vxbush 4/27/2026 6:54:23 AM

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vxbush 4/27/2026 6:57:02 AM

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Ah. I see I'm late to the reveal. I'm really starting to think it's far better to blow up at people in person than harbor this much venom inside for months. 

Occasional Reader 4/27/2026 8:03:43 AM

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yes, he sent out a manifesto shortly before his attack. And on 60 Minutes last night, they decided it was a great idea to read that manifesto to Trump himself, pretty much demanding that he answer the “charges”  Trump was having none of it. Journalists are garbage. 

vxbush 4/27/2026 8:54:08 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: And on 60 Minutes last night, they decided it was a great idea to read that manifesto to Trump himself, pretty much demanding that he answer the “charges”  Trump was having none of it. Journalists are garbage. 

Yes, they are. They never did seem to acknowledge the pain of Corey Comperatore's family from the father dying in Butler. They just accused Trump of setting this up. A level of crazy I never thought I'd see. 

vxbush 4/27/2026 9:24:56 AM

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With that said, do you think some of these media people might have a small inkling of what Trump is going through after they were first-hand witnesses themselves of the chaos that is a result of such an attempt? Tim O'Brien at PJ Media thought perhaps some might, but there's a part of me that after witnesses 9/11 and how quickly that unity dispersed afterwards, it won't take the lefties long to renew their righteous fervor against Trump. 

preBoomer-Marinebrat 4/27/2026 9:41:53 AM

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preBoomer-Marinebrat 4/27/2026 9:44:09 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: Trump was having none of it. Journalists are garbage.

Completely apart from the murderer ... does the fact that something pisses The Donald off ... automatically mean that "journalists are garbage".

preBoomer-Marinebrat 4/27/2026 9:48:57 AM

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You will take those comments as "being from a neverTrumper"

I voted for him three times, and if the '24 election was held again this afternoon, would vote for him a fourth time.

However, back in 2015, I already had zero respect for the content of The Donald's content of character.  I have zero respect for the content of character of the Paula White-Cain prosperity gospel Evangelists who are running the present day Republican Party political bordello.

Hegseth does not merely have "issues".

What does that make me to you here?

preBoomer-Marinebrat 4/27/2026 9:59:12 AM

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And by-the-way, last year I became a "RINO".  (I became a Republican in 1964, voting for Barry Goldwater.  I was active in the local-level party during the late-70s thru the early-90s.)

Now I have left the Party.  The "God uses sinful men" which is literally being preached here at the local GOP level is more than theologically absurd.  The fact that so many of the local Republicans are enthused by it is impossible to live with.

Does that make me a traitor?

(Yes, I'm trolling, because I think I know what some of you will make of it.  That's part of the reason I left a decade ago.)

vxbush 4/27/2026 10:31:41 AM

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In #6 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: CNN has a VERY long history of bias.  ...  However ... completely apart from the murderer and his masturbatory "manifesto" ... does CNN's history automatically imply that PJMedia is utterly unbiased?

Nope. And I would never suggest that. I simply find them to be a useful starting point for the news simply because they are NOT part of the "big name" media. That doesn't mean they don't have a bias. 

Kosh's Shadow 4/27/2026 10:32:34 AM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 6:

CNN = Counterfeit News Network

buzzsawmonkey 4/27/2026 11:49:08 AM

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In #6 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: does CNN's history automatically imply that PJMedia is utterly unbiased? Reply

One does not follow from the other.  There have been a number of folks lately on the Instapundit site---mostly from the small coterie of reflexive Jew-haters---who have been suggesting repeatedly that because PJMedia has a number of Jewish investors and columnists, that it is part of the "biased Jew-dominated media" and possibly even an operation of Israeli "hasbara."   

buzzsawmonkey 4/27/2026 12:10:25 PM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 9:

I live in NYC.  I have never joined the Republican Party, even to the extent of being able to vote in the Republican primaries, because for the entire time I have lived here the Republicans have been, at best, the Palooka Party; like a cheap palooka boxer in a '30s boxing movie, they put up a show of opposition before taking a dive for the guaranteed short money.  They routinely endorse the same judicial candidates as the Democrats; they do not in any way support their candidates in the media or even with those lousy oversized-postcard mailings that are supposed to persuade you to vote for their candidate but which tell you next to nothing.  My City Councilwoman is a Muslim supporter of jihad, and they did not even bother to field a candidate against her.  I remain registered as a Democrat so that I can cast my primary vote for the least-worst Democrat, and then vote for the Republican candidate in the general election, if one actually does limp into the ring.  

In the last mayoral election, the Republicans fielded, but did not visibly back to any degree, Curtis Sliwa, whose claim to fame was having formed and run the Guardian Angels, a citizen-protection group which patrolled the subways back during the crime-ridden pre-Giuliani years, i.e., far too back in the past for at least half the electorate to know, or care, who he was.  Sliwa's appeal, such as it was, rested on that and his being part of the European working-to-lower-middle class which has not for many years been the New York demographic.  The Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge, which 40 years ago would have been his power base, is now largely filled with Muslim immigrants---the commercial streets in Bay Ridge are filled with women in burkhas, and the overwhelming majority of the stores have signs entirely in Arabic.  

Kosh's Shadow 4/27/2026 12:37:16 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 13:

In Massachusetts, voters who are not enrolled in a party can pick the party primary for each election, so that is what I do.

For a while, that would declare your membership in a party and you would have to fill out a form afterwards to become unenrolled in a party, but that was dropped because everyone was doing it.

The term here is "unenrolled" because someone started an Independent party.