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11-27-23 03:07 #13696
Posts: 5447Where is the Bothsides study?
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
They are to a long opinion piece based on anecdotal interview responses in an apparent desperate attempt to prove that lifelong Repub Mueller did not find indictable evidence of something he explained from the very beginning that he was not looking for and was not illegal anyway; Team Trump's extraordinarily intense and deep "collusion" with Russia in the 2016 election campaign.
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11-27-23 02:31 #13695
Posts: 5447I assume Repub Chip Roy is still waiting for a convincing reply to his question.
Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
They momentarily buckled on their usual overriding Repub Party plan to destroy the economy and wipe out millions of jobs by "keeping the government open"? They pulled back on the Biden / Dem proposals that are always higher than they expect they can get as a matter of ordinary intelligent negotiation technique and thereby left it as only a 50-50 shot at America experiencing a soft landing vs a Great Recession in the wake of Trump's Great Repub Economic Disaster rather than a near 100% certainty? LOL. So impressive. Give them a trophy for that. Oh, then they shit-canned the Repub Squeaker of the Repub Pink Tinkle House for ruining their usual overriding Repub Party plan (see above) and replaced him with ChristoFacist Mike who is searching for every conceivable way to get back on track with that usual overriding Repub Party plan. Lolol.
Or, as typically pro Repub MSM would spin it, "handling the economy better than Democrats". Lolol.
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11-27-23 00:00 #13694
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
I was watching CNBC last week, and Jared Bernstein, the chairman of President Biden's Council of Economic Advisors was expounding on the accomplishments of the President. Chief among them was saving $1 trillion through passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023! This is the money that the Republicans clawed back! In other words, Biden's economic advisor is taking credit for something that got passed only because Republicans threatened not to increase the debt limit. Democrats were shouting Armageddon and now they're taking credit for the legislation! Unbelievable!
Anyway, Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama might have been crappy ass presidents, if Republicans hadn't controlled the House during their second terms, and played a similar role to House Republicans this year. Instead, Clinton will go down in history as a very good president, having balanced the budget, passed welfare reform, promoted free trade, and cut the capital gains tax, all thanks to Republicans. Maybe House Republicans will also help President Biden preserve his legacy, after two years of crappy ass results with one party rule.
Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
The articles quote a study that came out of that great bastion of higher learning, the University of Southern Mississippi. They conclude that "Republicans surveyed had a small but statistically significant higher level of psychopathic traits than Democrats. ".
Well, the problem is that they only surveyed 164 Democrats, 85 Republicans and 55 independents. Notice how closely that correlates with the make up of the American electorate. And actually they didn't conduct the survey but rather outsourced it to Amazon's Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing consultancy. Gallup they ain't.
Now, "about 1.2% of USA Adult men and 0.3% to 0.7% of USA Adult women are considered to have clinically significant levels of psychopathic traits. " See.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/...0%2 C%202020).
So among this sample of 304 people, being 157 females and 147 males, you'd expect to have 2 or 3 people who have clinically significant levels of psychopathic traits. How statistically significant is that? And somehow this study shows that Republicans have a "small but statistically significant higher level of psychopathic traits" than Democrats. I'm calling bull shit on this study, or rather the press' description of it.
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11-26-23 23:26 #13693
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
OK, the New York Times and the Washington Post are both Pro Democrat on their editorial pages. But true, they don't necessarily spout non stop Democratic Party propaganda in their other sections. They're not like MSNBC.
The Columbia Review of Journalism however has shown real gumption, telling both sides from time to time, for example in this excellent four part series about the Press' witch hunt to tie Trump to Russian collusion in the 2016 campaign. People like Elvis and the Marquis may enjoy it. And you should read it. It might broaden your views.
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/t...ent-part-1.php
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/t...ent-part-2.php
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/t...ent-part-3.php
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/t...ent-part-4.php
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11-26-23 06:59 #13692
Posts: 5447How MSM sucker their Useful Idiot WingerPuppets into voting for their
beloved Repub candidates so they can reliably deliver the terrifying headlines they crave and need in order to sell more of their product and get wealthier:
The study linked (see below) in this report captures it well. However, I would add that typically pro Repub Mainstream Media ought not to just cite the "policies" of each Party and candidate in an election run for a change but also cite the many times that Party and its similar policies produced and presided over Great Depressions, Great Recessions, Massive Job Losses, etc "results" and none of the Great Recoveries, Great Expansions, Historic Job Gains, etc "results" over the past, oh, 100 years or so.
