The Biden Agenda for Green Energy as explained by Tucker Carlson. Even if you don't like Tucker Carlson, please watch and seriously consider what he says in the video below (about 13 minutes):
Imagine my surprise when I found out the actor that plays Tucker Carlson on the Tucker Carlson Show is actually named Tucker Carlson. As expected, they're selling his "confused Cro-Magnon" facial expression on a coffee mug. Although I'm not a fan of the "what if an idiot got a job as a political analyst on a cable news channel" premise you have to appreciate the guy's improv skills and ability to do it five nights a week. It's very similar to the old guy heckler puppets in the mezzazine seats on the Muppet Show or the robot puppets of Mystery Science Theater 3000 making fun of schlock sci-fi movies from the 1950s and 1960s. It's an overdone genre of spoof comedy, but aesthetically well done in its production values and meticulous rephrasing of Kremlin press releases. Carlson's "confused Cro-Magnon" facial expressions are the real draw here, and it works as well with the sound off as it does on a coffee mug.
Unfortunately, the link to this episode doesn't work even on his host website, so I wasn't able to watch for the dopey face changes and all over the map pre-pubescent screechy pitch changes in his diction and intonations. The guy is good at it. Not as good as Christopher Lloyd on Taxi, but get the two together and Carlson could probably pull off Marty McFly in a new sequel of the Back to the Future movie franchise before Lloyd gets too old.
When I go to the Tucker site, I get the identical "black screen" that appears in this post.... so I'm assuming it's the player embed that is being blocked by my firewall.
Well informed ad hominem, actually. It's a pretty safe bet Tucker Carlson doesn't actually have any revelations about the "actual Biden agenda" than you and your reliance upon his feedback loop does.
Give me a link that works. You already know I'm not afraid of hurting idiot's feelings.
And I want 12 minutes and 45 seconds of my life back.
As predicted, Tucker Carlson... * Didn't mention that oil companies lost Billions with a B dollars in profits during the Covid lockdowns and decreased demand; * Didn't mention that oil companies have not restored production levels back to pre-Covid lockdown levels despite post-Covid restoration and increase of demand and consumption; * Didn't mention that oil companies are currently reaping new record high levels of profits; * Didn't mention that oil companies are keeping supplies choked and gas prices high to reward their shareholders; * Didn't mention that oil companies have no intention whatsoever of reinvesting their capital in new production that would drive their artificially increased gasoline prices down; * and didn't mention that oil companies are sitting on several thousands of dry land leases on proven reserves that would return America to energy independence in oil and gas, THAT BIDEN GAVE THEM TO DO SO.
So, nothing new. The Tucker Carlson fan club is strictly imbeciles only.
Another thing Tuckles the Clown didn't mention is that oil companies are using their unprecedented profit levels to incentivize stock buy backs, so they will have a smaller pool of shareholders to pay dividends to going forward.
TC I do not like Tucker Carlson. I believe his people write his editorials or whatever they call them. I do not consider him that bright. However, he or whoever writes for him had made some good points and yes, they certainly have missed many. I am sick of the news media and right now they are all we have because all us' bloggers do is discuss what we have read from the peanut gallery.
......because all us' bloggers do is discuss what we have read from the peanut gallery.
I have a bit of the opposite perspective. I don't watch the evening cable news sock puppets....because my time is precious, I can get the video clips or transcripts [or even just gist] from blogs and policy-focused sites.
But what blogs can also offer...depending on the site of course...is alternative analysis and lived experiences from subject matter experts in a variety of fields.
After all, for the most part, Bloggers aren't just that....they have day jobs, professions, interests and hobbies that are germane to the issues of the day.
I categorize the cable news chattering class as mostly irrelevant noise....useful for generating conversation, but not much more intellectually stimulating than a circus act.
Not having the morbid hatred for the United States of America that was a prerequisite of considering voting for Trump, I've mostly been self-sidelined from political blogging, even more so post-Trump. The vehement opposition to any attempts at reasonable discourse is palpable. Trump turned the GOP into poop-flinging monkeys. America already had a party that did that. Where do you think he imported that from?
To mangle a Ronald Reagan quote, I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me, went to LaLa Land, and developed a raucous meth addiction. I was done when the party platform was "set your principles aside and vote for Romney anyway." Comrade Trump was the most left-wing Republican President in my lifetime, and probably all of yours as well. I'm not a shill. Bullshit is still bullshit no matter which team is spouting it. Now it's a contest from both partisan bullshit factories. I rarely even watch the news anymore, so when I do, it's worse than smelling an overflowing cat box. There's even trenchant commentary shows *about* other trenchant commentary shows. Take the Mucker Carlson's and Rachel Madcows and all of their clones off the "news" networks and is there really any news being broadcast? I don't need to smell the cork of a bottle of jenkum. There is no new and improved way to package excrement. Stop trying. Dialectical materialism does not, in fact, turn turds into candy bars at anyone's insistence.
Does Biden have some arcane super secret and furtively hidden energy agenda that only Tucker Carlson's teleprompter writers in the Kremlin know about? No, he doesn't. In the really real world, oil companies aren't hiking gas prices in an effort to sell Teslas.
In high school I worked the petition circuit in 1987-1988 to get the Libertarian Party access to the ballot here in Missouri, so I was kinda there from the start. I haven't voted for a Republican for President since 2008, or any Republican at all since 2018. I have never voted for a Democrat in my life, and write my name in when they run unopposed. So, my mix of voting Republican and Libertarian ratios have changed to nearly pure Libertarian.
TC, How do you intend to provide electricity to charge all those battery vehicle. For the oil companies to make huge profits is a sign of the times. The imbecile N Chief has said he will end oil companies even though the country has decades of supply if allowed to produce it. Good corporate leadership dictates increasing profits to distribute to shareholders of increase stock price. P&G did that when toilet paper was in short supply so I assume they are horrible as well. We went from energy independence to buying from our enemies in a short few months. We now have the incompetent leadership of biden and swift boat telling us green is great just buy an electric car. You will be able to see most videos if you upgrade from dial up to broadband if it is available in your cave.
Oil company profits were lower under the Covid lockdowns, and even lower when the cost of a barrel of oil was a negative number (April 2020, in the last year of the Trump catastrophe). There was so much oil on the market that demand crashed and tanker ships were used for extra storage - nobody wanted to buy it because they didn't have anywhere to put it. Either Trump was bad for the oil business (worse than Biden has been), or Covid was.
Layla, If Biden were not POTUS, I'd feel sorry for him and his mental decline.
BTW, why does his wife let this continue?
As you know, I protected Mr. AOW, and he was pronounced compos mentis (1.5 years post-stroke). And he passed all the mental health screenings every year, too!
Mr. AOW himself often declared that he shouldn't be POTUS because, post-stroke, he wasn't as sharp as he used to be. He voluntarily gave up driving -- although he had recently passed the vision test; he knew that his reaction times were down.
Trump lost, badly, in a landslide, to a senile old man.
Biden doesn't have me duped. I didn't vote for him either. If you look at the margins in states where Trump lost, you'll find Libertarians that could have saved his election chances by donning gasmasks and voting Republican, but chose not to. I suspect the next few presidential elections will be swung similarly, until one party or the other makes libertarians feel welcome again.
How bad of a President do you have to be to drive unemployment up to 30%, pay the unemployed more than they ever made while working, cause a labor shortage in just about every industry, sell out every ally in the war on terrorism, suck up to every thug dictator in the world, ignore crumbling infrastructure in America, forbid property owners from evicting non-paying renters, turn America's streets in to homeless camps and opioid dens, spend billions of dollars out of thin air on a vaccine everyone must take and no one can sue for side effects...
...and lose to a Democrat with a speech impediment?
I remember how you did protect Mr. AOW, and I also recall how aware he was of his limitations. The difference is that Mr. AOW was an HONEST man, Biden is a FOOLISH man.
I too would feel sorry for him if he were not POTUS, despite the Hunter laptop issue and that whole mess.
His wife is a B***H! Any woman that would allow her husband in that state of mind to hold any position high or low that was beyond his mental capacity must not be compos mentis!
Layla, I take my marriage vows seriously. Specifically, I took the oath to "love, honor, and cherish" (I had "obey" removed because I couldn't swear to that -- anyone who knows me understands why -- LOL) and, of course, "in sickness and in health." It is a spouse's sworn duty to protect the partner "in sickness," which includes mental issues of any type.
Layla Elizabeth, LOL! But I'm not surprised. We are redheads.
When I was a teenager, I heard my older cousin swear to "obey." Mistake! Her mother-in-law ran all over her! And my cousin sat meekly by. Sheesh.
Those who attended my weddings all whispered, then chuckled and nodded their heads when they noticed that "obey" was omitted. I don't obey my husband, neither do I expect my husband to obey me.
Do you have the math on that? Very little of Biden's energy policy survived contact with Congress, and he's releasing around a million barrels of oil a day from the Strategic National Reserve to drive prices down. Oil companies are still choking production despite post-Covid lockdown and Ukraine eat increases in demand. The Keystone pipeline didn't exist when prices were lower either.
