Danny Bateman
Donor
It's really fairly interesting to watch the GOP line up behind him when he does something outstandingly racist like this. It shows you just how far they'll go to maintain power & try to spin everything like it's normal. It never fails to disappoint me how many of them suddenly can't find the words or magically "didn't read or see what he said." Of course the conservative media are always there to soften the blow & convince us the real problem is those dang Democrats.
There's probably nothing short of him dropping the N word on a tape repeatedly on a tape that would get them to admit anything is wrong about his behavior. Until that happens, he's just being strong, blunt & decisive. Of course, we've already seen what happens when such a tape drops - the GOP denounces him in very strong terms, only to go crawling back without objection in a couple weeks.
@Bornhusker I know it's off topic, but I'm trying to engage in good faith. I read your WashExaminer piece & just didn't find their argument convincing at all. First, it tries to frame the repeal of NN as a bad thing for corporate giants like Netflix, Amazon & Google. But it never explicitly states HOW it's a bad thing for them. In reality, it is - but only because the repeal of NN allows telecom providers to throttle those specific services/sites on consumers and thus shake them down if they want to access higher speeds for them. So, yippee - the corporates giants transfer some of their power to telecoms, who can now charge more money on the consumer if they want to use certain services. It also seems to me their argument boils down to "the free market will take care of it" & "competition." Well what would you (or WashExaminer) say to lots of Americans who live in areas that only have one ISP available? Is the free market going to save them too? Because from what I've seen firsthand, those people and up paying too much for lousy internet service with poor customer service.
The reality is that in some of these sectors that have de facto monopolies going on, the free market isn't going to improve things short of some miraculous breakthrough. Google tried to do so recently with Google Fiber - but they were shut down at the edict of the telecoms who took legal action & mobilized indebted politicians to oppose this as well. Free marketism as a solution simply isn't viable when such a small number of corporations have a stranglehold on the status quo of an industry.
There's probably nothing short of him dropping the N word on a tape repeatedly on a tape that would get them to admit anything is wrong about his behavior. Until that happens, he's just being strong, blunt & decisive. Of course, we've already seen what happens when such a tape drops - the GOP denounces him in very strong terms, only to go crawling back without objection in a couple weeks.
@Bornhusker I know it's off topic, but I'm trying to engage in good faith. I read your WashExaminer piece & just didn't find their argument convincing at all. First, it tries to frame the repeal of NN as a bad thing for corporate giants like Netflix, Amazon & Google. But it never explicitly states HOW it's a bad thing for them. In reality, it is - but only because the repeal of NN allows telecom providers to throttle those specific services/sites on consumers and thus shake them down if they want to access higher speeds for them. So, yippee - the corporates giants transfer some of their power to telecoms, who can now charge more money on the consumer if they want to use certain services. It also seems to me their argument boils down to "the free market will take care of it" & "competition." Well what would you (or WashExaminer) say to lots of Americans who live in areas that only have one ISP available? Is the free market going to save them too? Because from what I've seen firsthand, those people and up paying too much for lousy internet service with poor customer service.
The reality is that in some of these sectors that have de facto monopolies going on, the free market isn't going to improve things short of some miraculous breakthrough. Google tried to do so recently with Google Fiber - but they were shut down at the edict of the telecoms who took legal action & mobilized indebted politicians to oppose this as well. Free marketism as a solution simply isn't viable when such a small number of corporations have a stranglehold on the status quo of an industry.
