Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
...
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
The day after 11/8 Liz Spayd, The New York Times public editor, who is a public menace, wrote a column under the lede:
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
...
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
The day after 11/8 Liz Spayd, The New York Times public editor, who is a public menace, wrote a column under the lede:
Want to Know What America’s Thinking? Try Asking
On November 19 Ms. Spayd continued:
They voted for Donald Trump and don’t consider themselves homophobic, racist or anti-Muslim. But now, they say, thanks to The Times and its fixation on Trump’s most extreme supporters, most people think they are.
Deductively, it follows that The Times did ask Trump voters what they were thinking, otherwise they couldn't have "fixated" on some. Duh. Maybe they shouldn't have asked them? Should have asked the Charlotte 10 instead?
We can never be great as a country with a president with the warped values of Donald Trump. I pray that in the end at least some Trump voters, my fellow Americans, will see that.
...
Readers complain that The Times’s attempt to tap the sentiments of Trump supporters was lacking.
"Attempt to tap was lacking." They didn't even try, in other words. They didn't even "attempt" to tap "the sentiments of Trump supporters." "Fuck that nigger" doesn't count. They should have attempted to tap other sentiments. "Just grab them by the pussy"? No, probably not. "JewS.A."? "Go to Auschwitz"? The lady, undoubtedly not one of the Charlotte 10, who gave a truly excellent Heil Hitler salute? "Trump That Bitch"? "Lock her up"?
If the Times ever gets down to Charlotte maybe they could stop off in the Research Triangle and ask my brother, too. They will love his excellent, truly excellent, denials he is racist. I'll give them some questions to ask him.
David Brooks, like a good lap dog, followed his public editor's lede (get it?) yesterday with "Fellow Trump Critics: Try a Little Listening."
The entire Times editorial board did just that yesterday, too.
Swiftly after 11/8 the word went out from "the room where the nation's agenda is set" to staff writers to hit the reset button on the president-select on accounta we won't be quasi-official no more and we're losing money.
Two days before the election the Times editorial board wrote that (entirely accurate!) depressed editorial, "Imagining America on Nov. 9" in which they wrote, "There’s no sense complaining anymore. The hurricane is three days from landfall." (emphasis added, see below)
Comes now, Thomas L. Friedman. Friedman wrote his last pre-election column on November 2. Under the lede, "Trump Voters, Just Hear Me Out." (emphasis added, see above), Friedman wrote:
While I’ve opposed the Trump candidacy from the start, I’ve never disparaged Trump voters. Some are friends and neighbors; they’re all fellow Americans. We should take their concerns seriously.
"Attempt to tap was lacking." They didn't even try, in other words. They didn't even "attempt" to tap "the sentiments of Trump supporters." "Fuck that nigger" doesn't count. They should have attempted to tap other sentiments. "Just grab them by the pussy"? No, probably not. "JewS.A."? "Go to Auschwitz"? The lady, undoubtedly not one of the Charlotte 10, who gave a truly excellent Heil Hitler salute? "Trump That Bitch"? "Lock her up"?
If the Times ever gets down to Charlotte maybe they could stop off in the Research Triangle and ask my brother, too. They will love his excellent, truly excellent, denials he is racist. I'll give them some questions to ask him.
David Brooks, like a good lap dog, followed his public editor's lede (get it?) yesterday with "Fellow Trump Critics: Try a Little Listening."
The entire Times editorial board did just that yesterday, too.
Swiftly after 11/8 the word went out from "the room where the nation's agenda is set" to staff writers to hit the reset button on the president-select on accounta we won't be quasi-official no more and we're losing money.
Two days before the election the Times editorial board wrote that (entirely accurate!) depressed editorial, "Imagining America on Nov. 9" in which they wrote, "There’s no sense complaining anymore. The hurricane is three days from landfall." (emphasis added, see below)
Comes now, Thomas L. Friedman. Friedman wrote his last pre-election column on November 2. Under the lede, "Trump Voters, Just Hear Me Out." (emphasis added, see above), Friedman wrote:
While I’ve opposed the Trump candidacy from the start, I’ve never disparaged Trump voters. Some are friends and neighbors; they’re all fellow Americans. We should take their concerns seriously.
Why haven't you disparaged Trump voters, Friedman?
What are their concerns, Friedman?
...
I understand why many Trump supporters have lost faith in Washington and want to just “shake things up.”
Liz Spayd would be proud of you! You have listened to Trump supporters? You "understand"!
Lol. Friedman you don't even understand that "shake things up" is code. It's their code for "Shake the White House upside down and shake the niggers out. Make the White House white again"!
Mr. Blow, watch this mother-fucker.
...
...Trump supporters, particularly less-educated white males, should be wary of his bluster: His policies won’t help them. Trump promises to bring their jobs back. But most of their jobs didn’t go to a Mexican. They went to a microchip.
