tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4347259670892855446..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sunday Morning Comin' Downdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-41316078418830539802016-05-02T16:31:02.125-05:002016-05-02T16:31:02.125-05:00This can all be summed up as: it's all Obama&#...This can all be summed up as: it's all Obama's fault. Thanks, Obama!<br /><br />What the eff is up with Doris Kearns Goodwin? Is she Besties with Dame Nooners or something? Tippling at 10 am and then projecting it onto Obama?<br /><br /><i>THOMAS FRIEDMAN: You know, it's really true, Chuck. I think that everyone's trying to figure out the Trump thing. What's behind this? And I wouldn't pretend to know...</i> <b>but I really DO KNOW WHY, but I'll make sh*t up about how it's all the fault of both sides and the DFHs and Obama, so we'll all feel smug and can go home to our wonderful Acela bubble paychecks and cocktail parties and ignore the plight of the smelly proles. So there!</b><br /><br />"What if these guys actually had worked together like that?" - ah, there it is: a good old steaming stinking DUMP Unit from the Friedstir. Saw it coming.RUKiddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14057702539722165035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20351818546355562242016-05-02T15:02:28.466-05:002016-05-02T15:02:28.466-05:00I was enjoying Ron "Severe Dementia" Fou...I was enjoying Ron "Severe Dementia" Fournier's hiatus from the green room and punditry circuit to promote his book about his son's autism (which, good on him, seriously). But it appears his mental capacity remains as diminished as ever, despite some distance from the Both Sides Bubble he was so happily ensconced in. His ability to completely ignore context and exhibit total lack of self-awareness continues unabated. <br /><br />It's no secret that Boner and Obama get along fine and would have probably had a reasonably productive relationship if Boner wasn't constantly getting knifed in the back by Cantor, Paul "Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver" Ryan, and especially the FREEDUMB CARCASS. But, sure, the only obstacle to deals getting done was Obama's failure to "set a tone." <br /><br />What a fucking clown. I didn't miss saying that about Fournier. He should have kept promoting his valuable book longer, taken a longer break from his Both Siderist rut. Might have done him some good.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-6894388091134649572016-05-02T13:26:00.175-05:002016-05-02T13:26:00.175-05:00I eagerly await your gutting of Sullivan.I eagerly await your gutting of Sullivan.Lex Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364989805025038306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64164265189542785002016-05-02T13:20:20.062-05:002016-05-02T13:20:20.062-05:00"Journalists", like circus animals, know..."Journalists", like circus animals, know what cues to respond to in order to get the treat. Want the big paycheck? Play the part.<br />What, of course, gives the game away is that the "liberal media" never has any liberals involved in it. Funny that.<br /><br />This sort of behavior makes me think of a bunch of Colonel Blimps sitting around their London club pre-WWII reassuring each other that the British Empire would never go into decline. America will be "center right" and "both sides" will do it until it can no longer be denied that America is not and that the lunatics are conveniently grouped all on one side. Reality has very sharp teeth when it finally bites. <br /><br />There's an interesting article that says the Sanders-Trump phenomenon is not some one-off oddity, but symptomatic of an oligarchy on the verge of collapse. http://evonomics.com/trump-sanders-phenomenon-is-a-sign-of-oligarchy/<br />Cyclically, we're probably due for a shakeup, which may be why the last couple of years have had a distinctly unsettled feel about them. <br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-52516282952501306032016-05-02T13:03:13.830-05:002016-05-02T13:03:13.830-05:00Good afternoon, Mr. Glass.
Reading Mr. Sullivan&#...Good afternoon, Mr. Glass.<br /><br />Reading Mr. Sullivan's column.<br /><br />1. F*ck, this is long. Not as annoying as Mr. Rensin's column, though, since that felt more like one of those repetitive, "10 hours of the Town Theme from King's Quest" videos that sadists upload to Youtube. Mr. Sullivan, to his credit, is the better writer.<br /><br />2. "For the white working class, having had their morals roundly mocked," Out of curiosity, which morals are those? And I could swear Mr. Rensin made the same argument.<br /><br />3. "Much of the newly energized left has come to see the white working class not as allies but primarily as bigots, misogynists, racists, and homophobes, thereby condemning those often at the near-bottom rung of the economy to the bottom rung of the culture as well." Out of curiosity, is there a REASON they're seen as this? Or are we liberals just calling people "bigots, misogynists, racists, and homophobes" out of nowhere?<br /><br />4. Mr. Trump's enablers in the media never seem to be mentioned by Mr. Sullivan, as if Mr. Trump's unstoppable because he's unstoppable, not because Satan's Colonoscopy pulls in strong with the 18-35 demographic.<br /><br />5. "And so after demonizing most undocumented Mexican immigrants, he then vowed to round up and deport all 11 million of them by force. 'They have to go' was the typically blunt phrase he used — and somehow people didn’t immediately recognize the monstrous historical echoes." Note to self: liberals aren't people. Doesn't matter if we recognized this.<br /><br />6. "More to the point, those Republicans desperately trying to use the long-standing rules of their own nominating process to thwart this monster deserve our passionate support, not our disdain. This is not the moment to remind them that they partly brought this on themselves. This is a moment to offer solidarity, especially as the odds are increasingly stacked against them." Is it EVER the moment to remind them that they brought this on themselves?<br /><br />Be seeing you.Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-25061724230265009532016-05-02T12:35:02.851-05:002016-05-02T12:35:02.851-05:00I never watch Sunday morning shit, at least not si...I never watch Sunday morning shit, at least not since Bill Moyer retired. The text of that conversation between Todd, Fournier, and Friedman is enough to make me vomit. It is lifted right out of a Tom Tomorrow cartoon script. Howard Beale, where are you when we need you? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06518025949949879535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-55283562787093841292016-05-02T12:20:58.381-05:002016-05-02T12:20:58.381-05:00More examples of self-reinforcing delusion. Fueled...More examples of self-reinforcing delusion. Fueled by paychecks, served up to the rest of us in the interests of the oligarchy. Not a dimple of larger awareness appears on the placid millpond surface to wrinkle their delusion, nor will it, as long as the above-mentioned fueling keeps taking place.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14907642869054378167noreply@blogger.com