Trump recessionā¦
I think the whole WaPo Editorial Board should publicly Eat $hit for their craven and foolish support of the Bush/Cheney Mess in Mesopotamia. But it wonāt, because the war did not hurt them personally in the least. In fact, members of it prospered as the Metro-DC area was one of the few in the nation that grew richer in the past decade, thanks to the metastatic growth of the National Security State.
Danaās munch-down better be on live TV or Iāll never think of the Washington Post as a newspaper again.
I would recommend something simpleātear up the column in small pieces, soak in egg batter, fry until dry, then eat with cinnamon and sugar over it. (Yes, it sounds like fried Matzoh.)
I believe you can add the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and a host of others to your list. Twas truly a cheerleading fan fest.
No. No. NO. Milbank eats the whole goddamned page without water (or any other lubricant).
Cāmon. Itās not like heās just another spineless Beltway bellboy.
āAmericans are better than Trumpā
I donāt think Milbank was wrong, but the problem with his logic was that Americans as a whole are not the ones who choose the Republican nominee. And the small subset of voters who DO participate in the Republican primary are - quite obviously - not any better than Trump.
Your ad hominem attack against MSM reporting is very wrong headed, but did you know Milbank suggested a few months Clinton select Warren for Veep which is now being discussed as something that could and should happen? Does that make him more sane or less sane in your world or more inclined to have eat paper again.
I was about to say something similar. The reason so very many people couldnāt see this coming is because they are unable to admit or fathom just how intensely hateful, nasty, and cruel the Republican base has become. I think itās mostly unsurprising to minorities of all stripes because itās been obvious to us for very long time.
I see it in my FB feed, on other social media, and hear the jokes (oh, nooooo, Iām not talking about you, Plucky!!). You canāt miss the near constant hypocrisy (50 Cent is evil for making fun of a person with disabilities who he thought was on drugs, but Trump is great for purposefully mocking a person with disabilities). The desperation to condemn any minority who does anything even remotely questionable while giving the most obviously offensive white people a pass. And it goes on and on.
I think maybe the reason why so many didnāt see it really is ultimately because folks donāt want to believe some of their friends and family members have become as radical as they have. They want to believe in peopleās better angels, and they assumed those would prevail over their most hateful instincts. They assumed wrong.
Amen, brother. (Or sister; hard to tell from your screen name.) I have railed against this wording for months. Trump is āfavoredā by a one-third to one-half of those who admit to being Republican, which is about one-quarter of America. In any large sample of the US as a whole, he is disfavored badly.
Now, we just have to get a lot of Americans to vote on November 8.
Newspaper? Big fucking deal. If Milbank had said heād eat his own shit, then Iād be impressed.
I guess itās all soy-based inks and fiber so it should be doable.
and hear the jokes
My father-in-law is Mexican American, and heās lived in the same house in a northern Detroit suburb for almost fifty years; his neighbor across the street has been there almost as long. This neighbor is a retired GM auto worker and the quintessential bigoted Reagan Democrat, and ever since 2008 was elected has been particularly free with the denigrating comments about Obama. Thatās bad enough, but now with immigration a big issue, this numbskull has also taken to making overtly anti-Mexican comments to my FILās face. When my FIL called him out with āHey, you know Iām Mexican, right?ā the guyās response is, āWell, I donāt mean you.ā
Does that make him more sane or less sane
Taking Warren out of the Senate is nuts, especially because her replacement would be appointed by Massachusettsā Republican governor.
Milbank A Mealy Mouthed Muncher
Overpaid columnist follows through on threat to āeat his wordsā
but opts for gourmet preparation, and a nice Chianti
WASHINGTON ā Ethically challenged Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank made great hay of his threat to eat his words ā and the rest of the page his column was printed on ā if Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in the 2016 Presidential race.
Now that The Donald (and his hair) is the presumptive nominee, Milbank has now retreated from his promise. Sort of.
Milbank, long known for being a somewhat Kristol-esque soothsayer in the Postās stable of op-ed stenographers, has now back-tracked on eating a page of the paper, opting instead to turn it into a gourmet newsprint-cooking show.
Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern and, even, the oh-so similarly smarmy Guy Fiero have yet to weigh in on Milbankās parsing, or rather, preparation of his promise to eat his own words.
In the end, befitting most of his writing, Milbank will turn this into a bad joke, a poorly executed stunt. And again, no one will laugh. No one will be amused, except Dana.
So youāre envisioning Scott Brown redux. Possibly.
Plucky, how do you deal with it?
This is not just idle curiosity. I mentioned before that my husband and I are working on becoming legal guardians of my niecesā children. We are very white. They are Hispanic and very dark. They have different fathers and look quite different. One looks black, with beautiful kinky hair. (They are beautiful girls. I think you and Chammy once had a discussion about how beautiful mixed race children often are, our amazing president being Exhibit A. I read once about a scientific study proving that.)
Anyway, we live in what we call Tancredoville, the very secure former district of Tom Tancredo, racist POS. My neighbors, who are sweet as pie to me, are disproportionately racist. My minority students told me about the ugly things said to them. I have no idea how to manage this, and I need to get a clue in a hurry. They are coming for the summer in a month.
I had a girlfriend once who is probably the most misanthropic person Iāve ever known. (I mean misanthropic in its literal translation ā man hater, not the dictionary definition of people hater.) She would rail about stupid men, and about specific stupid men. Oddly, when women did something stupid it didnāt merit a mention. I confronted her about it towards the end of our relationship. She said, āOh no, Strad ā I donāt mean youāre a stupid man.ā
I didnāt realize how much damage that relationship did to me until I was out of it.
The experience has made me more careful with my words, especially negative descriptors.
Ah Kristin - you really missed an opportunity with that headline. Should have read: WaPo Columnist To Keep Promise To Eat His Column If Trump Wins Nom (Nom Nom) 