That's not what I said, and if you actually read what we were discussing you'd know that. TV reflects the framing of the people who produce it. Neither the media or social media are real life.

The media has been bleeding viewership. CNN lost 1 million viewers in a month. You like it because it's progressively run, there's no mirror being held up, it's all lobbying groups and talking heads who live in an echo chamber and a political bubble with books to sell. They make money from the small minority of people who can't think for themselves, left and right. I pay attention because it's important, but I hold it in the proper context.

I mean, if you don't have the self awareness to understand what you actually said in this post, then bud, you are the perfect media mark/sheep/sucker consumer.

I would disagree in this sense, the country is not the country portrayed in the media. And social media isn't representative of the country. Honestly, I would say 98% of the people I come across and interact with on a daily basis treats everyone respectfully, no matter race, etc. I think politics makes people stupid, and the media is fake, partisan and exploitative.

I think Jake got the title run wrong, the warrior didn't have then. The fact they didn't put Warrior in a true with Savage and Jake during his title run was a huge mistake. I mean, they could have built Demolition Crush as an anti Warrior. There were some missed opportunities during that period.

Now that SCOTUS has kept the ACA intact and 2 of Trump’s appointees to include ACB sided with the 7-2 majority, are we going to hold those who screamed Armageddon accountable?  Or is such hyperbole and hysterics par for the course?

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Are all these Trumpists who are unseating 'centrists' heroes too?

Not in my opinion. Was AOC a hero when she ousted the 2nd most powerful Democrat in DC?  I hold Greene with the same regard I do Omar. Both are fucking morons who peddle dangerous conspiracies and are exposed frauds.

I don’t understand your opposition to leaders that find common ground and legislate real change, rather than those who pontificate and accomplish nothing. 

The reality is both of the bills Democrats have actually put forward and voted on are several years old bills they wrote in fantasy land. Republicans do it too, and the house has embodied this nuttiness since at least 2004, if not earlier. It’s really easy to pass a law you know has no chance of passing to drum up support. Republicans did this nonstop in the house from 2010-2016, repeatedly passing ACA repeals they knew had no chance in the Senate. Both voting rights bills are similar examples, but now they’re fucked cause they know it would be political suicide to ram through (this is what Manchin recognizes) and result in them not only decisively losing both chambers next year, but may cost Biden any chance in 24. To say nothing of the very real possibilities that many of their clauses would be struck down by SCOTUS. That’s the political calculus Schumer, Pelosi and Biden are considering. They’re not idiots.

The House infrastructure bill is the same way. It was passed as a political statement, and few who’ve actually read it can argue it’s economically plausible. If you haven’t noticed, the past two presidential elections have been decided on hate rather than support. I’m hoping both sides recognize the value in not demonizing each other and validating the hyperbole each accuses the other of. If you don’t piss people off, they’re less likely to show up to vote you out.