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

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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.

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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

thought he might've done a ben stein/dennis miller

Stein worked for Nixon and Ford BTW.

surely we've seen 'the good parts' of that book already

i believe Sotosyn watched Bloodsport the same way

Also pixelated boat is great: Tiny train world, milkshake duck and now the gorilla channel, all within one year? Privileged 2 be living in this time

I expect Sotosyn to tell me which parts of Bloodsport I should miss.

"Don't let him piss off the press, don't let him piss off the Republican Party, don't threaten congressmen because they will fuck you if you do, and most of all don't let him piss off the intel community," said one national Republican figure to Kushner. "If you fuck with the intel community they will figure out a way to get back at you and you'll have two or three years of a Russia investigation, and every day something else will leak out."

#FireAndFury is is so obviously sleazy, questionably reported gossip by a millionaire journalist so un-self-consciously dodgy he can boast its filled w/ lies in the intro. And 2 whole days for delivery seemed way too long so I downloaded it on Kindle. pic.twitter.com/VLmCqiWqxC

— Matt Harvey (@mattharveyt) January 5, 2018

go work on your fastball movement, matt

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?

― flappy bird, Saturday, January 6, 2018 12:33 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I *underestimate* the stupidity of Americans?! That's a new one... If anything I overestimate it probably. There's just so much stupidity. I'm aware of how stupid swathes of Americans are. More than I wished for tbh, as stupid Americans are p much unavoidable.

That still doesn't mean pixelatedboat can't make a rather clever joke that goes on to prove those swathes fall for it and believe it to be true. That's what makes it a good joke.

And you, too, are now saying he could make the joke, some day, but *not on the day of*? He should've waited a day? A week? A year? What is this nonsense? Guy makes a joke, people fall for it, but you reprimand him for making the joke, instead of reprimanding the dumb ppl falling for it. He didn't deny the holocaust, it wasn't even ~edgy~. He made a dumb joke and ppl fell for it. I thought the dumb people falling for it said a lot about America(ns) today - which alone makes the joke worth the while - but it seems to say even more about how people opposed to Trump, people on here considered not dumb, are bothered by it, and think twitter person pixelatedboat should not have made the joke because dumb people will believe it.

"Not on the day of" smdh. Good luck USA...

boat recognise boat

ehh i don't know what point i was trying to make. "accommodate the stupidity"? nvm...