TC we can all do our own math it does not take a rocket scientist to realize Biden is destroying our nation and the left is allowing it. I get your angst for Tucker Carlson (TC) but poking fun at him does no good for our conversation here as he is just the messenger of what is really going on in the Biden Administration. Get a grip. We have to look at Biden and Harris who are bigger jokes than Tucker Carlson will ever be. At least he is not letting illegals flood in - causing gas prices to rise - causing a food chain shortage. Say what you want about Tucker Carlson he is only a quarter the idiot Biden and Harris are. Sure, he is good for fodder but the point in is listen to the message instead of shooting the messenger. I get tired of it after awhile.
Presuming you're not a rocket scientist, surely you understand Tucker Carlson's defense in court that he's not a journalist but rather an entertainer. So, at his own word (and that of his lawyers), he's at best not a messenger of what is really going on, in the Biden Administration or elsewhere outside his offscreen peyote usage. (Carlson has prefaced explanations of things on his show before with "For those of you who don't use peyote...") We're not supposed to take Tucker Carlson seriously. He went to court to emphasize that.
So, firm grip gotten, how does Biden "own at least half the gas price increases since he took office?" It's a fair question.
Not defending Biden, whom I consider a disaster, but stopping Keystone did not reduce oil supply. Oil is presently being delivered by rail at higher cost and risk. Pipeline was for the purpose of greater safety and reduced cost, not to increase volume.
It's an extremely fair question. I haven't failed to note that a recent narrative in some demographics says that we shouldn't listen to the 'experts'.....but apparently we should put stock in the chatterings of cable news sock puppets.....
We should drill in Keystone and not stop and help the American people. I am sick of us selling away our stocks of all things to the Russians and Chinese for this government's god "money."
@CI When did the US have all these oil issues? Fair question. But in case you failed to notice it was when Obama was in office and now that dimwit people voted for because they hated Trump? Well, those people need to get us out of this mess or get out of this country.
The Keystone pipeline would have delivered *Canadian oil* to *Chinese tankers,* period, full stop. The only thing American about it would have been the corn and wheat fields it would have leaked into. It would have piped that oil to refineries and ports on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico that already have a crapton of pipelines running to them, so even if that Canadian oil wasn't bought up by China before it was even pumped out of the ground, it's destination to terminals on the Gulf Coast still wouldn't address or alleviate distribution and logistics issues we deal with by rail and truck. The Keystone Pipeline "issue" is alot of people not knowing a damned thing about the subject, but talking about it anyway. The fact remains that increased demand raises prices - Econ 101 - and you mitigate that by increasing supply, which oil companies choked off for the Covid shutdowns and lockdowns, and kept it there. No oil company execs are lobbying for change in Washington DC (why would they when their shareholders are happy?) and they're not letting us party on their yachts and leer jets. Why shill for them?
Beamish, the defense you cite that Tucker Carlson used, was also used by Rachel maddow on MSNBC, and many other opinion commentators. It is a common legal defense.
Please, if you must snort left wing talking points, do us all a favor and don't blow your nose here.
The Keystone Pipeline cancellation is the usual sword drawn out of rectal sheaths when these discussions come up. I didn't say you pulled "Biden owns at least half of the gas price increases since he took office" out of your ass either. So, what are you pulling out of your ass?
TC: Keep your mind off my ass and stay tuned. I have a post scheduled for Wednesday. I'll blow one of my "surprises" now. My "Biden owns half" math is simply taking the price of gas when he took office, the price before Putin invaded Ukraine, and the price of gas after the invasion. Of course, if gas continues to climb, which we all expect it will, Biden's % will go down.
And please, cut me some slack. You know I'm not one of those that gratuitously hangs on the blame on political actors I don't like. If I attack someone, I bring reasons.
The article I linked above would be extremely useful to that as it reports the boom in profits for oil companies last year from choking their output in 2021 when Ukraine was still a 7th Grade geography quiz. The Law of Supply and Demand is a thing.
Excuse me I am quite capable of having something important to say in a conversation and I can carry my own, however, your insinuation and insulting me in this manner is uncalled for. You think you are clever? I never compared myself to anyone and if you think I am not intelligent enough we do not need to converse.
The democrats have been bringing destruction to America while the republicans sit playing with themselves. Decades. If something is happening (or not) it is because 'the government' wants it that way. This place is toast. Doesn't mean you can't have a decent life though.
I agree Kid. I have had to ask myself at times if the GOP is not just as much at fault as the Dems. After all, doing nothing and allowing this all to go down the way it has is called complacency and perhaps that is worse.
True to agree. Our standard of living, however, is diminishing already, and it will diminish further. How much is uncertain, but we have not seen the end of shortages, nor have we seen the worst of them.
Well, people have seen tougher times. And as Jay says we will too. ut there is value to knowing what is coming so to protect yourself as much as possible and not invest in the false hope that government is somehow going to save the day.
"Even if you don't like Tucker Carlson, please watch and seriously consider"----"as explained by Tucker Carson".
It isn't a matter of ones likes or dislikes of Carson. I mean, he may very well be quick with a joke and a light of your smoke and a fun guy to have at a BBQ.
Tucker's job is to spin reality, to bash the Democratic Party, to promote the far right fringe, to keep the Basket of Gullibles entertained or enraged, and make a lot of money doing it.
And no, I'm not jealous of his nice hair and straight white teeth.
And with no ill will whatsoever to the above blogger who wrote: "we can all do our own math it does not take a rocket scientist to realize Biden is destroying our nation and the left is allowing it", well, we may have different perspectives on how math works.
I'm no "rocket scientist" but I do have considerable experience and knowledge in the math pertaining to similar processes and it all falls back to Ohm's Law, Coulomb's Law, Faraday's Law, and other pioneers from the 1700s and 1800s. It's really a fascinating thing that these guys figured out the speed of light was 180,282 miles per second and 1 amp= 6 x 10 to the 18th power of electrons flowing in 1 second and that all molecular movement ceased at –459.67°F.
When people marvel at the technology of viewing their security camera from their cell phone or "hey Goggling" or self driving automobiles, I can't help but think how everything has continued to build from the basic math of those who had no idea of the future applications.
Math is what it is and you don't get E=MC to the 2nd power by "doing your own math". You don't get to choose your own variables to get your desired equation (other than TurboTax perhaps).
Carson Tucker, along with much of today's right wing media and lawmakers, are manipulator of variables, selling the Gullibles a concept they've done their own math.
Said the man who was blind and stupid to the fact that left wing media outlets do the same thing he accuses the right wing of. And the left wing has their own buckets of indoctrinated soft heads
No AOW, I'm not going to "watch" the Kremlin approved Tucker show, mainly because I don't need his voice inflictions, gimmicky expressions, and sly innuendoes who have his audience nodding their heads along with him to make an informed decision.
I did however read the transcript at Realpolitics which is no more than as I described above. When you take the theatrics out of it, it's pretty much baseless bashing.
Closed minded? Cognitive bias?
It's beyond me how so many miss the orchestrated playbook being played out on a daily basis. How did they buy into the Big Lie, Jan 6 being a normal tour guide, downplaying COVID, CRT being a sudden threat, and on and on and on and on?
As an example, let's look at last week's Florida "Don't Say Gay" bill. I'm not meaning to threadjack about the bill itself but how Republican lawmakers and the right wing media mesmerized the Basket of Gullibles.
I view the bill like how a sniper might shoot the kneecap of an enemy soldier, the idea being to wait for others to save him and then take out as many as possible.
With Republicans knowing they have no agenda other than being solely for the wealthy and that Democrats legislate for, well, everyone, there would be opposition to individual rights. It looks like going after Micky Mouse has it's advantages as well.
DeathSantis's bill was pretty much a concoction of word salad and has no practical implication. But that wasn't it's intentions. The intentions were to label anyone who called them out as pedophiles. And this is what we saw with Disney and anyone not of their ideology. It's intent was to move the nonsensical QAnon pedophilia conspiracies from a far right fringe to more of a mainstream realty.
Anyone who actually follows politics, is of reasonable intellect, and isn't a glazed over right wing zombie should see this as it blares in the face. The cultist trainers aren't even trying to hide it anymore.
Consider the right's terminology of "grooming" and dubbing it the "Anti-Grooming" bill. A spokesperson for DeathSantis Tweeted that anyone who opposes the Florida bill “is probably a groomer.” DS himself said those who opposed it “support sexualizing kids in kindergarten.” Fox News went full throttle with Tucker Carlson: “Well, it sounds like the behavior of a sex offender. Normal people do not sexualize underage children, period.” Laura Ingraham accuses of “spreading propaganda for grooming,” and “Why not just name the roller coaster ‘Sex Mountain’? C’mon kids, it’ll be a blast.”
I can link where the "grooming" effect was sold on TheAmericanConservative, Washington Examiner, The American Spectator, Newsbusters, Florida Capital Star, Thepostmillennial and on and on.
Jeremey Boreing of the Daily Wire said: “Americans are tired of giving their money to woke corporations who hate them. They’re tired of giving their money to woke media companies who want to indoctrinate their children with radical race and gender theory.”
Todd and Erik Gregory writes: "Empirically and factually, an overwhelming majority of public figures who are confirmed and aspiring pedophiles (along with pedo-friendly corporations like Disney) are progressive Democrats in terms of political orientation.
Most every single right wing media outlet that the Basket genuflects to went immediately to work to brainwash them.
