March LC Thread - Page 24 - Politics and Economics

I've noticed that the 4 hour erection warnings have disappeared from the newschannels. Possibly that is since the inauguration. Antimasturbation legislation could be phase 2.

03-13-2017 , 11:25 PM

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microbet

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I think it's about how black Americans were part of us beating the Nazis.

03-13-2017 , 11:26 PM

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So you're reading that tweet as being opposed to King?

03-13-2017 , 11:35 PM

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microbet

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Yes. I looked at other tweets from the same source though, like this:

03-13-2017 , 11:37 PM

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Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

wat

The fellow on the left is restoring civilization.

03-13-2017 , 11:38 PM

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Sure, it just felt like their statement was either supporting king or missing a comma

Much like the notorious:

Let's eat grandma
Vs
Let's eat, Grandma

03-13-2017 , 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

I think he's saying "before we move on from this..." rather than like, "before we make a move on this dude..."

03-13-2017 , 11:42 PM

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Big Data gone bad.

03-13-2017 , 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by microbet

Yes. I looked at other tweets from the same source though, like this:

I like that Ted Cruz isn't in this picture.

03-14-2017 , 12:22 AM

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If limited to the conservative movement and the Republican party, you could argue for a picture of Ted Cruz' dad's underwear. Especially if the $100 is still sewn in.

03-14-2017 , 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

Big Data gone bad.

This is 10 years old at least I reckon. Very good though.

03-14-2017 , 03:53 AM

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The Daily Show is doing a March Madness 64-Tweet Bracket for the best of Trump Tweets: located here.

My personal favorites:
-Bald eagles
-Gross incompetence
-Electoral College is a fraud
-Haters and Losers on 9/11
-Pope hotel
-Born ****ed up
-Coca Cola Garbage

and my personal pick to win it all:

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Originally Posted by DJT

Barney Frank looked disgusting--nipples protruding--in his blue shirt before Congress. Very very disrespectful.

03-14-2017 , 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by DrModern

The argument here is that The New York Times is right-wing? Because no one's policing their tone but their editors (plus writers self-policing).

Had you never encountered the phrase "tone policing" before?

03-14-2017 , 08:02 AM

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Had you never encountered the phrase "tone policing" before?

Not really, no, but I just Googled it. If I can trust Wikipedia, seems like it has a meaning in The Discourse™ that invalidates my argument, so sorry about that. I stand by the substance of what I said about the Times' reporting in this case, though.

03-14-2017 , 08:22 AM

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The Times has been policed, though, that's the point. Trent Lott had to step down from leadership after praising Strom Thurmond 15 years ago and right wing media has worked tirelessly to make sure nothing like that will ever happen again.

The "liberal" mainstream media are the easiest refs to work in the history of the world because they worship being seen as centrist and objective and the right figured out that meant no matter how far to the right they go the media will follow them and re-calibrate the center.

03-14-2017 , 08:45 AM

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I'm glad for Steve King that he didn't do anything truly beyond the pale like sigh or make an excited noise or look goofy in an army helmet or defend his wife after she was called insane.

03-14-2017 , 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by FlyWf

The "liberal" mainstream media are the easiest refs to work in the history of the world because they worship being seen as centrist and objective and the right figured out that meant no matter how far to the right they go the media will follow them and re-calibrate the center.

Haha, agreed! Turns out my original snark-take was right!

We have a center-right press (the Times) vs. an extreme-right press (Breitbart) vs. I dunno, a bunch of bad "essays" in Jacobin and In These Times, I guess?

03-14-2017 , 09:18 AM

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I'd like to coin a phrase given Steve king's tweet the other day:

White nationalism is the new black

Perhaps it could be seen as supporting white nationalism though. Thoughts?

03-14-2017 , 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

I'd like to coin a phrase given Steve king's tweet the other day:

White nationalism is the new black

Perhaps it could be seen as supporting white nationalism though. Thoughts?

How so? It seems our society holds all whites, even foolish white nationalists, in higher regard by default than black citizens.

03-14-2017 , 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by FlyWf

Out of curiosity I looked back for NYT's coverage of Lott's remarks. AFAICT (without looking very hard) they actually didn't report on the speech at all. The first thing they had to say was this:

Quote:

Saying that he had used ''a poor choice of words,'' Trent Lott, the Senate Republican leader, apologized tonight for his speech at the 100th birthday party of Senator Strom Thurmond, which critics had said was an implicit endorsement of segregation.

''A poor choice of words conveyed to some that I embraced the discarded policies of the past,'' Mr. Lott said in a statement. ''Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended.''

Earlier in the day, Mr. Lott had issued a statement that stopped short of an apology, saying his comments were made in the spirit of ''a lighthearted celebration.'' His later expression of contrition came after a reporter pointed out to his office that former Vice President Al Gore had called on him to apologize. Mr. Lott's spokesman said the apology was not in response to Mr. Gore but came solely ''out of personal concern for this misunderstanding.''

At issue are three sentences in Mr. Lott's tribute last Thursday to Mr. Thurmond, a South Carolina Republican who ran for president in 1948 on a Dixiecrat platform opposing ''social intermingling of the races.'' With Mr. Thurmond by his side, Mr. Lott, Republican of Mississippi, said:

''I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.''

The comments brought complaints from both sides of the political aisle.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson called on Mr. Lott to resign as Republican leader. Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and leader of the civil rights movement, said he was ''shocked and chagrined.'' William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, said Mr. Lott had been ''thoughtless.''

Mr. Gore, in a television interview today, accused Mr. Lott of making ''a racist statement,'' and called for the Senate to censure him unless he apologized.

Mr. Lott had begun the day by telling his Democratic counterpart, Tom Daschle, that his remarks about Mr. Thurmond had been misconstrued.

Then in a statement he said, ''My comments were not an endorsement of his positions of over 50 years ago, but of the man and his life.''

One politician who pointedly declined to join in the criticism was Mississippi's Democratic governor, Ronnie Musgrove, who was in Washington today for a meeting of the Democratic Governors' Association.

''I'm sure Senator Lott was just caught up in the excitement of the celebration of Senator Thurmond's birthday,'' Mr. Musgrove said at a lunchtime interview with New York Times reporters and editors.

When pressed, Governor Musgrove carefully repeated his comment, word for word.

If anything, it's more restrained than the King piece, in that they bothered to track down some people willing to say the comments weren't super-racist.