The left's greatest hits
One day historians will record what the left did to America. Somewhere in that sordid history will be the greatest political hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people.
I will rank them from most damaging to less egregious:
1) The Russia hoax: This was an absolute slanderous lie told about a Presidential candidate and the most egregious in American history. It was created by the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election. It was compounded by the willingness of the left-wing media to run with every unverified salacious story that came with it. Far worse was the involvement of the deep state in launching investigations of a Presidential candidate, knowing the Steele Dossier to be BS. Various individuals' civil rights were violated, and lives were ruined because of it. Here on NT some still believe the lie.
2) Border Patrol Agents whipping illegal migrants' hoax: This was an obvious lie, but something the left was all too willing to believe. It was based on a liberal white guilt notion that the Border Patrol treated illegal migrants like the old slave master's overlords. Films showed that the agents were simply using their reigns to control their horses, yet there was credibility given to the outrageous claims by the Biden administration, agents were suspended and investigated, and the horse patrol unit was for a time disbanded. The leftwing media ran with it until it blew up in their faces.
3) Don't Say Gay Bill hoax. That was the name the left created for the Florida Bill which simply tried to keep inappropriate material away from young children. The word "gay" is not even in it. Yet the left-wing media drummed it into all of American's ears 24/7.
4) Covington Kids hoax: That was when an innocent bunch of school kids, who were waiting for a bus, were portrayed as racists as an activist Native American taunted them. It was a hard sell for the media and as soon as the nation was able to see for themselves what went on the narrative fell apart. Many media organizations were sued for the clear defamation of young children.
5) The young racist boy hoax: That was the one where a young boy dressed up in the KC Chefs colors during a football game was smeared as a racist. The claim was that he was defaming Native Americans. As usual the crazed leftwing media jumped right on it until they found out the boy was actually Native American. Many here tried to make that outrageous argument. They have yet to apologize.
6) The Russian disinformation hoax: This was the scheme put forward by our current Secretary of State to help dismiss and censor a real news story concerning the Hunter Biden laptop. Fifty-one former intelligence officials signed an obviously politically motivated letter claiming that the New York Post laptop story had all the earmarks of Russian disinformation. To date, not one has apologized.
7) The migrant kids in cages hoax: This was the claim that President Trump was mean because he used the same child centers that President Obama used to try and vet the sometimes-unaccompanied minors found crossing the border. The very films the leftwing media used were from the Obama years.
8) The fine people hoax: The leftwing publication "the Atlantic" was the first to frame this lie. Any rational human being would know that without Trump explicitly saying who the fine people were on the statue controversy, he was clearly not referring to Nazis vs antifa. Although Trump was put in the position of having to spell it out, this lie is still being told.
9) The drinking Bleach hoax: This time I even have left leaning PolitiFact on my side: "Trump did not explicitly recommend ingesting a disinfectant like bleach. But he did express interest in exploring whether disinfectants could be applied to the site of a coronavirus infection inside the body, such as the lungs. This is another that is still being retold."
10) Cheap fake hoax: This is the latest and comes to us via the WH press secretary chosen simply because of her race, gender and sexual orientation. The films of Joe Biden are real. This was not only a lie, but an easily disproved lie, yet the leftwing media is trying to sell it.
Now for the news:
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The European Union warned France to reign in its debt or face financial penalties.
A nationwide blackout hit Ecuador.
Biden is facing legal challenges over his new illegal migrant executive order.
The military is struggling with recruitment. Congress is debating proposals sponsored by democrats to include women.
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Good morning.
It is going to be another hot one for most of us.
At Millennium Park in Chicago. Scott Olson/Getty Images
The temperature in Chicago topped 90 degrees for the fourth day this week.
My walk in the park is over. Time for an ice coffee and some A/C.
I might quibble with your order (I'd put Russia disinformation second) and add some, FISA memo by Schiff, but a good list.
After # 1 the list order is open to debate.
A couple more:
(1) Claims that covid escaped from a lab are a conspiracy theory.
