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I think there will be a fair amount of schism as the ones that did it for the money try to turn around only to realize how many of their colleagues actually believed the bullshit and how deeply the institution is saturated by fanatics.

Last edited Dec 30, 2020 at 11:11AM EST

BrentD15 wrote:

They'll turn hyper-critical of Biden to avoid the accusation of being politically biased against Republicans.

And it was never the "liberal media", it was always the corporate media. Pandering to liberals during Trump's reign was just good business.

From the article:

Olivia Nuzzi:
"“On a purely social level, I don’t know that reporting critically on Joe Biden will feel as safe for reporters, you’re not going to get yass queen–ed to death.”"

Jim Acosta:
"“I don’t think the press should be trying to whip up the Biden presidency and turn it into must-see TV in a contrived way…"

Daniel Dale of Toronto Star:
In regards to scrutiny to Biden "“It will not be a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week job to fact-check Biden,”"

From the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

>found that 93% of CNN & NBC coverage of President Trump during the period was negative. The survey also found 91% of CBS coverage was negative and that 87% of New York Times coverage was negative during Trump's first 100 days

Amongst Financial Journalists

58.47% admit to being left of center. Along with that, another 37.12% claim to be "moderate." That's a whopping 4.4% of the total that lean right-of-center.

A study from the Pew Research Center

Compared to other recent presidents, news reports about President Trump have been more focused on his personality than his policy, and are more likely to carry negative assessments of his actions. Fully two-thirds of news stories about Trump from his first 60 days in office were negative by that definition -- more than twice the negativity seen in stories from the first 60 days of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush or Barack Obama's presidencies.

They will not, in anyway, hold the same kind of scrutiny towards Biden to Trump. Why would they? He's their guy.

The "corporate media" is the "liberal media". Now you may argue that the corporate media isn't progressive – that may be true, progressiveness was at best a tool used to get the audience attention of the "woke". But it certainly has a massive left-wing bias. This, I think, tends to be that the centers of "corporate media" tends to be in relatively very left leanings areas: New York, California, Chicago. Similarly, why many internet companies like Facebook, Twitter have a perceived left-wing bias is due to the fact that they're work pool is in an extremely left environments. Now that they are fleeing the Bay-Area of California, and into more rural – albeit still left wing – cities such as Austin, we may start to see a shift in that perception.

I get it, though.
They are on "your" side, so you'd hesitate to criticize them.

BrentD15 wrote:

They'll turn hyper-critical of Biden to avoid the accusation of being politically biased against Republicans.

And it was never the "liberal media", it was always the corporate media. Pandering to liberals during Trump's reign was just good business.

Chewybunny actually covered pretty much everything I was going to say, so instead I will pose a question:

How did you get convinced that the corporate media would do a 180 and apply the same degree of overwhelming criticism and hostility Trump received from them towards Biden? Sure, they may be more critical of Biden than they were of Obama, but that really doesn't mean much. So, please, answer that, I want to know who has been lying to you this intensely.

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Spaghetto wrote:

Chewybunny actually covered pretty much everything I was going to say, so instead I will pose a question:

How did you get convinced that the corporate media would do a 180 and apply the same degree of overwhelming criticism and hostility Trump received from them towards Biden? Sure, they may be more critical of Biden than they were of Obama, but that really doesn't mean much. So, please, answer that, I want to know who has been lying to you this intensely.

My intuition convinced me that with Trump going to be out of the spotlight, the focus will be on trying to appear as "unbiased" as possible, so they will turn up the heat on Biden's administration while once again failing to paint the modern Republican party for what their actions represent: Sedition.

BrentD15 wrote:

My intuition convinced me that with Trump going to be out of the spotlight, the focus will be on trying to appear as "unbiased" as possible, so they will turn up the heat on Biden's administration while once again failing to paint the modern Republican party for what their actions represent: Sedition.

Sedition: n – conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

Brüh. Which party has been outright encouraging, and allowing rioters to form autonomous zones in major cities in the US this summer? Which party was it that aligned themselves with these groups?
Which party was it that hashtags the "resistance" to the Presidential administration?

