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Somehow the top marginal tax rate being 70-90% until the 1980s resulting in an era of much less wealth inequality compared to the Gilded Age and today always slips the minds of the Very Informed people at institutions like NPR when discussing tax policy.
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* another right-wing terrorist shoots up the place * I spend my show lightly hand-wringing about southern tropes in entertainment. Edit: * the Episcopal leadership of the National Cathedral has taken the unprecedented step of publicly denouncing the president's racism. * I spent 20 minutes talking about my visit to some lady in Maine who makes clam Pizza stealie72 fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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Today on This American Life we look at a middle class women who had a panic attack and then turned her emotional toil into a successful business funded by her millionaire hedgefund dad. We also do a story where we suggest that people who claim ssi do to disabilities through manual labour are really just moochers.
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maybe stop slobbering on nazi dicks, stop refusing to call things what they are, and stop constantly seeking the middle ground (really constantly seeking the center-right ground). might be a few steps in the right direction the sad thing is that NPR is that despite all this, NPR is still one of the best sources of news in the country
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Aug 2, 2019 00:34
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Hi I'm Peter Seagal and we're going to ask you a bunch of questions while Paula Poundstone makes fun of you
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Is Paula Poundstone a child molester or not? Surely there is a middle ground here.
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Cessna posted:Is Paula Poundstone a child molester or not? Surely there is a middle ground here. quote:In October 2001, Poundstone was charged with felony child endangerment in connection with driving while intoxicated with children in the car. She was also charged with three counts of lewd acts upon a girl younger than 14.[11] She changed her earlier plea of not guilty, and, in exchange, prosecutors dropped three counts of committing lewd acts against a child and added a misdemeanor count of inflicting injury upon a child.[11][12] Poundstone also pleaded no contest to one count of felony child endangerment.[12] She was sentenced to probation and six months in rehabilitation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.[12] In 2002, Poundstone talked about her personal responsibility for the events that led to her arrest and the steps she has taken, including a six-month treatment program for alcoholism, but said that she did not commit any lewd acts or child abuse. She got caught driving drunk with kids in the car, pleads "no contest" (which means you are not saying you did but also not saying you didn't) and then later says, "Well sorry everyone, i was drunk at the time!". I guess its a matter for the courts if she did or didn't but gently caress her for putting kids in these situations.
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Bonzo posted:I guess its a matter for the courts if she did or didn't but gently caress her for putting kids in these situations. Yeah, that's more than enough for me to turn off the radio when she's on.
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Aug 2, 2019 18:58
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Ashmole posted:Hi I'm Peter Seagal and we're going to ask you a bunch of questions while Paula Poundstone makes fun of you The show is good but the quality varies wildly by panelist. For example, there's no reason for Mo Rocca to be on the radio at any time.
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Cessna posted:Yeah, that's more than enough for me to turn off the radio when she's on. Mo Rocca Paula Poundstone Is NPR where former Comedy Central personalities go to die? Good think Marc Maron has his own thing going.
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*state lawmaker goes on unhinged rant about white people being replaced by criminal minorities* NPR: Later today we'll be lobbing softballs at a state lawmaker facing controversy over statements some are calling racially charged
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Also NPR: But is it really racism? Is it the partisan divide that's the real problem?
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NPR: We just want to be liked
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SCROTO TURBOSPERG posted:I'm howie menshevik and here's my take on the subtle biblical allegories hidden in the secret life of pets 2 I will break down doors to get into a room with him on the radio so I can turn it off. Film critics are all mostly poo poo but that man is like a Portlandia caricature of how poo poo they are.
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Cessna posted:Also NPR: But is it really racism? If is the partisan divide that's the real problem? Later, a bunch of NIMBY fucks vetoed a Homeless Shelter in Koreatown last year. Now, why local leaders are up in arms about the growth in homeless populations and the city's inaction. You'll hear from a resident that was very much against "those people" bring "crime, drug use and those kinds of problems "to Koreatown, and how he now gives sandwiches to homeless people and maybe holds up a "KTOWN Chooses LOVE" poster to show he cares.
