Notices by Jay Thurber Show (jaythurbershow@union.place), page 2

Charlie Pierce:

"Our Never Trump allies have been as useless as a butter knife against a freight train.

"Campaigning with Liz Cheney didn’t matter a damn, and proudly booming the endorsement of her war-criminal father was good for nothing but embarrassment. The Lincoln Project, which reeked of grift from the start, produced classy ads that might as well have been bowling balls dropped into a well."

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62831892/never-trump-presidential-election/

@AnarchoNinaWrites

This reboot of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" looks terrible

OK, I canceled. This self-pitying bullshit did it. I'm canceling my Amazon store card, too. Fuck this guy.

https://wapo.st/3NKRzHc

golly i wonder why, it's a real mystery

I love the fact that the WaPo has been roasted for these stupid fact checks and they're doubling down.

"The speaker claimed it was 83 percent, but it was actually 82.4 percent. We rate this claim as false"

Democracy Dies in Derpness

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/22/dnc-fact-check-democratic-national-convention-day-3/

Trump's out there claiming cisgender women athletes are trans, telling people that immigrants seeking asylum are actually from insane asylums, and the Washington Post is like, "Hakeem Jeffries used the wrong verb tense, we give him 100 Pinocchios"

Josh Marshall argued the other day (paywall)🔒that political reportage has gotten worse, not better, in the wake of Trump's election in 2016 and is dominated by "winning the day, narrative driving, meta-story over story, 'takes' ... political journalism today is a product of the DC-centric, Politico era and there’s very little left from the prior era of journalism to provide a ballast against its worst tendencies."

I find that hard to argue with.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/some-thoughts-about-bad-reportage

@AnarchoNinaWrites VOTE HARDER! DONATE MORE MONEY!

So you can do what? Piss it away backing right-wing Senate candidates like Amy McGrath who go onto lose by 20 points?

Jesus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_McGrath#2020_U.S._Senate_campaign

@AnarchoNinaWrites Dukakis, Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and now Biden — the Dems insist on running unlikable corporate neo-liberals with no charm or charisma, and when they get their asses whipped, decide the best solution is to blame the left and punch the hippies.

"But we will govern competently!"

Ah. The circus is in town, promising free ice cream and fireworks, and you're across the street serving up kale salad and a screening of a documentary about Milton Friedman. Good luck with that.

@AnarchoNinaWrites He was always this. He was "the Senator from MBNA" who pushed through legislation designed to help big banks and fuck consumers. In a field of 12 candidates he was my 11th choice. I'm a politics junkie and a sissy bleeding-heart and I was never going to vote for Trump; I was always going to hold my nose and vote for Joe if I had to. But "Shut up, hold your nose and vote" is not a compelling message for most average humans

@AnarchoNinaWrites They're Ridin' with Biden, right over the fucking cliff, and taking the rest of us with 'em. Fun times

@AnarchoNinaWrites I made the mistake of commenting recently on a popular left/liberal blog that Biden, frankly, looks terrible — he is clearly struggling, even compared to 2020 — and got so much intense, personal, targeted abuse ("you want Trump back" "STFU, DINO" "you're an idiot") that I ended up deleting my Disqus account.

As that great Marxist (Chico) said, "Who you gonna believe? Me or your own two eyes?"

@AnarchoNinaWrites BUT MAH TRADITIONAL NORMS AND VALUES

Bookmark this now. I hate the fact that I'm going to be right.

The Biden campaign is going to respond to today's events by pausing its political advertising, out of respect and a sense of civility.

The Trump campaign is going to respond by demanding that Democrats be executed.

@Moosader

I like big bars and I cannot lie
You other users can't deny
That when an app opens up
With a wide window widget
In my itty-bitty screen
My cursor gets things done

@AnarchoNinaWrites When Jonah "Doughy Pant-Load" Goldberg wrote a book called "Liberal Fascism" and wasn't laughed out of polite society, I thought I'd never stop throwing up. Right-wingers are like Humpty-Dumpty; words mean whatever they want them to mean, and too many people coddle them or cough politely and look the other way

@AnarchoNinaWrites They're proud of it.

The misapprehension a lot of us still have is that any of these people can be shamed into good behavior. You can't shame sociopaths. They're incapable of feeling shame or regret. (I would have thought everything that's happened in the last nine years would have demonstrated that by now.) #sadlyno

@ryanhoulihan I need freelance writers for a small community news website. Where are you located physically? We're in Western PA/Pittsburgh

Libraries around the countries are receiving waves of bomb threats. The callers appear to be reading from a script and the calls seem to be designed to demoralize library employees and terrorize patrons:

https://bookriot.com/minnesota-library-bomb-threats/

The endless enshittification of everything continues @pluralistic