Big opening day yesterday at our little family business. Despite a few glitches attributable to the first day for most of the staff, people seemed extremely happy that we were back. I babysat The Youngest Glib at a table off to the side. He mostly slept, but when he awakened, I was able to comfort him by rocking the carrier and crooning, “We will we will rock you!”
Another delightful evening with Prime- her first time trying Indian food, and we did that in a middle-of-nowhere restaurant. They only sort-of believed me about the spice level that I liked, so it was a bit hot, but not native hot. Bless this woman, the heat didn’t bother her at all. As usual, we started the evening with beer from a nice local microbrewery where we had our first date. If only the Indian place had that instead of the usual mediocrities…
Birthdays today include the ultimate Texan; the unexpected composer of the Israeli national anthem; a guy who put words in Zero Mostel’s mouth; a guy who composed the true theme to Jaws; a baseball player with a fabulous unibrow and a quirky intellect; a guy who got screwed by HUAC worse than Oppenheimer did; an outspoken liberal who wanted to kill Japs and cage up their American descendants; a guy torn between Bob and Lou; a guy whose jaw made him famous; the spiritual father of all of us here; a guy who wrote my favorite American novel; old Splotch himself; a guy who amazingly lives to this day; the Irish Roy Buchanan; a skinny chick who was an underrated drummer; another skinny chick who was damn funny; and a co-author of one of the worst pieces of unconstitutional legislation of my lifetime.
Links are the usual mediocrities.
When I saw the headline, I thought, “DC or San Francisco.” Right the first time.
OK, so someone else gets the business. Shrug.
While I don’t think they’ll implement the OMWC Plan, this is at least Phase I.
The debates will be the two candidates comparing indictments.
I like how the media focuses on the most important issues.
“Hey, it’s always worth trying empty threats.”
This should come as a relief to WebDom and 10b0t, who have been looking mighty tired.
I’ve run a few other Gatemouth songs, but pairing him with Dizzy… holy shit. Old Guy Heaven.
Everybody loves an India Pale Ale, right?
Nope, tastes like I’d imagine diesel fuel would taste.
I do. Especially the hazy variety.
I’ve been known to indulge in a Bodhizahfa or a Trickster on occasion. That occasion being all the time.
And yes, the brewery that makes Bodi also makes a Johnny Utah pale ale.
Happy birthday Kinky Friedman?
Happy birthday Franklin Roosevelt?
That was my thought as well.
Earl Warren would’ve been an option as well.
Happy birthday Richard Kiel?
I was thinking Burt Lancaster.
Ash?
Kirk Douglas?
Arian Foster?
To be fair, the aloha spirit has been doing a lot of heavy lifting for the left the last few years as well.
So much for our gLobAl AlLiES in NATO.
Yup — beyond the “okay, then someone else gets the business” it certainly reinforces my “Ok… our erstwhile ‘allies’ are cutting off support to forces meant to support them? Fine… we’ll just pull said forces back.” (Then the other odd part of my brain also thinks we should really do an all nuclear navy so we don’t have to screw with fuel purchases anywhere in the world. I’m weird about my stand-alone nationalism, I know… just think it is more practical in an ever changing global political landscape.)
Yeah, a lot of “friends” are going to be revealed for the backstabbing assholes they have long been.
Flush your own goddamn money down that pisshole.
How the hell is this not a violation of the NATO treaty? It doesn’t matter that Orange Man is bad, you have a fucking commitment. I’d tell them to open up the port or we can open it for them.
My guess is that because it’s a private company, (maybe, considering Norway’s oil is nationalized), though I can’t imagine that the Norwegian .gov isn’t balls deep in those contracts skimming their part.
Maybe we should pull out any troops we have on Norway’s border with Russia if we haven’t done so already.
Nothing like opening with a Ray of Sunshine, OMWC. Very sweet.
Morning, all!
Doesn’t count unless you include the stomping and clapping. That’ll send him right back to the Land of Nod. 👶
You really like that article about Israel no longer feeding their enemies huh? (the little pictures of the king link links to it also)
I terminated that link with extreme prejudice.
