Patrick Armstrong, Strategic Culture: Back to the USSR: How to Read Western News
The heroes of Dickens' Pickwick Papers visit the fictional borough of Eatanswill to observe an election between the candidates of the Blue Party and the Buff Party. The town is passionately divided, on all possible issues, between the two parties. Each party has its own newspaper: the Eatanswill Gazette is Blue and entirely devoted to praising the noble Blues and excoriating the perfidious and wicked Buffs; the Eatanswill Independent is equally passionate on the opposite side of every question. No Buff would dream of reading the "that vile and slanderous calumniator, the Gazette", nor Blue the ''that false and scurrilous print, the Independent".
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WNU Editor: This is exactly how I approach the news when I see and/or read it.
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"We knew we were in trouble early with this one," a bookmaker said.
Line up at the trough CHUDS. Here's your daily chum.
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Chud or Chude is a term historically applied in the early Russian annals to several Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia. Perhaps the earliest written use of the term "Chudes" to describe proto-Estonians was c. 1100, by the monk Nestor, in the earliest Russian chronicles. According to Nestor, Yaroslav I the Wise invaded the country of the Chuds in 1030 and laid the foundations of Yuryev,. Later sources used Chud to describe other Baltic Finns called
now used by moron to insult those on the left, insults being both childish and ineffective while implying an inability to frame a decent retort or argument
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Chud = Cannibalistic Human Underground dwellers...not that I posted that comment, just that I think i get the 80's pop culture reference.
Trump’s go-to dealmaking tactics fall short in standoff over border wall
Lawmakers of both parties are frustrated by President Trump’s vacillating approach as he demands a portion of his border wall in exchange for reopening the government.
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