Report Confirms Major Newspapers Threaten Democracy: All Horse Race, No Policy.
When historians set out to determine why Donald Trump happened, from initial campaign to attempted coup to authoritarianism-premised comeback, the role of this nation's press will be hard to overlook
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/11/r...edia-threatens
When historians set out to determine why Donald Trump happened, from initial campaign to attempted coup to authoritarianism-premised comeback, the role of this nation's press will be hard to overlook. In a piece published for the Columbia Journalism Review, five researchers who examined The New York Times' campaign coverage leading up to the 2016 presidential election returned to similarly examine the 2022 race.
We did expect, or at least hope, that in the years that followed, the Times would conduct a critical review of its editorial policies. Was an overwhelming focus on the election as a sporting contest the best way to serve readers? Was obsessive attention to Clintons email server really justified in light of the innumerable personal, ethical, and ultimately criminal failings of Trump? It seemed that editors had a responsibility to rethink both the volume of attention paid to certain subjects as well as their framing.
As any New York Times or Washington Post reader could likely tell you, the new results are just as dismal. Political coverage at even the largest and most consequential newspapers consists almost exclusively of horse race reporting and campaign gossip. Actual issue and policy examinations were nearly nonexistent.
After the 2022 midterms, we checked back in, this time examining the printed front page of the Times and the Washington Post from September 1, 2022, through Election Day that November. As before, we figured the front page mattered disproportionately, in part because articles placed there represent selections that publishers believe are most important to readersand also because, according to Nielsen data we analyzed, 32 percent of Web-browsing sessions around that period starting at the Times homepage did not lead to other sections or articles; people often stick to what theyre shown first. We added the Post this time around for comparison, to get a sense of whether the Times really was anomalous.
It wasnt. We found that the Times and the Post shared significant overlap in their domestic politics coverage, offering little insight into policy. Both emphasized the horse race and campaign palace intrigue, stories that functioned more to entertain readers than to educate them on essential differences between political parties. The main point of contrast we found between the two papers was that, while the Post delved more into topics Democrats generally want to discussaffirmative action, police reform, LGBTQ rightsthe Times tended to focus on subjects important to RepublicansChina, immigration, and crime.
By the numbers, of four hundred and eight articles on the front page of the Times during the period we analyzed, about halftwo hundred nineteenwere about domestic politics. A generous interpretation found that just ten of those stories explained domestic public policy in any detail; only one front-page article in the lead-up to the midterms really leaned into discussion about a policy matter in Congress: Republican efforts to shrink Social Security. Of three hundred and ninety-three front-page articles in the Post, two hundred fifteen were about domestic politics; our research found only four stories that discussed any form of policy. The Post had no front-page stories in the months ahead of the midterms on policies that candidates aimed to bring to the fore or legislation they intended to pursue. Instead, articles speculated about candidates and discussed where voter bases were leaning. (All of the data and analysis supporting this piece can be found here.)
If one set out to design a national press that would be most conducive to undermining democracy, you could hardly do better. In focusing on horse race coverage, campaign speculation, and the superficials of each race, the actual policy differences between each candidate are brushed aside.
Even when the race features a conventional political figure paired against a coup-attempting alleged felon whose policy prescriptions call for the restructuring of government into a one-party, authoritarian-premised tool determined to bend the nation's laws in unprecedented waysas the 2024 presidential race will likely have itthe public cannot exercise its democratic rights if those differences are intentionally hidden from them. In ignoring the policy differences between each and every pairing of candidates, the nation's press is hiding the stakes of each election. It is hiding the most existential of policy debates in darkness, shining a light instead only on candidate sound bites, gaffes, and infighting.
In particular, the researchers call out the journalistic fiction of "objective" reporting. "What appears in a newspaper is less a reflection of what is happening in the world than what a news organization chooses to tell about what is happeningan indicator of values," they write. And they emphasize that the papers are not being inaccurate in their reporting, but that coverage is "misleading" nonetheless.
On any given day there are many accurate and arguably newsworthy stories that could appear on a front page. (In our study period, the overlap in front-page-story selection at the Times and the Post was only about a third.) Which topics editors choose to emphasize is neither accurate nor inaccurate; they simply reflect subjective opinions. Likewise, the way an article is written also involves a series of choiceswhich facts are highlighted, whose voices are included, which perspectives are given weight. Words such as objectivity and independenceeven truthmake for nice rhetoric but are so easily twisted to suit ones agenda as to be meaningless.
