Oh when you say Taibbi has ‘forgotten’ his admitting he was wrong after J6 I have a feeling the exact opposite is true, my bet is he said that he got a bunch of unsubscribes and loads of angry emails and just like Greenwald realised 10,000 paying subscribers to spout what people want to hear sure beats working for a living and even if nobody else even remembers he exists anymore, $60k a month is good money so be sure to remember ‘the customer is always right’
Sorry Ben but the answer to your question ‘what happened to Matt Taibbi?’ Is Nothing
I said it in reply to another post but it’s really worth doing, go back and read his stuff from when he was on ‘our side’ but with a critical eye, now aware of the way he makes unsupported leaps of logic, draws false inferences, cuts intellectual corners and uses invective in place of argument and it’s all there back then too, he’s always been this bad we just used to like his conclusions and that should cause some self reflection on our parts
I’m not cheering for Goldman Sachs but as someone who foolishly allowed Taibbi to be one of my guides through the GFC, now I understand his comfort with lying I try to scrub anything I ‘learned’ from Taibbi about the GFC from my brain
Also one more note on the pod, I do very much enjoy the thing where Ben calmly introduces an issue and starts to list off his points and then Justin loses his patience and just blurts “F&@K that guy” or something, it works perfectly
It’s not a fun project but is a worthwhile one (and for you who, at great sacrifice to yourself and benefit of your readers, tortures himself by reading current Taibbi you’ll probably see even more significant moments than I did (though I got lucky as I started to question my trust of Taibbi when reading his absurd Bernie profile in the 2016 primary, so I was still close enough to a time I read him approvingly at the time I re-read more critically)
Trump will suck the oxygen out of the Republican Party for his myriad legal entanglements and it's deserving of this party that never got rid of this cretin when they could have so many times before, and they just gave in 'to him rather than jettison him for his egomania and pathological personality. I say let the Republican Party go broke because of Trump and other unfit candidates for office that they threw their support behind. I would love to see Herr Drumpf bankrupt myself arising from all of the judgments against him, and as you said in the podcast, he can't be a "billionaire" if he's grifting his deluded minions for money. Let them donate their hard-earned money to this consummate con man. When will they ever learn that they've been taken all these years by this meretricious Wizard of Oz? It's totally pathetic!
I'm hoping the Republican Party loses election after election because of this Trump albatross around their necks. They will never learn the lesson of how Trumpism doesn't work in this country! I believe there will be a backlash against them at the ballot box because of their extremism concerning many issues that Americans care about, especially abortion.
I do admire Nikki Haley for her saying the truth about Drumpf's mental acuity, and now the mainstream media have finally gotten on the dementia bandwagon.
His speech is so bad. How could people support him after this egregious stumbling in front of a crowd?
And this clown claims that Joe Biden is mentally unfit? What a lovely example of clear projection here!
He's becoming so vulnerable now that I wonder if he's ever going to be at the Republican National Convention as the nominee, and even if he is, he will lose by a larger margin than in 2020, I predict.
I'm so still worried, however, that his many trials could be delayed until after the election because of his insidious attempts to delay, delay, and delay.
Since Tucker Carlson left "Faux" News, I don't even care what he says anymore. As I ever did when he had the ear of many far-right supporters on the network.
As for Russell Brand's admission of his son having heart issues, I agree with you as to what does this emotional admission have to do with the serious charges leveled against him. Nothing! It's just a distraction meant to garner sympathy from his listeners.
And the news about the economy can only help Biden in the general election. We have to just drown out all of this repugnican screaming about the border. It's a made-up issue, especially when they've said they were not doing anything about it because they were waiting for Drumpf after November. Of course, if he loses, then they'll just abandon doing anything about it altogether.
Hi guys, for some reason I cannot determine, the emergency meeting podcast has not shown up in my Apple Podcasts “private feed“ (iPad nor AppleTV). As of this writing it’s been two hours since the main podcast became available. My experience has been that it sometimes takes a little while, and a little nudging on my part, to get to the ‘cast, but this is really unusual.
