U.S. And International Politics

[John Corbett]

I think the only election in my lifetime that truly surprised me (pleasantly so) was 2016. I had resigned myself to a Hillary presidency. I was completely elated by the outcome. I thought 2000 and 2020 were toss-ups although I did tell my friends and coworkers in 2000 that whoever won Florida would win it all. It didn't take Nostradamus to figure that out. I had no idea it was going to be a razor thin margin. When Florida was called for Gore early in the evening I turned off the coverage. Imagine my surprise when I tuned in a couple hours later and found out they had taken Florida off the board. When they called Florida for Bush about 2am, I went to bed. When I woke up, I found out Florida was back in play. Who would have guessed it wouldn't be decided for five weeks.

In 2020 I went to bed thinking Trump had managed to pull it off again. Biden had flipped Arizona, but Trump still led in all the blue wall states and Georgia. When I looked at the outstanding vote, I didn't see how Trump could lose. I hadn't figured on the mail in ballots being dumped into the mix in the wee hours of the morning. I would have had much more confidence in the integrity of the result had the mail-in ballots been counted first. I don't know why they don't do that. They should be counted in advance and if the polls closed at 8:00, the mail in vote count should be released at 8:01. That way there is no late night vote dump.

[Richard Smith]

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Scott Pelley has been canned by CBS News. Not surprising when you basically tell your new boss to go F himself in front of the entire staff. The staff of CBS News and 60 Minutes in particular has been able to act as a liberal propaganda mill for generations without accountability and they resent no longer being able to do that. Pelley seems particularly POed by it. He won't be missed. This move is addition by subtraction.

It makes me laugh when radicalized leftists who have been using their position in media for decades to promote their own inherent bias cry foul when they are told to knock it off.  A neutral position to them on Trump is intolerable.  They believe the concept of political neutrality is the result of some nefarious capitulation to Trump while they have no problem shamelessly promoting their own agenda.  Good riddance.   Maybe AI will bring back Walter Cronkite.

[John Corbett]

It makes me laugh when radicalized leftists who have been using their position in media for decades to promote their own inherent bias cry foul when they are told to knock it off.  A neutral position to them on Trump is intolerable.  They believe the concept of political neutrality is the result of some nefarious capitulation to Trump while they have no problem shamelessly promoting their own agenda.  Good riddance.   Maybe AI will bring back Walter Cronkite.

What makes me laugh is the way leftists act like they are the ones defending democracy until democracy kicks their asses and elects somebody they don't approve of. Then they do everything they can think of to obstruct democracy, like trying to impeach a duly elected president on purely political grounds. If they do win back the House, you can count on them impeaching Trump again. I think Trump should embrace another impeachment and brag about how he scored an impeachment hat trick. Laugh at those MFs. The Senate isn't going to vote for conviction anyway so Trump might as well have fun with it. That would really PO the libs.

[Zeon Mason]

On one of my long commutes, the best radio reception was NPR. On another, it was conservative right-wing talk radio. It was only in retrospect that I realized how much a steady diet of one perspective had subtly colored my views. I used to religiously watch Chris Matthews on MSNBC followed by Bill O'Reilly on FOX to make sure I was getting balanced lunacy. Now I listen and watch almost nothing and generate my own lunacy, which is much healthier.

Good idea.  I will delete my previous I..I..I.. speech before anyone else sees it.