I think it was on one of the Chapo reading series episodes where they point out that so many of these right-wing guys compulsively have to stick every grievance into every piece of work they produce.

And the biggest "oops" in the Federalist Papers, due to a lack of proper appreciation--though appreciation there was--of the role of parties/factions when discussing the role of the electoral college.

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/...eralist-68.php

One of the better insights of What's the Matter With Kansas, now 10+ years old, is how much the right-wing is getting via completely inchoate cultural criticisms and building it into a complete story of liberal decadence and degeneracy for their audience. He called them plen-t-plaints, like those packs of gum with a bunch of different flavors.

Oh, over here, a transgender bathroom. Over there, we can't build a housing development because of an endangered insect. And now look at this, this guy is getting sued because of a joke he heard on Seinfeld and told to an uppity feminist co-worker. And we can't even say Merry Christmas Christ is Risen anymore!

All of this exists in the realm of fantasy and conjecture, or has some basis in fact but no fundamental basis in fact if you know what I mean. All of these folklore stories are traded amongst white people about how political correctness is really undoing everything. At first the incoherence seems like a bug but as you listen to it, it's pretty clearly a feature. It's a reflex, like M2B says. You REALLY prove your right-wing bonafides by creating and repeating narrative yarns where all sorts of trivial and innocuous slights and confusing stories you hear about the world meld together into a conspiracy of liberals to undo your way of life. The right wing pundit class is merely aping the audience, giving them what they want, which is reminders of a scary and bewildering vast conspiracy and web of enemies beset against white folks.

Art buchwald was a satirist.

I'm not saying I earnestly hope McCain would pull a Ted Kennedy with regard to healthcare (i.e., die), but my time in mourning would be brief.

It was whatever one was the future-dystopian novel where there's been a schism and the coasts are socialist while the flyovers are MAGAland. One of the characters' internal monologues mentions the Fairness Doctrine.

The Fairness Doctrine ended in 1987, just for context.

That's really really sad. Nixon satire matches up with real life Trump?

Maybe satirist in the same way cilizza and Milbank are satirists. Granted it was a bit before my time but I suspect the mood of divisiveness wasn't all that different than right now.

Yeah something like the original headline news would be beneficial but it obviously wasn’t drawing the kind of audience they wanted.

They would just have 20 minutes of news and rerun it every 30 minutes. They would update it a few times a day but they could still use set pieces. If breaking news actually happened they could cover it live.

It got a foothold being in hotel rooms, bars and other places where a quick synopsis of current events / news would be beneficial. Nobody is going to subsidize that kind of channel, especially with the dynamic of cable/satellite real estate.

Must. Not. Make. Tasteless. Classless. Comments. About. Being. Very. Concerned.

Every month or so there is a revelation or WH action that makes you all run out and declare "no way Trump can survive this!" and then in a week or two it fades away. We are in the middle of a fade right now. It's fun to watch, oh and What about Chappaquiddick?

Your worldview is a joke

Just like everyone else.

The Founding Fathers are in all of us.

About McCain? Yeah, he dying imo.

Seriously. This is the same Cliven Bundy who gave us this gem:

Given its Roger Stone I assumed it was Ted Bundy.

the founding fathers would kick all your asses

6 foot 20 ****ing killing for fun

Examples? I can't think of a single thing that has made people here predict Trump's imminent fall. The Don Jr. emails are the worst thing yet and even then everyone here recognizes impeachment has to be a Republican-led process and Republicans clearly aren't there yet.

Just going to have to put this health-care thing off indefinitely then oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Comey's firing and the circus of contradicting statements afterward and his subsequent testimony but mostly his firing. Everyone here (including me) were saying that was it for this guy. There have been other things itt but that's the strongest people have felt about something actually happening to him. He's pretty much correct in his statement *shrug*.

McCain’s Surgery May Be More Serious Than Thought, Experts Say
https://nyti.ms/2vrYlaN

No. Pretty sure I always thought nothing would happen, to the point of even incorrectly predicting nothing would happen to Flynn. Would love to see quotes of anywhere near "everybody" predicting it's over. Sorry, you got overexcited.

man you know you're a terrible poster when you go to bat for the russian spambot and its latest nonsensical/halfassed talking point