Swiss Servator — paging Swiss Servator to the courtesy phone, please! Narrow gaze needed on Aisle 3.
Staying with parents this weekend. How to convince them that what they see on CNN is not the truth?
I have been assured Trump started the argument with Zelenskyyyy and Trump wants to be a King.
Change the parental controls?
[golf clap]
This is an excellent idea.
Save yourself the headache and don’t bother.
Here in a couple weeks, I am going to visit my fathers widow, and it will be wall to wall FOX and Hallmark.
Shoot me now.
Hallmark is fun. If you print the Hallmark movie bingo cards ahead of time and hand them out when you sit down to watch the movie.
If Norway is as scared of Putin as this company, they’ll be begging for US warships the minute a Russian ship sails by their coast.
And we should tell them no.
The pretty little towns on the Norwegian coastline would look even better with a few onion shaped domes. Lucky for them that the terrible Russkies are not only uninterested in going beyond Ukraine but are mostly incapable as well. This hyperventilating bullshit is so damn retarded.
Damn…. you just made me realize Europe is preparing its defenses against a possible Russian invasion!
After all — with all the crap they get from Chechnya, etc… the last thing the Russians would ever want to do is try to take over more Islamic controlled countries — so soon there will be no chance they’ll want anything to do with Western Europe! Genius!
Those little Norwegian towns will sprout mosques soon, not onion-domed churches. Been to Oslo lately?
I was just talking with my wife about how my desire to go back to Europe has severely waned in recent years, mostly because it’s not the same Europe we all think of when we think Europe. There are whole areas that shouldn’t be gone to, and indeed local police don’t go to. I don’t want to go to Amsterdam or London or Oslo to see Muslims everywhere subsuming those cultures. How long until the Louvre is bombed? Or some coffee shop in Amsterdam for promoting marijuana against Muslim will?
The last time I was in Norway, 2014, it was already noticeable, and that was before the real mass migration started in earnest in 2015. Last time I was in Amsterdam, 2018, the group I was with, my wife and a gay couple, were accosted in the street by random Muslims because we had American accents. I can’t imagine its orders of magnitude worse 7 years later.
You’re feeding my fantasies of our Secretary of State.
Anyone else among the 50 and up crowd here find it oddly amusing that the countries and political parties screaming that we must go to war with Russia now, have a near perfect overlap with the countries and political parties that constantly pushed appeasement when it was the Soviet Union?
They’re very consistent — “Is it a shitty end of the stick for the US? Then we support it!”
They’ve proven themselves wrong for decades.
I refuse to take what they say seriously.
The so-called ‘right kind of people’. *spits*
Sigh…. I had no idea what you meant before I hovered…. yeah, should have seen that one. Dummy me (nicely played, OM).
he was the ultimate Tennessean before that….kinda how he rolled
It’s hilarious, all these euros talking a big game. It’s clear from their reactions that they’re completely dependent on the US for their protection. The entire continent would fold in a month if presented with an attack without US protection.
I’m interested to see what happens, except that they seem eager to start WW3.
They thought they were the senior partner. They haven’t been for a long time, but now the era of us pretending that is over and they ain’t liking it none at all. Heh.
The Eurotwats know that doing what’s required to even have a chance would require drastic cuts to social programs and sending their sons to die in the east, a combination one two punch that’d piss off the sleeping electorate so much that they’d be strung up. When the good old US of A serves as the backstop they’re free to talk a good game but without us they’re hopeless.
Reading this this morning — the embedded tweet was interesting. If the Biden Administration killed military recruiting here — looks like the EU dialed that up to 11. Germany only 18 percent willing to defend the country? UK 27 percent? Holy crap… they’d have to not only cut social programs, dial up defense (and rebuild industry to do it if they don’t want to stay dependent on the bloated US MIC) spending… they’d probably have to do conscription.
That doesn’t seem likely to work on many levels.
Yep, which is also infuriating.
We’ve been heavily subsidizing European technocracy and social welfare for decades. Without our protection, they couldn’t afford their own lifestyles. All of those “free” social benefits was on the backs of American soldiers and bombs that they refused to build themselves in lieu of pursuing their socialist utopias.