(2) You can protest racism in large groups safely, but no other public gatherings are okay.
They belong on the list.
Call it what it really is - The Democrats "Big Lie".
We still hear the Bidenistas still trying to use this pathetic claim.
It is kind of funny that many of those who freaked out over this lie are actually supporting Hamas.
True, true and true.
The golden era, according to many conservatives
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The golden era of the left:
Don't forget...
Freedom of expression the radical feminists say!
That one is on Democrats.
It seems alot of the left want to see things split up like that again. College dorms for the different races, dinners where whites were not invited (Boston as an example), so called safe spaces away from whites, separate holidays and national anthems........etc.
Where is that? I would like verification that there are still segregated washrooms like that. At least a color picture.
Wrong again. It WAS on the democrats decades ago, it is NOW on the republicans where all the dixiecrats moved to.
The racial housing covenants of the urban/suburban Northeast, Upper Midwest and West Coast don't photograph as well.
Nothing has changed. It's still the democrats. Just a new generation of lemmings.
Yeah, you should do more research on that. Come back when you can be honest.
You are wrong again.
The dixiecrats are long dead.
In presidential elections, the South supported Carter and Clinton. Repubs didn't start winning most gubernatorial and congressional elections until after the 1994 Republican Revolution, and didn't take control a majority of Southern state legislatures until the last decade, 50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 64.
“College dorms for the different races, dinners where whites were not invited (Boston as an example), so called safe spaces away from whites, separate holidays and national anthems........etc.”
Just what do you fear? ‘Whites’ losing some right that they have exploited to their benefit for generations?
The discussion regarding race and gender and sexuality needs to be rationally addressed, lest we be doomed to continually relive the demonstrable discrimination that is a plague on our society, our birthright, and our children’s future.
Not it at all for me. Actually, if whites had white only gatherings, there would be SCREAMS of racist. coming from the rooftops. It's a goose/gander thing
Nothing. Just don't try to sell anyone about wanting unity while promoting division.
Nope, that's just another totally debunked lie. Democrats are the original racists and still are, and have thrown in the lot with the terrorist Hamas aka Palestinians.
Spin it however you want. The Democrats fought to keep their slaves, implemented Jim Crowe laws, fought the Civil Rights Act and even gone as far as running a known KKK member as their Presidential Candidate. They have been a racist party from the start and continue to be a racist party.
Yes it is. It could and would be considered racist.................on both groups.
There are none so blind than those who REFUSE to see.
To quote " Drinker of the Wry " those democrats are long dead. And they moved away from the democratic party before then, when it embraced civil rights.
Then why were so many Southern Congressmen and Governors and State Legislators still Dems decades after 1964?
You can type that until your fingers bleed but the NT right will never accept it. Or...they have accepted but still have to use it to troll
They would never be that close together...
just saying.
Because they were elected. DUH!!!
To this day
So the dixiecrats didn't become repubs like you said.
Exactly
“…have to use it to troll.”
And that is all it is, using history in a failed attempt to buttress their point, but conveniently ignoring that what occurred in the past is only a fraction of the myriad set of circumstances that have contributed to shape the present.
It is disingenuous at best. And bereft of this understanding, some are content to just piss away into the wind.
And yet so many democrats continue with that mindset. Keep spinning.
Wounded Knee, 1973, FBI, State Police, Marshalls, BIA LEO's under arrest by AIM...Karma
Congrats, that has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. You are reaching farther than ever.
Which party is opposing the removal of statues idolizing confederate war generals and soldiers?
Your writing isn’t confusing,
You are simply uninformed as always.
If we go with what you are saying - Dixicrats. Or are you wrong?
So explain what individual democratic congressman from 50 years ago have to do with individual democrats today? Remember these are individual, so you cannot pull the bullshit claim that they are STILL the same racist individuals.
you are confusing a mindset to actual people. The people are gone, but the mindset still exists and is on full display today. When you understand that, you will be a little more informed.
The Dixiecrats that you mentioned don’t stop voting Dem after the Civil Rights Act. The South went red as the Dixiecrats died out.
