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Again: BLAZING SADDLES is almost entirely about white racists being mockable imbeciles. It's more "woke" than any movie released in 2021
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Bari Weiss' entire schtick is pretending that unseen forces are preventing her and those like her from making the exact arguments that she's making, right now, in the exact venue where she's making them, right now
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RIP Peter Fonda, a fine actor with outstanding social media judgment
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I expect
#cancelDisneyPlus
to have the exact same effect on Disney's bottom line as the Cuties freakout had on Netflix's, namely, no effect at all.
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You fucking idiots. BLAZING SADDLES is one of the most anti-racist movies ever made. It's almost entirely about conservative white racial panic.
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@urvillageidiot
I can’t imagine a greater sin for a local news person than mispronouncing a dead cop’s name
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This is a Trump statement, but… Time Warner hasn’t owned cable systems since Spectrum bought what used to be Time Warner Cable. There isn’t even such a thing as Time Warner anymore, it became WarnerMedia when AT&T bought it. All of this happened while Trump was president!
NEW!
President Donald J. Trump:
“Time Warner, the owner of Fake News CNN, has just announced that they will be terminating a very popular and wonderful news network (OAN). Between heavily indebted Time Warner, and Radical Left Comcast, which runs Xfinity, there is a virtual…
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Losing the Oscar gig was totally the end of Kevin Hart’s career, with the exception of the three movies he’s been in since, the five more in the works, and his new multipart Netflix series about his “cancellation.”
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Where are all the headlines about how Trump “risks alienating Somali-Americans, in the crucial swing state of Minnesota”?
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Clearly, Jordan Peterson's ideas have been so marginalized by the mainstream that he's... been the subject of four different major magazine profiles in the last two months.
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It's gotta be hard to get a job on the New York Times op-ed page when you're a never-Trumper who hates the Iran deal and is really, really angry about overzealous college kids. Probably because they've got four different people like that already.
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The Iraq War WAS your party’s Iraq War!
“Trump could be our party’s Iraq War,”
@AlexConant
tells
@bterris
. “I wonder if four years from now we are nominating someone who had nothing to do with the Trump era.”
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Stop comparing Trump to Fredo Corleone! Fredo was way better at running casinos
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Absolutely! The "Authentic Frontier Gibberish" scene predicted the next 40 years of Republican politics
Not only is Blazing Saddles about white racists being mockable imbeciles—it’s about how richer, more powerful white racists solidify their power by exploiting the prejudices of less powerful white racists.
It’s how Trump won in 2016.
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What is about IN THE HEIGHTS that's "woke," specifically? That it's about non-white people? Because if you think that's what "woke" is, and you think "woke" is bad, then you're kind of giving the game away. x
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This is true too! I've been hearing for nearly a decade that "the left is going to ban BLAZING SADDLES," but examples of them ever actually trying to do so are quite light
@StephenSilver
I've heard like two no-media literacy people complain about it in my entire life, but legions of conservatives saying "Oh no cancel culture is coming for this movie!"
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The dumbest thing in Weiss’ piece, out of many, is the idea that Ben Shapiro is in any way less loathsome than Milo, Alex Jones or Cernovich
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What did it list as Dr Oz’s home county? Bergen?
quirk in PA primaries compared to other state -- home county of candidates is listed on ballot. So to the extent there are regional trends, the information provided on the ballot to voters can help explain it
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Horrible news for Philly cops with Nazi tattoos.
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Oh- and every single person I've ever heard identify themself as a "classical liberal" has actually been a reactionary dolt.
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And no, a four-second content warning before the movie is not a "ban"
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A shame. I was hoping David Koch and his brother would both live long enough to get driven into the poorhouse by a sudden swing in the price of frozen concentrated orange juice futures
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Liberals making fun of "covfefe" is the reason Trump won. My column:
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What’s craziest about this is that Fake Deadspin got a rare scoop a year ago and completely bungled it- and then the real story got broken by an NYT guy, Kevin Draper, who used to work at Real Deadspin
lol
@Deadspin
completely dropped the ball on this last year good lord.... playing defense for Rachel Nichols, like c'mon
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Damn, getting directly denounced at a beauty pageant must be Trump's greatest nightmare
Miss Texas was asked if Trump handled Charlottesville badly. She, uh ... didn't play. 🇺🇸
#MissAmerica
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I just love the mythology that THE LAST JEDI, which made over a billion dollars worldwide, was a “flop”
Historically, the first film in a Star Wars trilogy is the top grosser, the second film is the lowest grosser, and the third film takes the second spot. This has happened twice in 42 years. No reason to think it won’t happen again this time.