The Germans learned in WWII what the Brits and French learned in WWI – your govt will throw your life away for no good reason when you don the uniform.
The German army is about 1/3 the size it was in the 80s. I would not be surprised if it’s a similar story across all our friends there.
Decades of globalist agitprop haven’t helped.
Why would the young men in England die to support a Western Christian nation? The young men are all Muslims that are first or second generation immigrants.
Something tells me after transplanting half of the middle east until it constitutes 10+% of their overall population now, they probably won’t be able to muster the kind of social cohesion to sustain that when the conscription starts. As it is Paris shuts down for a couple of months every goddamn year while the Moops burn cop cars because they don’t get enough social benefits with their 30% unemployment rate, and their own farmers are marching on the their capitals to prevent them from starving themselves to the death to fight global
warmingclimate changeweather variation.The French don’t even pretend to assimilate immigrants unlike the Germans and Brits. It is the ultimate stupidity to open up your country with no concept about how to integrate your new arrivals. Just slightly more stupid than having had a good approach to assimilation and throwing it in the trash. [But what we would know about that?]
I don’t take Rothbard as an influence; in fact, I’m not much of a fan of the Austrian School in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sglyFwTjfDU&pp=ygUbYnVybiB0aGUgd2l0Y2ggbW9udHkgcHl0aG9u
Burn me as well. I like Von Mises, Rothbard not so much.
Mises, the intellectual slave to his praxeology.
So, you hate von Mises to pieces?
There’s some old iron law somewhere about no two libertarians agreeing on anything, but his opposition to central banking alone wins him kudos in my book.
I don’t think I agree with that!
Stopped clock right twice a day.
Say what you will, but the Austrians’ opposition to central to banking is well explicated. It’s not just a coincidental stumbling on good orthodoxy. The economy of atomic individuals and rejection of aggregate modeling may be a blindspot or oversimplification, but it doesn’t seem to lead worse conclusions or have a worse track record of prognostication than conventional macroeconomics.
have a worse track record of prognostication than conventional macroeconomics
If you wish divine the future you must consult the right portents – nothing exceeds the reading of owl entrails.
Yeah, let’s make it all about his clothes, and not the fact that he went in to a meeting where all he needed to do was smile and sign an agreement for $500B, but decided to take the opportunity to sit there and make demands after he’s already looted us for $300B. Trump is absolutely right. He was in no position to make any sort of demands. The war is lost. It always was. The only reason he hasn’t been obliterated by now is because we’ve had the spigot wide open. That supply has now been turned off, and Europe can’t supplement those losses. Everyone involved except Trump is fucking delusional.
Fuck off, little man. Not our war. Not our problem. You either take what we offer and figure it out, or be destroyed, but we’re not getting any more embroiled in that goddamn mess.
I was saying yesterday that I think the reason he’s a little big for his britches is because he was installed by US intelligence in the first place, and is still operating on the assumption that they can and will JFK anybody who taps the brakes on their overseas
nation buildingmoney laundering schemes. And for all the bluster, Trump still has no control whatsoever over those agencies, so he may be right.To be fair, a lot of people on both sides are focusing on unimportant things. Somebody in one of posts yesterday used the word pajamas to describe Zelensky’s outfit.
And look at all the people who think adding extra Y’s to the end of Zelensky’s* surname is somehow any less stupid than all the people on the left who spent years referring to “President Drumpf”.
* (names like this are actually functionally adjectives, and end in a diphthong. Tolstoy is another such surname although the -oi ending signifies the pronunciation is stressed on the endings. I personally would just use one Y for all of the ones not ending in -oi/-oy, but there are all sorts of transliteration schemes out there. I could swear when I was studying Russian in college back in the early 90s coming across schemes that transliterated adjectives in general with -yy, or the even stranger from an English-language perspective -yj if you’re trying to put a different letter to each Cyrillic letter)
For my part, I do it sometimes simply as a mockery of the ever-shifting lefty shibboleths, as if the same retarded sacks of shit who couldn’t pick out Kiev on a labeled map became overnight foreign policy experts for spelling it with a “y” after 50 years of consistent transliteration.
inb4 vIrtUE sIgnALiNg!
