...except when they don't. This takes a while and it's not the greatest thing anybody ever put on, but there're great recurring themes - as in: History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure as fuck rhymes.
Again - comedy shows on cable TV are doing a better job of covering real problems than any of the "real" news shows anywhere else.
And just to keep it out there - notice how Boris Epshteyn looks and sounds like one of those old Soviet guys from the late 80s who spent way too much time and energy trying way too hard not to look and sound like one of those old Soviet guys in the late 80s.
And the first one ties in with Michael Shermer's explanation of Type 1 and Type 2 Logic (or Cognition) Errors:
So, you don't have to sit around wondering why so many "conservatives" reject your arguments even though what you're saying is accurate and provable.
And also too - you don't have to wonder why so many of those "conservatives" are at least pretending to be devoutly Christian. They've been thoroughly conditioned to accept religious nonsense without evidence - why would they need facts when deciding what Political Religion to follow?
Let's review:
What are the tools we use to detect lies?
a) the absence of confirming evidence
b) the presence of conflicting evidence
What do Faith and Ideology often demand that we disregard?
There is something very wrong here. The political party currently holding all the power is moving to cut back on almost all of the rights guaranteed under US law, while encouraging people to take up arms for fear the federal government is taking away our rights.
The president has at last done the unthinkable: He has insulted a morning television personality in crude and ghastly terms and I must — in consequence of this hideous and vile breach of the dignity of the office — withdraw none of my support from his legislative agenda. (If you can call it a legislative agenda and not a ragtag collection of bad ideas quickly stapled together with a dead pigeon in the middle.)
--and--
I am shocked and appalled by his behavior. And I am not afraid to say so. At a fundraiser. For him. Before asking for more donations.
Everything else the president has done is fine — the continued attacks on the media’s legitimacy, the carelessness toward history and diplomacy, the harmful rhetoric about Muslims, the — well, it is all fine. This is too much, though, and I am putting my foot down, here, on my way to vote against icebergs.
A quick observation: the Grossitude Factor of any given diversionary scandal increases proportionally to 45*'s perception of the Bigly Threateningness of the Russia Thing. So it must be pretty fuckin' bad now.
Trump has tweeted 182 times since May 30. Breakdown: ☑️Taxes: 1 ☑️Infrastructure: 3 ☑️Economy: 8 ☑️Healthcare:10 ❗️Russia is "fake news": 60 pic.twitter.com/Qe0KOURUsb
