I don't know why the "garbage" comment is shocking.
Conservatives are loyal to a fault (LITERALLY. This is where the "fault" part is)
They're so focused on winning that they will throw a lot of other principles out (compassion, common sense, fairness) if it conflicts with their desire to show that they're loyal and they're sticking with the team.
Hey, it's usually a pretty solid plan, until a psycho gets put on the team, and then you've got trouble.
Liberals often get called disloyal, on the other hand, and in this case, that's their strength. Because conservatives are going to lose in the end (at least with this guy). Either electorally or when their candidate wins and decides to burn our democracy down.
“Here at home, Hamas sympathizers are active in the streets of New York City.”
Just a differing view Bill, from your continued stance that any pro Palestinian protest is pro Hamas. Perhaps it is because you reference the WSJ article about the protests in NYC that you continue to shape the narrative as Anti-Semitic, or Pro-Hamas, since that is the right wing stance of the WSJ. Please try to listen to the content of the majority of protesters and don’t succumb to the click bait of articles all focused on random Bad actors. There were many Jewish New Yorkers protesting the destruction of GAZA and deaths of so many innocent women and children. Not sure why you and others persist in not hearing the message of the majority of Americans, who are against the out of control destruction in Gaza. AGAIN this is NOT anti semitic. It is anti- murder.
One thing about “conservative” media I’d like to know beyond web traffic is how right-wing radio stations are doing. I don’t think Fargo’s piece mentions this. I listened for years but stopped as conservatism evolved into Trumpism and the hosts I’d listened to and defended for decades abandoned the conservatism they’d instilled in me. How embarrassing - for me as well as for them! I stopped listening to Rush and Sean in favor of - get this - the more thoughtful hosts syndicated by Salem Media - only to watch the Salem hosts capitulate one by one to Trumpism. I remember checking the radio ratings around that time and discovering, to my horror, that the listenership to those shows was growing, not shrinking! Is that still the case now, or did January 6th and the Trump trials make those stations lose more listeners than they’d been gaining in recent years?
Come on, Bill, are you really going to try and compare the Dems to the Repubs? "And to be honest, it’s not as if the other political party is in great shape either." I guess I should expect it by now, but it seems like you just can't level (very legitimate) criticisms at Repubs w/out also doing the both sidesism thing and getting in a dig at Dems. Can you really come up w/ comparable examples among Dem leaders to the kind of despicable behavior exhibited daily (and sometimes hourly) by the Repubs you quote and others like them?
Ha, my band did some music for the ill-fated 90's reboot of Car54. We had Rosie O'Donnell, Al Lewis, and Buster Poindexter -- to quote "The Producers": where did we go right?
"GOP clownishness" - I know ya'll want to discern between MAGA crazies and Don Dolls who know better but choose to lie and spin for the "greater purpose" of opposing evil Democrats and nation-destroying Joe Biden, but the Don Doll disciples are magnitudes worse than the MAGA crazies & "clownishness" does neither faction the dark justice they have earned.
These Dolls are willfully lying and subverting truth, pouring all of their intelligence, experience, and energy into the effort to rile voters with lies, half-truths, exaggerations, redirection, projection, and sermonizing. They are purposefully misinterpreting the Constitution and their Oath to serve the US, directly to the public. They are directly causing the erosion of our great society by continual stirring and addition of caustic ingredients into a dangerous brew they hope will boil & spit, so they can point point at the burned bystanders and exclaim "Biden did this too!"
I expect some level of lying from most politicians, but what we see from Tim Scott, Ted Cruz, and that little bitch that ran through the capitol on J6 is what I call evil. These lies are driven by a thirst for power, and don't evangelicals paint both of those things as influence of the Devil? I don't understand how they can keep a straight or righteous face while they do it. It is much more than clownishness.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a decision on Mifepristone. The basis of this decision is a bedrock of Anglo-American law, all too often forgotten -- Standing. In plainer words than elaborating on "harms" it demands to know Who are you and what's it to you? Brett Kavanaugh wrote, "“A plaintiff’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue.... “For a plaintiff to get in the federal courthouse door and obtain a judicial determination of what the governing law is, the plaintiff cannot be a mere bystander, but instead must have a ‘personal stake’ in the dispute.”
I'm not understanding why Hama's proposal that the Israeli forces withdraw is so awful. After all, Gaza is from about 4 to 7.5 miles wide; a tank going 25 mph (a low speed for tanks) could get all the way across in 18 minutes from the eastern border of Gaza (9.5 minutes for the narrower parts, which include Northern and much of Central Gaza). If Hamas violates its side by failing to release prisoners the tanks could roll (and troops could get all the way across at many points at a fast walking pace in under an hour.) As for the cease-fire part: lobbing missiles is the major thing Hamas could do to violate it; if the troops are on the border there really isn't anyone in Gaza to fire at.
