Starker on 17/10/2018 at 16:58
Yeah, did any US president behave this way? Did Clinton ever try to insult and demean Lewinsky like this? I don't think anyone is really fazed about Lord Dampnut having an affair with a porn actress. It's more that he seems to entirely redefine the word presidential.
Dia on 18/10/2018 at 11:27
Quote Posted by icemann
Now he's just going full Trump without filter.
Omg, I love that. I'm stealing it. Lmao.
demagogue on 18/10/2018 at 12:20
I realized he reached a new stage of media intolerance when the news came down that even Fox news stopped bothering to broadcast his rallies fullstop (they used to broadcast the full rallies, then gradually cut them minute by minute down to nothing). He's become an isolated pariah windbag increasingly without a platform on which to spew. I guess it's happening all on social media now, Twitter and FB, but that seems to have really derailed from reality, and there's no doubt a sizable bulk of that is foreign agiprop anyway.
Starker on 18/10/2018 at 16:51
Um... Fox News isn't cutting down on showing his rallies because they can't tolerate him now. They are only doing it because of ratings. I guess even Lord Dampnut's supporters get bored watching the same show for two years in a row.
demagogue on 18/10/2018 at 16:58
Semantics, a media company cannot tolerate doing something that's losing it money; ideology goes out the window. I meant it in that sense, not the sense where their faces are supposed to have looks of disgust on them or whatever. But it gets bad ratings because he's overexposed, there's rah rah fatigue and an uncomfortable degree of L'Embarras des richesses, which is another kind of intolerance one might argue, or use another word for it, whatever; I have no investment in that specific term.
Starker on 18/10/2018 at 17:20
Does it really matter if he's front and center in their regular shows anyway?
Starker on 18/10/2018 at 19:57
The Republicans have found the real culprit of the budget deficit increase:
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-16/mcconnell-blames-entitlements-not-gop-for-rising-deficits)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed rising federal deficits and debt on a bipartisan unwillingness to contain spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and said he sees little chance of a major deficit reduction deal while Republicans control Congress and the White House.
“It's disappointing, but it's not a Republican problem,” McConnell said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg News when asked about the rising deficits and debt. “It's a bipartisan problem: unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future.”
McConnell's remarks came a day after the Treasury Department said the U.S. budget deficit grew to $779 billion in Donald Trump's first full fiscal year as president, the result of the GOP's tax cuts, bipartisan spending increases and rising interest payments on the national debt. That's a 77 percent increase from the $439 billion deficit in fiscal 2015, when McConnell became majority leader.
If only there wasn't Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, the US could afford all those tax cuts for the rich.
Nicker on 18/10/2018 at 20:09
I blame Jesus - "For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land."
Starker on 19/10/2018 at 12:59
I think Rachel might be overcomplicating Lord Dampnut's motivations just a bit. It's all very simple -- Saudi Arabia is his friend, the press (and especially The Washington Post) is his enemy. Of course he's going to side with his friends over his enemies.