The Grumpy Old Man Thread (or, Why Today Sucks)

[Frownland]

After being choked out by the death of newspapers, the news media has started to prioritize clickbait headlines and panderingly biased language over journalism in order to survive. I personally believe that journalism is alive and well within the people simply due to the increased access in recording, but I don't expect accurate reporting from news outlets anymore because it's become entertainment.

RE: Flynn it could go either way. It's not uncommon for people to resign in anticipation of being fired or it could have been a firing along the lines of "we very strongly advise you to resign." It really just sounds like cheap typical Trump bluster where he's playing his favourite game of Trump v media because it's less harmful to his status than letting people stick on and focus on issues/scandals/war crimes/etc.

AR-15, the term semi-automatic works. Assault weapon is an ambiguous political term (I believe that this is intentionally so to muddy the conversation) since virtually every gun is an assault weapon. Assault is a gun's sole function.