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No… no, sorry. Not ringing a bell!
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And don’t forget Puerto Rico, who is having to batten down what little bit of hatches they’ve managed to cobble together for the COMING hurricane season despite never having been fixed from the last one. These are Americans too, just like the folks in Texas or Florida.
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I suspect that you and I are in a lot more agreement than this thread would suggest. I was using that screaming at the umpire as a more extreme example. The problem with FB, at least in my experience, is that since everyone is friends with everyone and their kids, it isn’t a whole lot different. It is, admittedly, a somewhat more private conversation, but how much so? It’s hard to know. Note I didn’t call out @anon61833566, he/she brought it up as a comparison.
I’m watching it right now on my phone; she totally did.
Also notable:
“I had a lot of jokes about the WH Admin, but I cant use them because everyone has been fired. You guys are going through Cabinet members quicker than Starbucks throws out Black people.”
"There’s also, of course, Ivanka. She was supposed to be an advocate for women, but it turns out she’s about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons. She’s done nothing to satisfy women. So, I guess ‘like father, like daughter.’ "
Speaking again of Sanders:
“What’s the term for an Uncle Tom for White women who disappoint other White women? Oh, I know; Aunt Coulter.”
And now I see why so many people are so pissed; Wolfe didn’t roast, she flash-fried those bitches to a blackened crisp.
Her delivery was little shaky, but everything she said was a freakin’ critical hit.
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That’s one of those lines drawn rather too frequently by those who have crossed it or pushed others over it.
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Self-admittedly.
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No you just called me out without calling me out by name. And you ignored my response to you in which I corrected your gender identification of “she” to him.
I am male. How about you begin being respectful with someone by referring to them by their chosen pronoun. You didn’t have to use a single curse word to be incredibly rude and insulting to me…you did it just fine by either ignoring or dismissing me entirely. Well done.
Again, you are trying to hold a comment on Facebook (by example) as comparable to the horrific things that come out of the president’s mouth on a daily basis. They are not remotely the same thing. And maybe you and I watch completely different TV and Movie, but at last check both shit and asshole are widely accepted as PG language…acceptable to the ears of under 13; which side note again you ignored: no one under 13 should be on Facebook in the first place as it is against their TOS.
You seemed to have completely missed what my comparison was in the first place…that me saying “they don’t give a shit” on facebook somehow means I am a bad role model; but the president gets a pass from that individual for everything he says/does.
I am not here to live up to your expectations of what a good role model is. At this stage in the thread, I would appreciate you leaving me out of any reply or comment you have. Find something else to discuss and leave me out of it. You’ve insulted and denigrated me enough from my perspective.
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I would’ve been shaky too, standing up to capital-p Power like she did.
May her epic heroism inspire more little ones with slingshots.
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Of course not, that’s what the police are for!
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Deputy-suspended-for-yelling-at-umpire-1272441.php
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Oh, her shakiness was totally understandable; like Dave Chappelle said, seeing someone speak truth to power like that is “beautiful;” especially these days.
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I’m not sure she was actually shaky. I mean, not emotionally. Vocally and physically a bit, but I’ve watched some of her other stand up and I don’t think that’s unusual for her. I have no idea if that’s anxiety or just how her voice works. (She has some jokes about how her voice sounds)
But it’s nice to see how comedians are defending her. This whole thing is such bullshit. On one hand I hope it’s going to rocket her to fame and all this is just like a Steisand effect. On the other, I just saw Kathy Griffin talking about what happened to her after the Trump decapitation picture, and I hope Wolf’s family isn’t getting death threats right now.
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That’s what I meant; the overall way she sounded.
Same here.
Obligs, once again:
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The totality of her Twitter response was:
Watching a wife and mother be humiliated on national television for her looks is deplorable. I have experienced insults about my appearance from the president. All women have a duty to unite when these attacks happen and the WHCA owes Sarah an apology.
The WHCD should be about honoring the best in journalism. Enough with the comedians, enough with the late-night parties. These are serious times for both the free press and the public they serve.
Women who use their government positions to spread lies and misinformation deserve to face the same withering criticism as men. But leave our looks out of it. Watching from home, I hurt for Sarah, her husband and her children.
And …Michelle Wolfe Is talented. Comedians make us laugh/think/uncomfortable- but at WHCD we shld make fun of ourselves, &call it a night.
I mean, that’s a pretty fucking weird response. It’s entirely dominated by an attack on Wolf for… something she never did. The rest of what she’s saying comes from that. And frankly, her characterization of Sanders as “a wife and mother” was way more offensive than anything Wolf said.
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Could Mike really be that illiterate/bad at hearing someone speak? And could her tunnel vision really be that narrow?
I don’t l think so, since my nose is good enough to, um, see bullshit when I hear it.
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Oh my goodness. I am typing email responses to notes that come to my email without the whole original string in front of me, and so in attempt to not choose the wrong pronoun, I put he/she (or she/he) to make sure I didn’t insult you by guessing the wrong one from my memory. My memory of the original post that started the FB issue was that someone posted something on FB, someone else complained about it, and then the original person brought up that someone had complained about it when people should be more concerned with the President.
I am not reading all the notes, just the ones that show up in my email box, so if there were side notes about TOS, then I simply didn’t see them. And again, I am not comparing whatever the FB post was to the President—I have said it in this string multiple times that they aren’t comparable.
But please accept my apologies. I haven’t meant to insult or denigrate anyone, including you. I don’t even know you. I made the mistake of commenting on someone’s comments, when I really should just serve my fellow human beings in the ways that I do and try to do right by those I come across in person.
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Yeah, it really feels like another disingenuous bit of outrage trying to mask the real objection to what was said.
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Yep. Michelle Wolf really did blast open the fictions of journalism in the age of Trump, however momentarily, including the insipid, ridiculously overpaid bleatings of sheep like Mika. The attempts to distract from what Wolf exposed smell like rank desperation.
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