My only objection would be, there were some doozies in the late 19th C, can we have a compare-and-contrast to the worst of those to really confirm that Trump is the rock bottom of the whole nasty pile?
Speaking of that, I just watched Death by Lightning on Netflix. Highly recommended! One of the highlights is Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, who begin his political career as a New York street thug who apparently really did shoot someone on Fifth Avenue or the equivalent. Makes you realize that maybe Trump isn't such an outlier after all.
The planet is grossly overpopulated with humans. Anything that gets the population down is good. Fortunately, fertility rates are falling almost everywhere. We should encourage reduced fertility and make up the loss by importing strong young immigrant workers, even if they're brown skinned. The notion that they will destroy our culture is just nonsense.
I've lived in California all my life, totally blonde blue eyed Anglo here, where Hispanic culture is just part of everyday life. Piñata's at birthday parties, restaurants with Mexican food, what the hell is the problem, everything is cool and fun and if you don't like it, you can just ignore it and go to the Thai restaurant instead right next door.
Hispanics are vital to the agriculture and construction industries. That's just food and housing, we can do without it, right? Are they worried kids will learn Spanish? An educated person should know at least two languages and Spanish is one of the easiest for an English speaker to tackle.
Okay I'm not a fan of Hispanic music. That stupid polka music. However Herb Alpert is pretty cool and mariachi bands in restaurants are nice.
But you'll go out of business because Netflix makes crap and is hogging the audience. Turns out people love crap. I have no faith that "quality" will lure them away. If that were true, why doesn't AppleTV have 300M subscribers and Netflix have 40M instead of the reverse?
If this merger happens, Ellison is going to burn thru a lot of daddy's money and end up with a mess in a few years.
The issue is, Warners is sketchy but salvageable while Paramount-Skydance is just badly off. A loser in the streaming wars, IP is mediocre, all those cable and broadcast assets are losing value fast.
Jamming sketchy and beyond-sketchy companies together is just going to result in a very sketchy company. You can't synergy your way past the basic problem, that Netflix changed all the rules, destroyed the lucrative cable and broadcast businesses, helped make the theatrical business a lot tougher (only the top blockbuster franchises need apply), and destroyed physical media.
Meanwhile, social media and YouTube have destroyed the old Discovery type middling "documentary" content business as well as news. So Ellison is going to have two albatrosses on his hands: CBS and CNN. I bet he blows it with both because it's unclear whether there's a way to save any of the old broadcast or cable news businesses. The audience has evaporated except for old people headed for the boneyard and the advertisers don't want them.
The upside is, maybe he'll blow daddy's money making a lot of entertaining content for us but nobody should be investing in this very iffy plan.
It's because the people you are entrusting to zone the districts fairly are instead pulling crap so they get an unfair advantage.
Most Americans align more with Democratic than Republican ideals, particularly if you're honest about it and admit Republicans are all about taking resources from ordinary people and handing them to wealthy corporate donors and foreign autocrats.
So why are Republicans winning? They gamed the system. The Democrats need to game it right back at them.
I voted for Prop 50. The Dems keep losing because they refuse to believe they are in a gutter fight. They will keep losing unless they start getting nasty and playing dirty like the Republicans have for years.
I also think a lot of Trump's support, particular among males, is due to them not wanting to support Democratic wusses who aren't going to win. They want to feel they are on the winning side. They don't care about morality or maybe they don't understand morality to begin with.
It's a f-ed up attitude but it's real and we need to deal with it. If the Dems look like nasty types who will fight to win, that could do something to address the gender imbalance that is hurting them.
Somebody should direct Zas to justwatch.com. That's how you find where stuff is. Yeesh.
Churning around the platforms and hoovering up whatever is good for 1-2 months before moving on is pretty easy and very cheap. Others may come up with other solutions but there's no reason to wave your hands helplessly.
Trump lacks imagination. He should organize some thugs to commit crimes in DC and drive the crime rate up, THEN send in the troops to "rescue" everyone. Geeze. Does he need me to go to work for him and teach him the basics of Fascism 101? Trump can't even do fascism competently.
The stupid white males who thought they would benefit from eradicating all those unfair DEI programs are just suckers because Trump won't actually do anything for their sorry asses.
The only people who will benefit are Trump's cronies and the 1%ers. But everyone here probably already knew that.
They could improve it by giving angry Mississippians a plan of action by listing the politicians who created this problem so they can be voted out of office.
Rather than give in to this BS, sites should push it back on the citizens of the jurisdiction and give them an incentive to vote for better leaders, in this matter and every other. Mississippi has a long ways to go there.
In the meantime, use a VPN.
"Everybody"? Not me.
Easy to google. 73% of Americans use social media, which means 27% don't and that translates to a whopping 92 million people. A lot more than voted for Trump, for instance.
Ads are the major reason I no longer bother with movie theaters. Everything ends up on streaming sooner or later and I'm in no hurry.
Maybe theaters will start selling ad-free movie tickets? Also oaf-free. Anyone acts up in those showings, they get dragged out to the parking lot by their heels, I'd pay 2X the ticket price for the chance to see that. Better than the movie.
Trump's an idiot, but...
"people leaving California to escape wild fires President Trump refuses to provide aid to fight or protect against"
There's no protecting against fires driven by climate change and Santa Ana winds. If people are fleeing LA before the next firestorm, they're the smart ones.
There will be plenty of climate change refugees in the future. It's too late to save Florida for instance.
My only objection would be, there were some doozies in the late 19th C, can we have a compare-and-contrast to the worst of those to really confirm that Trump is the rock bottom of the whole nasty pile? Speaking of that, I just watched Death by Lightning on Netflix. Highly recommended! One of the highlights is Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, who begin his political career as a New York street thug who apparently really did shoot someone on Fifth Avenue or the equivalent. Makes you realize that maybe Trump isn't such an outlier after all.