I take it back when I said that your writing wasn’t confusing.
Of course it still has some of the same individuals, Clinton and Biden are still democrats and still racist, the democrats are a party built on racism and slavery and the only difference is they now practice the soft racism of low expectations but it is still racism none the less.
They left the democratic party, so by definition they DID stop voting dem.
Are you claiming that Clinton and Biden were Dixiecrats??? You do like to pile up the bullshit don't you?
No they didn’t, Dem Gov, Congressmen and State legislators kept getting elected until the Dixiecrats died out. You continue to display ignorance of Southern political history.
They are still democrats and still racist is exactly what I wrote.
Well since you wrote it, it must be true.....<sarc>
You have to be a moron or a partisan hack to argue that those two democrats aren’t racists based on their history or actions, that’s as ridiculous as the idiots who argue that Byrd wasn’t a racist anymore because he apologized for political purposes.
Nope, but keep trying to sell it, it has the look of desperation.
Wait, I thought that the left liked Disney, have they changed sides again?
Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci says he still fears someone may kill him
Maybe the families of the millions who died?
When they have no response, it is memes, name calling and getting personal.
You expect differently?
Nope. We even had an effort by one fair minded individual to end it, but she has been undermined.
It gets worse as the election nears and desperation grows.
Your whole list is questionable but I will confine myself to this one for now.
Regarding Charlottesville and the "Unite The Right Rally" , Trump is either an idiot or a liar, you can take your pick. It is beyond debate that the "rally at the park" was orchestrated by white supremacy groups. This was completely known before the event took place. In fact , very few people who legitimately wanted to protest the removal of the Lee statue showed up that day, in part because of what happened the previous night, the infamous torchlight "Jews will not replace us" march.
The permit to assemble at the site of the statue was applied for and granted to a known white supremacist organizer.
Trump either didnt know any of this or simply lied about it, either of which is a dereliction of duty.
He said "fine people on both sides" for reason and one reason only - to placate his white grievance voter base.
There is an obvious problem with that weak theory (notice I didn't label it disingenuous)
If Trump is calling the Nazis "fine people," then who are the people he is calling fine on the other side?
Its not a theory Vic, it is fact. Charlottesville was a white supremacist event, not a gathering of "fine people" on both sides.
Trump couldnt bring himself to say that because he didnt want to offend any of his white grievance voter base.
I don't know if my question will be answered. I was opnly trying to reason with him.
For those really interested:
The post the states that Trump really said, "There were very fine people on both sides, & I'm not talking about the Neo-nazis and white supremacists because they should be condemned totally."
Facebook user Paul Strauss is among those who posted the viral meme. He pointed USA TODAY to a 2019 blog post from Scott Adams that describes the "very fine people" quote from Trump as a "hoax" in that the reference usually leaves off the full quote.
"In other words, the president believed there were non-racists in attendance who support keeping historical monuments," the blog post states. Strauss said this "hoax" is "a lie that is tearing our country apart. Anything I can do to END it and make people aware that it was debunked two years ago, I will do."
Fact check: Meme on Trump 'very fine people' quote has inaccuracies (usatoday.com)
Then back it up with more than flapping lips.
Try to be reasonable. I already posted the truth in Post 7.1.2
Think about it. If Trump was calling extremist groups fine people, antifa would have to be the other fine people. Do you think Trump would ever call antifa fine people?
They will ignore what doesn't fit their narrative. It's like the "go to the capital" BS on Jan 6. They ignore the "peacefully protest" part of the statement.
God help Trump if he is not specific. They love to fill in the blanks.
The "fine people" Trump referred to are those disagreeing over the statues issue. Trump literally excluded neo-nazis from that. It's a simple matter of reading honestly.
"I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? "
Watching the same people ping pong between "unedited videos are deep fakes" defense of Biden to their blatant misrepresentation of what Trump said about Charlottesville is something.
I dont give a shit about some meme someone posted on the internet.
Charlottesville was a white supremacist event.
Point us to one sentence Trump said to that effect. He made it sound like two sides were equally disputing some other question.