I have other ways of listening to it, of course, but I wanted to let you know of this glitch.🤔😉😊
OK, I really screwed this up. Thinking that it might’ve been me, I tried removing and readding the podcast using the RSS feed that I had been sent. Not only didn’t that work, but now I can’t find the Banter podcast anywhere on Apple podcasts.
I guess I have to call support. If Ben or Justin have any insight into what I might’ve done wrong or how to fix it, please tell me.🤔😉😊
Terrific. Turns out “support” is an online “help center” and of course I can’t find an entry about my problem. Can’t find a phone number or email. Anyone know any? Does anyone out there have any advice for me?
Interestingly, while I seem to have screwed up on my iPad, the podcast is still on my Apple TV version. The emergency meeting podcast is still not available.🤔😉😊
OK, apologies to everyone for taking up this much bandwidth. The Banter podcast is back on my iPad, but still no emergency meeting. Also, a search for “banter” in Apple podcasts on my iPad still comes up, well, not dry — there seem to be an awful lot of podcasts with that word in their title — but I still can’t find y’all’s.🤔😉😊
Equating rapists and American nationalists is vulgar and false. I know you have this base that wants to scream in rage/terror but even you can go too far.
Russsell Brand has been credibly accused of rape by several women. Tucker Carlson is a notorious racist who calls immigrants dirty and openly talks about the "great replacement" theory. Enough said.
It's all good. I'm sure you can work it out for yourself. Bless your little bitter soul and don't forget to praise Trump the rapist the next time you're in church pretending to be a good Christian. ;)
Oh when you say Taibbi has ‘forgotten’ his admitting he was wrong after J6 I have a feeling the exact opposite is true, my bet is he said that he got a bunch of unsubscribes and loads of angry emails and just like Greenwald realised 10,000 paying subscribers to spout what people want to hear sure beats working for a living and even if nobody else even remembers he exists anymore, $60k a month is good money so be sure to remember ‘the customer is always right’
Re TFG, I’m reminded of a scene in season 3, episode 6 of Deadwood.
Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) to George Hearst (Gerald McRainey):
“Can’t shut up! Every bully I ever met can't shut his fuckin' mouth... except when he's afraid.”
🤔😉😊
Sorry Ben but the answer to your question ‘what happened to Matt Taibbi?’ Is Nothing
I said it in reply to another post but it’s really worth doing, go back and read his stuff from when he was on ‘our side’ but with a critical eye, now aware of the way he makes unsupported leaps of logic, draws false inferences, cuts intellectual corners and uses invective in place of argument and it’s all there back then too, he’s always been this bad we just used to like his conclusions and that should cause some self reflection on our parts
I’m not cheering for Goldman Sachs but as someone who foolishly allowed Taibbi to be one of my guides through the GFC, now I understand his comfort with lying I try to scrub anything I ‘learned’ from Taibbi about the GFC from my brain
Also one more note on the pod, I do very much enjoy the thing where Ben calmly introduces an issue and starts to list off his points and then Justin loses his patience and just blurts “F&@K that guy” or something, it works perfectly
You make some valid points. I'm going to go back and read some of his earlier work.
It’s not a fun project but is a worthwhile one (and for you who, at great sacrifice to yourself and benefit of your readers, tortures himself by reading current Taibbi you’ll probably see even more significant moments than I did (though I got lucky as I started to question my trust of Taibbi when reading his absurd Bernie profile in the 2016 primary, so I was still close enough to a time I read him approvingly at the time I re-read more critically)
Trump will suck the oxygen out of the Republican Party for his myriad legal entanglements and it's deserving of this party that never got rid of this cretin when they could have so many times before, and they just gave in 'to him rather than jettison him for his egomania and pathological personality. I say let the Republican Party go broke because of Trump and other unfit candidates for office that they threw their support behind. I would love to see Herr Drumpf bankrupt myself arising from all of the judgments against him, and as you said in the podcast, he can't be a "billionaire" if he's grifting his deluded minions for money. Let them donate their hard-earned money to this consummate con man. When will they ever learn that they've been taken all these years by this meretricious Wizard of Oz? It's totally pathetic!
