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[Godzilla@1989]

I wonder how truly pissed off CNN's and MSNBC's owners and shareholders are for having their people waste money and time on a scandal that didn't happen.

 

[Vorhtbame]

I wonder how truly pissed off CNN's and MSNBC's owners and shareholders are for having their people waste money and time on a scandal that didn't happen.

I'm pretty sure they all own each other in some kind of weird subsidiary circlejerk that ends in them owning themselves. It's like a freaky, incest-plagued family tree wherein everyone's somehow their own aunt/uncle and two separate sets of cousins to themselves.

 

[Munchingonfish]

I wonder how truly pissed off CNN's and MSNBC's owners and shareholders are for having their people waste money and time on a scandal that didn't happen.

They're probably more pissed they couldn't keep the charade going.

 

[Cosmug]

This one weird trick will strip "neo-Nazi" of any meaning at all! Find out more!

Seriously, this is how "rape" and "racist" stopped having any impact.

This happens a lot. Remember when environmentalism wasn’t about exterminating cows and was about putting filters on smoke stacks and keeping waste runoff out of rivers? Me too.
I hope within an hour of Trump getting the report he releases it with basically no redactions and @‘s Schumer, Pelosi and Maddow.

 

[Hastur]

When I say neo-nazi I'm also encompassing all groups of white supremacists. You would have figured this out if you didn't take such an autistically literal interpretation of my words.

No, you're being intellectually lazy and/or disingenuous. Just because someone holds opinions that upset your feefees doesn't mean they masturbate to photos of an amphetamine addicted Austrian or follow the views of a political party that was destroyed in 1945.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

This is one of the few places on the internet where I can get non-mainstream information.

You didn't answer the second question though.

 

[Graffiti canvas]

Barbra Bush blames Trump for her Heart Attack

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/...r-heart-attack-said-shes-no-longer-republican

...According to an excerpt of a new book, “The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty” by Susan Page published in USA Today, Barbara Bush blamed Trump for heart-related hospitalization in June 2016. ...

LITERALLY KILLING FIRST LADIES

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

When I say neo-nazi I'm also encompassing all groups of white supremacists. You would have figured this out if you didn't take such an autistically literal interpretation of my words.

Stop being such a nigger, you fuckin' Jew.

 

[Ghostse]

Well, if it means John Flynt is screwed before he even tries, that's hilarious.

On the other hand, this means the other useless jackasses who could be booted out in favor of competent new blood get to keep their positions too.

John Flynt-Wu was always screwed, because he's not trying. He's just running an expensive vanity project on the backs of suckers (primarily frank). He's not working with any firm that has to worry about losing out on Dem congressional money.

It took out Mohammad Dar, who probably wouldn't have won but was another "Blue Dog" probably and would have made the incumbent sweat a bit, while also most likely ensuring that Wu wouldn't have broken into single digits since he was legitimate opposition.

In the short term, this DCCC edict is good policy for anyone not suffering from TDS as its going to keep the Democrat fringe out of congress. In the long term its really bad, as this is people at the top trying to stop any challengers. I would say this should make any DNC donors revolt and withhold funds until they knock this autocratic shit off, but critical thinking and foresight has never been strong in the D base.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

When I say neo-nazi I'm also encompassing all groups of white supremacists. You would have figured this out if you didn't take such an autistically literal interpretation of my words.

This is becoming increasingly common and really stunts conversation.

You should use the words that literally mean what you literally mean. If you mean white supremacist, say white supremacist. If you mean systemic racism, say systemic racism. You don't get to decide words just mean something else because you said so. At least, if you do that, you shouldn't expect much success when it comes to communicating. What you're doing is using a word because you want the emotional punch that comes with it, except you don't want to be called on the fact that the word you're using doesn't describe the situation.

 

[It's HK-47]

George, I know you're gay but that doesn't mean you have to act like such a faggot.

 

[crunchysalty]

This is becoming increasingly common and really stunts conversation.

You should use the words that literally mean what you literally mean. If you mean white supremacist, say white supremacist. If you mean systemic racism, say systemic racism. You don't get to decide words just mean something else because you said so. At least, if you do that, you shouldn't expect much success when it comes to communicating. What you're doing is using a word because you want the emotional punch that comes with it, except you don't want to be called on the fact that the word you're using doesn't describe the situation.

But it hard to communicate when you are so triggered you resort to calling people you don't agree with names, right @raymond ?

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

I didn't think "OHMYYY" could get more autistic but knock-knock, current-year.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

George, I know you're gay but that doesn't mean you have to act like such a faggot.

He forgot "Rapist" Also, what's with the dropped g's? Is that like... "how do you do fellow normal americans who drop letters off things? I hear people like you.. I mean us... like to use the word ain't, right?"

 

[AprilRains]

The MAGA hat is much terser. God damn can the Left not meme.

