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Imagine having the white house congress and the senate then not following through with your promises during your campaign. Thats Biden!

Tejas 8 June 3
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Too soon Bubba, I'm still celebrating having adults in the WH.

Leetx Level 7 June 4, 2021
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Someone needs a civics class.

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Imagine posting total falsehoods AS IF they are facts...that's you & drumpy!

Besides restoring Paris climate accord what has he done?

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Talk about a distortion of th facts! You can and should do better than that.

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What do you expect him to do? He doesn't have the senate. Manchin and Sinema are not completely on board. Of course Republicans are unified because all republicans are partisan pieces of shit.

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Don't confuse me with Joe Manchin, my mind is made up...

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Somebody lives under a rock.....

No minimum wage increase, no m4a, no mask mandate just lack luster.

@tejas im sure you could do much better... Perhaps you should volunteer!

@Tejas Would you rather have Trump? Do you think Bernie Sanders would do better? He would have gotten crushed by Trump anyway.

@barjoe i think Bernie would have won by a land slide polls are on my side with that. Too bad he caved to the center right.

@Redneckliberal great reply, keep it up!

@Tejas You live in fantasyland.

@tejas great minds think alike!!

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The Executive cannot do by themselves. They need a Legislative body to assist. Since the filibuster demands a super majority to pass most things, Biden has a one person advantage in the Senate and a 5 person advantage in the House.

Biden already done more positive things for this country than Trump did in his four years in office. Despite having to deal with a "Know Nothing" Republican Party which are basically a bunch of insurrectionist, traitorous fools. Don't join them.

I fall in with actual progressives. Biden and his admin are conservative like it or not.(especially compared to progressive nations) i see a real lack of leadership and unity coming from our president.

@Tejas you need to learn how government actually works. They taught us in 5th grade, too bad your school system was deficient.

@Tejas

Thats because you aren't listening when he addresses the Nation and my guess you only watch and listen to the propaganda stations, like FOX, Info Wars, OAN, etc. Designed to feed disinformation to the poorly informed, poorly educated masses. The News version of "clickbait"

@AnneWimsey
Its Texas, what do expect. Facts and knowledge. Most Texans can't even spell"facts" let alone understand the meaning . Believe me, I lived and worked there for awhile.

@t1nick i don't watch any of those networks. I watch very particular independent media for some info and news. Kyle Kulinski, the humanist report, deep fat fried podcast, the Joe rogan experience, a very small amount of Jimmy dore and various pop up news articles from Google. All left wing media. I just use my brain and think for myself

@Tejas
I must say that you got me there. My own biases came through. I apologize. I am not familiar with all your sources and I am researching them now.

I looked into Kyle Kusinski. He is an interesting mixture of stances. Many of which I am sympathetic. I do not agree with Libertarinism in any form as it stands today. I feel that people who claim Libertarianism in this political environment environment have questionable agendas.

(IMO) It usually means a desire to abrogate the responsibilities that are inherent in a human society to maintain the health and viability of that society (established evolutionary in our species). It is just a way to be selfish and use a large term to justify their selfishness (not in the meaning of the word as used by Ayn Rand and the Objectivists).

More to come as I research the sources you mention and further familiarize myself with them.

@Tejas

Round Two: This is how the podcast describes itself on Chartable.
Deep Fat Fried
An educational show made by and for the uneducated. Escape into the imaginations of three stoner degenerates who are learning along the way with you.

Although Kirk has become well known for his liberal politics, he espoused libertarian views earlier on the Amazing Atheist channel and later deleted these videos.[16] In multiple videos, he espoused support for 2016/2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
[en.m.wikipedia.org]

I will need to listen to his podcasts in order to form my own opinion. Do not take offense please. I have always made it my preference to check sources and report out references that people refer to on this site if I am not familiar with. I try to report the media or fact check without bias, just share what is being reported about them. I figure if I am in not familiar, many others may not becas well. Credibility and credentialism is important to me as a teacher andvscientific researcher.

