MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Who does journalism serve?
By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/29/2021 - 5:41am |Seems we don't actually define the purpose, just the supposed process, no worries about how bad it performs as long as repeat the canon.
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Can anyone read this with a straigt face?
"The bankruptcy of this sort of coverage was exposed on Tuesday morning, when the Jan. 6 commission kicked off with somber, powerful, pointedly non-political testimony from four police officers attacked during the insurrection. Two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, even defied McCarthy’s boycott to ensure their party would be sanely represented."
[Jeff, if you're going to pop in with comments like this, it might help to translate what you perceive as humor for the rest of us. Of course in one sense it's all political now, but in the last police defending the capitil from lunatics wouldn't have been up for debate. Presumably there wasn't a lot of chortling for the 9/11 commission. - PP]
by Jeff (not verified) on Thu, 07/29/2021 - 9:22am
Dear Leader raises the tone again
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 3:48am
When Trump is broke, convicted of tax fraud, conspiracy, inciting insurrection, and other federal and state statutes, he should be locked up in a special MAGA annex at Attica prison with his faithful stooges, dupes and psychos, convicted Proud Boys, 3%ers and Oathkeelers.
We'll see then "who's the pussy"....
by NCD on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 11:58am
Congress Can Get Donald Trump’s Tax Returns, Justice Department Rules
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tax-returns-congress_n_610437c4e4b0d1b96e65b951
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 2:24pm
I just got to say you are probably one of the best available to know the psychology to get his goat the best!
I might have included ridiculing the idea that he thinks Proud Boys et. al. are not pussies, but you have made me realize that would not be the best approach; just go with his meme is the lesson!
edit to add typo correction
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 6:36pm
Thanks. Trump would be scared sh##less to be locked up with those guys, and rightly so, he used them and threw them away. The chickenshit coward never showed up on the 'historic day', watched gleefully on TV from a safe distance.
When a former president is sent to prison, does he still get Secret Servive protection? Just wondering...
by NCD on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 8:21pm
I left it up to the reader to determine for themselves.
If you can't see what is fairly obvious let me assist you:
"Two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, even defied McCarthy’s boycott to ensure their party would be sanely represented."
"....when the Jan. 6 commission kicked off with somber, powerful, pointedly non-political testimony from four police officers "
One of the four police officers is HIGHLY political and is all over twitter.
by Jeff (not verified) on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 8:16am
Try clarifying, Jeff - what makes a cop who defended the capitol "political"? Which one was it? Is the fact that he's pissed off because a bunch of dumbass primitives tried to obstruct the vote count in an extremely stupid and to him life-threatening way "political", or just common sense? Is the fact that US government didn't call in help for the cops when they needed it? Do you ever back up your opinions with reasonable facts? Or you just file in with what opinion of the day followers-on like McConnell, McCarthy, Gaetz et al push to game the system beyond reason?
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 3:49pm
Not very curious are you?
You see if I tell you then you can simply dismiss the source and/or the information for whatever reason you wish. Notice the qualifier "reasonable" on "facts". What's a "reasonable fact"? Is that different from an "unreasonable fact"?
If you find it for yourself then maybe, just maybe, you might believe what you read. There were were what, 4 officers who testified?. Surely it's not that hard to find out which ones are overtly partisan and political.
And of course nowthat you censor my posts that's another way to dismiss any argument you choose.
by Jeff (not verified) on Tue, 08/03/2021 - 7:20am
You could create a user profile rather than post unverified, but you're lazy as fuck and would rather others do your scheming conspiracy bullshit for you. I'm curious why such a troll keeps coming back, since this is extremely boring and nobody here buys your nonsense.
4th Capitol cop committed suicide yesterday - just being "political"?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/03/2021 - 10:09am
This him, Jeff? Your"smoking gun"?
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/07/28/michael-fanone-laura-ing...
So what do you get out of showing up here with half-assed disengaged comments and innuendo? Is this enough for you to feel smug and self-justified, or is there a more subtle reason I'm missing?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/03/2021 - 7:57pm
You had a one in four chance and got it wrong.
by Jeff (not verified) on Wed, 08/04/2021 - 11:01am
So fuck off already.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/04/2021 - 3:44pm
More police political posturing i guess
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/03/2021 - 8:49pm
More Fanone smearing - political?
https://twitter.com/i/events/1422639731498569730?s=20
Right wing propaganda machine cranks it up?
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/04/2021 - 2:13am
um the voting majority of this country have already decided about Trump, and simply aren't interested in a tiny minority of readers ensnared in the beliefs of a cult with new conspiracies clearly meant to distract in a "where's the outrage? insincere bullshitty type of way. Not unrelated: bet a lot of the same people are very concerned about the GOP right now.
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 4:05pm
— the Senator from Arizona
by NCD on Fri, 07/30/2021 - 5:06pm
We've always been at war with East Cheneyasia.
Those Pelosi Pussies are faking heart attacks now, creating political theater. Whatever happened to real Lawn & Order, real GOP cops? Sheriff's back in town...
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/31/2021 - 10:43am
item on Clarke interesting! Fox seems to have a limit to to how wack you can be? I guess because if you are 100% wack you you can't follow narrative instructions and talking points?
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/01/2021 - 5:25am
Fox's limit is getting arrested - like Clarke with Bannon's illegal campaign donations bit, of Fox's opening itself up for lawsuits tied to asserting election fraud.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/01/2021 - 6:31am
Volunteers who make democracy work (while assholes are hamming it up for the camera, or storming the Capitol to try - rather childishly unicorn magical thinking if it weren't for the real injuries - to disrupt the core process of our elections - as if making people wait hours in line to vote or screwing with our postal service to lose mail-in ballots wasn't outragouea enough. But enjoy your smuggling up with the wingnuts, Jeff - seems you found your clan.
https://digbysblog.net/2021/07/31/how-it-really-works/
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/31/2021 - 1:14pm
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/31/2021 - 4:03pm
Jeff chuckling over police "politics" - ignoring the GOP ordering & encouraging its political spawn on to the Capitol.
Suffers from "beam in his eye vs mote in opponent's" syndrome
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/31/2021 - 7:02pm
Politics of botched recounts
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/31/2021 - 9:22pm
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by artappraiser on Fri, 08/06/2021 - 11:31pm