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Oh no! What can we do now when we need a race hustler with a bad wig? Who can we go to when we need something stupider than even the Reverend Al Sharpton can express? How will Rachel Maddow know what new anti-white talking point is in vogue. Oh Joy, we hardly knew ye!
Let the Joyous word be spread. The wicked dumb witch now is dead.
NY Post Headline: MSNBC cancels Joy Reid’s lefty show as network makes major shakeup
Alright the above title is a figure of speech. Obviously, physically, Joy Reid’s hair could not possibly be any shorter. So, what I’m saying is the management at MSNBC, her employer, is telling Joy that if she wants to continue working there, she’s going to have to agree to a lower salary (see first video clip below for details). Now this isn’t just Joy being targeted due to her awfulness. Rachel Maddow, the reigning star of MSNBC had to take a $5 million dollar cut from her present $30 million-dollar annual salary too. Apparently, Comcast is trying to make the soon to be cast off cable station slightly less doomed. So, let’s assume everyone will get the Maddow treatment. Doing the math, Comcast is asking for one sixth of the salary they pay to be relinquished by their “stars.” I’ve seen estimates that say Joy Reid currently makes three million dollars a year.
Wow. I think they’re being ripped off. But anyway, assuming she is currently receiving that amount under the Maddow reduction model, Joy would be left earning $2.5 million a year.
Wow. That’s still way too much money to pay a talentless, unlikeable hatemonger like Reid.
And for that reason, I am advising Comcast to search around in their hearts for a different number. I think the correct number is $660 a week. That’s based on a forty-hour week, so it can be adjusted if she’s taking long lunches. But that represents the minimum wage that will be in effect as of January 1, 2025 in New York City. And that’s a very fair rate for someone providing the level of craftsmanship that can be expected from her. And assuming that she will base her salary on a fifty-two-week year, that $34,320.
Wow. That still seems like too much money to pay a lying sack of crap like Joy.
Come to think of it, forty hours a week seems excessive. Maybe she could show up on Tuesday for four hours and that way she’ll scare off fewer viewers and the cable channel might have an even chance of surviving a few more months before Comcast or anyone stupid enough to purchase it finally puts it out of its misery. So where am I? Okay so let’s see. $16.50 X 4 X 52 = $3,432 a year.
Wow. No, I’m sorry. There’s just no way to justify that large an outlay for something so useless and toxic (see second video clip below for a sample of this dreck).
But you know what she could do instead? She would make the perfect speech writer for Kamala Harris. Yes, that makes sense. I remember Joy said that Kamala ran a flawless campaign. It’s obvious that Joy would be happiest working hand in glove with the flawlessness that is Kamala. In fact, they could spend most of the time talking about how racism and misogyny were responsible for why neither of them was rewarded by this racist, misogynistic country with the positions they deserve. For it is obvious to both of them that in a fair and just world Kamala would have Trump’s upcoming spot in the White House and Joy would have Rachel Maddow’s office. But, as the poet said, you’re down when you’re riding the train that’s taking the long way.
Oh well.
As I noted today, Morning Schmoe is kneeling in the snow outside the Pope’s window begging for clemency. And he’s just the first. There isn’t enough money at CNN and MSNBC to employ 20% of the talentless hacks that are currently on the payroll. I can’t imagine that Warner Bros. Discovery wants to continue paying Anderson Cooper $20 million a year for doing whatever it is he does. And there’s no way on Earth that NBC Universal is going to pay Joy Reid anything at all for the toxic sideshow that she puts on over there. But the question mark is who gets to stay?
Will they keep some of the marquee players to maintain the pretense that these cable channels are “serious” journalism? Or will they keep the cheapest talent and try to turn a profit that way? If they’re smart, I think they should follow the latter course. Their ratings have already reached the bottom so quality is no longer a consideration. Cutting costs might extend the viability of these companies for a little longer. But what’s going to happen to all of these unemployed “journalists?” In a way CNN did a favor to Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon by letting them go first. They got the first chance to find jobs before the glut of their peers. Both of those guys probably lined up some sweet assignments with Uber and Papa Gino’s.
