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https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bu ... 660ecd4544

Look at how this story is written. It's the press that is keeping our country divided.

This was not " a victory for Biden "

This was not, Republicans switching sides.

It was our government passing an infrastructure bill. Something that has been needed for well over a decade.

This bill is not a democratic party win it is not a Biden win it should not be framed as Republicans switching sides. It isn't like the new social spending our government is debating.

It is our government doing it's job by improving and repairing our infrastructure
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:19 am https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bu ... 660ecd4544

Look at how this story is written. It's the press that is keeping our country divided.

This was not " a victory for Biden "

This was not, Republicans switching sides.

It was our government passing an infrastructure bill. Something that has been needed for well over a decade.

This bill is not a democratic party win it is not a Biden win it should not be framed as Republicans switching sides. It isn't like the new social spending our government is debating.

It is our government doing it's job by improving and repairing our infrastructure
Listen to yourself. You never want to admit that democrats do good things.

What you hate... is Democrats.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:19 am https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bu ... 660ecd4544

Look at how this story is written. It's the press that is keeping our country divided.

This was not " a victory for Biden "

This was not, Republicans switching sides.

It was our government passing an infrastructure bill. Something that has been needed for well over a decade.

This bill is not a democratic party win it is not a Biden win it should not be framed as Republicans switching sides. It isn't like the new social spending our government is debating.

It is our government doing it's job by improving and repairing our infrastructure
Then why did only 13 Republicans vote for it? Why did GOP leaders tell Republicans NOT to vote for it? Sounds to me like the GOP set up sides.

And why are Republicans calling those Republicans who voted for the bill traitors?

Why do only 13 Republicans think we need infrastructure? And why did your Congressman vote against it? (I don't even have to look it up, we both know he did). And why did Senator Tim Scott vote against it?

This bill should have been overwhelmingly passed. Why did Trump never pass one? Because the GOP doesn't believe in infrastructure.
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The passage of the infrastructure bill is clearly a win for President Biden Glenn. A clear majority of Americans support the legislation.

You do not want better Bridges, Highways and Roads Glenn? I thought as truck driver that you would support well maintained roads and reinforced bridges.

Clean Water and Clean air in .the National Interest Glenn.

It just galls you no that a Democrat (Biden) is finally doing that Republican (the Traitor) never did in his miserable one term, mainly rebuilding bridges, roads and highway while at the same providing good paying jobs to out of work Americans.
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gounion wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 7:26 am Listen to yourself. You never want to admit that democrats do good things.

What you hate... is Democrats.
This just another example of Glenn raging and wanting the Democratic Party to fail.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:19 am https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bu ... 660ecd4544

Look at how this story is written. It's the press that is keeping our country divided.

This was not " a victory for Biden "

This was not, Republicans switching sides.

It was our government passing an infrastructure bill. Something that has been needed for well over a decade.

This bill is not a democratic party win it is not a Biden win it should not be framed as Republicans switching sides. It isn't like the new social spending our government is debating.

It is our government doing it's job by improving and repairing our infrastructure
And yet, it's Joe Biden's fault for high gas prices world wide.

You know what's keeping the country divided?

The GOP and its propaganda arms constantly running dangerous disinformation ops on the American People. Constantly pushing fear based distractions and lies, like "invading caravans with gangs and terrorists coming over the border" or migrants spreading covid, or "ANTIFA" or politicizing vaccinations and safety measures during a deadly pandemic. Or withholding aid from Blue States because they didn't vote for a Republican President. Labelling the media as "fake news" and "the enemy of the people." Fomenting an insurrection which lead to an attack on the Capital. Calling White Supremacists "very fine people." Pushing the Big Lie attacking the fabric of American Democracy by claiming the election was stolen. Claiming Trump will be reinstalled. Making propaganda videos on a major "news" network claiming that Jan 6 was a false flag operation set up by the FBI. Refusing to hold a criminal President accountable for serious crimes. Vilifying American law enforcement and American Intelligence as "the Deep State." Calling Democrats the "far left" "extreme left" "socialists and commies." CRT. Not actually running on any sort of policy or platform, just lies promoting fear. You know, stuff like that.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:19 am https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bu ... 660ecd4544

Look at how this story is written. It's the press that is keeping our country divided.