The part that's unworkable is Bibi's insistence that every last Hamas member be killed before the war is over. Does that include any Palestinian who has joined the fighting since the war began, not the party itself, because his family and friends were and continue to be killed or injured? It's pretty clear that the proposal itself does not contemplate leaving Hamas in power after the war.
Actually, I chose the lowest MPH I could find on tank speed. I am not talking Gaza the City—look it up. Gaza the City is not 41 miles north to south. I am talking the distance from border to sea. Gaza as a whole is about two square miles more than Seattle, and about the same shape.
So what if they set up barricades etc? All within the day or so they fail to release the prisoners and the troops can re-enter? The point is to end the war at which point there is (checks notes) nothing to ambush or blow up with mines.
The idea right-leaning sites put out lies and the audience followed was always a bit of wish casting. The audience wanted lies and found willing partners in Gateway Pundit, The Federalist, InfoWars, etc...
We're seeing 60 to 90 percent drops in readership and Donald Trump is doing better in general election polling than at any point in 2016 or 2020. Voters aren't being tricked. They want this mess.
Man, Facebook is powerful. These social media companies could just turn a knob here or there and probably solve a lot of our problems from brain poisoning. Unfortunately, poisoning brains is too lucrative.
I have noticed a shift in the tone of CNN coverage of Trump.
They are now normalizing him even more than they have previously. Their coverage of his pep rally at the Capitol didn't even refer to any of the lies he continues to tell. All the Republicans interviewed were allowed to gush about the meeting without any type of follow-up on what was said.
One CNN commentator asserted that "After his age, Biden's greatest weakness is immigration..."
Is it an error to say "After his criminal convictions, Trump's relationship to the truth is his greatest weakness..."?
I can only read into this that CNN isn't so interested in being fair and balanced as in preparing to deal with a possible Trump administration in order to avoid retribution for doing actual journalism and preserve access.
I don't know why the "garbage" comment is shocking.
Conservatives are loyal to a fault (LITERALLY. This is where the "fault" part is)
They're so focused on winning that they will throw a lot of other principles out (compassion, common sense, fairness) if it conflicts with their desire to show that they're loyal and they're sticking with the team.
Hey, it's usually a pretty solid plan, until a psycho gets put on the team, and then you've got trouble.
Liberals often get called disloyal, on the other hand, and in this case, that's their strength. Because conservatives are going to lose in the end (at least with this guy). Either electorally or when their candidate wins and decides to burn our democracy down.
“Here at home, Hamas sympathizers are active in the streets of New York City.”
Just a differing view Bill, from your continued stance that any pro Palestinian protest is pro Hamas. Perhaps it is because you reference the WSJ article about the protests in NYC that you continue to shape the narrative as Anti-Semitic, or Pro-Hamas, since that is the right wing stance of the WSJ. Please try to listen to the content of the majority of protesters and don’t succumb to the click bait of articles all focused on random Bad actors. There were many Jewish New Yorkers protesting the destruction of GAZA and deaths of so many innocent women and children. Not sure why you and others persist in not hearing the message of the majority of Americans, who are against the out of control destruction in Gaza. AGAIN this is NOT anti semitic. It is anti- murder.
Maybe we can stop referring to the Republican Party as "republican" since it no longer is.......
One thing about “conservative” media I’d like to know beyond web traffic is how right-wing radio stations are doing. I don’t think Fargo’s piece mentions this. I listened for years but stopped as conservatism evolved into Trumpism and the hosts I’d listened to and defended for decades abandoned the conservatism they’d instilled in me. How embarrassing - for me as well as for them! I stopped listening to Rush and Sean in favor of - get this - the more thoughtful hosts syndicated by Salem Media - only to watch the Salem hosts capitulate one by one to Trumpism. I remember checking the radio ratings around that time and discovering, to my horror, that the listenership to those shows was growing, not shrinking! Is that still the case now, or did January 6th and the Trump trials make those stations lose more listeners than they’d been gaining in recent years?
Re the drinking fountain map - were all Republicans always liars, or did they transform themselves into liars when Trump made truth optional?
Come on, Bill, are you really going to try and compare the Dems to the Repubs? "And to be honest, it’s not as if the other political party is in great shape either." I guess I should expect it by now, but it seems like you just can't level (very legitimate) criticisms at Repubs w/out also doing the both sidesism thing and getting in a dig at Dems. Can you really come up w/ comparable examples among Dem leaders to the kind of despicable behavior exhibited daily (and sometimes hourly) by the Repubs you quote and others like them?
So "Where are we?"Going to Hell in a hand basket,maybe...?
