tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1719924726874353439..comments2024-03-17T17:09:51.505-05:00Comments on driftglass: A Scammer Darklydriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-48942794975948152702016-03-31T20:31:31.844-05:002016-03-31T20:31:31.844-05:00Love you always, but I always have to take issue o...Love you always, but I always have to take issue on the Affordable Care Act:<br /><br />Romney didn't embrace Romneycare, it was forced on him by Teddy Kennedy and the Democratic legislature, and he tried to veto the most important provision (employer mandate) but was overridden. Then when it was popular he made the best of things and pretended to own it. Though continually denying, falsely, that Obama's bill was any relation.<br /><br />And the Heritage plan (designed mainly as a bogus alternative to HillaryCare in the early 90s) had nothing to do with it. Scott Lemieux, who has also been obsessed with this, and is smarter than me, has written a lot about it, Google something like 'lemieux heritage plan". Again Teddy Kennedy played a large role in the design of the ACA as a Kennedyesque compromise (of which the worst example is No Child Left Behind) that Republicans would vote for if they were honest, but it was never Republican in any sense, except that it did deal in the insurance industry, which was always going to happen, and lost the public option, which was certainly a shame (there's actually a couple of things in the law that should develop into the public option, in the co-ops and multistate plans but Congress has starved them so far).<br /><br />Everything else you say is of course right.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-37787519288386965732016-03-31T16:22:12.346-05:002016-03-31T16:22:12.346-05:00Interestingly enough, there really was a Bobo, an ...Interestingly enough, there really was a Bobo, an internationally famous magician: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4114chautauquahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425429571246989512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34427218138524996222016-03-31T13:42:21.455-05:002016-03-31T13:42:21.455-05:00The sketch about the Mustache of Understanding was...The sketch about the Mustache of Understanding was friggin' hilarious. Of course, Bobo and Rose know what they're saying about Obummer's rad left agenda is a huge mountain of stinking bullshit but they carefully make sure that dissenting voices never make it to the same table. It's all One-Siderists talking about Both-Siderism.mainmatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03260650501178635707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-55920157505573786662016-03-31T13:09:47.693-05:002016-03-31T13:09:47.693-05:00One last addendum to my last comment.
David f&#...One last addendum to my last comment. <br /><br />David f'ing Brooks is only coming to these reluctant realizations out of a sense of self-preservation. If Trump was just a little less outrageous, and more importantly, if BoBo thought Trump would win the election, he'd be dutifully polishing the Trump turd and patiently explaining to NYT readers how Trump is actually a sensible, humble Burkean conservative who is running for president out of an overwhelming sense of duty and patriotism - the nasty rhetoric is just a front, you see.<br /><br />I'm starting to waver on my prediction that BoBo will be penning a column endorsing the short-fingered vulgarian in October. He's saying a lot of things it'll be hard to paper over just by talking about Hillary's emails or whatever. But I still think he'll come around in the end and be the loyal GOP hack he's always been.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-4017531144339440322016-03-31T13:05:24.240-05:002016-03-31T13:05:24.240-05:00You do realize that both the Tea Party and the Con...You do realize that both the Tea Party and the Conservatives do it?<br /><br /> I know this because David Brooks told me so..Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26940393971551308562016-03-31T13:05:19.988-05:002016-03-31T13:05:19.988-05:00Another masterpiece, good sir.