This was not " a victory for Biden "

This was not, Republicans switching sides.

It was our government passing an infrastructure bill. Something that has been needed for well over a decade.

This bill is not a democratic party win it is not a Biden win it should not be framed as Republicans switching sides. It isn't like the new social spending our government is debating.

It is our government doing it's job by improving and repairing our infrastructure
Glenn, for your example you chose amoung the least. There's less applied narrative and more who, what, when, where, in that article than in most of the article arrayed before us this morning.

Here's an example of most of the most. The most applied narrative by the most appalling news network on Earth.

:(

It's like a drag on the drag.

GOP lawmakers blast 'RINOS' after House passes $1.2T infrastructure bill: 'Time to name names'
Biggs, Boebert, Gaetz and Greene among House Republicans sounding off on Twitter after late-night vote on Democrats' spending plan


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-la ... cture-bill

:(

It's a bipartisan spending plan not a "Democrats' spending plan."

And Biggs, Boebert, Gaetz and Greene are the kind of toxic personalities sane folks would ignore.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:19 am https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bu ... 660ecd4544

Look at how this story is written. It's the press that is keeping our country divided.

This was not " a victory for Biden "

This was not, Republicans switching sides.

It was our government passing an infrastructure bill. Something that has been needed for well over a decade.

This bill is not a democratic party win it is not a Biden win it should not be framed as Republicans switching sides. It isn't like the new social spending our government is debating.

It is our government doing it's job by improving and repairing our infrastructure
I agree with you about how the story is written. We would all be better off with the press reporting the facts and details of whats happening rather than keeping it mostly secret by inflaming tensions constantly.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:19 am https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bu ... 660ecd4544

Look at how this story is written. It's the press that is keeping our country divided.

This was not " a victory for Biden "

This was not, Republicans switching sides.

It was our government passing an infrastructure bill. Something that has been needed for well over a decade.

This bill is not a democratic party win it is not a Biden win it should not be framed as Republicans switching sides. It isn't like the new social spending our government is debating.

It is our government doing it's job by improving and repairing our infrastructure
Okay, Glenn, two things. First, this is an AP article. The Associated Press are the most even-handed articles in the world. This was Biden's bill. He's bragging about having passed it. That is news. Are they supposed to bury anything the Dems say? That's what Fox News and the the Mooney Times does. You can bet when Trump got bills passed, he came out and bragged about it and the AP quoted him, too.

You just don't want the dems to get credit for anything. You don't want them mentioned. You unadulterated bias is showing.

Second, you say this is the GOVERNMENT doing it's job. Well, no. It's the Dems doing their job. When the GOP had power, they never passed a bill because, well, the GOP doesn't want to govern. They couldn't get any GOP support for a TRUMP infrastructure bill.

But what of the 13 Republicans that voted for this? The GOP is going nuts and screaming that McCarthy is a rotten GOP leader because he couldn't strong-arm those 13 from voting against the bill. Via the National Review:
Just before midnight on Friday, we witnessed an utterly disgraceful act by a group of 13 House Republicans. Given the chance to deal a severe blow to President Biden’s flailing agenda, they instead rescued him by providing Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the votes she needed to overcome resistance from the far Left of her party.

For months, Biden’s multi-trillion dollar domestic agenda has been mired in problems. Democrats are dealing with disagreements among the extremely liberal and less liberal wings of the party, and narrow majorities have left leadership with little margin for error.

Their goal has been to pass trillions of dollars of new spending at a time when debt as a share of the economy is at historic levels rivaled only by the fight against World War II. The strategy all along was for Democrats to win over some Republicans to their cause by creating a charade that their agenda was actually divided into two parts: a physical infrastructure bill, and a sweeping social-welfare bill.