I know you're an ardent Democrat. But jesus christ man, you cannot have this kind of level of confirmation bias, can you?

full transcript and initial story but they're paywalled so fuck 'em
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/03/953012128/this-was-a-scam-in-recorded-call-trump-pushed-official-to-overturn-georgia-vote

So, on SATURDAY Trump threatened Georgia's Sec State to overturn the election by applying fraudulent votes to his total in a phone call that falls somewhere between "national embarrassment by a psychotic fool" to "actual federal crimes"

pinkiespy - goat spy wrote:

full transcript and initial story but they're paywalled so fuck 'em
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/03/953012128/this-was-a-scam-in-recorded-call-trump-pushed-official-to-overturn-georgia-vote

So, on SATURDAY Trump threatened Georgia's Sec State to overturn the election by applying fraudulent votes to his total in a phone call that falls somewhere between "national embarrassment by a psychotic fool" to "actual federal crimes"

"NOO YOU CAN"T HAVE MAIL IN BALLOTS THERE WILL BE VOTER FRUAD!1!!1"
"We're loosing so use voter fraud"
american politics.txt

"The people of Georgia know that this was a scam, and because of what you've done to the president, a lot of people aren't going out to vote [in the runoffs]," Trump said in the remarkable Saturday call. "A lot of Republicans are going to vote negative because they hate what you did to the president."

He added: "You would be respected if this thing could be straightened out before the election."

For the 8278th time I am dissapointed by actually reading the article. I was promised outrage goddamnit!

Last edited Jan 04, 2021 at 01:35AM EST

thebigguy123 wrote:

A conservative subreddit found out about this and it's imploding
https://imgur.com/gallery/ukjZoFp

What does conservatism even stand for anyways, besides vague statements to free enterprise and private ownership?

Greyblades wrote:

"The people of Georgia know that this was a scam, and because of what you've done to the president, a lot of people aren't going out to vote [in the runoffs]," Trump said in the remarkable Saturday call. "A lot of Republicans are going to vote negative because they hate what you did to the president."

He added: "You would be respected if this thing could be straightened out before the election."

For the 8278th time I am dissapointed by actually reading the article. I was promised outrage goddamnit!

Oh man NPR didn't put in the leaning on the Sec State to "Find votes" or the uninterrupted 10 minute rant done with the memory and coherence of a drunk, or the weird implication about lawyers' (((last names)))?

Of course not, NPR has no spine.

Penis Miller wrote:

Californian here. Before the election night, there were numerous amount of ads telling people to vote "YES on Prop 22" and close to none on "NO on Prop 22." I voted "no" on the proposition since I felt something was wrong about the ads, but I had a bad feeling that a bunch of were gonna vote "yes" since they had no idea that the "YES on Prop 22" ads were filled with disinformation. Turns out I was right; a bunch of voters fell for the propaganda. I guess spending a ton of money to get people to vote for what you want does work.

The same thing happened with the "NO on Prop 23" ads.

Blue Yoshi wrote:

There's a clash between the police and the Trump supporters happening in DC right now.

US Capitol Police have evacuated two buildings on the Hill, the Madison Library of Congress Building and the Cannon House Office Building.

Must have used up all the Tear Gas and Secret Police for that church photo op.

Omega MISSINGNO wrote:

Wait is this the left or the right protesting?
Like is this BLM and Antifa or Trumpers

These are Trump supporters.

I should mention that the fact they got this far is something. I wonder if any congress people might get murdered.

Last edited Jan 06, 2021 at 02:59PM EST

More clips of what's happening inside Capitol Hill right now. I've never seen anything like this….

Rioters breaking window of the building
CNN coverage of the protesters walking inside the building
Protesters clash with the police inside the building (Note the "USA!" chants at the beginning of the clip)

Last edited Jan 06, 2021 at 03:03PM EST

Lucky Absol wrote:

Trump wanting a picture in front of a church is force worthy but not storming the Capitol Building. Okay.

I mean where is the logic
I remember the church though

US Senators were calling for Martial Law because a Walmart got looted and Police were arresting journalists and running over people kneeling in the street a few months ago but suddenly the Government and the Police can't be bothered once it's White Nationalists storming the Capitol. Weird.

