This morning, President Trump issued a statement commemorating the first day of Kwanzaa that was exactly 64 words long—the shortest Kwanzaa statement since former President Bill Clinton started issuing annual remarks in 1993.

For comparison, Clinton’s first Kwanzaa statement was 143 words long—more than twice as long as Trump’s remarks. President George W. Bush’s 2001 Kwanzaa statement was 172 words long. And in 2009, Barack Obama issued a statement with 196 words.

Rage-inducing . . .

Trump Writes Shortest Kwanzaa Statement Since the White House Started Giving Them

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Rage-inducing in that people give a shit about the number of words in a statement.

Rage-inducing in that people give a shit about the number of words in a statement.

People used to get rightfully upset at how everything Obama did got critiqued on small details by people that didn't like him. Now, we have people are doing it by word count statements about a holiday that no one really seems to celebrate anyways.

People used to get rightfully upset at how everything Obama did got critiqued on small details by people that didn't like him. Now, we have people are doing it by word count statements about a holiday that no one really seems to celebrate anyways.

The National Retail Federation has sponsored a marketing survey on winter holidays since 2004, and in 2015 found that 1.9% of those polled planned to celebrate Kwanzaa – about six million people.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Happy Kwanzaa to the world’s 6 million people who celebrate Kwanzaa. And to the remaining 8 billion people, including Muslims Atheists Hindus Buddhists Animists Christians & Jews, Happy Wednesday.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

The National Retail Federation survey refers to people living in the U.S. not the world population.

Serious question- is Kwanzaa celebrated anywhere except the U.S.?

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I think so, but I don't claim to be a Kwanzaa expert. Maybe Mike North knows.

This is like that guy who would measure column inches in the Tribune to prove the Sox got less coverage, except about a Black Power pseudo-holiday.

This is like that guy who would measure column inches in the Tribune to prove the Sox got less coverage, except about a Black Power pseudo-holiday.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I apologize for underestimating the traditions of the Tall Midget family.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I hope this was a learning moment for you, Rick. I provisionally accept your apology.

This is like that guy who would measure column inches in the Tribune to prove the Sox got less coverage, except about a Black Power pseudo-holiday.

Have a terrible night and die in MANY fires.

Tall Midget is a two percenter.

I'm declaring a victory without research.

But in 2017, female artists have been permitted to grace the charts, and though Bono acknowledges there are “some good things” about seeing women thrive, Beyoncé’s musical ascent has in his estimation left the men with naught but one popular genre to dominate, even though nine out of 10 of the top tracks on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart this week were released by male artists/bands.

“In the end, what is rock & roll? Rage is at the heart of it,” Bono told Rolling Stone, adding, “Some great rock & roll tends to have that, which is why the Who were such a great band. Or Pearl Jam. Eddie has that rage.” Today’s (white) men, though, reportedly have no music to call their own, and are therefore relegated only to releasing their rage at being the least oppressed members of society via mediums like film, television, national lawmaking, company CEOing, and Twitter-threading. To name a few.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Compounding the problem — and the frustrations of NFL owners — has been the ascendancy of the NBA. Whereas the NFL felt like the sport that best fit the cultural spirit of the past decades of American life, it’s the NBA that reflects the future. All at once, the NBA has one of its greatest-ever teams (the Golden State Warriors), led by an inner-sanctum future Hall of Famer (Kevin Durant) and the league’s most beloved player (Stephen Curry); it has perhaps the best player since Michael Jordan (LeBron James), who also happens to be one of the most vital, globalist brand-called-me icons of our time; and it has a freewheeling, deeply pleasant style of play that is both an evolution of decades of on-court style and irresistible to watch. Perhaps more important, it has actively embraced the personalities, and the power, of its players, from the goofy man-child Twitter giddiness of 76ers star Joel Embiid to the Euro-charm of the Knicks’ own Kristaps Porzingis to an unprecedented spate of political activism culminating in the still-surreal spectacle of LeBron calling President Trump “U bum” on Twitter (which actually shut Trump up; he hasn’t talked about the NBA since). The NBA is vibrant and organic and alive; the NFL feels both toxic and bathed in amber. The league won’t even let the players take their helmets off to celebrate; how much could we possibly be expected to care about these people?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Brick posted Leitch's Deadspin column in the Trump thread, but embedded in it was something he wrote for New York magazine about the death of the NFL (maybe millennials killed it, lol):

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... e-nfl.html



Is the NBA really doing that well? This just screams Elite Media Bubble to me, this idea that everyone is as fascinated by the NBA as people who work or used to work at Deadspin are. I'm pretty sure there are huge swaths of this country that don't care about a league with a tedious bullshit regular season where only four or five out of thirty teams are relevant, and plenty of people who are outright hostile to it in their preference for the college game. But guys guys guys, large, child-brained black man Joel Embiid has funny broken English on Twitter, guys!! And I'm sure nothing is more vibrant and alive than 7,000 people sitting on their hands at a Suns/Pelicans/Kings/Timberwolves game. The NFL's problems shouldn't be taken lightly but let's not act as if the NBA is really nipping at their heels here.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I wouldn't go that far, but I would say that there are far fewer NBA obsessives than there are NFL obsessives. Also, the NBA obsessives are uh. noy. ing.

I wouldn't go that far, but I would say that there are far fewer NBA obsessives than there are NFL obsessives. Also, the NBA obsessives are uh. noy. ing.

Have a terrible night and die in MANY fires.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.