 

[Vorhtbame]

George, I know you're gay but that doesn't mean you have to act like such a faggot.

LIGHTNING ROUND!

1. Glad he led with "Obama lovin'"; you can pretty much TL;DR the rest of it from there.
2. That's a lot of words for "insufferable asshole".
3. Little known fact: "Flamin'" actually refers to the heretics he'd like burnt at the stake.
4. The ad says "conversation starter", but the face says "conversation non-starter".
5. He forgot "minor-attracted person". It even fits with the -in' pattern he's got going!
6. Well, now we know who the one person is who listens to NPR anymore.

And finally...
7. The text doesn't distort with the curves of the human body; it's photoshopped on! Even George won't wear this dumbass shirt!

 

[sperginity]

I wonder how truly pissed off CNN's and MSNBC's owners and shareholders are for having their people waste money and time on a scandal that didn't happen.

Their job is to make money, reporting the news is a secondary concern. The advertisers pay MSNBC/CNN for access to the viewers, viewers are the product, not news. That is how TV works in general. Liberal viewers loved this story, followed it obsessively. The appearance of accuracy only matters because of how viewers feel about their brand (they won't tune in if they feel the brand is too inaccurate, then the advertisers pay less to run ads on that channel, and so on). Unless misreporting news is enough of a problem to fuck up viewership (or cost too much in libel suits) they are going to feel just fine about it. Liberal viewers who loved all the autistic details of the collusion story are absolutely willing to accept the excuses offered by MSNBC/CNN. It helps to know about this dynamic when you're trying to interpret the news.

He forgot "Rapist" Also, what's with the dropped g's? Is that like... "how do you do fellow normal americans who drop letters off things? I hear people like you.. I mean us... like to use the word ain't, right?"

to be fair, I believe that the dude that metoo'd george didn't accuse him of rape, but of being abrupt, and only wanted an apology.

 

[Magic Sun Daddy]

The MAGA hat is much terser. God damn can the Left not meme.

There's a snippet from Scott Adam's book Win Bigly that best examines the effectiveness of his slogan.

Spoiler

Trump’s famous campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” was borrowed from Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign, although Trump says he wasn’t aware of it when he decided to use it.

And what happened when the media figured out that Trump was borrowing from Reagan? They wrote about it. They talked about it. They tried to turn it into a criticism about unoriginality without saying that directly. And when they were done with all that chatter, you remembered one thing: Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump have a similar vision.
That is a huge persuasion win, and it might have been an accident. Trump’s biggest problem at the start was that he wasn’t a career politician, and it was hard for the public to see him as one. The best persuasion solution in that situation is to graft your reputation to an outsider who not only became president but also became a legend in the job. Although Reagan had political experience as governor of California before becoming president, the public still has a reflex to think of him as an actor who became president, because that’s the more interesting story.

Reagan’s success was the perfect pattern to put in people’s heads. The pattern reminded us that an outsider can become one of the most beloved presidents in American history. Trump got all of that benefit by association from the start, and it never faded. That association alone would have made Trump’s choice of slogans one of the best branding decisions of our lifetime, although as I said, it might have been an accident. But it goes deeper.

Now let’s look at the words in “Make America Great Again.” This is deep engineering. You won’t see it clearly until we talk about Clinton’s competing slogans and how bad they were. Your first impression in this chapter might be that I’m trying too hard to force a smart interpretation on Trump’s choice of slogans. But wait until you see the full picture. For trained persuaders such as me, this is amazing.

Every word in “Make America Great Again” is active and powerful. Check it out:

Make: A power/dominance word that speaks of creation and manufacturing (i.e., jobs).

America: The strongest brand in every American voter’s mind. It speaks to our identity and it fit comfortably with Trump’s nationalist (America first) proposition.

Great: The word speaks to power/dominance and success.

Again: This word caused critics to debate whether America was already great or not. That’s a nonsense debate because there is no agreed standard by which national greatness can be measured. But that doesn’t matter for persuasion. What mattered is that the country was talking about Trump’s slogan: Was it a mistake for Trump to include the word “again”? Did Reagan use that same word? Is the country really so bad now?

When you consider the Reagan association, the perfect fit with Trump’s nationalist message, and the power in each word, you start to see the deep persuasion that is engineered into the slogan.

 

[potato fan]

When I say neo-nazi I'm also encompassing all groups of white supremacists. You would have figured this out if you didn't take such an autistically literal interpretation of my words.

ok, I have to come clean
I actually am 250 neonazi white supremacists kkklansmen, all shitposting from one account to keep anonimity
can we get back to discussing TDS now?

 

[Vorhtbame]

ok, I have to come clean
I actually am 250 neonazi white supremacists kkklansmen, all shitposting from one account to keep anonimity
can we get back to discussing TDS now?

But...but...you were such a friendly-looking potato!

Then again, potatoes are brown on the outside, white on the inside. It was always there in front of us. How could I have been so naive?