Tens of thousands died in the Serbia/Kosovo conflicts and the entire region is economically unstable but yes, George, Grenell yelling at the media was the monumental achievement. Bully for him...
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This is fun. For discussion purposes only, of course. Biden increases HRC vote total, wins the popular vote by 3.5 million, and Trump eeks out a 272 EC victory.
The map:
https://www.270towin.com/map-images/KQAAG
Yes George, sing us the song of poor Mikey Flynn, who while walking down the sidewalk to church humming the national anthem in full dress uniform slipped and fell into a random pile of Turkish money that just happened to get into his bank accounts through osmosis. Dude was so compromised the Obama Administration went out of there way to tell the Trump Transition not to let him back in after they fired him. Then Trump fired him again.
But enjoy your defense of Mike the Martyr, if it makes you feel better
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I'm torn on the Weiss for many of the reasons you just raise. Not because of her in particular, opinion writers are plentiful and I would frankly take most of our folks over the rooster of the Grey Lady's current op-ed page, but the avatars some are making this case to be are interesting. It is indeed possible to both hold a cushy, self-indulgent fluffery of a job - and as you note performatively walk out of said job for the brand boost of your next venture with Sullivan or whoever it may be - and also be in an abusive work situation. Weiss in particular drives reactions from folks, granted as you point out often purposefully and seemingly to revel in the reaction. I fall somewhere in the fact that she was undoubtably treated horribly by folks that have a well-documented track record of doing so, probably is exaggerating it a bit for her own purposes, and think just about everyone got what they wanted from this fracas. No one thought she was long for the NY Times, both parties get to be self-righteous in the parting, and here we are almost two weeks later still talking about it.
Which brings us to Saul's latter point: "cancel culture" sure does look like gatekeeping and rearranging of various gravy trains under new nomenclature when you zoom out a bit. Media is doing a shaking-out of what it is, and elite media like the NYT has more than a little "in club" to it. Which makes them both a target and distributor of whatever "cancel culture might be".
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Tens of thousands died in the Serbia/Kosovo conflicts and the entire region is economically unstable but yes, George, Grenell yelling at the media was the monumental achievement. Bully for him...
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This is fun. For discussion purposes only, of course. Biden increases HRC vote total, wins the popular vote by 3.5 million, and Trump eeks out a 272 EC victory.
The map:
https://www.270towin.com/map-images/KQAAG
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You bring all that up avoiding my point because what I said is indisputable facts that nothing in the preceding months have changed.
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Yes George, sing us the song of poor Mikey Flynn, who while walking down the sidewalk to church humming the national anthem in full dress uniform slipped and fell into a random pile of Turkish money that just happened to get into his bank accounts through osmosis. Dude was so compromised the Obama Administration went out of there way to tell the Trump Transition not to let him back in after they fired him. Then Trump fired him again.
But enjoy your defense of Mike the Martyr, if it makes you feel better
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Thank you Oscar
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I'm embarrassed for you, George, that you have now mashed the "reply" button on this deliberately obtuse argument not once but twice now.
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Nothing currently in moderation
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Your last paragraph there is harsh, but I think very fair and accurate.
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I'm torn on the Weiss for many of the reasons you just raise. Not because of her in particular, opinion writers are plentiful and I would frankly take most of our folks over the rooster of the Grey Lady's current op-ed page, but the avatars some are making this case to be are interesting. It is indeed possible to both hold a cushy, self-indulgent fluffery of a job - and as you note performatively walk out of said job for the brand boost of your next venture with Sullivan or whoever it may be - and also be in an abusive work situation. Weiss in particular drives reactions from folks, granted as you point out often purposefully and seemingly to revel in the reaction. I fall somewhere in the fact that she was undoubtably treated horribly by folks that have a well-documented track record of doing so, probably is exaggerating it a bit for her own purposes, and think just about everyone got what they wanted from this fracas. No one thought she was long for the NY Times, both parties get to be self-righteous in the parting, and here we are almost two weeks later still talking about it.
Which brings us to Saul's latter point: "cancel culture" sure does look like gatekeeping and rearranging of various gravy trains under new nomenclature when you zoom out a bit. Media is doing a shaking-out of what it is, and elite media like the NYT has more than a little "in club" to it. Which makes them both a target and distributor of whatever "cancel culture might be".
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Point of order: If you conducted yourself in Baghdad like some of the officers here you would be in Leavenworth right now still working it off.
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Nothing in the cache or flagged pile...
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"Hollywood sounds like Germany in the mid-30’s"
Settle down, George. It's not quite as bad as all that.
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