Guy Chamberlin

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

But remember, the US also has a HUGE Pro-Pally and Pro-Hammy crowd.  

 

That is a HUGE problem.

How so? Show your work, Teach. 

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

Oh I agree!  

 

But, sadly, our nut-jobs here in the states MIGHT start blocking bridges if we "help" Israel take care of Iran.

 

s#!t, there are people that think the bridge-blockers forced "peace"!

 

We just gotta wait 7-8 months, that is it.  Just make sure JB wins

If the U.S. helps escalate the war by attacking Iran, do you honestly think the blowback on Biden will come from the students? 

Can you think of anyone else who might advocate against U.S. troops engaging in a Middle East war? 

35 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

If Republicans nominated Mitt Romney types for all their races, they would control the Presidency, House, and probably 57 Senate seats. Republicans play politics on easy mode but they punch themselves in the face repeatedly.

In fairness, Republicans nominated John McCain and Mitt Romney and lost handily. They regained their groove when they went psychotic and obstructionist, including state and local levels. 

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

I mean, Matt Gaetz is being duplicitous, but he isn't wrong. It's been an interesting political evolution over the last generation or two.

No big deal, but the All Huskers scroll at the top of the page keeps running "breaking headlines" that are up to a month old. Just feels like someone somewhere stopped trying. 

On 4/10/2024 at 8:20 AM, knapplc said:

 

It's crazy, isn't it? 

When times get tough, Americans buckle up, double-down and make the necessary sacrifices.

Well, except for the tiny minority in ownership, who see an exploitable opportunity and have no trouble profiting from it. 

The cherry on the sundae is how some of those profits find their way into political messaging, where the business class is the victim, workers are lazy and selfish, and the government is to blame for pretty much everything. Or haven't you heard how raising minimum wages would kill the free market? 

15 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Yes he actually would have dominated the Republican primary based on polling data if Trump were not a candidate.  
 

He is also a MUCH better primary candidate than Trump.  If Trump ends up anywhere near Biden this election, DeSantis would have been President if not for Trump.  

It's always fun to speculate, but it's always a we'll never know scenario. Kamala Harris looked like the horse to back in 2020 before people actually started voting. Some pollsters claim Bernie Sanders would have beaten Trump in the 2016 general, but Bernie had a far stronger primary showing than DeSantis did. How would a Gavin Newsom v Haley/DeSantis general election play out? No idea, but it would have been interesting. You could say Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer would have been President if not for Biden, and that's as true as it is pointless.

The Republicans in 2024 may be somewhat like the Dems in 2016: are you going to lose a substantial number of voters who simply don't like the candidate? Had you dumped Hillary or now Trump, would you bring in enough new voters to replace the loyalists who would feel betrayed?

Obama won handily in 2008, but it was reported that 20% of Hillary Clinton primary voters voted for John McCain rather than Barack Obama, apparently considering Obama more of a backstabbing rival than McCain/Palin. The only scenario you're talking about is if Donald Trump wasn't running at all, at which point the candidates are fighting for his endorsement rather than distancing themselves from him. Trump hated his GOP rivals about equally. Again, hard to tell.

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Might have missed Carefully worded General Election piece.   He was top second choice candidate after someone’s primary choice just prior to Iowa.   Not my opinion just fact.  If Trump were not a candidate DeSantis would have run away with the primary.   

"Prior to Iowa" was a magical time when anything could happen. 

31 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

I agree.   DeSantis would have dominated this general election 

Voters have their choice in the primaries, and Republicans chose to dislike Ron DeSantis. The more they got to know him, the more they disliked him. Not my opinion, just math.

If you're wondering if having Trump removed from the equation would have made DeSantis or Haley better general election candidates, we will never know.  

1 hour ago, Fru said:

I used to think that the power brokers of the party would eventually get burned out from Trump and decide to move on.
 

Given the losses in the ‘18 Midterms, the ‘20 General and the massive underperforming in ‘22 Midterms, the endless indictments, charges, lawsuits, installing his daughter in law to drain RNC funds, and the overall endless chaos he brings… and there's barely a whisper of moving on from him. I don’t think they ever will now. Which doesn’t make sense to me from a strategical perspective. If you had that kind of candidate on paper without a name, no political entity would touch them. 
 

