MSM JOURNALISM

How many newspapers do you think they’ve sold over the years based on Trump?

Biting the hand that feeds you is never a good long term strategy.

No bias there.

No, none at all.

The new Enquirer; what else could they do with circulation dropping like a stone over the last 10 years.

Did you notice the bottom of the page that says,”Sarah’s drunk son beat gal pal, waved rifle” ?

Another Palin offspring in the toilet of public opinion?

Reading the entire Samuel Francis 1996 essay/PDF blew me away. On many levels, it’s like it was written from today’s headlines.

NEWS FLASH >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sarah Palin was a NO-SHOW for Trump today.

Interesting.

… and the British and French find this newspaper front page hilarious. Remember that Palin was John McCain’s choice of running mate and surely cost him the election. If he could make decisions like that, how could you trust him with things that really matter?

Indeed, you have to wonder about the structure and membership of the Republican Party if it can come up with candidates like Trump, Cruz, Palin et al. Some Arizona people I know think McCain is a nutter too, but that is not obvious way over here.

Charles, with all due respect, I think the British and French are buffoons, who are either so oblivious about the Muslim takeover of their countries, or they are just bat shit crazy if they allow it to happen. Which is it? Go ahead and laugh at Trump, but at least he smells a rat and can recognize it.

Bea Lever says: I’m sorry Trump-eteers, but that is funny.

A generation raised on the Onion and the Daily show can’t tell the silly sensationalist yellow press from serious journalism. Trumpeteers be having a hissy fit over this ‘headline’. (I can’t believe HSF got sucked in.)

Maybe in the future President Kanye will make sure edukayshun is dumbed down further so it won’t matter, we’ll all be with stupid.

@Jim: Personally, I am all for excluding religious fanatics of any ilk. I would only allow paid-up atheists to come anywhere near my country (well, two or three countries actually). All the rest, with possible exception of Tibetan Buddhists, could go somewhere else.

As for barriers along US international borders, I am all for them. Build a 10 metre high wall along the Mexican border like the Israeli “separation barrier”, but without as much as a single gate in it. A similar one along the Canadian border could keep those evil Brits and Muslims from infiltrating from the Frozen North. Don’t put any gates in that either.

And finally, close all your international air communications with the Rest of The World. That will keep the Evil Brits and Muslims from flying in and plotting the overthrow of the US Guvmint.

@EL Coyote:

In case you haven’t been watching what has been going on in Europe over the past few months, various governments have been throwing up razor wire fences in quite a hurry. Hungary was the first, putting up hundreds of kilometres of formidable razor wire fences along the borders with Serbia, Romania and Slovenia. Macedonia and Slovenia have followed suit and the Swedes and Danes have erected barriers on their borders too. As for the British, they have erected a huge perimeter fence around the entrance to the Channel Tunnel, though I fear a razor wire fence is not enough. They will need machine guns and a very high concrete wall. Meanwhile, out in eastern Ukraine, they are putting up fences and tank traps to keep the Russians out. They will probably need a 10m high concrete wall, Israel style.

Much of the US-Mexico barrier (much more than a fence, that is for sure) is already built along the border and The Donald says he will make Mexico pay. Similarly, you can make the Canadians pay for the barrier along the northern border, on pain of having the US Army come in and affect Regime Change if they don’t. While they are there, the army could deal with all those scumbag Canadian socialists, the sort who vote for or are members of the NDP.

Speaking of Israel’s Separation Barrier, it will be about 650km long when completed. That is about a tenth of the length of the US-Canada border, but Israel’s population and GDP is only a few percent of that of the USA. Anything Israel can do, surely the USA can do better?

One formidable fence I have passed through is that between China and Pakistan. That serves to keep Muslim infiltrators out of China, has two parallel chain-mesh fences, topped, by razor wire, with a mess of razor wire between, and guarded by men with AK-47s. That appears to keep the Muslims out, but Israel’s solution would be better. There is a similar fence on the China-Kazakhstan border.

Another barrier I have been through a number of times was the Berlin Wall. That was thrown up by the East Germans in a few months, was a double wall with a minefield between and patrolled by guards with submachineguns. However, it was not high enough and had too many ways through, so some thousands of people escaped to the West. You want something more effective than that.

The cost of a very substantial fence might be $20000 per kilometre (minefields and surveillance towers would be extra), for a wall might cost a million. But even for the entire length of the US-Canada border, the cost of a concrete separation barrier would be chicken feed. Even the Canadians could pay it without any particular problem. Of course, the Alaska-Canada border would also need reinforcing, though for some reason that seems of no concern. I don’t believe the US has a problem with infiltration from Canada into Alaska. In any case, most of that border is too remote for people to just walk over and find comfortable circumstances on the other side. A short fence near Skagway would probably be enough. Similarly, the border station near Tok could have a substantial fence leading out into the muskeg, with some hungry bears encouraged to hang out and watch for infiltrators.

By the way, in addition to closing land borders and international flights, the USA could ban all imports. The savings from that action alone could pay the billions for the border separation barrier.