For months, Democrats have been battling amongst themselves, with some members more attached to the infrastructure bill and others more attached to the social-welfare bill. But ultimately, time and again, it has become clear that the two bills were inextricably linked, and would rise and fall together.

Senate Republicans got the ball rolling when 18 of them decided support the unnecessary infrastructure bill, with its $550 billion in new spending, and send it to the House for final passage.

On Friday night, after months of back and forth, it looked like Biden’s agenda could suffer another setback, as not all progressives were sold on the idea of agreeing to pass the infrastructure bill with only a commitment from holdouts in the House that they would vote for the social spending bill in a few weeks, once the CBO analysis comes out. With only three “no” votes to spare within her own caucus, Pelosi lost six Democrats — enough to sink the bill. Yet 13 Republicans swooped in to rescue Pelosi, provide Biden with the biggest victory of his presidency, and put the rest of his reckless agenda on a glide path to passage in the House.

This is a substantively bad decision that is political malpractice. It represents a betrayal.

The federal government already spends more than enough on infrastructure to meet our needs and the COVID-19 bailout money left many states awash in cash. Despite promises, only a small portion of the bill focuses on traditional infrastructure such as fixing roads and bridges and the legislation (soon to be law) will add $256 billion to deficits. It will also help grease the wheels for the passage of the larger multi-trillion welfare bill that will expand Medicare and Obamacare, initiate a federal takeover of preschool and child care, and impose economically devastating tax increases on individuals and businesses.

Politically, it’s unclear what Republicans are thinking. Biden entered this week reeling from a devastating rebuke of his presidency by voters in areas of the country thought to be reliably Democratic. He headed into the 2022 election year a wounded animal, and Republicans stood to make major gains. Now, they tossed him a life raft and allowed him to put bipartisan gloss on his radical agenda.

Every Republican who voted for this monstrosity who is not already retiring should be primaried and defeated by candidates who will actually resist the Left-wing agenda. Those who are retiring should be shamed for the rest of their lives. It also is not too soon to be asking whether Representative Kevin McCarthy should be ousted from leadership for his inability to keep his caucus together on such a crucial vote.
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gounion wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 7:26 am Listen to yourself. You never want to admit that democrats do good things.

What you hate... is Democrats.
There you go with that shit again self projecting

Guess what just because a person disagrees with a political position does not necessarily mean that person hates the party or the people who hold that position.

I wonder when you were a kid how often did you throw the you hate me tantrum when you didn't get your way
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marindem01 wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 9:34 am The passage of the infrastructure bill is clearly a win for President Biden Glenn. A clear majority of Americans support the legislation.

You do not want better Bridges, Highways and Roads Glenn? I thought as truck driver that you would support well maintained roads and reinforced bridges.

Clean Water and Clean air in .the National Interest Glenn.

It just galls you no that a Democrat (Biden) is finally doing that Republican (the Traitor) never did in his miserable one term, mainly rebuilding bridges, roads and highway while at the same providing good paying jobs to out of work Americans.
I agree it's good for the Biden administration but for the press to report it the way they did in my link shows the press needs conflict to make money.

Now if the social spending bill passed I will 100pct agree that if is a huge win for Biden.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:10 am I agree it's good for the Biden administration but for the press to report it the way they did in my link shows the press needs conflict to make money.

Now if the social spending bill passed I will 100pct agree that if is a huge win for Biden.
No Glenn, you ignore facts to maintain your own prejudice.

Where was all this manufactured outrage when the Traitor got the tax cut for the richest one percent, now that was free money. It also increased the deficit, which you also ignore.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:10 am I agree it's good for the Biden administration but for the press to report it the way they did in my link shows the press needs conflict to make money.

Now if the social spending bill passed I will 100pct agree that if is a huge win for Biden.
What you will never admit is the people you vote for would NEVER pass infrastructure spending. They can't build, only destroy.
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gounion wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:21 am What you will never admit is the people you vote for would NEVER pass infrastructure spending. They can't build, only destroy.
Republicans no longer know how to govern. All they know how to do is obstruct. The Traitor never got his "Infrastructure Week".

