There is nothing like the dignity of earning $9.47 an hour at a retail store or nail salon while having no health insurance. That’s why all the Reopen The Economy protesters are made up of people earning less than $12.00 an hour, and ….. *touches earpiece* oh, wait …..
Also important to have a paragraph explaining away all the protesters carrying long guns and Confederate flags (in that bastion of the Old South, Michigan) as really being Fake Liberal Outside Agitators.
Look, you guys don't understand. "Dignity of Work" is what hourly employees get in lieu of benefits. It's actually even BETTER than benefits, because those get taxed! I feel like that should be enough for you, but okay, if it's not, we'll make you whole by calling you Heroes. Which is like the stock options the CEO gets, but again, not taxed! And there are rules about what they can do with those options, whereas you are free to post to your Facebook page as many vids of you singing that David Bowie song as you want! I mean, as long as you don't mention our company, because we'd sadly have to fire you if you did that. But you can tie a sheet around your neck and pretend it's a cape if you want, our CEO would never try something like that, he has Alfred make all his capes by hand. I'm just not sure why you're not more appreciative.
And don't forget "proud," which is (as I once said) the participation trophy rightwing media and apparatchiks give the poor. "Conchita, proud mother of three and proud member of the Iglesia de Nuestra Senora, a locus of social as well as religious activity in her proud community, earns $5.25 an hour as a cashier at the KrappMart, a proudly-owned local business."
Dang, now I’m having fun imagining how weird it would sound if they ever applied this word to their own kind... “Trump, proud father of four or five, is the proud owner of the Trump Organization, an international money-laundering scam, and in 2016 he proudly ran for federal office...”
Oh for the sake of all that is holy, it drives me nuts when they haul out the BS of saying "American." As in, "We want to help American families," and "The American people won't tolerate a tax hike," and so on. Boehner couldn't get through a sentence without this. I would sit in my car for my 75-minute commute to glorious capitalism, listening to him say that on the radio, and I'd just want to scream. WE GET IT. YOU ARE AN AMERICA POLITICIAN. NO ONE IS GOING TO MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING YOU MEAN THE ALBANIAN PEOPLE IF YOU NEGLECT TO SPECIFY. Jeeebus Floorwax Cronut, stop speaking to us like we're idiots.
But yeah, "dignity of work" is worse. Ask Al Bundy, Homer Simpson, Roseanne Connor or any other real American hero about the dignity of work.
I like the part where the Republican consultant says "I was standing next to a Harvard grad, so fie on your "Pennsyltucky" racism!" But my favorite part is where the protestors all get a chuckle out of the guy with the "I NEED A HAIRCUT!" sign, because ha ha, ain't that the truth we're all in the same boat, nudge nudge, rather than acknowledge the insanity of "I'm willing to die/infect people just so I can get a fucking haircut."
The entitlement is just jaw-dropping. It’s amazing how many of these protesters are completely and unironically upfront about the fact they won’t be on the frontlines risking infection themselves, and how much of it boils down to Karen’s roots are showing and Gary misses the all-you-can-eat buffet. And they call the libs snowflakes!
Too depressing to read, only parsed it. I mean, when one’s POTUS isn’t just failing the nation, but can no longer speak in coherent sentences or even phrases but just spews a sequence of words, one unrelated to the immediately preceding one, well, mocking a bullshitter like Zito doesn’t interest me all that much — I mean, enough to read the post as opposed to, you know, parse it.
Now, who I do ship is Witmer. Caught her on one of the commie shows on MSNBC while the demos were going on and her complete lack of any fucks to give was so beautiful.
Just my opinion--Whitmer's lack of fucks to give is directly related to her knowledge that the Republicans broke her state, on purpose, at DeVos orders. And then forced "emergency managers" to take over the bankrupt cities that followed, and caused lead to be dumped into Flint's water. (The DeVos-owned state legislature refuses to act to fix this by the way.)
Likely. She seems totally aware of reality — as opposed to her red state counterparts who think all they have to is bullshit like Donnie while doing nothing good or, if they bother to act, only in a way that exacerbates the problem, also like Donnie.
Also notable that even standard Democratic palaver includes a profession of respect for the right to protest, which I believe has been erased from Republican palaver in all cases except Astroturf demos.
They (the "Lemme Get That Virus!" protesters) were tone-deaf enough to call her "Queen Wolverine." In the state that has -- what's that mascot? -- oh, the University of Michigan Wolverines. Yeah, elite football players, who needs that demographic?
