J Randall Murphy
Trying To Stay Awake
I've watched a lot of Carlson's interviews over the last four years, a number of them with guests you wouldn't see on the MSM who were providing valid counterpoint to the official narrative about vaccines, lockdowns, mandates and such. Those are important issues — ones that directly affected the lives of most people on the planet. Is it not a good thing to have someone as popular as Carlson providing that counterpoint ? Or do you just not like him and wish someone else was doing it? Who?
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
To me he's a form of entertainment, not news and I have little taste for opinion pieces in any form.
Dejan Corovic
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All in all, if we lose democracy we are finished. Next thing are gulags.
nivek
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In some ways his journalism is much better than most main stream news outlets, I would not call his outlet 'entertainment', however that is what the other news organizations want us to believe...He adds in his own opines sporadically, most other news outlets do that too but more than Tucker does...
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nivek
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This must stop, we cannot have people of foreign allegiances working in our government...
View: https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1758839862189285547
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View: https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1758839862189285547
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nivek
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J Randall Murphy
Trying To Stay Awake
Not all of of Carlson's interviews are simple "opinion pieces" — like his in-depth interview with Ed Dowd.
Dejan Corovic
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There is simple economics that drives immigrations.
Employers can't fight incumbent nationals through courts, because laws give too many rights to locals. That's how car manufacturing of Detroit was destroyed, by trade unions pushing car companies into a corner with ever increasing wages until US car manufacturing became completely uncompetitive in global markets.. So employers bring in immigrants and increase competition in labour markets. Same here in UK, that was the main reason why Margaret Thatcher joined EU, so she can tackle rising influence of domestic trade unions.
I almost fell off my chair when I was watching a video about Tesla car factory and there was this guy, checking that bumpers don't rattle on new cars coming off the production line and he was on $100,000/pa. I think its fair to say, that on that level of skill, which is more or less high school or less, $35,000/pa would be plenty.
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nivek
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J Randall Murphy
Trying To Stay Awake
When I use a sad emoji, it's not because I don't like the post. It's because it's content makes me feel sad.
When did we ( The West ) become the bad guys? Or has it been this way all along, and now we've just had our eyes opened to it?
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
I put Carlson in the same boat as a Rush Limbaugh
We, The West have a long and rich history of being complete assholes in many situations that have cost others dearly.
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
This is simply by way of explanation and insomnia.
I had little use for Rush Limbaugh and yet he was awarded a medal by the President for Stuff & Things. OK, I noted that but don't really care if others think that highly of him. I remember when Sean Hannity was a new local nitwit on AM NYC radio as was Mark Levin and now both have national platforms. Same for Howard Stern - drivetime radio wacky guy, and now just look. As a man who had been trapped in a service truck for decades when the radio was my only friend I have listened to them plenty, and Curtis Slewah and Bo Dietl and Dr.Laura too for that matter. To be honest, as obscure as this is, I was a Don Imus fan. Later on in his career he became a superb interviewer and did have opinions he'd express, but he was a weird duck - a media personality that didn't fit a particular label. I didn't always agree but did listen and miss him. A very analog comparison in terms of how the content was delivered, but the actual content itself not so much. Curtis is the only one I can still catch on AM.
BTW, Levin certainly does have a face for radio.
I've seen some Carlson because I'm long since married and if my wife likes that then I will sit and listen and read on the couch with her while it's on, so its not as if I have entirely dismissed him without giving it a try. For that matter, I don't want to hear from Laura Ingraham or Rachel Maddow. Alex Jones, as disgusting a life form as that piece of shit is, is cut from the same bolt of cloth as the rest he just went too far.
IIRC wasn't Tucker accosted somewhere within the last year or two in a store while on vacation with his family? I remember him telling whoever it was that 'its just a show and you are interfering with my wife and children' - making clear he's media persona. To put it in Eddie Munster terms, he just said Zorbo is a fake.
I scan several news apps from multiple viewpoints and get it over with like a daily bodily function. I'd prefer to at least have a vague idea what is happening rather than be blissfully ignorant and just wait for the 'incoming nuclear missile' text message from the State of New York. I figure if Hawaii gets a Doomsday text service we should too.
I had little use for Rush Limbaugh and yet he was awarded a medal by the President for Stuff & Things. OK, I noted that but don't really care if others think that highly of him. I remember when Sean Hannity was a new local nitwit on AM NYC radio as was Mark Levin and now both have national platforms. Same for Howard Stern - drivetime radio wacky guy, and now just look. As a man who had been trapped in a service truck for decades when the radio was my only friend I have listened to them plenty, and Curtis Slewah and Bo Dietl and Dr.Laura too for that matter. To be honest, as obscure as this is, I was a Don Imus fan. Later on in his career he became a superb interviewer and did have opinions he'd express, but he was a weird duck - a media personality that didn't fit a particular label. I didn't always agree but did listen and miss him. A very analog comparison in terms of how the content was delivered, but the actual content itself not so much. Curtis is the only one I can still catch on AM.
