"charismatic" figures such as Alan Dershowitz
they are dabbing on us
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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basically admitting that they, the media executives, directly control the range of acceptable political debate
Goddamnit...we're going to have a Pedophile Pride parade in the next 6 months, aren't we? 
It's actually called July 4th.
Welcome to A Capital Fourth, with this year’s tribute to all the times our Founding Fathers knocked up their underaged slaves.
bravely committing to nobody ever watching CBS news
My instinctive reaction to reading “pedolawyer” was “which one?”
What the hell is "40 yards of acceptable debate"? Bari Weiss constantly talks like this, it's like English is her second language because she came here from The Planet of Nonsensical Aphorisms.
apparently the actual quote was the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate. i.e., the middle 20% of a football field. so her stated goal is to exclude literally 80% of viewpoints
couldnt ask for a clearer example of the untrustworthiness of the bourgeois press
"Our goal is to turn the overton window into an arrow slit"
Literally the meme of trying to explain politics to an American: "Okay so imagine a football field".
I'm so smart I can make my own idioms in real time
Yeah they just had go further into it.
Imagine a debate that is only held in the center of the football field and either side only ever starts in the 3rd down and a drunk man questions if this is his moment to streak at any time. Now add in Biden somewhere.. Boom, metaphor complete and every American gets it.
They don't care that Fuetes is a Nazi and Tucker is a ghoul, the line was crossed when they criticized Israel.
Is he just there to serve as a lightning rod for the hate? I can't understand how anyone would stand to be around or listen to the dersh.
And of course by "vast majority of Americans" she means "all of the rich dickheads in my social circles." Because if you aren't rich, do you even exist to these people?
NCIS: Martha's Vineyard
Follow the Major Crimes Unit as they uncover antisemitism at every gas station, liquor store, and farmers market vendor that has ever inconvenienced Alan "The Douche" Dersh as he builds a career taking on the most disastrous, unpopular cases for only the richest and most powerful clients in earth.
Inconvenience store
Grandpa is drunk again and talking about the perogies being antisemitic.
Alan: "I didn't even enjoy the penis massage, I don't like fucking children but like any American if I have to I will!"
Bari: "we were talking about red light traffic cameras."
Nothing says charismatic like an 87 year old man. Also, none of those people get their viewership from CBS so I don't know how she plans to cause this 'sidelining'.
Some 87 year old guys are charismatic. Alan Dershowitz's (cue the first 8 notes of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor) sin isn't his lack of charisma or his age, it's his relentless and inexorable path to defend every famous man to murder his wife (to the point of allegedly driving his own to suicide), be a nonce, and silence critics of Israel.
It's a big club, and we need to start taking out billionaires' kneecaps with it 
I think it'd be more fun to use their own golf clubs.
Fore!
probably the first time ever that the dersh has been described as charismatic
