US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

I'm sure OAN is very critical of his performance.

If there's one thing I'm fairly sure of, it's that he's got some means--a massive wall of computers in some underground bunker or something--to monitor every reaction everywhere to every single thing he ever does or says.

he def watches cnn prob msnbc too, he like tv, hes a bit of a tv critic

it's kind of weird how someone who has so much on camera experience didn't do basic stuff last night like look at the camera

between kamala getting in his face and the moderators fact checking him he was shook

If you're going to compile a detailed enemies list, you need to do your homework.

he's already threatened to go after ABC and have their FCC license revoked, something that just won't happen

The Federal Communications Commission does not license major broadcast networks such as ABC

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#:~:text=We%20license%20only%20individual%20broadcast%20stations.%20We,general%2C%20we%20also%20do%20not%20regulate%20information

We license only individual broadcast stations. We do not license TV or radio networks (such as CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox) or other organizations that stations have relationships with, such as PBS or NPR, except if those entities are also station licensees.

Meantime, maybe he ended up watching this to feel better.

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/megyn-kelly-slams-taylor-swift-endorsing-kamala-harris-1236141178/

lol She's on Sirius FM. Who the hell has that?

I'm not even sure who Megyn Kelly is

She's the one who was bleeding out of her whatever

I thought Kelly tried to do a mainstream pivot, guess that didn't work out?

That was the mourning joe lady xp

She doesn’t care what happens to these kids, just like he doesn’t give a shit what happens to all the young men who take the Pfizer booster he’s been pushing on them.

Megyn Kelly is an anti-vaxxer now?

pretty powerful address by the Springfield OH father:

Father of Ohio boy, 11, tells Trump and Vance to stop using son’s death for ‘political gain’

The father of an 11-year-old boy who was killed last year when a minivan driven by an immigrant from Haiti collided with his school bus has asked Donald Trump and JD Vance to stop using his son’s name for “political gain”.

During a city commission meeting on Tuesday in Springfield, Ohio, Nathan Clark, the father of Aiden Clark, addressed the forum alongside his wife, Danielle. Speaking at the meeting, Clark said: “I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone,” the Springfield News-Sun reports.

Clark went on to list politicians including Donald Trump and JD Vance who he said have been using his son’s name for “political gain”.

“Bernie Moreno [the Ohio Republican senate candidate], Chip Roy [the Texas Republican representative], JD Vance and Donald Trump … have spoken my son’s name and used his death for political gain. This needs to stop now. They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis, and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members. However, they are not allowed, nor have they ever been allowed, to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio,” said Clark.

“I will listen to them one more time to hear their apologies. To clear the air, my son, Aiden Clark, was not murdered. He was accidentally killed by an immigrant from Haiti. This tragedy has been all over this community, the state and even the nation. But don’t spin this towards hate,” he continued.

Clark went on to say: “Did you know that one of the worst feelings in the world is to not be able to protect your child? Even worse, we can’t protect his memory when he’s gone. Please stop the hate.”

lol She's on Sirius FM. Who the hell has that?

people who just bought/leased a new car and haven't been prodded to pay for it yet

Also interstate truckers and former Howard Stern fans who bought a lifetime subscription

My favorite Sirius FM story is when they started a Young Turks channel and just played the same episode on a loop for months.

I always listen to it in rental cars, and I always have the same revelation on the Grateful Dead channel: "Say, these guys aren't that bad!" followed shortly by "What a godawful, boring boogie jam this is..." and then switching over to the new age station which is nice when you're driving through the redwoods

jesus christ lol

JD Vance on Taylor Swift: I don't think many people are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans. pic.twitter.com/NzZ0FY4DWY

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2024

jesus christ

Worse: Taylor Swift.

Ha! WOW.

JD, have you been living under a rock?

remind me - who is JD Vance running on a ticket with?

At this point I think Vance is trying to get fired, maybe he doesn’t want loser stink on top of his many liabilities.

watch when his wife votes for Harris

that "tank it" bit from 30 Rock comes to mind.

Frogbs, what can one say but... haters gonna hate.

genuinely do not understand how this guy won a Senate seat he's the single worst politician I've ever seen

genuinely do not understand how this guy won a Senate seat he's the single worst politician I've ever seen

Shit-ton of Thiel money, positive press for years due to rich liberals buying his book, and running against a Dem candidate who decided he had to get even more conservative as the campaign went on probably were contributing factors

"I don't think many people are going to buy shoes just because some guy who can dunk a basketball wears them" -- JD Vance, 1984, probably

well tbf this is more like saying that in 1994

Is this Vance sassing back at Trump?

I don't think Vance is capable of that level of chess

I think JD might be a rockist

Trump saying he ended the Nordstream 2 was cool. How’d he do that?

intense focus

I have a friend who's going around facebook or somewhere looking for disgruntled republicans who wanna unload their Swift tickets, which he'll resell.. already gotten a couple bites

aside from "they're eating dogs!!" the greatest legacy of this debate is probably going to be those kamala reactions

can't find it rn (it's probably on this thread) but my favorite one was something like

My wife when I start talking about Michael Mann's Heat (1995)

Best thing in the debate is Kamala Harris Facial Reactions #Debate2024 pic.twitter.com/SlfZMGsaoj

— 𝐕𝐉☆ (@HeDontMissVj) September 11, 2024

I'd mostly forgotten about the Drudge Report but the headlines today are over the top in a fun way

TRUMP'S 911
WORST PERFORMANCE OF CAREER

THE NIGHT TRUMP LOST IT ALL...
BECOMES WHAT HE FEARED MOST: LAUGHING STOCK...
RATTLED DON DEMANDS ABC BE SHUT DOWN...
FLIGHT RISK: WILL FEDS SEIZE PASSPORT?
SAYS HE'LL FLEE USA IF HARRIS WINS...
LIVE IN EXILE?

I never thought I’d experience *positive* nostalgia for the Drudge Report

no, they should die in a house fire.

otm

someone on NPR just mentioned Breitbart which I have to admit I haven't thought of in years

Drudge still has a Tripod/Geocities/Angelfire look which is pretty nostalgic

always loved how much it looked like shit even back when it was current

I asked Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump's top advisors, what is the evidence for saying that Caracas and Venezuela are safer than the United States. He began by answering that it is the government's numbers. I asked him if he trusted Maduro's numbers. And this was his… pic.twitter.com/qkXTNiGmt0

— José María Del Pino (@josemdelpino) September 11, 2024

I hadn't really clocked how exactly he looks like that guy from the Spongebob cartoon