I’m really not sure how much more of this nonsense I can take.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
You’ll have to invest in upgraded nonsense buffers and weapons-grade crap filters or you’ll never make it through the first year.
Me, I’m putting in guard rails to keep my eyes from rolling right out of their sockets. Looking into jaw slings while I’m at it.
You are so right, Janicket. We are just getting started with this ridiculous nonsense. I sprained my eyeballs severely during the campaign from all the eyerolling.
Let me know where you get the guardrails and jaw slings…I’ll be needing them, too!
You could try Amazon, of course, but last time I looked everything was on back order. Perhaps there’s a custom orthotics maker in your area who could fit you out? Pricey, no doubt, but well worth it.
I think this is something like the 4th or 5th ‘I don’t think I can take much more…….’ diary Booman has done.
The media is going to fall for this nonsense over and over.
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Its going to be hard avoiding hearing this nonsense, since the “media” treats every word from this clown as fact.
Not a consideration by The Donald that it was the Bush Administration who chose to interpret the intelligence in a way that supported their desire to go to war.
But facts will not be getting a robust discussion in the Trump Administration.
To be fair, it’s not like facts mattered in his victory so he’s probably right.
But I’ve been assured that Russia had nothing to do with the hacking. Very disappointed you’d be so skeptical of the new Hero of the Left, Donald Trump.
I applaud your talent for snark.
It’s quite interesting to see how parts of the left, right and media like Wikileaks, Breitbart, etc. have merged interests and reactions to the Russia issue. Each is defensive about something different yet it blends together very well.
I have a general rule.
After work is over, I limit my news consumption. I check in regularly, but I don’t go deep.
I have learned to cultivate other interests. You have soccer. I have guitar and the comics. and the Comics Curmudgeon.
I highly recommend it.
Hmm, what’s the over under on either nothing happening or he just spouts something Putin emailed him?
Email? Daily talking points from Putin are delivered by some express service by 10 am.
Remember, he has a direct server to something or other in Russia.
He’ll have a revelation notwithstanding his refusal to be briefed. Hmm.
But Trump is very very smart you know. Plus he’s got a mind sync going with Putin. Between them there is almost nothing they can’t figure out. It’s just amazing.
Nixon’s perfidy in sabotaging the 1968 Viet-Nam peace process finally proven by a handwritten note from H R Haldeman. A sorry, sad tale:
Almost fifty years later now we know for sure something which we long suspected; yet another tragic and murderous subterfuge from the party of traitors and seditionists.
You would have to be blind and a-historical not to see Kissinger’s fingerprints all over that betrayal.
The old Ratteficker made his career on this one opportunity, a double treachery:
Kissinger remains the pathfinder for America’s long, corrosive journey to the dark side.
This is what the verdict of history looks like:
Yes, that John Dean.
I see that the media’s still a sucker for Trump’s personal version of the dance of the seven veils.
NYT stares at the next veil.
Wow. Access porn. Scoop porn. It will make the careers of their hot-shot reporters.
Mr Click-bait it is.
And he told you in July 2015 what he was going to do.
“They will not be able to stop watching me wondering what’s going to happen next.”
Oh right, quick reporters, look over here and get all hot for Tuesday’s lack of announcement from Trump – and forget about his conflicts of interest and the plan for divesting that he (surprise!) said he would announce and never did.
Pattern recognition is clearly not the media’s strong suit.
Y’all better give up on this tack, folks; at least for the time being. You, too, Mr. Longman. It’s great clickbait at the moment, I see, so go nuts if it’s the only story that’s holding focus at the moment; but it’s a big waste of collective bandwidth, especially now. (A distraction from more important matters.) Until there’s unassailable evidence of a direct link between Trump (his agents) and the Russians on this so-called “hacking” business, there’s no there there. If and when such evidence surfaces (I’m guessing it will take a year or two, and even then, if the connection is found and revealed, it won’t be as disturbing as the Watergate revelations were back in 1973 because digital fingerprints don’t look like much to the average news consumer and they will be well-refuted regardless.)
No one is surprised that the Russians hacked our elections. Foreigners have been meddling in our elections (and candidates for office here helping them to meddle) since the founding of the country. It’s always been a risk, and it will continue to be so as long as we remain a democracy. How surprising could it be 35 years on in the information age?
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This is the standard tactic to delay/preclude meaningful decisions/actions based on valid conclusions from the preponderance of the available evidence.
It’s a successful tactic with appalling frequency and consistency because a substantial proportion of the population, including the Worse-Than-Useless Corporate Media, either doesn’t get this, or gets it but cynically and dishonestly opts to pretend otherwise: you get “unassailable evidence” (ditto for “proof”) on which to base a conclusion/decision (which nevertheless must be drawn/made) approximately never. (And it’s important to note: avoiding/delaying drawing a conclusion/making a decision until circumstances have either done it for you or rendered it moot is drawing a conclusion/making a decision . . . it’s deciding by not deciding.)
Unfortunately (like some conspiracy theories), it’s also successful because documented cases do exist of bad actors (including War Criminals) lying/pretending that conclusions/decisions were drawn from the preponderance of the available evidence when they were not (Iraq had WMD/gotta invade . . . duh!).
So demanding ‘wait “until there’s unassailable evidence” before drawing a conclusion from/basing a decision on the preponderance of the available evidence’ is simply a way of demanding ‘do nothing, maintain the status quo’. (E.g., ‘Don’t blame tobacco for health impacts! Those risks haven’t been “proven” with “unassailable evidence” yet.’ Worked for decades for the tobacco companies with the collaboration of their sciostitutes.)
So, of course, it’s the tactic consistently deployed by those benefiting from the status quo.
Anthropogenic-global-warming denialism being its most obvious (and consequential) current deployment.