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So Blind They Cannot See

  

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By:  john-russell  •  4 years ago  •  81 comments

So Blind They Cannot See
 Trump's presidency is more like a dystopian Hollywood political satire /dark comedy  than it is like an achievement to be celebrated.  Hugh Hewitt does not mention a single word that indicates there is massive opposition to Trump, including many people who used to be Republicans. Just today it is in the news that another group of Republican ex- members of Congress, led by former Sen Jeff Flake of Arizona , have come out as an organization in support of Joe Biden's candidacy. 

The conservative pundit/analyst Hugh Hewitt has a new op/ed in the Washington Post. I will put it up as the first comment.  In this op/ed Hewitt purports to give us the case for Donald Trump , and talks about what Trump has done about the border with Mexico, trade war with China, the right wing judges he has appointed to the federal courts, and a couple other things, as the reasons Trump deserves another four years. 

What Hewitt does not mention, even one word of, is the utter chaos Trump has brought to the government, and more importantly the chaos and dishonesty he has brought to American public discourse through the expression of his presidency.  Hewitt does not even mention the fact that the nations major news organizations have tracked approximately 20,000 lies and misstatements by Trump, just since he assumed office in Jan 2017. Donald Trump lied at least 75 times about the Ukrainian whistleblowers report.  That was such a serious subject Trump was impeached over it,  and he lied about it in public appx 75 times.  Hewitt doesnt mention that, or any of the other 20,000 lies. 

He doesnt mention any of Trump's personal attacks on opposition politicians, or the attacks on just regular people.  The president* of the United States calls people disparaging and sometimes nasty names , virtually every day.  Then there is the constant bragging, usually based on false conclusions Trump has drawn about an event or about people who disagree with him. 

 Trump's presidency is more like a dystopian Hollywood political satire /dark comedy  than it is like an achievement to be celebrated.  Hugh Hewitt does not mention a single word that indicates there is massive opposition to Trump, including many people who used to be Republicans. Just today it is in the news that another group of Republican ex- members of Congress, led by former Sen Jeff Flake of Arizona , have come out as an organization in support of Joe Biden's candidacy. 

The nation cannot abide a serial liar, bully, runaway narcissist, and ignoramus in the presidency. The last four years are now lost, but it would be a travesty beyond words to put this fool back in office for four more long years. People have said the past four years feels more like forty. 

Hugh Hewitt is deliberately blind to the truth. 


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JohnRussell
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1  author  JohnRussell    4 years ago
Hugh Hewitts utter whitewashing of Trump's presidency, which does not contain a single reference to Trump's malignant character. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/23/republican-convention-may-be-virtual-there-are-real-reasons-celebrate-four-years-trump/?ocid=uxbndlbing

The 2016 Republican convention was packed with skeptics, including me.

Nearly 100 percent of the vast throng of journalists in attendance doubted that candidate Donald Trump could win, including me. Trump had fervent supporters, but it was oh so easy to find delegates who thought the party was hurtling toward a 1964-style catastrophe.

Some longtime party loyalists simply refused to believe Trump's promises — especially his commitment to make appointments to the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts in the mold of justice Antonin Scalia. Would he truly fund the military? What did he know of deregulation or national security? Could his aggressive, bare-knuckled style of counterpunching offend everyone before the ballots were cast?

Polls didn't predict a blowout, but smart guys with models had Hillary Clinton's chances of winning at 85 percent or even higher.

Republicans had a terrific time in Cleveland — it's a great city for a convention (but it's close to my hometown and I'm biased) — but the conventional wisdom that "Trump was doomed" dominated the convention.

So it's a shame that the Charlotte convention is off. What a contrast it would have been to the gathering in Cleveland — full of if not converts then astonished party regulars. "By God, he delivered," they'd find a hundred ways to say. Almost all media elites still loathe Trump, even more intensely than four years ago. It's hard to find broadcasts on stations other than Fox News that are remotely fair, though a handful of major figures remain balanced. Former Trump skeptics like me have been persuaded that he will do what he promises. But he won't change. A second Trump term will be rhetorically the same as the first. Military budgets will be the same. Judicial nominees the same. Deregulation efforts will continue. Taxes will stay where they are.

In a second Trump term, confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party would sharpen, and possibly increase, as a clear-eyed appraisal of the CCP takes root. Tariffs on our allies that unhinge traditional free-traders should fade, but those ringing China will remain as our Navy's buildup continues. Our exit from Afghanistan will be completed and our footprint in Iraq reduced. The peace accord between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is the first fruit of Trump's peace plan for the region; the deal itself was birthed from the regional yawn that followed after Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.

