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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
An awful lot of the hardcore right-wing pundits are entertainers first and ideologues second. They act crazy because it gets them ratings. They suck up to Trump because it's what their viewers and listeners want. Every now and then one breaks from the pack in a fit of sanity, presumably because the guy in the mirror got too fed up with what he was looking at.
edited 8th May '16 8:30:21 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I saw that one video where Bill O'Reilly was on with Colbert, and he seemed very...frustrated with the Republican establishment. And at that moment, I felt a strange sense of empathy...
Oh God! Natural light!O'Reilly is a strange duck. He's an incredibly smart man who has the rare ability to break down a complex subject into easy to understand bits and communicate those to an audience. He's a masterful debater, but he's also an egomaniac and a complete ass who believes that his own shit doesn't stink and is perfectly happy to deliver wrong interpretations of those complex subjects if they'll boost his ratings.
edited 8th May '16 8:49:59 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
He also proclaimed that Ted Cruz would help stave off the End Times.
Needless to say, he's taking Trump's victory hard.
According to the candidate's plan, the tax rate for the wealthiest people in the country would drop from 39.6 percent to 25 percent. But he said that would likely change.
"On my plan, they're going down. But by the time it's negotiated, they'll go up," Trump said.
edited 9th May '16 4:09:14 AM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Don't blame Trump: America's Democracy was already broken
While both sides view the will of the voters as a "problem", it is a 1,000 times worse on the Republican side.
Who will Clinton pick for Veep?
She should probably pick one of the younger ones and spend the next 8 years molding them into a viable candidate for President. If Clinton wants to make the Democrats the "natural party of governance", she should start thinking about succession right now.
edited 9th May '16 5:14:13 AM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom."The youth" is flighty and unfocused. They'll find a new fad soon enough.
"So what? Reagan became POTUS at age 69 and reigned until he was almost 78."
Really bad example. He had Alzheimer's when he was in office, and it's a matter of historical debate how far he had declined while still in office.
edited 9th May '16 6:55:23 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."On the more practical side of things, it makes a lot more sense for an older President to have a younger VP simply because if the President has to step down for health reasons, they don't want a VP who is just as, if not more, likely to have their own health problems.
If the President and VP have to resign in rapid succession, the Presidency falls to the Speaker of the House who might be from the opposing party.
Krugman: The Facts Have a Well-Known Center-Left Bias
Basically, we know that right-wingers are fact-immune, but the hard left in this country is proving equally resilient to knowledge, cemented by Bernie Sanders' lamentable declaration in an interview last Friday that we need a left-wing equivalent of the Fox News Channel. /sigh
Why, Bernie, so we can have both sides engaged in fact-free propaganda wars? I watched that interview on Maddow and was facepalming a bit.
edited 9th May '16 7:14:33 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
That's rather unfortunate. The country isn't going to change for the better if progressivism is dumbed down.
Plus, I remember when MSNBC was actively trying to be "liberal Fox News," and still is, to a much smaller extent. The format doesn't work. Earnestness and political bias just make it more blatantly propaganda. Part of the appeal of Fox News is in its inherent meanness, which is what gives it entertainment value in the public's eye.
edited 9th May '16 7:21:56 AM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

And his response to being called out sounds like claiming federal overreach that didn't actually exist (at least not until he made all the noise about it).