10-29-2022, 12:06 PM
(10-29-2022, 02:47 AM)pally Wrote: The Democratic Party has room in it for both Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin. Neither has been censured by the Party for going against policy or for criticizing the President. They have such politically diverse members as Ed Case and Pramila Jayapal. Heck even Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat until she took her ball and went home. Her own choice. The Dems allow for differences. All you had to do was look at all they had contending for the 2020 Presidential nomination.
You must have missed how much shit Manchin got from his colleagues the past two years. Sinema too.
Quote:The Republicans, on the other hand, have censured dozens of Party members who didn’t fall into line about the lies about a stolen election. They censured people who disagreed with Trump. Alaska’s GOP censured Mitch McConnell because he backed a different Republican for Senate than Trump. Republicans even have a name for people who don’t toe the Trump lines. They call them RINOS. My goodness, they’ve even accused conservative Mike DeWine of being a Democrat during COVID
Someone has never heard the term "blue dog Democrat". Yes, I will certainly admit that the GOP demands more ideological purity from it's congressional members than the Dems. But please don't act like the Dems don't engage in similar, if not so overt, behavior.
Quote:Cancel culture is a made up right wing thing. They like to use the idea to promote their victimhood. I particularly love seeing them on social media claiming they are being silenced on the very platform they are using. Others who have been targeted by conservatives… Kuerig, Starbucks, Disney, Delta, NFL, Target all because they did or said something conservatives didn’t like.
This is 100% bullshit. Norm MacDonald was brutally attacked and had bookings canceled because he used the term "******" and had an "unacceptable" take on the Louis CK and Roseanne cancelling's. His take was apparently so "toxic" that staff at The Tonight Show were literally crying about his potentially appearing on the show, resulting in the booking being cancelled. People are "cancelled" all the time for things they wrote or tweeted years, if not decades ago. Unless you're a far lefter like Joy Reid, then you get to type homophobic blog posts, then lie about not writing them and being "hacked", then have the authorities state there is no evidence of hacking then giving a less than halfassed apology and then it all goes away. If I were so inclined I could literally list hundreds of instances of cancel culture.
I gave you well deserved credit for an excellent point in another thread, calling it possibly the best post in several years. This take right here is as garbage as that one was excellent.
Quote:And the only way Fox is balanced is if you have a ridiculously narrow view of that meaning. Balanced means you honestly present both sides. And both sides is not the difference between extremely right wing and very extremely right wing. They tried for 5 minutes when they correctly said Biden won Arizona. But then Trump whined and told the cult to watch Newsmax and OAN, so they veered further to the right to please their master.
No one disputes that Fox has a right wing bias, so you are essentially arguing with him about the matter of degree.
