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Dread Pirate Roberts

(1,973 posts)
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 09:50 AM Dec 16

Breaking News-Phil Mickelson is Still a Piece of Shit

Political wisdom from a guy who got filthy rich hitting a ball (that’s standing still) with a stick. Weighs in on everything from the release of Abrego-Garcia to mass shootings. Trump loving, Saudi humping piece of crap. What a surprise his opinions are as disgusting as he is.
Yeah right Phil, what Australia needs right now are more lax gun laws.

The (two) terrorists didn’t seem affected by the strict gun laws already in place,” Mickelson wrote on X/Twitter. “In fact, the shooting went on for a long time since there wasn’t anybody else with a gun to stop them. I’m not a big gun guy, but even I’m not this dumb to believe what this guy is selling.”


https://www.nj.com/sports/2025/12/phil-mickelson-enters-gun-control-debate-after-bondi-beach-attack-even-im-not-this-dumb.html
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Kid Berwyn

(23,010 posts)
1. Moron.
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 09:52 AM
Dec 16

Professional Moron, as an unarmed Muslim man risked his life to physically overpower and disarm one of the gunmen using only his hands and courage.

Initech

(107,460 posts)
13. Why is it whenever someone asks for a political hot take from a celebrity...
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 12:57 PM
Dec 16

It's always the most fascist bullshit possible?

Kid Berwyn

(23,010 posts)
14. Fascists own the mass media.
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 02:12 PM
Dec 16

Thus, fascist ideology is all that gets spread -- disguised as free market capitalism blah blah blah.

You know this story, Initech. However, a briefing for those new to the subject:

The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy



Additional important history to know...

Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda

The Attack on Democracy


The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.

John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.

Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.

This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.

Source: TUC Radio

Part 1: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/

Part 2: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/

Gore Vidal on what Americans read, see and hear via Corporate McPravda:



"A writer must always tell the truth, unless he is a journalist."

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.”

“When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.”



The late Harold Pinter addressed Truth upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature:



Here’s an observation from me, back in 2024 when SCROTUS birthed King Taco:

What hasn’t gotten enough mention in the coverage of Trump’s Imperial Immunity and discussion of what constitutes official and unofficial conduct on ABCNNBCBSFoxNutz is what the ruling really means: SCOTUS just used a Sharpie on the Constitution to write in Donald J Trump where it used to read “We the People.”

kwolf68

(8,262 posts)
2. Where is the...
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 10:02 AM
Dec 16

"Shut up and Play Golf" crowd? Too busy telling singers and actors to not speak out that's where.

sop

(17,467 posts)
3. "In fact, the shooting went on for a long time since there wasn't anybody else with a gun to stop them."
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 10:05 AM
Dec 16

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), as of December 16, 2025, there have been approximately 392 mass shootings in the U.S. this year. Where were all the "good guys with guns" in the U.S. when we needed them, Phil?

Hey, Phil...it's a good thing the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Uvalde Police Department weren't responsible for taking out the shooter in Australia. The death toll would have been much higher.

newdeal2

(4,802 posts)
7. Let's see the average number of gun shot victims per year
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 10:26 AM
Dec 16

For say 10 years and compare that to the USA.

You are a moron, Phil.

Laxman

(2,426 posts)
8. Yes he made tens of millions...
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 10:37 AM
Dec 16

Hitting a ball with a stick, making himself a walking billboard and hawking Embrel, but he gambled it all away. So in come the journalist killing Saudis with a boatload of money and Mickelson takes every penny and has the nerve to lecture others on morality and political positions.

Johonny

(25,493 posts)
11. It turns out most professional golfers
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:43 AM
Dec 16

Are assholes. Not all, but the PGA is filled with a disturbing amount of POS. It makes it hard to watch golf, although Phil is betting you will.

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