And things aren’t going to be much better for the Fox News guys. Cable News is a dying industry. For the foreseeable future it will be like a giant game of musical chairs with fewer and fewer chairs to go around. Think of all the amazing characters that will disappear from your tv screen (well, that is if you regularly watch MSNBC and CNN. Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. Jonathan Capehart, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jen Psaki, Joy Reid, Al Sharpton, Chuck Todd, Dana Bash, Anderson Cooper, Van Jones and Jake Tapper.
Look at those names. Irreplaceable talent. Almost like friends; like really, really annoying friends. The kind who says inappropriate things and borrow money. The kind who won’t leave at the end of a party. And suddenly they’ll all be gone.
Well maybe I can cope with the sadness of their loss by making a game of it. Maybe I can start a betting pool on who goes first. Who cries on screen? Who takes the largest voluntary pay cut? Who has to share an office with the security staff (my money is on Lawrence O’Donnell, he looks reasonable)? Who goes postal (Mika)?
But most interesting is which if any will make the ultimate compromise and become a conservative to try and get a job at Fox News? I’d say the early money is on our good friend Joe Scarborough. After all he was a Republican congressman before having the lobotomy. It wouldn’t take hardly any makeup to turn him into a rabid MAGA attack dog. And I’m sure Mika could make the same transition with no real difficulty at all. Boy, it’s good that the fourth estate is there to take care of us.
In the midst of the marathon pummeling that I currently am engulfed in I have Easter completely free from work. It stands out as an oasis of joy within a desert of unpleasantness. Truly this is like the eye of the hurricane providing a short window of peace inside a maelstrom of aggravation and weariness. Death by a thousand paper cuts awaits me next week and I refuse to think ahead to it on Sunday. I will bask in the glow of family solidarity and face the music afterwards. So let it be written, so shall it be done.
I watched the unfolding of the farce that was the Ronna Romney McDaniel NBC hiring and firing. I’ve read the hilarious reactions of the MSNBC parrots squawking and shrieking about an “election denier” sharing their sacred “airspace.” And I can’t decide who is more ridiculous, the people who pretend that anyone can be phonier than the MSNBC freakshow or the suits at NBC who thought that McDaniel could be paraded around as a legitimate spokesperson of the new right.
Words fail me. I tend to believe that the whole episode was a set-up to allow MSNBC to virtue signal at full power and that there was never an intent to employ McDaniel. I guess the only question is whether she was in on the gag from the start. Either way it fun to watch these people wind themselves up to whirling dervish speed.
Probably my favorite bit was this:
Now I was trying to remember what this show reminded me of and then it came to me,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELXX6hZjCeY
Basically, it is the same vibe but without the honesty and intelligence that Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather bring to public television.
Now look at the other side of this farce. How exactly does McDaniel represent the Right? The only answer is that she’s the latest avatar of the John McCain, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney school of Republican misrepresentation. Hell, she’s even Mitt Romney’s niece! So, I guess Uni-Party still feels that the old playbook never gets old and never stops working. Well, they’re wrong. No one with a single living brain cell believes that anymore. Now that still leaves millions of Republican voters as fans of Ronna but effectively, they’re Democrat voters and we have to stop worrying about what they do.
But this is a good starting point. As RINOs get bounced out of positions of power in the Republican hierarchy they will end up with jobs in media, academia and anywhere else where whores can settle down and whore. The appropriate response from our side is to mock and insult these people as much as is humanly possible. And that is what I will try to do whenever I have the time and inclination.
But right now, I have to say, that since I don’t watch PBS, I wasn’t aware that they had shifted over to a 100% gay men news team. It’s a bold decision. I always thought that PBS tried to maintain a 1:1 gay to lesbian ratio with respect to their pundits but apparently that has been superseded. But I hope they eventually add a lesbian. Capehart is obviously radiating an enormous field of gayness at such a high potential that it threatens to tear the very fabric of space-time. In order to re-establish a balance between the feminine and masculine mojo they should hire Rachel Maddow or some other sufficiently macho woman to bring stability to the Force.
Well, enough of this. Everyone, enjoy Easter. I know I will.
