Comments on: BLOODBATH!!: the leftist MSM gives a classic course in how to lie with truncated quotes

By: Brian E

Brian E — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:27:07 +0000

Bauxite– conservatives are in a no-win situation with the press. As you say, they’ll twist every word, and I think Trump subscribes to the theory there is no bad press, in the sense that bad press is better than no press.
We can debate whether that’s true or not, but Trump did win the Presidency in 2016 spending half of what Hillary spent and less than any candidate in the modern era.
So the best strategy is to point out in very detailed ways how biased/unfair/twisted the media is. We need to take every example they present to show how totally corrupt they are and expose them to the small minority of persuadable voters out there.
Is Trump playing them? As you say, he is a very smart guy. But playing the nice guy won’t work either. In the end, it doesn’t matter. It’s the hand we’ve been dealt in these very coarse times.
I was at the barbershop a few days ago, noticed a verbal fight going on in some tv show in the background and commented that may explain why our society has become so combative– it’s written into everything we consume. I suggested it would be better if everyone used their real names online, since we would be less likely to insult each other. I pointed out we say things we wouldn’t say if we were talking face to face. A 20-year old waiting for his turn, listening to the conversation retorted, “they would if they had the balls.” He thought that was clever. It may unfortunately be true.
Yesterday, I noticed a couple of writers immediately picked up on the kerfuffle and started using bloodbath– pointing out sarcastically they were using it in the “metaphorical” sense. It would be funny if for the next few weeks the ether was filled with mentions of bloodbaths– in the metaphorical sense, of course.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:39:26 +0000

Pardon me for interrupting this bad kabu
ki

They were invited into the capital, waterbuffalo man was guided around by the police of course gonell and company lied about their injuries they made up people they didnt even meet the one capitol policeman who was stabbed has become a cipher like the victims of j20 riots

By: om

om — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:31:06 +0000

CC lists some facts. Hasn't mentioned any facts about Liz Cheney and the Jan 6 committee. Crickets. CC mostly deals in his opinions, but those aren't the same things as facts.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:18:02 +0000

As dangerous as a habanero?

By: F

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:14:52 +0000

Regarding eating snake: I’ve eaten rattler a few times. First point: dispose of the head in such a way you cannot inadvertently scratch yourself on the fangs — the venom remains dangerous.

Next point: they’re easier to skin than a fish is to scale: cut ’round the neck and peel off the skin like pulling your finger out of a glove. BUT: there’s not much meat on a snake. We cut them in pieces about 3″ long, roll in flour and fry in hot oil. Taste like chicken? Yeah — fried chicken. I’d rather eat real chicken.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:08:23 +0000

For a person who claims that the Democrats and the Media are “awful”, you seem to give them a lot of credit for reporting the so-called “truth”…
(IOW, you seem to wish an awful lot to believe them….)

Don’t you find that a bit, um, strange?…

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:04:39 +0000

No this shambling heap is carving up this country while you fret for which party the chinese the russians the iranians how does that not get through your thick skull

These panem cops murdered people after they insighted a riot by recklessly firing tear gas in to the crowd then they lied about it and suppressed the evidence they drove five men to suicide because of these lies

The blood of 1200 men women and children are the fruit of this bloody fraud the 13 at abbey gate the 150,000 in the ukraine

By: Bauxite

Bauxite — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:44:42 +0000

Brian E – Trump’s supporters rioted at the Capitol in 2020. They breached the Capitol and interrupted a session of Congress that was in the process of certififying Trump’s loss in 2020 and attempted to stop that certification. That was a Trump supporter in a bearskin occupying the presider’s chair. Those were Trump supporters going through Congressional offices. Multiple people died during the riot.

Those are facts. They remain facts regardless of how many feds were in the crowd. They remain facts even though the only people who died were Trump supporters. They remain facts even though Trump tried to get additional security at the capitol and was rebuffed. They remain facts even though the behavior of the capitol police was odd, to say the least. They remain facts even though the RNC and DNC pipe bombings are as fishy as the day is long. Frankly, they remain facts even if the Feds set up the whole thing to discredit Trump, which I actually think is likely. Trump and his supporters took the bait.

Frankly, J6 was a perfect demonstration of the weakness of a troll. I don’t believe for a minute that Trump wanted his supporters to storm the capital, but he walked right into the trap that had been laid for him and his supporters. He’ll do it again. He’s learned nothing. This “bloodbath” episode demonstrates that clearly.

By: Bauxite

Bauxite — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:36:24 +0000

neo – They wil absolutely twist every word Trump says, including the “and” and the “but,” as you say. I agree. I’m not exonerating or defending the media in any way. They’re awful.

But I remain flabbergasted that so many Trump supporters can’t recognize what the man is doing. Either Trump is a complete idiot, or these are deliberate provocations. And Trump is not an idiot. (It doesn’t take a media savant to figure out what is going to happen if Trump, after 2020, uses the word “bloodbath” to describe what will happen if he loses again.)

Call him a troll, an edgelord, or whatever, but baiting the left and the media into this kind of reaction is exactly what Trump does and exactly what he is about. It’s the Trumpian version of the Obama “stray voltage” theory. It serves him well, at least among Republicans. The entire focus of GOP partisans becomes fixated on the awfulness of the media instead of Trump’s own faults. We’ll see if it plays as well outside of the GOP base. So far, not so good, but anything is possible.

We’re going to be doing this destructive nonsense once or twice a week between now and November, and then maybe for four years after that. Yipee. And what a disaster for the country.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:48:45 +0000

@ huxley > “I find it difficult to imagine what current corps are doing with hundrends and thousands of tech folks.”

It takes lots of people to censor the entire internet.