Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:To their credit, they do have less tolerance for failure, and constantly cycle out republicans who are all talk (something the left hasn't done much of). The problem is all the replacement are frauds. There is an endless supply.

Again, purity tests. The practice of extreme left/right candidates challenging incumbent moderates is broadly (though not always) bad for almost everyone involved.

You want to have your mind blown, read some stuff from a guy named James D’Angelo of the Congressional Research Institute. He makes a compelling and counterintuitive case that congressional transparency has made congress more partisan.

It begins

Oklahoma reporter tests positive for COVID-19 after attending at Trump's Tulsa rally
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5048 ... umps-tulsa

Any media member who covered that bullshit deserves what they get

Friday news dump:
Another loss in the courts (judge says WH illegally diverted defense funds to wall efforts)

WH staff know about covid (they are adding protocols to protect Drumpf)

He admits to violating the Hatch Act (giving Wisconsin shipyard a $5b contract because of their "location")

Facebook flags his posts (totally independent of their ad money losses I'm sure)

verb_to_trust wrote:Any media member who covered that bullshit deserves what they get

No.

Damn, Pete

Snap!

For anyone who needs a reference/explanation:

That is so wrong. Afghan militants should be killing US troops for free.

Mickey wrote:That is so wrong. Afghan militants should be killing US troops for free.

To be fair, after learning that Russia was putting bounties on our soldiers, we invited them to G7. You gotta spend money to make money.

This is easy for the white house to respond to. Intelligence is wrong. Intelligence is deep state.

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:That is so wrong. Afghan militants should be killing US troops for free.

To be fair, after learning that Russia was putting bounties on our soldiers, we invited them to G7. You gotta spend money to make money.

Oh it uhh definitely sounds like a bad thing for a US president to do, but I think verb is right: all the Trump folks are going to call it a deep state lie and for everyone else the details are too opaque and distanced from anything that feels like everyday life to really merit a response.

Mickey wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:That is so wrong. Afghan militants should be killing US troops for free.

To be fair, after learning that Russia was putting bounties on our soldiers, we invited them to G7. You gotta spend money to make money.

Oh it uhh definitely sounds like a bad thing for a US president to do, but I think verb is right: all the Trump folks are going to call it a deep state lie and for everyone else the details are too opaque and distanced from anything that feels like everyday life to really merit a response.

So:

FAKE NEWS

or

LAW AND ORDER

Mickey wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:That is so wrong. Afghan militants should be killing US troops for free.

To be fair, after learning that Russia was putting bounties on our soldiers, we invited them to G7. You gotta spend money to make money.

Oh it uhh definitely sounds like a bad thing for a US president to do, but I think verb is right: all the Trump folks are going to call it a deep state lie and for everyone else the details are too opaque and distanced from anything that feels like everyday life to really merit a response.

To the extent that things are only worth discussing if they change public opinion, this is true.

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:That is so wrong. Afghan militants should be killing US troops for free.

To be fair, after learning that Russia was putting bounties on our soldiers, we invited them to G7. You gotta spend money to make money.

Oh it uhh definitely sounds like a bad thing for a US president to do, but I think verb is right: all the Trump folks are going to call it a deep state lie and for everyone else the details are too opaque and distanced from anything that feels like everyday life to really merit a response.

To the extent that things are only worth discussing if they change public opinion, this is true.

I didn't say that though, and I don't agree with it?

96Up, what’s your appetite for running a meme-centric commentary on this battle of the intellectuals? I’m moving over the next several days and that could be pretty entertaining to keep my eye on.

Mickey wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:That is so wrong. Afghan militants should be killing US troops for free.

To be fair, after learning that Russia was putting bounties on our soldiers, we invited them to G7. You gotta spend money to make money.

Oh it uhh definitely sounds like a bad thing for a US president to do, but I think verb is right: all the Trump folks are going to call it a deep state lie and for everyone else the details are too opaque and distanced from anything that feels like everyday life to really merit a response.

To the extent that things are only worth discussing if they change public opinion, this is true.

I didn't say that though, and I don't agree with it?

I didn’t say you did, and I didn’t mean my response as a slight.

It's a nice little twist that as our allies are confirming the intelligence, Trump and Pence are saying they were never briefed instead of denying it. Now they are either liars or incompetent. Should have said it was FAKE NEWS. SAD!

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Mickey wrote:That is so wrong. Afghan militants should be killing US troops for free.

To be fair, after learning that Russia was putting bounties on our soldiers, we invited them to G7. You gotta spend money to make money.

Oh it uhh definitely sounds like a bad thing for a US president to do, but I think verb is right: all the Trump folks are going to call it a deep state lie and for everyone else the details are too opaque and distanced from anything that feels like everyday life to really merit a response.

To the extent that things are only worth discussing if they change public opinion, this is true.

I didn't say that though, and I don't agree with it?

I didn’t say you did, and I didn’t mean my response as a slight.