How many employers are going along with that plan? Mine isn’t. They’re still deducting our taxes as normal because they don’t want to hit us hard in the first quarter of 2021 when it would all come due. I would hope that most employers are doing the same.
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When Biden got the name of one of the president’s favorite white supremacist supporters wrong—calling them the Poor Boys instead of the Proud Boys—Mr. Trump resisted the urge to jump in and correct him. When Biden criticized Mr Trump for permanently separating 545 children from their parents, the president didn’t call him corrupt or even use a demeaning nickname but simply uttered a quiet, “Good.” And before he declared himself the least racist person in the room, Mr Trump admitted he couldn’t see the audience, giving a nod to the importance of having solid empirical evidence for his claims. This kind of restraint is what Americans recognize as greatness of character. Last night Mr Trump didn’t just become president. He may well have earned himself a spot on Mount Rushmore.
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Starting in 1981, and pretty much completed by the late 1990s, was the GOP’s project to “rewire” Washington, DC and the national political ecosystem to be Republican. The media and the Great and the Good responded to that. They will now use ANY excuse to characterize the GOP not only as “normal” but as the “natural governing party,” with anyone else being an interloper.
Well, it’s long past time to tear out that wiring.
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Horse-race = more viewers = more ad revenue
The media is rarely anyone’s friend. Their bottom line is ad revenue. Trump has been a windfall for ALL of them. It’s gonna be hard for them to allow that to go away.
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Please, who are these people and who is paying them for such drivel? Have not heard most of them and do not intend to count of bull from the
Crazy class of nobodies.
He really wasn’t even polite…just a little less loud.
Bottomline:…he turned down the volume of his voice…while he turned up the volume of lies.
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I heard Todd and he said a lot more than that snippet, such as that Trump lied and lied and lied. As for him stopping the bleeding, that was in reference to his supporters and it was probably true that he stopped the bleeding away of former supporters. He did not pretend like the right wing fools at the Washington Post that this makes it a new day for him and we can forget all that has happened before. Stop the pearl clutching and listen to more than snippets of coverage.
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Time to do away with pundits. Who needs them. Total waste of your time. Internet makes it easier for people to have access to more facts, more documents, more videos. No need to have pundits tell us what we see and hear for ourselves.
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Those shoe lifts are forcing him forward and for some reason he doesn’t realize we can see it.
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To the contrary, if we matched his NBC salary and let him work less, he’d change his mind. By the way, Chuckup is doing this for (in order) the press club and NBC. He doesn’t give a shit about Trump, but (given that he is a conservative Repubican anyway) he’ll spout what he needs to spout. And like any conservative, he is completely morally relativistic (and not very bright).
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I loved the Truman Show, the Trump Show not so much.
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What does the word MOST mean to you?
These pundits think we are all stupid little babies living in caves. While I have nothing personal against babies who live in caves, that these pundits, personifiers of the world, hector me, a fully-grown somewhat functional adult, is an affront to what’s left of my intelligence.
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Like former CBS CEO Leslie Moonvies said in 2016: "It may not be good for America , but it’s damn good for CBS "
The corporate Oligarchies that own 93% of the media do not exist to protect Democracy, they exist to MAKE MONEY and they don’t care how they do it.
Poster Child for this: Facebook
Bread and Circuses people, Bread and Circuses.
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I don’t think Christie has much choice in the matter. He seems to have learned how to put up with the jibes about his weight., which, because this is New Jersey, are going to come full blast.
I wouldn’t boast about my waistband location skills.
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I’ll just say this: One of us is apparently not following your argument.
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His depends didn’t leak, he didn’t fall off his 1 1/2 inch lifts and the girdle stayed in place so yeah Donald won.
Oh and did you see the huge hug he got from Melania at the end? Yeah, that didn’t happen either.
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The days of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Eric Severide, and Huntley and Brinkley are loooonnngg gone. The days of the hard-working Journalist who made their way up the ranks with talent and grit.
Now the media is dominated by Pretty-Boys and Cute-Girls hired directly from Central Casting, who smile fetchingly and read whatever is on the teleprompter with sparkle in their eye. That is their only talent, and they are paid handsomely for it.
Like the song says:
“Well the Bubble-Headed Bleach-Blonde comes on at Five.”
“She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye”
“It’s interesting when people die, give us Dirty Laundry”
Bread and Circuses are what the average American moron demands, and that is exactly what they get spoon-fed by the MSM, who know their audience well.
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I’m curious why they feel the need to cry about all those poor, downtrodden deplorables. (Who have an above average income and don’t put in a full day at work, and who grab their government benefits with both hands.) The reason for this is that these are the people who buy the laundry detergent, the beer, and the junk food. Their advertisers, who hold the Trumpers in even lower esteem than we do, nonetheless want to protect the last wing of white, suburban, one-male-earner households. Who else would buy something based on television advertising?
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