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It's ok, just identify as both a male and a female when you fill out your app. Now you're in on both sides of the 50% quota. Actual race and sex discrimination in an attempt to fix perceived race and sex discrimination...

Biden a "regular guy?!?" Who are you hanging around with? And Trump's "lack of electability" was solely personality-based (mainly based on those "mean Tweets!"). Most on both sides will agree he's a pompous ass, but his actual record as president was quite worthy of re-election!

I do think there is a certain “regular guy” charm to Biden. That said, I’ll concede that it was probably more about Trumps lack of electability just as it was Hillary’s major deficiency in 2016.

While I appreciate the bold idea that OAN and Newsmax are somehow equivalent to WaPo and CNN, I know you don't believe that. What's next, you going to tell us Hollywood is politically balanced because Kelsey Grammar and Melissa Joan Hart are Republicans? There's definitely a change coming, and the conservative outlets are making progress, but to imply "media" is balanced in 2021 is silly. Ironically, the outlets you cite are doing well specifically because of the wild imbalance in political leaning in the news media.

But...but...the mean tweets...they had to be stopped...

Complete and utter malarkey. ONE mainstream network went after Obama, Foxnews, some of it unwarranted Political tripe, some of it valid. Meanwhile ALL of the remaining mainstream networks supported Obama. The mainstream anti-Trump anti-GOP theme continues. Look no further than the Ga Voter law controversy. The WASHPO gives Biden four Pinocchios but the rest of the press pushes on as if it is absolute fact, furthering the cancel culture march. To be clear, the law ADDED early voting days, still allows food and water in lines, just without party branding, and is less restrictive than current laws in New York State. Even with those facts CNN and MSNBC run speeches with Chuck Schumer screaming about racism and telling corporations to boycott Georgia. Meanwhile google and Delta airlines sign partnership deals with that great human rights advocate...CHINA, and the mainstream press says NOTHING. Another wonderful example...the 60 minutes hit piece on DeSantis Sunday night. 60 minutes used to be a bastion of investigative reporting...finding real corruption, now they purposely edit to invent a pay for play controversy. The FACTS are 180 out from what 60 minutes says. It was a democrat that made the decision to use Publix. While the closest Publix to some of the areas was indeed 30 minutes away...there were two state vaccination sites ONE mile away. Shame on 60 minutes and shame on you for a complete lack of intellectual honesty. If both it happens to both sides why hasn't New York based 60 Minutes dedicated even one second of air time to the Cuomo controversy? Falsified nursing home deaths, Toxic/sexist work environment with eight accusers, sending state representatives to his mother's house and his brothers house to test them, using state workers to edit and work on his personal book....nothing to see here right? Not a fucking word by 60 minutes. And why haven't the gun hating networks like MSNBC and CNN said a word about Hunter and his gun. They support a federal background check if I want to give my 13 year old son a .22 that has been in the family for 100 years but Hunter can lie on his background check (a FELONY), acquire the gun, then toss it in the trash and the Secret Service cleans it up, no charges...all without the press saying a word. The mainstream press is absolutely complicit with the DNC. Look at the softball interview with Hunter now that he is releasing a book. "Well the laptop may be mine, I don't know." How about you do some real journalism and read the emails to him and get him to deny on camera. All the while the mainstream network and the tech oligarchs crushed the story during the election...and now we know it was TRUE! The mainstream media is dead in this country and I am happy to acknowledge that FoxNews is in lock step with the GOP but EVERY other mainstream network is a political arm of the DNC.

AA, DAL, FDX, SWA, UAL, UPS

I think the KKK has become race and gender fluid and is back in business.

Joe represented a return to a pre-Trump world. Politically moderate and not addicting to twitter bombs. What people didn't foresee, including myself, is that Joe would become *more* rather than less progressive after the primary. Usually it's the other way around. Personally, I believe that's due to a combination of two things: heavily relying on ex-Obama staffers, and his own cognitive decline reducing his ability to steer the agenda.

Ironic coming from a guy who got his startup in politics by running on a platform of maintaining Jim Crow/racial segregation.

