There was no offense taken, I was noting my beard for full disclosure. Beards are fine, I just dislike extreme beards. They are messy, require time to manage and just says something about the mindset priorities. I don’t get Letterman’s decision to wear that monstrosity he has as well.
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I don’t either. I love Jon Stewart’s beard. Hate Letterman’s.
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Jon’s is cool.
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He’s a dirty f***ing traitor. Listen to how this parasite vermin piece of shit brags about how effective his work was. He’s a f***Ing liar that should be tarred and feathered as a yellow traitor in the street.
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Vice: The Data That Turned the World Upside Down.
The Guardian: The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked.
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I think you’re generally right. Still, there’s nothing like having to answer questions–however ill-phrased–by senators or congressmen, in an ornate committee room with all the TV lights glaring on you.
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I see he’s wearing the reverse mullet–Confederate racist in the front, Nazi skinhead in the back.
Well played, Mr. Parscale, well played.
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Looked at a couple of the amateurish websites in his company’s portfolio, and yes, that seems right – front man. They certainly wouldn’t have hired this guy for anything digital.
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What if the Mercers are actually a front for Russia? Russia might be paying them to coordinate what’s really a Russian campaign. Pols always say they can’t figure out what the Mercers want. They seem to have no coherent political ideology. But they do like money…
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“was reportedly paid $88 million for its work.”
maybe this hints loudly at the problem with politics these days… just too much easy, sleazy money since Citizens United stirred up the bottomdwellers.
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I would look to the well connected Russians who have immigration status in the US (or are US citizens) first. But that Cambridge Analytica was also involved in Brexit suggests that this is not their first rodeo as a conduit for Russian active measures.
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Maybe even a storm front?
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Go check out footage from Charlottesville and maybe you’ll see some resemblances.
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What I’m getting at is that no one thinks it’s suspicious for the Mercers to spend large amounts of money on politics. Insiders remark that it’s odd their political spending doesn’t seem to have a clear purpose, but that gets written off as – well they can afford politics as a hobby. Odd, but not suspicious. If a Russian immigrant were doing that, it would be immediately suspicious. Mercers would make an unusually good front for Russia – better than any Russian immigrant.
Of course, it can also be both, but no one’s really thinking of Mercers this way…and maybe we should be.
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Get used to them, Tena. As long as men continue to feel pressured by cultural and economic structural changes beyond their control they will assert and flaunt their masculinity in the most basic form available to them. Beards make perfect sense in the context of our current socioeconomic reality.
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OK, can you explain tattoos?
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My beard looked like pubic hair glued to my face so of course I’m clean shaven. 
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Not entirely, no. They kind of escape me along with piercings. I suspect it’s something to do with establishing individuality in the context of increasing conformity but I honestly don’t know for certain.
I’d like to know who ordered Parscale to grow that ridiculous Dostoyevsky beard—Kislyak or Putin himself?
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And yet, let one Liberal back a candidate or party with a huge amount of money and the Right screams. No one, but no one is allowed to criticize the Kochs or the Mercer’s on the other side, though.