Hell, Trump's even indicated that he will ostracize or reward those countries that won't play ball with him and "The Trump Brand": like those hotels, golf courses, bacon bowls (maybe not), piano ties (also can't back that up), and whatever the fuck Ivanka shills for Macy's, or Target, or wherever the fuck she shills whatever the fuck she shills.
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Photo: GettyApparently, even sell-out corporate shills have their breaking point.
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From what I can see, there are plentyyyyy of shills about.
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"You're just a bunch of progressive shills," said Mărincuş, through clenched teeth.
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Up-and-coming athletes are no longer just shills for corporate America.
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Deep down, Americans aren't the partisan shills the political establishment would have you believe.
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Medicare for choice and America and those who want it and industry shills manifestly cannot.
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Hillary Shills—was as annoying as it was savage, and bad-faith punditry ran amok.
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This is how they do it, by creating front groups and shills and the like.
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Their faces are plastered all over the Internet, people calling them shills, bobbleheads, and puppets.
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And it's a mistake to call this coalition "the establishment" or say that they're corporate shills.
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Joe Rogan is a transphobic bigot who shills for quackery and cuddles up to dangerous racists.
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Fifth, make it clearer which talking heads are journalists, which are partisan hacks, which are paid shills.
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They are the shills, the puppets, chosen and groomed to appeal to a variety of audience types.
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Genetic testing service 23andMe hoards and sells genetic data the way Google shills your search history to advertisers.
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Some gurus are considered shills for giving positive reviews to stay in the good graces of beauty companies.
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The dealers usually work in teams that include lookouts and shills, or plants posing as players who win.
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And, according to fans of the podcast and movement, there are a lot of neoliberal shills out there.
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"It has been insanely successful precisely because the media are not made of Journalists, but shills," this Redditor said.
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The socialist legislators accused the opposition of being traitors and shills for big business and the United States government.
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The Kremlin has been using spooks and shills to sway Western politics since the days of the Soviet Union.
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Like the Nebraska Public Service Commission, the deniers and industry shills are ignoring the cost side of the story.
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Notoriously anti-establishment, both judge "sellouts" and "corporate shills" harshly and tend to appeal to sweaty guys with beards.
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If that fails, sign up to get text messages about who voted against net neutrality and vote out the shills.
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The Amazon Twitter accounts sound strange because they're shills and it's hard to say anything worthwhile through a rictus grin.
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" Steep also said Hollywood's media "has often been silly and shills for the powerful — but that's just like in the world.
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He is forcing out or pressuring many government scientists and replacing them with corporate shills in order to gut environmental regulations.
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When you put industry shills in charge of the very agencies they used to aggressively oppose, we all pay the price.
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Pump and Dump: This isn't a phrase native to cryptocurrencies, but has become part of the conversation due to the aforementioned shills.
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"These California democrats will go down in history as among the worst corporate shills that have ever held elected office," Greer argued.
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A quick crawl through the internet yields a few more: Shills: these are people who endorse altcoins without anybody asking their GD opinions.
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Already, many objective medical professionals (Monsanto shills??!) have come forth to debunk the claim, explaining that pyroproxyfen has extremely low toxicity in vertebrates.
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"I'll get downtime after we've voted all of these N.R.A. shills out of office," a Moms Demand Action member told me last weekend.
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The failed technocratic 22020-year-old bourgeoisie shills who were doing it wrong somehow accounted for 278 percent of the party's House gains.
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The girls are nothing more than fashion shills, and the men, too, are saying nothing more than, 'I'm wearing Tom Ford,' 'I'm wearing Armani.
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Each side of the argument saw the other as out of touch and vaguely foreign—shills of evil corporations or dupes of clueless NGOs.
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Because of Amazon's vast scale, inscrutable algorithms, and capricious enforcement of its own rules, unscrupulous sellers and paid shills largely get away with it.
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This isn't about the fact that last year they became (hopefully) unwitting shills for foreign governments trying to sway the outcome of our national elections.
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A specter of foreign disinformation led to widespread suspicion, and it became a handy defense for grifters to dismiss opposition as bots or Russian shills.
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The internet becomes the well you draw from pretty frequently, but there are risks to taking reviews written by strangers (or paid shills) as gospel.
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Throughout the 1980s, Yankees broadcast shills would trumpet on a nightly basis that the team had won more games than any other team that decade.
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That maybe if Sanders becomes president a utopian new era will dawn, and that's why all the shills and neoliberals are so geared up about him.
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Right there among the rest of the media sellouts, Clinton shills and biased tools of the MSM who are apparently bent on destroying Donald J. Trump.
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Naturally, the store also shills for Amazon Prime, the company's secret weapon that turns shoppers into Amazon evangelists and now has more than 100 million subscribers.
