Thankfully this fecker resigned from the canvassing board. He should resign as a judge as well for so egregiously violating his tenents.
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Ossoff looks like the lovechild of Pete and Beto, and sounds like it as well.
No sorrow for this idiot leaving The Intercept, hopefully we will never hear from him again...
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I like the two of them, Ossoff being their spawn is a good shout.
The other option was Jared Kushner and Anthony Weiner. Fortunately, good taste prevailed in the end.
Also, the kid knows how to bring the heat.
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that is stone cold savage, even for politics. Calling him a crook was *Chef Kiss*
Looks a tad like James Deen, too, the rapist porn star.
I think Nevada is fine, still a few days to get Clark firewall up to 90k, and theoretically you only need 70k anyhow (Clinton won by 25k even with the red wave)
But, since Florida is inert as feck, these Hispanic numbers do favor Trump.
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Well, the upside is that whenever you made some major or even a minor mistake in life and you start to doubt yourself -- just remember that there are at least 100 million Americans who are multitudes dumber. Much dumber.
It will be interesting to watch the apparent cleave in Latino voting in the future - the Central American diaspora in Texas, the SW, & California v. the Caribbean diaspora in Florida. It looks like the wall & the separation of families / locking children up plays far more strongly in the former than in the latter.
I’ve got 4 bottles of bourbon in the liquor cabinet that are down to 1/4 to 1/5 full. I’ll be working my way through them starting that morning (school is out for Election Day)
“Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history.” Hmm
From all the data I've seen this cycle, it's purely the Cuban population driving the pro-GOP numbers among Hispanic voters in FL. Other non-Cuban Hispanic FL groups are more in line with the rest of the country. Basically, FL is still held hostage by a bunch of Cuban exiles who are unhappy they can't exploit their fellow former countrymen to make every last buck off their backs (or that's what it seems like to me).
I’ll be there with you. Took both days off and going to tap kegs of home brew tripel and hard cider (for the wife...well and me) to go along with the scotch. One way or another my liver is definitely losing this election.
Thats what I’ve seen also. I’ve heard Qanus horseshit has played well in the Columbian populace, but I doubt it would have been as strong as the Cuban lunacy.
It’s weird, I was very close to a few Cuban-Americans in college (dated a couple, one of my best friends to this day from college is Cuban), they were all first generation Americans, & they were all pretty liberal when we first met. To a person, they all developed their conservative stance later in life. This is not an uncommon occurrence as one typically gets older, to gain more conservative beliefs, but theirs were hardcore shifts due to parental influence & incessant right wing Cuban propaganda in SE Florida. Also to person, they’ve all admitted that they wish they held their liberal views of the past, but they didn’t want to let their families & their culture down by remaining liberal.
Somewhat anecdotal, but totally common down there.
What gets me is the apathy that Puerto Rican voters had in 2018 in voting in the state of Florida. I thought that group would be very keen to vote Democrat back then & even moreso now, they could offset the Cuban vote somewhat. But, it appears the apathy still exists in their ranks.
What are you polishing off?
I’m going to decant then bigger red wines I’ve chosen for that day on Monday night. Not worth waiting until Biden is declared the winner on Tuesday night / Wednesday morning as the wine won’t be ready to drink immediately upon opening.
He also published the emails on his website here:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-editors-showing
I want Biden to win and maybe I am blinded by this, but it really seems like Greenwald was almost looking for an excuse to resign. There is clear escalation in the tone of Greenwald's initial reply and it almost feels like he is writing the email as a manifesto that he fully intends to publish.
He also posted his proposed article here:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored
By publishing the emails and the article, I think I better understand the editor's point and there are some issues with the article. Specifically, Greenwald seems to be claiming his thesis is about media suppression when it is really just an attempt to attack Biden. For example, Greenwald says any verification is easy when it seems like sources have been less then forthcoming with their information as media outlets have not been provided access to the hard drives. Greenwald is also raising concerns over Biden's involvement in getting Shokin fired (even though he kind of tries to downplay the obvious justification for firing Shokin) and it might strengthen his argument that the media has not asked enough questions of Biden. But he goes further in heavily implying that Biden acted to purposefully benefit both his son and Burisma rather than just stating that serious questions need to be asked. He basically argues that even if Biden wasn't aware that his actions or name benefitted his son he is still guilty rather than simply arguing that the situation raises serious questions.
The editor's initial email is basically saying that parts of Greenwald's article are justified (ie, media suppression of the Hunter Biden story) but that the accusations against Joe Biden, especially with Ukraine, are pretty baseless.