Broke verisimilitude when the Zito-ite writer noted Moogahan is a Republican. The actual Zito made her name by interviewing Republican operatives--typically county-level Party chairs and higher--and then presenting them as ordinary citizens not affiliated with any Party. If I recall correctly, she once tried to palm off a county-level GOP chair as a Democrat who was disaffected from Obama, and that was the straw that finally made the NYT ask her to move along.
Since people began to notice, though, she's been taking pains to state the inescapable in her columns, which is almost as funny. Remember the Manchin victory party bit from this: https://edroso.substack.com/p/trumpier-than-trump As I said then, "Fact check that, liberal assholes!"
If you haven't already, but take a gander at Roy's first link, the Zito column that this parodies (and it's miraculous that he could so deftly flay something that's already a parody of itself). The entire thing is made up of long quotes from somebody named Charlie Gerow (aside from everything else Zito is lazy) who she identifies down the line as a Republican media consultant. So basically this is a column by a Republican media consultant with Zito's byline.
Yep, media consultant = marketing guy. This little sales pitch by Gerow/Zito was lacking only in the "Order Now, Supplies Limited!" call to action at the end.
I lost it earlier with "Moogahan was blown away at the number of people in attendance, and Moogahan is not a man who is easily blown. " (Which, once again, directly skewers her own writing in the original.)
Shame on you Mr. Roy Edroso, if that is your name, to attack this good woman, this wonderful writer, just because she uses her tremendous reporting skills to humanize Trump voters and give them a voice. She herself isn't even a Trump supporter, even if it might look that way. You will regret this. The gloves are off. We know who you are. We are serious, literally.
"There were several pro-Trump attendees, but he was not the center of the debate by a long stretch." You mean the guy who sent out tweets saying "Liberate (name of Blue State here)!" No, of course not, how could he be?
I know anyone can take a bad picture, but I laffed like a crazy person when Selina's photo appeared. Little did I know that that would be just the FIRST incident of the laffing!
Because I follow Kilgore Trout on the twitter, I caught Tim Carney’s effort to dox them and then Bethany’s utter meltdown at the organized sockpuppet conspiracy to take down Salena Zito. As if we couldn’t all read the careful debunks ourselves.
But I hadn’t tortured myself with the column in question until you linked it here. I snorted when I got to “bitter clingers.” Not only are the RW snowflakes still upset about that over a decade later, (a) Obama never used that term, and (b) in context his statement was not only accurate, it was sympathetic. So maybe she won’t overhear people at gas stations anymore, but she’s still as dishonest as ever. And there is zero evidence in that piece that she was actually at the protest.
I would feel sorry for these rubes if they weren’t trying to kill us all. Not to mention chanting “Lock her up” at every woman politician they've been whipped up against.
My husband sent me an ”alternate history” piece set during Hillary Clinton’s presidency in which the Goopers were holding hearings into her negligence in allowing 500 Americans to die of COVID-19. Which reminded me of how I'd respond when people wished the 2000 election had properly gone to Gore, which is that the GOP would have blamed him for 9/11 the way they did with Hillary and Benghazi.
*sigh* I literally can't tell the difference between satire and real life anymore. I thought it was a gag when I saw the hed that Trump had mocked some guy at an event for wearing a mask.
This comment has not been pithy, funny, or even coherent, but at this point I'm pleased when I can manage anything more than a primal scream.
"set during Hillary Clinton’s presidency in which the Goopers were holding hearings into her negligence in allowing 500 Americans to die of COVID-19" Ha, ain't it the truth.
I remember fondly how, after Stephen Colbert played host to Bill O'Reilly, Mr O'Reilly said of metting Mr Colbert 'He blew me right away' to which Colbert responded that there was a dinner first.
>>On Monday, when he walked up to the state capitol steps to observe the demonstration, urging Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, to reopen the economy, Gerow was blown away at the number of people in attendance.
For a man who has long given up on being blown away by anything in politics, that says a lot.<<
Christ Jesus, that is not just piss-poor writing for a "professional" newspaper, it would get an F in an undergrad journalism class.
There is nothing like the dignity of earning $9.47 an hour at a retail store or nail salon while having no health insurance. That’s why all the Reopen The Economy protesters are made up of people earning less than $12.00 an hour, and ….. *touches earpiece* oh, wait …..
Also important to have a paragraph explaining away all the protesters carrying long guns and Confederate flags (in that bastion of the Old South, Michigan) as really being Fake Liberal Outside Agitators.
Few conservative talking points infuriate me more than the “dignity of work” BS.
"Dignity of work" = "slaves should suffer in silence"
Parchman Farm, putting the "dig" in "dignity of work."