David F'ing Br...Another masterpiece, good sir.<br /><br />David F'ing Brooks really touches all the bases, doesn't he?<br /><br />The tired trick of referring to HIS Republican Party, which HE has loyally fluffed and propagandized at the behest of for decades now - clapping furiously through the worst presidency in modern history if not the history of the country, through the astroturfed rise of the obviously ignorant and demented "Tea Party", through the candidacy of one Willard Mitt "Mittens" Romney (which he supported), who lied at such a rapid rate that fact-checkers went into comas and needed six straight months of sleep when the campaign ended to recover, as "they." "THEY" my brown eye, you fucking snake.<br /><br />Whitewashes President Obama's ill-fated attempts to bring Republicans along as he tried to govern, to the point where Obama was including GOP ideas in bills even after the GOP announced that they'd rather light themselves on fire than vote for the Kenyan Usurper's bill.<br /><br />Makes up some bullshit about how Obama totally could work with the GOP if he just did [x]. Ignoring that Obama has probably already tried [x], and more importantly ignoring that the GOP would sooner toss themselves into a woodchipper Fargo style than work with Obama on anything resembling [x], no matter how reasonable it was. Ron "Severe Dementia" Fournier is a big fan of trotting out this kind of bullshit too.<br /><br />While BoBo does go a little further in acknowledging some of the ways that the party, HIS PARTY, brought this on themselves, he falls back on the desperate, pathetic "blame the voters (for finally realizing we've been conning them about the minority-hate and women-hate, and demanding the real thing)" dodge in the end.<br /><br />Congrats, David f'ing Brooks, you hit a towering home run of GOP dissembling and denial! Flip your bat and round the bases! You earned it, you fucking twit.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5957710878296408742016-03-31T12:43:41.928-05:002016-03-31T12:43:41.928-05:00 Thank you for the Friedman video, I liked it a lo... Thank you for the Friedman video, I liked it a lot.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49295700910179073402016-03-31T11:53:54.071-05:002016-03-31T11:53:54.071-05:00"Gee, someone should look into why the republ..."Gee, someone should look into why the republican base would go for a rich, authoritarian blowhard-type. But first let me put away this St Ronald Reagan bust I have on my grand piano which is purely decorative, in my richly-appointed penthouse." --University of Chicago educated, W Bush cheerleading, 'deep thinking' David Fucking Brooks. He's got the easiest and best job in America, as long as you don't mind selling your soul. "Let's all pretend I just walked in here fresh, and I knew nothing about this until last week, ok?" he added, "And I'm going to think real, real hard this time.. I mean, this first time." How can they 'think about' and discuss everything but the plainly obvious? He's lying; they're all lying.proverbialleadballoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11592049897382920314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-45399167754739551102016-03-31T11:40:55.932-05:002016-03-31T11:40:55.932-05:00The Bobos & the Charlie Rose's ultimately ...The Bobos & the Charlie Rose's ultimately know that they're lying through their teeth, but they don't give a rat's patoot bc why should they? They're on all the right cocktail party circuits, where they get patted on the back or head for a job well done by their economic betters. They are highly compensated to hack out this lying bullshit, but so what? Once you've sold out, you might as go for broke and sell out completely. Like, whatever.<br /><br />I've ignored most of these whores (with apologies to sex workers everywhere) for years bc it's obvious that they're in service to da man, and they'd rather fellate the .001% than come close to telling the truth. They're probably well aware that this is all part of Nixon's Southern Strategy combined with the War on Drugs strategy bc these aren't stupid people. <br /><br />Bobo is mildly interesting to me at the moment bc he is exhibiting some small ability to very reluctantly tell some minor bits and pieces of truth. It is notable only because Bobo has maintained such a stiff upper lip otherwise for decades. I like the analogy about the right and left brain warring with each other, but I'm not so sure that's what it is. <br /><br />I'm not sure why Bobo's going down this road where some smidgeons of truth crumbs are being tossed out, and only time may shed more light on it. But I believe we are witnessing a rather concerted effort by the PTB - my guess it includes the Kochs, the Waltons, Gates, the Bush Crime Syndicate, maybe Shelly Adelson, the Scaifes - to give Trump a beating on many fronts in order to sideline him. THEY - the PTB - are making it evident that THEY do NOT want Trump to win this thing. Their reasons are not altruistic or patriotic, and I'm sure that they are especially apoplectic that Trump has spewed forth a few very salient truths to the dittoheads - like the truth about the Bush Crime Syndicate & 9/11, etc, plus also Trump has been pretty emphatic that Social Security and Medicare should not be touched or altered. These are big truths, and only someone like Trump can say them and have a prayer that the dittoheads will, you know, actually believe something factual for a change. <br /><br />I think Bobo's been given some sort of nod to drop a few crumbs of truthiness in service to the PTB in order to dissuade mainly the remaining few "Rockefeller Republicans" to not support Trump, but it may also filter down to the unwashed disgusting masses. In order to do so, Bobo has to admit to a few things, like how the disgustingly dreadful lower orders simply have to be recognized as part of, shudder, the GOP base. But pray notice how swiftly Bobo distances himself from the fugly mob that he's cultivated over the decades. Nay verily Bobo has always vaunted himself away from the lousy riff-raff, and he really doesn't want to be associated in any way with them now.