Well, by Glenn's own definition, it is indeed a coup. Glad we've settled that.
lol
#actually the real coup was reporting on his ties to Russia
There are literally just too many self-owns to post. Glem at least is hyper-careful to keep his craziest opinions out of text (most of the time), Michael just is a relative encyclopedia of self-owns
I mean...come on.
There are literally just too many to post. I'm talking 50+. I'll just end with this one, given the news that he 'ordered his directed governmental subordinates to assist them'.
Ok, last one for real. There was no limit to the amount of countervailing data Trump-lovers like @mtracey & Glem would ignore to defend him. Can't wait to hear the stupidity they barf out this time.
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So the NYT politics guys did a Reddit AMA several days ago. This was the top upvoted post. And then the extremely predictable (point proving) response.
And the predictably smug/condescending follow-up
Needless to say, they were heavily down-voted and deluged with (acurate) negative comments like these
#factcheck: Hamas is not keeping the hostages to rape them, they are just raping the hostages they are keeping for unrelated other reasons.
What....is even going on anymore?
I just don't understand why certain people feel the need to downplay Hamas' awfulness. It's not that hard to say that Hamas is an evil terrorist group, while also believing that innocent people do not deserve to die because of it.
Again, contra the lame "oh so you blindly trust the US govt" line from the above uhh journalists, the actual things to weigh:
Side 1- Israeli govt, US govt, every open-source analyst on this site & most importantly, the fact that the hospital was not destroyed
Side 2- Hamas' word
So yeah, I guess it's a real he-said, she-said if you just ignore everything but the competing government claims & also only pretend that the USG/Israel's 'lies' matter and not the fact that the initial claims by Hamas of the hospital being destroyed & 500-1000 dead, were a lie.
A lot of people I respect really, really showed their asses. And if they want to be able to maintain any sort of 'high ground' when it comes to journalistic integrity, really should at least make a basic statement that they got out over their skis.
And of course a lot of people who I don't really respect, but I don't expect them to ever admit they were wrong. Because that's just not what people do #onhere.
I'm not slightly 'gloating'. This entire site & almost all of the media falsely/uncritically ran with a characterization that relied solely on Hamas' word and created a major international incident. Sorry, if you don't think that deserves to be called out.
Just did a focus group with swing voters. One lady was drinking Campbell's clam chowder out of her purse thru a straw. One man asked, "Wait is Biden the Republican or Democrat?" Another inquired who the "sexy black broad" next to him was. Most were interested in voting 3rd party.
"Swing" voters are the dumbest people on earth. There is no need to treat them as virtuous. I get that not everyone follows politics like we do, but the gulfs b/w the 2 parties (and party leaders) have never been greater and if you can't figure them out, you are very, very dumb.
As far as not having seen/heard any important speeches front...the media just doesn't cover anything of substance that Biden says/does. Not with any sort of proportion to the actual importance. Now if he stumbles over some words (or a few stairs), that's a different story.