Tucker has become the poster child of conspiracy. Fox News has been the master of disinformation for years ranging from promoting the Teabaggers and such Republican movements to bashing BLM to giving free air time for a SCOTUS nominee.
So no SF, your 1 trick pony of the left doing it too rings hollow. This isn't an isolated case. The Gullibles will eat whatever shit sandwich handed to them and like it.
No AOW, I'm not going to "watch" the Kremlin approved Tucker show, mainly because I don't need his voice inflictions, gimmicky expressions, and sly innuendoes who have his audience nodding their heads along with him to make an informed decision.
I suppose watching video footage of bodies strew across war-torn streets renders the reports more "objective"... with none of those "nasty vocal inflections" to hear or "gimmicky expressions" to view... right Mr. Sh*tsammich?
The "Don't Say Gay" bill topic would put me on the opposite side of RJW's point of view above, but I won't threadjack here either. I'm fairly certain there was a bigger impetus to that bill's conception than preaching to the choir about what is appropriate subject matter for kids that can't attend X-rated movies.
I think that getting all the LGBTQ+ teachers to quit their Florida school-teaching jobs was brilliant on DeSantis' part. Trolling progressives works for America.
Times have changed, I guess. Back in my school days there was a short-haired, stocky girl's volleyball coach that also taught a Health class. She suspiciously drove a '72 Shovelhead Harley but the subject of what she preferred to do with her genitalia in her free time never came up.
That was back when there was that "Don't Say Gay" law oppressing everyone....
Oh wait, no, there was no WRITTEN rule on the subject, just an UNWRITTEN one that "good people" all used to follow, but not speak about in polite company, before the progressives began openly breaking it, laughing about it, and then trying to pretend paedophilia was a socially acceptable and fun thing to do and so the rule had to get officially written down.
from an interview with Slavoj Zizek about his thoughts "Don't Worry, the Catastrophe Will Arrive"
What is proper to human speech is the irreducible gap between the enunciated content and its act of enunciation: “You say this, but why are you telling me it openly now?” Let us imagine a wife and husband who co-exist with a tacit agreement that they can lead discreet extra-marital affairs; if, all of a sudden, the husband openly tells his wife about an ongoing affair, she will have good reasons to be in panic: “If it is just an affair, why are you telling me this? It must be something more!” The act of publicly reporting on something is never neutral, it affects the reported content itself. Or, a more standard case: we all know that a polite way to say that we found our colleague’s intervention or talk stupid and boring is to say “It was interesting.”; so, if, instead, we tell our colleague openly “It was boring and stupid’”, he would be fully justified to be surprised and to ask: “But if you found it boring and stupid, why did you not simply say that it was interesting?” The unfortunate colleague was right to take the more direct statement as involving something more, not only a comment about the quality of his paper but an attack on his very person.
@SF I do not care for Carlson at all but I do watch him. I also do not care for Laura Ingraham anymore, I believe she has changed and her show has gone to her head.
Having said this, I still listen to what they are presenting. Many times I agree and many times I disagree but it sure is better than the dribble coming from CNN and MSNBC.
But though this proposition is not likely to be contested in general terms, the practical question, where to place the limit—how to make the fitting adjustment between individual independence and social control—is a subject on which nearly everything remains to be done. All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. Some rules of conduct, therefore, must be imposed, by law in the first place, and by opinion on many things which are not fit subjects for the operation of law. What these rules should be, is the principal question in human affairs; but if we except a few of the most obvious cases, it is one of those which least progress has been made in resolving. No two ages, and scarcely any two countries, have decided it alike; and the decision of one age or country is a wonder to another. Yet the people of any given age and country no more suspect any difficulty in it, than if it were a subject on which mankind had always been agreed.
(cont.) The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying. This all but universal illusion is one of the examples of the magical influence of custom,[Pg 10] which is not only, as the proverb says, a second nature, but is continually mistaken for the first. The effect of custom, in preventing any misgiving respecting the rules of conduct which mankind impose on one another, is all the more complete because the subject is one on which it is not generally considered necessary that reasons should be given, either by one person to others, or by each to himself. People are accustomed to believe, and have been encouraged in the belief by some who aspire to the character of philosophers, that their feelings, on subjects of this nature, are better than reasons, and render reasons unnecessary. The practical principle which guides them to their opinions on the regulation of human conduct, is the feeling in each person's mind that everybody should be required to act as he, and those with whom he sympathises, would like them to act.
(cont.) No one, indeed, acknowledges to himself that his standard of judgment is his own liking; but an opinion on a point of conduct, not supported by reasons, can only count as one person's preference; and if the reasons, when given, are a mere appeal to a similar preference felt by other people, it is still only many people's liking instead of one. To an ordinary man, however, his own preference, thus supported, is not only a perfectly satisfactory[Pg 11] reason, but the only one he generally has for any of his notions of morality, taste, or propriety, which are not expressly written in his religious creed; and his chief guide in the interpretation even of that. Men's opinions, accordingly, on what is laudable or blamable, are affected by all the multifarious causes which influence their wishes in regard to the conduct of others, and which are as numerous as those which determine their wishes on any other subject. Sometimes their reason—at other times their prejudices or superstitions: often their social affections, not seldom their anti-social ones, their envy or jealousy, their arrogance or contemptuousness: but most commonly, their desires or fears for themselves—their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.
(cont.) Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality of the country emanates from its class interests, and its feelings of class superiority. The morality between Spartans and Helots, between planters and negroes, between princes and subjects, between nobles and roturiers, between men and women, has been for the most part the creation of these class interests and feelings: and the sentiments thus generated, react in turn upon the moral feelings of the members of the ascendant class, in their relations among themselves.
(cont.) Where, on the other[Pg 12] hand, a class, formerly ascendant, has lost its ascendancy, or where its ascendancy is unpopular, the prevailing moral sentiments frequently bear the impress of an impatient dislike of superiority. Another grand determining principle of the rules of conduct, both in act and forbearance, which have been enforced by law or opinion, has been the servility of mankind towards the supposed preferences or aversions of their temporal masters, or of their gods. This servility, though essentially selfish, is not hypocrisy; it gives rise to perfectly genuine sentiments of abhorrence; it made men burn magicians and heretics. Among so many baser influences, the general and obvious interests of society have of course had a share, and a large one, in the direction of the moral sentiments: less, however, as a matter of reason, and on their own account, than as a consequence of the sympathies and antipathies which grew out of them: and sympathies and antipathies which had little or nothing to do with the interests of society, have made themselves felt in the establishment of moralities with quite as great force.
TC: My eyes are wide open. The political blathersphere is stuffed full of charlatans, idiots and willful liars from across the political spectrum. Ronald refuses to see that. I don't.
‘’ I suppose watching video footage of bodies strew across war-torn streets renders the reports more "objective"... with none of those "nasty vocal inflections" to hear or "gimmicky expressions" to view... right Mr. Sh*tsammich?’’
Trying to equate live graphic footage of atrocities on the streets of our allies to Carson’s divisive and misleading “look at my watch” hypnotizing of the Basket is sophomoric silliness on multiple fronts.
It reminds me of years ago when I reluctantly attended some 1 hour pyramid sales presentation (Amway or such) where the 1st 50 minutes was about how much I could do if I were rich and the final 10 minutes was about the selling program itself. When I was asked my thoughts, my questioning of wasting 50 minutes listening to “some pie-in-the-sky sales pitch” wrinkled several faces.
As mentioned, the transcript of Carson’s pitch was much the same.
Why would I waste 13 or how many minutes of my time watching a sales presentation video from Carson when I can review the context in 2?
Yes, we can tell from your writing that you're a man who's time is valuable and values naught but the final conclusions to be drawn from events. Damn the facts, supporting rational, and surrounding arguments... let's get on with the singular and therefore inevitable conclusion! No time to be wasted gabbing about. /s
...but then again, you might have to wade through 10 minutes of "nasty vocal inflections" and "gimmicky facial expressions" before learning a few facts about the money behind "Don't Say Gay".
Joe, Ronald Ward had better be careful if he's heading down to the alpha Bank. He could get caught in a crossfire hurricane, and Mueller will be no help
Yes, the terrain is getting murkier and murkier between FBI/ CIA and the Clinton Campaign... hence all the current ever-more-desperate and clamouring calls for our AG to indict Trump over 1/6. The Ukraine war distraction can't go on forever...
We just need to give Ukraine back their 1,700 nuclear warheads and the 176 ICBMs they had that could hit every inch of Russia. But only if they promise to use them.
Ronald, The writer of the OPINION piece you linked to has a Qanon fixation. He provided no link between Qanon and the senators besides the imaginary one in his fevered imagination.
However, I still thank you for proffering it here. It gives us insight into the leftwing lunatic asylum.
So SF, you want to expound on the credentials of Carson Tucker verses that of Donald Moynihan? Compare partisan initiatives? Discuss the differences of their OPINIONS? Do you want to discuss the multiple links of Moynihan article verses the wink-winks of the must see (rather than simply read) the Snidely Whiplash shit-show of your prized traveling road show Tucker Carson?
And from your very own admission in previous threads, “they” took exploiting a SCOTUS to new levels by politicizing it to make the left look soft on crime.
