In your book Bias, you wrote (from memory so may not be precisely accurate): in 19??, the president of CBS came to the newsroom and announced he had good news and bad news. The good news is that the news department made a profit for the first time. The bad news is that the news room made a profit for the first time". From that point forward, newsrooms became profit centers and it is all too common now for them to make news instead of reporting it - and both left and right newsrooms are guilty. And while there are those who will disagree, IMO, it is has been the left calling those on the right - including political leaders - Hitler, Nazi, fascist, racist, etc. long before Trump came along. What's worse, is that politicians on the left have been spewing inflammatory rhetoric for a long time as well. Not that republicans are completely innocent, but show me where republicans made anything remotely like the following or where republican openly encouraged resistance to law enforcement like what we have seen in several sanctuary cities and states.
“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,” Waters told a crowd in California over the weekend. “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
“there will be blood in the streets” Loretta Lynch
“Who said protests have to be peaceful” Chris Cuomo
“There needs to be unrest in the streets” Ayanna Pressley
“Protesters should not let up” Kamala Harris
“I just don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country, maybe there should be” Nancy Pelosi
“I want to tell you, Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsuch, you have unleashed a whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer said as the judges hear opening arguments on the case Wednesday. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Chuck Schumer. As an aside, have been at least 96 violent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers since SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade and over 500 violent attacks against Catholic Churches since May 2020 with 356 coming after the Roe V. Wade leak.
Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones said he wished he could shoot former Speaker of the Virginia House Todd Gilbert in the head, urinate on Gilbert’s grave, and that he hoped Gilbert’s children died – and there are dem politicians defending him.
“Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” President Trump
Only one of these quotes was deemed to spark violence. There are many more examples – Kamala calling to defund police and supporting a gofundme campaign to bail out violent summer of love protesters, protesters vandalizing and setting fire to Tesla’s with virtually no dem condemning those actions – in fact, Tim Walz celebrated Tesla stock decline, protestors trying to shout down #walkaway or TPUSA rallies instead of trying to constructively engage – a tact they use routinely to shut down conservative speakers on college campuses. While there are many republicans who make disgraceful statements, it is dems with their rules for radicals who wrote the book. And show me one instance where a republican politician made statements remotely like dems quoted above.
And although Trump made some especially foolish remarks about the tragic murders of Rob Reiner & his wife, the fact is that when Vance Boelter committed his atrocities in Minnesota, Trump & the rest of the right condemned Boelter & his actions.
In all fairness, I must point out that Cenk Uygur, Rob Reiner, Bill Maher and several other left wing pundits were also quick to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I’m still waiting to hear Hasan Piker & Mayor Mamdahni condemn the shooter in this instance
OK, so perhaps I used the term that wasn’t as strong. Fair enough. I said the same thing about Obama when he addressed the criminal thugs of BLM who called out for attacking the police.
Obama addressed them and their calls for physically attacking law enforcement, saying “You’re not helping. You’re not helping at all. You’ll make the situation worse.” Certainly that was not a sign of approval, but it wasn’t exactly a strong condemnation either, and nor was mine. So you’re correct that none of us should sugarcoat things. I stand corrected.
Marketers and political experts are adept at identifying our fears and guilts, activating them, amplifying them, and preying on them in ways that motivate us at the deepest subconscious level. Numerous studies have shown that fear drives consumer and political choices far more than reason. We humans are hardwired to be constantly on the lookout for threats and taking action to eliminate them. Politicians will continue to provide voters with a steady diet things to fear and hate so they can offer themselves as the source of solutions.
There is too much evidence and no real effort to understand why. No one wants to believe we are our own worst enemy, albeit unintentionally, but we are. A very large part is from our system of higher educatiom's insistence upon teaching future leaders with a 90/10 ratio of liberal to conservative educators.
I realize the oversimplification, but we have to start somewhere. It's taken decades to get where we are, and w I'll take decades to reverse.
Too many entities take exception to government servailance for instance. I don't like that either but when you are in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. We have servailabce capabilities, but essentially cannot use them effectively.
We could change that and until we begin to do what we can be done in the name of security particularly, not much will change.
Only the most gutless traitors would trade their liberty 🗽 for safety, under the guise of "looking out for future victims".
But that's essentially what you propose, a surveillance state akin to North Korea where your every move is tracked, regardless of your innocence or guilt - in order to protect "future victims", whatever the hell that is.
The most un-American thing anyone could ask for, which makes me believe, you are in fact, not a US citizen at all.
We don't need to 'trade' anything; just use what we already have. Most of the perpetrators of past mass shootings had histories of beliefs that had the attention of law officials. If law officials were allowed to take action on what they knew, most of those shootings, and including future ones, could be avoided. But it appears that concept is beyond your wingspan.
And sorry to break this to you mate but Google knows more about you than you'd guess, probably even when you poop, which in your case no doubt, is a very frequent occurrence.
In your book Bias, you wrote (from memory so may not be precisely accurate): in 19??, the president of CBS came to the newsroom and announced he had good news and bad news. The good news is that the news department made a profit for the first time. The bad news is that the news room made a profit for the first time". From that point forward, newsrooms became profit centers and it is all too common now for them to make news instead of reporting it - and both left and right newsrooms are guilty. And while there are those who will disagree, IMO, it is has been the left calling those on the right - including political leaders - Hitler, Nazi, fascist, racist, etc. long before Trump came along. What's worse, is that politicians on the left have been spewing inflammatory rhetoric for a long time as well. Not that republicans are completely innocent, but show me where republicans made anything remotely like the following or where republican openly encouraged resistance to law enforcement like what we have seen in several sanctuary cities and states.