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For the hundredth time: BLAZING SADDLES is a movie that's almost entirely about white conservatives being dumb racists
Blazing Saddles, a movie that still is pissing PC police off some 50 years later. When Mel Brooks die I'm sure it's getting vaulted. Y'know. It's wacist, lmao.
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More than 50 people are dead, but the presumed shooter was a middle-aged white guy, so it's "not terrorism"
#lasvegas
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Also- there is a huge amount of distance between “there’s some stuff in this movie from decades ago that’s a little dicey by today’s standards” and “that movie should be banned”
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Kraft’s going to spend the next 20 years replacing Brady with younger and younger quarterbacks
When I spoke to Robert Kraft, he made this analogy about Tom Brady's departure: "Think about loving your wife & for whatever reason, there’s something - her father or mother - that makes life impossible for you & you have to move on but you don’t want to."
@nflnetwork
#Patriots
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@mattzollerseitz
GLASS ONION was a special deal they made to give it a limited engagement. It was, I believe, the first and only time AMC and Regal theaters showed a Netflix movie after they boycotted all the previous ones.
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Trying to remember the last time BLM or "Antifa" plotted to kidnap a governor.
NBC News: At least 5 men have been charged in a federal case in Michigan tied to a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The men are identified in court documents as Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta.
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@mollytolsky
Elmo is canonically gentile, but there is a book about him going to a Hanukkah party with the family of his Jewish friend Gil
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A camp. Where they’re concentrated.
Here's Kris Kobach proposing putting asylum seekers in "processing towns that are confined" .... a "camp"
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What a weird job Shep Smith has. It’s basically to say, every day, “all of my coworkers are lying.”
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CRIMES OF THE FUTURE- Not quite sure why this one sits with me right now, except that Kirsten Stewart's performance is absolutely glorious. A triumph of understated acting.
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Steve King has been racist garbage for a long time. And every 4 years, every GOP presidential candidate comes to Iowa and kisses his ring
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I feel sorry for those people, having to fly on the same plane as this horrible woman
My
@Delta
flight from Phoenix appears to be flying migrants who crossed the border and are being shipped to New York
When I asked a Delta representative if this was the case, his response was “What does it matter, they’re humans too”
What is happening????
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Love how this is cut to imply that a bunch of Eagles players knelt for the anthem, when none did. Pretty typical of
@FoxNews
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Best community note ever
Man for man, the greatest fighting force the world has ever known.
The soldiers of the Confederate States of America.
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@AlleeCatBlues
@gamergate2077
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No, he stopped doing the Colbert report because he was hired to replace Letterman…
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Clearly, the “risks alienating” frame applies to only one demographic: rural, conservative, white people
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And yes, the entire Fredo Discourse took place on John Cazale’s birthday
It’s John Cazale’s birthday.
Let’s celebrate it with one of his funniest moments from Dog Day Afternoon
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Yea that’s a protection racket. That’s what the mafia does
1. In Delaware County, Pa., where I live, the police union VP posted to FB: "If you choose to speak out against the police or our members, we will do everything in our power to not support your business."
People protested and his borough has suspended him
The cop then posted...
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Remember when they had jets fly overhead in every American city, and called it a "tribute to health care workers"? I was just thinking again about how ridiculous that was.
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ICYMI yesterday: in 2001, Larry Kudlow wrote that adulterers can’t be trusted in political office. Now he works for Donald Trump
@50StatesOfBlue
@paulwaldman1
@fakedansavage
@ENBrown
@AmandaMarcotte
@Mobute
@mtaibbi
@mattyglesias
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Go woke, go broke. Like the NFL, who in 1991 took a Super Bowl away from Arizona after it rescinded Martin Luther King Day. After that, the NFL never made any money ever again.
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Bannon's struggle! He should write a book called "My Struggle"
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The "who has been accused of sexual misconduct" should be in that sentence twice
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump endorses Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct
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Huh? Time Warner Cable hasn’t existed for many years…
Time Warner canceling is the final nail in the coffin of OAN. Trump: “I believe the people of this country should protest the decision to eliminate OAN .. Demand that OAN be allowed to stay on the air!”
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Worst account ever
BREAKING: Donald Trump melts down over Time Warner's decision to drop the far-right MAGA propaganda outlet OAN and urges his followers to "protest" the termination of a "very important voice" and "demand" that it be put back on the air. RT IF YOU SUPPORT TIME WARNER DROPPING OAN!
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That “last night on Twitter” thing was fun last night! Do it again tonight?