Democracy is premised on an electorate that knows what they are voting for and can make rational decisions about which of multiple approaches is best. Campaign coverage is flashy, but its valueless to voters. It emphasizes politics as sporting event. It may be pleasing to follow for interested partisans, but is worse than valueless for voters seeking to understand the sometimes-critical policy decisions they are expected to vote on. By emphasizing candidate claims and counterclaims and broadcasting potentially deceptive arguments as far and widely as truthful ones, the front pages do damage to democracy and readers both.
There has never been an American election in which the would-be beneficiary of an attempted coup came back, upon losing, to call for the indictment and imprisonment of his political foes, mass deportations and an end to birthright citizenship, and a purge of government to ensure only partisans loyal to himself can remain. It is a fascist manifestoand you would not know it from the front pages, whose editors find such dangers to be no more important than whether his opponent is old, or analyses of how voters in Iowa are reacting to various campaign pitches.
It is dreadfully dangerous. This is how democracies die.
And the free press, as those same editors should know perfectly well, cannot itself survive in a nation that has decided it is addicted to the flash of political upheaval but indifferent to its consequences.
https://github.com/jennyw23/2022AgendaSetting
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11-25-23 20:20 #13691
Posts: 5447Yes, it will be up to Biden. As it will be up to Trump.
Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
Ron DeSantis' Popularity Compared to Other Governors Is Abysmal.
Nov. 1, 2023
https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desanti...ernors-1839827
Poll: Ron DeSantis among least popular Governors in America.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives...rs-in-america/
DeSantis popularity drops in Florida.
Nov. 17, 2023
https://www.politico.com/newsletters...antis-00127753
Hmm. So loony Dr. Sachs who worked for non Democrat Bernie Sanders claimed to be a "lifelong" Democrat until the evil Dems somehow forced typically pro Repub Mainstream Media to largely ignore that conspiracy theory that actually Trump's Pandemic virus was created and leaked from a USA lab.
On Trump's watch.
LOL. The mind reels at the complexities.
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11-25-23 09:15 #13690
Posts: 2579Lmao
"Remember this Mainstream Media favorite?
Biden Trails Trump In 5 Battleground States. But Odds Are Much Better For Another Democrat, Poll Says.
Nov. 5, 2023.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarador...h=431cdc7e4b08
And all while Trump has been out there holding rallies and campaigning, saying a lot of really stupid things to rile up his stupid base like the crap you quoted from him, while Joe Biden has not. Yet. He has been busy with his day job.
Now, that "generic" thingy seems to be repeating itself in other polls as well.
The 81.2 Million voters who chose Biden over Trump's 74.2 Million, 7 Million more than Trump and enough to win a Trump-defined Electoral College "Landslide" victory, are beautifully and justifiably terrified of another horrific Trump so-called presidency. So much that they want his Democratic opponent to be "perfect" this time around, no risk of losing. All while your side's reliable benefactors in MSM, Bill Maher and so on are insisting that soooo many people think Joe is too old and won't vote for him.
So those voters really, really want that "perfect" Democratic candidate to run against Trump instead.
However, unless Joe does step aside for whatever reason, when it is time to vote next year all 81.2 Million of those voters are going to look at their ballot, see Trump's name on it, see Joe's name on it and Guess What?
Joe Biden will be the "generic"Democrat on that ballot."
Joe Biden lost in 2020 and will lose again, you know he knows it and so does everyone else espec those that rigged the swing states in 2020 in black precincts ie Milwaukee Detroit Atlanta Philadelphia Phoenix.
"However, unless Joe does step aside for whatever reason" However? LMAO.
Sounds like you are really praying for it LOL.
A perfect Democrat LMAO wow holy fuck you're hilarious.
Newsom? That turd destroying California? He isn't even popular there.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/dr...24/id/1143515/
Democratic Party AKA the CCP.
A bunch of scumbag shills for Xi.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cal...-fearmongering
California aka CCP occupied territory.
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11-24-23 02:28 #13689
Posts: 1110Crazy knows Crazy...
