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Trump and Reagan announced they were appointing women which they duly did (Amy Coney Barrett and Sandra Day O'Connor respectively).
On the other hand, Bush Sr and Obama said nothing which seems smarter politically whatever the reasons. I've read that Clarence Thomas got the nod because Bush Sr wanted to replace Marshall with another Black justice while also appointing a conservative justice, and it wouldn't surprise me if Obama took diversity into account when nominating Kagan and Sotomayor, but neither president announced as much at the time.
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I didn’t expect to see this.
Surprise! Tucker Carlson Draws the Most Democratic Viewers in Key Demo, Even Topping Rachel Maddow
Nielsen Fusion data for October shows the Fox News host’s audience isn’t entirely conservative
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@kid-chocolate hate watching? trying to get a head start on the memes?
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@paekakboyz said in US Politics:
@kid-chocolate hate watching? trying to get a head start on the memes?
Exactly. In love with being offended so mainlining the source. Super unhealthy way to live.
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Hard to say. But the desperate full-court press by Dems and their media appendages to ban Carlson from the airwaves might have a lot to do with these internal polls. The don’t care about his popularity with conservatives, but having more young liberals watching his show than Maddow is eye-popping. The masks are coming off.
It’s also entirely possible the young Dems watching him are Bernie supporters and the anti-war liberals. You only have to read Greenwald and watch Jimmy Dore youtube vids to understand many of them respect Carlson and detest Maddow.
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@kid-chocolate
Carlson is genuinely anti-war (or very skeptical of it and the military industrial complex)
He has the liberals Glenn Greenwald and Tulsi Gabbard on quite regularly.
Perhaps in line with young liberals???Edit: Oh, I see you just said that.
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@nostrildamus said in US Politics:
From what I have read most people who met Reagan liked him.
He preferred to win people over and didn't think too much of divisive politics.
E.g. the Iranians seized US embassy staff and held them hostage when Carter was president and it really damaged his presidency. Reagan came to power promising to wave the big stick and the hostages were released. But Reagan wasn't there to greet the hostages - he asked Jimmy Carter to represent him to show the US was unified on the issue.
How far the US has fallen.
Jimmy Carter is interesting. He seems very impressive apart from his Presidential term.
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@kid-chocolate said in US Politics:
I didn’t expect to see this.
Surprise! Tucker Carlson Draws the Most Democratic Viewers in Key Demo, Even Topping Rachel Maddow
Nielsen Fusion data for October shows the Fox News host’s audience isn’t entirely conservative
Does anyone do a better angrily confused facial expression than Tucker Carlson?
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@nostrildamus said in US Politics:
Jimmy Carter is interesting. He seems very impressive apart from his Presidential term.
Did loads of good stuff in Africa after his presidency. Really made a difference and deserves more credit.
As for Reagan, how influential do you think Nancy was?
We'll never know. From his diaries, you get the impression she was hugely supportive most of all and gave good feedback on world leaders. Read she was really protective of the President, particularly after he was shot, and put her foot down on schedules etc. Went a bit OTT on this with astrologers, IIRC
She was very liberal on social attitudes for her time, as was Ronnie, and thought nothing of having openly gay friends to the White House, though they didn't make a big thing about it. Coming from a Republican, that had a positive influence on gay rights.
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@nostrildamus said in US Politics:
Does anyone do a better angrily confused facial expression than Tucker Carlson?
Well, duh, Jacinda, obviously. But it’s so omnipresent people are led to believe it’s normal.
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@nostrildamus said in US Politics:
Jimmy Carter is interesting. He seems very impressive apart from his Presidential term.
Did loads of good stuff in Africa after his presidency. Really made a difference and deserves more credit.
As for Reagan, how influential do you think Nancy was?