That is not being fair. The Nazi groups (or whatever they were) are triggered by statues being ripped down. That group wasn't holding a rally for the hell of it. In April 2017, the Charlottesville city council voted to remove a statue and two months later voted to rename the park it was in: Emancipation Park. The pair of votes and debate around the statues set off a chain of events that eventually led to “Unite the Right” organizer Jason Kessler applying for a permit for the rally in May 2017.
That is the story, John. Trump was obviously talking about people on either side of the statue controversy.
www.cnn.com /2017/08/12/politics/trump-charlottesville-statement/index.html
Donald Trump’s incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville
Chris Cillizza 6-8 minutes 8/12/2017
CNN —
A group of white supremacists – screaming racial, ethnic and misogynistic epithets – rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday . One person was killed and 19 others were injured when a car sped into a group of counter-protesters.
This is what the President of the United States said about it:
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides. It’s been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. This has been going on for a long, long time.”
It’s hard to imagine a less presidential statement in a time in which the country looks to its elected leader to stand up against intolerance and hatred.
Picking a “worst” from Donald Trump’s statement – delivered from his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club – isn’t easy. But, the emphasis of “on many sides” – Trump repeated that phrase twice – is, I think, the low ebb.
Both sides don’t scream racist and anti-Semitic things at people with whom they disagree. They don’t base a belief system on the superiority of one race over others. They don’t get into fistfights with people who don’t see things their way. They don’t create chaos and leave a trail of injured behind them.
Arguing that “both sides do it” deeply misunderstands the hate and intolerance at the core of this “Unite the Right” rally. These people are bigots. They are hate-filled. This is not just a protest where things, unfortunately, got violent. Violence sits at the heart of their warped belief system.
Trying to fit these hate-mongers into the political/ideological spectrum – which appears to be what Trump is doing – speaks to his failure to grasp what’s at play here. This is not a “conservatives say this, liberals say that” sort of situation. We all should stand against this sort of violent intolerance and work to eradicate it from our society – whether Democrat, Republican, Independent or not political in the least.
What Trump failed to do is what he has always promised to do: Speak blunt truths. The people gathered in Charlottesville this weekend are white supremacists, driven by hate and intolerance. Period. There is no “other side” doing similar things here.
“Mr. President - we must call evil by its name,” tweeted Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado. “These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism.” Tweeted Florida Sen. Marco Rubio , another fellow Republican: “Very important for the nation to hear @potus describe events in #Charlottesville for what they are, a terror attack by #whitesupremacists.”
What Trump is doing – wittingly or unwittingly – is giving cover to the sort of beliefs (and I use that word lightly) on display in Charlottesville today.
Chalking it all up to a violent political rhetoric that occurs on both sides and has been around for a very long time contextualizes and normalizes the behavior of people who should not be normalized. It is not everyday political rhetoric to scream epithets at people who don’t look like you or worship like you. Trump’s right that this sort of behavior has existed on American society’s fringes for a long time – but what we as a nation, led by our presidents, have always done is call it out for what it is: radical racism that has no place in our world.
So, that’s the big one. But there are other things in Trump’s statement that are also worth calling out – most notably “not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama.”
What Trump is doing here is pre-emptively absolving himself of blame for creating a political climate in the country in which people like these “Unite the Right” demonstrators feel emboldened enough to rally in public. Not my fault, Trump is saying. There were hate groups and hate speech under Obama too!
With someone dead and more than two dozen people injured, this is, of course, not the time for assigning blame. Or for making political calculations. This is a time to say: We stand together against what we saw in Charlottesville today. Trump didn’t do that. Not even close.
Then, last but not least, is what Trump said a few paragraphs after his “on many sides” comment. Here it is:
“Our country is doing very well in so many ways. We have record – just absolute record employment. We have unemployment, the lowest it’s been in almost 17 years. We have companies pouring into our country. Foxconn and car companies, and so many others, they’re coming back to our country. We’re renegotiating trade deals to make them great for our country and great for the American worker. We have so many incredible things happening in our country. So when I watch Charlottesville, to me it’s very, very sad.”
