i saw it in real time because i have been punishing myself by watching these things and i just
― forensic plumber (harbl), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
the lovely reporter you are thinking of is chanel rion xp
― treeship., Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
i think her questions are planted
this is one of her questions from last week:
“Is it alarming that major media players, just to oppose you, are siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels and they work right here out of the White House with direct access to you and your team?”“It amazes me when I read the things that I read,” Trump replied with a grin, before going on a tirade about all the media outlets he feels have been critical of him.
“It amazes me when I read the things that I read,” Trump replied with a grin, before going on a tirade about all the media outlets he feels have been critical of him.
― treeship., Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:55 (four years ago) link
"questions"
Mr. President, some people are saying you're the greatest president in a century. Others are saying you're the greatest of all time. So, which is it?
― no one ever is to blave (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
I almost posted about that abortion question a few days ago--it was so bizarre, it was like "Did I really just see that?" She's also the one that asked if Chinese food was a racist term.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
Shit, that wasn't even a softball, she just handed the ball to him and let him toss it to himself
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
you could say these are t-ball questions
― forensic plumber (harbl), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
wow, i noticed one of her awful questions the other day and wondered what her deal is. this is just sad, even by missouri standards:
Chanel Rion might be an accomplished illustrator and Harvard graduate, but her husband-to-be is adamant she be home before six to prepare his dinner. Rion is the fiancee of Missouri outsider senatorial candidate Courtland Sykes. Sykes, a Republican in the mould of Donald Trump, released a bizarre statement on January 23. The press release said, in part, “I want to come home to a home cooked dinner every night at six. One that she fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives – think Norman Rockwell here and Gloria Steinem be damned.”The statement began with Sykes saying that he favors women’s rights because his fiancee “has given him orders to” but adds “obedience comes with a small price that she loves to pay anyway.”Sykes is vying to become the Republican nominee to face Democrat Claire McCaskill in November 2018’s U.S. Senate race. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a political science lecturer at St. Louis Community College, described Sykes’ campaign as “Trump-inspired populism on steroids.”
The statement began with Sykes saying that he favors women’s rights because his fiancee “has given him orders to” but adds “obedience comes with a small price that she loves to pay anyway.”
Sykes is vying to become the Republican nominee to face Democrat Claire McCaskill in November 2018’s U.S. Senate race. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a political science lecturer at St. Louis Community College, described Sykes’ campaign as “Trump-inspired populism on steroids.”
i'm sorry that i'm linking to heavy.com
https://heavy.com/news/2018/01/courtland-sykes-fiancee-chanel-rion/
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
Courtland and Chanel Show going to be lit
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
Rion writes on her website that she and her family fled the U.S. in 1996 after President Bill Clinton won re-election. The bio says that, “Clinton was the last straw, so dad picked up stakes and moved us out of the country. I think he wanted us to see what a debauched idea socialism was and that socialism was what the Clintons stood for. He wanted us to see what socialism did in the real world—how it destroyed people and human happiness in practice.”
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― treeship., Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
honestly, i don't believe that quote from her husband -- that she needs to cook dinner by six every night -- and i also don't believe her parents went to south korea to flee the clinton.
i think that republicans are liars and self-mythologizers.
― treeship., Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
So........again, I don't want to yuck anybody's kink here but can we pleeeeeeeease acknowledge the BDSM roleplay in the room. Except for the incesty bit, we can yuck that.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
follow me, my children. i will take you to my worst nightmare, so that you can understand the real world is going to be that bad someday.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
xp sure, they might roleplay the honeymooners-style male tyranny. but it's fantasy, not reality. she is an ambitious washington media person.
― treeship., Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
I perfectly recall how Bill Clinton's ended "welfare as we knew it", just so he could destroy people and their happiness with heaps and heaps of socialism.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
One who will never break kayfabe in front of the rubes, though.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
Ms. Rion went to Harvard. She is smart, understands precisely what her career path in the 'news' media entails, knows what her talents are, what audience she plays to, and how to cast herself in the necessary role. There is no naivety there. She will make good money.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
she's definitely a plant, the first time I saw her she was asking something about since the term "Chinese food" isn't racist why is the liberal media saying that "Chinese virus" is racist
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
Forget it Dan. It's Tiger King Town.
― Yerac, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link
"There exists no proof that Rion actually attended Harvard College, much less graduated from it."
― symsymsym, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:12 (four years ago) link
I trust everyone filed their census.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:26 (four years ago) link
welp. it’s finally come to this. i finally accidentally read a Haberman tweet so egregious I had to share it.
Listening to the WH briefings over the last two days, the portrait of how long the measures to stop the spread will last is growing starker, and longer. With so much focus on NY/NJ, folks lose sight of what happens if it rolls through the rest of the country.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 1, 2020
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Marvel%27s_What_If...%3F_logo.png
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
guilty lol
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
Imagine if there was a world beyond the asshole where my head is lodged, wow
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
there is a mountain above the mountain
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:43 (four years ago) link
Then there is
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
You must forgive Maggie. She was more than half in the bag when she wrote that.
Uh, you say she wasn't two sheets to the wind? Sober, or mostly?
WTF, Haberman, what hole have you been hiding in? Ain't no ifs ands or buts involved. This is going to roll through every city, town, village and hamlet in the US and the whole freaking world. Damn, girl, u out of your mind?
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:48 (four years ago) link
You know, it occurs to me that I've never seen a picture of Haberman. Does she slather on the full-bore Barnum & Bailey grease paint or is she one of those more minimalist commedia dell'arte clowns?
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:50 (four years ago) link
whoops bye chanel https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/oan-white-house-correspondents-coronavirus-160598
― forensic plumber (harbl), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:51 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure what was egregious about that tweet
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
she said "if" instead of "when"
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
ok
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 April 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
From harbl's linked story:
a representative for the WHCA who asked her to leave because she wasn’t in the rotation to cover that evening’s briefing. Rion refused, saying she was there “as a guest of Stephanie Grisham,” the White House press secretary, according to the Times.
things that make you go 'hmmmm'
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 April 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
WITCH HUNT!!!!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 2 April 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
with how much focus?
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Thursday, 2 April 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
ok not much, sorry
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 April 2020 06:16 (four years ago) link
I caught this part of this at the briefing yesterday, but I was doing something else and missed the context. That's terrible (the death threats, I mean, not the security detail).
http://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/anthony-fauci-security-detail/index.html
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
(Redundant "this"...every post I put up lately has a typo or three.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link
she said "if" instead of "when"― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkok― Dan S, Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Dan S, Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
also it's buying into the annoying narrative that this doesn't really matter if it's only new york and new jersey. we're not part of the real america.
― treeship., Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
Good morning!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
she might not realize she's reproducing this bias, but that's the whole thing. it's why fox news country is less worried about the virus.
― treeship., Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
The hell is this tweet supposed to mean?
enrollment periods seem like a bad idea propping up another bad idea lol https://t.co/0YPubOFL9f— Elizabeth Bruenig (@ebruenig) March 31, 2020
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
that there should just be open enrollment on the healthcare exchanges all the time. or better yet, a national health service providing equitable care for everyone.
― treeship., Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
still a bad tweet. the point right now is that republicans won't even do the bare minimum of helping people in a crisis -- people they were elected to represent
― treeship., Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
"Should be," yes. Never gonna happen.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
if it's only new york and new jersey. we're not part of the real america.
I guess that takes care of that commie Springsteen
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
I consider myself pretty far left and it’s discouraging to see so many of the thought leaders out here consistently fail to learn any lessons about coalition building.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 2 April 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link