So you shove your Fox News promoted beer guzzling frat boy who couldn’t stay sober enough to remember how many women he sexually assaulted during prep school
Add something credible to your interminable piddle stream of stupidity, like a factual, tangible connection between qanon and those senators.
Your opinion of Kavanaugh is a belief that has no grounding in any established facts. That crazy lady's own friends could not corroborate her story. You probably still believe in the Steele dossier, don't you?
A British buffoon peddles Russian disinformatzya to US political operatives during a presidential campaign and injects salacious lies into our information stream, and you are so purblind partisan and pig ignorant you cannot call it what it is: Foreign influence.
I thought you were smart, but your hyper-partisan and blind rage at all you disagree with has left you sounding pathetically helpless and incapable of communicating cogently.
Carlson v. your opinion writer? When in this thread did I ever say Carlson was better than anybody?
Your comments in this thread are foolish and embarrassing.
Step one in debate is to challenge or refute what someone actually said.
Can we just split the difference and say if there were any credible evidence against Brett Kavanaugh that in Ketanji Brown Jackson's court he would have got off lightly?
Nice deflection and distraction with Kavanaugh (R) SF.
"Thanks to the leftwing loonies marinating in their festering cesspool..."
"Leftwing shitslinging baboons will not be satisfied until they have vandalized, destroyed or perverted every last word and cultural symbol."
My my, touchy aren't we?
What part of the conversation warranted such a response? How do such accusations respond to anything?
Was it that slow drip "dirty nasty hippies" of the 60s or was it when Fox News went full throttle to shut down Occupy Wallstreet by depicting the left as filth? I do recall Newt Gingrich spewing "take a bath and then get a job". And then of course the right propaganda machine geared up to associate the left with the "infested" caravan. Or could this be part of Fox News, Tucker and Hannity telling you the left was in cahoots with BLM in the looting and violence while in reality, the protests were provoked by white supremist.
Or have you become engulfed in today's mesmerizing that the left are pedophiles? Or maybe you caught wind of Rick Scott stating to his CPAC attendees: “We survived the war of 1812, Civil War, World War I and World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War. Today, we face the greatest danger we have ever faced: The militant left-wing in our country has become the enemy within.” And he repeated verbatim to the Heritage Foundation. This dude happens to be the leader of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
You did get all of which you've been told in there didn't you? Festering, feces throwing monkeys, vandalizing, cesspool, destroy, perverted, even slyly tossing in the culture word, all the latest and greatest words of the right wing propaganda tic toc of the watch.
What an obedient fitch boy. You've actually become part of the divisive selling machine and it's become overly obvious you have no intentions of having any good faith discussion. When you come up short, you default to which you've been programmed.
Your redundant use of Propaganda 101 Rule # 2 has become laughable.
And by the way, it was predominantly all right wing insurrectionists (who you've been programmed to defend) who were slinging their shit all over the people's house.
Well, perhaps we could start with your obvious side stepping the questions of "What part of the conversation warranted such a response and "How do such accusations respond to anything" before moving on to your sudden Gomer Pyle impression with a horizontal index finger scratching downward to the center of your scalp with an open mouth Clarence The Lion facial expression.
This is the problem with glazed over Trump era cultists. Even Pictionary doesn't work because you refuse to see.
Mainly, because you're non-responsive to other commenters and almost always off topic and not even tangentially related to the topic of our posts. We decide, not you. What you put up are not "Posts", they are comments. This is not a Message Board -if such a thing even exists anymore-, where you can start your own topic. If you just want to flit around and post your cut and paste comments from blog to blog, consider opening your own blog where you can post whatever you like. Every "Private Club" has rules. Our blog, our rules!
I don't publish off topic cut and paste stuff either. It's rude to the blog owner and their readers and outside of that, No One who these type comments are directed to Gives a S and they're not going to see them anyway or get anything out of them if they did. Trying to educate libtards on the internet is even less than a complete waste of time.
@ Dave Miller: Thank you for the compliment. It's complicated but there was an actual evolutionary process. In the end, anyone can own a blog and it becomes 'their' intellectual property to do with as they please, including the comments there-on, subject to the owner of the platform. -In this case Blogger/Google.-
The Message boards were a free-for-all and pretty much uncontrollable. They became a waste land and home to obscene phone callers thwarted by caller ID.
I just looked in on a couple of message boards I used to frequent. One has adopted a commercial blog format and the other seems to have had its URL stolen by a yoga/soft porn site. (sigh)
Despite the unrelated historical chaff of RJW, I agree with every point Carlson makes. I observed and commented on the same thing l-o-n-g before he articulated it so well. The picture has emerged clearly since March 2020 as we careen from one planned crisis to another (if not 100% planned, as least damned handy timing to get the wearisome Plandemic and sonny boy's laptop off the front page).
Biden's cancelling of Keystone had less to do with declaring war on energy than with declaring war on the competition of a big backer. But it sure was bad optics - putting 10,000 people out of work so visibly on his first days in office. In the middle of an extreme jobs crisis. Message telegraphed: strong arm politics are driving this steamroller behind the stalking shield of a vacant mind. BAYSIDER
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Imagine my surprise when I found out the actor that plays Tucker Carlson on the Tucker Carlson Show is actually named Tucker Carlson. As expected, they're selling his "confused Cro-Magnon" facial expression on a coffee mug. Although I'm not a fan of the "what if an idiot got a job as a political analyst on a cable news channel" premise you have to appreciate the guy's improv skills and ability to do it five nights a week. It's very similar to the old guy heckler puppets in the mezzazine seats on the Muppet Show or the robot puppets of Mystery Science Theater 3000 making fun of schlock sci-fi movies from the 1950s and 1960s. It's an overdone genre of spoof comedy, but aesthetically well done in its production values and meticulous rephrasing of Kremlin press releases. Carlson's "confused Cro-Magnon" facial expressions are the real draw here, and it works as well with the sound off as it does on a coffee mug.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the link to this episode doesn't work even on his host website, so I wasn't able to watch for the dopey face changes and all over the map pre-pubescent screechy pitch changes in his diction and intonations. The guy is good at it. Not as good as Christopher Lloyd on Taxi, but get the two together and Carlson could probably pull off Marty McFly in a new sequel of the Back to the Future movie franchise before Lloyd gets too old.
TC,
DeleteThe video and the link don't work for you? How strange! They work for me. I'm using Google Chrome as my browser.
I'm using Chrome as well. I'll keep trying.
DeleteIn the meantime, it's still funny that Encyclopedia Britannica uses a bust of Tucker Carlson in their article on what a Cro-Magnon Man looked like.
Doesn't work for me either... but my firewall might be blocking it.
DeleteOh, Using MS Edge.
DeleteThersites,
DeleteThe video plays for me on MS Edge. Hmmmmm.....
When I go to the Tucker site, I get the identical "black screen" that appears in this post.... so I'm assuming it's the player embed that is being blocked by my firewall.
DeleteI get the black screen here and there, and the other videos on his website have thumbnail pictures but won't play for me.
DeleteThe link to order the $25 confused Cro-Magnon coffee cup works though.
I get a black box which contains a link to "Prepass." The link produces the video in the box. Using Firefox.
DeleteTranslation of beamish's comment:
Delete"I have no idea what he said, so I will just engage in ignorant ad hominem"
Well informed ad hominem, actually. It's a pretty safe bet Tucker Carlson doesn't actually have any revelations about the "actual Biden agenda" than you and your reliance upon his feedback loop does.
DeleteGive me a link that works. You already know I'm not afraid of hurting idiot's feelings.
UPDATE! The link works now!
DeleteAnd I want 12 minutes and 45 seconds of my life back.
As predicted, Tucker Carlson...
* Didn't mention that oil companies lost Billions with a B dollars in profits during the Covid lockdowns and decreased demand;
* Didn't mention that oil companies have not restored production levels back to pre-Covid lockdown levels despite post-Covid restoration and increase of demand and consumption;
* Didn't mention that oil companies are currently reaping new record high levels of profits;
* Didn't mention that oil companies are keeping supplies choked and gas prices high to reward their shareholders;
* Didn't mention that oil companies have no intention whatsoever of reinvesting their capital in new production that would drive their artificially increased gasoline prices down;
* and didn't mention that oil companies are sitting on several thousands of dry land leases on proven reserves that would return America to energy independence in oil and gas, THAT BIDEN GAVE THEM TO DO SO.
So, nothing new. The Tucker Carlson fan club is strictly imbeciles only.
Another thing Tuckles the Clown didn't mention is that oil companies are using their unprecedented profit levels to incentivize stock buy backs, so they will have a smaller pool of shareholders to pay dividends to going forward.
DeleteTC I do not like Tucker Carlson. I believe his people write his editorials or whatever they call them. I do not consider him that bright. However, he or whoever writes for him had made some good points and yes, they certainly have missed many. I am sick of the news media and right now they are all we have because all us' bloggers do is discuss what we have read from the peanut gallery.
Delete......because all us' bloggers do is discuss what we have read from the peanut gallery.
DeleteI have a bit of the opposite perspective. I don't watch the evening cable news sock puppets....because my time is precious, I can get the video clips or transcripts [or even just gist] from blogs and policy-focused sites.
But what blogs can also offer...depending on the site of course...is alternative analysis and lived experiences from subject matter experts in a variety of fields.
