hahahaha
― gbx, Friday, 5 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
Slowly scrolling the page up, seeing the top of 'Gordon' and going "Hello....?"
― Mark G, Friday, 5 January 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
I NEVER SPOKE TO HIM FOR BOOK
(what accent are we supposed to read comrade combover's twitter bursts in?)
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/01/roy_moore_accusers_home_burns.html
uh
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
let's sic Uttam Dhillon on the criminals
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
I NEVER HIM. FOR BOOK.
― Buttery males (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
Some news from Australia
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/romantic-encounter-set-off-australias-role-in-triggering-donald-trump-investigation-20180105-h0e34r.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
I like the newspaper's URL, fits the mood of the news
― Moodles, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
smh indeed
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
Nicole Panter's take (or at least she posted it):
https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17796478_10154456356971485_3594357894815632604_n.jpg?oh=9e5ab395f98574707b315cdf45337034&oe=5AF36868
― nickn, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
after the republican senators subpoena the british spy for lying to them, are they going after jared kushner for lying on his security clearance forms? or is that a states' rights issue?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
That fire is some dodgy shit.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
I hate pixelatedboat and wish he would go away with his dumb ass tweets
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
like it's not actually funny in this day and age this gorilla hoax now is going to be accepted as fact and discreditng to the book by all those morons
Pay Steele to investigate Trump since you don't want him to get your own party's nomination. When he wins the presidency go oh shit and press charges to try and cover up the fact you originally funded the dossier.
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
lmao Wolff opens his book with a "enhhh some of this is bullshit" note and some of y'all are worried about joke tweets
― Simon H., Friday, 5 January 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
Spotted in the new Michael Wolff book about Trump: A Four Seasons breakfast featuring "Washington Post national reporter Mark Berman"(I have never had breakfast at the Four Seasons, never actually been there) (but now I wonder if I can use this to go eat there and expense it?) pic.twitter.com/bWgVAwrEfj— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 5, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 5, 2018 10:44 PM (fifty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Uhm hey, the fact that morons will accept this as fact is not something to blame pixelatedboat for? That's a rather absurd take. He's not to blame for the stupidity of others, no matter how funny or unfunny you find him.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
We need more Veblen jokes in the world:
Resharing an article I wrote a long time ago about an incident that made me a permanent nihilist about the internet, an article that is suddenly relevant again thanks to @pixelatedboat: https://t.co/qFQ2ncarw7— Kaleb Horton (@kalebhorton) January 5, 2018
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wd4bgz/i-accidentally-fooled-conservative-twitter-with-a-fake-lena-dunham-quote-106
https://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/189811/1.jpg
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, January 5, 2018 4:48 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he knows exactly how it will be usedhe's not to "blame" for the stupidity of others but he's not dumb and he should know this stuff will go exactly how it does
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
otm
― the late great, Friday, 5 January 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
That's a bizarre pov to me. Because the legion of morons has grown, because a lot of people are dumbasses, the people who (on this subject) aren't have to exercise inhibition?
This is how the terrorists win man. Jeez.
xp
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
they don't make thorstein veblens in wisconsin anymore :(
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
all I can say is lordy I hope there are tapes
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
This is why I coined the phrase “teachable moment”. People really need to be reminded not to readily share stuff because it confirms a narrative they like unfortunately. Online libs and leftists haven’t been great at this.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
I absolutely guarantee that the gorilla channel thing was not a deliberate hoax and that pixelatedboat did not expect anyone to believe it, any more than he expected people to believe his fake Hillary book excerpt where she executes a cattle rustler onstage in Oklahoma.
― JRN, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
I mean, the thing has Donald Trump sitting four inches from a TV, watching a fake TV channel that consists entirely of gorilla fights, and saying "the way you hit that other gorilla was good". I realize we're living in exceptionally stupid times, but it is far from obvious that people would believe that.
― JRN, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
A tweeter (I don't dare call him a comedian even, he's a jokeboy) makes fun of the dumbest president ever, and thousands of Americans fall for it. And to some the lesson here is: the jokester should've refrained? I have no words.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
we need to arrest the messengers, not the traitors
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
i think the main point is that the twitter account that is a boat is really unfunny
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
Wonder if this new display name will help. Probably not.— the gorilla channel thing is a joke (@pixelatedboat) January 5, 2018
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
The only people you're gonna ultimately punk with a fake book passage are those unwilling/unable to read an actual book. Like, I'm hard-pressed to think of many 'hoaxes' that could be more easily disproven.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
This’ll probably do better than Viceland https://www.pscp.tv/w/1DXxyEeArRExM
― maura, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
Maybe 'Did you hear?! The sky is green now, omg!'