Originally Posted by Elvis 2008 [View Original Post]
Let me put it to you, like Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) on Nov, 13th, 2023, when trying his damndest, to find anything meaningful his woeful Republican party had done:
- Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) - "One thing...I want my Republican colleagues to give me, one thing...one, that I can go campaign on and said we did?", "One?...anyone sitting in the complex wanna come down to the floor and explain to me, one material, meaningful and significant thing... the Republican majority have done, besides...well I guess it's not as bad as the Democrats?"
{...Muffled silent chuckles abound from Democrats and some Republicans...}
Much like poor old, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), all arguments in the article, suggest right-wing Incel/QAnon/MAGA Republican, traits of ineptitude.
Originally Posted by Elvis 2008 [View Original Post]
DARK SIDE OF CONSERVATISM - Republicans have more psychopathic traits than Democrats, according to a psychology survey
https://qz.com/1462622/republicans-h...chology-survey
https://www.psypost.org/2018/11/stud...emocrats-52566
Yes indeed, QAnon/MAGA Repubs own "crazy", not to mention, have a lock-on "scary crazy"!!!
If I not mistaken, these days, it's a MUST have requirement, when running for the Repubs! (...kkkk!)
- Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) - "One thing...I want my Republican colleagues to give me, one thing...one, that I can go campaign on and said we did?", "One?...anyone sitting in the complex wanna come down to the floor and explain to me, one material, meaningful and significant thing... the Republican majority have done, besides...well I guess it's not as bad as the Democrats?"
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11-24-23 00:31 #13688
Posts: 1110MAGA He-Man Woman-Hater's love using Pixie Dust?
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
When all else fails (especially at the ballot-box), they chalk up their failures, as a "branding" or "messaging" problem. For example, with the currently loss in the 2023 Elections, mostly due to their stance on abortion, their answer to the losses in the 2023 Election and Primaries was to "rebrand" abortion as "a 15-week limit on abortion", instead of "a 15-week ban on abortion", as if Americans would think there's a difference....kkkk!
BTW, would the "He-Man Woman-Haters Manosphere Club", even allow a Bigger Bad-Ass Ball Busting [wo]MAN (5-in. heels) represent? You think?
Well...if all else fails, they can always "rebrand" her as a man, after all, just like "a 15-week abortion limit", Americans will never know the difference...right!
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11-23-23 17:12 #13687
Posts: 5447Enjoy it while you can
Originally Posted by MarquisdeSade1 [View Original Post]
Biden Trails Trump In 5 Battleground States. But Odds Are Much Better For Another Democrat, Poll Says.
Nov. 5, 2023
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarador...h=431cdc7e4b08
But the poll found that another generic Democrat running against Trump would win five of the six battleground states by seven to 12 points, and Nevada by three.
Now, that "generic" thingy seems to be repeating itself in other polls as well.
The 81.2 Million voters who chose Biden over Trump's 74.2 Million, 7 Million more than Trump and enough to win a Trump-defined Electoral College "Landslide" victory, are beautifully and justifiably terrified of another horrific Trump so-called presidency. So much that they want his Democratic opponent to be "perfect" this time around, no risk of losing. All while your side's reliable benefactors in MSM, Bill Maher and so on are insisting that soooo many people think Joe is too old and won't vote for him.
So those voters really, really want that "perfect" Democratic candidate to run against Trump instead.
However, unless Joe does step aside for whatever reason, when it is time to vote next year all 81.2 Million of those voters are going to look at their ballot, see Trump's name on it, see Joe's name on it and Guess What?
Joe Biden will be the "generic" Democrat on that ballot.
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11-23-23 17:07 #13686
Posts: 3223Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
But then again, I was talking to a married California Democrat struggling with the cost of living there. Also the homeless who have set up in his neighborhood. He is afraid for his kids and said, "These homeless guys keep shitting on my lawn. " And he is all in on the LGBTQ+/ women's rights "you go girl" movement. I admire his tenacity, but like I said, it is hard being a Democrat these days.
And then there is you, Uncle Twisty slumming it in Thailand after voting in the mess that my friend has to endure. Yes, nothing says you support American women more than moving to Thailand and fucking Thai women. And you are calling the manosphere he man, American women hating? Isn't like one in seven women in Thailand a hooker, and you are out supporting that? That is like saying you support single moms and spending all day in a strip club.
Well, the new Democratic theme song should be from the appropriately named musical Something Rotten. The bard had it easy compared to those writing speeches for the Dems, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hnI7yhIWGY.
My days are so busy it's making me dizzy.
There's so much I got to do.
There's lunches and meetings and poetry readings.
And endless interviews.
