Look what I got in my email today....
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Lololol. Now they are inviting folks to write for them and join. Wonder what that site's hit numbers are telling them over at the GOS?
Have a blessed day everyone!
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Sounds like it matches the Clinton pivot
to wooing republicans, now that the progressives are safely under the bus. I wonder if the million dollar troll army is running out of cheetos money.
The one I got said that they are $63k+ under for the month
So basically they have less than a week to raise Bernie style cash.
"Politics is not evil; politics is the human race's most magnificent achievement." Senator Tom Fries, 'Podkayne of Mars,' Robert Heinlein
But wouldn't you really rather have a Bush?
Hillary is far closer to a Bush than Trump could ever possibly be...
And we all know how well that worked...
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
It wouldn't surprise me if they floated Jeb! as a possible
running mate.
There's trouble in Orange Satan Place
For them to have to pursue readers, their numbers (and $) must be tanking.
Seriously????
I'm not sure how I feel about this.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I feel nuttin. NUTTIN, you hear?
and now I forget what movie used that line.
A Chorus Line n/t
[video:https://youtu.be/7fGWt_4TM-k]
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
ah, thnx
Not so much the number of visitors per day...
But throwing away about a million page views a week is a dream every successful webmaster has...
Usually accompanied by waking up screaming, and a cold sweat...
Not exactly a good dream...
Makes it difficult to settle down and go back to sleep...
Lets analyze this a little bit...
A political blog where there are numerous members on 2 different sides having discussions...
So you decide to take a stance unpopular with about 1/2 of the membership, limit their discussion, allow the opposing side to attack unfairly, and even ban opposing members...
Consequently you end up with an empty one sided echo chamber and crap articles dominating the discussion...
So avid members in the past no longer go there...
Visitors coming in on searches visit one page, look at the crap propaganda piece briefly then click the back button for a bounce and they are gone...
Yea... Those ad clicks are gone...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Actually
it was closer to 65-70% of the readership that preferred Bernie, based on kos' own polls ... which eventually disappeared for some reason.
"The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles. -- Bob Dylan"
You are correct...
I was just rounding what we already knew...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
The ONE fight my grandfather and I ever had
was so sad to me. My dear grandmother, the love of my life, was fading fast. Ultimately, after years of combating Parkinson's, pancreatic cancer took her cruelly and quickly. There was a moment that last summer when her treating doctor was African American. I don't quite remember where she was or what we knew at that time, but there was a big shift in how she was faring and her will to stay around. And there was this nice doctor NOT saying things were going to be ok. And it seemed to bring to the surface whatever very old issues my grandfather must have had growing up as a privileged white kid in rural Kentucky. He did not like this doctor touching my grandmother to examine her and he got ugly about it. I think he was mostly ugly to me and not to the doctor, but I felt stung. My recollection was that the comments were in the car and at their home and not in the medical office. And I could see how many emotions were crossing paths and urged him to to spew such vile sentiments. I hated seeing this in action, knowing this about him, and coming from such stock. And I felt compassion for a young man suddenly finding himself old, coming to terms with losing the love of his life, the mother of his children. He was often not as good to her as she needed, but he did love her very much.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Fit for the newer, softer DK5 lol
And practice bashing hippies and liberals.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Long-time hippie - been bashed --
and we're kind of like the ol' Jack-in-the-Box -- keep popping up for more. If you don't show up, you don't win --
When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.
I'm kinda done popping back up at the GOS...
They won the prize...
It wasn't anything I really wanted anyway...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
It's the same restrainst that were placed on the FPers
apparently - Only write about silly Republicans, and for God's sake don't write about policy or potential legislation that actually affects the peons daily life.
The only thing ever worth reading over there was Community content for the most part and almost the entire slate of writers I enjoyed is disappeared. Fortunately, many have resurfaced here.