Trump himself may or may not relax in a second term. The FBI machinations against Trump — though limited to a handful of actors — and the absurdity of the Mueller investigation and impeachment proceedings have become clear. Notice how little time the Democrats spent on these last week? The virus will recede, driven back by new therapies if not a vaccine. The regard most Americans have for themselves and others will end politicization of the pandemic. No matter who wins in November, schools will reopen and commerce (except for that which has permanently migrated online) will return to the streets. The astonishing pace of housing starts in July is a critical revealing detail. The "pent-up" demand the president predicted in the spring has arrived, just like the expected V-shaped rebound in the markets. Employment is returning. We have to plan for the next virus outbreak; others are certain to follow. If Trump closes the borders again, no one will call him xenophobic.

When the border wall is complete, perhaps even sooner, regularization not just of "dreamers" but of all nonviolent immigrants in the country can proceed. Trump has been ready to strike that deal for four years. Manufacturing incentives are poised to draw factories back to the heartland, and Big Tech will find it necessary to invest in America, not faraway countries.

Later, politics will shift toward 2024 as a dozen Republicans begin to position themselves to succeed Trump and as AOC — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) — completes her lightning takeover of the Democratic Party, presumably beating Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) in 2022 as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) exits stage way left. The Trump realignment would be complete.

That's what would have been the discussion in Charlotte or Jacksonville, Fla., and it still is the discussion among the center-right talking heads. Manhattan and Beltway media elites remain largely unaware or purposefully indifferent to the vast changes Trump has overseen, so blinded are they by rage at him personally that they have abandoned journalism for vendetta.

Their anger doesn't matter. Donald Trump won't change. Neither will his policies nor the lasting benefits they have brought. The cost of the pandemic is high, but fair Americans don't blame Trump. They are calculating their future security, prosperity and, crucially, freedom. Freedom is the undervalued variable in 2020 election calculations. Americans love their freedom. And Trump, like every GOP nominee of my lifetime, is freedom's candidate.
 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @1    4 years ago

Wise Democrats would seek to extol the virtues and strengths of their latest sacrificial lamb sent out to be slaughtered by a popular and successful president. They remain blind as to how they defeat themselves time after time

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.1  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1    4 years ago

You are ok with a president who lies to his people 20,000 times, talk about being "blind". 

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.1.2  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.1    4 years ago

Eyes wide open, don't care what he says, but what he gets done.

Knock off the oh so subtle  personal insults

 
 
 
Bob Nelson
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1.1.3  Bob Nelson  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1.2    4 years ago
don't care what he says

That says everything...

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.4  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1.2    4 years ago

Presidents are remembered for their character, their personal behavior, more than they are remembered for their "achievements". Very few people could tell you much about what Washington , Jefferson, Andrew Jackson,  T Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Ford, or even Lincoln or Reagan achieved  (outside of maybe the Emancipation Proclamation), but they know what the public character of these men was.  The idea that we should ignore a completely dishonest and immoral president just because you like the judges he appoints is sickening. 

Greg you bring nothing to the table here, nothing, so naturally you think that people telling the truth about the matter are insulting you. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.5  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.1    4 years ago

You are ok with a president who lies to his people 20,000 tim

I do  appreciate The irony of the left repeating this lie to call trump a liar.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.6  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.5    4 years ago

The 20,000 are lies and misstatements. The number is so high because they count repeats. If he lies about the same thing 200 times, they count it as 200 lies. 

Why would the president of the United States lie about the same thing 200 times ? , especially since his lies are often pointed out in the media after the first time he says them. 

 
 
 
Duck Hawk
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1.1.7  Duck Hawk  replied to  Bob Nelson @1.1.3    4 years ago

People like that don't care about how many lies are told or how corrupt someone is, they just care that some liberal gets screwed over. Even if it hurts themselves.

 
 
 
Gordy327
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1.1.8  Gordy327  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1.2    4 years ago

What has he gotten done?

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.9  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.6    4 years ago

Even the guy who compiles them says they aren’t lies. They are cataloged by a liberal pundit who admit counting documented facts as misstatements because they aren’t presented with the context the liberal pundit prefers. 

any politician who speaks as much as trump will “lie” 20,000 times when the opposite party determines  whether the speaker presents “appropriate“ context. 

please stop gaslighting the forum with such falsehoods now that you know the truth.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.10  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.9    4 years ago

Im glad you are so interested in Trump's lying. It gives me reason to post a lot of stuff about it. 

