The photos of the "crowds" at the tank parade remind me of when Bill Hicks would come on stage in an almost-empty club, scan the room slowly, and announce "I've had more people in bed than this" ...
When the president sends a cabinet member on TV to announce "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
This is from 2022 but it was absolutely right. The practiced buffoonery of Trump 1, all the "just kiddings" and "seriously but not literallys" absolutely succeeded in desensitizing people who are hardly paying any attention to the harder stuff they always intended to do next. ...
The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff horrifies some of the same people who cheered when Trump promised to do it. There are true sociopaths who love this, but "No, I meant only the BAD immigrants! Not my coworker/friend/neighbor!" is as likely a reaction as enthusiasm. You cannot do immigration policy that satisfies these people because what they want is nonsensical.
So by the time center-left parties fully commit to chasing the far right by "getting tough" on immigration, the backlash has already begun to build and they walk right into it. "I thought you people wanted this!" No, they want something impossible and convinced themselves they'd could have it - the "eat whatever you want AND lose weight!" of immigration policies.
It is hard to grasp but large masses of Americans are both racist/xenophobic AND not racist/xenophobic enough to applaud what Trump is doing. It's goldilocks shit, they want a level of racism/xenophobia calibrated exactly to their personal preferences, and you just can't make that policy. Don't try. ...
AP: Trump extends olive branch, invites Musk to White House cellar to taste some brand new amontillado ...
A says:
"Access Denied" = 100% needs to be FJMed! 5 out of a 4 point scale…
Hazy Davy says:
It does not need to be FJM'ed.
Stupidity needs to be FJM'ed. This is so bad, it needs to be ignored.
[How much? It needs to be FJM'ed as much as Todd Palin needs to reduce the size of his library.]
anotherbozo says:
Far more interesting than the fact that there are morons around who just don't get racism is the revelation that it takes Ed only one hour to write his posts. It would take me all day to write a third as well! If that well!
I begin the day with appropriate humility and look forward to tomorrow.
JazzBumpa says:
The reality is that the Trayvon Martin case is being pushed by left-wing organizations eager to provide a backdrop of racial strife to this year’s elections – a dangerous tactic, given how frequently popular agitation over these kinds of racially divisive stories have led to riots that leave people dead or homeless and local businesses and jobs destroyed. And that while activists on both sides of the aisle often try to get big media to focus on particular crime stories that advance some national political or cultural narrative, the media is much more apt to be receptive to such campaigns by the left than the right.
No, no need to FJM this at.
Move right along. Nothing to see here.
Holy fucking shit.
JzB
acer says:
5/5 on the Giles scale.
Mocking the Stupid is more fun. But I've seen a lot of this crap from smirking pseudo-intellectual White Nationalists in the last few days and it deserves to be mocked at length, with the appropriate venom. All the "reasoned" responses in the world are wasted on it.
acer says:
PS: Don't feel guilty. That Georgia pollen is a motherfucker.
Da Moose says:
I serously hope that that is some sort of weak and tasteless attempt at irony. If not, I am sympathetic to his wife's needs. Surely he has a tiny, tiny tallywhacker.
Dan says:
The fact that he says the media aren't covering the more important Mexican drug cartel story and then provides a laundry list of news stories that cover the Mexican drug cartel means this assclown needs to be FJMed in a very big way! That's not even counting all the idiotic tie-ins to the presidential election.
A Babe of the Boom says:
On a 1 to 10 scale: 11
Jim says:
Thanks for the link. I used to think that the problem here was that some crazy guy chased down an unarmed teenager, shot him dead for no reason, and was not arrested for it. But that was me being naive. I've now learned that the REAL injustice here is how the national media sometimes doesn't cover OTHER crimes, which apparently makes middle-class white conservative armchair jockeys cry. Well, I've been set straight and now I know who the true victims in the Martin case are: The true victims are always the people who (a) weren't shot and killed, (b) didn't have a family member shot and killed, (c) didn't have to stand by helplessly while no one did anything to help them, but (d) feel personally hurt by an imagined media bias. I can imagine how much greater their pain must be compared to the Martin family.
Seriously, do we have to set up a 24-hour televised news station which does nothing but detail every single violent crime that happens anywhere in North America? Would that get these assholes to shut up? It might be worth it.
JK says:
On a scale of 1 to 10.
Joe Buck.
J. Dryden says:
For me, the measurement determining whether a piece needs FJMing is the number of half-uttered outbursts I make while reading it. If the number reaches 8, we have a winner. So let's check the totals…"What the–", "What does that have to do with–", "That's completely–", "Oh for the love of–", "What the fu–", "Is this a goddamned–", "You are clinically–", and "Waste basket–I need the wa–".
And then I got to the second paragraph.
So yes, FJM that muther.
PWL says:
This one goes to 11..on the scale for Asshole of the Year…
Major Kong says:
And that while activists on both sides of the aisle often try to get big media to focus on particular crime stories that advance some national political or cultural narrative, the media is much more apt to be receptive to such campaigns by the left than the right.
Excuse me. I need to switch over to Fox and get the latest on the Natalie Holloway case.
Elle says:
I scoffed quite a lot. I did feel the need, though, to set that against the sense of enervation that settled over me at the thought of spending time fisking it. Same specious arguments and half-assed media analysis. Same whining. Same ludicrous entitlement, straw-mannery, and absence of pith. Same Hail Mary* introduction of abortion as some kind of contrapuntal narrative of liberal bad faith.
My warm regard for you compels me to encourage you to take a pass.
*I have used your sports metaphor incorrectly, yes?
Jessica says:
A great contrast:
http://www.urbancusp.com/newspost/the-bullet-next-time-an-open-letter-to-my-unborn-black-son/
Xynzee says:
Not worth an FJM. However, worth having his address, place of work, license plate number, and other personal details posted on the Internet.
Then have: I don't see why everyone's so worked up over a spic hunting down and killing a nig.
Spray painted on his car, house, work place….
duquesne_pdx says:
Bring the FJM hammer down.
West of the Cascades says:
I used to work with Dan McLaughlin – he's a turd, and not worth your valuable time.
business says:
We learned something newhere now I'm happy for now. Best Wishes!