After all, for the most part, Bloggers aren't just that....they have day jobs, professions, interests and hobbies that are germane to the issues of the day.
I categorize the cable news chattering class as mostly irrelevant noise....useful for generating conversation, but not much more intellectually stimulating than a circus act.
Not having the morbid hatred for the United States of America that was a prerequisite of considering voting for Trump, I've mostly been self-sidelined from political blogging, even more so post-Trump. The vehement opposition to any attempts at reasonable discourse is palpable. Trump turned the GOP into poop-flinging monkeys. America already had a party that did that. Where do you think he imported that from?
DeleteTo mangle a Ronald Reagan quote, I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me, went to LaLa Land, and developed a raucous meth addiction. I was done when the party platform was "set your principles aside and vote for Romney anyway." Comrade Trump was the most left-wing Republican President in my lifetime, and probably all of yours as well. I'm not a shill. Bullshit is still bullshit no matter which team is spouting it. Now it's a contest from both partisan bullshit factories. I rarely even watch the news anymore, so when I do, it's worse than smelling an overflowing cat box. There's even trenchant commentary shows *about* other trenchant commentary shows. Take the Mucker Carlson's and Rachel Madcows and all of their clones off the "news" networks and is there really any news being broadcast? I don't need to smell the cork of a bottle of jenkum. There is no new and improved way to package excrement. Stop trying. Dialectical materialism does not, in fact, turn turds into candy bars at anyone's insistence.
Does Biden have some arcane super secret and furtively hidden energy agenda that only Tucker Carlson's teleprompter writers in the Kremlin know about? No, he doesn't. In the really real world, oil companies aren't hiking gas prices in an effort to sell Teslas.
I can't find disagreement in anything TC wrote above. I'm over 20 years sober....haven't been a member or supporter of either major party since 2000.
Delete@ TC: "The Tucker Carlson fan club is strictly imbeciles only."
DeleteAre you calling AOW an imbecile?
In high school I worked the petition circuit in 1987-1988 to get the Libertarian Party access to the ballot here in Missouri, so I was kinda there from the start. I haven't voted for a Republican for President since 2008, or any Republican at all since 2018. I have never voted for a Democrat in my life, and write my name in when they run unopposed. So, my mix of voting Republican and Libertarian ratios have changed to nearly pure Libertarian.
DeleteTC: I share your disdain for party politics and for the punditocracy.
DeleteI disagree with your blanket condemnation of political blogging. I think we have good discussion and debate here.
@Silverfiddle: are you calling her a fan club member?
Delete"Even if you don't like Tucker Carlson, please watch and seriously consider what he says..."
I did that. I seriously consider it bullshit.
I have no blanket condemnation of political blogging. I comment on the decent ones. ;)
DeleteTC,
DeleteHow do you intend to provide electricity to charge all those battery vehicle.
For the oil companies to make huge profits is a sign of the times. The imbecile N Chief has said he will end oil companies even though the country has decades of supply if allowed to produce it. Good corporate leadership dictates increasing profits to distribute to shareholders of increase stock price. P&G did that when toilet paper was in short supply so I assume they are horrible as well.
We went from energy independence to buying from our enemies in a short few months. We now have the incompetent leadership of biden and swift boat telling us green is great just buy an electric car.
You will be able to see most videos if you upgrade from dial up to broadband if it is available in your cave.
AOW attracts a good, smart crowd, and I'd even include you that characterization.
Delete@Skidrunner: I don't begrudge oil companies making profits for their shareholders.
DeleteI don't ignore how they are making those profits and pretend a President is making them profit against their will either.
Oil company profits were lower under the Covid lockdowns, and even lower when the cost of a barrel of oil was a negative number (April 2020, in the last year of the Trump catastrophe). There was so much oil on the market that demand crashed and tanker ships were used for extra storage - nobody wanted to buy it because they didn't have anywhere to put it. Either Trump was bad for the oil business (worse than Biden has been), or Covid was.
DeleteLayla,
DeleteIf Biden were not POTUS, I'd feel sorry for him and his mental decline.
BTW, why does his wife let this continue?
As you know, I protected Mr. AOW, and he was pronounced compos mentis (1.5 years post-stroke). And he passed all the mental health screenings every year, too!
Mr. AOW himself often declared that he shouldn't be POTUS because, post-stroke, he wasn't as sharp as he used to be. He voluntarily gave up driving -- although he had recently passed the vision test; he knew that his reaction times were down.
Trump lost, badly, in a landslide, to a senile old man.
DeleteBiden doesn't have me duped. I didn't vote for him either. If you look at the margins in states where Trump lost, you'll find Libertarians that could have saved his election chances by donning gasmasks and voting Republican, but chose not to. I suspect the next few presidential elections will be swung similarly, until one party or the other makes libertarians feel welcome again.
How bad of a President do you have to be to drive unemployment up to 30%, pay the unemployed more than they ever made while working, cause a labor shortage in just about every industry, sell out every ally in the war on terrorism, suck up to every thug dictator in the world, ignore crumbling infrastructure in America, forbid property owners from evicting non-paying renters, turn America's streets in to homeless camps and opioid dens, spend billions of dollars out of thin air on a vaccine everyone must take and no one can sue for side effects...
Delete...and lose to a Democrat with a speech impediment?
AOW,
DeleteI remember how you did protect Mr. AOW, and I also recall how aware he was of his limitations. The difference is that Mr. AOW was an HONEST man, Biden is a FOOLISH man.
I too would feel sorry for him if he were not POTUS, despite the Hunter laptop issue and that whole mess.
His wife is a B***H! Any woman that would allow her husband in that state of mind to hold any position high or low that was beyond his mental capacity must not be compos mentis!
Layla
Layla,
DeleteI take my marriage vows seriously. Specifically, I took the oath to "love, honor, and cherish" (I had "obey" removed because I couldn't swear to that -- anyone who knows me understands why -- LOL) and, of course, "in sickness and in health." It is a spouse's sworn duty to protect the partner "in sickness," which includes mental issues of any type.
AOW,
DeleteYou and I are on the same page here and btw, "obey" was removed from my marriage vows also!
Layla
Layla Elizabeth,
DeleteLOL! But I'm not surprised. We are redheads.
When I was a teenager, I heard my older cousin swear to "obey." Mistake! Her mother-in-law ran all over her! And my cousin sat meekly by. Sheesh.
Those who attended my weddings all whispered, then chuckled and nodded their heads when they noticed that "obey" was omitted. I don't obey my husband, neither do I expect my husband to obey me.
She just told me to take my pills.
DeleteBiden owns at least half of the gas price increases since he took office.
ReplyDeleteDo you have the math on that? Very little of Biden's energy policy survived contact with Congress, and he's releasing around a million barrels of oil a day from the Strategic National Reserve to drive prices down. Oil companies are still choking production despite post-Covid lockdown and Ukraine eat increases in demand. The Keystone pipeline didn't exist when prices were lower either.
Delete*war... Auto-corrupt changed "war" to "eat"
DeleteTC we can all do our own math it does not take a rocket scientist to realize Biden is destroying our nation and the left is allowing it. I get your angst for Tucker Carlson (TC) but poking fun at him does no good for our conversation here as he is just the messenger of what is really going on in the Biden Administration. Get a grip. We have to look at Biden and Harris who are bigger jokes than Tucker Carlson will ever be. At least he is not letting illegals flood in - causing gas prices to rise - causing a food chain shortage. Say what you want about Tucker Carlson he is only a quarter the idiot Biden and Harris are. Sure, he is good for fodder but the point in is listen to the message instead of shooting the messenger. I get tired of it after awhile.
DeletePresuming you're not a rocket scientist, surely you understand Tucker Carlson's defense in court that he's not a journalist but rather an entertainer. So, at his own word (and that of his lawyers), he's at best not a messenger of what is really going on, in the Biden Administration or elsewhere outside his offscreen peyote usage. (Carlson has prefaced explanations of things on his show before with "For those of you who don't use peyote...") We're not supposed to take Tucker Carlson seriously. He went to court to emphasize that.
DeleteSo, firm grip gotten, how does Biden "own at least half the gas price increases since he took office?" It's a fair question.
Not defending Biden, whom I consider a disaster, but stopping Keystone did not reduce oil supply. Oil is presently being delivered by rail at higher cost and risk. Pipeline was for the purpose of greater safety and reduced cost, not to increase volume.
DeleteIt's an extremely fair question. I haven't failed to note that a recent narrative in some demographics says that we shouldn't listen to the 'experts'.....but apparently we should put stock in the chatterings of cable news sock puppets.....
DeleteWe should drill in Keystone and not stop and help the American people. I am sick of us selling away our stocks of all things to the Russians and Chinese for this government's god "money."
Delete@CI When did the US have all these oil issues? Fair question. But in case you failed to notice it was when Obama was in office and now that dimwit people voted for because they hated Trump? Well, those people need to get us out of this mess or get out of this country.
Delete"All these oil issues", whatever that means exactly.....have occurred under Administrations of both major parties.