Look, you guys don't understand. "Dignity of Work" is what hourly employees get in lieu of benefits. It's actually even BETTER than benefits, because those get taxed! I feel like that should be enough for you, but okay, if it's not, we'll make you whole by calling you Heroes. Which is like the stock options the CEO gets, but again, not taxed! And there are rules about what they can do with those options, whereas you are free to post to your Facebook page as many vids of you singing that David Bowie song as you want! I mean, as long as you don't mention our company, because we'd sadly have to fire you if you did that. But you can tie a sheet around your neck and pretend it's a cape if you want, our CEO would never try something like that, he has Alfred make all his capes by hand. I'm just not sure why you're not more appreciative.
And don't forget "proud," which is (as I once said) the participation trophy rightwing media and apparatchiks give the poor. "Conchita, proud mother of three and proud member of the Iglesia de Nuestra Senora, a locus of social as well as religious activity in her proud community, earns $5.25 an hour as a cashier at the KrappMart, a proudly-owned local business."
Dang, now I’m having fun imagining how weird it would sound if they ever applied this word to their own kind... “Trump, proud father of four or five, is the proud owner of the Trump Organization, an international money-laundering scam, and in 2016 he proudly ran for federal office...”
Oh for the sake of all that is holy, it drives me nuts when they haul out the BS of saying "American." As in, "We want to help American families," and "The American people won't tolerate a tax hike," and so on. Boehner couldn't get through a sentence without this. I would sit in my car for my 75-minute commute to glorious capitalism, listening to him say that on the radio, and I'd just want to scream. WE GET IT. YOU ARE AN AMERICA POLITICIAN. NO ONE IS GOING TO MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING YOU MEAN THE ALBANIAN PEOPLE IF YOU NEGLECT TO SPECIFY. Jeeebus Floorwax Cronut, stop speaking to us like we're idiots.
But yeah, "dignity of work" is worse. Ask Al Bundy, Homer Simpson, Roseanne Connor or any other real American hero about the dignity of work.
Arbeit für frei, y'all.
I like the part where the Republican consultant says "I was standing next to a Harvard grad, so fie on your "Pennsyltucky" racism!" But my favorite part is where the protestors all get a chuckle out of the guy with the "I NEED A HAIRCUT!" sign, because ha ha, ain't that the truth we're all in the same boat, nudge nudge, rather than acknowledge the insanity of "I'm willing to die/infect people just so I can get a fucking haircut."
The entitlement is just jaw-dropping. It’s amazing how many of these protesters are completely and unironically upfront about the fact they won’t be on the frontlines risking infection themselves, and how much of it boils down to Karen’s roots are showing and Gary misses the all-you-can-eat buffet. And they call the libs snowflakes!
Too depressing to read, only parsed it. I mean, when one’s POTUS isn’t just failing the nation, but can no longer speak in coherent sentences or even phrases but just spews a sequence of words, one unrelated to the immediately preceding one, well, mocking a bullshitter like Zito doesn’t interest me all that much — I mean, enough to read the post as opposed to, you know, parse it.
Now, who I do ship is Witmer. Caught her on one of the commie shows on MSNBC while the demos were going on and her complete lack of any fucks to give was so beautiful.
Just my opinion--Whitmer's lack of fucks to give is directly related to her knowledge that the Republicans broke her state, on purpose, at DeVos orders. And then forced "emergency managers" to take over the bankrupt cities that followed, and caused lead to be dumped into Flint's water. (The DeVos-owned state legislature refuses to act to fix this by the way.)
Likely. She seems totally aware of reality — as opposed to her red state counterparts who think all they have to is bullshit like Donnie while doing nothing good or, if they bother to act, only in a way that exacerbates the problem, also like Donnie.
Yeah? I don't know much about her except she did call the protests "political," which is a useful pushback to the Ordinary Citizens Shall Stand No More bullshit. And I like her here: https://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/gov-whitmer-hopes-protests-do-not-unwittingly-contribute-to-coronavirus-spread-82442309659
Also notable that even standard Democratic palaver includes a profession of respect for the right to protest, which I believe has been erased from Republican palaver in all cases except Astroturf demos.
They (the "Lemme Get That Virus!" protesters) were tone-deaf enough to call her "Queen Wolverine." In the state that has -- what's that mascot? -- oh, the University of Michigan Wolverines. Yeah, elite football players, who needs that demographic?
parsed ≠ skimmed
Broke verisimilitude when the Zito-ite writer noted Moogahan is a Republican. The actual Zito made her name by interviewing Republican operatives--typically county-level Party chairs and higher--and then presenting them as ordinary citizens not affiliated with any Party. If I recall correctly, she once tried to palm off a county-level GOP chair as a Democrat who was disaffected from Obama, and that was the straw that finally made the NYT ask her to move along.