Got to pose for a portrait.
And how I deplore sitting there for eternity.
Then it's off to the inn.
Where my innkeeper friend.
Wants to name a drink after me.
Then it's back to my room, where I resume.
My attempt to write a hit.
Just me and my beer and the terrible fear.
That I might be losing it.
And it's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's really hard.
So very very hard.
It's really hard.
Very very hard.
I make it look easy but honey believe me.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's so incredibly hard.
So inconceivably, unbelievably hard.
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11-23-23 04:54 #13685
Posts: 2579A Solemn Oath to Humanity from the Savior of Western Civilization
In March he told loyalists in Waco, Texas:
I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.
"With you at my side," Trump went on to say.
We will totally obliterate the deep state, we will banish the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, and we will cast out the communists and Marxists, we will throw off the corrupt political class, we will beat the Democrats, we will rout the fake news media, we will stand up to the RINOs, and we will defeat Joe Biden and every single Democrat.
Send all campaign donations to.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/
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11-22-23 10:27 #13684
Posts: 5447The he-Man Woman Haters Club is begging for a cease fire and to adopt a new name
Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
After much deliberation the most popular new name by limp-wristed show of hands appears to address the plural issue and commemorate the cease fire all at once:
"The Menopause Club".
Catchy name. I think they should go with it.
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11-22-23 09:42 #13683
Posts: 3223Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
"he was a hardcore leftie. ".
He he he. You got to be kidding me Deep Fried Soy Boy! You had "Mr. Incel" here as a MAGA / QAnon type. LOL. ROTFLMAO.
It gets better. "I've come to realize that political identity doesn't mean much when it comes to how people feel about women. " Strike two. Oh, that one had to hurt. The women do not love you soy boys and pretzels more than the MAGA Republicans. LOL. Say it ain't so. I am dying laughing here.
And here we go with the Democratic douche Clintonian trick of redefining a word, what your definition of is is. "An Incel is someone who identifies as 'involuntarily celibate', but the classification is more complicated than that. Not all who remain chaste can be classified as 'Incels'; it's an ideology; a way to define how you feel about sex, regardless of how often you're having it. In this sense, men who are engaging in a lot of sex can still be considered Incels. ".
Yes, incels can have sex now. Strike three. It cannot get worse but it does.
"The year I turned twenty-two marked two important life events. I was immediately attracted to his dirt-bag personality. I loved that he wasn't afraid to speak his mind. My Incel believed that a society that rewarded physical attractiveness over 'merit' was inherently oppressive. He believed that society should reward merit based on his idea of what merit was, and encompassed within 'society's rewards' was the sexual availability of women. He threatened to kill a security guard when he was removed from a bar; he was violent towards animals; he sexually assaulted a mutual friend of ours, he tried to convince me that I was unattractive, by continually poking at 'flaws' in my appearance. To put it bluntly. I've never had an attractive man insult my appearance. The man I loved was attractive, so he made himself unattractive as a form of rebellion against social hierarchies. Despite his rebellion, he still wanted to benefit from said social hierarchies by being gifted with a physically 'superior' girlfriend. I still stuck by him despite all the pain because It's not easy to say goodbye to your first love, and I still believed he had a good heart. ".
So Mr. Dirt Ball is a good looking psychopath, and this 22 year old female ditz you worship Spidy cannot call him the usual names because he is a leftie so she calls him an incel which makes zero sense. Yes, the MAGA guys are crazy but she loved the possessive, sex crazed, violent, and deeply psychopathic leftie.
Well, at least she may have understood what lefties are all about. They do not tell women the truth but what they want to hear to get into their pants. "Men suck. Women are great. See what a good leftie I am? Now give me all that pussy. " LOL. I am dying here. Clearly, Deep Fried Soy Boy, this guy is your role model.
Of course, this naive 22 year old never mentions responsibility, never mentions she screwed up, barely mentions that going for looks and political persuasion over character bit her in the ass. There is nothing positive about men. Some men apparently just suck less than others.
This woman has to be verbally smacked upside the head which will never happen if she hangs around lefties. Hating men rather than being responsible for her own bad decisions is childish. If women really want to be equal to men, they need to step up and walk the walk with responsibility.
Mr. Leftie is not an incel. He is a fucking psychopath, and this 22 year old ditz needs to own that, but I doubt she ever will.
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11-22-23 05:38 #13682
Posts: 2242Do yourself a favor and block sp (dy.
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]