Faux Noise

[billy.pilgrim]

Easy to forget Clement and Gore when faced with the current crop of Blackburn and other trumpettes.

I was thinking of the Dixiecrats pre-Nixon's "Southern Strategy", just like NC.

There is that, but some liberal dems did pretty good in Tennessee until 2000.

[Vrede too]

There is that, but some liberal dems did pretty good in Tennessee until 2000.

Not liberals, but (mostly) post-racist moderate Dems dominated here for awhile before NC went purple.

[billy.pilgrim]

There is that, but some liberal dems did pretty good in Tennessee until 2000.

Not liberals, but (mostly) post-racist moderate Dems dominated here for awhile before NC went purple.

These days Tennessee is solid red outside of Nashville and Memphis.

[Ulysses]

There is that, but some liberal dems did pretty good in Tennessee until 2000.

Not liberals, but (mostly) post-racist moderate Dems dominated here for awhile before NC went purple.

These days Tennessee is solid red outside of Nashville and Memphis.

So, I'm wondering what caused the change from nominally blue to solid red...?

[neoplacebo]

Twenty years of fear mongering by right wing nutjobs, nearly as many years of blatant lying and misrepresentation of fact by right wing media, lots of corporate money to push the narratives, two terms of a black president that sent the right wing over the moon, and not least the abject ignorance and gullibility of the average American.

[Vrede too]

These days Tennessee is solid red outside of Nashville and Memphis.

So, I'm wondering what caused the change from nominally blue to solid red...?

What neoplacebo says plus:

Southern strategy

Along with the defeat among Dems of the:

Dixiecrats

Southern White cons got over their hatred of 'The Party of Lincoln'.

[Vrede too]

A drop in the bucket of Faux Noise complicity:

Former Fox News Director Jack Hanick Indicted for Helping Russia
FOX HOLE
An American TV producer was arrested in London and now faces criminal charges for working with a sanctioned Russian billionaire. He used to work for Fox News.

As the United States increasingly goes after some of the Kremlin’s business tentacles, the latest person arrested for violating U.S. sanctions against Russia is a former Fox News director who left to launch a Russian propaganda network.

The Department of Justice on Thursday revealed that Jack Hanick was quietly arrested in London on Feb. 3 for dodging U.S. sanctions by helping a sanctioned Russian oligarch, Konstantin Malofeyev, start his right-wing Tsargrad TV.

The DOJ simultaneously unsealed a grand jury indictment against him, accusing Hanick of knowingly engaging in business dealings with Malofeyev, who had been formally sanctioned by the U.S. government for his role in financing Russia-backed soldiers in eastern Ukraine who have violently tried to break off from the democratic country since 2014....

Lock him up.

[Ulysses]

Twenty years of fear mongering by right wing nutjobs, nearly as many years of blatant lying and misrepresentation of fact by right wing media, lots of corporate money to push the narratives, two terms of a black president that sent the right wing over the moon, and not least the abject ignorance and gullibility of the average American.

Well put.

[Vrede too]

Once again, desperate Useless flails about for an old post that he ignored earlier to reply to just so he can post after me in a thread. Childish.

(signature: obsessed butthurt )

Awww. , Useless. So much for "Ignored". You fail again. Plus, Useless, you've been busted too many times for anyone to believe you're not reading my posts, anyhow. It's just your excuse for cowering. Awww.

[Vrede too]

Tucker Carlson Is Russian State Media's Newest Correspondent

[Vrede too]

Tucker Carlson Surprises No One By Parroting New Russian Conspiracy Theory
The Fox News host predictably "asked questions" about a propaganda claim linking Hunter Biden to biolabs in Ukraine.

...



Hours later, it got its shoutout.

Citing a report in the right-wing website National Pulse, Carlson said, ”Apparently a private equity firm run by Hunter Biden funded some of the research into pathogens in these biolabs.”

“What are the outlines of that story? We’re not sure,” he continued. “We know it’s legitimate to ask what it means, why wouldn’t it be? You’re not a Russian agent repeating discredited Putin talking points if you ask. You’re a good citizen.”

... The Fox News host has repeatedly pushed pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine talking points as Russian President Vladimir Putin continues his war on the neighboring nation.

Multiple excerpts from Carlson’s show have been translated to serve as propaganda on Russian state-sponsored TV. Earlier this month, Mother Jones detailed a leaked memo in which the Kremlin asked state-controlled media to highlight Carlson “as much as possible” due to his criticism of the U.S. and its NATO allies and defense of Russia.

Has Fucker registered as a foreign agent yet?