Mike Johnson, the Tuber, and finally the cheap shot. As my Mom would have said "they lie, they lie, the truth ain't in them"
My dad loved Dragnet so it was never miss in our house, tv version
Ha, my band did some music for the ill-fated 90's reboot of Car54. We had Rosie O'Donnell, Al Lewis, and Buster Poindexter -- to quote "The Producers": where did we go right?
"GOP clownishness" - I know ya'll want to discern between MAGA crazies and Don Dolls who know better but choose to lie and spin for the "greater purpose" of opposing evil Democrats and nation-destroying Joe Biden, but the Don Doll disciples are magnitudes worse than the MAGA crazies & "clownishness" does neither faction the dark justice they have earned.
These Dolls are willfully lying and subverting truth, pouring all of their intelligence, experience, and energy into the effort to rile voters with lies, half-truths, exaggerations, redirection, projection, and sermonizing. They are purposefully misinterpreting the Constitution and their Oath to serve the US, directly to the public. They are directly causing the erosion of our great society by continual stirring and addition of caustic ingredients into a dangerous brew they hope will boil & spit, so they can point point at the burned bystanders and exclaim "Biden did this too!"
I expect some level of lying from most politicians, but what we see from Tim Scott, Ted Cruz, and that little bitch that ran through the capitol on J6 is what I call evil. These lies are driven by a thirst for power, and don't evangelicals paint both of those things as influence of the Devil? I don't understand how they can keep a straight or righteous face while they do it. It is much more than clownishness.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a decision on Mifepristone. The basis of this decision is a bedrock of Anglo-American law, all too often forgotten -- Standing. In plainer words than elaborating on "harms" it demands to know Who are you and what's it to you? Brett Kavanaugh wrote, "“A plaintiff’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue.... “For a plaintiff to get in the federal courthouse door and obtain a judicial determination of what the governing law is, the plaintiff cannot be a mere bystander, but instead must have a ‘personal stake’ in the dispute.”
The drinking fountain map is priceless.
I'm not understanding why Hama's proposal that the Israeli forces withdraw is so awful. After all, Gaza is from about 4 to 7.5 miles wide; a tank going 25 mph (a low speed for tanks) could get all the way across in 18 minutes from the eastern border of Gaza (9.5 minutes for the narrower parts, which include Northern and much of Central Gaza). If Hamas violates its side by failing to release prisoners the tanks could roll (and troops could get all the way across at many points at a fast walking pace in under an hour.) As for the cease-fire part: lobbing missiles is the major thing Hamas could do to violate it; if the troops are on the border there really isn't anyone in Gaza to fire at.
The part that's unworkable is Bibi's insistence that every last Hamas member be killed before the war is over. Does that include any Palestinian who has joined the fighting since the war began, not the party itself, because his family and friends were and continue to be killed or injured? It's pretty clear that the proposal itself does not contemplate leaving Hamas in power after the war.
a) Gaza is a city, your math assumes it is flat ground. It is not. Finding passable routes for tanks is non-trivial, especially because
b) allowing Hamas fighters to re-occupy ground allows them to set up ambushes, barricades, mines, and other defenses.
Actually, I chose the lowest MPH I could find on tank speed. I am not talking Gaza the City—look it up. Gaza the City is not 41 miles north to south. I am talking the distance from border to sea. Gaza as a whole is about two square miles more than Seattle, and about the same shape.
So what if they set up barricades etc? All within the day or so they fail to release the prisoners and the troops can re-enter? The point is to end the war at which point there is (checks notes) nothing to ambush or blow up with mines.
The idea right-leaning sites put out lies and the audience followed was always a bit of wish casting. The audience wanted lies and found willing partners in Gateway Pundit, The Federalist, InfoWars, etc...
We're seeing 60 to 90 percent drops in readership and Donald Trump is doing better in general election polling than at any point in 2016 or 2020. Voters aren't being tricked. They want this mess.
Man, Facebook is powerful. These social media companies could just turn a knob here or there and probably solve a lot of our problems from brain poisoning. Unfortunately, poisoning brains is too lucrative.
I have noticed a shift in the tone of CNN coverage of Trump.
They are now normalizing him even more than they have previously. Their coverage of his pep rally at the Capitol didn't even refer to any of the lies he continues to tell. All the Republicans interviewed were allowed to gush about the meeting without any type of follow-up on what was said.
One CNN commentator asserted that "After his age, Biden's greatest weakness is immigration..."
Is it an error to say "After his criminal convictions, Trump's relationship to the truth is his greatest weakness..."?
I can only read into this that CNN isn't so interested in being fair and balanced as in preparing to deal with a possible Trump administration in order to avoid retribution for doing actual journalism and preserve access.