Chucky is a troll. Please kindly go back to Europe and worry about your own country. In other words, fuck off with your stupid input. Nothing you write makes sense…

@Unadapted: Trolls leave abuse under a pen-name or avatar. Unlike quite a few commentators here, I use my real name and try very hard, even faced with extreme abuse, to be polite. So who is the troll, eh?

Many years ago, a US Consul who also happened to be a personal friend, issued me with a tourist visa to the US. In so doing, he warned me to not express any political opinions, lest I meet a similar end to Easy Rider. So, when I make my occasional visits, I follow his advice and keep my mouth shut. So much for the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

So you Americans do not like foreigners to have any opinions about US politics. Fair enough. You should have a logon requirement to give your social security number so the likes of me cannot join the debate. You could even use IP address barring to prevent anyone outside the US from seeing your websites. Similarly, you could follow the Chinese and North Korea example and prevent anyone in the US being aware of the Rest of the World, what we think or do, or even that we exist.

I apologize for calling you a socialist. Your a fascist.

Yes, I’m a troll, and not well paid either. But Admin has a liberal time off policy. Wow.

Yeah, we have heard of the ‘reconquista’. Whatever. It is a fantasy of college-age idiots.

I replied to your proposal of fencing the USA in. It would be just another nail in the coffin of the once free country.

That Europe has been experiencing some problems with open borders is terrible, they dreamt of having a United States of Europe but are now dealing with unintended consequences. Welcome to our world.

Someday, our politicos will come out of the closet as fascists and communists and we will embrace them as our saviors.

Ethnic cleansing will be carried out in an orderly fashion.

Collaborators will be surprised to find themselves on the wrong end of the gun.

Bcareful, I guess you are punning on Charles Poynton’s nickname. I think the joke may be lost on him, especially since this is such an old movie. I can’t imagine any other reason for that clip, it doesn’t tie in with anything other than my calling him ‘Chuckie’ above.

I would have gone with Pink Floyd:

EC… some of your finest work. Chuck is a puck.

It did… sometimes they do. Sometimes not. My male bunny seems to have a pinched nerve in his neck. I looked it up and it is called “wry neck.” I’m trying to feed him by hand for a day or so and see if it heals enough for him to “perform.”

I put one of my lady rabbits in his cage to see if he was interested and while he seemed willing, he can’t lift his poor head and make a go of it. However, the LADY bunny got herself all worked up and started thumping and presenting. When he didn’t respond, she just climbed on top of HIM and humped away, then threw herself off in an exhausted heap. I realize this has nothing to do with MSM journalism, but I thought you would enjoy the image of a horny lady bunny desperate for bunny lovin’!

I filmed it and then realized I was filming bunny porn.

Bunny porn on TBP is the new frontier.

Horse hockey has been done already.

Penguins, ditto. Cattle fondling, ditto.

Big dogs and various dog breeds, ditto.

The Chinese built and maintained a Great Wall along their northern border during the 14th – 19th centuries. This served to keep the barbarians of central and northern Asia out of their homeland, though ultimately breached of occasion. But their dynasties lasted longer than the entire history of the USA.

The western terminus of the Great Wall was at the great fortress of Jiayuguan, way out in the Gobi Desert. Beyond its huge gates was nothing but hundreds of kilometres of waterless sand and stone which any intending invader had to cross before facing the high, thick and very well-defended ramparts. But occasional individuals and parties possessing permits from the Emperor were allowed in through the gates. Others, also in possession of a laisser-passer, could exit through them on diplomatic and trading missions to the West.

Corrupt, disloyal and criminal officials were also expelled from China through these gates. From that point, they wandered off into the desert, either to die or to make a new life in exile. Perhaps The Donald’s walls along the Mexican and Canadian borders could have gates through which foreigners, gangsters, drug deviants and people he did not like could be exiled from the US, never to return. They could make new lives in Mexico and Canada, or else die of thirst or cold.

@EL Coyote: US presidents and their minions have been doing “extraordinary renditions” for the last fourteen years, in case that has escaped your notice. They have been imprisoning individuals they did not like at Guantanamo, holding them blindfolded and in solitary confinement, beating them up occasionally and really, really wanting to execute them. Surely you do not enjoy the sight of this? Pushing them over the border into Mexico, Canada or Cuba would be very humane by comparison.

Not me that is Goebbels, but young GW Bush and his White House mafia. I am just telling you what they did and the US Supreme Court was OK with it. So were the American public and the Congress.

In civilized countries, we do not lock up people without charge for decades in solitary confinement, chained hand and foot, blindfolded. The US is not a civilized country by that standard.

Indeed, the US has a prison population/capita five or six times that of most OECD countries. You bet a lot of them are in on trumped up charges and plea-bargained themselves to *only* 5 – 10 years rather than 20 – life for something they never did. They would probably love to be pushed over the border into Canada.

Of course, a Goebbels fan like yourself would probably just put all of the US prison population in the gas chambers.