finaljedi

It is up against the wall, but there's a simple explanation. Trump named Matthew Whitaker as acting Attorney General after he booted Sessions. Before he rose to the head of the Justice Department he was one of the people running a firm pushing toilets made for people with giant dicks. His posting might have been a little quid pro quo, he might have arranged a "masculine toilet" install at Mar-a-Lago in exchange for a job in DC. It's the old dick toilet play.

Maybe a Federal Marshall from Miami gets to step up and pull

It's kind of nice that their leaders can be drummed out for something like a party during COVID lockdowns. Things are different in the US...

What are the odds he didn't have much a nefarious purpose than showing cool classified stuff to his dumb rich guy friends? Kind of like how he'd handle foreign affairs during dinner service at his resorts so his people could see. Every recording comes out just portrays him as a rich dumb guy who never had consequences.

Pat Robertson dropped dead, Trump indicted, and the sky above my house isn't a formless gray void today.... Not bad.

So this guy is just taking the heat for something that came from higher up.

I thought I'd read that Zaslav was one of the people pushing CNN to try and embrace the right a bit more

Better than it once was but still not great. At least we don't have proud sundown towns anymore, though it's a big country with a lot of trash in it, I wouldn't doubt to find out one or two still exist.

I thought it was just about keeping sexuality from children... Fucking Nazi shit

I'd like to be the first to congratulate Elon on inventing Skype or Facebook Messenger. There were so many people who only had twitter, and nothing else, and now he has arrived to save them.

Well Hannidate isn't a thing anymore, so I guess there is a need.

He's just going to slot in a puppet, he's probably tired of people being mean. He really needs someone else overseeing product, his big ideas so far have been charging for what everyone else does for free, trying to turn Twitter into a long form article platform, and that future shit where he wants to add Venmo shit to it.

My own state is making big inroads on green energy... With stroke of his pen, Gov. Mike DeWine defines natural gas as green energy WWW.CLEVELAND.COM Law forces state to accept certain requests to drill for oil and gas in state parks. Ohio is seen as a test state for solar farms. An increasing number of counties are banning them WWW.WVXU.ORG Butler County is one of many Ohio counties and townships banning solar farms after Ohio Senate Bill 52 gave local governments the power to reject solar farm proposals.

I figured it was more about how he talked about the executives and their viewers, Fox doesn't have a problem peddling white nationalism. Would saying the unsaid in a text be the straw that broke the camel's back?

I'm not sure I buy it, it's not terribly different than the stuff he said on his show. Was he dancing close to a line that he got a toe over?

Why bother whining in interviews about people thinking the court has lost credibility when you do stuff like this?

I think what bothers me is I'm hitting 40 in a couple months and the arguments haven't changed since I was a teenager. The shit conservatives complained about in the 90s and conservatives are complaining about now are the same, they just update the vocabulary. Whining about political correctness got swapped out for "anti-woke", diversity stuff got updated to diversity, equity, and inclusion and here they are, still whining, gay people had their time in the crosshairs and now it's time to do the same shit to trans people. It's just the same thing over and over.

I've never seen a DEI department and I switch companies about every two years. DEI initiatives are usually run by HR and leadership. Also what's with the newfangled right wing grouchy thing with DEI? Companies have been doing diversity pushes since at least the 90s, a hell of a lot longer than I've been in corporate America. Are they just playing the hits from old conservative talking points that worked on boomers when they were middle aged?

Cable news viewers are old, Fox gets them eyeballs because they appeal to crotchety old conservatives, the liberal channels don't do well because not many people under 50 are watching cable news. Tucker's reach is not getting bigger than it was on Fox News, sorry. Bill O'Reilly had millions of viewers and got showed the door, he's still doing his thing, no one cares. Glenn Beck had millions of viewers, got the boot, is still doing his thing, no one cares. Now it's Tucker's turn to be a reasonably successful podcaster or something and to not matter at all in any larger conversation.

It's news right now, soon Fox will fill the time slot with someone saying the same thing Tucker did and people will start to forget him. Tucker was saying the right things with the right channel backing him in the right time slot. Apparently he averaged 670,000 in the 18-49 demo out of his audience of 5 million. Fox will find someone else to tell old people that it's okay to be bothered that the Joneses sold their house up the street to a Mexican family before they moved to Florida. Carlson will have a moderately successful podcast for his big fans and not make a ripple beyond that audience.

Montana and Wyoming can get in on this too... I'm used to Ohio getting lumped in with the "midwest" that my categorization gets a little funky edit: When I say "get in on this" I mean not all exist as independent states, just adding some clarification.

North Dakota shouldn't fucking exist, I wish we could merge some of those Northwest states. If your entire state has less population than Columbus, Ohio then you don't get to be a whole state.

Debate what? They aren't actual contenders, they're peacocking to sell books or whatever their goal is this year. The actual Presidential debates matter more (I know i'll get disagreement here) in that they're about the only adversarial forum the candidates are subject to. One of the two people on stage will be the President after those debates are done. If you put the three Democrats on stage there is a 0% chance that the ones who aren't Joe Biden will be the candidate. If Biden keeled over this year, neither one of those people would be the Democratic candidate. The only thing that comes from a Democratic debate before the convention is the shame of the Kennedy family gets in a solid zinger that the Republicans run on cable news. To paraphrase the late great Logan Roy, they aren't serious people. The Republicans don't want to debate the Democrats because their policies are unpopular and their standard bearer is an imbecile. Hell their main big public push lately has been fighting woke which doesn't even hold up to the simple question of "what the fuck are you talking about?", they aren't wanting an adversarial forum.

I don’t think either party does debates when you get a couple also ran nobodies running against the incumbent. It just gives the other side ammo in the general election.