Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Da Geezer]

Talent: I heard the 73% number on the news this morning too. The talking head went on to say that, of the 6 million who will actually lose their insurance, a large percentage of them would be men who choose not to work and lose their Medicaid because of a work requirement.

[hack]

I think you can follow the root problem further down the rabbit hole than hyper-partisanship or Reality TV, and maybe pin it on mass communication in general. We start veering off into sociology or psychology here perhaps, but thanks to mass media, politics is everywhere, all the time now; every issue is a political one anymore, seemingly.

Agreed. Media was once a valuable check against abuse of power; now it's mostly a way to make money scaring people. Cat's out of the bag now. Don't see how we can go back.

[froot loops]

Shit Midas is angry.

[CGVT]

What a fucking dumbass

[WM Wolverine]

What most of us has known for a long time, the media is owned and controlled by very biased groups/people that have their own political and special interests. It's just getting more and more extreme.

[Ghengis Jon]

Too much of a spineless coward to fire him, Trump continues to verbally abuse Sessions in an attempt to get him to resign. Sessions is not biting into the deflection plan and the Cheeto is pissed. Sessions is not being a good puppet.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-hillary-clinton/index.html

[hack]

I think one thing we all have to do, and even I am guilty of it myself despite being a member of The Media, is to stop calling it that. Breitbart, Alex Jones, Reuters, the Washington Post, Mike Brezinzki and Michael Lewis are not part of a single thing. The diversity in approaches is so wide within "The Media" that the term is meaningless.

[Wild Hoss]

Sounds like he splattered shit all over the Boy Scout Jamboree yesterday, doing his usual railing on Obama, Clinton and The Media. Because that's what I remember the Boy Scouts being about....but its been a long time, so who knows maybe it is in Trumpland.

Good times.

[Da Geezer]

The phrase "the Media" means, to me, the mainstream media. That, in turn, according to studies presented in this forum, is 100% pro-Dem. That includes Fox at 52%.

Alex Jones and the NYT are at ends of the political spectrum, but we are taught that the NYT is the "newspaper of record" while Alex Jones is rightfully mocked.

Hack, you "encouraged" Talent to refrain from posting from the NRO. How can we ever have an honest discussion when you won't even read items from a profoundly anti-Trump source. You are a member of the Media, true, and you reflect its hard-left bias.

The only solution to this one-sided status quo is to have the massive "diversity" structures that have been developed in colleges and universities begin to seek intellectual diversity. And we know that will never happen because too many non-hirable nitwits owe their cushy jobs to the hard left.

[froot loops]

Yeah that's it.

[Mainevent]

Sounds like he splattered shit all over the Boy Scout Jamboree yesterday, doing his usual railing on Obama, Clinton and The Media. Because that's what I remember the Boy Scouts being about....but its been a long time, so who knows maybe it is in Trumpland.

Good times.

What a fucking embarrassment. This is the type of thing that's a layup for any president, and of course he blows it in perfect Trump fashion. All that was missing was him making some misogynistic comment about the Girl Scouts.

[Ghengis Jon]

Hack a 'hard left'? Really? I know true 'hard lefties' and Hack is way to the right of that. I think that your accusation of 'hard left bias' is simply a symptom of the hyper-partisanship gripping this country. You paint with a mighty wide brush.

Hack, you commie bastard, how dare you infiltrate the oasis known as the USA. Why do you hate America/Jesus/freedom so much?

[Ghengis Jon]

Sounds like he splattered shit all over the Boy Scout Jamboree yesterday, doing his usual railing on Obama, Clinton and The Media. Because that's what I remember the Boy Scouts being about....but its been a long time, so who knows maybe it is in Trumpland.

Good times.

I think those in attendance get a psychology merit badge for witnessing the real-time hallucinations of a delusional narcissist.

[Wild Hoss]

I think those in attendance get a psychology merit badge for witnessing the real-time hallucinations of a delusional narcissist.

I think he has enough self-awareness- due to his infatuation with his media coverage- to realize he has no capacity whatsoever for inspiration, nor any standing to be taken seriously on ethical or moral issues. Thus the only means he has to illicit applause is to incite the mob, so its what he does in every venue. Even the Boy Scout Jamboree.

But I leave open the possibility that he is simply an incomprehensibly narcissistic whackjob.

[THE_WIZARD_]

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