There were a bunch of policy things I really didn’t like. There were also some things I did. But I do believe that character matters and his was utterly disgusting to me (YMMV and that’s ok). I wouldn’t have voted for him even if I agreed with all of his policy goals. I am curious though as to how candidates who would have defined the party 15 or even 5 years ago have somehow become RINOs? If anyone’s a RINO, in my mind it’s Trump. He spent most of his life taking positions on many issues that would’ve made (and did make) many traditional Republicans very uncomfortable. He is the epitome of a flip flopper. He very obviously changed many of his previous views for blatant political gain (reference his newfound reverence for Christianity). And yet somehow the guy who literally shits on gold toilets becomes the symbol of the middle class American working man? Sorry, but Trump’s Republican Party is nowhere near the much vaunted “party of Reagan”. I wonder what Ronald Reagan would have to say about Donald Trump the politician if he were alive today?

No argument regarding Trump's character flaws, but what specific actions/attempted actions or policies that he ran while in office did you not like or agree with? The RINOs you think would make a better candidate is not something I can ever agree with or even consider. I'd vote Hillary over one of them. At least then, I know the opposition is on the outside of the wire and not inside. But to theorize that Biden was a "better candidate" is ludicrous. But Biden is the President*, so there's that. * for now

Best figure in your "transitioning" time to your USAF bailout equation... https://onemileatatime.com/united-airlines-diversity-goal-pilots/

I love these old historical documentaries! 😉

The real litmus test is how many of these off brand conservative networks have permanent seats in the James S. Brady room? Quite a few, like OAN have shared seats, or pick up seats on lucky occasions. But the preponderance of seats lie with CNN, NBC, FOX, ABC, CBS or one of their affiliates though.

I stopped watching all sports a few years ago; maybe a game a year. Turns out there’s tons of stuff to do with my time that is infinitely better than sitting on the couch supporting these bullshit organizations. Life without football and baseball is phenomenal...never would have said that a few years ago.

To get a little bit back on track here, I finally decided to read the Georgia voter law from the actual government of Georgia website. Holy smokes the media, politicians, and even our sitting President have completely fabricated the outrage over this law. It’s frankly unbelievable the lies they’ve been able to spread on it. About the only thing I wasn’t a fan of was the increased powers of the state over what are usually county run election procedures. But beyond that, every single measure in there is perfectly reasonable to helping ensure legal voters are able to vote. The whole thing about the ID requirement is massively blown out of proportion. If someone doesn’t have an ID, they can can use last 4 of social, a utility bill, or several other items in order to validate themselves as a legal Georgia voter. And yes, grandma can still get water at the polls, it just can’t be handed out by someone who also says “here’s some water, but why don’t you vote for _____ today”. The worst part is that our own President got up there and called it worse than Jim Crow and wasn’t even remotely checked on that absolutely ludicrous statement.

If by malarkey you mean your post, then we’re in agreement. Right wing talk radio, OAN, Newsmax, Blaze, Wash Times, Daily Standard, podcasts galore, and the younger-demographic fast-growing online media such as Quilette, etc. plenty of conservative outlets exist. Whether they’re successful and gain viewership is up to them. In fact , most have been successful, particularly in developing well-regarded pundits (Hannity, yes, but also Shapiro, Glenn Beck to name two) I don’t think you’re stupid, but clearly you are firmly stuck in a echo chamber with regard to rhetoric. The rub, of course, is the presumption that “your side” is always truthful and unbiased while the “other side”is not. You can debate point-by-point ad infinitum. However, a mature perspective is that currently both sides are highly biased. Stop with the poor little conservative press shtick; it’s no longer valid. The very-right-wing conservative pundits need to stop acting like oppressed little bitches. They have a platform, they’re using it, and have a strong voice to the public at large (some of which I wholeheartedly agree with). The “coastal elites” (whatever that now means) no longer solely control the narrative. It’s not 1994 with Rush vs Everyone Else. In concept, I’m glad that the media has multiple voices. The problem is that the moderates have been drowned out. Probably because that narrative is boring and doesn’t get folks fired up (exhibit A: this thread). It’s either: the other side is communist, atheist transgenders OR the other side is uneducated, bible-thumping racists. Really, that’s the best we can do? You have to go 3000+ mi East to get a what may be the only relatively balanced perspective (BBC). That’s pathetic.