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Kebede founded her brand LemLem in 2007, which shills hand-woven cotton scarves, and women and children's clothing, all made by traditional artisans in her native Ethiopia.
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He ends with a warning to the shills, hucksters, con-men, snake oil salesman and celebrities that have been pitching coin offerings as way to get rich.
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No tea, no shade, no pink lemonade — but whoever shills out $1,870 for these blues definitely has quite a taste for truly, uh, statement-making fashion choices.
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Republican leaders in Congress—routinely denounced as establishment shills and enemies of the working man by Breitbart News—may have different descriptions for the new Trump team.
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In a conversation over the weekend, he accused his critics of being shills for the fossil fuel and nuclear industries, without the standing to review his work.
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"We will go after anyone who shills for pharmaceutical companies, if you are a Democrat [or] if you are a Republican," said Ben Wakana, the group's president.
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" Senator Angus King of Maine, gesticulating on a dock, shills for a local delicacy: "We sent a letter to the Unicode Consortium saying, you know, this is outrageous.
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But this down-to-the-wire effort to share policy proposals and paint their opponents as establishment shills or unelectable wacko birds probably matters less than candidates hope.
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HE HAD to comfort himself by accusing Barack Obama of a historic blunder and by slandering the leaders of France and Britain as shills greedy for Iranian cash.
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It will also show the Woodward book will be a defining moment as the American people render judgment on the Trump presidency, his defenders, apologists, enablers and shills.
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And while many people believe the business press shills for business and government, I can safely say the American Health Care Act makes me sick to my stomach.
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Luckey also liked a Best of 4chan tweet in which anonymous Hillary "shills" were outed due to their ID tags—an extremely inside joke for alt-right forum nerds.
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During the recent Brazilian presidential campaign, a group of wealthy supporters of eventual winner Jair Bolsonaro purportedly paid for an army of WhatsApp shills to spread disinformation about his opponent.
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Neil Patrick Harris and Laura Dern are particular standouts as shills for Leisureland Estates, in a marvelously spry, wry scene that mimics an infomercial combined with a hotel room sales seminar.
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And the sports media are mostly shills paid by the networks to entertain audiences and please the league, with little interest in using their pulpit for the cause of player safety.
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But you don't have to be a die-hard fan who trusts everything an influencer shills to be taken in—it's enough to be a young woman with an internet connection.
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And it had virtually no impact on the administration, unless you count replacing respected academic experts on the Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Committee with industry shills and slashing research budgets.
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But in the ideological hothouse of the Sanders world, no setbacks have been acknowledged, no rethinking has taken place, and the skeptics are dismissed as elitist neoliberal corporate shills, as ever.
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They see the NRA and its allies—whether mealymouthed politicians or mendacious commentators peddling conspiracy theories—as mere shills for those who make money selling weapons of war to whoever can pay.
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Don't let them destroy our sub with paid shills!" and "/r/conspiracy is being targeted with a massive number of coordinated voters (bots?) to take control of the narrative on this sub!
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Donahue: There are some people online who think that we are hired shills because those kids really did die and we've been hired to be them so that nobody will get arrested.
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Our vital mission is layered: influence Congress to pass sensible gun violence prevention laws; name, shame and blame congressional shills for the National Rifle Association (NRA); influence their election outcomes on Nov.
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By not eliminating this tax break, Republicans have opened themselves to Democratic talking points that kill them every time: Conservatives are nothing more than shills for Wall Street and corporate fat-cats.
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Photo: APWith its endless parade of corporate shills, industry flacks, cronies, and quacks, it's become clear that there are no acts of pettiness too shabby—or grifts too cheap—for Donald Trump's administration.
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The "sex-positive" feminists who worried about restrictions on free speech and questioned the condemnation of all pornographic material found themselves labeled, by anti-pornography feminists, as shills and pimps for the industry.
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There were the rumors of farmers in India driven to suicide by GMO-incurred debt, the tales of sullied gene pools and browbeaten scientists and university stooges and journalist shills and Brobdingnagian government influence.
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Currently, Gizmodo's correspondents are wandering around amongst the booth lackeys and PR shills in the dark, and everyone is getting a nice break from the eye-searing pixels and jargon-laden patter of pitches.
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Open memo to corporate America and its marketing shills: If you want the likes of us to give you that sweet, sweet organic and unpaid press placement for your ad campaign (ergo, your product)?
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Frequent Carpenter collaborator Tom Atkins stars as a middle-aged doctor drawn into the madness after a patient dies at the hands of mysterious suit-wearing shills for a corporation that sells Halloween masks.
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You can almost see the ads now depicting House lawmakers as an enemies of the free and open web, shills for a multi-billion-dollar industry universally loathed, even among the red-blooded conservative base.
