May 19, 20205 yr 3 minutes ago, Smokesdawg said: I don't love that she said this but i chuckled. I've said from the beginning, Trump's election will begin to erode even the smallest amount of decency that is left in politics. It has now devolved into petty name calling. It started with Trump because that's all he's got. He doesn't have the intellect to do anything more than just name calling but now it's migrated to both sides and formerly "halfway decent politicians" have now followed his lead down the dark path. Yeah that horse has left the barn. It was long before Trump but he's definitely made it worse.
May 19, 20205 yr 7 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: this is definitely a deflection from the pompeo mess..he was up to some swampy, swampy stuff. Trump isn't this smart or cunning. Pompeo asked him to fire the IG, so he did. He has neither the intellectual curiosity nor the mental acuity to realize he should ask for a reason or details. Pompeo asked him to do it, so he did it so Mike would be quiet and Donnie could get back to watching TV. Speaking of TV -- this whole thing about taking Hydroxy is clearly in response to Bright's 60 Minutes interview. Bright says he was fired because he refused to support the administration's talking points on the safety and efficacy of Hydroxy. Trump watched 60 Minutes, gets angry. So Fat Donnie comes out the next day and says "I'm taking it, and I'm not sick. So clearly Bright is an idiot." Stop believing Trump is pulling Machiavellian maneuvers. Trump simply reacts to the last thing he saw, much like a dog.
May 19, 20205 yr 50 minutes ago, SNOORDA said: Ive said it before. Once we get back to somewhat normality, we need to find and fire everyone who participated in the falsification of facts in regards to the covid-19 statistics. people can handle the truth. We just never know what the truth is. I don't think that's actually true. At least not anymore. The reason Fox News was able to take a step away from reporting news and towards tailoring "news" with commentary, is that the commentary masqueraded as "heavy hitting" takes on the news in a way that many people liked. So people wanted to tune in, not to get informed but to get their biases reinforced. Not that many people actually care about the news. They don't care about what's going on in the world, and for the most part don't care about what's going on outside their city or neighborhood. News doesn't give you that dopamine hit. Being told 100 times in an hour that you're right and - more importantly - "they" are wrong? That's the dopamine hit that Fox News tapped into. Fox News still did, generally speaking, report actual news. Especially at first. But it's been sliding towards more commentary and opinion and less news since its inception, and personalities like Ingraham and Hannity have most of the power now. And then comes OAN. Don't even get me started. To be sure, CNN and MSNBC have tried to copy that formula. The reason why they don't get the ratings is that most on the "other side" of that political divide either get their hit of dopamine through navel-gazing validation elsewhere - not on TV, but rather on Twitter or Reddit or some other source. Or, if you're a flat-earther/conspiracy theorist it's YouTube and 4chan. So while I rail on Fox News and its viewers above, this sort of mentality is pretty evenly dispersed across the spectrum of political beliefs. They're just getting that sweet sweet hit of validation from different sources. So CNN isn't getting the ratings, Twitter is getting the retweets and unrolled commentaries. So anyway, I don't know that people can handle the truth anymore. They're so hooked on their echo-chambers that it becomes their identity. If some data comes to light challenging it, very few actually step back and assess their belief system - instead they attack the source or find some contorted reasoning why they shouldn't trust it. And of course it doesn't help when pols like Kemp and DeSantis (or their subordinates, who knows) are caught fudging numbers.
May 19, 20205 yr 8 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I don't think that's actually true. At least not anymore. The reason Fox News was able to take a step away from reporting news and towards tailoring "news" with commentary, is that the commentary masqueraded as "heavy hitting" takes on the news in a way that many people liked. So people wanted to tune in, not to get informed but to get their biases reinforced. Not that many people actually care about the news. They don't care about what's going on in the world, and for the most part don't care about what's going on outside their city or neighborhood. News doesn't give you that dopamine hit. Being told 100 times in an hour that you're right and - more importantly - "they" are wrong? That's the dopamine hit that Fox News tapped into. Fox News still did, generally speaking, report actual news. Especially at first. But it's been sliding towards more commentary and opinion and less news since its inception, and personalities like Ingraham and Hannity have most of the power now. And then comes OAN. Don't even get me started. To be sure, CNN and MSNBC have tried to copy that formula. The reason why they don't get the ratings is that most on the "other side" of that political divide either get their hit of dopamine through navel-gazing validation elsewhere - not on TV, but rather on Twitter or Reddit or some other source. Or, if you're a flat-earther/conspiracy theorist it's YouTube and 4chan. So while I rail on Fox News and its viewers above, this sort of mentality is pretty evenly dispersed across the spectrum of political beliefs. They're just getting that sweet sweet hit of validation from different sources. So CNN isn't getting the ratings, Twitter is getting the retweets and unrolled commentaries. So anyway, I don't know that people can handle the truth anymore. They're so hooked on their echo-chambers that it becomes their identity. If some data comes to light challenging it, very few actually step back and assess their belief system - instead they attack the source or find some contorted reasoning why they shouldn't trust it. And of course it doesn't help when pols like Kemp and DeSantis (or their subordinates, who knows) are caught fudging numbers. Comedy news like Colbert and Maher is a big primary source of news on the left. For some odd reason liberals are more drawn to comedy and conservatives prefer screaming.
