I don't watch infotainment news that often but there's plenty of people on CNN and MSNBC who are willing to criticize Biden, or any other Democrat. Jake Tapper is a good example. Aside from that, places like the NYT and WaPo will criticize Biden. The NYT editorial board criticized Biden's use of executive orders. I'm not saying they are objective, many are biased in different ways, but they aren't anywhere close to the right-wing propagandists.

Shapiro, Crowder, and Knowles are ignorant shills whose sole purpose of existence is to criticize the libs and cover for Trump(and other right-wingers). Shapiro's response to Cruz going to Mexico was absolutely pathetic.



First off, I can't recall Bernie using dangerous rhetoric but that's a side point. Second, Bernie lost to the moderate who called for unity.

I don't believe if Bernie got elected, and he behaved in such a blatantly corrupt and evil way like Trump had, that the vast majority of the left-of-center politicians and media personalities would bow down.

The right-wing has become radicalized... the left-of-center has a strain of radicals, but it's not ubiquitous. Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow are not putting on segments the likes of Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

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HRC called for unity? When? Was that when she called Trump every name in the book, extended that feeling to his supporters, and described them as a basket of deplorables?

Or are you talking some Bernie vs Biden thing? Don't pretend Bernie had any supporters left after he cucked out for HRC and everyone saw the DNC emails proving they'd rigged it against Bernie in her favor. Let's get real. The DNC rig game is laughable at best.

As far as your garbage about "right wing propaganda" whether it's fox news, shapiro, crowder, etc. they pointed out the shit they hate. Hell, since Shapiro's your first example, he held a "Good Trump/Bad Trump segment on his show every day for 4 years. Tell me, where was the "good trump" segment on CNN? MSNBC?

As far as Cruz goes, he's a Senator, he went on a family vacation scheduled months ago. So what? He's a constitutional lawyer, not an electrician, not a plumber, not anything that is going to help in Texas. He has no local authority to do anything, and FEMA assistance was already approved. Find one mayor or governor who decided to slip off, we'll go for blood. Cruz? Is a federal representative for a state. Once FEMA assistance was provided, his job was done. If anything, the left should be outraged that he came back, not that he left. Why the fuck does Texas want yet another family drawing from an overstressed power grid and utilizing a busted water system?

You going to go after every resident who had no skills to help of Texas who got in their Truck and went for warmer/powered pastures too?

That's all nonsense. Want to be fair and balanced? Spend 1/10th the time you do sniffing after a Texas Senator's ass talking about Andrew Cuomo being under investigation by the FBI for murdering some ten to fifteen thousand elderly by unnecessarily and intentionally sending infected covid patients into nursing homes. But you won't, will you? Republicans all bad all the time reporting with 90% good 10% bad on dems = fair and balanced. Somebody like Shapiro, "Good and bad of both, and the completely idiotic that people should shut the fuck up about?" PROPAGANDA.

Fucking hack. It's shit like that that pushes people farther to the right.

Yeah, I didn't really understand the uproar about Cruz, isn't he supposed to be in Washington anyway?

No. According to the tentative schedule Feb 15 - Feb 19 was not in session. A lot of senators had vacations scheduled for this period well in advance.

newest shiny object/flavor of the week for the political ideology that has all the institutional power in America to blame for all the world’s problems

Chris Hayes said it better than I could:

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-to-ted-cruz-governance-is-not-just-performative-trolling-101261381585

Trump seeks return to spotlight with address to conservative meeting

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump/trump-seeks-return-to-spotlight-with-address-to-conservative-meeting-idUSKBN2AK0QQ





And it begins again ??

https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1364983286251061251

Maybe I'm full of myself but I feel like politicians are terrible at nailing people down on these important questions. I don't understand why they can't figure out how to press those in power on these questions.

Comparing surgical transition and hormone therapy to genital mutilation is pretty disgusting.

Doctors base their practice on evidence and outcomes. A doctor doing what's best for their patient based on evidence is not a war crime, it's not mutilation.

There isn't a single profession that is independent of political pressure. Doctors have faced criticism for decades for overprescribing drugs from opioids to Ritalin. Nutritional science has flipped several times in my lifetime alone, from fats to carbs to calories and back again. At least with nutrition, we are talking about yo-yo dieting. Here were are talking about irreversible surgery that can have a devastating mental effect on patients if done in error. I don't care if someone wants to lop off their genitals, but we should tread with caution and ensure there is a suitable amount of red tape to allow time for a rational (or as rational as possible) decision to be made. Waiting until your prefrontal cortex develops goes without saying.