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#591 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 287 weeks ago
I don't understand all the doom and gloom. Of course I don't agree with everything the Biden admin is doing, but it's largely business as usual. He doesn't have the votes to implement the wacky shit the progressives want, and members of his own party have stood firm in opposing a massive power grab. Kudos to Manchin, Sinema and Kelly.
No court packing, no removing the filibuster, and no using reconciliation to bypass rules that have been implemented for over a century. Maybe they can work together on the much needed infrastructure plan. Maybe they can work on immigration. It's all but assured the GOP will reclaim Congress in 20 months with historical precedent and the political landscape. I'd much rather the hyper partisanship nonsense end, and the moderates in both party's working together to find middle ground solutions to our problems. We saw both sides be completes asses and hypocrites during Obama and Trump. Maybe it's time for our legislature to do their damn jobs and ignore the mouth breathers on twitter and network media.
Are you totally sure about them reclaiming Congress in 2022? There are a fair amount of retirements in the GOP. That being said, I agree with you. I really wish both sides would stop fucking around and just pass the bill. I mean there is no real reason for this thing to be drawn out/kabuki'd. This is a infrastructure bill and not a Supreme Court justice nomination.
#592 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 289 weeks ago
Faux outrage and cancel culture is destroying our culture. Old TV shows and movies getting shit on. Some of them will require an intro added explaining to the dipshits why it's wrong. Certain books are unacceptable. If you happen to say something now or 10-20 years ago that sets off their outrage radar, there goes their career down the tubes.
It's like people are just complaining and not taking context into this at all. I browsed through some list of some worst Oscar winner lists from some Millenial and it was utter garbage. Nothing about the films itself, most of them were the poor racial portrayal, or the gay character wasn't accurately portrayed. It had nothing to do with the movies themselves. I mean did this author ever think that the movie business/Hollywood wasn't as inclusive as it is now. I mean, they didn't intentionally do this. So to shit on some film just because of some inaccuracy is dumb to me.
Same thing with people complaining about Christmas. Just let it be and quit complaining about it. People are happy to give and receive gifts all those other complaints annoy me.
#593 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will GNR release new music in 2021? » 289 weeks ago
*if* Axl is still reading the forums, I'm sure he'll take this as another "he doesn't care about the fans" stuff. We're all well beyond that shit, it's really just sadness at all this time and wasted opportunities. He could always respond more in-depthly than he has, and not through 'certain' posters, but we know...
Would it be so time consuming for him to just post a simple sentence or two of what's going on in the band? I mean every musician does this. The mystery/silence shit gets old fast. No ones is asking for long epic type updates or a gazillion tweets. But just a nice progress update.
misterID wrote:I was listening to the instrumental to Sorry and I can't help but think Axl didn't deserve that band. They were too good to be subjected to the shit they had to endure.
He didn't deserve them.
They deserved someone like Chris Cornell or Lindsey Buckingham who not only sees the potential....but acts on it. Someone like that could've went on a 4-5 year run with the 2000-01 lineup....two or three albums.
That wasn't GNR ....it was a supergroup that essentially sat idle until it started falling apart piece by piece. It should've been treated like one and marketed as one.
By the time 2006-07 rolls around, it's just a shell of what it was.
I said it years ago.....
By the time 2002 rolled around and nothing was happening, they all should've bailed out and started their own project.
They were on fire those first few years.
His problem was that despite what he said, he was still hung up on the old band. The supergroup he assembled became the minor project at some point. If he wanted to shed the image/history of the 87-93 era, he should have fully embraced these guys. I mean look at Slash. He does VR, his solo stuff and devotes his full time and energy to these projects. I know Axl had issues with the label and shit but most of the setlists from the aborted/disaster tours of the early 2000s were still majority AFD/Illusion/Lies setlists.
#594 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will GNR release new music in 2021? » 289 weeks ago
I have to be honest. I hang around this place for the off topic parts of the forum. I've given up on them release anything significant at this point (doesn't have to be a new album).
#595 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 289 weeks ago
What? Is this about focusing on women or talking about things you're not interested in? The libraries of these companies are far more profitable than the current product. That's the point.
I agree here. Both WWE and ESPN are shit now but people pay (technically companies) for what the brand name was. Not really sure how this connects to Trump or the California recall though.
#596 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 289 weeks ago
By equal time Im talking about bringing back shows like Crossfire to replace the insanity that news is today.
Did you watch Crossfire back then? It had two hosts...one liberal, one conservative. They discussed one topic each day. They had two guests....one liberal, one conservative.
We need to make these news outlets go back to what they were in the 20th century. .
Just the facts....and a couple Crossfire type shows on each network.It's time to go back to news being neutral. I should not know who the person giving me the news is voting for....and he/she should not be telling me what I'm supposed to think...or attempting to shame me for what I believe.
They also need to ditch the abrasive characters who intentionally stir the pot instead of giving us the news....
Rachel Maddow
Don Lemon
Chris Cuomo
Sean Hannity
Tucker CarlsonThrow these types on the ash heap of history.
Yeah, I loved Crossfire on CNN. For some reason, I liked Novak more than Carlson though. The problem is that these bomb throwers (on both sides) draw ratings and the networks don't really want to dump them. So these people gain power through their pulpit. This is what happens when entertainment and news get blurred. The public loses. I mean other countries have no issues devoting time to straight unbiased news. Why can't this country do it.
