knowledgeable about what? she’s completely full of shit, that ryan knight clown has absolutely nothing to do with russia and she has absolutely no evidence to support her ridiculous paranoid claims
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I do see that you have a real problem with people that commit to the supposed middle ground. I love this. So in your view if I don’t have an extreme viewpoint, I’m lazy and don’t care about accuracy? [/quote]
That’s a lazy mischaracterization. Kind of an ironic comment given the context.
The bump stock comment is such a bizarre misdirection because it has absolutely nothing to do with whether he has incited violence with his comments and the things he chooses to advocate for.
You may not believe you are defending him, but a run of 10 or so posts based mostly on explaining that criticisms of him are wrong supported by only 1 out of context comment definitely comes across as that.
Many of my friends are Trump fans and are likely to vote for him again. Their opinion is theirs to have. It doesn’t mean I have to respect it. Especially when their stated reasons are so lacking in anything substantive. Likewise with your series of comments here.
EDIT: Odd, dont know why it’s refusing to double quote as the code used for the second (correct) quote is exactly the same as used for the broken first one.
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armed right-wing vigilantes currently patrolling the west coast and confronting people because tens of thousands of them believe facebook horseshit about antifa starting the wildfires
wonderful stuff
It’s all good… Have a wonderful day.
The media, outside of fringe groups, are committed to the appearance of balance rather than actual balance or accuracy. It’s become a trite meme now, but the journalistic creed is that if one person says it is raining and another says it is dry, it is not the journalists responsibility to report there is a debate but to stick your head out of the window and report what is happening. We have increasingly found ourselves with a press unable to approach anything outside of the perspective of giving equal weight to both sides. I think Trump has benefited from that way more than he has suffered from the constant focus his actions have forced them to put on him.
It is true that news organizations are significantly over represented by people left of center. We can speculate on why, but the fact it is true and people know about it, puts pressure on the individuals. There is a pervasive mindset that people on the right are going to be angry with them regardless and so performing their work in a way that makes people on the left angry with them as well is proof they are playing it down the middle. But it isnt. It is proof they are refusing to weigh the two sides being presented. It is exactly that perspective that brings us pathetic headlines like “Trump accuses the Vice President of a Crime. Biden denies accusations.”
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i’m going to upvote the pro-police screeds from a modi fanatic about how the ‘rioters’ were going to hand trump the election, and then complain when there’s pushback against it
You started off correcting my posts and trying to set me straight,but you still haven’t corrected anything i’ve said and added things i never said into the debate aswell.
I said Trumps negligence in not admitting coronavirus was a thing in its early stages and doing nothing about it for months,has got 1,000’s of people killed,who’s incharge of the country to sort these things out,Trump,did he do anything about it initially,No,so is he to blame,Yes.You said he never got people killed,thats you’re opinion,but i’d say alot more would disagree with you,so you’ve not really corrected my “False information” with facts .
I never once said Trump advocated or incited people to “USE” machine guns.I said Trump has incited and advocated people to “WALK” around the streets with machine guns,yet you still couldn’t understand where i got that thinking from because Trump never used those exact words,so it’s all false and i must be wrong,ever heard of Insinuating things???
Tell me what part of Trumps tweet,where he tells Virginia to Liberate over their 2nd Amendment right,as it’s under siege,isn’t inciting people to go out and carry a gun of some type or machine guns.Also by calling them good people and letting 100’s of people walk around in Militia’s,is that not not advocating it??
You tell me in this thread where you’ve corrected me properly,on any of these issues i brought up because of my lack of American Political knowledge,if i’m in the wrong i’ll gladly hold my hands up,but everything i’ve mentioned is in some way shape or form correct and the only reason we’ve carried it on is because you’ve interpreted what i’ve said wrongly or i made a slight mistake on a word.
TBH i don’t give a flying fuck about Trump or being massively political,this has eaten up way to much of my life,we’ll agree to disagree,you think Trump isn’t a dangerous idot,i do,we’ll leave it there.
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Good for you, man. You go out and change the world!
Trump a better candidate than Hilary Clinton? Come off it that’s complete bollocks. Even when comparing flaws which ones are comparable between the 2?
Hilary might be disliked more but when comparing candidatures surely one has to look at experience and actions and there Trump didn’t come close and doesn’t seem to have learn’t anything. Surely a factor in this is some sort of anti extablishment movement that one has also seen in other countries (like France).
Come on when you get armed groups showing up to protest about/against protests, armed groups entering and being allowed to enter chambers of governance, what next court rooms being taken over by militia? That’s fucked up (more than a mess). A president criticising Governers and Towns and states that’s not his role his role is to help enforce federal law not undermine it and he shouldn’t be touching on state law. Yet he encourages this spiral into hell.
If all this doesn’t point toward a breakdown of social and civic awareness and a decadence from a lot of citizens I don’t know what does. In what way is all this ‘fine’?
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Honestly - a response to this would not be productive based on the responses to date. So I’m not going to waste the time and everyone else’s either. You obviously are happy with your view on things. Why not just let it be - I am.
We are now in a period of what is being called a payroll tax holiday. In August, Trump directed the Treasurer to defer collection of the social security tax on our wages until next year. Come Jan 1, we then pay double the amount of normal so it gets paid back. Trump is now publicly promising that he will waive the repayment requirement if he wins the election. This is such an absurd transparent buy off.
No real economic rationale has been given for this, at least not one that also addresses how people are going to deal with a double tax burden for Q1 of 2021. The guidance from Treasury on how companies are supposed to do this were not even available by Sept1 meaning that very few outside of the federal government were complying. My company hasnt even been able to answer me yet as to whether we’re complying.
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Yeah! let’s just forget it all and pretend it’s all hunkydorey.
Let’s just promote the fiction in place of facts.
Let’s be glad Trump is president and will be president. Whoopee!
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I’m very much guilty of being ‘ there all the same shit, it’s just the bucket that changes’
You are correct, it is lazy, probably wrong and not advantageous for future society…
But it just seems that the more they throw pathetic barbs at each other, line each other’s pockets, haggle and hassle, the less anything they do changes my life, so I just spend more time invested in other things.
A typical cycle in Aussie politics is , say a three year term, year one, celebrate and announce a new cabinet, year two haggle and politically back stab each other, jostle for position, year three, promise you’ve got it right now, mistakes were made but we are definately on the right track’ and spend a shed load on infrastructure…rinse and repeat.
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Given that he might not be in office at the time that collection is due surely there must be a legal stop sign to such a strategy. Then there is also the fact that it boils down to bribery. Common sense alone sees that there are major problems with that promise, surely the law has some common sense or is it so blatantly wrong that lawmakers didn’t think that someone would actually use that as an election tactic?
I honestly dont know. I dont even know how it is within his power to do this with Executive Order, other than the fact that Congress is now content to let Presidents use power that should be theirs (while they bitch and moan about it).
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watching the governor of california or the speaker of the house tweet shit like ‘the oceans are on fire, trump is a rapist criminal, pass it on’ as if there’s someone more equipped than them to actually do something makes me want to ride a motorcycle off a cliff
Just out of interest what do Trumps tweets make you feel like doing?
… and if you think that might help … 
Do you have a gofundme page 
It was so tone deaf, but I reject the idea that they do have power to do something about it. A justice department and a GOP controlled senate enabling him has undercut the House of any real power they have on paper and have left them able to do nothing but performative nonsense.
Kissinger got the Nobel peace prize all these years ago, you know…
I honestly think that this prize is a total fallacy. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if I heard that it is funded by arm traders.
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