DeleteThe Keystone pipeline would have delivered *Canadian oil* to *Chinese tankers,* period, full stop. The only thing American about it would have been the corn and wheat fields it would have leaked into. It would have piped that oil to refineries and ports on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico that already have a crapton of pipelines running to them, so even if that Canadian oil wasn't bought up by China before it was even pumped out of the ground, it's destination to terminals on the Gulf Coast still wouldn't address or alleviate distribution and logistics issues we deal with by rail and truck. The Keystone Pipeline "issue" is alot of people not knowing a damned thing about the subject, but talking about it anyway. The fact remains that increased demand raises prices - Econ 101 - and you mitigate that by increasing supply, which oil companies choked off for the Covid shutdowns and lockdowns, and kept it there. No oil company execs are lobbying for change in Washington DC (why would they when their shareholders are happy?) and they're not letting us party on their yachts and leer jets. Why shill for them?
DeleteBeamish, I didn't mention the keystone pipeline. Pay attention and try to keep up.
DeleteBeamish, the defense you cite that Tucker Carlson used, was also used by Rachel maddow on MSNBC, and many other opinion commentators. It is a common legal defense.
DeletePlease, if you must snort left wing talking points, do us all a favor and don't blow your nose here.
The Keystone Pipeline cancellation is the usual sword drawn out of rectal sheaths when these discussions come up. I didn't say you pulled "Biden owns at least half of the gas price increases since he took office" out of your ass either. So, what are you pulling out of your ass?
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The profits were the highest since 2014, when crude oil prices last traded above $100 a barrel. *This time, however, the majors are planning less capital spending on new production than in years past.*
Buy high priced gas so you break even on your stock dividends. Oil companies have no intention to reinvest capital to provide cheaper gas.
I filled up my truck for a share of Exxon today.
DeleteTC: Keep your mind off my ass and stay tuned. I have a post scheduled for Wednesday. I'll blow one of my "surprises" now. My "Biden owns half" math is simply taking the price of gas when he took office, the price before Putin invaded Ukraine, and the price of gas after the invasion. Of course, if gas continues to climb, which we all expect it will, Biden's % will go down.
DeleteAnd please, cut me some slack. You know I'm not one of those that gratuitously hangs on the blame on political actors I don't like. If I attack someone, I bring reasons.
The article I linked above would be extremely useful to that as it reports the boom in profits for oil companies last year from choking their output in 2021 when Ukraine was still a 7th Grade geography quiz. The Law of Supply and Demand is a thing.
DeleteSpeaking of which, that article is behind a pay wall. The good stuff ain't for free.
DeleteI wouldn't act so smug. It is unbecoming of you TC. Aow could wrap your brain and mine and make mincemeat out of it. She is the smartest woman online.
DeleteWhy, thank you, Layla Elizabeth! **smiling**
DeleteLayla, I'm getting the impression that you think you have something important to say. But, that's just me. I could be wrong.
DeleteAOW, on the other hand, can respectably hold her own in a discussion.
Excuse me I am quite capable of having something important to say in a conversation and I can carry my own, however, your insinuation and insulting me in this manner is uncalled for. You think you are clever? I never compared myself to anyone and if you think I am not intelligent enough we do not need to converse.
DeleteYou'll go hoarse trying to shout me down. You are no where near tall enough for this ride.
DeleteCalling me smug, tell me to "get a grip," and so on, as you have, is nothing but calling for me to insult you.
Run along before I hurt your feelings.
TC,
DeleteLayla Elizabeth is my friend.
Just an FYI.
Looks like you've been pegged TC.
DeleteAs in:
"I have no idea what she said, so I will just engage in ignorant ad hominem"
Gee, after a while, everyone gets tired of your BS
The democrats have been bringing destruction to America while the republicans sit playing with themselves. Decades. If something is happening (or not) it is because 'the government' wants it that way.
ReplyDeleteThis place is toast. Doesn't mean you can't have a decent life though.
I agree Kid. I have had to ask myself at times if the GOP is not just as much at fault as the Dems. After all, doing nothing and allowing this all to go down the way it has is called complacency and perhaps that is worse.
DeleteKid,
DeleteUpvotes to you for that comment.
You typed in at the end: This place is toast. Doesn't mean you can't have a decent life though.
We must remember the latter statement and enjoy life.
Layla Elizabeth,
DeleteUp votes for your comment, too. I see the GOP's complacency as worse.
True to agree. Our standard of living, however, is diminishing already, and it will diminish further. How much is uncertain, but we have not seen the end of shortages, nor have we seen the worst of them.
DeleteThanks AOW and Layla.
DeleteAgree Jayhawk.
Well, people have seen tougher times. And as Jay says we will too. ut there is value to knowing what is coming so to protect yourself as much as possible and not invest in the false hope that government is somehow going to save the day.
"Even if you don't like Tucker Carlson, please watch and seriously consider"----"as explained by Tucker Carson".
ReplyDeleteIt isn't a matter of ones likes or dislikes of Carson. I mean, he may very well be quick with a joke and a light of your smoke and a fun guy to have at a BBQ.
Tucker's job is to spin reality, to bash the Democratic Party, to promote the far right fringe, to keep the Basket of Gullibles entertained or enraged, and make a lot of money doing it.
And no, I'm not jealous of his nice hair and straight white teeth.
And with no ill will whatsoever to the above blogger who wrote: "we can all do our own math it does not take a rocket scientist to realize Biden is destroying our nation and the left is allowing it", well, we may have different perspectives on how math works.
I'm no "rocket scientist" but I do have considerable experience and knowledge in the math pertaining to similar processes and it all falls back to Ohm's Law, Coulomb's Law, Faraday's Law, and other pioneers from the 1700s and 1800s. It's really a fascinating thing that these guys figured out the speed of light was 180,282 miles per second and 1 amp= 6 x 10 to the 18th power of electrons flowing in 1 second and that all molecular movement ceased at –459.67°F.
When people marvel at the technology of viewing their security camera from their cell phone or "hey Goggling" or self driving automobiles, I can't help but think how everything has continued to build from the basic math of those who had no idea of the future applications.
Math is what it is and you don't get E=MC to the 2nd power by "doing your own math". You don't get to choose your own variables to get your desired equation (other than TurboTax perhaps).
Carson Tucker, along with much of today's right wing media and lawmakers, are manipulator of variables, selling the Gullibles a concept they've done their own math.
RJW,
DeleteIt isn't a matter of ones likes or dislikes of Carson...
So, you won't even watch (and possibly then disect)? Closed mind. Cognitive bias.
Whatever. Suit yourself.
Said the man who was blind and stupid to the fact that left wing media outlets do the same thing he accuses the right wing of. And the left wing has their own buckets of indoctrinated soft heads
DeleteAlmost half of Democrats believe that Vladimir Putin actually changed votes to throw the election to Donald Trump. QED
DeleteIt's Duel of the Tu Quoque Fallacies all the way down.
Delete"What about your whataboutism?"
No AOW, I'm not going to "watch" the Kremlin approved Tucker show, mainly because I don't need his voice inflictions, gimmicky expressions, and sly innuendoes who have his audience nodding their heads along with him to make an informed decision.
DeleteI did however read the transcript at Realpolitics which is no more than as I described above. When you take the theatrics out of it, it's pretty much baseless bashing.
Closed minded? Cognitive bias?
It's beyond me how so many miss the orchestrated playbook being played out on a daily basis. How did they buy into the Big Lie, Jan 6 being a normal tour guide, downplaying COVID, CRT being a sudden threat, and on and on and on and on?
As an example, let's look at last week's Florida "Don't Say Gay" bill. I'm not meaning to threadjack about the bill itself but how Republican lawmakers and the right wing media mesmerized the Basket of Gullibles.
I view the bill like how a sniper might shoot the kneecap of an enemy soldier, the idea being to wait for others to save him and then take out as many as possible.
With Republicans knowing they have no agenda other than being solely for the wealthy and that Democrats legislate for, well, everyone, there would be opposition to individual rights. It looks like going after Micky Mouse has it's advantages as well.
DeathSantis's bill was pretty much a concoction of word salad and has no practical implication. But that wasn't it's intentions. The intentions were to label anyone who called them out as pedophiles. And this is what we saw with Disney and anyone not of their ideology. It's intent was to move the nonsensical QAnon pedophilia conspiracies from a far right fringe to more of a mainstream realty.
Anyone who actually follows politics, is of reasonable intellect, and isn't a glazed over right wing zombie should see this as it blares in the face. The cultist trainers aren't even trying to hide it anymore.
Consider the right's terminology of "grooming" and dubbing it the "Anti-Grooming" bill. A spokesperson for DeathSantis Tweeted that anyone who opposes the Florida bill “is probably a groomer.” DS himself said those who opposed it “support sexualizing kids in kindergarten.” Fox News went full throttle with Tucker Carlson: “Well, it sounds like the behavior of a sex offender. Normal people do not sexualize underage children, period.” Laura Ingraham accuses of “spreading propaganda for grooming,” and “Why not just name the roller coaster ‘Sex Mountain’? C’mon kids, it’ll be a blast.”
I can link where the "grooming" effect was sold on TheAmericanConservative, Washington Examiner, The American Spectator, Newsbusters, Florida Capital Star, Thepostmillennial and on and on.
Jeremey Boreing of the Daily Wire said: “Americans are tired of giving their money to woke corporations who hate them. They’re tired of giving their money to woke media companies who want to indoctrinate their children with radical race and gender theory.”
