Maher was a disaster. So to clip his wings, he gets promoted with the CPAC invitation and then the pedo comments immediately start circulating among the conservative magazines. That's enough pressure to kibosh his career and kill his book deal. He needed to rise to a certain level before he could be brought down.

Another thing -- him being a "free speech guy" is less useful now that the right is in power.

BigRed0427 posted:

THERE was a similar one someone pointed out on Twitter I think talking about gender identify. Basically, I never heard these terms before so they must be made up liberal terms.

Just what the gently caress is Preger U?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/925855876866441216

viral spiral posted:

Hopefully this letter leads to the end of Breitbart, considering he's leaving the site because of it's literal ties to neo-nazis: https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.mlmn2dy2R#.xglL1d513

This won't be the end of Milo, though. He's been getting more and more publicity for awhile now.

BiggerBoat posted:

So in "RWM Projection News", Hannity was in full force today and half out of his loving mind for the 5 to 10 minutes I could take listening to it. The "Russian Collusion Scandal is all unraveling so fast" and, surprise, it all centers around Hillary and "if there is equal justice under the law, she'll go to jail".

It was real rapid fire. Emails, GPS Fusion, Dossier, server wipes, collusion, the Texas shooting, "leadership" at the FBI, cops who risk their lives every day...

He even said, no kidding, Hillary "rigged the election", presumably meaning the DNC primary but I don't think the wording was a mistake. Dude rattled off so many so lies so fast I couldn't even keep up with them, which I think it is the new preferred tactic in the Trump era on top of the time tested tactic of "accuse your enemies of what you are doing".

It's a beautiful strawman, because if Hillary is not locked up, it's proof of bias and fuels the persecution complex. If any Trump administration members go down for the Russian poo poo, same thing. Hannity, during a commercial, said he "has trouble sleeping" which actually answered a question I had in my head while listening to him. Christ.

This poo poo really really permeates and it's practically unfightable at this point. I'm not going full on Prester Jane just yet but these people are quite literally brainwashed and it's terrifying. I overheard some conversations about the Trump gently caress up with the war widow and the rationalizations, all the while wondering how that conversation might have been different were it Obama or Hillary.

I saw a stupid thing on my Facebook feed about liberals disrupting and blocking traffic during protests that asked when conservatives ever did that. Only thing I could think to post (beyond "loving seriously?") was to ask if Heather Heyer was blocking traffic. I also thought to myself about people like MLK, JFK, Bobbie Kennedy, Malcolm X, Huey Newton and Harvey Milk who as far as I know never blocked much traffic but wound up shot in the loving head. So yeah, we might block some traffic on occasion but we usually don't assassinate people.

Ugh. I'm tired of it. It's like being an NHL goalie with no defenders and every member of the opposing team each has a puck made out of frozen bullshit that they just fire constantly.

Fearless posted:

I mean at some point you'd think Hannity himself would get sick and tired of having to humble himself on national television. That's gotta be jarring for his ego.

Avirosb posted:

Have some Joe Walsh, 'cause nobody else wants it.
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/930298467964080129

empty whippet box posted:

I thought they fired bannon

Leofish posted:

I mean, the FBI did admit they never followed up on a tip from January that Cruz was off his rocker, but up until he pulled the trigger he hadn't, to my knowledge, done anything illegal. Maybe the animal butchery poo poo on his Insta, but I'm not sure where that falls legally.

Sex-tourism man is of the mind that either the teachers need to be armed, or every school should have armed guards or something.

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/965457691064770561

UMass prof has a thread with several good questions about how arming teachers would work.

https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/965316600676147200

BiggerBoat posted:

On topc:

Fox’s Sebastian Gorka Shoves And Curses Out Mediaite Reporter
Read more at http://www.newshounds.us/fox_sebastian_gorka_shoves_curses_out_mediaite_reporter_022218#kYzyOFLTMC3wzYUY.99

http://www.newshounds.us/fox_sebastian_gorka_shoves_curses_out_mediaite_reporter_022218

Also, no one did a CPAC thread this year? Because, whoo boy, has there been some horrible poo poo coming out of that abomination.

Phone posted:

https://twitter.com/nathanTbernard/status/993988487153176576

Ague Proof posted:

ToxicSlurpee posted:

You don't convince people to vote for your party by going "lol, gently caress those people." There used to be a lot of black Republicans but the party just kind of assumed that they'd keep voting Republican because Lincoln. Then the Republican party became increasingly hostile to them while the Democrats were actually doing civil rights things. Black voters have been voting heavily D ever since as it's become pretty apparent that the R side of things is openly hostile to their interests.

"Vote Democrat or you're a racist and I hate you" isn't going to help. I voted all Democrat this election but my heart wasn't really in it. I almost just stayed home. Part of the reason was all of the "lol I hope we can kill all the white people some day" posts here. I won't be joining a hate group or registering Republican any time soon but every time I see somebody say "gently caress rural white people they're all horrible racists" all I can think is "I'm a scruffy rural white person. Why do you hate me?"

Granted I'm more white-adjacent or whitish so if full on white supremacy happens I'll be against the wall too but, eh...that sort of thing isn't exactly motivating.