Coffee Talk V: The Final Battle

[thedddd]

I think Fox and the right media would be a lot better served if they actually learned how to ask questions to actually elicit usable responses rather than teeing up Psaki to fuckin bludgeon them repeatedly.

For example, there’s definitely a story in the administration basically telling people complaining about gas prices to “get an electric” while ignoring all the trickle-down inflationary issues high fuel costs have, and there is DEFINITELY a fucking play here when they’ve just decided to full-on blame Putin for a year’s worth of rampant inflation based on a three week old war, but when you have a guy starting his question with “a lot of people are saying…” you’re done before the question even gets answered.

The issue is if they ask those questions it goes against the narrative they present on their networks. Like the whole high fuel costs, it is very apparent and the Press Secretary has pointed out in the past that the oil companies are not producing prior to pandemic levels.

Just think if they asked questions all Americans agreed upon that would kill their ratings and make Hannity, Fucker and the Nazi salute lady obsolete.

 

[mooger_35]

The issue is if they ask those questions it goes against the narrative they present on their networks. Like the whole high fuel costs, it is very apparent and the Press Secretary has pointed out in the past that the oil companies are not producing prior to pandemic levels.

Just think if they asked questions all Americans agreed upon that would kill their ratings and make Hannity, Fucker and the Nazi salute lady obsolete.

Dream world

 

[buffhockey]

I guess used cars aren’t the only valuable thing out there.

 

[thedddd]

Dream world

Totally! And that sentiment goes for all talking head pundits for me. Just using Fox since this is about their stupid network.

 

[forty_three]

I think Fox and the right media would be a lot better served if they actually learned how to ask questions to actually elicit usable responses rather than teeing up Psaki to fuckin bludgeon them repeatedly.

For example, there’s definitely a story in the administration basically telling people complaining about gas prices to “get an electric” while ignoring all the trickle-down inflationary issues high fuel costs have, and there is DEFINITELY a fucking play here when they’ve just decided to full-on blame Putin for a year’s worth of rampant inflation based on a three week old war, but when you have a guy starting his question with “a lot of people are saying…” you’re done before the question even gets answered.

I get annoyed when the "powers that be" try to spin the narrative that each individual has to make changes to fix the situation. I get it that everyone can do their part, but telling people to get an electric car when no one does anything about the 100 companies are doing 71% of the carbon pollution on earth and have been for decades without repercussion is stupid.

Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says

A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate change

www.theguardian.com

So, until real action happens against these companies and the places they do business, I am not going to listen to anyone who tells me that me eating one less cheeseburger a month is going to make any meaningful difference.

 

[dare2be]

WTF?

North Carolina mom says Black students were ‘sold’ at school ‘slave auction’

One student was designated as the “slavemaster” because he “knew how to handle them."

www.wpxi.com

 

[scoutyjones2]

Leonard Pitts from today

Pitts: Ukraine vs. D.C. offers telling tale of two convoys​

They drove 64 miles in a circle.

That’s the length of the Capital Beltway, the ribbon of asphalt that loops around Washington, D.C.

For over four hours on Sunday, the so-called “People’s Convoy” — estimated at about 1,000 trucks, RVs and cars — drove that circle in protest.

In protest of what? Well, take your pick.

Many drivers — nearly all white, nearly all men — flew flags supporting Donald Trump or opposing Joe Biden.

Some displayed Confederate battle flags and placards against vaccine and mask mandates, even though those mandates have largely been lifted.

One lady told The Good Liars, an online comedy platform, that she’s protesting because she doesn’t want “them” to “digitile” us, a word that does not appear in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary.

The drivers uniformly claim to be fighting against tyranny.
Meantime, another convoy of trucks rumbles out of Berlin, bound for Ukraine.

It carries donated toilet paper, batteries, medicine, pet food, baby food and other necessities of everyday life impossible to find in Ukraine since Russia began mauling that country almost two weeks ago.

“Somebody has to do this,” Vadim Pashkiuskiy, a 29-year-old Ukrainian driver, told The Washington Post. “My war is to deliver goods. It may be dangerous, but it’s my responsibility to my country.

“I’m not hiding. I’m doing whatever I can to help.”

The contrast between the convoys is painful. And telling.