Sure, it’s counter-virtue signalling. That’s always been a staple of counter-culture. Which for better or worse, we are.
FWIW Ukrainian is an independent language from Russian. That is the reason for the politically-motivated change from e.g. “Kiev” to “Kyiv”. Both languages have adjectives that can end in two i’s as Ted’S points out. I guess they have different transliteration schemes cuz I could swear in Russian I have seen such words end in “ii” not “yy”.
I’d like to think congress might try getting its balls back, but the likelihood is slim given the overall composition of that ignoble conglomeration of assholes.
It’s a good thing Democrats are above such machinations.
You mean, like the Congressional restrictions on the Executive’s authority over Executive branch employees? Those breaches in the foundational separation of powers?
Or newly appointed district court judges substituting their judgment for that of the president when Article II is clear that the president, and only the president, has authority over the every facet of the executive branch?
Democrats would never do that.
I’m no New Yorker — and God knows I’m in a mentally screwed up state I can’t explain either… but the man literally put people with a virus that was mainly fatal to the old and infirm in nursing homes. And if it wasn’t to reduce the Medicare budget of the state I’ll eat my hat (if I can find where I put it anyway).
How in the world does anyone come back from literally trying to kill Grandma?!?!?
I had a VERY spicy discussion about that with Prime. Despite her NPR habit, she has a very practical and reality-based view of the Covid panic, what was stupid about it, and what the consequences of the stupidity were.
IME, there’s a very stark difference in the outlook of physicians younger or older than about 45, owing to the retardation of the academic environment in which the Millennials were inculcated.
This has been my experience as well. Older doctors knew it was bullshit the whole time. The younger doctors have their mandate from socially engineered schooling.
Fucker said the lockdowns were to save Grandma (or at least his mom). He also said when people complained about getting put out of work because of the lockdowns that they should go get essential jobs.
No, you fuckwit, these people had jobs that were essential until you put a gun to bosses’ heads and forced them to lock down. Where I worked had its first round of layoffs about a week after those comments, which was when I really decided that if I was one of the people laid off because of lockdowns, I’d start telling the lockdown supporters that they literally wanted to destroy people like me economically.
Medicare budget of the state
Do you mean Medicaid? Because the state doesn’t foot any of the Medicare bill.
Probably. I don’t care enough to know which is the “healthcare insurance for the elderly” versus “disability care for
illegal aliensanyone else we see fit”, sorry.Maybe they throw extra money at it, because.
LOL from the guy who signed into law the anti-cop “reforms” that had the desired effect of driving so many of them into other work.
If there’s anything the BBC and the Brits in general don’t care about — it is perceived social class, custom and given proper deferential respect to your betters after all. :eyeroll:
And given that it is the BBC — we’re probably just lucky that the article wasn’t a complete whine fest that the US President isn’t a gay Nigerian transactivist or something.
You’d think the Brits, of all people, would be harrumphing about Zelenskyij’s failure to dress properly.
Do Muslims care about dress code? Honest question.
For men, I mean. For women, they care.
Gotta wear that little skull cap thing!
a guy who wrote my favorite American novel
Happy birthday Peter Benchley!
Well played
Remember on Thursday movie night I was busy looking after my mom? Well, on Friday morning her blood pressure was still low. Same on Friday. Otherwise, she seemed fine. Just a bit weak, but that could have been explained by the low BP. After talking with her cardiologist Friday afternoon, it was decided getting her to the ED couldn’t hurt. After she got there, they didn’t even draw blood until after almost a hour. Turns out her bile duct is blocked (she had an infected gall bladder back in June). I stayed over night at the hospital. She’s very jaundiced, but at least so far, no sepsis, and able to consume clear liquids. Doctors planning on needle surgery tomorrow. I woke up last night with my t-shirt soaked in sweat. So I guess, I’m more nervous than my brain thinks I am. I’m sure she is still asleep now, and I doubt they’ll do much on a Sunday, so I’ll be back at the hospital in an hour. Thoughts, prayers, and well-wishes much appreciated.