As someone who diaried frequently over there when most of the participants seemed to be issues oriented and when the discussion was sane and non-personality based, it's hard to have to give up a platform that did deliver a larger audience than any non-professional liberal writer could garner anywhere else BUT I completely concur with the GBCW diaries that opine that by slandering Bernie and his supporters with fake racist, sexist tropes that Kos and his blog are just not a place I care to be anymore. Cowardly, anonymous flagging was the icing on the cake.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
GOS needs to read their Bible...
Specifically:
Luke 4:23 and Matthew 7:5.
Democrats, we tried to warn you. How is that guilt and shame working out?
"... have a blessed day"?
Have the $hill-wingnuts @ dkos gone all christer on us? or have the conservative christer-folk been in hiding ("trolling") all this time?
When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.
They are trying to court the moderate Christian Republicans.
Since they are giving progressive's agenda the toss, they need a new set of rubes to fall for their bullshit.
They don't care about them any more than they cared about us, but since we are proving to be such an intractable lot they gotta find some other group to fill the void we will be creating if we do indeed follow through with the move for mass de-registration based on the outcome of the Primary.
I for one will be changing my (D) to a (Green) down here in Florida since we are one of the 22 (?) states where they have ballot access.
The DNC is dead to me if they go from pushing the Lessor evil to the greater.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
They are a little late on this, lol!
I wrote a Diary over there about my conversion and how to help convert other RWNJ's quite some time ago.
I cross posted it here if anyone is interested so you don't have to go to the GOS to read it.
Many of the the tips/suggestions in it could be used to help woo our moderate Democratic party friends over to our new party as well so I hope it picks up a little traction here. (I really shouldn't post these things in the wee hours of a midweek day, lol!)
An EX-RWNJ's guide to converting RWNJ's.
I won't even post a link to the other place but if it does spark your interest there were some brilliant suggestions and comments in the comment thread below the Diary.
It's easy enough to find if you venture into that fetid anus of a website, just search for my user name it's the same both places.
If you do decide to check it out, drop a comment in the Essay and let me know what you think. I'd love for you guys to provide me with additional suggestions as well as hear any critiques you may have regarding my assertions/assumptions.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Did the email link to the diary
where you can see all the "compassionate conservatives" went on a nasty feeding frenzy on Aspie's good bye diary?
Then again... look at who they are propping up for POTUS. So I guess it's fitting.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Damn, now I want to go see their venom...
And I resist it as hard as I can.
I try to limit my attendance to about once a week right now, just to see how much worse it has gotten.
I don't even get pissed anymore now, to me at least, it is like I am periodically observing some twisted social experiment gone wry... (Not to say that some of the ignorance doesn't raise my ire a bit, but I just don't have any fucks left to give to get emotionally involved enough to reply to them or get too worked up.)
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Well, I've not gone in a couple of weeks and the best way
to gauge the deterioration is to make the visits after long intervals of peace. Then you'll see the cesspool it's become. I went 2 weeks ago and left in 90 seconds.
Don't believe everything you think.
hahahahahahahahaha
Oh, that's rich.
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Based on my last foray to GOS, Jerry Springer was more fact base
ed and a bit more entertaining.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
Much more entertaining!
My grandfather never joined GOS
As far as I can tell the Democratic party with GOS support is now home to the right wing nut jobs. This just begs a snark diary, but I don't have time. I work for a living.
Hows is that new left wing party coming? We need to save the lefties at TOP from going down with the ship.
"If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back" - Regina Brett
"I for one welcome our new conservative overlords"
would be a great opener for such a diary as well as being an homage to a classic meme.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
The "professional left" not welcome at DK
Rham Emanual called us out years ago
Kos is following his lead
And things have worked out so well for Rham. Hope same happens to Kos.
The amateur left
isn't any more welcome there, from what I can see.
Other than those who are willing to entirely suspend rational disbelief.
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future
They barely tolerate the Center left...
but they will be the next to go most likely.
"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me
WTF?