Oh, I've been on that forever! https://alicublog.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-white-working-class-whisperer-hits.html
Since people began to notice, though, she's been taking pains to state the inescapable in her columns, which is almost as funny. Remember the Manchin victory party bit from this: https://edroso.substack.com/p/trumpier-than-trump As I said then, "Fact check that, liberal assholes!"
If you haven't already, but take a gander at Roy's first link, the Zito column that this parodies (and it's miraculous that he could so deftly flay something that's already a parody of itself). The entire thing is made up of long quotes from somebody named Charlie Gerow (aside from everything else Zito is lazy) who she identifies down the line as a Republican media consultant. So basically this is a column by a Republican media consultant with Zito's byline.
Yep, media consultant = marketing guy. This little sales pitch by Gerow/Zito was lacking only in the "Order Now, Supplies Limited!" call to action at the end.
To be fair, pretty much everyone likes someone else's doing their work for them.
It's a "technique" Rod Dreher uses all the time.
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. Look, you’re the wordsmith, you put something nice at the end."
I'm crying. I'm crying.
I lost it earlier with "Moogahan was blown away at the number of people in attendance, and Moogahan is not a man who is easily blown. " (Which, once again, directly skewers her own writing in the original.)
Shame on you Mr. Roy Edroso, if that is your name, to attack this good woman, this wonderful writer, just because she uses her tremendous reporting skills to humanize Trump voters and give them a voice. She herself isn't even a Trump supporter, even if it might look that way. You will regret this. The gloves are off. We know who you are. We are serious, literally.
Bethany Tim Carney-Mandel
"There were several pro-Trump attendees, but he was not the center of the debate by a long stretch." You mean the guy who sent out tweets saying "Liberate (name of Blue State here)!" No, of course not, how could he be?
I know anyone can take a bad picture, but I laffed like a crazy person when Selina's photo appeared. Little did I know that that would be just the FIRST incident of the laffing!
I shrieked and ran when I saw the pic, returning only after having braced my coffee with cheap brandy.
See, everyone should be wearing a mask.
Goo goo goo joob!
"Moogahan is not a man who is easily blown."
He could get blown. He'd have to come up off of some money (because no one would do because they wanted to...) but he could get blown.
Because I follow Kilgore Trout on the twitter, I caught Tim Carney’s effort to dox them and then Bethany’s utter meltdown at the organized sockpuppet conspiracy to take down Salena Zito. As if we couldn’t all read the careful debunks ourselves.
But I hadn’t tortured myself with the column in question until you linked it here. I snorted when I got to “bitter clingers.” Not only are the RW snowflakes still upset about that over a decade later, (a) Obama never used that term, and (b) in context his statement was not only accurate, it was sympathetic. So maybe she won’t overhear people at gas stations anymore, but she’s still as dishonest as ever. And there is zero evidence in that piece that she was actually at the protest.
I would feel sorry for these rubes if they weren’t trying to kill us all. Not to mention chanting “Lock her up” at every woman politician they've been whipped up against.
My husband sent me an ”alternate history” piece set during Hillary Clinton’s presidency in which the Goopers were holding hearings into her negligence in allowing 500 Americans to die of COVID-19. Which reminded me of how I'd respond when people wished the 2000 election had properly gone to Gore, which is that the GOP would have blamed him for 9/11 the way they did with Hillary and Benghazi.
*sigh* I literally can't tell the difference between satire and real life anymore. I thought it was a gag when I saw the hed that Trump had mocked some guy at an event for wearing a mask.
This comment has not been pithy, funny, or even coherent, but at this point I'm pleased when I can manage anything more than a primal scream.
I like 'cling to their bitter Gun Religion'.
"set during Hillary Clinton’s presidency in which the Goopers were holding hearings into her negligence in allowing 500 Americans to die of COVID-19" Ha, ain't it the truth.
To be fair, what else _could_ they do?—THAT WOMAN HAD AN E-MAIL SERVER!
I remember fondly how, after Stephen Colbert played host to Bill O'Reilly, Mr O'Reilly said of metting Mr Colbert 'He blew me right away' to which Colbert responded that there was a dinner first.
s/metting/meeting/
I feel like 'double the next char' is a meta-char in the stream that gets easily misplaced by me.
I had something witty to say comparing these troglodytes to sock sorters. But I lost it along the way.
This woman actually gets paid to write this crap?
>>On Monday, when he walked up to the state capitol steps to observe the demonstration, urging Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, to reopen the economy, Gerow was blown away at the number of people in attendance.
For a man who has long given up on being blown away by anything in politics, that says a lot.<<
Christ Jesus, that is not just piss-poor writing for a "professional" newspaper, it would get an F in an undergrad journalism class.