All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Spike-X]

So much for Qpublicans supporting the troops:

Republican budget will harm veterans by putting at least 50,000 vets on the streets: VA

I hope they remember to thank those veterans for their service as they're stepping over them on their way to church.

[Tami]

* Rockets that experience rapid unscheduled disassembly.

Now why didn't I think of that? :Thumbs Up:

[PaulBullion]

The thing is: Even one life saved is a huge impact. Posts like that sound so callous to me. I know a woman who lost her only son. I don't set a lower limit of children's lives lost to say a policy is worth it.

And Clinton's assault weapon ban did have many, many of those huge impacts for individuals who will never even realize they would have ended up a statistic without it.

Blake Herzinger, a research fellow at the United States Studies Centre in Sydney, makes the point better than I did:

[AnakinFlair]

Yo, WBE! Have you heard of this sellout, turncoat traitor? Mark Robinson, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina who's pushing THE most infuriating bullshit yet to come out of the mouth of a Qpublican:

WOW! This Black Republican candidate for Governor says it’s Black Americans that owe REPARATIONS to this country for our “freedom.” That’s a new take.

If you watch the video, look at the sign on the podium. I thought it read 'NOGOP'. It wasn't until I saw that it was in North Carolina that I realized it was supposed to say NCGOP. So whomever was making the signs was obviously having a little fun.

[Malvolio]

So it looks like Tucker Carlson is leaving FOX News. So where will he go next? Newsmax? He's already burned his bridges at MSNBC and CNN.

[shooshoomanjoe]

So it looks like Tucker Carlson is leaving FOX News. So where will he go next? Newsmax? He's already burned his bridges at MSNBC and CNN.

Without a sendoff. I wonder if they fired him.

[kidfresh512]

Without a sendoff. I wonder if they fired him.

Yeah for their most watched host to have no sendoff and last show was Friday and he wont appear again it clearly wasn't amicable.

[Tendrin]

That's the best news I've heard all day.

[Panfoot]

I bet he goes the Alex Jones route, he's too toxic for mainstream media and to much of a potential legal liability for OAN/Newsmax given their position(and probably he's to expensive for them).

[WestPhillyPunisher]

If you watch the video, look at the sign on the podium. I thought it read 'NOGOP'. It wasn't until I saw that it was in North Carolina that I realized it was supposed to say NCGOP. So whomever was making the signs was obviously having a little fun.

Yeah, I noticed that design gaffe too.

So it looks like Tucker Carlson is leaving FOX News. So where will he go next? Newsmax? He's already burned his bridges at MSNBC and CNN.

I just found out about Carlson. To quote SNL’s Church Lady, “Isn’t that special?” Seeing how his show pulled in the biggest ratings for Faux News, I figured Fucker would be the last man standing, not the first one out, that’s sure to have Sean Hamhocks and Laura Ignoramus shaking in their shoes, fearing they could be next. As for where Carlson goes next, he’s too big, too expensive and now has too much baggage for lightweights OAN or Newsmax, so, like Panfoot already said, he’ll probably go the Alex Jones route as I don’t see him fading into (relative) obscurity like Bill O’Reilly had done after he was booted from Faux.

Shit! Who says good news can’t happen on a Monday?

[Mister Mets]

So it looks like Tucker Carlson is leaving FOX News. So where will he go next? Newsmax? He's already burned his bridges at MSNBC and CNN.

My guess is it'll be some kind of independent outfit, like Glenn Beck did. It's weird to think about what he'll be like without bosses to restrict him, although his departure is likely a good thing considering how many of his elderly viewers are unlikely to follow him.

[Tendrin]

I don't think they were doing a lot to restrict him *now* because he brought the ratings.

[SquirrelMan]

That's the best news I've heard all day.

Why Fox News is woke now.
In this essay, I will

[Username taken]

Tucker Carlson will probably set-up something on his own.

He's a pretty massive name on the right side of things. GOP politicians were bending the knee to him.

Although, he might not get the exposure that he would get on Fox news he's still a big name.

It's interesting that Fox News are willing to let some of their biggest names leave like that. Bill O' Reilly was their main guy and left after some allegations against him.

[ed2962]

Don Lemon was let go today as well, but I think alot of us saw that one coming...