May 19, 20205 yr 8 minutes ago, dawkins4prez said: Comedy news like Colbert and Maher is a big primary source of news on the left. For some odd reason liberals are more drawn to comedy and conservatives prefer screaming. True. Unintentional omission. I think Maher does have a decent share of center and even right-of-center fans though. More for his brash style than his politics.
May 19, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, SNOORDA said: people can handle the truth. We just never know what the truth is.
May 19, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, EagleJoe8 said: Outlaw, myself and a few others he had on ignore on the old board because we made him look bad. The others on that list, I’m sure he fears are out to get him. I am sure he put me on ignore here as soon as I responded to his post, and he thinks @probably is part of the New World Order and gets them government checks to keep up the cover up.
May 19, 20205 yr My neighbor, who is in her 80s, told me that she gets multiple calls a day from Trump. "He’s always yelling,” she told me. Fox is kinda the same way... Personally, I get all my news from Weekend Update on SNL.
May 19, 20205 yr 11 minutes ago, Dave Moss said: My neighbor, who is in her 80s, told me that she gets multiple calls a day from Trump. "He’s always yelling,” she told me. Fox is kinda the same way... Personally, I get all my news from Weekend Update on SNL. Now that is the liberal /conservative news schism in a nutshell. I think it's crazy that there are ZERO comedy right wing news shows. There are also zero left wing AM radio shows that scream like conservatives do. The closest thing to a left wing Glenn Beck would be...Howard Stern? You even see it less amplified on CNN v Fox. CNN has just as much outrage, but decidedly less red faced anger tantrums. This is a major behavioral divide on a pretty mass scale we are talking about.
May 19, 20205 yr Conservative media isn't even conservative anymore. It caters exclusively to the easily triggered, overly emotional, 5th avenue Trumpbot who is offended by everything from Red Starbucks cups at the holidays to Dr. Fauci telling them not to lick door knobs. A bunch of overgrown toddlers.
May 19, 20205 yr 6 minutes ago, Gannan said: Conservative media isn't even conservative anymore. It caters exclusively to the easily triggered, overly emotional, 5th avenue Trumpbot who is offended by everything from Red Starbucks cups at the holidays to Dr. Fauci telling them not to lick door knobs. A bunch of overgrown toddlers. Good line.
May 19, 20205 yr 14 hours ago, Paul852 said: And good for people personally attacking Trump's appearance. I hope they do it more. Fat, ugly, bald, orange...do it up. Enough of this "taking the high road" nonsense. lmfao, were you breathing into a paper bag when you typed this? Be honest.
May 19, 20205 yr 31 minutes ago, Gannan said: Conservative media isn't even conservative anymore. It caters exclusively to the easily triggered, overly emotional, 5th avenue Trumpbot who is offended by everything from Red Starbucks cups at the holidays to Dr. Fauci telling them not to lick door knobs. A bunch of overgrown toddlers. This is America. What I do with the doorknobs in my home is nobody's business but my own!
May 19, 20205 yr I wonder at what point during this Democratic pandemic hoax the President began taking hydroxichloriquine?
May 19, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, downundermike said: I am sure he put me on ignore here as soon as I responded to his post, and he thinks @probably is part of the New World Order and gets them government checks to keep up the cover up. He might have. He and I have had some back and fourth exchanges, so I’m not back on his ignore yet, but I imagine I easily could be again.
May 19, 20205 yr 19 minutes ago, Kz! said: lmfao, were you breathing into a paper bag when you typed this? Be honest. Um........no
May 19, 20205 yr 1 hour ago, downundermike said: I am sure he put me on ignore here as soon as I responded to his post, and he thinks @probably is part of the New World Order and gets them government checks to keep up the cover up. I'm not sure if you are on the ignore list so soon. However, ignore or not you are the ring leader of the KKK so I can't blame him
May 19, 20205 yr well, eagleva saw it on the internet, so you know its real. they cant lie on the internet.
May 19, 20205 yr 3 hours ago, Smokesdawg said: I don't love that she said this but i chuckled. I've said from the beginning, Trump's election will begin to erode even the smallest amount of decency that is left in politics. It has now devolved into petty name calling. It started with Trump because that's all he's got. He doesn't have the intellect to do anything more than just name calling but now it's migrated to both sides and formerly "halfway decent politicians" have now followed his lead down the dark path. Woohoo!! We can make fun of peoples weight and stuff again!! MAGA!
May 19, 20205 yr https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/why-the-cdcs-coronavirus-data-is-so-bad/ar-BB14iPcF?ocid=spartanntp This article seems pretty accurate to me. Sad. The very agency whose job it is to be prepared to handle and communicate something like a pandemic, just totally ish the bed.
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