MSNBC proudly displays Joy Reid to the world like some sideshow exhibit. She is a very strange individual in many ways. But let’s be kind and put everything else aside. Let’s just concentrate on her words and ideas. She say that the United States has over 327 million people so why does it need kids?
Now maybe this is a failure of the school system where Joy was allegedly educated but does she think people live forever? Is she unaware that the young adults procreate and then raise up the next generation and then give way to their children and the whole cycle begins again.
Or is she aware of this but thinks that the current deficit in births to native born women in the United States should be replaced with illegal aliens walking in? Well, let’s be kind and say that’s what she means.
I wonder if she thinks that this country will stay as it is now if the demographics continue to change as drastically as the current influx of third world migrants indicates it will? Does she assume that there will still be a need for Joy Reid on television? Does she think there will still be a need for MSNBC? Or for that matter will there be the where withall for cable television to still exist?
I know it’s unthinkable that we would have to get along without Joy Reid but I suspect if things go along the way they currently are Joy Reid is going to have to find a new gig. And from what I can see and hear of her skills I think DMV clerk is gonna be a stretch. Maybe bathroom attendant at the local high school might make more sense. I’m sure she could figure out how a mop and ringer work.
I’ve had a lot of fun mocking our heroic pundits on the Left. Whether it’s Joy Reid and her completely hollow skull or Rachel Maddow and her total lack of self-awareness or Jeffrey Toobin and his missing boundaries; all these people share the circumstance that they are unqualified to act as journalists. Granted, their employers really don’t expect or want them to perform that function. The last thing that MSNBC or CNN want is honesty and objectivity. Heaven forbid!
What these dullards and liars are supposed to do is mouth the talking points they are handed and pretend to be serious adults. In some cases, this is impossible. Joy Reid can’t even pronounce the word objectivity. Jeffrey Toobin couldn’t forego autoerotic activities while at work. And the Rachel Maddows and Chris Hayeses and Chris Lemons simply crawl with tics and mannerisms that announce to the world, “Here is a nut job.”
So, yeah, it’s a lot of fun and beyond easy to slap these meat puppets around whenever one of them takes to the airwaves and pontificates about Donald Trump or someone else on the Right who won’t kowtow to Barack Obama or some other creepy “lightworker” who they pull out of the woodworks. It’s easy because they’re idiots and because the things they say have become demonstrably false. COVID was built in a lab and the vaccine didn’t protect us from it. Biden has let in ten million illegal aliens and they are overwhelming New York, Chicago and every sanctuary city that claims to want them. Biden has inflated cost of everything from food to gasoline to rent until now working-class people can’t afford to live.
As I say, it’s easy to slap them around. But that only helps if so many people demand change that even the fake election producers can’t fake the results. And unfortunately, there are plenty of people like the Karens of the world who would rather see working class people starve to death rather than allow Donald Trump in the White House. The Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFL’s) are perfectly happy to pretend that Joy Reid is a genius if it validates their own intelligence.
But the final laugh will be on them. White females have finally fallen off the edge of the critical race table. Whiteness has finally sunk them too. There just isn’t enough room in the zero-sum game that is the Democrat coalition to allow them to keep their heads above water. BIPoC women need their jobs and their status. So, it’s time for them to go. And at the same time if the Supreme Court invalidates sex based affirmative action in the workplace, then there won’t be anything at all left for them to console themselves with as they come home to their little apartments filled with boxes; wine boxes and cat litter boxes.
But one thing they’ll still have will be MSNBC. Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid will always be there to remind them that black women and white lesbians can go on tv and tell them all the things that white people (including AWFL’s) have done to harm this world and why they need to be punished.
So, these dullards and liars have a real function. It’s to tell fake news to stupid people. I stand corrected.
As Trump was declared the winner by NBC Rachel Maddow announces that MSNBC won’t be airing Trump’s victory speech. But it’s not spite, she says, it’s their high journalistic ethics that will not allow lies (lies!) to be broadcast on their channel. Hah! But luckily for us they will monitor the speech in case there is anything that needs to be conveyed (or more likely refuted).