Reporters have noticed another Trump trait: his tendency to make something up, then embellish his own lie each time he repeats it.

Qiu wrote about the phenomenon in the New York Times in December, noting how Trump had gone from announcing that United States Steel Corp was opening six new plants due to his policies. That was a lie, as was his later claim that US Steel was opening seven plants.

“The snowball effect of it has been pretty interesting,” Qiu said. Trump went on to claim US Steel was opening eight new plants, then nine.

Kiely agrees, and pointed to Trump’s attacks on Senator Richard Blumenthal.

“He started off saying [Blumental] lied about Vietnam, which was true, Blumenthal did make some inaccurate statements about his so-called service in Vietnam. He did not serve in Vietnam.

“Then that became this wild tale about him fighting in Vietnam saving people’s lives.”

Trump claimed Blumenthal had told stories of how “bullets whizzed” by his head in Vietnam, as well as “many battles of near death”. Blumenthal had never mentioned either of those.

 

It’s become an all-consuming task. In the month of October he said 1,200 things that were false or misleading

Kessler

Speaking to these factcheckers, it is easy to detect a longing for a time when lies, mistruths and misdirections were more sophisticated, more tricky to unravel.

“The biggest challenge is it’s too easy to factcheck Trump,” Kessler said.

“It was more difficult to factcheck Obama because there was always a modicum of truth there,”.

“You ended up going way down in the weeds with officials who were highly knowledgable and wanted to defend their case. With Trump a lot of times the White House won’t defend what he’s saying because they have no defense.”

 
 
 
Dulay
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1.1.11  Dulay  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1.2    4 years ago
Eyes wide open, don't care what he says, but what he gets done.

Since you claim that your eyes are wide open, you must recognize that Trump didn't 'get done' ANY of the goals he set for HIS economy. 

Here are a few snips from a Forbes article just before the pandemic took hold:

It appears that the tax cuts that started in 2018 helped for one year but don’t have much of a carryover effect. The promise that they would pay for themselves has not materialized as the  Federal budget deficit has ballooned to $1 trillion levels not seen in a non-recessionary environment .

The outlook for a slower economy caused the Fed to lower interest rates and increase its balance sheet, which led to the stock market’s rallying in 2019  even when corporate profits were essentially flat

GDP growth hasn’t reached Trump’s 3% or higher goal

With it falling back to 2.3% in 2019  it appears that tax cut was essentially a sugar rush for one year . This is a shortfall to  Trump’s claim that the economy could grow 4%, 5% or maybe even 6% when he was President .

Unemployment rate is about as low as it can go

During Trump’s three years in office, it has fallen 1.2% and the decrease was essentially a continuation from the Great Recession’s recovery.

Job growth has plateaued

Additionally,  Obama added over 1.6 million more jobs in his last three years in office compared to Trump’s first three years .

Manufacturing jobs hurt by the trade wars

Manufacturing jobs rebounded in Trump’s first two years in office, but their growth rate slowed dramatically in 2019. The decline is at least partially due to the trade wars impacting global growth and the U.S. economy experiencing slower growth last year.

Wage growth is better but seemingly stuck around 3%

Wage growth has taken a step up during Trump’s Presidency, but fell off a bit in 2019. Economists have expected wage growth to be stronger as the economy recovered from the Great Recession, but it seems to be stuck at around 3%.

The Dow has risen over 10,000 points

While this is positive for a portion of Americans, two major reasons the stock markets have risen the past three years is due to the tax cuts ( but they are helping to balloon the federal budget deficit ) and the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates low and flooding the markets with cash (due to concerns about the economy’s growth rate). These have  led to valuation multiples increasing while company profits were flat last year .

The S&P 500 has also benefited from the Fed

Just like the Dow, the Fed lowering interest rates and flooding the economy with cash has  led to higher valuation levels while company profits were stagnant last year . The  markets will need earnings growth to rise significantly this year .

Federal budget deficit ballooning above $1 trillion

The Federal budget deficit has increased over 68% in Trump’s three years in office and is   expected to exceed $1 trillion in 2020 and beyond . This is in direct contrast to his statements that it would   be easy to eliminate not just the deficit but also the Federal debt .

Trade deficit has grown despite the trade wars

During Obama’s eight years in office the trade deficit ranged from $384 billion in 2009 due to the Great Recession to $550 billion in 2011 as the U.S. economy recovered earlier than the rest of the world. Under Trump the trade deficit has grown to over $600 billion the past two years despite trying to decrease it via the trade wars he has started.