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We even had the absurdity of a Gallup poll proclaiming that 51% of those who had heard Trump's speech were less likely to vote for him, which was endlessly repeated by the shills at MSNBC.
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All of Lindelof's shows are full of grifters and shills, and in "Watchmen" that situation is racialized, through stories about the vulnerability of black people in white institutions, trusting white allies only to be betrayed.
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It takes a lot to swim against the tides of the food industry's many shills, and trying to offset the bad choices with the good creates a pretty dizzying mental seesaw, especially when you're hungry.
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The point is that if you dismiss the likes of Mr. Krueger or Ms. Romer as Hillary shills or compromised members of the "establishment," you're excommunicating most of the policy experts who should be your allies.
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Michael Jordan, no matter what Chicago-based Jordan-shills Siskel and Ebert say on the matter, is a terrible and thoroughly checked-out actor who floats through the whole movie seeming less human than actual cartoons.
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It will put intense pressure on those who can fairly be called Trump shills, defending him on various media outlets, whose own credibility has already been damaged by their defenses of Trump, often with dubious arguments.
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The association, its supporters, and various status quo shills can pretend talented athletes don't have any value beyond the artificially-fixed price of a scholarship—heck, they can even pretend college athletes aren't worth that much.
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To make up for this Mr. Moore affects a cute, common-man delivery that fools no one, though the crowd at the Belasco, including a few shills, claps for almost all of the bait he tosses.
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"By wholly dismissing witnesses, even those with direct knowledge of the allegations, Republicans are demonstrating to their constituents that they are shills for the president," Rodell Mollineau, a Democratic strategist and DC-based consultant, told Insider.
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Critics, however, find it off-putting — in Warren's world, the people on the other side are patsies and shills on the take, not people who disagree in good faith and who you work with to forge compromises.
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But others — not just industry shills — support the industry, arguing that it can circumvent government procurement laws and step in when government-run corrections agencies find themselves with too many inmates for their own jails and prisons.
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But the book is not just about Knight and Oregon; it's about how public universities are compromising themselves in exchange for endorsement deals and financial partnerships — and about what happens when universities become shills for their billionaire benefactors.
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Stories that circulate throughout right-wing news media often find their way to NRATV, which has devoted numerous segments to portraying anti-Trump demonstrators as paid shills, violent extremists and evangelists for Shariah law in the United States.
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"It can't be, One candidate is the true god or goddess and the others are just shills," said Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington, who backed Mr. Sanders in 2016 but has not yet endorsed anyone in this race.
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" (The thread was soon locked and removed by /r/onguardforthee moderators for rule violations.) That discussion followed an earlier one on /r/geopolitics about why articles critical of China were suddenly being downvoted or inundated with pro-China "shills.
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While everything from nonbasketball sports to neoliberal shills have received the bracket treatment, pop culture makes for prime bracket fodder, inviting spirited debate over not just the subject of any given bracket, but the very nature of the bracket itself.
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The users of r/Wuhan_flu felt the other subreddits were censoring information and claimed that some of the mods were "Chinese Communist Party shills," accusing them of banning too many users for minor infractions and blacklisting too many news sources.
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The president's nomination of science-denying shills for the fossil fuel and chemical industries, including the EPA administrator and his deputies, has stacked the administration with individuals who put corporate profits or ideological beliefs above public health and our kids' future.
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Hostess Lala Kent shills for a tea-infused diet shake line called Teami, as do waitress Brittany Cartwright, her fiancé Jax Taylor, and bartender Tom Sandoval; staff both current (Maloney-Schwartz) and former (Kristen Doute) do a fertility bracelet called Ava.
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BDAC was formed for the purpose of "reducing and removing regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment," which given that it was staffed almost entirely by industry shills, seems to have been a euphemism for helping the FCC gut local oversight of telecoms networks.
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People who've already emotionally invested themselves in the Sanders campaign — already gone to rallies and argued with uncles and called out corporate media shills on Twitter — are going to be highly predisposed to align themselves with whatever tactical notions Sanders puts out there.
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I think he'll be far more concerned with the ceremonial aspects of being president, with being applauded whenever he appears in public, and if that requires people being encouraged to applaud or shills being planted in crowds, that's in the Trump playbook.
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"When industry lobbyists or their shills in Congress throw shade at a new member, it probably reflects a genuine fear that the newcomers will become a force for fixing a broken system," said Porter McConnell, campaign director of the Take On Wall Street coalition.
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New horizontal drilling operations, natural gas pipelines, and extractive mining operations have all seen upticks since Trump took office, a direct result of his appointment of oil and gas shills to lead the Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, and Bureau of Land Management.