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
we must hold michael wolff to a higher standard of honesty than we do comrade combover, or the KGB will win!
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
We should stop telling stories because some people will believe the wrong ones
― El Tomboto, Friday, 5 January 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
now just wait till my detectives return from hawaii with proof the president was born in kenya
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:48 (six years ago) link
we must hold michael wolff to a higher standard of honesty than we do comrade combover
The word "we" is functioning strangely in that sentence. Are you speaking of the same "we" each time?
I am more than happy to hold both of them to a high standard of honesty. Complaining of one and not the other when their fault is the same is generally held to be hypocrisy. Having committed myself to abhorring Trump's daily lies and distortions, I feel it is only right to abhor any similar lies or distortions disseminated in the name of journalism.
The next pertinent question becomes the degree of similarity between each liar, especially in terms of how much damage their lies do. Trump wins easily on that account, but that fact doesn't excuse lesser lies by less powerful people; it only assigns them their proper level of importance. See also: "when Bush lied, people died."
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
we are tired of liberals punching down. here's a changing story
July 2017 Lindsey Graham Threatens Trump: "Any Effort to Go After Mueller Could Be the Beginning of the End of the Trump Presidency"
October 2017: Lindsey Graham: There 'will be holy hell to pay' if Trump fires Mueller
December 10th: Plays golf with Trump
December 31st: Graham: "I've spent some time in the last couple of days, after a lot of fighting with the Department of Justice, to get the background on the dossier, and here's what I can tell your viewers: I'm very disturbed about what the Department of Justice did with this dossier, and we need a special counsel to look into that, because that's not in Mueller's charter. And what I saw, and what I've gathered in the last couple of days, bothers me a lot, and I'd like somebody outside DOJ to look into how this dossier was handled and what they did with it."
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Soooo what’s the surprise or newsworthy thing from changing Graham statements? The GOP as a whole has been a largely rightwing authoritarian group for like five decades.
Expecting Graham or McCain or whothefuckever to really break away seems to cling to some weird desperate ideological need you see from a lot of high-status Establishment media types that a Sensible Republican exists because they just can’t be all bad, can they?!1?
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
I don't think the gorilla thing is a hoax
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
LBI consistently and thoroughly OTM here
get a grip people
― Number None, Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
Media hype(twitter-fueled or otherwise) around the Wolff book reached such a fever pitch yesterday that the local paper ran a story solely on how to get ahold of a copy
http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2018/01/where_to_buy_the_explosive_new.html
So we got a media spectacle around a media spectacle based on a media spectacle administration
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
The gorilla story is not far off from this imo
While The Gorilla Channel is unfortunately fiction, here's a very real thing: a 1997 New Yorker excerpt where Trump turns off the movie Michael so he could put on Bloodsport, then makes Don Jr. or Eric fastforward so it was only fight scenes.https://t.co/fgI0SjIkxJ pic.twitter.com/gpBaj8BLfZ— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 5, 2018
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link
Graham is up in 2020 so I wonder if he got some polling that suggests he needs to enthrall himself to dear leader or get the boot? Either way it might be best to stop assuming these people act rationally.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
tbf Bloodsport is an awesome flick
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
shame on trump for turning off the modern film classic Michael
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
Lol @ caring if stuff in the book is true btw
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
It is hard not to conclude that something is happening at the @nytimes. pic.twitter.com/EKZMYZf1G5— John Hodgman (@hodgman) January 5, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
did anyone else order the book yesterday? amazon gave me a delivery estimate just now of the *end of the month*
also, LBI you severely underestimate the stupidity of the vast majority of americans and their tendency on every side to cotton to information that confirms their world viewnot saying pixelated boat shouldn't have made the fake excerptbut maybe not on the day of?then again, who caresthis book will not convince any trump supporters of anything or change anyone's mindit's pure fan fiction, whether it's true or notit's a fun **distraction** (sorry to use that word)
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link