All three enthusiastically offered (for both of you.)
all the best
Best wishes to you, your Momma Tater (and for that matter, MaMaMoJo [though I think she’s a lot better now] and anyone else who I’m forgetting just now…).
Damn, hope she pulls through.
I’ll withhold prayers, because I haven’t got the best track record on that score when it comes to medical intervention, but commiserations and hopeful optimism for the best outcome.
Thinking the best, Tater.
You have all my thoughts, prayers, and well wishes.
Do you also need lawyers, guns, and money? Because I have those, too.
This should be hysterical. Europe can’t agree when to have breakfast without three hours of debate.
Europe Aims to Forge Its Own Peace Plan for Ukraine
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/white-house-clash-raises-tough-question-for-ukraine-how-long-could-it-fight-without-u-s-f780e8c1?st=kPU3NG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Oh noes… don’t throw me into the briar patch of the US just completely cutting off our involvement in your quagmire, Euros….. that would be terrible….”
“We’re going to build our own Ukraine! With
blackjack and hookerspotash and hopak!”When OMWC is the hand that rocks the cradle . . . .
What’s that saying about “If you know anything about an event, you’ll be appalled at how the press represents it?”
Even the Vorlons’ three edged sword seems inadequate for determining what really happened most days, current or historical events. Yay.
Gell-Mann amnesia
This.
I came to this particular realization about 10 years ago during the opening salvo against vaping. Every story I read was bullshit factually. Like, not even fucking close. It was at that point I made this particular connection. That if journos were so confidently wrong about vaping, it was a high likelihood every story was the same way, it’s just that I didn’t have the particular knowledge needed to separate wheat from chaff in those other cases. It was at that point I wrote off almost all journalism as the bullshit it is.
🎶Sunday, Slutty Sunday🎶
https://archive.is/8bbZF
I’m digging #3; girl-next-door with an enormous rack.
6 is the kind of high maintenance hot that always seems like more fun than it is. 22 is probably a satanist judging by the Petrine cross, but there’s a fair chance I’m going to hell anyway. 62 has been featured before, but bears repeating. 17… doesn’t look Druish.
15 is hot, but she looks like the kind who’d hate-fuck JD Vance.
Orange and turquoise bikini pretty far down is hot.
Susan Rice is lower than diarrhea produced by pond scum.
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1895872853930545214
The Obama/Clinton crowd is telling Zelensky to keep the meat grinder going. When you can launder hundreds of billions you dont let that go without a fight.
I still blame republicans for this mess. Impeach those fucking judges…nope. We will just get sputtering excuses…not everyone on board…see, here’s the thing…I dont even remember John McCain’s excuse for not getting rid of Obamacare. They are beyond pathetic.
“Fuck you, Trump” was McCain’s reasoning.
Once again, strip the citizenship from the traitor Vindemans and send them to the front lines of Ukraine.
Fascinating article; I’d love to get some feedback from Canuckistani Glibs on its accuracy about Canadian culture.
https://im1776.com/the-arctic-gambit/
Dayum, that is a LOT of diversity officers.
“Golf is at a crossroads, with social media stars now arguably as famous as some of the biggest names in the sport. The top 10 male golfers in the world have a combined Instagram following of 8.6million, while Paige boasts over 4million on her own.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/us-sport/paige-spiranac-refuses-silenced-stuffy-34761387
I can think of two big reasons why.
GoLf iS At A CroSsRoAdS! 🙄️ No more so than the medical profession is at a crossroads on account of pornstars who do naughty nurse scenes get more views and boring medical videos on YouTube.
…more views *than*
Girl golf wasn’t always the Little Pudgy Golfing Asians — you’ve had chicks on tour who were better known for their looks than their performance on the links for decades. Right now it’s Paige, ten years ago it was Natalie Gulbis; hell, back in the 80s it was Jan Stephenson.