And to the people who say “Oh but his base is so fanatical, the R’s can’t lose his base.” Yes. They are fanatical, but they’ve clearly not given the party a boost in power. They’ve either lost or underperformed in every election cycle. 

There’s a palpable hunger in this country, on both sides of the aisle, for someone new, different and young. I think this hunger far outweighs the MAGA base. I’ll never understand why the R’s can’t recognize this and move on. 

There have been multiple times since 2015 when the Republican establishment and donor class let it be known they didn't want Trump. Even Rupert Murdoch tried to take out Trump. The majority of high profile Republican lawmakers immediately conceded Biden's election as fair, and strongly denounced January 6 and Trump's role. The table was set to move on. 

But every time a Republican came out against Trump, they were savaged by their home state voters, and primaried by MAGA loyalists. No surprise that they would use ugly language and threats.

So it's not simply that Republicans are afraid of losing the base, they are literally afraid of the base.

The handful of elected Republicans who had the courage to call out Trump's unsavory hold on the party either chose not to run for reelection, or lost to a Trump loyalist. 

I will never fully understand the spell Trump has on people so unlike him, but between the cult of personality and the more traditional Republicans who will vote for any Republican over Biden, this demented demagogue has more than a chance at regaining the White House. 

On 4/9/2024 at 11:01 AM, teachercd said:

My main question is why does some rich college kid think sitting in an office that is not his and refusing to leave will end 2000 years of killing?

 

Maybe instead of being a giant huge dork he should have spent his time studying more, got a great degree, started working for the government or an organization that helps people and went to the middle east to try to make change.  Oh wait, but that would actually be doing something and not as "awesome" of a social media b!^@h session moment.  

Well a funny thing happened.

In the immediate wake of October 7, the college students of the activist Left began protesting Israel's prosecution of Hamas in Gaza, warning that it would be indiscriminate and devastating to the Palestinian people, and advance Netanyahu's longstanding intention of simply seizing Gaza. They made some pretty outrageous claims about the IDF lying, threw the word genocide around, questioned why American taxpayers were funding it, and went directly at Biden. At the time, roughly 98% of the media and politicians were sticking extremely close to unconditional support for Israel, and the college kids were roundly mocked.

Six months later, coverage has leaned heavily towards concern for Palestinians, criticism of Netanyahu has grown louder (in Israel as well), IDF propaganda was exposed, there's been a nearly universal call for a cease-fire, and both Democrats and Republicans are now open to reviewing our military support of Israel on a contingency basis. That's the very definition of change. Maybe the kids were right. Or at least half right. Somebody has to pull the discussion to the center, where truth often resides. 

If you want to talk about lazy ill-informed folk who only lift a finger to b!^@h on social media, I'd value your input. 

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

I mean, not fighting to just build up and strategize so that you can fight again COULD be peace but I think for the most part it is just a timeout.  

 

But, I get what you saying.  But I know a "guy" said that no one thinks there can ever be peace there.

 

I guess maybe there are some people that think there can be!

Who the f#&% is liking Teach's incoherent posts?

2 minutes ago, teachercd said:

I wish!  But is it not 1130am yet!

According to my math, you spend much of the school day posting here. 

At the very least I hope you share with the students the schooling you get on this board. 

1 hour ago, nic said:

I saw this the other day. Didn't think much of it at the time. He could be disgruntled.

 

https://www.insideradio.com/free/npr-niche-public-radio-senior-editor-uri-berliner-accuses-network-of-biased-journalism/article_28a5877a-f77f-11ee-b4de-cbdb341c259e.html.

 

“It’s true, NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding,” Berliner writes. “In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”

 

Then Juan Williams says this. Of course I read NPR let him have it for saying he was uncomfortable around Muslims in airports after 9.11.

 

https://www-foxnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxnews.com/media/juan-williams-responds-editors-charges-npr-bias-insulated-cadre-people-who-think-theyre-right.amp?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From %1%24s&aoh=17128461991779&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fjuan-williams-responds-editors-charges-npr-bias-insulated-cadre-people-who-think-theyre-right

 

"So they are a very much an insulated cadre of people who think they're right, and they have a hard time with people who are different," 

 

 

You may have missed us discussing this piece yesterday. 