With a clear majority of Americans supporting BBB, the Republicans are swimming against the tide. Just like with the John Lewis Voting Rights Bill, the Republicans are blocking what a clear majority of Americans want. All Republicans know how to do is to say, "NO!"
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:07 amThere you go with that shit again self projecting
It's more like the telling the truth Glenn. This single piece of legislation is best thing to happen to this country since the New Deal. Thousands of Americans working to rebuild our Country, with jobs that pay a good living wage.

All you have done Glenn is use RW Talking Points and you either deliberately ignore the fact that a clear majority of Americans support this bill or willfully choose believe the lies being told by Conservatives who would bitch if President Biden came and said babies are cute. Just think of what would happen if Biden came out what a beautiful day was, Q-Publicans be throwing body blocks in order get in front of the camera and demand Biden withdraw his comments. You are nothing if no predictable Glenn.

The Traitor's Tax Cut for the Richest One Percent increased the deficit Glenn. You continue to ignore that. The simple fact of the matter is that Republicans only care about deficits when Democrats are in office. When Republicans are in the White House, increasing the deficit is something to be ignored. There were no off setting spending cuts with the Traitor's tax cut Glenn. When a Republicans increases the deficit it does not matter does it Glenn.

The Republicans do not know how govern or do not want to govern, so all they do obstruct. This time such obstruction failed. But just wait to they back to their home districts and them boast about what great thing BBB is. IF you do not like road and highways being built, don't drive on them Glenn.

The American People support BBB and they know what it means. You on the other just believe what the daily RW talking point is.
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Glennfs wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:10 am I agree it's good for the Biden administration but for the press to report it the way they did in my link shows the press needs conflict to make money.

Now if the social spending bill passed I will 100pct agree that if is a huge win for Biden.
No, it means the press reports. Biden made a statement, they covered what he said.

This isn't fucking Fox News, Glenn, where the only way to report is to slam dems.
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The Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, published its latest “Budget and Economic Outlook” which covers 2020 to 2030 on Wednesday, January 29. The 88 page report projects the Federal government receipts and expenditures to calculate the yearly Federal deficits and total debt, and it forecasts various economic metrics such as the economies growth rate and employment numbers.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones ... 162f548199.

President Obama entered office in early 2009 in the teeth of the Great Recession. Not surprisingly, the deficit exploded from $459 billion in calendar 2008 to over $1.4 trillion in calendar 2009. As the economy recovered the deficits shrank to a low of $442 billion in 2015 and was $585 billion his last year in office.

The Traitor on the other hand was handed an economy that was growing. In 2017, his first year in office the deficit grew to $666 billion, was $984 billion last year and is projected to be over $1 trillion in 2020 at $1.02 trillion. This would be a 74% increase in just four years and going forward the Federal deficit could escalate to $1.7 trillion in 2030.

Republicans only deficits when a Democrat is in office. The Traitor was handed a booming economy and fucking grew the fucking deficit.

For the record Glenn, FORBES is NOT a Progressive Publican.

Numbers tell the story, and that story is the Traitor's policies wiped out the gains of the President Obama.
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marindem01 wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 12:43 pm The Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, published its latest “Budget and Economic Outlook” which covers 2020 to 2030 on Wednesday, January 29. The 88 page report projects the Federal government receipts and expenditures to calculate the yearly Federal deficits and total debt, and it forecasts various economic metrics such as the economies growth rate and employment numbers.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones ... 162f548199.

President Obama entered office in early 2009 in the teeth of the Great Recession. Not surprisingly, the deficit exploded from $459 billion in calendar 2008 to over $1.4 trillion in calendar 2009. As the economy recovered the deficits shrank to a low of $442 billion in 2015 and was $585 billion his last year in office.

The Traitor on the other hand was handed an economy that was growing. In 2017, his first year in office the deficit grew to $666 billion, was $984 billion last year and is projected to be over $1 trillion in 2020 at $1.02 trillion. This would be a 74% increase in just four years and going forward the Federal deficit could escalate to $1.7 trillion in 2030.

