Orbis Tabula
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Awesome. Important question. Did he give any new flaxseed based recipes?
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Awesome. Important question. Did he give any new flaxseed based recipes?
NYCmetsfan
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she?
Nah.
RastaMentality
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Oliver's informative but I've laughed probably a total of maybe 4 times at his episodes.
Bam Bam Baklava
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It was always stupid. What was it supposed to accomplish and why would Trump care?
He, my b.
Something about sending Bill Clinton to jail.
The fans of The Daily Show/Colbert Report/Last Week killing the joke have always been the worst part of the shows. There are *still* people who vandalize Wikipedia with Colbert's elephants joke and it's been basically a decade since the Wørd segment that started it.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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I don't think Oliver or Samantha Bee are particularly good. Oliver's stuff is better-researched than Stewart's ever was, but they're basically middlebrow because there is better-researched and -articulated stuff easily available online, and his jokes are completely lame because he's just not that funny of a comedian. Samantha Bee is snarky and acidic, but not particularly insightful nor funny, just kinda preaching to the liberal choir. I was never a BIG Stewart fan, but what made his show work was that the general perspective of it was that the whole political process is basically laughably broken, and while Republican more often were his target of scorn, he did not shy away from mocking Democrats when they, themselves, engaged in hypocrisy, pandering, and generally fuckery.
Trevor Noah really just sucks.
Trevor Noah really just sucks.
Noah just comes off as a smug asshole, and I guess I haven't watched enough of his show to figure out why. It might be just that a foreigner critiquing the US feels different from someone home-grown, the same way an American going to England and making jokes about the Tories would feel odd.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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I didn't think Trevor Noah's standup was funny, either. Why they picked him when I am certain there are dozens of homegrown American comedians with more passion, a more individuated perspective, and who are more clued-in to American politics, is beyond me.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Not surprising, the only real chance they had if Trump wins was running against Sanders, and with Tuesday being good for Trump and bad for Sanders that's kind of killed that.
Frank the Great
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That number is bound to shoot up at some point, for any number of reasons. Could be easy money.
Aaron Strife
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Not surprising, it's a thread that explicitly calls out basically half of BernieGAF.
My understanding is that they tried finding dozens of others (including several TDS vets) and they all turned it down, Noah was the first to say "yes".
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Not surprising.
I still say Cruz would do worse in an election than Trump. Everybody knows everything about Trump. Cruz is a scumbag and probably has loads of bad stuff not reported yet.
Macho Madness
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It definitely will because the race is bound to tighten no matter what happens. Unless Trump just keeps up his tantrums. Which we've seen easily happens when you say the slightest thing he doesn't like.
NYCmetsfan
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I like it.
superdeluxe
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This could be her Vermont. In a state that has 50 delegates lol.
Black Mamba
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This article pretty much makes the case why our media sucks even though it has nothing to do with that directly.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/gop-must-answer-for-what-it-did-to-kansas.html
Basically the article is about why no one is asking the gop contenders why their model failed in Kansas and Louisiana.
More people need to know about this.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/gop-must-answer-for-what-it-did-to-kansas.html
Basically the article is about why no one is asking the gop contenders why their model failed in Kansas and Louisiana.
More people need to know about this.
Macho Madness
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I read that this morning and got a little angry. Why aren't they being called out on this?
When's Puerto Rico again?
Slackerish
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Cheers, so it's late enough that it'll be clear to all but the most diehard Sanders supporters that there's no chance left by then anyway.
I mean, let's be real:
- they wouldn't answer the question
- even if that shit did become national stories half the country wouldn't listen
The myth of the liberal media prevents stuff like this from being called out on because if it is then half the country just thinks, "oh the liberal media is at it again," and just ignores the issue.
superdeluxe
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Could be a dagger if Sanders outpeforms in the midwest/west caucus states.
Wouldn't they just deflect and say Obamacare is killing the economy down there, preventing businesses from hiring employees, rolling back hours, etc? That the big federal government is preventing the conservative economic model from working? People are more than willing to believe that
GuyKazama
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thepotatoman
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It's way better than Trevor Noah's Daily Show.