[O Really]

I'm pretty sure Faux listeners are the intellectual descendants of those who followed stories like "I Cut Out Her Heart and Stomped on It" (September 8, 1963) and "Mom Boiled Her Baby and Ate Her" (1962) in the National Enquirer. They're also clearly related to the red scare people and snake handlers.

[neoplacebo]

I'm pretty sure Faux listeners are the intellectual descendants of those who followed stories like "I Cut Out Her Heart and Stomped on It" (September 8, 1963) and "Mom Boiled Her Baby and Ate Her" (1962) in the National Enquirer. They're also clearly related to the red scare people and snake handlers.

That's a considerable constituency around here. I try to console myself that a lot of them don't or can't vote, but still it's hard to witness and live through. I think I just stay around here to see if they will one day all die en mass from a terminal case of stupid. They don't know I'm here.

[Ulysses]

I'm pretty sure Faux listeners are the intellectual descendants of those who followed stories like "I Cut Out Her Heart and Stomped on It" (September 8, 1963) and "Mom Boiled Her Baby and Ate Her" (1962) in the National Enquirer. They're also clearly related to the red scare people and snake handlers.

That's a considerable constituency around here. I try to console myself that a lot of them don't or can't vote, but still it's hard to witness and live through. I think I just stay around here to see if they will one day all die en mass from a terminal case of stupid. They don't know I'm here.

Out here in NoCal you have to go to the hills to find a considerable Faux News constituency. After all Solar & Co are in NoCal. So there is that. No state seems to be short on idiots.

[Vrede too]

That's a considerable constituency around here. I try to console myself that a lot of them don't or can't vote, but still it's hard to witness and live through. I think I just stay around here to see if they will one day all die en mass from a terminal case of stupid. They don't know I'm here.

Out here in NoCal you have to go to the hills to find a considerable Faux News constituency. After all Solar & Co are in NoCal. So there is that. No state seems to be short on idiots.

Simple math much? A liberal majority doesn't negate the absolute numbers of the minority. There are MORE Faux Noise viewers in the Bay Area than there are in eastern TN. Duh.

[Ulysses]

Ig

[Vrede too]

Simple math much? A liberal majority doesn't negate the absolute numbers of the minority. There are MORE Faux Noise viewers in the Bay Area than there are in eastern TN. Duh.

Ig

Both math and the truth hurt, but you mustn't be so afraid.

[Ulysses]

Ig

[O Really]

That's a considerable constituency around here. I try to console myself that a lot of them don't or can't vote, but still it's hard to witness and live through. I think I just stay around here to see if they will one day all die en mass from a terminal case of stupid. They don't know I'm here.

Out here in NoCal you have to go to the hills to find a considerable Faux News constituency. After all Solar & Co are in NoCal. So there is that. No state seems to be short on idiots.

Simple math much? A liberal majority doesn't negate the absolute numbers of the minority. There are MORE Faux Noise viewers in the Bay Area than there are in eastern TN. Duh.

F'rinstance, Alameda County, CA, had 136,309 Trump voters in 2020, plus about 18K =/- for off center people you never heard of. The entire population of Sullivan County, TN is 158,163 - 55,860 of whom voted for Trump. So it would appear that there are more than twice as many Trumpers live somewhere around Ulysses than live around neoplacebo. And in the county around where Vrede lives, there were half as many Trumpers as in Sullivan.

[Ulysses]

That's a considerable constituency around here. I try to console myself that a lot of them don't or can't vote, but still it's hard to witness and live through. I think I just stay around here to see if they will one day all die en mass from a terminal case of stupid. They don't know I'm here.

Out here in NoCal you have to go to the hills to find a considerable Faux News constituency. After all Solar & Co are in NoCal. So there is that. No state seems to be short on idiots.

F'rinstance, Alameda County, CA, had 136,309 Trump voters in 2020, plus about 18K =/- for off center people you never heard of. The entire population of Sullivan County, TN is 158,163 - 55,860 of whom voted for Trump. So it would appear that there are more than twice as many Trumpers live somewhere around Ulysses than live around neoplacebo. And in the county around where Vrede lives, there were half as many Trumpers as in Sullivan.

Um, elections are won by majorities, not by the fake math you two are pushing.

So what if Alameda County had more Trump voters than some podunk county in the deep south?

How big is Alameda County? Well, as of 2019, 1,671,000. That dwarfs Sullivan County! And, of those 1,671,000 residents, the 2020 election went this way:

Joseph R. Biden And Kamala D. Harris 617,659 79.83 %
Donald J. Trump And Michael R. Pence 136,309 17.62 %

So shove that nonsense you're peddling.