U.S. goods exports to China have fallen, hurting companies and farmers

After peaking in 2017 at $130 billion, goods exports to China have fallen $23 billion or 18% to $107 billion in 2019.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.12  author  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.10    4 years ago
"General Motors is very counter to what other auto, and other, companies are doing. Big Steel is opening and renovating plants all over the country. Auto companies are pouring into the U.S., including BMW, which just announced a major new plant. The U.S.A. is booming!"

Source:Twitter

in fact:BMW did not announce a major new plant. It said it was considering opening another U.S. plant. "We're at the range where you could think about a second location," chief executive Harald Krueger said, according to Reuters. Also, other auto companies are not "pouring" into the U.S. Only one new assembly plant has been announced during Trump's presidency, a Toyota-Mazada facility in Alabama. Other car companies have moved a small amount of production back to the U.S. from abroad.

Trump lies like this 365 days a year. 

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
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1.1.13  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.1    4 years ago

You know he does.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.14  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.10    4 years ago

So I take it you realize that you are in fact lying when you claim Trump "lied" 20,000 times.

Trump lies. So do people who claim he's been documented lying 20,000 times. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.15  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Dulay @1.1.11    4 years ago

A big part of being a Trump cult member is that you make yourself predisposed to believe him. Thus when he lies, the cultists say "what lies"? 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.16  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.14    4 years ago

The Washington Post and others say he has lied 20,000 times. 

What if it is 10,000 lies Sean? Are you happy then? 

The sad part is you know Trump is a pathological liar to the extent never seen before in national politics but your devotion to right  wing ideology prevents you from absorbing the truth. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.17  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.16    4 years ago
The Washington Post and others say he has lied 20,000 times. 

No, they don't. Per the Post, as of 2019, they only used the word "lie" once as of 2019 to describe a Trump statement. .  

In part, that's because he routinely calls factually accurate statements "misleading" if they are not put in the context he wants as a liberal. Ask a conservative to "Fact check" Joe Biden from a conservative viewpoint and he could find just as many "lies," as you call them. 

you know Trump is a pathological liar to the extent never seen before in national politics 

He's no worse than LBJ or either Clinton or even Biden. Have you seen that clip where Biden lies about every aspect of his background when yelling at a voter? It's a veritable tornado lies.  The Clintons and LBJ were liars of the premeditated  kind  who tried to craft lies with lawyerly precision, while Trump exaggerates and misstates facts like Biden.  The difference is Trump   has a hostile media who doesn't excuse his misstatements as "gaffes."

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.1.18  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.4    4 years ago

Greg you bring nothing to the table here, nothing, so naturally you think that people telling the truth about the matter are insulting you. 

Flagged for personal insult. Also meta and attempting to bully

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.19  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.17    4 years ago
His most repeated claim — 291 times — is that theU.S. economy today is the best in history. He began making this claim in June 2018, and it quickly became one of his favorites. As we noted, he’s trying to update it in the wake of the economic swoon. The president once could brag about the state of the economy, but he ran into trouble when he made a play for the history books. By just about any important measure, the pre-coronavirus economy was not doing as well as it did under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson or Bill Clinton — or Ulysses S. Grant. Moreover, the economy already was beginning to hit the head winds caused by Trump’s trade wars, with the manufacturing sector in an apparent recession.

In fact, his second-most-repeated claim — 257 times — is thathis border wall is being built. Congress balked at funding the concrete barrier he envisioned, so the project evolved into the replacement of smaller, older barriers with steel bollard fencing. The Washington Post hasreportedthe bollard fencing is easily breached, with smugglers sawing through it, despite Trump’s claims it is impossible to get past. Nevertheless, the project has diverted billions in military and counternarcotics funding to become one of the largest infrastructure projects in U.S. history, seizing private land, cutting off wildlife corridors and disrupting Native American cultural sites.

Lately, Trump has once again begun falsely claiming the Mexico is paying for the border barrier, even though he had to raid the federal Treasury and delay military construction projects to obtain funding over Congress’s objections. And he has used the coronavirus outbreak to justify his push for the barrier, even though the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health experts saythey haven’t seen evidence it can stop the virus from spreading.

Trump has falsely said 197 times that he passed the biggest tax cut in history. Even before his tax cut was crafted, he promised it would be the biggest in U.S. history — bigger than President Ronald Reagan’s in 1981. Reagan’s tax cut amounted to 2.9 percent of the gross domestic product, and none of the proposals under consideration came close to that level. Yet Trump persisted in this fiction even when the tax cut was eventually crafted to be the equivalent of 0.9 percent of gross domestic product, making it the eighth-largest tax cut in 100 years. This continues to be an all-purpose applause line at the president’s rallies.

