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To date, this is how the very few interactions I've had with Never Trumpers have gone, because I want to talk about the Befor...
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It wasn't a fluke. It wasn't pilot error. It wasn't instrument failure. This is what Republicans wanted, and now they have a...
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About Newt Gingrich: Hailing from the Greater New York Metropolitan Area, I noticed early on (late 80s) how he'd use every anti-New York cliche in the book when he was running for re-election. only he could protect the good people of Cobb County, GA, from the People's Republic of Escape From New York. And, of course, by the Clinton years, a time when even his own party members pleaded "Tell Newt to Shut Up!", it was obvious to me, doubtless you two, and to scads of our fellow liberals (but not, of course, to mainstream media), that the only thing coming out of his mouth that should be taken at face value was vomit. Everything else was engineered to get his herd stampeding in support of his agenda du jour.
While the goddamn Republicans wage their war on the recent past, which they find horribly inconveniently full of the natural behavior of them and their followers, the corporate media is engaged in a parallel campaign against the very concept of right and wrong, which they believe to potentially cut into their dwindling revenue stream.
Perhaps the first amendment should itself be amended to say "The market shall make no incentive structure making it more lucrative to lie in the media to the American people" or some other such horseshit. Or maybe we should just experiment with Gowachin law, or at least the part of it where those found lying in a court of law were executed on the spot.
So let me get this straight: Fergus' campaign has responded to accusations that it unlawfully shot a campaign video in area 60 of Arlington cemetery and assaulted a cemetery employee in the process with a promise to show a video they shot there that they claim will prove they did nothing wrong?
You know, my older brother was a biker, so I grew up around bikers and spent considerable time in their company, and that's sort of where I got my idea that if anyone had cared enough about Fergus when he was in his early twenties to take him aside and just kick his ass but good, he might have at least had a chance to grow up into something other than the despicable douche bag (which is apparently two words) that he is now.
Lately, though, I find myself wondering whether it's really too late for that...
Which brings me to something I just really can't understand: his support from bikers. I finally and forever dispensed with my admiration for the organization called The Hell's Angels when Tucker the fuck Carlson spoke at Sonny Barger's funeral, but Fergus? He wears fucking makeup for fuck's sake. How those dudes can stand him is a mystery to me, and I've actually given it some thought. Perhaps over thinking them is a mistake, though.
Thank you again for the podcast. I figure that the New York fucking Times still has enough money for a newsroom and staff, and that is an increasingly rare situation these days, so there are fewer and fewer places to turn to find anything resembling what could be called journalism by someone demented or intoxicated enough. But maybe if a few of us old stragglers remember clearly enough what journalism really is, then at least that knowledge will still exist...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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