10 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

Are you OK? You seem kind of manic lately. Lots of posts without any substance

Oh I definitely think there's a substance involved.

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

Hug each other and no longer fight, ever.    

Well you ol' softy!

10 minutes ago, teachercd said:

 Love

 

 

I hear ya, man.

4 hours ago, teachercd said:

 I am not wise.

 

It's a complicated issue. I'm glad we can at least agree on this. 

3 hours ago, Decked said:

 Let’s not pretend like Hamas hasn’t aided in those civilian casualties by placing rockets, ammo, etc in homes + civilian infrastructure to play moral superior after they are the ones who kicked this recent skirmish off. 
 

Hence the folly of negotiating with Hamas. Which is also in the habit of intercepting international aid for their own purposes. 

The sad fact is that Netanyahu has continually supported and validated Hamas over the years -- moreso than the moderate Palestinian Authority -- because he believes Hamas is his ticket for justifying the takeover of Gaza. The Palestinian people are typically the last people consulted on the fate of Palestine. Everyone is a proxy for international grandstanding. 

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

 

 

If you honestly think there will be eternal peace over there you have zero idea what it is like. 

 

 

But nobody honestly thinks that. You continue to lecture this person that doesn't exist. Why? 

4 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I don’t totally put the blame on the Palestinians side.  But, this seems to be a major reason why they haven’t agreed to this. 

The smart people have been able to separate the folly of negotiating with Hamas with the equally ineffective horror of killing tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, the occasional international aid worker, and sometimes the hostages themselves. 

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hostages-gaza-hamas-war-52fa9628e6284cdad6d7f7db6cc30742

On 4/4/2024 at 5:40 PM, teachercd said:

It is the way it is, period.

 

The super peace lovers here that want to talk about peace over there have zero idea of what it is really like.  There will never be peace there.  

This is another perfect example of you pretending there's an irrational contingent here than isn't is as wise as you are.

Seriously. Find me one post from a person who has zero idea what it's like over there. 

18 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I’m not putting this here because I think it’s bias. But, the only other thread is just about right wing disinformation. 
 

 

Hmmm. If they led with the most egregious missteps from both the left and the right and showed their homework, there's the theoretical chance they could change some minds. 

21 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Nice to see someone coming clean on reporting standards at NPR.  Important to note the Adam Schiff lies during Russiagate that were posted here too.  
 

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

That's an excellent if depressing article by Berliner, who is absolutely correct that diversity itself is meaningless if it's not a diversity of opinion. 

I blame rescinding the Communications Act of 1934, which perhaps ironically had the federal government requiring companies using public airwaves to operate in the public interest, convenience, and necessity, including mandatory hours spent on balanced civic discourse (usually stuck in the early Sunday time slot) 

24/7 cable monetized the news, and found it could profit off narratives and identity politics. And they could profit even more if they fired working reporters and replaced them with talking heads. Easiest way to keep the story going is to have good guys vs. bad guys, and pretty soon every story coming across the transom got broken down into those two bins.

Social media made it infinitely worse.

And then Donald Trump comes into the mix, transforming one of only two parties in this country, and launching something much worse than most of us imagined. Even as I lobby for a balance of opinion, I'm just gobsmacked this guy even exists and that a cult has grown around him. Time, space, and logic appear to be broken. This f#&%er IS the bad guy, by almost every historical definition of the term, and his vision for America is by his own definition: revenge. He literally wants to overturn democracy for personal gain. They barely hide the grift anymore. 

So when even the moderate Dems at NPR, or CNN, or here on HB see what might be a legitimate story about Hunter Biden, or a Chinese Lab theory, or just Joe's cognitive challenges, the first reaction is: s#!t, this could help Trump get reelected. 

It's not a journalist's job to direct political outcomes. But sweet Jesus.....if facts remain facts and NPR is the corollary to Newsmax, I will run with their bias until Walter Cronkite returns from the dead.

3 hours ago, teachercd said:

 

 

You should care 0% what I say.

 

This is a post board.  

But that would mean the end of the post board as we know it. 

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

It is in the nut family, for sure.  

 

What is the saying, one bad nut spoils the bowl of nut-stuff.  I don't think that is word for word.

You tend to dedicate a lot of posts to the pro nut bros, and often claim HB posters are among them, when they're not.