Todd and Erik Gregory writes: "Empirically and factually, an overwhelming majority of public figures who are confirmed and aspiring pedophiles (along with pedo-friendly corporations like Disney) are progressive Democrats in terms of political orientation.
Most every single right wing media outlet that the Basket genuflects to went immediately to work to brainwash them.
Tucker has become the poster child of conspiracy. Fox News has been the master of disinformation for years ranging from promoting the Teabaggers and such Republican movements to bashing BLM to giving free air time for a SCOTUS nominee.
So no SF, your 1 trick pony of the left doing it too rings hollow. This isn't an isolated case. The Gullibles will eat whatever shit sandwich handed to them and like it.
No AOW, I'm not going to "watch" the Kremlin approved Tucker show, mainly because I don't need his voice inflictions, gimmicky expressions, and sly innuendoes who have his audience nodding their heads along with him to make an informed decision.
DeleteI suppose watching video footage of bodies strew across war-torn streets renders the reports more "objective"... with none of those "nasty vocal inflections" to hear or "gimmicky expressions" to view... right Mr. Sh*tsammich?
When you take the theatrics out of it, it's pretty much baseless bashing.
DeleteI thought the very same thing whilst watching Schindler's List.
The "Don't Say Gay" bill topic would put me on the opposite side of RJW's point of view above, but I won't threadjack here either. I'm fairly certain there was a bigger impetus to that bill's conception than preaching to the choir about what is appropriate subject matter for kids that can't attend X-rated movies.
DeleteI think that getting all the LGBTQ+ teachers to quit their Florida school-teaching jobs was brilliant on DeSantis' part. Trolling progressives works for America.
DeleteEspecially given how Lefties love to "Virtue Signal" their every meal.
DeleteTimes have changed, I guess. Back in my school days there was a short-haired, stocky girl's volleyball coach that also taught a Health class. She suspiciously drove a '72 Shovelhead Harley but the subject of what she preferred to do with her genitalia in her free time never came up.
Delete::shrugs::
That was back when there was that "Don't Say Gay" law oppressing everyone....
DeleteOh wait, no, there was no WRITTEN rule on the subject, just an UNWRITTEN one that "good people" all used to follow, but not speak about in polite company, before the progressives began openly breaking it, laughing about it, and then trying to pretend paedophilia was a socially acceptable and fun thing to do and so the rule had to get officially written down.
I guess when "common sense" becomes less common, the book of laws, rules and regulations has to get thicker and thicker...
DeleteI wonder which one we will have to legislate next?
Delete...for "invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit"
Deletefrom an interview with Slavoj Zizek about his thoughts "Don't Worry, the Catastrophe Will Arrive"
What is proper to human speech is the irreducible gap between the enunciated content and its act of enunciation: “You say this, but why are you telling me it openly now?” Let us imagine a wife and husband who co-exist with a tacit agreement that they can lead discreet extra-marital affairs; if, all of a sudden, the husband openly tells his wife about an ongoing affair, she will have good reasons to be in panic: “If it is just an affair, why are you telling me this? It must be something more!” The act of publicly reporting on something is never neutral, it affects the reported content itself. Or, a more standard case: we all know that a polite way to say that we found our colleague’s intervention or talk stupid and boring is to say “It was interesting.”; so, if, instead, we tell our colleague openly “It was boring and stupid’”, he would be fully justified to be surprised and to ask: “But if you found it boring and stupid, why did you not simply say that it was interesting?” The unfortunate colleague was right to take the more direct statement as involving something more, not only a comment about the quality of his paper but an attack on his very person.
Peccatum tacituritatis
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Delete@SF I do not care for Carlson at all but I do watch him. I also do not care for Laura Ingraham anymore, I believe she has changed and her show has gone to her head.
DeleteHaving said this, I still listen to what they are presenting. Many times I agree and many times I disagree but it sure is better than the dribble coming from CNN and MSNBC.
:)
DeleteJohn Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
DeleteBut though this proposition is not likely to be contested in general terms, the practical question, where to place the limit—how to make the fitting adjustment between individual independence and social control—is a subject on which nearly everything remains to be done. All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. Some rules of conduct, therefore, must be imposed, by law in the first place, and by opinion on many things which are not fit subjects for the operation of law. What these rules should be, is the principal question in human affairs; but if we except a few of the most obvious cases, it is one of those which least progress has been made in resolving. No two ages, and scarcely any two countries, have decided it alike; and the decision of one age or country is a wonder to another. Yet the people of any given age and country no more suspect any difficulty in it, than if it were a subject on which mankind had always been agreed.
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DeleteThe rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying. This all but universal illusion is one of the examples of the magical influence of custom,[Pg 10] which is not only, as the proverb says, a second nature, but is continually mistaken for the first. The effect of custom, in preventing any misgiving respecting the rules of conduct which mankind impose on one another, is all the more complete because the subject is one on which it is not generally considered necessary that reasons should be given, either by one person to others, or by each to himself. People are accustomed to believe, and have been encouraged in the belief by some who aspire to the character of philosophers, that their feelings, on subjects of this nature, are better than reasons, and render reasons unnecessary. The practical principle which guides them to their opinions on the regulation of human conduct, is the feeling in each person's mind that everybody should be required to act as he, and those with whom he sympathises, would like them to act.
(cont.)
DeleteNo one, indeed, acknowledges to himself that his standard of judgment is his own liking; but an opinion on a point of conduct, not supported by reasons, can only count as one person's preference; and if the reasons, when given, are a mere appeal to a similar preference felt by other people, it is still only many people's liking instead of one. To an ordinary man, however, his own preference, thus supported, is not only a perfectly satisfactory[Pg 11] reason, but the only one he generally has for any of his notions of morality, taste, or propriety, which are not expressly written in his religious creed; and his chief guide in the interpretation even of that. Men's opinions, accordingly, on what is laudable or blamable, are affected by all the multifarious causes which influence their wishes in regard to the conduct of others, and which are as numerous as those which determine their wishes on any other subject. Sometimes their reason—at other times their prejudices or superstitions: often their social affections, not seldom their anti-social ones, their envy or jealousy, their arrogance or contemptuousness: but most commonly, their desires or fears for themselves—their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.
(cont.)
DeleteWherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality of the country emanates from its class interests, and its feelings of class superiority. The morality between Spartans and Helots, between planters and negroes, between princes and subjects, between nobles and roturiers, between men and women, has been for the most part the creation of these class interests and feelings: and the sentiments thus generated, react in turn upon the moral feelings of the members of the ascendant class, in their relations among themselves.
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DeleteWhere, on the other[Pg 12] hand, a class, formerly ascendant, has lost its ascendancy, or where its ascendancy is unpopular, the prevailing moral sentiments frequently bear the impress of an impatient dislike of superiority. Another grand determining principle of the rules of conduct, both in act and forbearance, which have been enforced by law or opinion, has been the servility of mankind towards the supposed preferences or aversions of their temporal masters, or of their gods. This servility, though essentially selfish, is not hypocrisy; it gives rise to perfectly genuine sentiments of abhorrence; it made men burn magicians and heretics. Among so many baser influences, the general and obvious interests of society have of course had a share, and a large one, in the direction of the moral sentiments: less, however, as a matter of reason, and on their own account, than as a consequence of the sympathies and antipathies which grew out of them: and sympathies and antipathies which had little or nothing to do with the interests of society, have made themselves felt in the establishment of moralities with quite as great force.
TC: My eyes are wide open. The political blathersphere is stuffed full of charlatans, idiots and willful liars from across the political spectrum. Ronald refuses to see that. I don't.
Delete‘’ I suppose watching video footage of bodies strew across war-torn streets renders the reports more "objective"... with none of those "nasty vocal inflections" to hear or "gimmicky expressions" to view... right Mr. Sh*tsammich?’’
DeleteTrying to equate live graphic footage of atrocities on the streets of our allies to Carson’s divisive and misleading “look at my watch” hypnotizing of the Basket is sophomoric silliness on multiple fronts.
It reminds me of years ago when I reluctantly attended some 1 hour pyramid sales presentation (Amway or such) where the 1st 50 minutes was about how much I could do if I were rich and the final 10 minutes was about the selling program itself. When I was asked my thoughts, my questioning of wasting 50 minutes listening to “some pie-in-the-sky sales pitch” wrinkled several faces.
As mentioned, the transcript of Carson’s pitch was much the same.
Why would I waste 13 or how many minutes of my time watching a sales presentation video from Carson when I can review the context in 2?
@RJW
DeleteYes, we can tell from your writing that you're a man who's time is valuable and values naught but the final conclusions to be drawn from events. Damn the facts, supporting rational, and surrounding arguments... let's get on with the singular and therefore inevitable conclusion! No time to be wasted gabbing about. /s
Lest anyone believe that "Don't Say Gay" wasn't a Planned Parenthood abortion marketing jingle... ala Wendy's "Where's the Beef?"
Delete...but then again, you might have to wade through 10 minutes of "nasty vocal inflections" and "gimmicky facial expressions" before learning a few facts about the money behind "Don't Say Gay".