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I was hoping "Zookeeper's Wife" would have an Inglourious Basterds-like final twist where the zoo animals rise up and kill Hitler
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If you’re a news outlet, you really don’t need to amplify empty-gesture horseshit like this, nor do you have to buy into the lie that it’s “powerful”
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@shinytoucannon
@manymanywords
That’s what Miss Piggy did at the end of MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN
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1990: Time and Warner merge
1995: Time Warner buys Turner
2000: AOL buys Time Warner
2009: Time Warner Cable spin
2009: AOL spin
2014: Time spin
2016: AT&T buys Time Warner
2021: WarnerMedia merged with Discovery
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@morninggloria
Remind me of one of the all time great headlines: “Rosie O’Donnell Weds Girlfriend, Slams Bush”
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Bob Kroll is an accessory to the murder of George Floyd
Police union President Lt. Bob Kroll, commending officers and blasting the protests in a letter to his membership:
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My favorite thing about Pat Robertson: The Family Channel, the network that he built and that broadcast his show The 700 Club, has morphed into Freeform, which almost entirely shows woke, queer-friendly shows that lead directly up to his.
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I get the sense a lot of the "masks are child abuse" crowd also believe that kids today are too soft because we don't whip their asses enough anymore.
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Yes, it's very important for the 23 Democrats running for president to all speak monolithically, and never criticize one another. That, and that alone, is the path to victory.
Democratic lawmakers fear the 2020 Democratic presidential primary field is becoming a circular firing squad, with Trump winding up as the beneficiary of internecine fighting
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That Kaepernick might be blackballed by the NFL , and Adrian Peterson isn't, says a lot about the NFL
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Remember when it was absolutely terrible when Obama weighed in on Trayvon Martin?
In case it’s not obvious, Trump really likes the Jussie Smollett case because for him and his base it fits into the Trumpian/Fox News narrative that racism against minorities is fake but racism against white people is real.
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The right isn't allowed to complain about "entitled young people" for one more damn minute
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You're saying the Park Police lied, and the thing we all saw happen live on camera really happened? No way.
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For all his piousness, Mike Pence is a man of appalling, shockingly low moral character
CNN is so dishonest. Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.
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Fox News: the El Paso shooter had a point
Brian Kilmeade on undocumented immigration: "If you use the term 'this is an invasion,' that's not anti-Hispanic. It's a fact."
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@KenTremendous
Love the episode of Curb where some drunk guy walks into a party, sees Danson, and goes "Hey, it's Becker!"
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You know these stories never pan out, right Yahoo?
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They gave it all to Brett Favre
Mississippi received $429 million last year in federal infrastructure funds specifically for water lines & pipes and I’m wondering what we did with all that?
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It’s official: Elon has turned in his personal brand in exchange for Andrew Torba’s
Musk claims the ADL falsely calls him antisemitic, so the deeply bigoted Gab CEO (see here: ) pops up to commiserate.
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This is an important point at the crux of a lot of these debates: In America, when people try to "silence" their political opponents, they nearly always fail.
@StephenSilver
I didn't say EVERYONE was trying to silence them. The silencers are honestly most likely a minority, albeit a very LOUD one. And many casual observers just take the word of whoever's the loudest. Meaning many people have very skewed perceptions of what these individuals believe.
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Not so surprising that the guy whose most famous song is about how there was never any good music again after Buddy Holly died in 1959 doesn't like the current stuff.
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Underrated Ray Liotta performance- OBSERVE AND REPORT
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@Nicole_Cliffe
I covered the consumer electronics industry for years, and yes- that happens constantly. Another common thing is Geek Squad employees getting caught searching young womens' laptops for nudes.
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An under-the-radar story right in my backyard- a bunch of Delco lunatics falsely accused a voting machine supervisor of rigging the 2020 election, and he sued them (and Trump). I hope James Savage ends up owning Trump Tower
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I've been reading versions of this piece for about 25 years- "I was a liberal, until the moment it affected me personally"
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There were at least 200 movies released in 2018 that had better screenplays than GREEN BOOK
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As we all know, the first amendment guarantees the president the right to always be on live TV. Tape delay is censorship
Rachel Maddow and others say TV shouldn't carry Trump's briefings because he lies and misleads. Why some liberals, who cast themselves as champions of free speech, now want to suppress speech
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Will nobody think of the poor guns? They’re really going through a tough time right now
Lt Gov Dan Patrick (TX) laments that our country has become "anti-gun"
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I'm going to have a hard time trusting Jeanine Pirro ever again
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Maybe they should get the fuck over it
"The anger out there in these red states is so deep and palpabale that GOP legislators may have a difficult time seating Biden electors,” Fox News’ John Roberts casually says on air
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