tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2788443980295341683..comments2024-03-29T07:36:51.933-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sunday Morning Comin' Downdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32648695661372651372018-01-13T10:18:04.957-06:002018-01-13T10:18:04.957-06:00For a masterful Gish Gallop performance, watch &qu...For a masterful Gish Gallop performance, watch "pastor" Mark Burns with Joy Reid today on AM Joy.tequilamockingbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13450045358074405850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36902416915855475042018-01-10T12:23:53.854-06:002018-01-10T12:23:53.854-06:00Driftglass: I thought of you when I read this quo...<br />Driftglass: I thought of you when I read this quote from William "Billy' Kristol in a Vox interview on the "slide" into Trumpism:<br /><br /> "That slippery slope is more slippery than I realized".<br /><br />Especially when you've been greasing it for 40 years.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04140057366895044115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-48962021033774290172018-01-09T01:46:20.951-06:002018-01-09T01:46:20.951-06:00Basically, what it comes down to is that watching ...Basically, what it comes down to is that watching Jake Tapper not put up with Pee Wee's horseshit to his face is emotionally satisfying (it *is* all infortainment anyway, isn't it?). It's one thing to see liberals refute the crazies' bile on Last Week Tonight or Full Frontal from a distance to a sympathetic audience, but watching Us stand up to Them on the playground is a different animal. It pokes holes in the conservative "liberals are pussies that can't face us" narrative. Will conservatives ever accept it and admit defeat? Of course not; they'll slink off and cry about being The Most Persecuted Patriots EVAR for Just Speaking Their Truth, all the while telling us that we're the REAL sensitive emotional snowflakes for knocking them in the teeth. <br /><br />This is separate from Democratic politicians trying to win over an imaginary audience of Independent Moderates by being The Adults In The Room. Conservatives are experts at manipulating audiences through the teevee machine. Turns out, a solid 90% of politics is marketing and entertainment. We have a reality teevee show president right now with absolutely no experience in government at all. While it's true that he may be there because he was given a microphone by a complicit media in the first place, it's probably more important to note that <i>that's what works</i>. The GOP enablers will never, ever come around on this. Might as well use their biases (e.g., Spectacle, Laziness, Cheap and Easy to Cover, etc.) to our advantage. Aurora Silvermanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09814841908922183332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-17276680743269281582018-01-08T18:23:32.027-06:002018-01-08T18:23:32.027-06:00If I were alloof with twitter fingers...
you comm...If I were alloof with twitter fingers...<br /><br />you comment <br />""The best" would be to never give stupid, obsequious Roy Cohn wannabes a platform at all."<br /><br />Viewers, consumers do not prefer to dwell on Alex Jones light.<br /><br />It is like exposing people to small Pox. <br /><br />They are still looking for the return on ratings for televising Trump's empty podium awaiting him.<br />A harmful side effect equivalent to Viagra if lasting long than 4 hours. See your doctor.<br /><br />They need to get this straight ,<br />Trumpers, republicans are not tuning in to CNN to hear their white supremacists rage.<br />They have websites like Storm boner and Mis Info mhines.<br /><br /> Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-82596658577771205862018-01-08T17:10:38.612-06:002018-01-08T17:10:38.612-06:00"...the only winning move in the game of Wing..."...the only winning move in the game of Wingnut With a Microphone is not to play."<br /><br />And the real news story is that, in 2018, the media is FORCED to play again and again. <br /><br />They CAN'T treat Bannon, Miller, or even just a Trump voter like they treat someone arguing to nationalize the banks, a Civil Rights activists, or even a democratic voter who lives outside New York or California. <br /><br />The result your average prime time news/cable TV viewer probably knows more Nazi's and White Supremacists and their idea than they know Democrats, much less actually progressive thinkers and/or ideas.<br /><br />Almost as if by design.... <br /><br />trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-91245727563340733792018-01-08T15:08:10.488-06:002018-01-08T15:08:10.488-06:00 What? There were Republicans in the lifeboat when... What? There were Republicans in the lifeboat when I set it on fire?<br /> Bummer.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.com