We need to describe politics and politicians in measured terms from our perspective. If we are picking through a bin of rotten fruit then it is not delicious and we should recognize it as rotten.
1. Trump really is a narcissist. That's not a strawman accusation.
2. I'm unclear about this whole "yardstick" analogy. I get that Trump is the current apex of MSM antipathy, so the media will have to come up with something new for the next GOP presidential candidate, but it will. Thanos and Pennywise are still available.
3. What do you mean when you say that the Republicans' yardstick is also broken? Is it an acknowledgment that every GOP candidate must pledge fealty to Trump in order to be accepted as viable (or even worthy of being called a Republican)?
I would never take that $20 bet Steve. My assessment of Biden is he is boring...and i am personally thrilled by it. I do need the president in my face 24/7. In fact, this is one of those cases where less is way better.
I could do the whole "whataboutism" with our friends on the right leaning media, but that solves nothing. So, here's my take. I like to keep it simple and here's how they fixed professional wrestling: They quit calling it "wrestling" and it became "sports entertainment." Way more appropriate.
We just need to start tagging news programs in a similar fashion. There's those, both on the left and the right, who wouldn't know news if it hit them in the face. And if they did, they'd rather promote it/shill it as news when it is really nothing more than shameless self-promotion to enhance ratings and build a bigger following.
The other option would be to sue them when they lie through their teeth and then watch them as they scurry about trying to cover their ass. Oh, wait, we've seen that game before haven't we. If memory serves me, it was more on the right than the left but i am old and perhaps senile and confused.
Finally, seems to me there's a whole bunch of folks on the right who have proclaimed trump as being a threat to our democracy; including Liz Chaney who gets a ton of respect for having brass balls.
We need to describe politics and politicians in measured terms from our perspective. If we are picking through a bin of rotten fruit then it is not delicious and we should recognize it as rotten.
1. Trump really is a narcissist. That's not a strawman accusation.
2. I'm unclear about this whole "yardstick" analogy. I get that Trump is the current apex of MSM antipathy, so the media will have to come up with something new for the next GOP presidential candidate, but it will. Thanos and Pennywise are still available.
3. What do you mean when you say that the Republicans' yardstick is also broken? Is it an acknowledgment that every GOP candidate must pledge fealty to Trump in order to be accepted as viable (or even worthy of being called a Republican)?
I would never take that $20 bet Steve. My assessment of Biden is he is boring...and i am personally thrilled by it. I do need the president in my face 24/7. In fact, this is one of those cases where less is way better.
I could do the whole "whataboutism" with our friends on the right leaning media, but that solves nothing. So, here's my take. I like to keep it simple and here's how they fixed professional wrestling: They quit calling it "wrestling" and it became "sports entertainment." Way more appropriate.
We just need to start tagging news programs in a similar fashion. There's those, both on the left and the right, who wouldn't know news if it hit them in the face. And if they did, they'd rather promote it/shill it as news when it is really nothing more than shameless self-promotion to enhance ratings and build a bigger following.
The other option would be to sue them when they lie through their teeth and then watch them as they scurry about trying to cover their ass. Oh, wait, we've seen that game before haven't we. If memory serves me, it was more on the right than the left but i am old and perhaps senile and confused.
Finally, seems to me there's a whole bunch of folks on the right who have proclaimed trump as being a threat to our democracy; including Liz Chaney who gets a ton of respect for having brass balls.