In the almost 15 years since Barack Obama’s election panicked a certain subset of Americans, many of us have become inured to their performative displays of supposed patriotism.

We’ve seen them don tricorner hats and wave “Don’t tread on me” signs, storm the Michigan statehouse, carry long guns to make a Starbucks run, and, yes, ransack the U.S. Capitol.

Now there’s this.

Such behavior has always seemed absurd, delusional and pathetic.

But never so much as it does now, as Ukraine fights for its life.

Towns and lives reduced to rubble.

Walls sheared off buildings. Bedrooms and kitchens left open to the sky.

Streets littered with chunks of masonry and blackened husks of cars.

Parents weeping over their toddler’s corpse.

And yet, defiance reigns.

A man hops atop a Russian military vehicle waving a Ukrainian flag.

An unarmed crowd advances on armed Russian troops, forcing them back.

In a bomb shelter, a little girl sings in Ukrainian that favorite anthem of little girls, “Let It Go” from Disney’s “Frozen,” and her thin, sweet, child’s voice brings a world watching via social media to tears.

But we’re supposed to think refusal to wear a mask in a pandemic is fighting for freedom?

If these people had even a molecule of decency, they’d be ashamed.

But they don’t, so they won’t.

For those of us who do, Ukraine is a reminder that resisting tyranny is not a performance, not something you cosplay.

That reminder is vital, given that American democracy is fast eroding — not because of medical mandates, mind you, but because of attacks on the right to vote, protest and speak freely.

Against that troubling confluence of threats, the truckers who descended on D.C. provide a vivid illustration that even at this dangerous extremity, the American capacity for blithe idiocy remains intact.

One would happily trade the 1,000 drivers of the “People’s Convoy” for one Vadim Pashkiuskiy.

 

[dash]

WTF?

North Carolina mom says Black students were ‘sold’ at school ‘slave auction’

One student was designated as the “slavemaster” because he “knew how to handle them."

www.wpxi.com

Make America 1850 Again?

 

[sbb122]

WTF?

North Carolina mom says Black students were ‘sold’ at school ‘slave auction’

One student was designated as the “slavemaster” because he “knew how to handle them."

www.wpxi.com

Well to answer her question “Since when were children so blatantly racist?” I’m gonna say January 20th 2017

 

[forty_three]

Putin places head of the FSB's foreign intelligence under house arrest

Also arrested is Anatoly Bolyukh, Beseda's deputy, according to respected author Andrey Soldatov, who said Putin is 'truly unhappy' with the agency - which he ran before becoming president.

www.dailymail.co.uk

"Tell me what I want to hear, or you will fall out of a window"

"Here is what you want to hear"

*2 months later*

"HOW COULD YOU NOT WARN ME?"

 

[puckhead]

interesting thread

 

[puckhead]

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Misspelling not mine lol

 

[thedddd]

Curious wonder when gas prices come back down?

 

[thedddd]

Yeah that is scary and his sheep see nothing wrong with it.

 

[forty_three]

Yeah that is scary and his sheep see nothing wrong with it.

How is he going to finance a run when almost all of his donors are sanctioned?

Speaking of:

Those Russkies sure can identify their useful idiots, huh?

 

[forty_three]

U.K. Wants to House Ukraine Refugees in Russian Oligarch Mansions

The British government is looking at whether they can legally use sanctioned mansions belonging to Russian oligarchs to house incoming refugees.

www.thedailybeast.com

THAT'S using the old noggin

 

[thedddd]

Great article to share with the folks who think Biden controls the price of gas. Granted if they truly think it, then they probably won't be able to comprehend the article.

America Is the World’s Largest Oil Producer. So Why Is Losing Russia’s Oil Such a Big Deal?

The U.S. might be “energy independent,” but it still can’t control production.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[scoutyjones2]

Great article to share with the folks who think Biden controls the price of gas. Granted if they truly think it, then they probably won't be able to comprehend the article.

America Is the World’s Largest Oil Producer. So Why Is Losing Russia’s Oil Such a Big Deal?

The U.S. might be “energy independent,” but it still can’t control production.

www.theatlantic.com

Since when do logic and facts sway opinions of republicans

 

[mooger_35]

Deep state!