I'm hoping the Republican Party loses election after election because of this Trump albatross around their necks. They will never learn the lesson of how Trumpism doesn't work in this country! I believe there will be a backlash against them at the ballot box because of their extremism concerning many issues that Americans care about, especially abortion.
I do admire Nikki Haley for her saying the truth about Drumpf's mental acuity, and now the mainstream media have finally gotten on the dementia bandwagon.
His speech is so bad. How could people support him after this egregious stumbling in front of a crowd?
And this clown claims that Joe Biden is mentally unfit? What a lovely example of clear projection here!
He's becoming so vulnerable now that I wonder if he's ever going to be at the Republican National Convention as the nominee, and even if he is, he will lose by a larger margin than in 2020, I predict.
I'm so still worried, however, that his many trials could be delayed until after the election because of his insidious attempts to delay, delay, and delay.
Since Tucker Carlson left "Faux" News, I don't even care what he says anymore. As I ever did when he had the ear of many far-right supporters on the network.
As for Russell Brand's admission of his son having heart issues, I agree with you as to what does this emotional admission have to do with the serious charges leveled against him. Nothing! It's just a distraction meant to garner sympathy from his listeners.
And the news about the economy can only help Biden in the general election. We have to just drown out all of this repugnican screaming about the border. It's a made-up issue, especially when they've said they were not doing anything about it because they were waiting for Drumpf after November. Of course, if he loses, then they'll just abandon doing anything about it altogether.
Hi guys, for some reason I cannot determine, the emergency meeting podcast has not shown up in my Apple Podcasts “private feed“ (iPad nor AppleTV). As of this writing it’s been two hours since the main podcast became available. My experience has been that it sometimes takes a little while, and a little nudging on my part, to get to the ‘cast, but this is really unusual.
I have other ways of listening to it, of course, but I wanted to let you know of this glitch.🤔😉😊
OK, I really screwed this up. Thinking that it might’ve been me, I tried removing and readding the podcast using the RSS feed that I had been sent. Not only didn’t that work, but now I can’t find the Banter podcast anywhere on Apple podcasts.
I guess I have to call support. If Ben or Justin have any insight into what I might’ve done wrong or how to fix it, please tell me.🤔😉😊
Terrific. Turns out “support” is an online “help center” and of course I can’t find an entry about my problem. Can’t find a phone number or email. Anyone know any? Does anyone out there have any advice for me?
Interestingly, while I seem to have screwed up on my iPad, the podcast is still on my Apple TV version. The emergency meeting podcast is still not available.🤔😉😊
OK, apologies to everyone for taking up this much bandwidth. The Banter podcast is back on my iPad, but still no emergency meeting. Also, a search for “banter” in Apple podcasts on my iPad still comes up, well, not dry — there seem to be an awful lot of podcasts with that word in their title — but I still can’t find y’all’s.🤔😉😊
Equating rapists and American nationalists is vulgar and false. I know you have this base that wants to scream in rage/terror but even you can go too far.
Russsell Brand has been credibly accused of rape by several women. Tucker Carlson is a notorious racist who calls immigrants dirty and openly talks about the "great replacement" theory. Enough said.
Ok why isn’t Brand in jail? I have a feeling anyone who doesn’t think as you do is a racist or a Nazi or HEAVEN FORBID a Christian.
It's weird how much you're telling on yourself.
Explain it to me. I’m gonna love this.
It's all good. I'm sure you can work it out for yourself. Bless your little bitter soul and don't forget to praise Trump the rapist the next time you're in church pretending to be a good Christian. ;)
I’m not bitter at all. I asked questions you couldn’t answer. You went to name calling. You’re 12.