Challenging folks' ideas is a sign of respect.
Treat folks as thinking agents with the ability to decide what they believe, rather than products of their cultural environments.
We can respect people and respectfully disagree with their ideas.
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The fact that we are having a hard time throwing America a 250th birthday party because leftists are threatening to kill everyone involved is the most zeitgeist shit I’ve ever seen in my life
@theliamnissan Wait until you learn about the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War. Or post-WWII Reconstruction.
It's like you're mad that we're helping the Iranian people, who are actual victims of a fascist religious theocracy.
“Oh, cool, y’all are planning a big get-together for the President’s birthday?”
“No, it’s a protest.”
“So, large crowds will gather in his name across the nation on the day of his birth?”
“Don’t say it like that.”
“And there will be a cool concert?”
“A protest concert!”
“And people will have watch parties for the birthday concert? Kinda like a reality show dedicated to him?”
“No!”
“Will there be cake?”
“I hate you.”
@TheCalvinCooli1 I can't remember the last time I went to a restaurant and even noticed children... Unless it was like a Mexican restaurant or some other family restaurant.
Talarico: "They're going to dig up all kinds of old statements, take them out of context and try to paint them in the worst possible light."
Translation: I’m going to try to distance myself from my own words and beliefs so I can pretend to be a moderate until after I’m elected.
The next Congress WILL NOT have...
Al Green
Jasmine Crockett
Dan Crenshaw
Eric Swalwell
Mitch McConnell
Nancy Pelosi
Don Bacon
Jerry Nadler
Bill Cassidy
Thomas Massie
John Cornyn
It's called draining the swamp.
@samzeff@kcpublicschools He's one of the worst, most selfish people in Kansas City. He should never hold elected office or represent taxpayers in any capacity ever again. He claims he's going through a messy divorce and it's all a misunderstanding. That's exactly what a narcissist would say. Horrific.
The budget for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” was $100 million per year. It had a full time staff of 200 people, and was reaching just 2.7 million viewers on an average night during the show’s final quarter on the air.
Colbert was the most-watched late night host. Jimmy Kimmel has a linear audience of 2 million, while Jimmy Fallon draws about 1.3 million. Jon Stewart on The Daily Show reaches 900k to 1 million, which more than doubles the 400k that watched when Trevor Noah was the host.
Kimmel earns $16 million, Fallon earns $16 million, and Stewart makes $25 million. They had to pay him that to salvage the show after Noah, who was earning $16 million per year, lost more than two-thirds of his audience.
None of the math for any of these shows works.
At the risk of being rude, if you saw this clip and didn’t immediately suspect that AOC was lying, you simply have zero social-media awareness and would be better off without an account.
The tragedy of Stephen Colbert is that he really is a brilliant comedic talent and—according to those who know him in real life—a kind and thoroughly decent man.
He could have maintained his liberal political beliefs while ring-fencing them from the Late Show and no one would have cared.
Instead, though, he sold out, electing to become little more than a regime-media court jester, a funny man’s Rachel Maddow.
He chose pandering to an actuarially decaying audience of geriatric shitlibs over remaining funny to a broad and politically inclusive audience, and he ultimately paid the price through declining relevance, reduced ratings. and decimated advertising revenue.
It would be tragic, if it weren’t so completely well deserved.
Romney’s loss was probably more significant than you’d think. Not because Romney was special, no one liked him, but he was a completely milquetoast candidate and he still had the dirtiest accusations hurled at him of sexism, Nazism etc
Voters finally noticed