Where do you get your information from?

[Wickabee]

These two guys make a satirical political show for the main purposes of comedy and entertainment....

With that being said, it is both more informative and accurate than the entirety of fox news.....less biased too if you can believe that.

There's a reason Stewart was the most trusted newsman in America, and there's a reason he said he found that both hilarious and incredibly sad.

[Wickabee]

Also, I used to watch Glenn Beck until he went to FOX. He used to be a decent look into conservative thinking, now he's a decent look into why America needs to put more focus on treatment of mental illness.

Now when I dont understand a conservative viewpoint I turn to Billo. He really can explain things like he's your grandpa.

[Wickabee]

So, GroundSupport, should I mock you because you're now ignoring the fact I vote right wing in my area?

Where you at?

[Wickabee]

I guess I do...

CRICKETS FROM GROUNSUPPORT!!!!!!!


I guess I blew his mind.

[GroundSupport]

I guess I do...

CRICKETS FROM GROUNSUPPORT!!!!!!!


I guess I blew his mind.

Bravo! You got me!

Mind Blown.


Sorry I was in the other thread and missed what you wrote.

[GroundSupport]

Your a tough cat to figure out Wick, Ill give you that. But slowly but surely we seem to agree on certain issues, just taking the bumpy road to get there I guess.

[Wickabee]

Your a tough cat to figure out Wick, Ill give you that. But slowly but surely we seem to agree on certain issues, just taking the bumpy road to get there I guess.

You're not the first to say that, and I have no problem with it.

Would you believe shrewsbury and I are friends?

[sanfran22]

So, GroundSupport, should I mock you because you're now ignoring the fact I vote right wing in my area?

Where you at?

Ok, so can you elaborate why you voted right wing? Just curious.

[Wickabee]

Ok, so can you elaborate why you voted right wing? Just curious.

Well, in Canada what we call "right-wing" you'd probably call "center-left" but regardless...

1 - The left party, NDP, were in power in this province through the 90s. We were a have-not society in that decade. I was a kid and I could see there was something wrong. Everything in the province outside Victoria (capital) and Vancouver (largest city) looked like an episode of Roseanne in the worst possible way. After several scandals which equated to the party heads skimming off the top and giving contracts for favours, they lost all but 2 seats to the right-wing Liberal party. This last election, their leader was the one of those "higher-ups" who benefitted from illegal activity until the police were investigating, at which point he turned on his friends, stepped down with a pension, and faced no repercussions. I felt that was the party telling the voters our memory sucks. They also spent the entire election on one issue, which only affects about 1/3 of the province, telling the rest of us we don't really matter.

2 - If you think your Democrat party invented horrid spending, then our (BC) New Democrat Party (NDP) perfected it. That is just historical fact.

3 - In the election, their leader actually walked into one public appearance and said he planned to train more people for the forestry sector, and then cut production, and left it at that. I'm not mathematician, but that doesn't add up. Maybe if he had even attempted to explain it, but he didn't. That was his plane for jobs for 2/3 of the province.

4 - I don't like this "Liberal" government much either, but there's a couple of mitigating factors:
1: Most actual corruption in the BC government was through our Premier's predecessor and his government. He stepped down and she took over in a party election. This was her first chance to really form her own government. I don't like judging people on what those before them did. The NDP went through their "street team" the HuffPost, and ragged on her predecessor. Thing is, their leader was actually guilty himself AND got off Scott free.
2: It really looked like the NDP were going to run away with it right up until the results started coming out. It was actually kind of funny to watch NDP supporters on TV go from absolutely giddy to heartbroken over the course of the evening. Not because they're NDP supporters as because it's not me. The Greens didn't have a chance of making a dent, though my Liberal vote really mattered little, as mine is the single most conservative (so Liberal Party) riding in the province. In fact, we re-elected the Liberals, but their leader, Christie Clark, lost her seat. My riding is so safe that my Liberal MLA stepped down so she could run a safe by-election to win the right to sit in legislature. She won easily.

[duane1969]

I am a "verifier" of news. I may read something on MSNBC, FoxNews or CNN, but I always look to confirm it with other news sources before I reference it. I have seen too many news agencies twist things and take things out of context for their own purpose to trust any single news agency. But I usually start with MSNBC.