We'll never know. From his diaries, you get the impression she was hugely supportive most of all and gave good feedback on world leaders. Read she was really protective of the President, particularly after he was shot, and put her foot down on schedules etc. Went a bit OTT on this with astrologers, IIRC
She was very liberal on social attitudes for her time, as was Ronnie, and thought nothing of having openly gay friends to the White House, though they didn't make a big thing about it. Coming from a Republican, that had a positive influence on gay rights.
thats before my time to be aware of such things, how was it received by the Republican voters?
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@kid-chocolate I reckon she's got the angsty concerned look with a smidge of condescension locked up.
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@kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@nostrildamus said in US Politics:
Jimmy Carter is interesting. He seems very impressive apart from his Presidential term.
Did loads of good stuff in Africa after his presidency. Really made a difference and deserves more credit.
As for Reagan, how influential do you think Nancy was?
We'll never know. From his diaries, you get the impression she was hugely supportive most of all and gave good feedback on world leaders. Read she was really protective of the President, particularly after he was shot, and put her foot down on schedules etc. Went a bit OTT on this with astrologers, IIRC
She was very liberal on social attitudes for her time, as was Ronnie, and thought nothing of having openly gay friends to the White House, though they didn't make a big thing about it. Coming from a Republican, that had a positive influence on gay rights.
thats before my time to be aware of such things, how was it received by the Republican voters?
Good question. I can't remember any furore at the time but I did note last couple of months articles on her support of gay friends and I wondered why they were suddenly appearing.
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@nostrildamus ironically people were just more accepting back then? or at least less/less vocal extremes of politics? or maybe "people" just didn't know, im sure before the info webs you could go weeks without knowing what the president was doing day today
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@kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@nostrildamus ironically people were just more accepting back then? or at least less/less vocal extremes of politics? or maybe "people" just didn't know
I'd say all three at a guess. He was from California, Hollywood so expected to know "creative people". The climate was less divisive, more civil in discourse too. Certainly less of this:
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@kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@nostrildamus ironically people were just more accepting back then? or at least less/less vocal extremes of politics? or maybe "people" just didn't know, im sure before the info webs you could go weeks without knowing what the president was doing day today
Quite a few decades earlier, but I'm still amazed the public didn't twig Roosevelt was in a wheelchair. Different times.
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@kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@nostrildamus said in US Politics:
Jimmy Carter is interesting. He seems very impressive apart from his Presidential term.
Did loads of good stuff in Africa after his presidency. Really made a difference and deserves more credit.
As for Reagan, how influential do you think Nancy was?
We'll never know. From his diaries, you get the impression she was hugely supportive most of all and gave good feedback on world leaders. Read she was really protective of the President, particularly after he was shot, and put her foot down on schedules etc. Went a bit OTT on this with astrologers, IIRC
She was very liberal on social attitudes for her time, as was Ronnie, and thought nothing of having openly gay friends to the White House, though they didn't make a big thing about it. Coming from a Republican, that had a positive influence on gay rights.
thats before my time to be aware of such things, how was it received by the Republican voters?
Image extreme Woke but from the opposite side. There were a lot of conservative "christian" groups with big influence and ideas like banning homosexuals from schools. The majority of Republicans probably really didn't care one way or the other but were wary of the power of these groups so didn't stick their heads above the parapet. Reagan (the darling of the Right) did.
He said quite bluntly anti-gay legislation was un-American and he was having nothing to do with it. What people got up in their private lives was their business and not government's, homosexually was normal, not an illness and it was wrong to say otherwise.
Most Republican voters probably thought the same and were glad he spoke out against the nutters. Plus ca change.
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@nostrildamus ironically people were just more accepting back then? or at least less/less vocal extremes of politics? or maybe "people" just didn't know
I'd say all three at a guess. He was from California, Hollywood so expected to know "creative people". The climate was less divisive, more civil in discourse too.
Yep.
Reagan's kids have said their parents best friends included an openly lesbian couple who looked after them when there parents were away. They called them aunt and auntie. That would have been in the 50 - 60's
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