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IM A HOUSE MINORITY REPRESENTATIVE AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY BEING TALKED OVER YOU SPINELESS SAD MILQUETOAST EXCUSE FOR A MORNING NEWS HOST Sir can we just talk abou NO! SUCK MY COCK!
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Play posted:maybe stop slobbering on nazi dicks, stop refusing to call things what they are, and stop constantly seeking the middle ground (really constantly seeking the center-right ground). might be a few steps in the right direction Pretty much. Though in the not SA world NPR is an evil lefty boogeyman. One that Thursday took a nice big poo poo on Mitch McConnell the man whose existence makes turtles lame. (Like they were legit fair in the way this thread mocks them and it basically made him look like an even bigger piece of poo poo than I thought!) *Anyhow this is Snap Judgement and I am your host, crazy guy who makes up more bullshit about my life than every lying kid you knew in Elementary School combined. And look forward to our Spooked podcast where I invent more wacky poo poo for Halloween because I am huffing paint fumes!*
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Captain Rufus posted:Pretty much. Though in the not SA world NPR is an evil lefty boogeyman. One that Thursday took a nice big poo poo on Mitch McConnell the man whose existence makes turtles lame. (Like they were legit fair in the way this thread mocks them and it basically made him look like an even bigger piece of poo poo than I thought!) That's the whole rub, NPR and centrist liberals in general are constantly desperately trying to silence and marginalise anyone to their left and suck up to the right wing that already considers them universally to be hippie communists and will never be dissuaded.
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Dale-Taco posted:*leans in uncomfortably close to a microphone without a pop filter* *more spit smacking noises than talking*
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Please donate money to us in your will instead of giving it to your famil
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We’re gonna go ahead and dedicate several segments that seriously investigate the right wing allegation that video games have something to do with mass shooting murders rather than quickly identify them as the last minute distractions that they clearly are.
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This is Fresh Air, I'm very gross
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Host: Hi there, I'm Spazz McFroodle and tonight I'm here with Vigo Mordenschiesser, an oil executive with controlling shares in Balegaze-Hatedrinker Industries, one of the government's most influential weapons manufacturers. So tell me, Vigo, I understand that you donate a sizable portion of your wealth to needy children overseas? Guest: But of course. In a growing global economy we can't ignore the role of successful men in bringing prosperity to war-stricken countries. With the schools and infrastructure loans I provide, the children will grow up to be productive members of society, and will be able to do their part to manufacture goods and provide useful services to the world, and at a fraction of the cost of domestic workers. And that's Mr. Mordenschiesser, Spazz. Host: You know, certain radical elements have suggested you're profiting from your generosity, that you're encouraging children abroad to train in STEM fields in order to lower the wages of American engineers, technicians, and all that. What have you got to say about that? Guest: That's pure projection on the part of the liberals. I'm bringing education and, ultimately, civilization to impoverished villages. When they work in my factories and my call centers, they're making the world a better place while earning an honest living, and at the same time I'm making enough profit to put back into more projects. Bit by bit my success is making more success. What services are Bernie Sanders and his globalist thugs contributing, hm? They want to take what we have earned and give to people who have earned nothing. While some of the more... let's call them "hyperbolic" conservatives say they do it out of some evil plot, I happen to think they mean well, that they care, but also that they have no understanding of the way things are. It'd be great if everyone could just get along, if nobody was lazy and people could understand their place in the world, but that's not how things work, that's not how they'll ever work, and we have to find out how to make things fit the status quo. Host: You're absolutely right. If we just went around changing things all the time, who knows what would happen? Guest: Bread-lines, Spazz. Enslaved healthcare providers. Gulags and guillotines. And when the radicals and the thugs have finished killing the geese who lay the golden eggs, they'll turn on each other. Give these Antifa punks a chance and we'll have the equality they want -- we'll all be poor wretches, scrabbling in the mud and crushed beneath Sharia law. Host: You know, Vigo, if only more people would understand that the issues we're up against need bipartisanship. All this name-calling, all this discontent -- if we would stop paying so much attention to it things would get better. After all, a wound can't heal if you keep picking at the scab, right? Guest: I told you to call me Mr. Mordenschiesser, and yes, I agree, there needs to be more compromise. The radical left has had its way for too long and it's about