Not complaining, correcting his statement.
And l agree with you (whew) slanted media is detrimental. My own opinion is that a tiny number of people are influencing the masses to their particular narrative. Not claiming that is anything remotely new, but destructive to a democracy in the long term.
A valid correction, agreed.
Nice picture of President Obama being (and continuing to be) attacked by Conservatives. @treco!
Thanks!
Ummmmmm…yes…and no, @flappinit.
If “Social Media” was somehow a “closed” system, maybe the argument could be made. However; most (if not all) platforms are not. While they may have Liberal CEO’s and leadership…there is no way in hell that the Conservative Voice is stifled. (Also…ask Hillary Clinton how “Liberal” she thinks Social Media is, and was, in 2016).
With Technology the way it is; some estimate of numbers of viewers/listeners says nothing about influence.
Another “no way if Hell” that the Conservative Voice is either being not heard or stifled.
Also…it’s Departments of Study that tend to carry a lot of these biases, not whole
Universities.
And before someone mis-interprets my points; I think that it is the very antithesis of what a University should be about to insight violence when speakers with varying views are to speak. (With certain limits, of course).
Just don’t go hear them speak…but don’t make it impossible for them to speak.
Hillary needs to go away.
Even if she is only hinting about running; what it tells me is that she has not taken a long hard look in the mirror.
If she continues to blame everything but herself for her loss in 2016…she is still delusional.
If the Dems nominate Clinton they deserve the loss.
She is only promoting another shitty book which the world really doesn’t need and was not asking for. This time I believe she wrote it with her daughter because we are supposed to give two shits about the spawn of two demons. I don’t know how all of these people manage to find time to write books. Oh yeah, they are paying others to actually write them.
I have a different theory. Being a politician isn’t all that much work and of the work there is most is done by staffers. As a result they are wildly underworked and resort to writing shitty books, alcoholism, and rutting like jackals to pass the time.
Yes, but unless you take the media shortcut, climbing the ranks of a political party from the bottom up requires massive amounts of one’s time. All that door to door canvassing, “activism”, weekly local party branch meetings etc.
Who in their right mind wants to spend their twenties doing such dumb stuff? Mostly self-important idiots who are singularly unsuited to life in the real world.
Completely agree.
Well, based on that job description, I hereby announce my candidacy. 
You know what? I think I may have convinced myself too.
It would be hard to emphasize this enough. Yet…they are allowed to rule(at least in place of their string-pullers). 
It’s probably not that hard at all to write a book about your political experiences if all you have to do is tell some stories and someone writes it all out for you.
US State Department calling Sean Hannity to find out which one of them will get fired and why. Simply amazing.
Well then.
Honestly, I find this Ukraine scandal extremely fascinating, especially now that the MSM is picking up on stories and threads that originally started as wild speculations in non-English Twitter threads but ended up being vindicated by actual events that have proven them right.
One of the more insane aspects of the story is how third rate mafiosi had a direct link to the POTUS through Guiliani and how he repeatedly fervently believed the stories they were feeding him over literally everyone else in the US administration, including his Secretaries of State and Defense.
Once again, business partners of a mobster nicknamed “Lightbulb” had direct access to the POTUS and shaped US foreign policy.
Parnas and Fruman, both American citizens born in the former Soviet Union, aren’t ordinary political operatives. Parnas has long been a low-level grifter. Fruman owns an Odessa beach club called Mafia Rave, and a joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and BuzzFeed News found ties between him and an Odessa organized crime figure named Volodymyr Galanternik, known as “Light Bulb.”
The duo first appeared on the American political scene in 2015 as enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. They became big-dollar donors to a number of Republicans; their Instagram accounts would soon fill up with photos of party elites. Then, this year, McCallion learned they were poking around Ukrainian politics, where they were spreading conspiracy theories that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in America’s election in 2016.
“All of a sudden they started going around Ukraine telling anybody who would listen, particularly with the government, that they have been advised by a high-level, mysterious unnamed source, that in fact the D.N.C. servers had been hidden in Ukraine, that Russia was not the origin,” he told me. This claim, which echoed Russian propaganda, contradicts the findings of the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee. Nevertheless, it soon came to shape American foreign policy.
Well, well , well…!
THIS should be interesting!
Jeff “The Keebler Man” Sessions will be running for his old Alabama Senate Seat.
Now if you remember; he was one of the first (and most fervent) Senators to endorse Trump. He even went on the stump for him.
His “reward” was the U.S. Attorney’s job…but when he recused himself (properly) from the Mueller investigation; Trump chewed him up and spit him out with public humiliation and taunts that even had me feeling sorry for the man.
Questions:
Do you think he will seek Trump’s endorsement?
Do you think he needs Trump’s endorsement?
Even if Trump doesn’t wish to endorse the man, I think his ego would be damaged if Sessions doesn’t at least ask…and he would light him up publicly like a barn fire. (Like he did when sessions was the AG).
Again…should be interesting!
Looks like tariffs may be in the works to end in phases though I haven’t read official confirmation in that. May work out well for Trump.
Cause issue. Fix issue you caused. Catch stock rebound in summer 2020? Sounds like a win.