Well, thank goodness we have MSNBC to let us know what is newsworthy. I mean, if you can’t depend on MSNBC to provide objective reporting who can you? Isn’t it rich.
Tuesday was a chaotic day. We had snow, then rain, then sleet. When I got out of work today my car was a popsicle. But being a really lazy guy, my ice scraper was sitting at home where I left it, in front of the kitchen porch where it was definitely of limited value. So, I used my bare hands to scrape this thick ice off my windshield and remove the ice from the roof and trunk. Liquid water is an amazing heat transfer material. The ice on the car was wet enough to make my caveman act extremely effective at freezing my fingertips. So, there I am driving along trying to use the dashboard car heater to thaw my fingers enough to feel the steering wheel.
On the way home I filled up my five-gallon plastic gas can with some three-dollar gasoline and headed home to the horror that was my driveway. Because there was still a freezing rain falling, I put on a raincoat. And because my fingers were still kind of tingly-numb I decided that I needed to protect them from getting frozen again. I made a glove sandwich. I put a pair of thin Thinsulate gloves on and covered them with a pair of disposable kitchen gloves. Not the tight-fitting rubber ones for doing the dishes but the loose clear thin plastic kind that restaurant workers wear when they handle cold cuts. Then I put a pair of work gloves on top of this. It worked like a charm. Keeping the insulated glove dry kept my hands warm and the work gloves provided the strength to protect the thin plastic gloves from damage. Edison the Man!
Snow blowers are pretty good with dry snow. They’re so-so with wet snow and they’re pretty abysmal with slush. And that’s what I had. The slush would separate in the auger and form a cylindrical plug of solid ice that would slowly travel up the outlet and when it got to about a foot long it would break off and fall out of the chute and then a burst of watery slush would shoot out for about thirty seconds and then start to clog with ice again. It took about three passes over the whole length to get most of the slush off the driveway and even then, it was still a mess.
Last week, I bought this fancy shovel which works better at pushing than shoveling the snow down the driveway. It has a couple of handles at different points on its length and works really well for quickly clearing this heavy wet stuff. I went over the whole upper driveway again with it. This was slower and more tiring than the snowblower, but much more successful. By the time the light failed at about 5 pm I had gotten the upper driveway and enough of the rest of the pavement cleaned up to the point where tomorrow I should be able to get in and out without trouble. Camera Girl provided sufficient wifely verbal sympathy for my heroic efforts and also a hot meal that was greatly appreciated.
Afterwards I watched a few clips on the results of the Iowa caucuses and was happy to hear the Lefties on MSNBC caterwauling about white privilege and racism. It’s interesting how even Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow only seem somewhat moronic when in the company of someone as profoundly stupid as Joy Reid. She was jabbering away about how White Christians were plotting with Donald Trump to subvert the country and disenfranchise everyone who wasn’t white and Christian.
And I thought to myself, “If only Trump was this evil dictator. I think I would submit to a purported dictatorship of these Midwestern, Elks or Shriners or whatever, if only they would promise to sit Joy Reid on the shelf of a dunk tank filled with ice water and gave me a dozen baseballs. Now I’m not a monster. I would allow her to be fished out between dunks and dried off and warmed up. But I would consider it one of my finest moments if I managed to hit the target even once and consigned Joy Reid to the icy depths if only for a few moments. And I thought, “That’s a pretty good idea.” Dunk tank justice would provide satisfaction to the multitudes. Imagine if every aggrieved conservative got a turn at freeze dunking Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden or Nikki Haley for saying really stupid things. This would be a happier world. Of course, some of the frailer losers like Pelosi might catch pneumonia. But I’m willing to take that risk.
I guess maybe the cruel and unusual punishment standard of justice might forbid dunk tank justice. But I tell you, I don’t see why we couldn’t get a constitutional amendment to cover it. And I’ll bet if Joy Reid thought that she could get dunked in ice water for saying things as stupid as what comes out of her mouth currently, maybe she’d take up some more noble profession, like rodeo clown. But unfortunately, being a rodeo clown takes brains, of which she has not a scintilla. Well, how about doorstop?