Make it stop – Teh Stupid will make my ears bleed!
Only one Republican debate down, and already the incessant fallout of Teh Stupid is taking its toll. Pretty soon I’ll be curled up in a ball with my eyes tightly closed and my ears covered, otherwise what’s left of my brain will start leaking out.
How’re your brains holding up?
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TheZoo 
Seems to me the “librul” media fits right in with words like ‘stupid’ and ‘idiots.’ I didn’t watch any of either of the ‘really big shews’, but did catch plenty of snippets in the aftermath including Carly Fiorina’s lengthy “Hillary lied” outgassing which sounded about as completely baseless as anyone else’s outgassing. What really nailed the whole thing to the cross, however, was the results of the “who won the night” poll in which it was noted that Fiorina beat out even T Ronald Dump in popularity, in quality of intellect or whatever it is they call it. What those polls REALLY showed, however, was something we prolly already knew, i.e. that the ONLY thing more impressive than the Republican Party’s depth of shallowness is their absolutely stunning SHALLOWNESS of DEPTH!
I’ve been hanging out on this ‘pale blue dot’ for damn near 73 years, and never in my wildest dreams imagined that this country’s collective intellect could become less than that of a pile of rocks. We have arrived nevertheless. Hate and fear are winning; intellect and brilliance have regressed to approximately the level that defined the age of the dinosaurs.
I figure that the background aroma I’m smelling more every day is courtesy of the cooking of the American goose.
I agree. I guess that’s what we get when our heroes are those who acquire money rather than those who acquire knowledge.
Indeed. Also, it seems fair to say, these days, that while some people grow and learn, others remain conservative.
Schumer gets ripped a new asshole. Like he needs yet another.
“Schumer is one of the most powerful members of the U.S. Senate, which is not quite the same thing as saying he’s dignified. Back in the 1990s, when he was a congressman, his House colleagues had a phrase for waking up to find he’d upstaged them in the media: to be “Schumed.” Washingtonians have long joked that the most dangerous place in town is between New York’s senior senator and a microphone. The Washington Post’s Emily Heil has suggested we retire that hackneyed cliché, replacing it instead with this bon mot from former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine:
“Sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey,” Corzine was quoted as saying in New York magazine. “Take a little bite of it and he will throw his own feces at you.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/09/upchuck-senator-schumers-disingenuous-iran-deal-argument/
As more becomes known, this ‘activist’ clearly has a not so well hidden agenda, and it isn’t to support the one candidate most likely to help her professed agenda.
A loud mouthed, rude, selfish, Christian? How is that possible?
I wish they would quit shoving their Christianity down our throats. I don’t know why they want special rights. It’s a lifestyle choice.
Bernie’s supporters have been accusing the Clinton campaign of instigating these BLM disruptions. If Karen Finney is behind BLM, she’s not making any effort to disavow these tactics, so we have to expect there may be more. Bernie is getting close to Hillary in a few early primary state polls.
Shayne, in case you peek in on theZoo:
~ Happy Birthday ~
Happy Birthday, Shayne!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Shayne! 😎
Happy Birthday, Shayne. Can I have a cupcake?
I’m with you, Jane.
Well, we always say Republicans live in opposite world. Trump says things that would ruin anyone else’s candidacy, but in opposite world…he’s flying!
This reminds me of that old Buffalo Springfield song, “Something’s happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear”.
Bernie Sanders Draws 28K In Portland, Oregon
“Everybody look what’s going down . . . “
Nice 🙂
Do we really have Bill Clinton to thank for this?
Trump also said he wouldn’t run as a third party as long as he could ‘respect’ the GOP nominee. So it would behoove any candidate who breaks out above the others to run a clean campaign against Trump. He might really want out of this at some point, but his ego requires that he come out looking like the real winner, even if he plays kingmaker down the road. The Kochs may spend $900 million on this election, but Donald could have a nominee far more beholden to him, at a far lower cost.
Q for Pat Robertson, who notes that Gay And Gay-Accepting Christians Are All Going To Hell — I’m not a Christian, I’m a nontheist, and one who is perfectly willing to accept LGBT people as fellow humans. Where is this ‘hell’ you speak of? Might it be an eternity with assholes such as yourself?
Just curiouw.
Hell has a lot of locations.
Some would say Texas.
Others would say the Santa Monica freeway during rush hour.
I would say Barstow.
I do not want to be sent to Barstow.
‘Wherever Robertson ends up’ would definitely be another option (for both today and “tomorrow” actually).
It’s still early in the comparison between MSNBC with Alex Wagner and Ed Schultz, and without. Looks like the overall ratings are down for those two hours by about 200k, and in the 40s for the 25-54 demo. That’s pulling Al Sharpton down due to the sucky lead in. It’s possible that it will go up with the new hosts, but the backlash is likely to take the numbers lower. Progressives don’t mind Thomas Roberts, but they will surely change the channel when Chuck Todd takes over.
I’ll post some real numbers once we get a week or so of those new ‘personalities’ in those spots. Remember, Ed’s time slot started at 2pm on the west coast, which makes it hard to get good ratings since the Progressives in the west aren’t even home yet.
It amazes me that Chuck T. actually has a job as a ‘pundit’.
He’s no expert in politics.
Chuck knows one trick: don’t challenge VIPs on your show because they won’t come back. That’s the conventional wisdom these days. The better choice is tell them if you don’t come back, next time we’ll ask your opposition to appear instead.
But that’s the very problem. These VIPs come on his show and tell lie after lie, and Chuck refuses to challenge them and call them out as liars because then they won’t come on his show again. to do what? Lie again? That’s what we want, Chuck – for the liars to stop coming on your show.
Makes you wonder how anybody even qualifies for an Edward R. Murrow award anymore, since they all do that now.
Hillary is not inevitable this time either. The GOP’s attacks are having an effect, as people are becoming aware of Bernie. Some pundits are wishfully thinking that Trump is dominating the news cycle, which is costing Bernie air time. Bernie’s got people looking for him, they’re not looking for Hillary, Trump or the other GOoPers.
Some people just want to see the world burn. And they’re voting for Trump.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/10/what-trump-supporters-are-really-thinking-in-their-own-words/
Crass asshole and those folk think he’d be good for the country.
Them’ll bite ye and scratch ye too.
Uncle Bob, is that you?
That’s he!
petelngh,
That is one creepy sound! All those claws scraping across those rocks!
WTF?
https://marcorubio.com/human-life-wont-become-a-donkey-or-a-cat/
If one believes in Evolution, one knows that eventually it won’t be “a human life” (as we know them today) that comes out.
I’m having a problem with the whole concept of “human.” Years ago I was OK with it, but then up popped conservatism and I began wondering. Now I’m about 75% (give or take) convinced that the species in in the process of splitting into two subspecies, i.e. H. sapiens sapiens (Progressives) and H. sapiens neander (Republican). Hss can think, Hsn cannot. Hoping science is looking into it.
Rubio’s “New American Century”
1. I think that its one of the old ones – maybe the 18th but since that was the Age of Reason, I’m going with the 13th, witch-burning sounds about right.
2. He has a “Project for New American Century”? He should ask Jeb “I am not a BUSH!” – he signed that I think.
That made less sense than anything George Bush ever said.
And they wonder why unrest sprouts up…