Alan Harper's Tash
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Not sure if you are old enough to remember Mike Murphy's America show. I was pretty young then but I remember if being so full of colour and so full of crazy people. I lived in the US for neatly a decade and it was pretty normal. But I wasn't in the crazy part, the Mike Murphy part. And those parts were always nuts I think. We'll never understand them. And they'll never change. Unfortunately.WTF has America become?
None of this, including the rallies on the Dem side, the media coverage, what passes for news channels, is anything resembling objective reporting. It’s a bastardised version of democracy that surely has to change.
You’re exporting it to Europe too. The last lot in the UK promoted a lot of the same subjectivity as the norm in the press dealings. Channels are billionaire owned and promote their own candidates and mantras.
When I say the Dem rallies included, what I mean is, they seem to adopt the same theatrics. They may not lie as openly as Trump does, and let’s face it, nobody does, but they seem to play the same pantomime villain card to their own support.
Politics has gone completely nuts and it’s what the American public seem to expect.
The problem here in Ireland is the youth vote apathy in particular, but at least we can still mainly trust the national broadcaster to report objectively and callout dishonesty. You don’t get the level of downright lying and quite frankly the public wouldn’t suffer it.
To our American pals on here.
Is what we see in the Trump thread really,…… well an accurate representation of what seems like almost half the electorate of the country?
Because I have been looking on amusedly believing, this can’t be real. This can’t be America. It’s great fun knocking sport out of Trumpism , but seriously. Is it possible that half the country are in this cult?
Also what are your thoughts on the fact that you basically get a choice of two people. I don’t fully understand your local election options but it doesn’t seem the most democratic system in the world to me. Someone explain the primaries to me, please.
No, it’s not possible that half the country is in his cult. I don’t quite understand what you mean by theatrics but I can tell you Trump is no pantomime villain!WTF has America become?
None of this, including the rallies on the Dem side, the media coverage, what passes for news channels, is anything resembling objective reporting. It’s a bastardised version of democracy that surely has to change.
You’re exporting it to Europe too. The last lot in the UK promoted a lot of the same subjectivity as the norm in the press dealings. Channels are billionaire owned and promote their own candidates and mantras.
When I say the Dem rallies included, what I mean is, they seem to adopt the same theatrics. They may not lie as openly as Trump does, and let’s face it, nobody does, but they seem to play the same pantomime villain card to their own support.
Politics has gone completely nuts and it’s what the American public seem to expect.
The problem here in Ireland is the youth vote apathy in particular, but at least we can still mainly trust the national broadcaster to report objectively and callout dishonesty. You don’t get the level of downright lying and quite frankly the public wouldn’t suffer it.
To our American pals on here.
Is what we see in the Trump thread really,…… well an accurate representation of what seems like almost half the electorate of the country?
Because I have been looking on amusedly believing, this can’t be real. This can’t be America. It’s great fun knocking sport out of Trumpism , but seriously. Is it possible that half the country are in this cult?
Also what are your thoughts on the fact that you basically get a choice of two people. I don’t fully understand your local election options but it doesn’t seem the most democratic system in the world to me. Someone explain the primaries to me, please.
The population would rocket as people stopped dying. Oh no!That would be a terrible system, if all poor people received health care.
No he’s still writing in Morrissey for President.Has @Mad Eyed Screamer changed his mind yet?