Don’t forget Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
Jackson wrote in her order that the enjoined defendants “must not obstruct or interfere with his performance of his duties; they must not deny him the authority, benefits, or resources of his office; they must not recognize any Acting Special Counsel in his place; and they must not treat him in any way as if he has been removed, or recognize any other person as Special Counsel or as the head of the Office of Special Counsel, unless and until he is removed from office” in accordance with the statute delineating Dellinger’s post.
That seems reasonable.
That statute being…..?
I think there is a statute specifically written for independent counsels.
Who does this guy think he is, Elon?
https://archive.is/eXFfn
Play stupid games, etc.
“If Cissy [Mrs. Chandler] was well enough to be left alone, Chandler would go to the nearby El Toro bar to meet up with the reporter Neil Morgan and Morgan’s local friends; John Latimer, a crime novelist and screenwriter; Max Miller, also a screenwriter, and Theodor Geisel, author of the Doctor Seuss cartoon books. They would meet up in the early evening and often drink through until two in the morning.”
-RAYMOND CHANDLER: A BIOGRAPHY by Tom Hiney (1997).
Drinking buddies, Chandler and Dr. Seuss they were!
Grassroots
Vice President JD Vance was forced to move his family to an “undisclosed location” after hundreds of pro-Ukraine protesters swarmed the Vermont ski resort they were vacationing Saturday — just days after his public dust-up with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.
Vance and his family were greeted by hundreds of outraged protesters lining the snow-covered streets while visiting Sugarbush Resort in Waitsfield but were forced to cut their four-day trip short after seeing the intensity of the protests.
Protestors displayed signs that labeled Vance a “national disgrace,” accused him of being a “traitor” and encouraged the family to “go ski in Russia.”
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Vermonters were initially set to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal government.
“Some of us are scared about losing Social Security or Medicaid or parks or having measles epidemics or climate change,” protest organizer Ginny Sassaman of the Indivisible Calais group, told outlet VT Digger.
The rainbow coalition of activists even included members of the LGBTQ+ community.
“As a trans person and as a person of color, I’m extremely concerned about the new policies about trans people. I’m concerend about the ICE raids. I have friends who are trans. I have friends who are immigrants who’ve been reaching out to me and saying ‘we’re scared,’” organizer Katayoun Lam told VT Digger.
“What are you protesting?”
“What have you got?”
Perhaps there’d be more money in the kitty for your hobby horses if we hadn’t shoveled half a trillion dollars into Ukraine so that your political heroes and their benefactors in the MIC could build their 4th beach house, you retarded cunt.
There are so many monsters under the bed! It’s too scary to even check the closet.
He is extremely concerned.
How long has it been since the USSR fell? We have too many people that did not see it. I dont mean know about it, I mean SEE it, so here we are again.
Some of us are tired of our tax dollars being laundered through leftist NGOs so you can hop from one town to the next throwing your goddamn hissy fits.
Amen.
Traitor by the pieces of shit advocating for a foreign power and attempting to embroil the US further into an unnecessary war. Fuck all of them.
“ I have friends who are immigrants who’ve been reaching out to me and saying ‘we’re scared,’”
A reasonable response given that large parts of the left have spent the last 9 years terrifying people.
Conflating illegal aliens with immigrants has done wonders.
My wife is an immigrant. She’s not scared.
https://youtu.be/J-PYqUHfTMA
Mine was until she became a citizen. Her family came here and built a factory until it was burnt down in race riots in 1980.
She voted for Trump. Three times.
Interesting perspective.
I’m not sure how much I agree, but the author has a point or four.
It does match up quite well.
He’s just not getting it? Not back when Hillary was campaigning on replacing the ME wars with war in Russia? There is some kind of money laundering going on all of the time.
It has always been this way. There was lots of bitching about war profiteers stirring shit in every war that has ever been. War is always about the money.
+1 Daddy Warbucks
Didn’t Hillary argue that Trump was going to start a war with Russia?
Yes she did while saying out of the other side of her mouth that she was going to start a war with Russia. That was one of Trump’s talking points…no war with Russia which meant he was a Russian stooge. Or something.
[insert Mencken hobgoblin quote]
https://newatlas.com/materials/better-glass-ultrasound/
Self cleaning windshields.
