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Teaching people how to use their minds instead of just memorizing test answers is something I've encouraged since I was in school and noticed the same things you bring up here.
I don't trust any GOPers to stick to principles given the evidence of the last 2 decades, so I don't trust Johnson to keep any deal he might make to stay Speaker. The second the pressure is off he'll do whatever is necessary to show the extremists following Trumps every whim that he's still loyal, but it'll already be too late.
If this shakes out and we get a Dem Speaker I will laugh until I hurt.
I don't think that anyone has claimed that education will stop assholes from being assholes, just that it makes them less likely to fall for the basic traps of bigotry and such as you've shown. People are still people and we know exactly how bad they can be at their worst, but that's a reason to strive to be better than we were yesterday instead of saying it's a wasted effort.
I think the benefits of having more higher-income people pay their fair share would outweigh the benefits of a few obscenely rich people/companies simply existing there, and we've previously discussed how little effort for how much return Billionaires could have working to benefit society without hurting their net worth in any appreciable way. The fact that they don't do this is evidence that they aren't truly good people, regardless of what philanthropy they do engage in.
And when she does (Again?), not only will she dodge any responsibility for it but so will all of her fans, sychophants, and defenders. Until the law changes to acknowledge stochastic terrorism and clarifies what 'Incitement' means in regards to online behavior to address this, she is within her legal rights to whip up her hate mob.
I don't think she could sucker the rest to vote for her at this point.
An odd recommendation is the first 20 minutes of Joe Rogan's interview with Tucker Carlson.
It just shows how insane Carlson is. He talks about how he got radicalized by intelligence agencies investigating Donald Trump as well as his belief that UFOs are something demonic from Earth, and there's a conspiracy within the government to cover this up.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
One has to differentiate between the MAGA cultists and independent voters. The MAGATs are a lost cause and nothing that Trump does or says will hurt their support. They will vote for him even if he is jail. But that is perhaps 35% of the voters. And frankly what they think or say is of little importance. It is the independent, fickle voters who will decide this. They were the ones who gave Trump that small victory in a few States to win in 2016, and moved to Biden in 2020. Yes, as crazy s it sounds, there were Bush-Obama-Trump_Biden voters. They are the ones who will make the difference. They are low information voters who "don't care about politics". I wish the media would spend more time talking to them and less time concentrating on Trump cultists.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
A headline for low information voters
Trump Was Warned to Return Records to Archives, Unsealed Documents Say
In late November 2021, as officials at the National Archives were trying to persuade former President Donald J. Trump to return a trove of records he had taken from the White House when he left office, one of Mr. Trump’s associates advised him in the sharpest terms possible to give the materials back, newly unsealed documents show.
“Whatever you have, give everything back — let them come here and get everything,” the unnamed associate told Mr. Trump, according to an interview the person gave the F.B.I. “Don’t give them a noble reason to indict you, because they will.”
Less than two years later, that admonition proved prescient. Federal prosecutors charged Mr. Trump last June with violating the Espionage Act, accusing him of illegally holding onto more than 30 highly classified documents and obstructing the government’s repeated efforts to retrieve them.
A summary of the associate’s interview with federal agents was among nearly 400 pages of investigative records that were unsealed on Monday by the judge overseeing Mr. Trump’s classified documents case. The associate’s identity was redacted from the summary.The unnamed associate who warned Mr. Trump about the threat of an indictment — identified in the unsealed records as Person 16 — described approaching the former president in a card room or library at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, as Mr. Trump was dressed in golf attire.
Person 16 told the F.B.I. that Mr. Trump reacted to his warning with a “weird ‘you’re the man’ type of response” and left the impression that he would in fact return the materials to the archives. Their conversation was interrupted when a Mar-a-Lago club member and a “much younger woman” walked up, Person 16 recalled, and asked to have a photo taken with Mr. Trump.
Person 16 also suggested that some of Mr. Trump’s children had been enlisted in the task of persuading him to return the presidential records to the archives. The person recounted to the F.B.I. that one of the children was told: “There are issues with the boxes. They belong to the government. Talk to your dad about giving them back. It’s not worth the aggravation.”Again most of us know this stuff. But, the whole victim narrative for the classified documents case that he was raided unnecessarily etc has ben completely debunked several times now. Even as they try to do what about Biden on docs etc. That also keeps falling apart quickly with all the evidence of Trump being asked to return everything. Being warned at every step that he needed to give it back. And the raid was just the final step because the requests and orders to return the governments property were being ignored.Person 16 also suggested to the F.B.I. that Mr. Trump may have told his personal aide, Walt Nauta, who was ultimately charged as a co-defendant in the case, that he would receive a pardon if Mr. Trump was elected again.
“Nauta was also told that even if he gets charged with lying to the F.B.I., FPOTUS” — an abbreviation for former president of the United States — “will pardon him in 2024.”
This seems to be another case with so much evidence. He could easily have avoided by just giving the documents back when asked.
The media will have a tough time reaching people who don't care about politics, since by definition, they're the ones not currently watching the programs dealing with current events.
If the media wanted to focus on programming that's more interesting to swing voters, they may lose existing viewers who are already partisans. And the swing voters, who may not be as appealing to most advertisers (political ads are a different story) aren't going to necessarily learn that CNN now caters to their interests.
The media may be able to make some changes that will lead to wider appeal if there wasn't as much groupthink behind the scenes, but in addition to likely internal pushback (the type that has led to editors and producers getting fired or pushed out), there is also the issue of audience capture, since viewers often want people who agree with them.
Another potential solution to the same problem would be for Democratic politicians and their campaign surrogates to make more of an effort to go where the swing voters are. Come to think, the Obamas would be very useful for this, since they're broadly popular, many programs will be happy to have them on, and it's not going to lead to compromises on policy.
An example of something I'm thinking of here would be Bill Clinton making a cameo in a cop drama (maybe there can be a scene where police are providing security when the former president is in town) and later doing a campaign event with a progressive actor from the show.
A Guilty verdict is going to be worse than a Not Guilty verdict. In addition, there isn't much of a sense that there's bias in favor of Trump in the Manhattan case.
I don't see why he would lie about it.
But the comments were weird. There's a difference between "there are things we can't explain in this world, and I believe some of the answers are in scripture" and "UFOs are demonic forces, and there's a conspiracy in the government to cover this up."
Come to think of it, I don't get why the government would cover it up. An announcement that there's evidence of interdimensional beings coming out of the water to observe humanity would be a major justification for all sorts of spending.
Last edited by Mister Mets; 04-23-2024 at 08:46 AM. Reason: Comments, not comics
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
The News should be telling people what they need to know, not what they want to hear. One is journalism, one is infotainment.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Before News was expected to turn a profit this was closer to the norm. Now, they are putting a finger on the scales in Trump's favor by giving him so much free coverage, the unending negative Biden coverage, and refusing to hold so many conservative politicians & political experts accountable for their own words.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!