Last edited Jan 06, 2021 at 03:24PM EST

I don't condone the violent protests after the George Floyd stuff but
1. There were more peaceful protests compared to the violent ones
2. At least the George Floyd/BLM protestors stand for something right: equality, no discrimination.
What is going on in DC right now? Absolute insanity, why is it that BLM, the people that stand for something right and just, are the ones getting shot. Yet these lunatics supporting that asshat of a president, they are walking away scott free??
Look no matter what side, I don't condone violent protests. It's sad that this is the state of the nation now, where the only way to get through to others is through violence.
If anyone is around the DC area that isn't a Trump supporting lunatic, I'm praying for you, I'm wishing you safety.

Rylade475 wrote:

I don't condone the violent protests after the George Floyd stuff but
1. There were more peaceful protests compared to the violent ones
2. At least the George Floyd/BLM protestors stand for something right: equality, no discrimination.
What is going on in DC right now? Absolute insanity, why is it that BLM, the people that stand for something right and just, are the ones getting shot. Yet these lunatics supporting that asshat of a president, they are walking away scott free??
Look no matter what side, I don't condone violent protests. It's sad that this is the state of the nation now, where the only way to get through to others is through violence.
If anyone is around the DC area that isn't a Trump supporting lunatic, I'm praying for you, I'm wishing you safety.

Deep down you know why the police won't treat them the same. We all do. Nobody wants to admit it out loud.

Last edited Jan 06, 2021 at 03:53PM EST

Penis Miller wrote:

US Senators were calling for Martial Law because a Walmart got looted and Police were arresting journalists and running over people kneeling in the street a few months ago but suddenly the Government and the Police can't be bothered once it's White Nationalists storming the Capitol. Weird.

Is it okay if I upload that meme?

Rylade475 wrote:

I don't condone the violent protests after the George Floyd stuff but
1. There were more peaceful protests compared to the violent ones
2. At least the George Floyd/BLM protestors stand for something right: equality, no discrimination.
What is going on in DC right now? Absolute insanity, why is it that BLM, the people that stand for something right and just, are the ones getting shot. Yet these lunatics supporting that asshat of a president, they are walking away scott free??
Look no matter what side, I don't condone violent protests. It's sad that this is the state of the nation now, where the only way to get through to others is through violence.
If anyone is around the DC area that isn't a Trump supporting lunatic, I'm praying for you, I'm wishing you safety.

Swap the roles and you will have the protestor's viewpoint throughout the last year.

State of the nation is two sides feeling thier greivances are never heeded while seeing the other as overrepresented despite being based on lies.

Last edited Jan 06, 2021 at 04:44PM EST

Blue Yoshi wrote:

More footage of Trump supporters clashing with the police
Trump supporters shout 'Hang Mike Pence!'
Woman who got maced identifies herself. 'It's a revolution!', she says

So now we've got MORE revolutionary LARPers lining up to get shot?

But seriously, why? What are they putting their lives on the line for? Is it just Trump? All this for a man? THAT man? I think I might have underestimated some things.

Nox Lucis wrote:

So now we've got MORE revolutionary LARPers lining up to get shot?

But seriously, why? What are they putting their lives on the line for? Is it just Trump? All this for a man? THAT man? I think I might have underestimated some things.

Fairness is what makes most people put up with results they dont want; "you played a fair game and the dice fell as they did, no hard feelings." There's noone who doesnt get angry when the game is rigged.

They feel disenfranchised, not in an abstract "everyone who voted otherwise is deluded" manner of of the previous elections" but a tangible "they're not even hiding it" invalidation.

It's not Trump they're putting thier lives on the line for: its the sliver of control they have over thier country: Their Vote.

Last edited Jan 07, 2021 at 02:25AM EST

I noticed that Biden is the oldest president elected. He's part of a silent generation as opposed to 3 previous presidents who were part of a baby boomer generation.

What caused the average age of US presidents to go up during recent years?

Last edited Jan 07, 2021 at 11:10AM EST

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