It is also pretty funny, though I don't want to partake in a whataboutism, that after resigning he quickly went on Tucker Carlson to complain about media support for and bias towards a particular candidate
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He simply comes across as a pompous cnut whose journalistic integrity is unassailable by those mere editors in a company he founded. You’re right, it does seem as though he was teeing himself up to be obviously disappointed by the meddling editors in order to hoist himself on his own petard, almost like a martyr, it seemed pretty planned. The response from the female editor smacks much of ‘christ almighty, not this horseshit again’ & apparently it wasn’t the first time.
He seems so obtuse & somewhat condensing, like it was a mortal blow that a mere editor actually had the gall to oppose any of his written words. I bet he was an absolute horror with which to work. I found him interesting during all the Snowden revelations, but since then, he has seemed quite the disingenuous prick akin to a Log Cabin republican in this country, acting not out of journalistic betterment but for his own personal beliefs.
He can slink back to Brazil & wrap himself in the loving arms of the jackass in control that of that country. If we never hear from this officious prick, the world would be a substantially better place in which to live.
They thought that creating their own dossier would be the October surprise they needed. They apparently even fecked that up...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/securi...dwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/securi...dwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387
I get you don't like Greenwald, but that is unnecessary.
TX is clearly a worry for hm to be up in the middle of the night tweeting about it.
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Greenwald's point is valid. If he had written the same article about Trump, no way do his editors ask him to revise anything.
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And another bites the dust.
Glenn is all about Glenn. The fact that like Tulsi Gabbard, he scampers off to Fox to spill his guts should tell you anything you need to know about his writings. They are little more than a vehicle of self-aggrandizement.
Not getting your point. It seems to me that Bolsonaro is exactly the type of leader GG would love.
It’s shocking that anyone, regardless of skin color, would be so idiotic to think that this president has done that much for criminal reform. Save for some high profile releases of inmates who were out there wrongly, he hasn’t done much at all.
It just goes to show how the fascist philosophy of citizens falling more easily prey to the bigger lie is spot on.
Sorry I thought you were making a crude joke about the death threats he and his husband have received in Brazil for Greenwald's reporting on Bolsonaro's former justice minister.
Agree. He was certainly the media darling in 2013, but his subsequent efforts exposed him for being what you say.
Very interesting, read the first Wiki article & will so read the others shortly. Wasn’t aware of this specifically, I was commenting on the leader’s style being close to Trump’s & how GG has become somewhat of a bootlicker for him.
I’m always interested in having my views challenged in constructive ways. Again, thanks!
he was told on tv that he should be arrested in 2013. i know because i was in the us for the first time in my life in 2013, and he published the snowden NSA leaks at that time, and i saw parts of the fallout.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nwald-go-to-jail-the-law-is-alarmingly-murky/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-gregory-glenn-greenwald-crime_n_3486654
Yes. I'm still holding out hope that Nas or Em takes them to the cleaners for it.
(Although it isn't really surprising that lil wayne is doing incredibly stupid stuff).
My bad, should have clarified it by saying a ‘progressive media darling.’
Just read the exchanges between Greenwald and his editor. I thought his editor broke it down very well. There’s definitely been a lack of constructive criticism on Biden and he’s definitely escaped major scrutiny but using this Hunter Biden/Ukraine/Hard drives nonsense that Trump and Giuliani have clearly fabricated is just embarrassing and the editor does a good job of detailing exactly why.
Part of the problem for Trump going up against Biden is that Biden is firmly to the right of centre himself so he can’t very credibly punch left at him and for obvious reasons he can’t punch from the left which is where most of the criticism could have come. They could easily have created and propagated narratives that turn away progressive voters around fracking, his 1994 crime bill and war on drugs and his voting against same sex marriage in the 90s and pointed to these being his true positions on the matters but all that would have done is advertised Biden to the disenfranchised Republicans Trump is desperately trying not to lose.
I thought Greenwald’s reply that he was going to have to take the story to another publisher as it was clearly time sensitive was fairly telling. Greenwald didn’t just want to share his observations and critical analysis of media bias in the 2020 elections, he wanted it to have an influence on the election.
Part of the problem for Trump going up against Biden is that Biden is firmly to the right of centre himself so he can’t very credibly punch left at him and for obvious reasons he can’t punch from the left which is where most of the criticism could have come. They could easily have created and propagated narratives that turn away progressive voters around fracking, his 1994 crime bill and war on drugs and his voting against same sex marriage in the 90s and pointed to these being his true positions on the matters but all that would have done is advertised Biden to the disenfranchised Republicans Trump is desperately trying not to lose.
I thought Greenwald’s reply that he was going to have to take the story to another publisher as it was clearly time sensitive was fairly telling. Greenwald didn’t just want to share his observations and critical analysis of media bias in the 2020 elections, he wanted it to have an influence on the election.
Really need this to be over now.
I’m going to truly miss these.
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