Posted on 11/17/2016 4:19:48 PM PST by Kaslin
It's been over a week and the entertainment value of the anguish of the #ImWithHer hasn't diminished one bit. In today's episode of "I Can't Believe Adults Are Behaving This Way," we find Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times making quite a mess in his emotional diaper.
If this were in a publication that didn't take itself so seriously, one could imagine that Kristof meant to be lighthearted or tongue-in-cheek. Not at the Times though, where every syllable must be read with a scowl and an upturned nose. Here is the intro to the piece that defenders of the MSM realm will insist was delivered mostly in jest:
Traumatized by the election results, many Americans are asking: What now? Here are steps that any of us can take that can make a difference at the margins. Onward!
In a more sane time, everyone would respond with a little "Ha-ha" to that, because rational people don't get traumatized by election results, right? Maybe a few unstable people, but surely not millions of them.
Until this year.
Disgruntled Democrats haven't just moved the goal posts on the parameters of "trauma," they've gotten rid of them completely. We've seen universities giving students opportunities to grieve as if there had been a mass murder on campus. After several days of people lighting things on fire and then dousing the fires with their tears, it's nigh impossible to make a case that they're kidding about being traumatized.
On the surface, some of Kristof's words would be welcome. He talks about accepting the loss and not demonizing people on the other side.
Then he says he would support the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC is an institutionalized hotbed of intolerance masquerading as a monitor of hate groups. In fact, it's practically a hate group itself.
Also, after promising to not demonize, Kristof promises to make sure the needy aren't forgotten while the GOP does nothing but focus on tax cuts for the wealthy. Because all Republicans hate poor people, get it?
If, however, Kristof sticks to his "Step 8" there may be hope for him yet:
8. I WILL resist dwelling in an echo chamber. I will follow smart people on Twitter or Facebook with whom I disagree. I will also try to enlarge my social circle to include people with different views, recognizing that diversity is a wonderful thing — and that if I know only Clinton supporters, then I don’t have a clue about America.
Political diversity is anathema to coastal media types, so this is a big, um, step for Kristof to even recognize the need for it. Given that, I hope he is serious, if only to turn down the noise for the next election.
Just saw Kristoff on FOX.....he has SHOE POLISH BLACK “hair”( “brillo”) and no eyebrows......he looks like a BAD CLOWN!! Couldn’t even focus on what lies he was spouting.
Tucker Carlson took this dude apart on his show just now.
One word: Acceptance.
The Americans are happy.
The monster’s warts are tearing out of its angel-looking robes. We’re gonna see just how “for all the marbles” this game is being played. They are out of time. The Internet is a bucket of water in the Wicked Witch’s face. The melting has just begun in earnest. With Trump keeping NATO off the nuclear button, they are dead f***ing meat. They’ll go for riots and destabilizsation of the US, but all that nasty tracking tech that the military and police have is going to fry their bacon. Plus they will be aided by many more whilstleblower apostates as soon as Trump pardons Assange and Snowden. Meanwhile the hacker sappers will rip the guts out of the banking mafias and criminal CIA black ops. All the predicted tools of oppression can and will be used as tools of liberation. We are fighting a hierarchical feudal scarcity psychological paradigm that has no defense against open source surplus data, none. It’s gonna be Armageddon, all right, but Armageddon on our terms. Keep that cell phone video camera handy at all times. Learn to make it go while it’s in your pocket.
The entire article is an exercise in elitism.
They’ll never get it.
what a vile creature
I have a “1-step” program for Kristol...it involves a trip to a ledge in the Grand Canyon
meh
He sure did.
I hope step 12 involves a rope and a chair.
Kristol? You mean Kristof, don’t you?
Whatswiththismehnonesense?
Whatswiththismehnonesense?
Link to the clip
https://youtu.be/Hr88YL2sE1s
meh
Kristin and his nonsense Not worth anything more
Election Night - SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHG0ezLiVGc
Bump....
“One word: Acceptance.”
Actually it starts with “we admitted......”
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