Revenge of the Forgotten Class

[Kinser79]

(08-16-2017, 04:21 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(08-16-2017, 02:31 PM)noway2 Wrote:

(08-16-2017, 02:16 PM)David Horn Wrote: I'll admit to voting for her too, as the lesser of two piss-poor choices.  I can't know if she would have done well in the job, but I do know that Trump is an unmitigated disaster.  But yeah.  I voted for her, holding my  nose the entire time.

I concur wit you that it came down to a piss poor choice, or as I've frequently seen it phrased, the choice between shit soup and a shit sandwich when I really want PB&J.  

Where I differ is that I think HRC would have been an unmitigated disaster, but then I believe should she be spending the rest of her days wearing an orange jump suit.

I don't think she would have been the disaster that many think.  Her opponents just had years and years for ad hominem spin.  Lots of people eventually bought into the spin, started believing it.  This leaves me as disappointed with the believers of the spin as the creators of the spin.

Doesn't mean I wouldn't have been more enthusiastic for Bernie.

Trump is being subjected to even worse ad hominem spin.  The envelope for what is acceptable in the sensationalist, partisan, lying press and punditry is expanding.  Now I'm no fan of Trump.  Lack of people skills alone would make him a failed president, bad dated ideas aside.  Still, the amount of partisan assassination being directed his way is amazing.  I'll generally read any vaguely political reporting as spun.  Lately, my spin-o-meter seems to be broken, spinning so wildly that it can't measure spin.

Bob there is a reason that I refer to the MSM as the Lugenpresse.  It is unfortunate that English lacks a word for that concept.  When it comes to sources that aren't Drudge or Breitbart I naturally assume that they are lying and that goes for Fox just as much as it does for MSDNC er I mean MSNBC.

I will say though, while some people may laugh, and it will make people like Odin cringe, I've found that Alex Jones for all his bombast is right more often than he is wrong.  If you think something he says is cray-cray wait six months and it will be reported all over MSM as the Truf.