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Have you ever met anyone from any of those countries?

I do think people overestimate how many people listen to Podcasts.... like most things, the conversation seems to be dominated by white collar types who have the time or inclination to listen to Podcasts.. Overall, terrestrial radio is still a much bigger player in this space.

The Muslim ban didn't make me feel any safer. What it did do was produce a chill upon those looking to immigrate and come through legal means to this country to study or to work. I would know having been in contact with and befriending those who came here to do just that... they felt that it was punitive, and given Trump's past history of comments about Muslims, hard to disagree with them. I'd just add that in terms of threats, the threat of domestic terror, particularly from right wing groups, seems higher right now.

Shouldn't surprise anyone that, sure enough, Roody and the gang wasn't just freelancing this stuff...

This seems like a wild framing given that almost half of the sample either hasn't heard of or has no opinion on Joe Rogan.

As expected

That sarcasm wasn't so much directed at you, fwiw. We are pretty aligned on this topic.

He was great, as was Louis Jourdan... the backgammon scene is low-key one of my favorite scenes of the Moore era. If the cinematography were better and if they had cut some of the campier stuff, it'd probably have cracked the Top 10 in Bonds for me. I just saw it recently and, despite the Cold War motif being an outdated, I was struck by how transferrable more hardliner views on NATO of the time are easily transferrable to today and to Putin specifically... it didn't feel as outdated as it should have because of the Ukraine situation.

That's different because clearly that's just different.

The US has a demographically stagnant population.... all with boomers on the precipice of retirement. Maybe, just maybe, we should make it easier to legally immigrate. Or we should do things to help the economic situation in the places from which these migrants come. Doing what the Tennessee lawmaker doesn't do much except, to paraphrase Moynihan, throw some boob bait to the Bubbas.

This is a weird pop-culture reference, but it's almost like Putin, ala the Russian baddy in the Bond film Octopussy, just assumed that he could roll NATO with his scheme, when the reality is that NATO has projected more strength in the past week or so than the alliance has in a while. All on account of his aggression. The danger is that he's in a corner now.... just domestically, he has to come away with a W.

The focus on identity on this subject is weird considering how politicized this process is, and how political views are an "identity" in and of themselves.

I think this is fair... I just have a problem with the clear double standard being applied here. Whoever Biden picks will be very qualified... and in the grand scheme of things, most Americans are not going to notice or care about the selection process. Just a big deal over nothing.

Really happy for Matt Stafford... he deserves this!

Their loss I guess...

Reagan and Trump said the quiet part out loud as well. Just really tired of the pearl clutching on this. You don't have to like the precedent, but it existed long before Biden.

But why is Biden the one taking hell for it when we have had past Presidents (ie. Reagan, Trump) who have basically done the exact same thing with little to no controversy for using that rationale?

Knowing that McCain wanted a game changer and wanted to capitalize on Hills not getting the nomination and the fact that Thomas succeeded the first black justice, it's pretty reasonable to assume sex/gender were involved in those selections. Even if not explicitly stated. Either way, we have actual examples of declarations ahead of the nomination that keep getting brought up (O'Connor, ACB) that seem to just get ignored in this discussion. And again, only now is this an issue. I'm sorry, it just reeks of partisanship. It just does.

Did Ronald Reagan identify Sandra Day O'Connor by race or gender when selecting them? (Rhetorical q) I'll take you at your word that you dont like it, but let's not act like this is unprecedented. I just find it incredible that only now are we hearing objections. Not when O'Connor was nominated, not when ACB was nominated.... only now do we hear about it.

The COVID numbers got conflated with overall JA, which isn't as bad for sure. For reference, I remember seeing Northam was something like +30 after inauguration, so these aren't exactly great numbers. Although PPP isn't exactly the greatest pollster either, so idk.

See Buddha's post. This isn't anything new. The only reason you complain now is because you don't like Biden.

My thing is that, even setting aside the ridiculousness of the first sentence, the bulk of the post just isn't persuasive. It just reads like an opinion that starts from a conclusion (ie. everything Biden does is bad / Biden derangement syndrome) and just works backward from there. And the reality is that, for all the complaining about posting link after link of proof that would get ignored, the reality is that any opinion that doesn't fit Archie's will summarily get ignored and discarded no matter how backed up with links or reason or what have ya. It just is what it is.

Everything Biden does is bad. Biden is senile. Because everything Biden does is bad and Biden is senile. Rinse, Repeat, etc.

Not to mention that it takes a while to build actually do the construction. Just dumb, I swear they'll put anyone on air these days.