Bingo. I lost ~ 6g today. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if this was deliberate to make him or his buddies money.
Personal prediction for the next few months: We’ll lend troops to Saudi Arabia and they team up with Israel to directly attack Iran. Russia says “No” and we yank our troops, causing massive issues for Israel. Meanwhile, rumbles of a pending attack on North Korea will start to shake Washington and Congress will write a law making it illegal.
65% confidence.
This is “the exception that proves the rule.” Nate Silver is the celebrity predictor who’s almost a legend in his own time. And we applaud him because … he did about as well as the prediction markets.
Okay, let’s take a moment and assess the current clusterfuck situation
Right now on CNN’s home page we have the following:
That’s just today’s edition.
To be fair, CNN isn’t an impartial observer, headed principally by the intellectual lights of modern time.
Are you challenging the factual accuracy of the items listed in Procrustus’ post? IOW are you saying those things did not happen?
+1
The Fox & Friends inmates are running the asylum now. Bolton is a crazy war monger. His new lawyer spins conspiracy theories about the FBI on Fox News. This will not end well.
I’d probably agree that those are pretty close to the highlights of the day from the US perspective, plus or minus, and that the (presumable) negative presentation are deserved, but by virtue of being CNN, there’s not much credibility. More than FOX, but that’s not saying much. Dumping the home page of CNN as proof that Trump is an awful President and human being is as meaningful as dumping the home page of FOX to demonstrate the opposite.
6g – as in 6,000 DOLLARS? :eek:
You should play bingo in some lower-stakes bingo halls…
Yes, they suck up to the Republicans a lot; so if* they* are willing to criticism Trump or the Right, things are bad.
Hey, look, it can get even better. Trump wants to fire Kelly and not have a Chief of Staff.
He’s running the government just like he ran all his businesses. Loading it with crippling debt, undermining its foundations, and planning to cut and run before the structure crumbles, with a healthy wallet and all his personal debts wiped out.
No doubt it’ll be the same contractor hired to “help” Puerto Rico.
I’m not too worried. Trump’s not my president. I’m just concerned about what he does to the world. Kelly at least isn’t much of a threat in that regard.
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The $1.3 trillion spending bill has passed through Congress:
Personal prediction: Trump will veto.
I’ll take that bet.
I predict Trump signs the bill.
Absolutely The Orange Turd signs that! A bill someone else has to pay??? Just like those hoity-toity investors I had at my Taj Mahal Casino! Which I still own and run every single day!
A) GOP Congress rebuffs Trump and goes on a spending spree - POLITICO
B) Trump s currently in the process of flipping every table in sight out of built up anger of having everyone rebuffing him and hemming him in for a year. So now the Legislature has been ignoring him and his wants while negotiating one of the most important bills in the year with the Democrats, and giving them most of everything they want. If he’s going to go to town on his cabinet and China, using this as a vehicle for throwing a tantrum in Congress’ direction seems like it would be pretty par for the course this month.
C) The Breitbart heads are announcing that the Tea Party has died with this bill. He can win pretty big with his base by dumping on the bill for a week.
D) Ultimately, the only reason that I could see that Trump doesn’t veto the thing is because he doesn’t realize what a great chance it is to call the Republicans in Congress to heel and jerk the chain. And while it is decently likely that he’ll not notice the opportunity, I think the odds are high enough that it’s worth making the prediction, for the bragging rights.
My emphasis.
“Those are pretty close to the highlights of the day” means, yes, in fact, those events are “pretty close” (whatever that means) to things that actually happened. IOW true.
BUT
“By virtue of being CNN, there’s not much credibility” means there IS credibility (IOW true) but not “much,” meaning what? You agree these events happened but you object to the fact that CNN is reporting them? And you’re likening CNN to FOX because–??
Your post suffers from an excess of vagueness and internal contradiction. IOW it doesn’t make sense, does it?
I too wonder what evidence there is that CNN is nearly as uncredible as Fox. However, the bar for CNN is if they report any given story amidst their pop culture and shocker-of-the-day stories.