Truth is somewhere in between. 15-20 million people listen to Rush. These are mostly the same people, but Glen Beck, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin all have 10 million+ listeners on the radio. Hugh Hewitt, The Savage Nation and Joe Pags all over 5 million.
Where I am they all “follow” politics, the problem is their idea of following along is slurping up literal propaganda.
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Except in that scenario there’s nobody to enforce the no guns rule
Hard to tell if they’re trolling Axl Rose or just totally clueless about how terrible a choice for a song that is right now.
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They are just that dumb.
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They’ve played it before too, and the next track is Billy Jean. It’s probably a playlist on random from some idiot staffer whose taste in music is, “things I’ve heard on the radio and remember”.
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I’d like this job enough that I wouldn’t mind if idiot staffer was my official title.
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TIL Russians toughen up their scorers by having them practice with metal soccer balls.
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It’s cool seeing Sue Bird out there wearing the shirt. She and her partner Megan Rapinoe (you may have heard of her) are pretty activist, which is awesome.
In case you missed this from last summer…
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“Let me tell you about the time I faced off against Ahura Mazda and his gang outside the watering hole. They had straight razors and I carried a chain, man.”
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Maybe we don’t need to go heeled to get the bulge on a buncha tubs.
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The Kodak story is whack. The billion dollar Johnson and Johnson covid contract is whack. Reminds me how whack the contract to rebuild the electrical infrastructure in Puerto Rico was. There basically is nothing to stop these people. The Trump admin is the most corrupt ever, moreso than the Reagan admin, but the Reagan admin was swimming in investigations and convictions.
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No power/Internet due to hurricane probably until Friday night; can somebody fill me in, did we get him?
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This sort of take has been conventional wisdom here since 2012, good to see the pundits agreeing with it:
“To advance an unpopular plutocratic agenda, Republicans have escalated white backlash — and, increasingly, undermined democracy,” Hacker and Pierson write. “In the United States, then, plutocracy and right-wing populism have not been opposing forces. Instead, they have been locked in a doom loop of escalating extremism that must be disrupted.”
This is their synthesis of the great economic anxiety versus racial resentment debate. Republican elites weaponize racial resentment to win voters who would otherwise vote their economic self-interest. Hacker and Pierson are careful to sidestep the crude version that holds that ethnic and religious division are mere distractions. Voters see racial and religious dominance as political interests as compelling and legitimate as tax benefits, and the demand for politicians to reflect those underlying resentments and fears is real.