Really? A pivot to an I-am-not-getting-enough-credit-for-all-the-good-I-am-doing-in-the-country line? With scenes of hatred splashed across TV screens? With someone dead?
This speech is not the time to tout your accomplishments. I mean “we’re renegotiating trade deals to make them great for our country”? Who thought that was a good thing to say in the same speech in which Trump, theoretically, was trying to reassure people that what we all saw in Charlottesville is not, fundamentally, who we are?
That no one – starting and ending with the President – raised a red flag about tacking on a laundry list of accomplishments to a speech that should have simply condemned the behavior in Charlottesville and called to our better angels, is staggering, even for this White House.
There are moments where we as a country look to our president to exemplify the best in us. They don’t happen every day. Sometimes they don’t happen every year. But, when they do happen, we need the person we elected to lead us to, you know, lead us.
Trump did the opposite today.
A lot of times those blanks don't exist.
That is when idiots like Karine Jean Pierre turn to improvisation.
The Charlottesville rally was organized by white supremacists. Period.
Trump deliberately made it sound like both sides were responsible. He fucked it up so badly on the day it happened he had to come back two more times in the next few days to "clarify" what he had said.
Another "Check the Block" hire.
It was based on nothing?
How far are you willing to go with this?
When was Eishenhower declared that?
She was 3 blocks, but no brains. Sometimes they can fill the blocks and fill a qualified box as well.
Such was not the case with Karine.
Tell John that!
That block exists on their checklists?
That doesn't contradict anything I wrote.
Trump condemned white supremacists at Charlottesville. Anyone who said he didn't is lying.
Have you paid attention to who organizes the anti-Israel protests?
Because if you apply that standard to who Biden has defended for protesting... Oh boy...
Funny how you seem to ignore the actual quote:
"You also had some very fine people on both sides," Trump said in 2017. "You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. You had people -- and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists; they should be condemned totally -- you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists."
“Think about it.“
you’re asking the impossible, Vic.
In case anyone missed it: Our president will now be off for 7 days preparing for the debate next week.
So?
I wonder how many pills and injections his “preparation” will take?
He is certainly not going to remember any of the prep that is being forced on him. Probably has a memory of a gnat.
At the tail end of the debate, we can start to measure it.
You mean 7 days of it, and it won't make a dent?
He will be at Camp David with all his campaign staff. Trump will be on the campaign trail.
And easily hand Biden's his ass.
I hate to do it, but I have to put it out there:
Did the conviction scheme work?
It seems to have goosed Biden’s numbers nationally a bit as the race is now essentially tied on the aggregate sites. However Emerson came out with state polling that had trump winning all battleground states and has him tied in Minnesota.
At the end of the day, the national numbers don’t mean anything. It’s the states that matter.
True. We still have 5 months.
Mayor Johnson brags about forming "the blackest administration ever" as over 70 Chicagoans were shot since Friday.
Question: Is hiring or excluding based on race--racist?
It is by definition racist, if he is hiring or giving preference to hires based on skin color he is a racist.
I believe it is even unconstitutional.
Biden calls Georgia law ‘Jim Crow in the 21st Century’ and says Justice Department is ‘taking a look’ -- CNN
That’s a great one.
One of the first orders of business in January will be to clear out the DOJ.
The DOJ is so far gone that may be impossible. Seems to be time for a reset and restart. But the beltway bigshots will lose their fucking minds if that happens.
What kind of proposals? Combat roles? ICYMI, women are serving in combat roles and women have always served in the military. It's not like women serving is new
Congress weighs adding women to the US military draft (msn.com)
I think women should register for the draft
equal rights, baby!
Can go back in time a bit and add that planned parenthood tapes that the media immediately called "edited" thanks to a press release from the DNC but whose authenticity and accuracy were not challenged by Planned Parenthood in Court, and even further back the fake bush air national guard records rather got fired for. If rather ran the same fake story today, he'd probably get promoted for it.