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Old May 4, 2025 | 10:04 PM
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Our governor really missed an opportunity here.


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Originally Posted by Braineack
Why would you speak out about making your hobby easier?
Congrats on 10 years, Brainy. That's gotta be equivalent to murder (time served) in most states.

My ongoing, never-ending problem with the MSM is that the truth is always obscured by the narrative at minimum, and a totally false alternative view when the power brokers are in trouble. Sheesh, the laptop story and the Russia hotel pee story are simply indicative of what we have actually seen to be the depths they'd go to cover up the truth.

I can only imagine the stories that haven't been shared because those in power would end up in prison, doing life.

Old May 4, 2025 | 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by cordycord
My ongoing, never-ending problem with the MSM (...)



Is the irony lost on you, when you bash "the mainstream media" in one sentence, and then quote / screenshot Fox News in the next?

In 2024, Fox News generated a larger average audience in primetime than MSNBC, CNN, Newsmax and Newsnation combined.

Fox isn't merely the largest "news" channel on cable TV, it's the largest channel on cable TV period. ESPN is a distant second.

Fox is the most mainstream source that there is.
Old May 5, 2025 | 08:44 AM
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Old May 5, 2025 | 08:46 AM
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Old May 5, 2025 | 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Fox is the most mainstream source that there is.
But are they straight down the line?


‘We polled our staff, made up entirely of leftist Democrats, and they say there is no bias!’
Old May 5, 2025 | 11:50 AM
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Old May 5, 2025 | 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1919050635267457403


"I wanna take my businesses back to America, I wanna open up my dentist office and all the stuff that I was gonna do out here, in America."

At the risk of, well... judging people based on their appearance, their demeanor, their actions, and the manner of their speech, I am having difficulty with the concept of that woman having graduated from dental school.
Old May 5, 2025 | 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
But are they straight down the line?
Two part answer:


1: How would you define "straight down the line?"



2: Most NPR affiliates carry a wide variety of programming, some of which is NPR News itself, and some of which is not even remotely close to fact-based journalism.

Take my local station, WBEZ, for instance. Yesterday, I drove up to the suburbs for lunch. On the way up and back (about 90 minutes total drive time, with a multi-hour break in the middle), I heard the tail end of Weekend Edition, which is a headline-news formatted show that mostly reports actual news. Then I caught the beginning of Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, which is a comedy program that I quite enjoy.

On the way back home, there was Reveal, an alt-left celebration of victimhood which describes its mission as "From prisons to protests, immigration to the environment, Peabody Award-winning Reveal goes deep into the pressing issues of our times."

Now, the first two of these are produced and distributed by NPR. But Reveal is produced and distributed by PRX, which has zero affiliation with NPR. It's an independently syndicated program which Chicago Public Media (owner of WBEZ) decided to pick up, after it stopped producing Vocolo last year.


I realize that it can seem like it's all one monolithic entity, because it all does flow from the same channel from the end-user's perspective.

But they are not the same.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
At the risk of, well... judging people based on their appearance, their demeanor, their actions, and the manner of their speech, I am having difficulty with the concept of that woman having graduated from dental school.
Speaking of female dental school graduates, there's a lovely young lady who recently opened her own dental practice in my neighborhood. Brain taught me I shouldn't like assertive women with large colorful eyeglasses but her website bio says she like to autoX her miata. Turns out it's a manual ND & she's very good with teeth too.

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Originally Posted by TurboTim
Brain taught me I shouldn't like assertive women with large colorful eyeglasses but her website bio says she like to autoX her miata. Turns out it's a manual ND & she's very good with teeth too.
Hah.

Brainey does not deal well with people who have complex personalities or ideologies. Its programming is easily confused by such things.

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Old May 6, 2025 | 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Hah.

Brainey does not deal well with people who have complex personalities or ideologies. Its programming is easily confused by such things.
Personality in question:


Old May 6, 2025 | 12:17 PM
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Remember a few months ago when folks in here were all psyched for the release of the Epstein Files, and were making bold predictions about people being held accountable for their crimes?

Yeah... looks like maybe the White House found some names in there which it wasn't expecting.





https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2743369.html

Old May 6, 2025 | 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Is the irony lost on you, when you bash "the mainstream media" in one sentence, and then quote / screenshot Fox News in the next?

In 2024, Fox News generated a larger average audience in primetime than MSNBC, CNN, Newsmax and Newsnation combined.

Fox isn't merely the largest "news" channel on cable TV, it's the largest channel on cable TV period. ESPN is a distant second.

Fox is the most mainstream source that there is.

It's ironic that that I cancelled my subscription to FOX...and CNN, and NBC, ABC and all MSM's. That visual was pulled from X.com.

The REAL irony is that the information comes from the Media Research Center. This seems to be a recurring issue...


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Old May 6, 2025 | 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
But are they straight down the line?

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1919157287425360278

‘We polled our staff, made up entirely of leftist Democrats, and they say there is no bias!’
Just imagine if Trump pulled federal funding for all colleges whose teacher ratio was higher than 75% Democrat.
Old May 6, 2025 | 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by cordycord
Just imagine if Trump pulled federal funding for all colleges whose teacher ratio was higher than 75% Democrat.


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Old May 7, 2025 | 02:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Isn't it the ultimate "DEI?", he says, tongue in cheek. Shouldn't the faculty reflect the voters? Because right now the faculty for every single college doesn't come close.
Old May 7, 2025 | 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Speaking of irony, judges are now presidents.
Old May 7, 2025 | 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Speaking of non-crimes:


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