Censoring someone for saying Trump is corrupt is like censoring someone for saying water is wet.
The planet is grossly overpopulated with humans. Anything that gets the population down is good. Fortunately, fertility rates are falling almost everywhere. We should encourage reduced fertility and make up the loss by importing strong young immigrant workers, even if they're brown skinned. The notion that they will destroy our culture is just nonsense. I've lived in California all my life, totally blonde blue eyed Anglo here, where Hispanic culture is just part of everyday life. Piñata's at birthday parties, restaurants with Mexican food, what the hell is the problem, everything is cool and fun and if you don't like it, you can just ignore it and go to the Thai restaurant instead right next door. Hispanics are vital to the agriculture and construction industries. That's just food and housing, we can do without it, right? Are they worried kids will learn Spanish? An educated person should know at least two languages and Spanish is one of the easiest for an English speaker to tackle. Okay I'm not a fan of Hispanic music. That stupid polka music. However Herb Alpert is pretty cool and mariachi bands in restaurants are nice.
But you'll go out of business because Netflix makes crap and is hogging the audience. Turns out people love crap. I have no faith that "quality" will lure them away. If that were true, why doesn't AppleTV have 300M subscribers and Netflix have 40M instead of the reverse?
If this merger happens, Ellison is going to burn thru a lot of daddy's money and end up with a mess in a few years. The issue is, Warners is sketchy but salvageable while Paramount-Skydance is just badly off. A loser in the streaming wars, IP is mediocre, all those cable and broadcast assets are losing value fast. Jamming sketchy and beyond-sketchy companies together is just going to result in a very sketchy company. You can't synergy your way past the basic problem, that Netflix changed all the rules, destroyed the lucrative cable and broadcast businesses, helped make the theatrical business a lot tougher (only the top blockbuster franchises need apply), and destroyed physical media. Meanwhile, social media and YouTube have destroyed the old Discovery type middling "documentary" content business as well as news. So Ellison is going to have two albatrosses on his hands: CBS and CNN. I bet he blows it with both because it's unclear whether there's a way to save any of the old broadcast or cable news businesses. The audience has evaporated except for old people headed for the boneyard and the advertisers don't want them. The upside is, maybe he'll blow daddy's money making a lot of entertaining content for us but nobody should be investing in this very iffy plan.
I think we're well past the point of being precious about morality.
It's because the people you are entrusting to zone the districts fairly are instead pulling crap so they get an unfair advantage. Most Americans align more with Democratic than Republican ideals, particularly if you're honest about it and admit Republicans are all about taking resources from ordinary people and handing them to wealthy corporate donors and foreign autocrats. So why are Republicans winning? They gamed the system. The Democrats need to game it right back at them.
I voted for Prop 50. The Dems keep losing because they refuse to believe they are in a gutter fight. They will keep losing unless they start getting nasty and playing dirty like the Republicans have for years. I also think a lot of Trump's support, particular among males, is due to them not wanting to support Democratic wusses who aren't going to win. They want to feel they are on the winning side. They don't care about morality or maybe they don't understand morality to begin with. It's a f-ed up attitude but it's real and we need to deal with it. If the Dems look like nasty types who will fight to win, that could do something to address the gender imbalance that is hurting them.
Somebody should direct Zas to justwatch.com. That's how you find where stuff is. Yeesh. Churning around the platforms and hoovering up whatever is good for 1-2 months before moving on is pretty easy and very cheap. Others may come up with other solutions but there's no reason to wave your hands helplessly.
cmon Trump: use the Reichstag gambit
Trump lacks imagination. He should organize some thugs to commit crimes in DC and drive the crime rate up, THEN send in the troops to "rescue" everyone. Geeze. Does he need me to go to work for him and teach him the basics of Fascism 101? Trump can't even do fascism competently.
even the stupid white males won't benefit
The stupid white males who thought they would benefit from eradicating all those unfair DEI programs are just suckers because Trump won't actually do anything for their sorry asses. The only people who will benefit are Trump's cronies and the 1%ers. But everyone here probably already knew that.
They could improve it by giving angry Mississippians a plan of action by listing the politicians who created this problem so they can be voted out of office.
this is the right approach
Rather than give in to this BS, sites should push it back on the citizens of the jurisdiction and give them an incentive to vote for better leaders, in this matter and every other. Mississippi has a long ways to go there. In the meantime, use a VPN.
the first test should be a sanity test
Why would any sane person even want to work in the Oklahoma schools or live in Oklahoma or anywhere near Oklahoma?
how about "conspiracy distraction"?
Let's go with "conspiracy distraction" since that describes their purpose: to distract from actual real-world problems.
"Everybody"? Not me. Easy to google. 73% of Americans use social media, which means 27% don't and that translates to a whopping 92 million people. A lot more than voted for Trump, for instance.
Ads are the major reason I no longer bother with movie theaters. Everything ends up on streaming sooner or later and I'm in no hurry. Maybe theaters will start selling ad-free movie tickets? Also oaf-free. Anyone acts up in those showings, they get dragged out to the parking lot by their heels, I'd pay 2X the ticket price for the chance to see that. Better than the movie.
When she said that, I immediately thought, man she is begging to be luigi'ed.
Trump's an idiot, but... "people leaving California to escape wild fires President Trump refuses to provide aid to fight or protect against" There's no protecting against fires driven by climate change and Santa Ana winds. If people are fleeing LA before the next firestorm, they're the smart ones. There will be plenty of climate change refugees in the future. It's too late to save Florida for instance.
Look in the mirror, Don. Something is seriously wrong with you. On the spectrum? Might be part of it.