BTW, Levin certainly does have a face for radio.
I've seen some Carlson because I'm long since married and if my wife likes that then I will sit and listen and read on the couch with her while it's on, so its not as if I have entirely dismissed him without giving it a try. For that matter, I don't want to hear from Laura Ingraham or Rachel Maddow. Alex Jones, as disgusting a life form as that piece of shit is, is cut from the same bolt of cloth as the rest he just went too far.
IIRC wasn't Tucker accosted somewhere within the last year or two in a store while on vacation with his family? I remember him telling whoever it was that 'its just a show and you are interfering with my wife and children' - making clear he's media persona. To put it in Eddie Munster terms, he just said Zorbo is a fake.
I scan several news apps from multiple viewpoints and get it over with like a daily bodily function. I'd prefer to at least have a vague idea what is happening rather than be blissfully ignorant and just wait for the 'incoming nuclear missile' text message from the State of New York. I figure if Hawaii gets a Doomsday text service we should too.
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Rick Hunter
Celestial
He's just another version of many, many talking heads who will Speak The Truth as their salaries and employers see fit. I don't need anyone else's opinions to form my own, rather I take the unusual step of reading multiple disparate news sources and just sort of 'divining the chicken guts' to see what any actual news might be. I can usually tell within five minutes if its a slow news day and they are just rehashing the same crap.
This is just me being sick of this entire political shitstorm over the last two decades - I literally can't get away from it. I prefer to step waaaaay back and take the long view - a consequence of being a history buff. It's like watching a slow motion train wreck and it's almost impossible to look away. Besides, we all just get one vote (theoretically) and I can already tell you what will happen here in NY. I may as well tell my cat my preference, or just yell it out the window.
This is just 21st century Yellow Journalism
Milestones: 1866–1898 - Office of the Historian
U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism, 1895–1898
Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to the acquisition of overseas territory by the United States.
This 1000%. The news is an industry just like everything else. Fear sells, and that's why they push it.
nivek
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Dozens of illegal Chinese migrants are rounded up in California border town along with Syrians and Turks - and tell the cameras: 'We're here to take the money'
Video (on the link) of the migrants shows dozens and dozens, possibly up hundreds of migrants, crossing the international boundary near Jacumba, California. More than 150 Chinese nationals a day are sneaking into the US illegally since October, according to startling US Customs and Border Protection statistics, the parent agency of the US Border Patrol. The 2023 fiscal year reportedly saw over 37,000 Chinese migrants encountered at the border - with a staggering 20,000 more since October, when the 2024 fiscal year began. The number is about 100,000 higher than the same period last year. The Chinese surge is part of a historic and overwhelming wave of migrants seen at the Southern Border of the country since 2021. The US is seeing more migrants than it ever has and from more countries that ever has, federal statistics show..
nivek
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New York Times doubles down on its scathing opinion pieces criticizing Biden - despite White House being 'extremely upset' after liberal-leaning paper pointed out his unsuitability for a second term
New York Times' publisher has revealed the White House said they have been unhappy at recent press coverage in the newspaper after a series of opinion articles focused on President Joe Biden's age and his unsuitability to run for a second term. A.G. Sulzberger, 43, who has been publisher for the last six years, said the White House was 'extremely upset' - yet he insists the paper will 'continue to report fully and fairly.''We are going to continue to report fully and fairly, not just on Donald Trump but also on President Joe Biden,' he told the Reuters Institute in an interview.
Sulzberger said the paper was dedicated to providing comprehensive and fair coverage.
'He is a historically unpopular incumbent and the oldest man to ever hold this office. We've reported on both of those realities extensively, and the White House has been extremely upset about it,' Sulzberger said.
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nivek
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America, Australia, Europe, all the major Democratic countries are being invaded at the same time and anyone speaking up, trying to demonstrate, or call out the government are being shamed and labelled a racist...The UK will be totally unrecognisable in about twenty years and some parts of it already are, the US is catching up fast...Western society is crumbling...
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Dejan Corovic
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View: https://youtu.be/OHjfRubxjtU
This economist explains why, without any hype.
Practically it is a deeply engrained economic stealth proxy fight between large employers, like western governments and corporations, and their own populations. So, large employers are bringing in immigrants simply to reduce cost of labour. On other side employers have little choice because they are forced to do that by global economic competition.
It is local western population that want to burry head in a sand and live in an unsustainable dream.
I'm not taking sides I'm just trying to be real and understand the root cause. Even if China and Russia magically disappeared, other large economic competitors from BRICS countries will rise and compete for increase in their living standards, like: India, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia etc. America needs to double down investment into new technologies and increase labour productivity if it wants to keep it's high living standards.
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