11490

I think it’s important that we focus on the real villain in this story: whoever leaked this information. He or she should be found and prosecuted! Noem is the victim here.

11491

Also, let us keep in mind that the information leaked is fake news. But also, we should hang the traitor who leaked information regarding our wrongdoing.

11492

I scanned the story on this in the local fishwrapper. They ran some quote by the criminal’s spokesperson about how “the AP is attacking the governor criminal for political purposes, so it’s no surprise faith in the media is so low now” and I had two reactions:

  1. Fuck you for even quoting this asshole in any context other than “Press Secretary Fucknuts lied through his teeth in an effort to distract his mistress’s ignorant voting base.”
  2. Traitors and cowards all. Can we include them in the sub deal with Australia? Fuck 'em, every one.
11493

Seriously. I was listening to NPR today and they played audio of the turtle saying some stupid bullshit and I turned it off. This has been happening a lot lately. Does anyone know of any good NPR alternative that a) doesn’t give airtime to the lies and grandstanding of the GOP and b) doesn’t tell me about some fucking record or musician or playwright from 30-60 years ago that only 20 people are going to be interested in hearing about? Basically I want politics and news, condensed down to the essentials, without having to hear the “conservative take”.

11494

I don’t think this exists. At the least, I haven’t found it.

11495

Trump finally exposed the division, and in so doing revealed that what’s left of the conservative movement—the conservative movement as dominated by the popularizers and the populists, the conservative movement that gave up on its positive principles and only clung to the negative principle of anti-leftism—has become explicitly pro-state, just so long as it controls the state.

11496

Not a single word about the role of racism and misogyny in post-war conservatism in that entire piece.

11497

Racism is a solved problem in the USA. Just ask your local conservative.

11498

Just like COVID, if you act like something doesn’t exist, it magically doesn’t exist.

11499

I mean, they did mention Buckley and the National Review as part of the intellectual golden age of Conservatism.

11500

No it was until Obama brought it back.

11501

This bit is as concise an encapsulation of the philosophy as one could hope to find spelled out clearly and without any deliberate obfuscation.

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11502

Mark McCloskey comes out for indefinite detention.

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11503

Dude that got pardoned for his crime thinks people should be in jail forever.

11504

I’m either going to sit down and ponder how to make sense of Mark McCloskey, or I’m going to go put my head down through the hole in a latrine and yodel until I faint. I am having a hard time deciding.

11505

I just turn off NPR when they do the “let the GOP flak spew rank bullshit” thing unchallenged. Or if my hands are occupied I yell loudly at the radio like an old man at a cloud.

As to the other thing, that’s just NPR. Thankfully on weekdays they put those segments at the end of the hour.

11506

OMG that take always drives me nuts. Apparently he did this by inflaming the bigots with his “uppity-ness” and needless to say the “coffee-salute” and flagrant wearing of tan suits. And of course by daring to become POTUS at all against “the natural order of things” as they see it.

11507

Me too buddy. Me too.

11508

Yeah the trouble is, as far as sources of news that cover actual substance and depth, there really isn’t any national alternative. And their charter and funding mean that they give more air to certain actors than they should for fear of funding being stripped.

That said they are also one of the few national media outlets who will straight up say lie about some of the GOP talking points, and have been more blunt and honest about the GOP position vis a vis the 2020 election, January 6th, and things of that nature.

That’s the infuriating part. There isn’t any better, but there also isn’t a lack of flaws in their coverage.

11509

You seem unfamiliar with the expression, “Perfect is the enemy of good.”