"Hillary was NEVER going to take Kansas"

Kansas currently has a Democratic governor. They also decided NOT to gerrymander, after Congresswoman Sharice Davids (D-KS) said she'd run for Senator if written out.

"It imploded to infighting"

...over fantasy football. The self-importing jerks, sure they could run the world, couldn't even run A GAME.

"Fox News is the definition of propaganda."

While they were laughing at the gullibility of their viewers behind their backs.

From the AP:

On Nov. 13, the week after the 2020 election, Ingraham, Carlson and Hannity got into a text message exchange in which they lambasted the news division. It began with Ingraham pointing out a tweet by correspondent Bryan Llenas, saying he had seen no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania. Carlson replied that Llenas had contacted him to apologize, then added "when has he ever reported' on anything."

Ingraham then names another colleague who indicated there was no fraud, with Hannity responding: "Guys I've been telling them for 4 years. News depart that breaks no news ever." In a subsequent Twitter message seconds later, Hannity says, "They hate hate hate all three of us." Ingraham responds she doesn't "want to be liked by them" and Carlson chimes in, "They're pathetic." The conversation continues with Hannity bemoaning the damage that has been done to the brand: "In one week and one debate they destroyed a brand that took 25 years to build and the damage is incalculable."

Another text conversation by the trio three days later had Ingraham telling her colleagues that her anger at the news channel was "pronounced," followed by an "lol." In response, Carlson attacked two Fox anchors: "It should be. We devote our lives to building an audience and they let Chris Wallace and Leland (expletive) Vittert wreck it. Too much." Wallace and Vittert have since left the network.

"Eric Adams would have been a fantastic choice to keep sullying the Democratic Party"

If the DNC endorsed him, they're idiots. We cannot, in good conscience, endorse the Democrat is an option.

Mamdani was, by every measure, the best candidate.

"Did the DNC plot against Bernie?"

Wha?!? A private Democratic group, endorsing a Democrat over a Democratic Socialist? STOP THE PRESSES!

Also, keep in mind one thing: Bernie's approval had a lot to do with NO NEGATIVE ADS against him. That trend would NOT have continued had he snagged the nomination.

" BTW, they were structured that way when Cronkite, Brinkley, etc....were doing the news."

No, they were not.

Back then, newsrooms were not expected to be profit centers.

"Not one point places any blame on members of the MSM for their cratering reputation."

Like you've never put blame on the guy in your mirror?

Heck, you helped build the right wing of the current MSM structure. Take credit where credit is due.

"It's everybody else's fault. We are perfect at what we do."

Strawman Alert!

"What salient facts have been left out of this thread?"

Wait...so now you're going to pretend you don't do that?!?

" Not sure why nine people find their effort sabotaged."

Probably because you were using Republican Math.

The room got less smoky by AT LEAST 33 cigarettes, and 51 cigarettes if the cold turkey couple smoked the club average of 10 cigarettes per day.

How TF does something get MORE smoky with LESS cigarettes, dumfuq?!?

"It's been a trend going back decades."

And you've played a part in it. Every time you've posted something and purposely left out the salient facts.

" THe whole thing looks set to come crashing down yet nobody in DC cares."

Which is EXACTLY what you voted for.

I mean, let's be serious for a moment: you are a contributor to this.

You claim all the time this is "100% self inflicted", but the truth of the matter is, it takes people like you to either come into a chat room and lie purposely, or to amplify other people's lies with your posts, links, and water-carrying.

A sizable part of the mistrust was part of your goal. Take credit where credit is due. Be a Proud Boy!

"Will they EVER reach a point where they recognize and acknowledge the massive problem they have and engage in serious introspection as how to begin to repair the damage?"
~Bellringer

What a coincidence.

That's the same stuff people say about you.

"Bondi looks like a petulant child with her responses."

That's because they weren't responses.

They were DARVO, as taught by Roy Cohn.

"...Mr Kamala wins in a landslide"

Fair point!

" You don't know that."

Yes, he does. Bernie would've been crushed. The opposition would've (wrongly) accused him of being a communist/socialist, and (rightly) accused him of wanting your taxes to go up BY A LOT.

It would've been a McGovern-style blowout.

"Lots of theatrics on her part today before the House. That's great."

Houston, I think we've found the problem.

"RFK already has a head start"

Well...a partial head start. Gotta subtract that brainworm food!

" But in nearly all highly selective private and public colleges (the 85 that accept 25 percent or fewer applicants) Black enrollment declined or remained flat"

Why is that a surprise? Frankly, the Macro Dial is turning exactly the way I'd expect: nearly zero "selective" colleges have higher black enrollment than before.

"...they believed Trump wouldn't send ICE into rural Idaho towns even though they knew they had illegals working there."

So when leopards said they'd eat faces, they were sure it wouldn't be THEIR faces...so they were okay with it.

"Crazy as that sounds, you can understand where they are coming from"

Dodge City?

"It doesn't disenfranchise anyone. "

Republican Math is a dangerous thing.

Stay in school, kids!!!

"How might China terminate ice hockey in Canada?"

Paint all the blue lines red?

The route for preparation with multiple states is federal first, then any and all nonresident states and localities, and finally your home state.

The last question in multi-state returns is always "How much credit will the Home state give for income taxes paid to each of the other states?"

Answer that question, and I'm done!