<br /><br />But his paycheck awaits, so he dribbles out a few cozy words that acknowledge less than even the bare bones of the truth, and then it's back to the future of selling shit as shinola.<br /><br />Nothing's really changed for Bobo. It's just that the PTB are knee-capping Trump in whatever fashion possible. This is just one avenue.RUKiddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14057702539722165035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-10638635807029793212016-03-31T11:01:00.768-05:002016-03-31T11:01:00.768-05:00Are we still standing outside Herr Goebbels' o...Are we still standing outside Herr Goebbels' office and demanding he tell the truth about the concentration camps? And expecting him to change? I'm telling you the news media outlets mentioned I this piece are all propaganda machines, for the benefit of Wall Street. Brooks knows good and goddam well he's lying and he DOESN'T CARE that we know. How can we build an America that turns its back on the greatest propaganda organs in the history of mankind to the quiet truths about our world? Brad in Dallashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06823123535800923865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-85718233039707763542016-03-31T10:34:53.895-05:002016-03-31T10:34:53.895-05:00And the party that has nominated Mitt Romney and J...<i>And the party that has nominated Mitt Romney and John McCain and Bob Dole and George W. Bush nominates a certain kind of person, and suddenly we've got a black swan.</i><br /><br />I believe he is talking about <a href="http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/images/2008/01/29/purple_heart_bandaid.jpg" rel="nofollow">these sober, thoughtful voters</a>.fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522672049371678717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-30460649047650366002016-03-31T08:32:29.676-05:002016-03-31T08:32:29.676-05:00"...he'd rather chew his own arm off befo..."...he'd rather chew his own arm off before bringing Hate Radio and Fox News into this.."<br /><br />Because that brings up the question of "Who's paying for all this!?!" <br /><br />Hate Radio/Fox News doesn't generate ad revenue that matches their size, reach, and production value. The "White Working Class" has money, but even a gifted conman can't grift a cash flow consistent enough to run a 24/7 national propaganda network. Boss Limbaugh would be podcasting in a corn field (no offense) with the rest of us hippies if he had to self fund off his stupid tie sales. Clearly, Hate Radio/Fox News have very wealthy Sugar Daddies and those same Daddies likely also pay Brook's and Rose's salaries so...it is all the "White Working Class" fault. <br /><br />Brook's handlers have ok'd the media blaming Trump on the "angry and abandoned White Working Class" because A) they loath the unwashed masses of their own party and don't mind throwing them under the bus because those same masses will never leave the Party and B) it avoids the question of who has been cutting the checks to get us to this point. <br /><br /> <br /><br />didn't I am getting the impression that blaming Trump trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10830124404306531933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-16368972467281647862016-03-31T07:18:16.470-05:002016-03-31T07:18:16.470-05:00Please be careful about crediting "Media Matt...Please be careful about crediting "Media Matters". It's founder is David Brock, a thoroughly odious character and political shape-shifter. (Remember Anita Hill!) Credit the writer instead.Svejkisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730611838426815739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64507498294462028612016-03-31T02:47:30.574-05:002016-03-31T02:47:30.574-05:00I am not so sure about the competing sides of the ...I am not so sure about the competing sides of the brain.<br />I am just not convinced.<br /><br />If you produced something along the lines of the conservative hypocrisy gene. that causes republicans to have no empathy. To possess a heightened snake oil salesmanship (con artist) skill.<br />Then it's relativity could connect with the passion of greed. Characteristics caused by the symptoms.