DeleteJoe, Ronald Ward had better be careful if he's heading down to the alpha Bank. He could get caught in a crossfire hurricane, and Mueller will be no help
DeleteYes, the terrain is getting murkier and murkier between FBI/ CIA and the Clinton Campaign... hence all the current ever-more-desperate and clamouring calls for our AG to indict Trump over 1/6. The Ukraine war distraction can't go on forever...
DeleteGotta keep "the rubes" entertained and engaged ya know!
Delete...and nothing "engages" and "entertains" them more than Trump porn
DeleteWe just need to give Ukraine back their 1,700 nuclear warheads and the 176 ICBMs they had that could hit every inch of Russia. But only if they promise to use them.
DeleteSimple solutions for simple minds
DeleteOkay maybe just some 1200 mile range SRBMs that can hit the offending parts of Russia. Whatever puts the war on Russian soil where it belongs.
DeleteI prefer the idea of simply chasing the Russians out by funneling them back through the Chernobyl radiation exclusion zone...
DeleteInstead of dropping a mobile dirty bomb on a static target, we drive a mobile target into a static dirty bomb.
DeleteSilver, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/05/qanon-groomer-hawley-desantis-jackson/?fbclid=IwAR395xhcvQEzjScEedV3S68KH2uQfjNW8u2nMnm_UYwuC0LdyFIZvDontLY
DeleteBut yeah yeah, they all do it so it's fair game, or, or something of similar QAnon ass sucking nonsense.
Tommy Robison is Q? Who knew?
DeleteThe Russians are using the Chernobyl plant as a supply depot, so... Dyatlov is still killing people lol
DeleteThey probably ,*still* believe radiation can't exceed their dosimeters lol
DeleteRonald, The writer of the OPINION piece you linked to has a Qanon fixation. He provided no link between Qanon and the senators besides the imaginary one in his fevered imagination.
DeleteHowever, I still thank you for proffering it here. It gives us insight into the leftwing lunatic asylum.
Thanks to the leftwing loonies marinating in their festering cesspool of rage and conspiracy, nobody can give the OK sign anymore...
DeleteLeftwing shitslinging baboons will not be satisfied until they have vandalized, destroyed or perverted every last word and cultural symbol.
Deletebtw, when they do one-tenth to Judge Jackson what they did to Justice Kavanaugh, get back to us. Until then, shove it.
Hold your cards everyone, we have a Bingo!
DeleteSo SF, you want to expound on the credentials of Carson Tucker verses that of Donald Moynihan? Compare partisan initiatives? Discuss the differences of their OPINIONS? Do you want to discuss the multiple links of Moynihan article verses the wink-winks of the must see (rather than simply read) the Snidely Whiplash shit-show of your prized traveling road show Tucker Carson?
No, you don’t do you?
And from your very own admission in previous threads, “they” took exploiting a SCOTUS to new levels by politicizing it to make the left look soft on crime.
DeleteSo you shove your Fox News promoted beer guzzling frat boy who couldn’t stay sober enough to remember how many women he sexually assaulted during prep school
Ronald,
DeleteAdd something credible to your interminable piddle stream of stupidity, like a factual, tangible connection between qanon and those senators.
Your opinion of Kavanaugh is a belief that has no grounding in any established facts. That crazy lady's own friends could not corroborate her story. You probably still believe in the Steele dossier, don't you?
A British buffoon peddles Russian disinformatzya to US political operatives during a presidential campaign and injects salacious lies into our information stream, and you are so purblind partisan and pig ignorant you cannot call it what it is: Foreign influence.
I thought you were smart, but your hyper-partisan and blind rage at all you disagree with has left you sounding pathetically helpless and incapable of communicating cogently.
Carlson v. your opinion writer? When in this thread did I ever say Carlson was better than anybody?
Your comments in this thread are foolish and embarrassing.
Step one in debate is to challenge or refute what someone actually said.
@Silverfiddle and @RJW:
DeleteCan we just split the difference and say if there were any credible evidence against Brett Kavanaugh that in Ketanji Brown Jackson's court he would have got off lightly?
Nice deflection and distraction with Kavanaugh (R) SF.
Delete"Thanks to the leftwing loonies marinating in their festering cesspool..."
"Leftwing shitslinging baboons will not be satisfied until they have vandalized, destroyed or perverted every last word and cultural symbol."
My my, touchy aren't we?
What part of the conversation warranted such a response? How do such accusations respond to anything?
Was it that slow drip "dirty nasty hippies" of the 60s or was it when Fox News went full throttle to shut down Occupy Wallstreet by depicting the left as filth? I do recall Newt Gingrich spewing "take a bath and then get a job". And then of course the right propaganda machine geared up to associate the left with the "infested" caravan. Or could this be part of Fox News, Tucker and Hannity telling you the left was in cahoots with BLM in the looting and violence while in reality, the protests were provoked by white supremist.
Or have you become engulfed in today's mesmerizing that the left are pedophiles? Or maybe you caught wind of Rick Scott stating to his CPAC attendees: “We survived the war of 1812, Civil War, World War I and World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War. Today, we face the greatest danger we have ever faced: The militant left-wing in our country has become the enemy within.” And he repeated verbatim to the Heritage Foundation. This dude happens to be the leader of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
You did get all of which you've been told in there didn't you? Festering, feces throwing monkeys, vandalizing, cesspool, destroy, perverted, even slyly tossing in the culture word, all the latest and greatest words of the right wing propaganda tic toc of the watch.
What an obedient fitch boy. You've actually become part of the divisive selling machine and it's become overly obvious you have no intentions of having any good faith discussion. When you come up short, you default to which you've been programmed.
Your redundant use of Propaganda 101 Rule # 2 has become laughable.
And by the way, it was predominantly all right wing insurrectionists (who you've been programmed to defend) who were slinging their shit all over the people's house.
I don't know what a fitch boy is or slow drip "dirty nasty hippies" are, so you got me there.
DeleteCan you tie this up and please get to the punchline? What is your point?
Well, perhaps we could start with your obvious side stepping the questions of "What part of the conversation warranted such a response and "How do such accusations respond to anything" before moving on to your sudden Gomer Pyle impression with a horizontal index finger scratching downward to the center of your scalp with an open mouth Clarence The Lion facial expression.
DeleteThis is the problem with glazed over Trump era cultists. Even Pictionary doesn't work because you refuse to see.
Why are you always deleting my posts?
ReplyDeleteDo I have to be a member of your Private Club to comment here?
No private club membership. You just have to have an IQ above sub-moron.
DeleteMainly, because you're non-responsive to other commenters and almost always off topic and not even tangentially related to the topic of our posts. We decide, not you.
ReplyDeleteWhat you put up are not "Posts", they are comments. This is not a Message Board -if such a thing even exists anymore-, where you can start your own topic.
If you just want to flit around and post your cut and paste comments from blog to blog, consider opening your own blog where you can post whatever you like.
Every "Private Club" has rules. Our blog, our rules!
:-)
DeleteI don't publish off topic cut and paste stuff either.
DeleteIt's rude to the blog owner and their readers and outside of that, No One who these type comments are directed to Gives a S and they're not going to see them anyway or get anything out of them if they did. Trying to educate libtards on the internet is even less than a complete waste of time.
Warren... that's the best explanation to "posters" I've ever seen. Why do people think blogs are Message Boards?
DeleteGreat response...
Kid... in fairness, most of the spam type of comments here come from the right wing... not the "libtards" as you call us.
BRAVO to the WONDERFUL WARREN!!!
DeleteZ,
DeleteAnd that's why Warren has been my web guru since at least 2006.
@ Dave Miller:
DeleteThank you for the compliment.
It's complicated but there was an actual evolutionary process.
In the end, anyone can own a blog and it becomes 'their' intellectual property to do with as they please, including the comments there-on, subject to the owner of the platform. -In this case Blogger/Google.-
The Message boards were a free-for-all and pretty much uncontrollable. They became a waste land and home to obscene phone callers thwarted by caller ID.
I just looked in on a couple of message boards I used to frequent. One has adopted a commercial blog format and the other seems to have had its URL stolen by a yoga/soft porn site. (sigh)
Despite the unrelated historical chaff of RJW, I agree with every point Carlson makes. I observed and commented on the same thing l-o-n-g before he articulated it so well. The picture has emerged clearly since March 2020 as we careen from one planned crisis to another (if not 100% planned, as least damned handy timing to get the wearisome Plandemic and sonny boy's laptop off the front page).
ReplyDeleteBiden's cancelling of Keystone had less to do with declaring war on energy than with declaring war on the competition of a big backer. But it sure was bad optics - putting 10,000 people out of work so visibly on his first days in office. In the middle of an extreme jobs crisis. Message telegraphed: strong arm politics are driving this steamroller behind the stalking shield of a vacant mind.
BAYSIDER
@Baysider I love that, "a vacant mind." I could not have described Biden better. Yes, vacant!
DeleteBaysider,
DeleteWhat Layla Elizabeth said!
@Warren +++
ReplyDeleteZ,
ReplyDeleteEven Liberal friends are calling me to say they wish they had Trump back!
Wow! I no longer have any liberal or progressive friends -- except for one, who still remains hardened. Go figure.
My former sister-in-law, though, drives for Uber and gets fares who often say, "I'm wishing for Trump again."
Meanwhile, back at the White House...
ReplyDeleteWATCH: Biden Wanders Lost on Stage at White House Event. Pitiful!