The Journalo Thread

[Xenophon]

I was thinking we needed a place to chronicle media hyperbole and hypocrisy. I'll start with Keith Olbermann, ranting about how the election of Trump is the end of the Republic.

[SuburbanFarmer]

It is, but not because of Russia. That's just a boogyman to distract from our own utter failure as a society.

[de officiis]

Harsh...

[Xenophon]

It is, but not because of Russia. That's just a boogyman to distract from our own utter failure as a society.

Care to elaborate?

[SuburbanFarmer]

It is, but not because of Russia. That's just a boogyman to distract from our own utter failure as a society.

Care to elaborate?

I mean that we are, in fact, witnessing the end of the Republic. But blaming it on Russia is similar to blaming the Fall of Rome on the Gauls. Sure, they pushed over the last little pile of ashes, but the whole thing was finished long before that.

Our society is completely imploded at this point - given over totally to corporate/special interests. People are being poisoned via tap water in massive numbers, earthquakes abound throughout the shale fields, mcDonalds continues to push their filth into kids, air pollution is treated as a Free Market issue, and on and on. Everything is for profit, no one is responsible, nothing else matters.

Make no mistake, this society is ending, and it's only going to get worse. Russia? Some pissant dictator on the other side of the planet. Give me a fucking break.

[Xenophon]

It is, but not because of Russia. That's just a boogyman to distract from our own utter failure as a society.

Care to elaborate?

I mean that we are, in fact, witnessing the end of the Republic. But blaming it on Russia is similar to blaming the Fall of Rome on the Gauls. Sure, they pushed over the last little pile of ashes, but the whole thing was finished long before that.

Our society is completely imploded at this point - given over totally to corporate/special interests. People are being poisoned via tap water in massive numbers, earthquakes abound throughout the shale fields, mcDonalds continues to push their filth into kids, air pollution is treated as a Free Market issue, and on and on. Everything is for profit, no one is responsible, nothing else matters.

Make no mistake, this society is ending, and it's only going to get worse. Russia? Some pissant dictator on the other side of the planet. Give me a fucking break.

Wow. That's some hyperbole right thur, boy.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Care to elaborate?

I mean that we are, in fact, witnessing the end of the Republic. But blaming it on Russia is similar to blaming the Fall of Rome on the Gauls. Sure, they pushed over the last little pile of ashes, but the whole thing was finished long before that.

Our society is completely imploded at this point - given over totally to corporate/special interests. People are being poisoned via tap water in massive numbers, earthquakes abound throughout the shale fields, mcDonalds continues to push their filth into kids, air pollution is treated as a Free Market issue, and on and on. Everything is for profit, no one is responsible, nothing else matters.

Make no mistake, this society is ending, and it's only going to get worse. Russia? Some pissant dictator on the other side of the planet. Give me a fucking break.

Wow. That's some hyperbole right thur, boy.

I don't see anything hyperbolic about it... all of these things are documented facts, accepted as 'normal' by the vast majority of Americans...

[de officiis]

Always with the negative waves, Moriarty, always with the negative waves.

[KerningChameleon]

I don't see anything hyperbolic about it... all of these things are documented facts, accepted as 'normal' by the vast majority of Americans...

Nihilism isn't so bad, once you get used to it. Just make sure to never have kids, prop up a lawn chair, crack open a six-pack of ice-cold brewskys, and kick back and enjoy our front-row seats to The End of Civilization As We Know It.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I don't see anything hyperbolic about it... all of these things are documented facts, accepted as 'normal' by the vast majority of Americans...

Nihilism isn't so bad, once you get used to it. Just make sure to never have kids, prop up a lawn chair, crack open a six-pack of ice-cold brewskys, and kick back and enjoy our front-row seats to The End of Civilization As We Know It.

Yeah, I did have a kid tho. It's hard to face reality, when someone you love is just walking into it, with an open heart.