“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,” Waters told a crowd in California over the weekend. “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
“there will be blood in the streets” Loretta Lynch
“Who said protests have to be peaceful” Chris Cuomo
“There needs to be unrest in the streets” Ayanna Pressley
“Protesters should not let up” Kamala Harris
“I just don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country, maybe there should be” Nancy Pelosi
“I want to tell you, Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsuch, you have unleashed a whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer said as the judges hear opening arguments on the case Wednesday. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Chuck Schumer. As an aside, have been at least 96 violent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers since SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade and over 500 violent attacks against Catholic Churches since May 2020 with 356 coming after the Roe V. Wade leak.
Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones said he wished he could shoot former Speaker of the Virginia House Todd Gilbert in the head, urinate on Gilbert’s grave, and that he hoped Gilbert’s children died – and there are dem politicians defending him.
“Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” President Trump
Only one of these quotes was deemed to spark violence. There are many more examples – Kamala calling to defund police and supporting a gofundme campaign to bail out violent summer of love protesters, protesters vandalizing and setting fire to Tesla’s with virtually no dem condemning those actions – in fact, Tim Walz celebrated Tesla stock decline, protestors trying to shout down #walkaway or TPUSA rallies instead of trying to constructively engage – a tact they use routinely to shut down conservative speakers on college campuses. While there are many republicans who make disgraceful statements, it is dems with their rules for radicals who wrote the book. And show me one instance where a republican politician made statements remotely like dems quoted above.
And although Trump made some especially foolish remarks about the tragic murders of Rob Reiner & his wife, the fact is that when Vance Boelter committed his atrocities in Minnesota, Trump & the rest of the right condemned Boelter & his actions.
In all fairness, I must point out that Cenk Uygur, Rob Reiner, Bill Maher and several other left wing pundits were also quick to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I’m still waiting to hear Hasan Piker & Mayor Mamdahni condemn the shooter in this instance
>>foolish remarks about the tragic murders of Rob Reiner & his wife,
Emperor, they weren't just foolish, they were low class, mean spirited, vindictive and uncalled for.
But that's par for the course with this president and you can apply them to pretty much everything he says. Let's not sugar coat it.
OK, so perhaps I used the term that wasn’t as strong. Fair enough. I said the same thing about Obama when he addressed the criminal thugs of BLM who called out for attacking the police.
Obama addressed them and their calls for physically attacking law enforcement, saying “You’re not helping. You’re not helping at all. You’ll make the situation worse.” Certainly that was not a sign of approval, but it wasn’t exactly a strong condemnation either, and nor was mine. So you’re correct that none of us should sugarcoat things. I stand corrected.
Marketers and political experts are adept at identifying our fears and guilts, activating them, amplifying them, and preying on them in ways that motivate us at the deepest subconscious level. Numerous studies have shown that fear drives consumer and political choices far more than reason. We humans are hardwired to be constantly on the lookout for threats and taking action to eliminate them. Politicians will continue to provide voters with a steady diet things to fear and hate so they can offer themselves as the source of solutions.
We can start with the schools if we want change.
There is too much evidence and no real effort to understand why. No one wants to believe we are our own worst enemy, albeit unintentionally, but we are. A very large part is from our system of higher educatiom's insistence upon teaching future leaders with a 90/10 ratio of liberal to conservative educators.
I realize the oversimplification, but we have to start somewhere. It's taken decades to get where we are, and w I'll take decades to reverse.
Too many entities take exception to government servailance for instance. I don't like that either but when you are in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. We have servailabce capabilities, but essentially cannot use them effectively.
We could change that and until we begin to do what we can be done in the name of security particularly, not much will change.
>>We have surveillance capabilities, but essentially cannot use them effectively.
We could change that and until we begin to do what we can be done in the name of security particularly, not much will change<<
Sounds like you're advocating for a police state? Fancy wanting to be like China 🇨🇳 🤔
No....just looking out for future victims. Too bad you don't do the same.
Only the most gutless traitors would trade their liberty 🗽 for safety, under the guise of "looking out for future victims".
But that's essentially what you propose, a surveillance state akin to North Korea where your every move is tracked, regardless of your innocence or guilt - in order to protect "future victims", whatever the hell that is.
The most un-American thing anyone could ask for, which makes me believe, you are in fact, not a US citizen at all.
We don't need to 'trade' anything; just use what we already have. Most of the perpetrators of past mass shootings had histories of beliefs that had the attention of law officials. If law officials were allowed to take action on what they knew, most of those shootings, and including future ones, could be avoided. But it appears that concept is beyond your wingspan.
And sorry to break this to you mate but Google knows more about you than you'd guess, probably even when you poop, which in your case no doubt, is a very frequent occurrence.
>>including future ones,
This is the kind of nonsensical dribble only someone who didn't know their Bill of Rights would say.
Law enforcement can't arrest people for "future crimes" because that is not a legal standard and also not possible .
Sorry to break this to you Al-bot, but Google isn't law enforcement as much as you'd like it to be, in your techno-facist-police state fever dream.
I guess I was right about you the first time around!