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Had, 15 years earlier, the first generation of grime stars taken on quite so much sponsorship, they'd have been accused of becoming corporate shills, but Stormzy rightly gambled that today's fans see self-determination, rather than anti-commercialism as the biggest sign of authenticity.
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To do this, she sends four or five of her shills to a show under these sock-puppet names and has them record the psychic when he approaches and spews all the made-up stories of life and death from the fake Facebook pages.
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He's stolen scenes in TV and film, gently morphed into one of our favorite shills, not least for global brands like Apple and PayPal, and in the process, graduated to lovable "dad/daddy" aka the familiar hottie as new generations gleefully attest all over social media.
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They were free to decide that universal health care and copious use of executive orders were conservative values after all — and when they did, the very people whose entire careers had depended on carefully defining and nurturing the conservative movement would come to look like liberal shills.
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" Silberman writes: While other books have probed the historical roots of America's love affair with amphetamines — notably Nicolas Rasmussen's "On Speed," published in 2008 — "ADHD Nation" focuses on an unholy alliance between drugmakers, academic psychiatrists, policy makers and celebrity shills like Glenn Beck that Schwarz brands the "A.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but Pruitt's personal biblical conception of what to do with the planet's resources might explain things like his obsequious attitude towards the oil industry and polluters, his eagerness to pack the EPA with extraction industry shills, and his general hostility towards the agency's scientists.
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As the details from the new Bob Woodward book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," begin to emerge, there is trembling throughout the Republican cloakrooms in the Senate and House, throughout the White House staff and throughout the community of those who have been Trump's most visible shills and apologists in the media.
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Many r/The_Donald members believed that the newer, high-ranking mods (who were each named by their predecessors) were too liberal, and under the thumb of progressive Reddit admins who wanted to censor free speech on the subreddit — hence all the accusations that r/The_Donald had been taken over by shills, cucks, and SJWs.
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This is a different thing from the shills and sociopaths who both-sides their way through non-discussions about legitimate scandals like the horrifically inverted culture at Baylor, where administrators and coaches excused and concealed an epidemic of sexual assault that spanned years because they wanted to make the fucking Fiesta Bowl so bad.
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Now that Penguin is reissuing The Executive Coloring Book (the title is embossed in gold across in a nondescript binding), I recently corresponded with Altman, who is his 80s, about the original activity book for broken middle-class shills and what it feels like to be at the forefront of a cult of pastels.
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On television, his army of pro-Trump pundits and shills replicated that image: craggy, pudgy old white men like Jeffrey Lord argued that Trump's travel ban was equal to President Abraham Lincoln's actions during the Civil War, while young beautiful bombshells argued that the president's conspiracy theories were valid and his legislation was constitutional.
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In the past few months, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX has: ear-boxed analysts on an earnings call; made bankruptcy jokes about the health of his companies; attacked journalists as shills; relentlessly baited short sellers who have bet on his downfall; and called a diver in the Thai crisis with whom he wrangled a "pedo" — as in phile.
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Photo: APScott Pruitt, Donald Trump's scandal-mired EPA chief and a man so committed to destroying his own agency that he's willing to have dinner with accused child predators that also don't believe in climate change, somehow managed to be even dumber and lazier about stacking the EPA with cronies and energy industry shills than one might have already suspected.
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The content of these short videos varies widely: there are two videos that are just 50 minutes of Poppy reading the Bible, a video of Poppy showing her viewers how to load a pistol (this video has since been removed), a video in which she shills for Tide detergent, and another where she talks about browsing /b/, an image board on 4chan.
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On Friday the second to last day of play, Mateo Rey, one of the Squids who had been part of the game the longest, appeared in their GroupMe chat: "So I should probably come clean about something," he said, before changing his name to "Adrian 2"—the name of one of the design team shills—indicating that Mateo was not, in fact, a real person.
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When you let your campaign be managed by hucksters and shills, when you allow your every word and gesture to be scripted and focus-grouped and choreographed, how can you be seen as anything other than a robot, a mechanical puppet programmed by technicians who created you in the image that would bring them—and those who paid for your campaign—the greatest profit?
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" NYTWA Executive Director Bhairavi Desai said, per Monday's press release: "We will not allow the status quo of callousness toward struggling drivers to continue for one more day...We will not sit idly by as Wall street behemoths and their shills try to derail regulation or limit it to just one sector of drivers when every driver in every sector...is sinking deeper into profound desperation.
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The mods justified this by saying that these topics, often planted by "shills and trolls," derail the subreddit and sew discontent within the community: This strain of trolls have successfully created a narrative or idea that we are censoring these topics... we also have to consider that The_donald is not about these things, and while they will always have a home here, we cannot allow them to dominate our sub.
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