The simple fact that this shit still seems to be something of a surprise for you is why 45*'s attacks are effective - you insist on acting like Press Poodles, and the criticism sticks.
Wow. Lesley Stahl, speaking at the Deadline Club Awards, says she once asked Trump why he continues to relentlessly attack the press.
His answer: “I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you." pic.twitter.com/YVvDTD0Pm9
ATLANTA — On Tuesday, NFL owners put three hours aside for a privileged session to speak—amongst themselves and family members—about the most sensitive of topics.
One was how the league will handle players kneeling during the national anthem going forward. An idea being floated in the room goes like this: It would be up to the home team on whether both teams come out of the locker room for the anthem, and, should teams come out, 15-yard penalties could be assessed for kneeling.
The league is currently being sued by Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid, with the two unsigned free agents alleging that NFL teams colluded to keep them unemployed. Kaepernick was the first NFL player to kneel during the national anthem, to protest police brutality, starting a trend that swept across the league in 2016 and '17.
The NFL addressed the anthem issue at its meetings in October and March, with plans to further discuss it at this meeting. The league also met with the Players Coalition in October, and agreed to a seven-year, $89 million social-justice partnership.
According to sources, the owners also discussed how to move forward its partnership with the players and finalized the terms of the deal.
My dearest NFL,
Fuck you.
Even if you decide not to go thru with it, you're seriously considering it. Add this to all your other attempts to manipulate and control players to the point where most of them lose everything no matter what they're willing to sacrifice in order to play a game that makes a very few people obscenely wealthy, and I can only conclude one thing - fuck you.
The addiction treatment industry is dangerously unregulated. John Oliver explains why many rehab programs should incorporate more evidence-based care and carefully reconsider their doctor-to-horse ratio.
Makes me wonder if there are dots in need of connecting - something that would give us a clearer picture of a legalized system of Drug Cartels right here in USAmerica Inc.
Pharma
Prescribers
Insurance
Healthcare
Law Enforcement
Prisons
Lobbyists
Congress
I'm a capitalist because god's a capitalist.
I have to take in more calories than I need right this minute because I need a surplus of energy in order to do the work required to get my next meal. I have to make some profit.
And I insist on appropriate regulation because god insists on appropriate regulation.
Without a properly functioning pancreas, my blood sugar goes wacky and I die.
Without a properly functioning brain stem, my heart rate goes wacky and I die.
...my body temperature
...etc etc etc
"Government Interference in the Free Market System" is what freed the slaves, dummy.
Every once in a while, we have to step up and save capitalism from the capitalists.
When you're talking about cracking down on brown people - even when you disguise it with coded language like "border security" and "the plague of urban violence" - that doesn't make you Alt-Right. It makes you a Racist. Like when you have sex with a barnyard critter. That doesn't make you an Alt-Farmer. It makes you a chicken-fucker.
BTW - that was no accident. That agent didn't take that action on a whim, or because he was bored. His commanders told him that's how we do things now. This is the Daddy State.
Guess which party's been wrong about practically everything.
We talk about Rudy Guiliani, at least one person who is "tired of winning," and a number of people who've discovered all of a sudden that Truth is important, like Rex Tillerson and Matthew Dowd. A surprising sincere apology in the wrong place, the "Democrats in Disarray" lie never dies, and a wake up call for conservatives on Medicaid and nursing homes.
At this point, where 30-35% of Americans are all set to riot - set to pull a Charlottesville on the streets of dozens of cities - the latest version (GOP 5.0) of New Conservative Republicans are wondering, "How do you sell truth to rubes who refuse to hear anything but Benghazi or Emails or Vince Foster or Troopergate or Pizzagate or Kenyan Usurper or or or?
But the real question - the one that driftglass and Blue Gal are spectacularly good at rooting out: "How did those gullible rubes get to be so fucking Gullibly Rube-ish?"