All three of these claims, of course, are on our list of Bottomless Pinocchios. It takes at least 20 repeats of a Three- or Four-Pinocchio claim to merita Bottomless Pinocchio, and there are now 37 entries.

The president’sconstant Twitter barragealso adds to his totals. Nearly 20 percent of the false and misleading statements stemmed from his itchy Twitter finger.

Trump’s penchant for repeating false claims is demonstrated by the fact that the Fact Checker database has recorded more than 450 instances in which he has repeated a variation of the same claim at least three times.

You can pretend all you want that this endless nonsense is no worse than any other presidents. Such a conclusion is completely delusional , but it's a free country. 

 
 
 
CB
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1.1.20  CB  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.17    4 years ago

That full of BS and you know it. Even old Mary "83" an adorer and sister of the president has been heard to say that your president is a blazing liar. So you need to stop it. We are all experienced here and damn sure old enough to a man and woman to know a compulsive liar when we see one.

People who use critical thinking and who are reasonable do not have to lie on Donald Trump; that dude lips parade lies daily. Trump has been lying so long; even Sean Treacy can't tell when he is telling the truth!

 
 
 
CB
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1.1.21  CB  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1.2    4 years ago

Do you care what a democrat says? Hmmp! some Trump conservatives are so full of it. (CB vomits.)

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.22  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1.2    4 years ago

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JohnRussell
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1.1.23  author  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.22    4 years ago

I like the Aryan Warrior touch across the forehead. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.24  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.19    4 years ago
that his border wall is being built

It is being built. That's a perfect example.  It's literally true but the fact checker throws in a  bunch of spin and then calls is misleading.  That's 257 "lies" disposed of right there.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.25  author  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.22    4 years ago

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CB
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1.1.26  CB  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.16    4 years ago

It's all that 'freedom" aka "white privilege" Trump is ladling up on their plates. It's the perfect attractant for some conservatives. Trump conservatives don't want or need fairness or balance when privilege affords them a better share. Thus, Donald's supporters don't give a damn about his lies: he is their appointed liar and their chosen candidate for four more years if he can lie, cheat, and steal his way to it!

 
 
 
bugsy
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1.1.27  bugsy  replied to  CB @1.1.26    4 years ago
It's all that 'freedom" aka "white privilege" Trump is ladling up on their plates

Hmmmm...I am a white male, early 50s, retired Navy veteran that worked his way to E7, busted my butt at 50 to get my Associates and now working on my Bachelor's. I work in a rehab facility where much of the work is physical due to my patient's needs at first.

I support our...mine, yours and our president.

Where exactly is my "white privilege" and what is ladled on my plate?

 
 
 
bugsy
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1.1.28  bugsy  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.5    4 years ago

Sad that is a "hate Trump" WaPo "fact checker" doing checking based on his/her opinions and feelings. If you take away the feelings and the "I don't like what he said, so I rate it a lie" bullshit, Trump's "lies" would be far below anything Obama lied about.

 
 
 
bugsy
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1.1.29  bugsy  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.4    4 years ago
Presidents are remembered for their character, their personal behavior, more than they are remembered for their "achievements"

This I agree. Clinton is remembered for blow jobs in the Oval office....and getting impeached. Nothing else.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.30  author  JohnRussell  replied to  bugsy @1.1.28    4 years ago
If you take away the feelings and the "I don't like what he said, so I rate it a lie" bullshit, Trump's "lies" would be far below anything Obama lied about.

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bugsy
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1.1.31  bugsy  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.30    4 years ago

So no coherent rebuttal.

Not surprised

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.32  author  JohnRussell  replied to  bugsy @1.1.31    4 years ago

The last time you were coherent Moses was in diapers.

 
 
 
bugsy
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1.1.33  bugsy  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.32    4 years ago

Another stupid rebuttal. Just admit you have never been right. It will make you feel much better.

 
 
 
CB
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1.1.34  CB  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.30    4 years ago

Aside from the point you're clearly making, I am compelled to rate that dude's facial expressions and teeth as a 10!

("Well." Bewitched-Samantha.jpg —JR. You know me!)

 
 
 
CB
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1.1.35  CB  replied to  bugsy @1.1.27    4 years ago

I don't support Donald Trump, for all the reasons I expose on NT. So, there is that. As to "white privilege" it is that amorphous spirit that percolates throughout the sphere for the 'tribalists.' Best quantified (by others that is) as doors opening that for me and mine closed, shut with rusty locks, or in limited supply.

