US Politics, June 2020 — You have to dominate.

ugh fuck this dude forever

Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon = new thread title

WNYC's local programming is even worse; the midday talk show has a moment of meditation, which at least is a break from the happy-talk host. Bring back [redacted]. xxxxxp

Denigrating This Luxury Avenue

xp since we loves the throes of wite gilt on the npr ilx-psych front-- i stopped listening to npr about 2012-14 ish when more podlike shit became tolerably listenable. i try to get reliable reporting stuff elsewhere. on the downside from this, i now get more commentary shit from EVERYWHERE, and less good news stuff that i'd like, but every half-listen attempt at npr since 2016 has been pretty infuriating. am i gonna listen to inskeep passively swallow bill barr nonsense without serious-ass followups on the regular? no. (i regretted listening to that one).

wow, rifle makes the pages. this front ranger looks at rifle and the hickenlooper candidacy and cynically thinks "oh, you two are fucking secretly made for each other. maybe sen hick will try to shovel $$$$$ at shale-oil again, to make silt happen."

I don't understand why anyone listens to the radio.

^LL Cool J trying to stay relevant in 2020

i didn't either, until i held a mindless data entry temp job for half a year. then, talk radio became my lord and savior

A little confused about why hating NPR is an example of white guilt-- seems to be more an example of hating equivocating liberal nonsense.

I think my inability to fathom listening to the radio is because I'm never in a car. I'm on my couch all day with my laptop open; if I want to listen to music it's either on Spotify or from my own iTunes collection. And listening to a politician being interviewed by a journalist would be torture.

xp tbc my wite gilt comment was unfunny joekishness and i agree with you.

i don't hear inskeep doing that at all, if anything he's irritatingly left-biased with his snarky "oh so you're saying ....blah blah blah"

A little confused about why hating NPR is an example of white guilt-- seems to be more an example of hating equivocating liberal nonsense.

if anything I wld imagine white privilege is listening to NPR and buying its worldview...it strikes me as the audio balm for quickly assuageable white guilt

these ppl "taking their medicine" on their morning drives to work

not to be too trenchant but ilx picking and choosing specific middle class media/experiences/opinions as more or less privileged is like a group of goldfish arguing which side of the bowl is wetter.

it is striking when the BBC portion comes up on NPR, where the host actually acts "tough" questions AND doesn't (as easily) let the interviewee avoid them. It's like the Americans on NPR are terrified of awkward moments.

asks not acts

BBC radio 4 is a rough start to the day emotionally and it’s politically suspect but it’s not aural cottage cheese and it doesn’t do the “the truth is in the middle” thing to the same extent. I get that npr radio is better than talk radio in the US but that’s a low low bar. It’s the best turd in a pile of turds.

Ha xp

Is it fashionable to dislike NPR?

― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, June 30, 2020 7:26 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Say, isn't it time for a new thread? Or are we just waiting for Trump to hear what stupid thing Trump barfs out before committing to a thread title?

v v true.

Anyway. You know what I meant and wasn't able to coherently write.

voting for "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue" for July

^

okay, going for it.

I think Rand Paul should get the place of honor this month -- "We Shouldn't Presume That A Group Of Experts Somehow Knows What's Best"

US Politics: July 2020 - "Denigrating this Luxury Avenue"

minus all the capital letters

it is striking when the BBC portion comes up on NPR, where the host actually acts "tough" questions AND doesn't (as easily) let the interviewee avoid them. It's like the Americans on NPR are terrified of awkward moments.