Nice. Now do clear coat on paint. My car is totally covered with oak tree sap from this apartment complex’ parking lot. Would love a solution to that.
Cut down the oak trees?
Ppf? Ceramic coating?
MOVE, is what will solve it for now. 11 days until I move into Stately R.J. Manor.
“ When creating specialized glass, such as glass that is water-resistant (hydrophobic)”
Wait, ordinary glass isn’t water-resistant?
I assume that’s just poor wording and hydrophobic glass would act like permanent RainX.
Too bad we don’t know any experts in the field.
It is wettable, for one. Having it hydrophobic is a plus for a lot of applications. Think of the (not terribly durable) Rain X windshield chemicals.
This is particularly interesting since I’m using that same ultrasonication process to rapidly change refractive index of exotic glasses and speed up ion exchange in chemically strengthened glass.
No hate speech, please
More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since its owner, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced on Wednesday that he would radically overhaul the paper’s opinion pages to reflect libertarian priorities and to exclude opposing points of view.
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The number of cancellations comes from a person who asked for anonymity because of the fear of repercussions at the Post. The Washington Post Co. declined to comment on the figures, first reported here by NPR, citing its status as a privately held company. Nor did it comment on the criticism.
NPR: strictly fact based journalisming.
Promoting libertarian priorities would certainly constitute a radical overhaul. As for the exclusion of opposing points of view, I’d say that was long established policy.
Even so, there is broad consensus inside the Post that without Bezos’ decisions, the paper would be up hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers from where it was before the election. Instead, the numbers NPR has been able to obtain indicate a net loss of a couple hundred thousand subscribers.
You can take that right to the bank.
It’s entertaining watching the deep thinkers from Journalism Central whiplash back and forth between “Bezos is killing the business” and “What Bezos needs to do is just cover the business losses out of pocket so we can have our little sandbox to play in unmolested”.
our little sandbox
Exactly as their professors of journalism modeled.
Wednesday’s announcement alarmed senior news editors severely enough that Executive Editor Matt Murray assured them that morning that he had heard nothing to suggest that Bezos wanted to interfere with news coverage, which is separate from the opinion section. Murray sent a memo to the full newsroom to say they should continue to report “without fear or favor,” in the memorable journalistic aphorism.
Don’t worry, you’ll still be free to catalog and illuminate the multitudinous ways in which Trump is wrecking the Great Bureaucratic Experiment.
I suspect the “news” will become more and more opinionated in its coverage of the second Donald Hitler term.
From the “I once was lost but now am found” desk
“When the Cybertruck came out, I watched the live event that night, and my wife was sitting there going, ‘No. No. No,’” said Filipos, who lives in a suburb of Philadelphia and whose last name is being withheld for fear of online retribution. Despite his wife’s disapproval, Filipos loved the bulky trapezoidal truck. “I was truly geeking out on it,” he said.
Now things have changed. Filipos bought a Ford F-150 Lightning instead of the Cybertruck. And even though his other car, a Model 3 Performance Tesla, had just 30,000 miles on it, he traded it in for an Acura in February. Frustration had been building for Filipos over the last few months, but the turning point was when Musk did back-to-back Nazi-style salutes during an inauguration day celebration for Donald Trump in January.
“I didn’t want to be saddled with a vehicle that was associated with something so awful,” Filipos said. “When you own a vehicle like that, you are advertising for that company.”
Filipos is part of a growing movement of Tesla enthusiasts who are now turning their backs on the company – selling their cars, dropping their leases and getting rid of Tesla stock. Many say that, while they still love the cars, they can’t square the CEO’s politics and behavior with their own. Musk is synonymous with Tesla; his vehicles, the Cybertruck in particular, are his calling cards.
That stain will never wash away.
Filipos bought a Ford F-150 Lightning instead
Wait until he finds out about Henry Ford
It’s OK – anti-Semitism is tres chic again.
If he bought the F-150 Lightening then the joke’s on him.
Hahaha yes!
Plus it sucks as a truck.
OFFS!
And the Oscar for performative bullshit goes to….
LOLOLOLOL