TFW PBS NewsHour is dunking on your campaign to your face

Imagine dialing 911 and the operator says "Nine Eleven, what's your emergency?"

"Nine eleven what's your emergency?"

"Hi, I'd like to report a nine eleven."

"Oh jeez"
- Oh no...they did a 9/11 in Minnesota??
I was eating with friends at a Hooters around 2006 or thereabouts, and totally as a joke I complained about their "911" hot wings, telling the waitress that I was offended by their appropriation of our "sacred tragedy 9/11" to name their hottest wings after. She got all wide-eyed and said "oh no no no no no no no" and went running off to get her manager, who came and apologized profusely and told me they were named after the 911 phone number and not 9/11. He comped our entire table's bill and gave me four $50 gift certificates as well - it was too late for me to back out of the joke at that point. TBF I still have those gift certificates somewhere, but it was no real hardship to not use them because Hooters is pretty fucking awful.
Haha thank you I couldn't figure out what 9/11 had to do with all this
- I've noticed it being written like 9/11 instead of 911 a lot lately. Is this how it's supposed to be or what has happened that's making people add the slash now..

Don't fuck with Amna Nawaz.

She has quickly risen to be one of my S-Tier journalists.

I remember when Judy Woodruff was still the anchor during Jan 6th, she was just beside herself saying "there was no way we could have known!" Cue Amna Nawaz with "We did know. He told us, many times" as she proceeds to list several examples.

So happy to see her take over. Bless you, Amna.
- I remember that! I've been really impressed with her often on-the-ground reporting both in places like the southern border where she humanizes many of the migrants, and especially her work in Gaza.
  
  She and Nick Schifrin are doing real work.
Gonna need to change her name to Sirhan Sirhan after that kill.

PBS Newshour is legit.

Love PBS Newshour.

Also love the effort they put into making sure everyone can access the program.

Full episodes on YouTube the day of and they also livestream the episodes on YouTube as they air.

I can't think of a single family member I'd vote for if they were running for president.

Huh, I'm the opposite, i would vote for almost every family member
- Someone had a good childhood
I'd vote for my mom, and I'd vote for my brother, but I'm way far to the left of both of them. That said, they have decent politics on some things, and great politics on others.

There is no one else in my family I would vote for, save maybe that one cousin who went no contact with the whole family when his dad disowned him for being gay in the 90s. But I don't know his politics. I just respect the fuck out of him.
- his dad disowned him for being gay in the 90s
  
  Jeez that's some hardcore living in the past, even for way back then. Blows my flippin' mind how a parent could do that.
  
  I don't know if any of my kids are gay but shit, who cares? I know if they are they'll be fine with telling me.
Honestly I'm not even related to any good picks for city council, and that includes myself.
- I wouldn't vote to put my brother in charge of a pay toilet.
Those of my family who have good morals have terrible political skills. Those of my family who have good political skills have terrible morals.

No Presidents in my family.
- Hate to tell you but it's like that for pretty much everyone.
Yeah it's not the best metric. Imagine it the other way around and you're a progressive who came from a crazy religious Conservative family. Should whether they support you impact people's votes?
- There's fundamentally 2 reasons why your family wouldn't support you for President:
  
  Because they suck
  
  Because you suck
  
  It's not complicated to work out which of these applies to your hypothetical person and which of these applies to RFK, but it would undermine his run to say either out loud.
- It doesn't have to be a great metric, she's saying the bar is on the floor for this one. "They don't agree with me on everything, but they agree with me enough not to vote against me." That's as low a bar as anyone can clear, and he doesn't clear it.

Man annoyed that he has never been important spends an inordinate sum of money to prove once and for all that he isn't important.

Just shows that money really can't buy you happiness, and it certainly can't buy you common sense.

Such a sick burn that I damaged my eyes reading it.

I heard this in Sloan Sabbath's voice

Ha, good show.

lmaoooooooo

I don't know what's going on. Someone explain it to me?

The photo has two individuals in it. The interviewer is on the left, Amna Nawaz, and RFK Jr is responding to a question by asking one of his own, “does everyone in your family agree with you?” Amna’s response is to reply that, “I think that they’d vote for me if I ran for president.”

RFK Jr family has come out against his presidential campaign. I believe they have aligned with the Biden campaign.

The burn here implies that: if you can’t even get your own family votes, how can you expect to get American voters?

Edit: clarification of people
- You just hit me right in the wholesome. I appreciate your response very much. I have been conditioned to expect condescending responses and yours was informative to answer the persons question.
  May the road rise up to meet you.
- Thanks, I originally read that backwards first and was confused.

Why does he have a name and not her?

Because this story is about him, not her. You don’t have to see gender conflict everywhere.
- I don't actually care about gender? Who inserted that? Wtf?
  
  It's about her to me.
  
  Sorry that you are offended.
We are referring to her by her title, as her preferred form of address.
- Ait

RFK deserves the dunking-on, but "I think my family would vote for me if I ran for president" is petty and speculative in order to generate views. Does PBS engage in 24 hour news cycle punditry now?

It's neither petty nor punditry when she's honestly answering the simple and direct question her guest posed to her.
- Exactly. Forcing ourselves to respond to trolls as if they're legit is A HUGE PART OF HOW WE GOT TO THIS PLACE OF INSANITY.
  
  This motherfucker is crazy and unqualified. And he's putting us all in danger, with his narcissistic third-party run, in this election of all elections. We don't owe him anything. We need to stop answering lunatic shit with "well, hold on now, we have to treat this fringe whacko and all his dumbass, sophomoric, pulled-straight-out-of-his-ass opinions with just as much gravity as any real political scientist would command."
  
  Fuck that. It needs to stop. It has gone on far too long, already. Make incompetent morons feel like morons again.