@Tejas
Round Three: Joe Rogan is a name I recognize, but have not really listened to him. Here is what the "Daily Princeton" responded in an article, "The Danger of Joe Rogan's Mammoth Foitprint":

As a field, non-journalistic podcasting — that is, podcasts not produced by organizations like NPR or The New York Times — has enjoyed the benefits of these large, dedicated listenerships without the explicit responsibilities of maintaining standards of factual accuracy. The primary goal of these kinds of podcasts isn’t news: it’s entertainment. But as podcasts like Rogan’s juggernaut grow increasingly political, while maintaining passionate fanbases, the weight of their previously purely entertainment-based decisions has drastically changed.

With any huge audience comes the responsibility to tell the truth, but Rogan has fallen short of that standard. Last year, he invited Alex Jones on to spew conspiracy after conspiracy for nearly five hours. Then, on a podcast published on Sept. 17, Joe Rogan erroneously made the claim that in Portland, “they’ve arrested left-wing people for lighting these forest fires — you know, air-quote ‘activists.’” The next day, he issued a responsible apology admitting that he was “duped” into believing and asserting this misinformation.

Rogan’s error is not one worthy of cancellation or the threat of boycott because he generally does hold himself to a high standard and has described himself as his own harshest critic. But it does raise the question: should he be held to a higher factual standard?

The answer, simply, is yes. While Rogan has achieved such a meteoric rise on a unique style of content and a lax yet still responsible direction of content, by the simple fact of his audience being as large as it is, he must employ stricter editorial decision-making. He has to think twice about content he might not have thought twice about in the past. As he continues to interview guests relating to politics while simultaneously operating in a society that becomes more political day by day, Rogan must act in awe of his giant cultural footprint more so than ever and must adjust his style and direction accordingly.
[dailyprincetonian.com]

The plethora of political podcats on both the right and left seem to have a common denominator of having a very low bar for what they will accept as credible sources. The same can be leveled at mainstream media. One has to be very alert in deciding who is credible and who is not these days.

The Daily Princetonian is the daily independent student newspaper of Princeton University. Founded in 1876, the Princetonian is among the oldest college newspapers in the country. Its alumni include journalists at The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as Pulitzer Prize winners.

@Tejas

Round Four: Jimmy Dore is another name I have heard people on this site reference. The problem with comedians is that they have to push or slightly alter the facts sometimes to get the reaction they desire from their audience. They often emphasize the wrong things, making them more significant than they really are for the sake of the audience reaction. Having said this:
The video is a clip from a Democratic Congressional Dinner during which Biden jokingly introduced a Black singer, Jerome Powell, as “Michael Jackson” and later referred to him as “Prince” — moments that were the subject of a Washington Examiner story earlier this year.

The falsehood drew attention this week when a Twitter user shared the altered clip July 16, saying “Joe Biden participated in ‘Black Face’ skit”; it was retweeted nearly 900 times and accrued more than 87,000 views by the next day. It also appeared on Facebook. Older examples of the false claim on Facebook and YouTube date back to January.

The Twitter user who shared it this week later posted a video saying he was unaware the Biden video had been altered and said he got the video from the Jimmy Dore Show, an online video series by comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore.

The edited version of the video did appear in a July 15 video posted by Dore with the erroneous claim that the singer was wearing “black face.”
[factcheck.org]

Doesn't speak well of Jimmy Dore's credibility.

@t1nick I give you credit for looking into the references I mentioned even without links. Most people wouldn't bother, sometimes myself included. Joe Rogan definitely has some questionable guests on his show, but overall I listen to his show for entertainment. as for overall political commentary in my opinion is libertarian left and sometimes libertarian right. For every wacko like Alex Jones, he has on Scientists, Bernie sanders and other people interesting to me. I agree with Jimmy dore sometimes on a few issues, his personality is what puts me off of him. No news source is perfect and all can and will make mistakes. As to my original post here, I don't and never have supported Trump. I just hold a high standard for president and president elects. I supported sanders during the primary, and progressive candidates alike. That is my standard anything less is not acceptable to me. Is it a perfect ideology? No. But its one I hold.

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