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Sweeping Generalization Alert

The pizza guy is not really a pizza guy.
The lady plumber is not really a plumber.

What we see on way too many cable news shows is not news.
Those journalists on your TV machine are not really journalists.

It's not a news program. It's a performance.  It's InfoPorn.

Gentlemen, Start Your Christmas

Let's be careful out there.

Today's WTF

Dan Avery, NewNowNext:

MassResistance is an anti-gay hate group that opposes marriage equality and anti-bullying programs as attempts to “normalize homosexuality.” Members even attacked Governor Mitt Romney as being too soft on LGBT rights.

So it’s a little surprising the group’s Texas chapter opened its teen summit with… this.

That is possibly the best combination of Coming Out and Fuck-You-Trolling ever.

Today's Tweet

Daddy State Rule #2: Every boast is an admission of inadequacy and/or an attempt to take credit for someone else's work.

LaVar was right https://t.co/GicP16Vd50 pic.twitter.com/oxfTBNLV7k

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 23, 2017

 

Today's Today

Happy Thanksgiving

If It's Not Collusion

...what the fuck is it?

Terry Gross, Fresh Air on NPR 

Today's Tweet

A poem

White man is a pedophile
Defend him
Black man doesn't say "thank you" to Trump
Condemn him

White people have a disaster in Texas
Help them
Puerto Ricans without electricity
Ignore them

White rich men want a tax cut
Oblige
Black Haitians need help
Evict

But Trump's not racist

— Chris (@goingglocal) November 21, 2017

 

Not Just Yet

I think it has to be obvious to most of us that there's a substantial chunk of the deep south that's still pretty fucked up in the head.

But once in a while we see that faint glimmer of hope.

Patricia Murphy, Daily Beast:

B.L. Shirley is a Republican woman from a Republican county who always—always—votes Republican. And yet, on a windy, grey morning last weekend, the Talladega, Alabama, retiree found herself in, of all places, a Democrat’s campaign office, wondering just what she could do to defeat the GOP candidate running for a seat in the U.S. Senate from her state.

“Roy Moore,” she said, when asked why she would go canvassing for Democrat Doug Jones before the special election on Dec. 12. “I think Roy Moore is an impostor. I am a Christian and I don’t want to be counted in his camp. He’s a divisive person.”
Things change when we change. And they change for the better or for the worse according to how we change ourselves.

Today's Both Sides

Max Greenwood, The Hill:

The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) will not support GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in Alabama's special election, even after President Trump stood by him on Tuesday.

Officials with the RNC and the NRSC, the party's Senate campaign arm, told The Associated Press they have no intention of reconsidering their decision to pull support for Moore, who has been accused of pursuing sexual and romantic relationships with teenage girls while he was in his 30s.

The two GOP committees severed ties with the candidate earlier this month, ending their financial and field support for his campaign. Dozens of Republican officials have called on Moore in recent days to withdraw his Senate bid.

Think about it for just a short minute: Al Franken gets slagged and the Dems are on him like he's moldy bread. But Trumpublicans had to have a meeting to decide where they stood on Pedophilia.


What was the holdup?

I remember when "conservatives" were saying a Democrat couldn't order pizza without running it by a focus group.

Yeah - and again: Trumpulicans had to huddle up and be told that pedophilia is something they should probably not support.

PEDOPHILIA...

...for fuck's sake.

Today's Pix

Today's Podcast

Preet Bharara's podcast - with Jeff Flake:

Flake seems like a decent and at least marginally reasonable guy, but don't mistake him for any kinda hero.

The issue of guns comes up at about 34:00, and Bharara asks him about Congress Critters voting with the NRA every time because they're afraid of what the Ammosexuals will do if they don't vote that way. Flake runs as fast as possible to the False Equivalence of a Both-Sides response, saying there're plenty of instances of members "on the left" being influenced by big money donors blah blah blah.

I think about that for a short minute and I'm left with the notion that Flake is saying it's OK for him to trade dead kids for the safety of a continued stream of campaign donations and the near-guarantee of no primary challenges.

In a very real sense, he admitted his vote against gun control is - and has always been - for sale.

Today's Tweet II

As could be expected, the Dems are in the process of becoming paralyzed by their knee-jerk reaction to even a hint of hypocrisy, which inevitably leads to a long session of navel-gazing.

It's not like Republicans don't know this.  And since they don't give one empty fuck about hypocrisy to begin with, they're free to exploit it in order to use it against the opposition.

We can't have a 100% honest conversation about sexual harassment while toleratin' a confessed sex predator livin' in the People's House. #TrumpMustGo

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) November 21, 2017

 

No, I'm not saying we need to be like those other guys - if you don't understand that; or you can't tell quite tell the difference by now, you need to recalculate your dosage or just stay the fuck outa the way.

So here it is:

• We gotta have Al Franken in the game
• Stop apologizing for every little thing that floats by and get back on offense

Because when the house is on fire, it's fuckin' stoopid to be out in the yard arguing about the goddamned hose.

Today's Tweet

Yo, "conservatives" - just a heads up here - get those thoughts and prayers warmed up.

“If we don’t get the monies we need in the next few months, I would say 125,000 little boys and girls will die.” --David Beasley, Executive Director of The World Food Programme on #YemenFamine. #60Minutes pic.twitter.com/YVYQ1d4w74

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 20, 2017

 

Truth Lives On

While irony dies a thousand deaths.

Emily Shapiro, ABC News:

A man accidentally shot himself and his wife in their Tennessee church after he had taken his gun out during a discussion about weapons in places of worship, police said.

The man, 81, and his wife, 80, both suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The incident happened Thursday afternoon as members of the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains -- about 60 miles southwest of Knoxville -- were gathered at the church for a pre-Thanksgiving lunch, Tellico Plains Police Department Chief Russ Parks told ABC News.

The church members were discussing weapons in places of worship on the heels of the shooting at a Texas church earlier this month that killed over two dozen people, Parks said, and "one of the gentlemen said, 'Well, I take my gun with me everywhere.'"

Today's Tweet

It's not funny if there's no kernel of truth in it.

In the Bad Timing Department, Charles Manson died just before @realDonaldTrump could pardon him & put him in charge of the CDC.

Sad!

— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) November 20, 2017