Yeah it is baffling when you lay it out like that. Like I said maybe a month ago, the only good thing about Kansas is that it can be used as a bad example. The problem being is that no one does use it as any kind of example. We are a failed state; the architects of which face no consequences beyond maybe being voted out in another 2 years. Our media is incompetent. This should be being brought up at every debate even if they continuously deflect.
They just need to make sure every panel is a good panel and it would be fine.
Conservative did a huge amount of damage to the media's credibility in regards to their ability to critique the GOP.
br0ken_shad0w
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Well it's a better than the "I'll vote for Trump if Sanders loses" people, but I'm sure there's more than fair share of those in that thread as well. Those really get my blood boiling because I can't see how you can pick someone on the completely opposite of the spectrum because "fuck the establishment" or "both parties are the same" bullshit.
I saw it hit 30 pages, so glad I steered clear from that landmine.
Black Mamba
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I agree they wouldn't answer. But I think the media's desire to be even handed is what let's the gop get away with this type of bullshit.
If they pounded on things like this, the long term effect would be positive.
Then the media needs to grow a pair and summon some of that courage that allowed the media of yester year to break the watergate story. Bring facts to the table, confront them at every turn with their failures and make them answer. But no, they are afraid of how their viewers might react. You cannot let those who you are supposed to hold accountable control the message.
Black Mamba
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Exactly this.
Shit dude, I agree, but the people that need to hear this shit would just tune out.
Yeah man sorry not trying to argue with you just frustrated. Seems bleak sometimes.
Coriolanus
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I've been trying to explain to my son how things in the world are complicated, and that things are never as simple as good vs. evil.
But the GOP really undermines that perspective when we get to politics.
User 463088
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I'm not sure we talked about this before....
Australians say they were paid by Labour Party to Work for Bernie Sanders
Anyway, the former Speaker of the NH House has filed an FEC complaint about it.
I believe yesterday was the deadline for Bernie's people to return the foreign contributions they received, as well as to return the amounts they received over the legally allowed limits.
I'm sure this is a non-story, but I still find it hilarious that one campaign breached another's data. One campaign pretended to be union workers to illegally gain access to areas they weren't supposed to be. One campaign had to have the FEC come down on the for illegal contributions. And now one campaign had workers they shouldn't have had....yet Hillary is the dishonest one.
Okay. Yup. Sure.
Australians say they were paid by Labour Party to Work for Bernie Sanders
Anyway, the former Speaker of the NH House has filed an FEC complaint about it.
I believe yesterday was the deadline for Bernie's people to return the foreign contributions they received, as well as to return the amounts they received over the legally allowed limits.
I'm sure this is a non-story, but I still find it hilarious that one campaign breached another's data. One campaign pretended to be union workers to illegally gain access to areas they weren't supposed to be. One campaign had to have the FEC come down on the for illegal contributions. And now one campaign had workers they shouldn't have had....yet Hillary is the dishonest one.
Okay. Yup. Sure.
aspiegamer
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I give him credit for being a sneaky bastard (so, a great politician), but he's mostly just a stubborn jerk. The only reason he's "in there" is because he refused to drop out despite having no reason to stay in. Everyone else in that same position just left. Instead, he banks it on winning his own state's primary. Literally any of the candidates that dropped could have tried out that same strategy, but didn't and dropped when it became clear they'd never win the delegate total.
Kasich? He gives zero fucks about delegates, and zero fucks about what anyone outside Ohio thinks. He's still in the race despite having very literally no mathematical way to win the nomination outright. So he's openly broadcasting that he's a jerk only in it to screw with other people. Were this any other cycle with a more "traditional" race he would be mocked 24/7 for still campaigning instead of being given any kudos for anything. He'd be hounded by pundits of both parties and the media for only being there for his own selfish and party-destroying reasons.
Kasich is only there because everyone else left and he largely avoided going negative and making enemies. The same campaign Carson ran, but because Kasich has some charisma he was able to ride out the "hey mister moderator, I'm still here!" thing for 1 extra week, which is what he needed to get to his sole primary win. The 14 that have dropped probably all feel like idiots for not not officially giving up, since simply being there is all it took to get "momentum" eventually.
Eeeehhh, James O'Keefe isn't exactly a good source.
This is an article quoting James O'Keefe written in the Washington Times!
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