US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

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?

That fire is some dodgy shit.

I hate pixelatedboat and wish he would go away with his dumb ass tweets

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.

lmao Wolff opens his book with a "enhhh some of this is bullshit" note and some of y'all are worried about joke tweets

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

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

― 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.

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

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

― 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, January 5, 2018 4:48 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he knows exactly how it will be used
he'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

otm

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

they don't make thorstein veblens in wisconsin anymore :(

all I can say is lordy I hope there are tapes

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.

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.

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.

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.

we need to arrest the messengers, not the traitors

i think the main point is that the twitter account that is a boat is really unfunny

Wonder if this new display name will help. Probably not.

— the gorilla channel thing is a joke (@pixelatedboat) January 5, 2018

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.

This’ll probably do better than Viceland https://www.pscp.tv/w/1DXxyEeArRExM

Maybe 'Did you hear?! The sky is green now, omg!'

we must hold michael wolff to a higher standard of honesty than we do comrade combover, or the KGB will win!

We should stop telling stories because some people will believe the wrong ones

now just wait till my detectives return from hawaii with proof the president was born in kenya

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."

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."

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?

I don't think the gorilla thing is a hoax

LBI consistently and thoroughly OTM here

get a grip people

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

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

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.

tbf Bloodsport is an awesome flick

shame on trump for turning off the modern film classic Michael

Lol @ caring if stuff in the book is true btw

It is hard not to conclude that something is happening at the @nytimes. pic.twitter.com/EKZMYZf1G5

— John Hodgman (@hodgman) January 5, 2018

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 view
not saying pixelated boat shouldn't have made the fake excerpt
but maybe not on the day of?
then again, who cares
this book will not convince any trump supporters of anything or change anyone's mind
it's pure fan fiction, whether it's true or not
it's a fun **distraction** (sorry to use that word)

lol i forgot about john hodgman
is he a republicanT now

Re unemployment - shit is 4.1% hardly any need for massive tax cut stimulus but again, nobody is acting rationally these days

John hodgeman is awesome and I’m not sure if you’re making a joke or serious with a confusing T added in there.

yea that part was a joke but i had not heard about john hodgman in a while and thought he might've done a ben stein/dennis miller

did anyone else order the book yesterday? amazon gave me a delivery estimate just now of the *end of the month*

Yeah, I ordered it from B&N online (because they take Paypal and Amazon doesn't) and it says "Expected Delivery January 15, 2018 EST" because the book itself is marked "Temporarily out of stock online...This item will be available on January 10, 2018". We'll see. I already grabbed the epub version from the Mediafire link upthread.

in fairness Bloodsport is a way better movie than Michael

it sure the fuck is

Yeah but he fast-forwards over some of the best scenes!!

hardly any need for massive tax cut stimulus but again, nobody is acting rationally these days

every democrat in the house and senate voted against that massive tax cut stimulus. this appears as a rational act to me.

I got my copy yo, courtesy of Hudson Booksellers. I regret it already. Xp