US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

The constant he said/she said on NPR is like nails on a chalkboard.

NPR voice/editing is the worst radio voice.

I gave up on NPR after getting ragingly mad about Diane Rehm gladhanding some Bush-era monster circa 2012.

Is Terri Gross still the worst interviewer on Earth?

Is it fashionable to dislike NPR?

That honour goes to Geraldine Doogue who does Saturday morning on ABC radio national in Australia who combines a lack of preparation with a careless conservatism and an inappropriate guffaw that sounds like someone strangling a goose.

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i was on a long drive maybe 5 years ago and they were re-airing an interview Gross did with Trent Reznor and the contempt in his voice was undeniable. and he had every right because it was a laughably bad interviewing.

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NPR is Fox News for people who will watch Fox News later in life, but don't watch it yet.

don't agree

maybe she lost it over the years but Gross's interview with Nancy Reagan about the AIDS crisis was great

don't listen to NPR anymore because I'm not commuting, but c'mon - worst radio voice, worst interviewer on Earth, ragingly mad, nails on a chalkboard, would rather watch Fox News - they are not that bad

I’m serious. NPR radio’s national news coverage is sonically very unpleasant to listen to, it’s politically vacuous at best, and you learn nothing from it if you’re even modestly informed. I’d rather watch Fox News.

As someone who is forced to watch Fox News regularly, no, no you don't

don't know much about you caek but I can't imagine you watching Fox News

Cop Rock, then

I would rather watch Fox News any day of the week—at least it has comic/shock value.

I find NPR insufferable not just for its patronizing pseudo/neolib politics and desperate both-sides-ing but as w/ caek its relentlessly beige tone and production values...I listen to a minute and feel like my phone has died and I’m stuck in an dentist’s waiting room with the last six issues of Time magazine

At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation that is having a devastating impact on these once thriving Suburban areas. Corrupt Joe Biden wants to make them MUCH WORSE. Not fair to homeowners, I may END!

Great timing with this one fuck was

Is it fashionable to dislike NPR?🕸

Hickenlooper wins the primary, will take on Gardner in CO

"I find NPR insufferable not just for its patronizing pseudo/neolib politics and desperate both-sides-ing but as w/ caek its relentlessly beige tone and production values"

right

"I may END!" for July thread title.

This motherfucker has only ever studied a McDonald’s menu

coulda sang the mcdonald's menu song in the 80s

Jfc at that tweet about AFFH and FHA.

he is such a dumbass and such a piece of shit aaaaaaaaaa

I googled AFFH and one of the first returns was some vile trash from earlier today in national review, which presumably was turned into a Fox News segment that became a meme that trump halfway understood

I like NPR

He retweeted a guy who calls himself "Trump's Black Grandson".

https://mobile.twitter.com/MrMichaelBurkes

what does this sentence mean

I know better than anyone that my friend Roger Ailes died 3 years ago, just look at what happened to @FoxNews. We all miss Roger!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020

he's saying he killed Roger Ailes and y'all better watch out

"I Killed Ailes With My Mushroom Dick"

xps - It means that no matter how often FOX News tongues his taint, he still can find minor things that sound to him like mild criticism, so that his immediate instinct is to whine about it in the hope they cringe before him so submissively it will make up for it.

i thought i knew roger ailes 3 years ago

but trump knows better than anyone

yea I think I kinda understood the idea of the tweet but, like....that first sentence is something bad AI would write

NPR is a lot more than just measured daily news political coverage. My favorite show was always "1A" with Joshua Johnson. He got poached for something on MSNBC, but he's being replaced by Jenn White, an excellent mainstay of Chicago's public radio.

this rules because 200k people get healthcare and it puts healthcare in the news

🚨 Medicaid expansion referendum SUCCEEDS in Oklahoma.

IT'S DONE, @TheOklahoman_ confirms.

200,000 people will gain access to public insurance in one of the country's most conservative states.

— Taniel (@Taniel) July 1, 2020

FINALLY

(not naive enough to think it will be a big story on its own but there's a developing drumbeat of healthcare stuff)

pretty incredibly and damning follow-up to that by @taniel:

Oklahoma is the 5th state to adopt Medicaid expansion via popular initiative. This one is a constitutional amendment too.

Maine (2017). Idaho, Utah, Nebraska (2018). Oklahoma 2020.

In all those states, GOP leaders blocked the expansion, but immense organizing finally expanded.

— Taniel (@Taniel) July 1, 2020

they're trying their best to kill people, but slowly over the course of several years people in some of the most conservative states in the country are forcing them to do it. i have no idea what is keeping the state legislators from proactively doing it other than denial

they hate obama seriously that is all it is

Any popular expansion of the social safety net is a tax they can’t repeal, that’s even more crucial than Obama’s association with it

i know, but...even their own very conservative constituents are begging them to expand it! at some point, doesn't the weird logic have to swing back around? like, they hated obama and the expansion of the social safety net, ultimately, because they thought voters hated it. but when conservative voters across the country force them to confront the idea that maybe things have changed...why not get out ahead of it and show that they can change their minds too?

i should be a republican consultant. "you guys have to stop being such dicks, is the thing"

in other news,

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/06/30/colorado-rep-scott-tipton-ousted-in-primary-by-gun-rights-activist/

https://i.imgur.com/Q94LHxh.png

Boebert owns a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado, where the staff openly carry firearms, according to The Colorado Sun. She also grabbed headlines last year when she confronted Democratic presidential contender Beto O’Rourke over his support for an assault weapons ban and his comment in a debate, “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”

“I am here to say: Hell, no, you’re not,” Boebert told the former Texas congressman, The Denver Post reported. O’Rourke dropped out of the race in November.

Boebert has also been associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory, which centers on the belief that Trump is fighting a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state.”

According to Colorado Public Radio, Boebert appeared on a “Q-friendly web show” and said, “I hope that this is real. It only means America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values and that’s what I am for.”

I am here to say: Hell, no, you’re not,” Boebert told the former Texas congressman, The Denver Post reported. O’Rourke dropped out of the race in November.

i like the implication there's a causal relationship between these two sentences.

It’s ok, big fella. We know, we know. You got confused. Go to bed. See you in the morning. https://t.co/mheyiM4AmJ

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) July 1, 2020

"Rifle, Colorado" for July Thread Title.

i like the implication there's a causal relationship between these two sentences. Yeah I spotted that, that was nasty.

jeff sessions' obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/magazine/jeff-sessions.html

I made it half way then may have said "who the fuck cares?" out loud. Goodbye, one of five free Times articles!

caek otm re NPR

I was a booster and frequent contributor for years but it became increasingly difficult for me to sit through oh about 4 years ago.

tbf to NPR I don’t know that they changed much, if at all.

I should put this entire NPR conversation on an "examples of white privilege" thread