Republicans only deficits when a Democrat is in office. The Traitor was handed a booming economy and fucking grew the fucking deficit.

For the record Glenn, FORBES is NOT a Progressive Publican.

Numbers tell the story, and that story is the Traitor's policies wiped out the gains of the President Obama.

Yes, I like the way it is explained here also...Proven statistical facts, undeniable and inarguable, and yet the cons here will argue or ignore.

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Glennfs wrote: Sat Nov 06, 2021 6:19 am https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bu ... 660ecd4544

Look at how this story is written. It's the press that is keeping our country divided.

This was not " a victory for Biden "

This was not, Republicans switching sides.

It was our government passing an infrastructure bill. Something that has been needed for well over a decade.

This bill is not a democratic party win it is not a Biden win it should not be framed as Republicans switching sides. It isn't like the new social spending our government is debating.

It is our government doing it's job by improving and repairing our infrastructure
The bill was what Biden promised when he ran for President. It's taken awhile but the passage of the bill is a victory for Biden so the AP reported it that way. Had the bill been defeated, would you have complained if AP reported it was a defeat for Bide? I doubt it.

As for it being a Democratic Party win, it was mainly the Democrats who introduced it, wrote it, and who voted for it. Only 13 republicans voted for the bill. So if this is "government doing it's job by improving and repairing our infrastructure" then you're admitting the republicans aren't doing their job. Yet, you keep voting for republicans who don't want to do their job.
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The press did not divide the country.

The country divided the press, which it did after it divided itself, which happened after the erosion of the post WWII consensus on the world role of the US and the racial/ethnic/gender/colonial hierarchies that it fostered here and abroad. The press learned, the hard way, that the only way to remain in business was to compete for a fragmented audience, attract a base that could provide reliable advertising exposure, and retain it by telling it what it wants to hear. This became the dominant formula for everything from the smallest blogs to the biggest international media conglomerates.

By now this is so routine that it passes for objectivity, since that too is in the eye of the beholder. No one even notices.
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President Biden accomplished having landmark legislation passed.

The Traitor accomplished sucking up to Russia, spending over a year of playing golf and soaking the Secret Service for stays at his overpriced lice infested hotels.
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ZoWie wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 5:15 pm The press did not divide the country.

The country divided the press, which it did after it divided itself, which happened after the erosion of the post WWII consensus on the world role of the US and the racial/ethnic/gender/colonial hierarchies that it fostered here and abroad. The press learned, the hard way, that the only way to remain in business was to compete for a fragmented audience, attract a base that could provide reliable advertising exposure, and retain it by telling it what it wants to hear. This became the dominant formula for everything from the smallest blogs to the biggest international media conglomerates.

By now this is so routine that it passes for objectivity, since that too is in the eye of the beholder. No one even notices.
Correct. I note Glenn complains about the "mainstream press" but never the right-wing press.
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ZoWie wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 5:15 pm The press did not divide the country.

The country divided the press, which it did after it divided itself, which happened after the erosion of the post WWII consensus on the world role of the US and the racial/ethnic/gender/colonial hierarchies that it fostered here and abroad. The press learned, the hard way, that the only way to remain in business was to compete for a fragmented audience, attract a base that could provide reliable advertising exposure, and retain it by telling it what it wants to hear. This became the dominant formula for everything from the smallest blogs to the biggest international media conglomerates.

By now this is so routine that it passes for objectivity, since that too is in the eye of the beholder. No one even notices.
The press sure is making hay out of that divide and doing what they can to keep it going
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marindem01 wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 5:16 pm President Biden accomplished having landmark legislation passed.

The Traitor accomplished sucking up to Russia, spending over a year of playing golf and soaking the Secret Service for stays at his overpriced lice infested hotels.
If the social spending bill passes that will be landmark. Passing an infrastructure bill should be ho hum. Unfortunately in today's world it has become considered a great accomplishment.
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