As to your bio, good for you and your 'busted butt.' Black people bust their butts too. Still, there is a system in play to collectively strip the black minority of its power while languishing it in its perpetual poverty (and ignorance). And I have to ask you this: Have you ever heard of "black privilege" in the United States?

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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1.1.36  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  JohnRussell @1.1.6    4 years ago

Seems to me that he is a Goebbels advocate, that if you tell a lie often enough people will believe it.  The adage that should apply here is that you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.  At first I was fooled - I fell for the fact that he was supportive of Israel, but thank God at least I have the brains that so many I see on this site do not have, and I was not fooled for very long.  A person can "change their stars" (A Knight's Tale) and it didn't take long for me to achieve the wisdom to change mine. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.1.37  Texan1211  replied to  CB @1.1.35    4 years ago

I wonder why Democrats haven't fixed that, and why blacks continue to support them so rigorously.

 
 
 
CB
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1.1.38  CB  replied to  Texan1211 @1.1.37    4 years ago

And still you 'wonder' not aloud about Donald Trump and a lack of urgency about minority deaths from the coronavirus. "It is what it is." Right, Texan?

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.1.39  Texan1211  replied to  CB @1.1.38    4 years ago

Is it possible to not be what it is?

 
 
 
CB
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1.1.40  CB  replied to  Texan1211 @1.1.39    4 years ago

Black people support diversity (it's in our blood) and have a natural alienation to repression and suppression: AKA, Trump's Cult of Personality.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.1.41  Texan1211  replied to  CB @1.1.40    4 years ago

Oooh, nice dig at Trump!!

Extra bonus on the old paycheck!

Cult?

LMAO!!!!

That's a freaking HOOT, man!

 
 
 
CB
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1.1.42  CB  replied to  Texan1211 @1.1.41    4 years ago

Meh to laughter. Why are some Trump supporters "stanning" (fan-boying and fan-girling) Donald? Trump is not a real conservative. He is not a genuine conservative 'product.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.1.43  Texan1211  replied to  CB @1.1.42    4 years ago

That's a real stumper for ya, isn't it?

 
 
 
CB
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1.1.44  CB  replied to  Texan1211 @1.1.43    4 years ago

No, Donald is a real authoritarian. The supporters have given him their individual freedom willingly. It's cultist. Trump has social-engineered some of y'all.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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1.1.45  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @1.1.36    4 years ago

I agree with you Buzz, you did change in time. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
1.1.46  Texan1211  replied to  CB @1.1.44    4 years ago

Oh, you're on a real roll tonight, my friend!

And so amusing to see!

Authoritarian, cultists.....what other names and labels do you have for anyone not drinking your flavor of Kool-Aid?

This should be good, let me get some popcorn going!

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
1.1.47  CB  replied to  Texan1211 @1.1.46    4 years ago

"Cult of personality." Look it up, if you wish . . . or not. Your 'dispute' is with the expression not me.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
1.1.48  Texan1211  replied to  CB @1.1.47    4 years ago

Sorry, but I treat all equally who use such terms.

Names and labels that you seem very comfortable using, especially when describing anyone not following your brand of politics.

Cultists? Authoritarians?

Asinine!

But please, do continue onward, it is super-elevating to the conversation!

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CB
Professor Principal
1.1.49  CB  replied to  Texan1211 @1.1.48    4 years ago

Meh.Suit yourself. "It is what it is."

 
 
 
Dulay
Professor Guide
1.2  Dulay  replied to  JohnRussell @1    4 years ago
"By God, he delivered," they'd find a hundred ways to say.

They'd be lying almost every time they did.

It's hard to find broadcasts on stations other than Fox News that are remotely fair, though a handful of major figures remain balanced.

The fact that Hewitt thinks that Fox is even remotely fair looses him any credibility he possessed. 

The regard most Americans have for themselves and others will end politicization of the pandemic.

Not if Americans follow Trump's lead. After all, HE is the one who politicized it. 

The "pent-up" demand the president predicted in the spring has arrived,

That's delusional. 

just like the expected V-shaped rebound in the markets.

Which effects a minority of Americans. 

Employment is returning.

More delusion. 

We have to plan for the next virus outbreak; others are certain to follow.

Trump doesn't have 'a plan' for THIS virus outbreak, how the hell can he have one for the one to follow? 

If Trump closes the borders again, no one will call him xenophobic.

If he does it for the same xenophobic reasons he did the first time, they will. 