Deductively, it follows that if Trump's policies would help the "less-educated white" supremacists, their support would be justified! So, "JewS.A.", "Fuck that nigger," etc. & etc., Thomas L. Friedman would "understand" all of the "bluster" of Trump's campaign if Trump's policies helped them!
Mr. Blow, did you find the racism of Trump's campaign "bluster"? Lol, Friedman.
Did you hear that IBM’s cognitive computer, Watson, helped to create a pop song, “Not Easy,” with the Grammy-winning producer Alex da Kid?
I swear.
Well, they didn't.
Friedman on November 8:
A heartfelt beginning, yes, "break our country," that is what we did. But then, in the sense that "our national government will not function." The heart of a machine. Friedman, we should HOPE our national government will not function! (Watch him, Mr. Blow.)
From the moment Trump emerged as a candidate, I’ve taken seriously the possibility that he could win; this column never predicted otherwise, although it certainly wished for it.
That is what I fixated upon when I first read this column. It struck me as a little "insensitive," like he took a Trump win seriously because he "understood"--the racism.
As much as I knew that it was a possibility, the stark fact that a majority of Americans wanted radical, disruptive change so badly and simply did not care who the change agent was...— is profoundly disturbing.
"It was a possibility": God, Friedman, you can be such an idiot sometimes.
"Stark fact...majority of Americans": What can you say besides he's an idiot sometimes.
"Radical, disruptive change": Friedman, get this through your thick head: They didn't want "radical disruptive change," they wanted a racist white man.
November 19:
Dancing in a Hurricane (see above)
(You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows)
For the last three years I’ve been working on a book about what’s been happening beneath the surface — in the plumbing and wiring of the world — that’s roiling politics in so many places. My answer begins with a question: What the hell happened in and around 2007?
You had a lobotomy?
2007? That’s such an innocuous year. But look again.
Steve Jobs and Apple released the first iPhone...
I swear.
You got that right!
...helped enable both Big Data and cloud computing. Indeed, “the cloud” really took off in 2007.
In 2007...Kindle...Android...IBM started Watson...
"Did you hear that IBM’s cognitive computer, Watson, helped to create a pop song, “Not Easy"...(see above)
And have you ever looked at a graph of the cost of sequencing a human genome? It goes from $100 million in the early 2000s and begins to fall dramatically starting around … 2007.
No! I have not. Oh my God.
If Airbnb and GitHub merged would it be called AirGit?
You are asking where is all this bullshit going?
In time, 2007 may be seen as one of the greatest technological inflection points in history. And we completely missed it.
Why? 2008.
Ah, 2008! When the first nigger was elected president!
?
Maybe he did have a lobotomy in 2007...No, I think it was before that.
...the Great Recession of 2008 and the political paralysis it engendered, this gap turned into a chasm. A lot of people got dislocated in the process.
Friedman: The political paralysis was "engendered" by the election of the first black POTUS. No, no, hear me out. A lot of people got their noses dislocated by that and the night of the INAUGURAL BALL, they planned the paralysis, remember? Mr. Blow, do you remember that? Could you walk down the hall and dislocate Mr. Friedman's nose?
With a Negro in office and everything...
BUILD THE WALL! BUILD THE WALL!
I recently met with economic and climate refugees in West Africa...
GO BACK HOME! NO WEST AFRICAN ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE REFUGEES! KEEP THEM OUT! PROB-AB-LY AIDS! ZI-KA TOO! THEY-ARE-BLACK! KEEP THEM OUT!
Mr. Blow, he's talking to YOU.
BLOCK THAT APP! BUILD THAT APP WALL! NO APPS FOR BLACKS!
After all of that H-O-R-S-E S-H-I-T, Thomas L. Friedman connects it all to RACE. And Friedman "understands":
...They go to the grocery store and someone there speaks to them in a different language or is wearing a head covering. They go into the men’s room and there is someone next to them who looks to be of a different gender. They go to work and there’s now a robot sitting next to them...
Read: A transgendered Muslim climate refugee from AFRICA speaking Swahili!
BUILD THE WALL! GRAB HIM BY THE PUSSY!
I celebrate this diversity of people and ideas — but for many others they’ve come faster than they can adapt.
NO YOU DON'T! YOU ARE A LIAR! YOU ARE A RACIST! YOU ARE A RACIST, ANTI-MUSLIM, DICK-CENTRIC, SMALL-DICK, DICKKK!
That’s why my favorite song these days is Brandi Carlile’s wonderful ballad called “The Eye,” the main verse of which is: “I wrapped your love around me like a chain/...
That's the chains of SLAVERY.
...But I never was afraid that it would die/...
Because I'm white. And you're not.
You can dance in a hurricane/
"No sense complaining anymore," Times' editors, "the hurricane is three days from landfall." "You can DANCE in a hurricane" if you're WHITE! Let's "DANCE" through the hurricane! We're WHITE!
But only if you’re standing in the eye.”
Those dumb niggers aren't in the eye. They're getting "BLOWN" away--Mr. BLOW, watch this mother-fucker.--while we white guys DANCE!