time it stopped oppressing the workers with its meaningless and toxic regulations. The only reason I have to rely so heavily on overseas labor instead of good old fashioned American products and services is because the government is too quick to suppress the need to excel in its workers. Want to work off the clock to take the load off your fellow workers and to prove to your boss how much you care? You can't, it's illegal. Do you want to ignore superfluous and inane safety procedures in order to do your job more quickly and efficiently? You can't, it's illegal. Do you want to keep the workers under you from wasting their wages on union dues and to give them an incentive to protect their rights as workers? Host: You can't, it's illegal. Guest: Exactly! So that's why I'm investing money overseas. I'm sowing the seeds of a new crop of workers free to put one-hundred-and-ten-percent of its effort into their careers and to prove to the soft Participation-Trophy generation that there's nothing wrong with a little elbow grease and a little sweat. And you know what? Unlike here in the states, these countries understand that children need the discipline and the liberation of finance that can only be given by a good, solid day's work. Host: Thank you for both your time here today and for the risks you're taking, sir. While many of our viewers may disagree with your parts of your philosophy, I can see that we have the same goals in mind, and it's only through teamwork can we make the world a better place. Guest: You're quite welcome. Host: Next we're going to speak with billionaire and Democratic presidential candidate Fremble Snorbit and his radical plan to remove the so-called "social safety net" that's been keeping his fellow queer black men tangled and enslaved. Guest: You know, Democrats started the KKK. Host: That we did, and we will never forget it.
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Bodyholes posted:*more spit smacking noises than talking* You want the ASMR thread. this is the NPR thread.
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I'm going to get my guest to regurgitate trump talking points that China is "cheating", they're underhanded, and they're "manipulating their currency" in Bad Ways and I'm going to uncritically accept them. This is Here and Now.
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comedyblissoption posted:I'm going to get my guest to regurgitate trump talking points that China is "cheating", they're underhanded, and they're "manipulating their currency" in Bad Ways and I'm going to uncritically accept them. lmao especially in light of trump's china tweets today, I wonder how NPR will respond Also, David Koch is dead, here's hoping you're not in the will, NPR
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Code Jockey posted:lmao especially in light of trump's china tweets today, I wonder how NPR will respond
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boy all those wildfires in the amazon, sure is nuts huh? hate to get political here but i heard there's a connection to the brazilian president somehow? oh he says that his political opponents are somehow starting these fires?? wow huh, how about that. alright, over to some other irrelevant bullshit on morning edition, my name is steve inskeep and my career is a continuing mockery of the concepts of news reporting and journalism
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Soap Scum posted:Is it this? This is what we know about A Prairie Home Companion That is crazy accurate
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Julius CSAR posted:That is crazy accurate Right?
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Code Jockey posted:lmao especially in light of trump's china tweets today, I wonder how NPR will respond
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hi welcome to npr national public radio a government funded entity here to serve to people would you lke to buy a casper mattress or how about harrys razer blades or how about meundies ok back to a story about how a young boy named Ezra took a big poo poo
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phi·lan·thro·pist /fəˈlanTHrəpəst/ noun a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.
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I’m Steven Dubner and this has been my interview with Charles Koch, one of the most controversial figures in the political world today. I avoided all talk of the billions of dollars Charles and his brother David funneled into anti-environmental causes and climate change denial so that I could feel better about being an upper middle class white male. You know what I came away from this interview with? The Koch Brothers are actually good. This has been Freakonomics. -hip musical interlude- Got an idea of how to make rich people feel better about being rich? Email is your ideas and we may do an episode about it.
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*sitting in the doctor's office. Doctor comes in grimacing* Me, Peter Sagal: Wait wait, don't tell me.
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Stinky_Pete posted:This is Fresh Air, I'm very gross hahaha
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"Guys. Post some band. I don't care how obscure or ephemeral they are. We're still a radio lol."
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Stinky_Pete posted:This is Fresh Air, I'm very gross This is what happens in my brain every time she comes on lol
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