That's hilarious. I'm in the same camp as Alphalop above. It's hard to resist going over there for the unintentional humor.
It's devolved into rubbernecking the trainwreck
of three box cars at the bottom of a lemming cliff: the Clinton campaign, the Democratic Party and Daily Kos. Oh the humanity!
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
Trainwreck
(Grrr, this is NOT working!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Fortunately, the only right
Fortunately, the only right wing douchebags I had to deal with were at Kos, and I don't go there anymore, so....
Ouch!
Well played, razorblade.
"The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles. -- Bob Dylan"
Yet another erected but transparent shield, attempt to distract.
Which has been the totality of their entirely weak, pathetic, pandering, empty and stultifying campaign.
So the Daily Springer (perfect description of the latest juvenile marketing concept hatched by the not-so-bright or witty Neoliberal scum) tag teams with the good cop/bad cop of MoveOn to trade on more FEEEAAAARRR - because that's all they've got.
Must have been a really dynamic meeting with the DNC and all its satellite minions in the MSM, "activist" circles and blogosphere. "Yeah, I know, I know...just keep painting Trump as this really scary monster, and they're got to vote for her." Some genius strategy, you nitwit douchebag, power-monger minions, so in thrall to your horrendous candidate that you can't even think straight and resort to jr high school tactics.
Think of all the cringe-worthy admissions that have shown her true character, which by the way the American people have and continue to reject wholesale as evidenced in her trustworthy likeable numbers. Her whole message has pretty much been, "betcha don't want them, now do ya?"
"That's what they offered"
"When everybody else does I will too"
"I told them to 'cut it out'"
etc. etc. etc
She's exhibited quite clearly that she's stuck in the mindset of an arrogant, privileged teenage brat. She doesn't deserve to be anywhere near the Presidency. Yet, a whole fucking disgraceful apparatus is working overtime to prop her up, because they're continuing fortunes are hinged to her.
It's a bizarre, twisted dystopia looking at this scene right now. It's hard to believe we're actually at the doorstep of Idiocracy. Bernie is the marathon runner of sanity, compassion, intelligence and humanity, racing to save us from turning the door knob, from which we'll proceed feet first in a free fall to oblivion.
We have to show up in droves in Philly to support him, continue writing, publishing, showing up and appealing to saner voices in the media to emphasize and explain the severity of the moment.
Bernie must run 3rd party.
If he does he wins in a massive landslide.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Recced for the Idiocracy ref! (eom)
I had to leave but thanks everyone for your comments!
Oh, I love the taste of Schadenfreude in the morning.
I just looked up GOS site numbers on Quantcast. Oh they are not pretty. 2 months ago he was at 14 million global unique views a month. Now it is down to 8.3 million (40% drop). In other words, his ad revenue has to be down at least 40% based on these numbers. No wonder he is begging for content and money now. I am just sitting back and letting the fall of GOS happen. Maybe this will be a lesson for others - "If you are a community content website, Don't piss off a large number of your creators".
War, War Never Changes - Fallout Series
The David Brock model
Piss on progressives now; call them in for a big group hug after the convention. Because, "Where else will they go?" (quote from pre-2010)
Hahahaha. We should all go over there and post diaries about
how we talk to our right-wing relatives who are still supporting HRC and/or TOP!
"Well, Kos, you asked."
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You beat me to it, elenacarlena!
I was going to say we should all post diaries how we talked our right-wing relatives into voting for Bernie instead of hrc or Herr Drumpf. If they were hit with 50 such diaries, it would keep their trolling minions busy and be the joke of the year!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
"We are all progressives at Daily Kos"
Even the very first sentence is a lie...
Exactly. Beat me to the punch on that little irony!!
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Daily Kos is basically a re-education camp for Progressives
at this point. It's where you get your idealist unicorn horn of optimism and belief in better tomorrows drilled down to a nub before you are turned out to pasture with all the pragmatic ponies.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "