posted by Fletch
Non story? Are you serious? The fucking president has a cue card on when to sit down. This should scare the shit out of you. The POTUS is not in control of anything.
As for being informed, in todays day and age, anyone and everyone should look at all the media sights to make sure they are being informed of all angles of any story.
Then you’re going to have a problem with many political leaders, business leaders, etc. They get this kind of guidance regularly because they do so much of this stuff, it all runs together. This “story” did not stumble upon anything unique to Biden.
I don’t like Biden because I think he’s a career politician who will ultimately do or say whatever he needs to in order to maintain his standing. This cue card business is for the birds.
As for “staying informed”…you could spend all 24 hours of everyday combing through websites with this being your goal. When that period is up, you’ve still done nothing more than obtain a sliver of all possible information and perspectives on national affairs. A guy who listens to a podcast for an hour on the dangers of melenoma may be marginally more knowledgeable than someone who spent 5 minutes reading the melenoma summary on Wikipedia, but neither are “informed” on the topic to postulate anything meaningful to society’s advancing knowledge of melenoma. Same thing goes here. You think there are better “informed” citizens today than 100 years ago because there’s exponentially more sources of entertainment? I think no. Reading all that crap does one thing: it makes you pissed off about arguments others have made (arguments you did not make, but only mimic), and about topics you have zero influence over. It’s escapism. We all do it, but it’s not good for any of us.