<br /><br />Brooks seems to display more denial. From shame, his own core inner self knowledge learned that he continually attempts to bargain with himself over.<br /><br />This Denial characteristic has become severely wide spread amongst the republican/conservative ideological.<br />So prominent now, their followers live in this denial as well.<br /><br />Infected without actual contact?<br />A virus like illness that is contracted by sight or sound?<br /><br />Never coming in direct contact.<br />How a individual like Ted Cruz can go to one of America's great educational institutions and still find a way at his age and with his education to deny climate Change.<br /><br />Which Brooks will have to submit to this viral nonsense to remain conservative. <br /><br />Of my evaluation of Brooks and the likes of his minions is ore of suppressed conscience that finds itself surfacing only to be confronted with a conditioned response to suppress. So not to confront, to truly question. In fact, the opposite of truth seeker.<br />It is denial that buries his soul deep enough that the pain is anesthetized<br /><br />Systems are hypocrisy, hate, bigotry, superiority,and falsifying to outright lying. Inability to live within the falsehoods and to maintain them.<br /><br />Understand, Brooks and many conservatives afflicted with denial. They must be able to convince their conscience that the lie is in fact the truth.<br />There are many so called Bible thumpers that are infected and are extremely contagious..<br /><br />From what I see, Denial in its advanced stages. You will hear and see some pronounced prevaricating.<br /><br />Brooks is infected and with advanced stages. Is he contagious? The NYT are betting he is.Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-35343282399460122172016-03-31T00:31:59.363-05:002016-03-31T00:31:59.363-05:00"Mr. Rose and Mr. Brooks know all of this per..."Mr. Rose and Mr. Brooks know all of this perfectly well. They're simply lying -- lying automatically -- because when facts run inconveniently contrary to their Beltway fairy tales...those facts are tossed out of the window."<br /><br />Which is the reason they won't learn.<br /><br />If any self-respecting Liberal (not all of us are, alas), or anyone retaining the adaptive skills of our forebears, were confronted by overwhelming evidence to the contrary of long-held beliefs, we would re-evaluate the goddamn situation. For survival, at least.<br /><br />You don't hear about any Steady State cosmologists fucking clinging to that position anymore, being as it turned out wrong. You don't hear us nutjobs thinking on the plasma-induced universe searching the halls in Copenhagen U. No. You don't hear about lovers of Aristotle still spouting that shit about mice arising spontaneously from from piles of grain. No, he was a good man with flawed information (fucker should have known better).<br /><br />And you sure as shit won't ever hear me agree with my otherwise sage VW mechanic that his 5-inch bullshit iron wrench w. a sledge can out-torque my 7-foot breaker bar, because physics, bitch.<br /><br />Live and learn with all things. Unless you're a Republican. Then by all means, put lipstick on it and pray someone salutes that flaming pile. Because the gods never will.bluicebankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06821812102554488543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-12349917665036662012016-03-30T22:33:51.351-05:002016-03-30T22:33:51.351-05:00I couldn't watch the clip (Hulu blocks it outs...I couldn't watch the clip (Hulu blocks it outside the US), but the transcript tells the story quite well. Bobo throws critical thinkers a few bones, admitting the very obvious failures of both him and the GOP. Then launches into his usual shtick. I refuse to believe he is that stupid to not see what is in front of him. He is a calculating jerkoff, playing the same game he has for decades. He says the white working class is the base of the his party, while not knowing why that is. Really? You think blatant racism, jingoism, and various other straw men they've used since Nixon might have something to do with it? For a empathetic new-age man, you are pretty obtuse dude.<br /> The recent interview with arch-criminal Erlichman puts, what most of us knew already, on record. Nixon made the war on drugs, while painting blacks and the DFH's as the enemy of the state. He says it was calculated to diminish their perceived political enemies. By extentsion so is most everything the goopers have done since. The GOP has not been interested in our country, in governance, or morality since Tricky Dick took office. That Party is an atrocity, and Bobo is their enabler. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06518025949949879535noreply@blogger.com