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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-02-03/cnn-staffers-reeling-over-jeff-zucker-resignation This is buried in like paragraph twenty, but why would congresscritters think that a corporate shill being fired for conducting an inappropriate sexual relationship is devastating for "our democracy?"

Joe Rogan is literally just a jock - in a previous epoch he may have been a warrior - who decided he wanted to hear about intellectual things instead of just smoking weed with other comedians on his podcast. "You, sit, tell Joe what make sun go up in day and stars go up in night." And then just repeat for three hours. He'd believe pretty much whatever the people tell him up until a few years ago when he started to push back on things like diet and health. He's not an authority, and nobody views him that way. Literally the only reason to push against him having a platform is a disgraceful hatred of lay education and a desire to manage information from the seats of wealth and power only.

lol a byproduct of a free press.

According to reports, that hasn't satisfied the White House. Which is what I was talking about to start with.

What does the FCC have jurisdiction over?

Do you think there is a difference between publicly stating you think certain media conglomerates are against you and privately communicating with shot-callers at media companies regarding your preferences on their allowable content?

That's not the "they" I was talking about. But you knew that. If, as the reports suggest, the White House is leaning on Spotify to come down harder on Rogan, this is de facto state action and brings up first amendment issues. Same with Facebook, other big tech, etc. You can't plausibly suggest that these "private companies" would do this on their own when JRE is on, what, episode 1700? And received a $100M contract two years ago. Dr. Fauci has an open invitation, as does anyone else who wishes to platform the approved information regarding COVID, to go on JRE. Sanjay Gupta took up the invitation. They had a very pleasant conversation.

How many times does this point need to be made: THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT IS TRUE OR WHAT IS FALSE. The entire point is to manage information from the top-down. Where "experts" and "science" are defined by the government and their credentialist lackeys.

Maybe, but if that’s the standard how did the three coaches before him do? I seem to remember many years when they weren’t even bowl eligible. I don’t think Harbaugh is a great coach but he’s probably top half in the NFL if he signed tomorrow. In a league where the bottom 25% get the axe that’s not terrible. Harbaugh’s issue has always been quarterbacking, and when the issue wasn’t the quarterback (Andrew Luck) he was, again, not at a blue chip program. This isn’t an excuse, since at Michigan the recruiting of said quarterback falls squarely on him.

It’s almost like they ranked their candidates or something. Sinister!

That was really my point. Nobody is arguing that Michigan is a blue chip program or will be at some point. Ten wins and a decent bowl game is a good season for them. Going to the CFP is incredible, but not an expectation.

Were you watching them in the ten years prior to harbaugh’s arrival? That program was a clown show before he showed up.

It’s fairly clear that not only has Bill never heard a clip of JRE, to include the offending podcast episodes, but also hasn’t heard any of what Joe said in response.

Relented how?

It may well be BS (thus my hat tip above). According to sources in the Canadian government he and his family fled to an undisclosed location in the "capital region." If Canada were Venezuela we would have already had the swearing in of a new state leader and transferred all USAID funds straight into his personal bank account.

PPP needs a good sedevacantist to poast pre-V2 takes.

Polio vaccine and COVID "vaccine" have nearly nothing in common. I pointed out 5 because it's tangentially related and I'm surprised nobody is publicly taking advantage, not so much because it has bearing on this particular subject. 6: well, case in point.

Semi-related, where are all the stuffed shirts and Baker apologists who said OBJ was washed/never that good/team destroyer?

Tbh I don't think that's the worst analysis out there. There were other issues but these things could have contributed. Even after all of that though, they had the ball in OT with the chance to end it without Burrow touching the ball in the fifth period.

This is hilarious on several levels. First level: boomers who wrote protest songs and don't own their own songs "threatening" to pull their music from a streaming service for said service hosting speech. Second level: Skynyrd was correct on the Neil Young Question. Third level: said boomers haven't produced a relevant song in fifty years. Fourth level: Joni Mitchell famously self-diagnosed Morgellons, an "illness" that doesn't actually exist. If Joni "trusted the science" she would have submitted herself to psychiatric care for her delusions. Fifth level: this is a prime opportunity for a superstar artist who gets basically no money from hundreds of millions of streams of their songs to pull their music without getting backlash over being "greedy," AND a prime opportunity for the companies who actually own boomer song catalogs to wrangle some more money out of Spotify. Sixth level: the people with the strongest feelings on the subject have never consumed an episode of JRE and this is obvious. Seventh level: the best thing for Joe Rogan would be for Spotify to breach contract. He'd pocket nearly all of his $100M and his audience would follow him to another company, perhaps a new one with Joe as its owner/founder.

Leaf patriots in control.

And again the question needs to be asked: our laws and Constitution are set down in black and white, forever inscribed into our nation's founding documents as well as acts of Congress. Why, then, does "diversity" enter into the equation? Why does any group need "representation" in the reading and interpreting of laws?

But is she trouble?

Six of the current justices clerked for a Supreme Court Justice. Samuel Alito was a US Attorney. Thomas was chairman of the EEOC. Sotomayor was never high up in political spheres, but caught the attention of the right person at the right time to get vaulted to a federal court seat.