KevinC
5632
So when we next ask ourselves in disbelief, “How can ~35% of the public still support this guy?”, we should remember that a lot of those people only get their news/info from people like Hannity.
There’s 'murder, and then there’s murder.
If it’s a genuine bribe, the human body has a way of shutting that down.
Menzo
5635
Have all my likes for today, sir.
Oh man, this is my mom almost to the letter. Except with her it’s the daily dose of hours of MSNBC (at least it’s not Fox thank the gods, she hates that network with the fire of 1000 suns) followed by the NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (because hours of MSNBC just isn’t enough on brand infotainment) and then she switches over to some cable network to watch reruns of NCIS and/or Law and Order. On weekends I think she mixes in some Animal Planet.
At 75 years old she watches more TV in a single day than I used to in an entire week as a teenager, back when she would yell at me to stop watching TV and go do something. Irony.
RichVR
5637
To be fair, it’s harder to go do something at 75. :)
The world would be infinitely better without 24-hour news channels. Too bad there’s no way to ban them.
Chaplin
5640
I think this is the real root of it. I hem and haw like everyone else about what is wrong with the other side. However, there is clear money to be made and being made by just being a ridiculous partisan. That is the real gig. Sadly, it is good tv/radio/print. I also worry that its not just the right wing anymore and everyone has gotten a taste of the inflammatory “what the heck is wrong with THEM” gravy train with the era of Trump from journalism, to comedic talk shows, to whatever can sell something inflammatory.
Division gets viewers. Or division gets donors depending on what your job is. What is the worst case for either A starting to talk rationally and not be inflammatory, or B riding the hate train all the way down to appointments, reelection, your own editorial show, think tank for whichever side, etc. It seems like path A is more noble, but much worse for the career. Thus here we are today.
It is the newest morale hazard after the housing cluster F before the great recession. Unfortunately we have this climate change thing well on its way.
Good point. On the other hand, it’s also a lot easier to not do anything these days. We’ve created a Comfy Culture where we have so much entertainment available in our own homes (cable TV, streaming, internet, etc.) and the ability to push a few buttons and have almost anything brought to us in 48 hours or less that there are fewer reasons to even leave the house anymore. Granted, many senior citizens don’t know how to take full advantage of such technology, but as those of us in our 40’s/50’s/60’s who are technologically adept age into retirement, that’s going to change. We’ll be a nation of retired shut-ins, which is fine by me since my Steam backlog is basically my retirement plan. ;-)
Appropriate here for the time being.
Just straight up “We have always been at war with Eastasia” shit here.
We need to add a strategy: When the facts are against you, pound on the law. When the law is against you, pound on the facts. When the law and the facts are against you, pound on the table. When all else fails, declare victory.
Body language examination of Fox n Friends hosts as they listen to a deranged old man rant.
Whether it be a country or a person, that is always Trump’s go-to defense. “I may be a piece of shit, but they’re not so great either, I’m telling you.”
Rightbug
5648
Wasn’t there an article about how the administration was so incompetent that, two years in they had yet to actually take the picture that’s supposed to hang everywhere?
Edit: Yeah, not til October 2017. The embassy hold them as soon as they arrived.
They’d praise Stalin if he toed the party line.
I wonder what they think about My Lai.
Probably no one recalls this, but then-President Nixon responded to a public outcry about the My Lai verdict by moving Calley from prison to house arrest, after which a court granted a new trial and released him on bail, after which a military review reduced his sentence, after which another court reinstated the verdict, after which the Army paroled him. I think he served something like 2 years house arrest.
