Check your break room ...
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Litmus Tests are good, actually, and "Do you support court reform" is an example of a particularly good one.
"Keep voting Blue and eventually we will get the courts back, best case scenario, could be as soon as 30-40 years from now" is not a plan. The people who said it was lied to you. ...
The photos of the "crowds" at the tank parade remind me of when Bill Hicks would come on stage in an almost-empty club, scan the room slowly, and announce "I've had more people in bed than this" ...
When the president sends a cabinet member on TV to announce "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
This is from 2022 but it was absolutely right. The practiced buffoonery of Trump 1, all the "just kiddings" and "seriously but not literallys" absolutely succeeded in desensitizing people who are hardly paying any attention to the harder stuff they always intended to do next. ...
tambrosi says:
That was awesome. Nice find Mike
Ed says:
Crossfire has gone downhill quicker than any TV show in history save for Six Feet Under circa the season 2/3 crossover.
What happened was, CNN started getting murdered in the ratings by Fox News. They presumed that the reason was because people like to watch angry white men yelling a lot. And, instead of being objective and accused of being partisan anyway, being partisan while pretending to be objective.
Now it's basically just 4 people yelling at each other. A far cry from the days of Pat Buchanan telling Bill Press "If there were a vast right-wing conspiracy in progress, someone would have called me by now."
kat says:
they also seem to have studied the art of speed-talking-to-cover-one's-stupidity.
i love john stewart. i would have his love children just to produce more little jon stewarts in the world. at least the kiddies wouldn't wear bow-ties.
Myconfidence says:
I propose a collection to buy Jon Stewart a White House Press Pass. He would truly be a lion among the flock.