When the border wall is complete,

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perhaps even sooner, regularization not just of "dreamers" but of all nonviolent immigrants in the country can proceed. Trump has been ready to strike that deal for four years.

What a fucking LIE. 

Manufacturing incentives are poised to draw factories back to the heartland, and Big Tech will find it necessary to invest in America, not faraway countries.

What a load of crap. Manufacturing employment has been flat since early 2019. So HOW is it 'poised' to accelerate? Did Trump and the GOP pass something since March that I missed? In April manufacturing employment dropped by 10%. 

That's what would have been the discussion in Charlotte or Jacksonville, Fla., and it still is the discussion among the center-right talking heads.

Then ' center-right talking heads' are too busy telling each other fairy tales to be taken seriously. 

Oh and BTW, if Hewitt's op/ed is an illustration of the ideas of the 'center right', the GOP is in bigger trouble than I thought. 

Donald Trump won't change.

Finally, a tidbit of truth. 

Neither will his policies nor the lasting benefits they have brought.

Along with the lasting devastating horror they have wrought. 

And Trump, like every GOP nominee of my lifetime, is freedom's candidate.

Yes, Trump has given Americans the 'freedom' to die alone. 

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
1.3  CB  replied to  JohnRussell @1    4 years ago
Americans love their freedom. And Trump, like every GOP nominee of my lifetime, is freedom's candidate.

Freedom's candidate? Such high rhetoric thrown into a 'shit-pot' named President Donald Trump. Please explain why true conservatives and republicans are counter-punching Donald. He is not their candidate. Biden is. Don't Lincoln Project conservatives et al like touting freedom  too?

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
2  Sparty On    4 years ago
The cost of the pandemic is high, but fair Americans don't blame Trump. They are calculating their future security, prosperity and, crucially, freedom. Freedom is the undervalued variable in 2020 election calculations. Americans love their freedom. And Trump, like every GOP nominee of my lifetime, is freedom's candidate.

That sez it all and is why Trump will win if enough Americans haven't been brainwashed by the mass media and the TDS ridden.

regardless, the TDS wheel will continue to go around and around, round and round, around and around .....

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
2.1  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Sparty On @2    4 years ago

Of course, as intelligent people know, there is no such thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome. It is not possible to be unfair to Trump. 

It is possible to be accurate about him and say he is utterly unfit to hold any office, let alone the presidency. He is a KNOWN serial liar, crook, bigot, moron, and cheat. 

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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2.1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1    4 years ago
He is a KNOWN serial liar, crook, bigot, moron, and cheat. 

The scratchy broken record repeats and repeats and repeats as it goes around and around and around....

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
2.1.2  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Greg Jones @2.1.1    4 years ago

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Sparty On
Professor Principal
2.1.3  Sparty On  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1    4 years ago
Of course, as intelligent people know, there is no such thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome

Of course, as stable, sane, thinking people we observe it every day.   Specifically here on NT.   The examples of which are copious.  

Like this:

It is not possible to be unfair to Trump. 

Or this:

It is possible to be accurate about him and say he is utterly unfit to hold any office

Or this:

He is a KNOWN serial liar, crook, bigot, moron, and cheat.

Easiest research I've ever done .....

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
2.1.4  Sparty On  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.2    4 years ago
the truth hurts

Yes it does but Greg isn't the one in real pain.  

That much is clear to anyone here with a modicum of reason and unbiased thinking.

There isn't enough butt cream in the world to put that fire out that's been burning since November of 2016.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
2.1.5  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Sparty On @2.1.3    4 years ago

When have you ever done research that pertains to anything you say on this site?  99% of what you say is stream of consciousness or spur of the moment.  

Or this:

He is a KNOWN serial liar, crook, bigot, moron, and cheat. Easiest research I've ever done .....

For some bizarre reason you think that you simply dismissing something is persuasive argument against it.  I do not take it lightly to say Trump is a KNOWN serial liar, crook, bigot, moron and cheat.  There is more than ample evidence for all of it and I and others have put it on this forum. 

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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2.1.6  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.2    4 years ago

I don't live in perpetual denial.  Please attempt to make intelligent and relevant comments

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
2.1.7  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Sparty On @2.1.4    4 years ago
the truth hurts

Yes it does but Greg isn't the one in real pain.  

That much is clear to anyone here with a modicum of reason and unbiased thinking.