#597 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 289 weeks ago
Both sides use this strategy....and they are in cahoots with each other.
The red team: The liberals will take all your guns so they can create a commie hellhole!
*Red team gets in power, including a supermajority, yet does nothing to fix this*
The blue team: Republicans are going to ban abortion and you'll all be dying from back alley abortions if you don't vote for us!
*Blue team gets in power, including a supermajority, yet does nothing to fix this*
This is by design. It's how they keep their base, especially single issue voters, continually riled up.
Now we're in the era of identity politics...a virtual cancer on our country.
No....the culture war is not over. Not only is it not over, it's being placed on front Street.
The Dems....who used to be the champion of women's rights....have literally gutted Title IX. Thanks to identity politics and the dystopic Idiocracy we're sleepwalking into, a lot of women are applauding the erosion of their own rights.
This issue is going to become the new guns and abortion.... keep everyone riled up while inflicting God knows how much damage before someone sane takes the wheel.
I agree with most of this. I think it's funny how when both parties gain a majority they fail to accomplish things for different damn reasons. For the Democrats it's mostly due to intra-party squabbles/fighting. The Red team is just kind of lazy. I mean they pass the shit they want, which is to the upper/moneyed class/corportations. After that they don't give a shit or just don't pass anything for the working middle class.
On Abortion, I think it's just settled law and if a woman wants to get an abortion it's her choice.
Regarding identity politics, if we are talking transgernder stuff, I think they could get hurt if they take it too far. Someone posted some tweet about complaints about a person's gender at birth. To me, it's only male or female. I mean science tells me this. It's a FACT. I don't think it's wise to make such an issue on that type of matter. It's a common sense thing to me. If it were something like, they deserve common rights that everyone has etc, I agree with that. But that type of stuff, no.
#598 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 289 weeks ago
when I began posting on HTGTH, so James Lofton was a more recent retiree. Anyway I just assumed it was a corny handle James chose at some point, maybe even tracing back into the 90s, kinda like Jerry Rice or Dan Marino. Anyway it was a few years later when I learned that was actually his real name. Always thought it was a peculiar username handle to a nondescript WR for some reason.
Uh, he made the HOF in 2003.
Anyway, got the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Arm stiffness and achiness and some slight fatigue. I did get a good chuckle on of the main ingredients in the vaccine was something used in a laxative/colonscopy prep.
#599 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 290 weeks ago
Tucker never claims to be a journalist, the others do. It was Tucker who warned about covid whenever all the other cable networks called it the flu. He called out Fauci for lying when he said "don't wear a mask, it doesn't work" (remember that?). I don't agree with Tucker on everything, but without him, the Left would have a full media monopoly on disseminating information, and would never be called out for deliberate disinformation. I'm sure that's what really angers progressives, though.
I totally disagree with this part. The left would never have a "full media monopoly" as you put it. If anything the networks try to be "fair" and lean center. Yeah, maybe there are some shows that lean left but not to the point where you make it sound like "leftist or liberal" info or idealogy is at the heart of American politcs.
#600 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 290 weeks ago
Haley is more of a war hawk than DeSantis. Haley probably is a bigger fan of the military industrial complex.
What exactly is the GOP stand on this? Less on defense spending and intervening in wars and shit or more military hawkishness?
The problem with media sort of candidates like Tucker Carlson is that I have no idea what his real thoughts are on things. I mean he might be just saying shit for ratings or entertainment purposes. I think he's smarter than the stuff he peddles.
It's literally for entertainment purposes only.
While I hadn't watched Fox News heavily since the early 2000s, that info turned me off to it completely.
When Fox was being sued for various shit said by Hannity, Tucker, etc. Fox admitted it wasn't meant to be real news(which is a tad ironic), for entertainment purposes only, and no one in their right mind would believe what is being said on the shows.
How this info didn't destroy their careers and kill off Fox News shows in a nutshell how fucked up this country is.
Before SG responds with "But CNN lies too!....
Yes they do. So does MSNBC. However, nothing those two outlets have done comes close to the insanity of admitting your show isn't news but propaganda disguised as entertainment.
Last week's admission by CNN that they played up Covid for ratings and to make Trump look bad is getting awfully damn close though.
I want all these media outlets regulated again.
No lies...only news. The panels of talking heads needs to be limited to a set amount of hours a week. You also have to give equal time to both sides.
I think he's smarter than the stuff he peddles.
He's an elitist...heir to the Swanson foods fortune....who plays a character on TV that relates to the common man. Millions of people fall for it. Apparently like Trump, he's mocked the idiocy of his own followers in private.
These people are despicable and insidious.
The problem on a larger scale is that these people just need to report the news and deliver facts. I don't mind if you have one or two of these opinion shows but fuck when almost every news show is skewed with the anchor's opinions, I mean what happened to these people being neutral or objective. Try watching the BBC or whatever. There's very little opinion and just the simple matter of fact delivery of news stories. And to be honest, if I wanted slanted opinon types I'd go online.
I disagree on giving both sides equal time. If one side is peddling false shit, then NO you don't need to give them airtime. No real time was needed to give the Dems their defund the police thing or the Republicans lie about election fraud. That's one of the big problems really. It just helps one side spin and obfuscate.
As far as Carlson is concerned, I'm shocked he's still relevant given how Jon Stewart fucking nuked him on live tv in 2003.
