https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/...the-west-wing/

Solid point, all his presidency accomplished was

Middle East peace
First female chief SCOTUS
First Hispanic SCOTUS
reformed and saved social security
Creates an entire new foreign policy doctrine
Gives amnesty to millions of undocumented people
Bailed out Mexican economy from collapse
Largest ever increase in conservation lands

That would rank him top 5 all time in real life.

Keep up the solid posting. You are really killing it.

FINISH HIM

middle east peace?!?!?!?! lol!!! are you ****ing kidding?? did you not see the 9/11 episode? that episode is absurd propaganda about how they hate us for our freedoms lol!!! obviously bartlett admin went to war in the middle east, they just didn't talk about it on the show.

or maybe you are just talking about the israel palestine deal. i don't remember the specifics, but no way in hell did palestine get a voice on this show.

iirc the female judge was friends with the other judge who like eugenics. these are just fictional characters so we dont have real dirt on them. but in real life they would have tons of dirt, just like RBG, and if you think is a hero for progress, i can give example after example of how awful she was. racist, corporatist etc

the edward james olmos judge seems pretty cool, but i don't remember everything.

i'd need to rewatch to argue better

this is just off the top of my head

By "reformed", you mean "cut benefits, raised the retirement age, and added optional private accounts"? Every single one of those things is right-wing, unambiguously bad, and is a fantastic example of how horrific modern mainstream liberal political beliefs are.

The ideology of people like you [and the show] needs to be crushed along with the far right.

None of that is from the show. It’s just pure bullshit you made up. For plot of the episode is them literally saving the new deal. Josh even quotes that.

which episode is it? maybe we should give it a rewatch and discuss it more in detail, like a book club

one upsetting thing about liberals is that they continually prove the degenerate right wingers correct. take this post.

First female chief SCOTUS
First Hispanic SCOTUS

shows that they only care about race with no real regard for ability accomplishments or even ideology.

but just in general, that these people feel the need to aggressively defend the liberals of a fake tv show just proves that the whole "snowflake" label is on the mark.

Well I used to like this thread before the politarding

no discussing politics in a thread that is dedicated to a show about politics!

S5E12

https://www.quora.com/How-realistic-...-Slow-News-Day

(It's possible the person who answered that Quora question is making these quotes up I suppose.)

And here's Toby, absolute piece of ****:

God, **** off so hard Sorkin.

The whole basis of this conflict is playing off of real life right-wing myths that "Social Security is going bankrupt", and is simply furthering that propaganda. The show has a trash ideology - it's perfectly fine to admit this and still enjoy the show! There's plenty of fun fascist action movies out there too.

"Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush between them:

- appointed the first woman Supreme Court Justice
- appointed the second Black Supreme Court Justice
- doubled the Dow Jones
- fought against drugs
- fought against crime
- crippled Saddam Hussein's evil regime
- ended the Cold War"

- Clovis and Dominic probably

"saved social security"

saved it from what? this phrasing, like baltimore jones said, implies that social security was insolvent and needed saving

you might as well say that bush and reagan also "saved social security", as long as you're just throwing the bs around.

bush appointed the first hispanic da, alberto gonzalez. iirc

and first african american woman condi rice secretary of state

bush also appointed an indigenous woman as a federal judge. another first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Humetewa

You know, sorkin wasn't there for season 5, right?

My mistake

yeah! sorkin would never have written such bs liberal propaganda!

The official motto of every stupid post you have made itt.

any factual errors you can point to? i mean besides forgetting that sorkin didn't write season 5 of his show that he famously wrote and created

Obama "saved" social security after he offered it up to cut debt after shipping billions to to bail out the banks.

Looking more and more like a reboot is on the way. Dunno how to feel about that yet.... kinda love it but I’m very nervous lol

From who? I can't possibly see how that format for a show could work again.

Josh Molina has been posting pics of quite a few of the cast and Sorkin. “It’s happening” was his last post about it.