There isn't enough butt cream in the world to put that fire out that's been burning since November of 2016.


word salads are not argument sparty

 
 
 
Greg Jones
Professor Participates
2.1.8  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.5    4 years ago
There is more than ample evidence for all of it and I and others have put it on this forum. 
No, the same opinionated lies are simply recycled on a daily basis

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
2.1.9  Sparty On  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.5    4 years ago
When have you ever done research that pertains to anything you say on this site?

This article isn't about me John.

  99% of what you say is stream of consciousness or spur of the moment.

Opinions do vary .... greatly in this case. 

The daily hatred on display here towards Trump is epic but one can't expect the TDS ridden to see that.   They are, after all, deranged, deluded and very detached from reality.   I think some have actually managed to give themselves a case PTSD.

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
2.1.10  Sparty On  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.7    4 years ago

Lol .... i love your sophomoric attempts at disrespect.  

Not capitalizing names?  

C'mon man! jrSmiley_86_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
2.1.11  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Sparty On @2.1.10    4 years ago

i try to always capitalize names, including Trumps , but i admit i dont always go back and fix it if i miss one. 

sometimes i dont capitalize anything, and i think there are quite a few people on the internet that are like that. 

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
2.1.12  Sparty On  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.11    4 years ago

Okay, you say it's not intentional and i'll take you at your word.

Other people here .... not so much ...

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
2.1.13  bugsy  replied to  Greg Jones @2.1.1    4 years ago
The scratchy broken record repeats and repeats and repeats as it goes around and around and aroun

I'm surprised he didn't add in side B scratchy record of "he's not fit or qualified to be president". That's usually on side A.

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
2.1.14  bugsy  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.5    4 years ago
99% of what you say is stream of consciousness or spur of the moment.  

Says the person who has [deleted] shown proof of thousands of "I hate Trump" seeds and posts.

 
 
 
Bob Nelson
Professor Guide
2.2  Bob Nelson  replied to  Sparty On @2    4 years ago
The cost of the pandemic is high, but fair Americans don't blame Trump.

Fools do not blame him. America's performance in resisting the pandemic has been dismal. Of course... Trump has clearly said that he takes no responsibility.

 
 
 
Greg Jones
Professor Participates
2.2.1  Greg Jones  replied to  Bob Nelson @2.2    4 years ago

Only fools blame him and the whole knows who they are

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
2.2.2  Sparty On  replied to  Bob Nelson @2.2    4 years ago

Fools do blame him.

 
 
 
Dean Moriarty
Professor Quiet
2.2.3  Dean Moriarty  replied to  Sparty On @2.2.2    4 years ago

If Trump would have locked up the people at the stripper party in Chicago or the super spreaders at the BLM protests designed to spread the virus during the lockdown he would have been called an authoritarian fascist. After he banned travel from China to slow the spread people called him a racist and thought is was a good idea to go eat in Chinatown to show they were not racist. I don't blame Trump. 

 
 
 
Ozzwald
Professor Quiet
2.2.4  Ozzwald  replied to  Dean Moriarty @2.2.3    4 years ago
If Trump would have locked up the people at the stripper party in Chicago or the super spreaders at the BLM protests designed to spread the virus during the lockdown he would have been called an authoritarian fascist.

Instead he decided to send his personal police force to basically kidnap protesters.

After he banned travel from China to slow the spread people called him a racist and thought is was a good idea to go eat in Chinatown to show they were not racist.

430,000 People Have Traveled From China to U.S. Since Coronavirus Surfaced

I don't blame Trump. 

I do.  We have 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the deaths due to corona virus.

 
 
 
Account Deleted
Freshman Silent
3  Account Deleted    4 years ago

To paraphrase Paul [Romans 7:7]

I would not have know what serial lying was if it had not been for Trump.

 
 
 
Dean Moriarty
Professor Quiet
4  Dean Moriarty    4 years ago

It looks like one mans opinion of another mans opinion?  I'm not surprised their opinions differ.  It is depressing how much of the news media has turned into opinions. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
4.1  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Dean Moriarty @4    4 years ago

Its not an opinion when a columnist whitewashes Trump's term in office, it is deceit. 

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
4.1.1  bugsy  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1    4 years ago
whitewashes

Racist statement

 
 
 
CB
Professor Principal
5  CB    4 years ago

Well, the republicans and conservatives are not going to get 'rid' of Donald Trump for us or the country. We have to get to work doing it for ourselves! They desire Donald Trump and just renominated him in the RNC convention. When somebody/ies show you who they are believe them!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
6  Buzz of the Orient    4 years ago

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CB
Professor Principal
6.1  CB  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @6    4 years ago

A salient cartoon.

 
 

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