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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

  1. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Free markets!
    Populism!
    Biden's to Blame!


     
  2. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Just because a group of people believe something doesn't make it law. When a majority can agree on legislation and it isn't unconstitutional, what's wrong?

    Should we be compelled to only eat vegan? Well that is the same hypothetical as your stoning example. Neither is going to happen because a majority of people would not support it. But people's opinions still can be based on moral convictions.
     
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  3. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    6,000 pages. In before the lock.
     
  4. UPChip

    UPChip Well-Known Member



    Honestly, enjoying a Polar Plunge of this nature is probably a good an indicator of dementia as anything.
     
  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    We were more than double that on this date four years ago. Which explains as much as anything why The Washington Post saw its revenue fall off a cliff.
    (Although Moddy did start the Trump one right after the election and started the Biden one on inauguration day. So Trump thread had a 10-week head start).

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  6. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    A salient point. The "mainstream media" got used to the daily raving lunacy coming from the White House, and enjoyed a huge uptick in people watching the slow-motion train wreck, commenting on it or being drawn to or repelled by it.

    Now that there's a relative boringness to the Presidency again, the media that made gobs of money because Washington was a zoo for four years truly believe the economy is worse off, for them in particular, because the news is no longer spoon-fed to them in massive Twitter rants and press conferences.

    Trumpism was a powerful drug, and the Post and Times and networks can't shake the addiction, which is why they continue to devote space and time to a con man and his sideshow circus.

    There's a "Why doesn't Biden do something to help us draw more eyeballs?" vibe to the mostly-negative coverage of this administration. The lack of National Enquirer-type scandals and controversies doesn't sell papers or TV ads.

    Another four (or who knows) years of Trump would actually be considered short-term beneficial to the suits, as one poster would say. Terrible for the country but I hadn't found a media executive yet who actually cares about anything but the next ratings book.
     
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  7. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Sometimes they work the system and it does. That's what this entire debate is about. That and churches, who traditionally have largely stayed out of politics, actively stepping into the political process with the advantage of being tax deductible.
     
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  8. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Along with CNN they became Sagat.

    I'll suck dick for Trump clicks!

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  9. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    I couldn't disagree more. This debate is about the "wrong" people getting political, or people getting political for the "wrong" reasons.

    I don't recall much caterwauling 'round these parts about, e.g., "Souls to the Polls" (The Black Church has been getting ‘souls to the polls’ for more than 60 years | Kinder Institute for Urban Research).
     
  10. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    I’m a Gen Xer. Wanna play Atari?
     
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  11. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    Xenophobe is my game of choice.
     
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  12. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    “He’s yellow, see? Look at his dang towel!”
     
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