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Post by Tarponator on Aug 14, 2024 13:51:41 GMT -5
She should speak to the press. Not sure how that is a difficult message for anyone to hear.
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Post by cyclist on Aug 14, 2024 13:54:16 GMT -5
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Post by bswiv on Aug 14, 2024 14:09:03 GMT -5
Policies crafted by a committee so as to garner votes is not the same as hearing what the candidate says and how they say it. In a real sense......and I said this before......and I noted too that my guess is that it'll return bad to Team R......but should still be demanded....that as Mr. Biden can not function she should be doing that job, the job she was ALREADY ELECTED to in in such a situation. She'll do better than expected by many. To have a man nominally in charge who is demonstrably incapable.....and leave him there for a political motive.....when we have a perfectly healthy and legally elected and by Constitutional authority it being proper for such, to have her and keep her away......this is not proper governance. Oh.......and I'll get yelled at by one side for that while the other will avoid because they think the win is safer not doing the right thing. And you wonder why so many of us come off making decisions based on being backed into a corner. It's just not proper.....
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Post by cyclist on Aug 14, 2024 14:45:42 GMT -5
The only folks saying Biden is not fit enough to serve are magaas. His doctor, other politicians even Republicans say he can carry out his term.
We all know he's not fit to finish another term.
Anyone who's says he isn't is toeing the magaa line and really has no idea.
Trump can barely finish a thought or a sentence, is a felon and sex offender yet seemingly sane people are going to vote for him. Crazy shit. Worry about your sub par candidate with all the symptoms of tertiary syphilis...not Biden or Harris.
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Post by olmucky on Aug 14, 2024 21:33:42 GMT -5
Trump: The Treasury Department reported that individual income tax collections for FY 2018 totaled $1.7 trillion. That's up $14 billion from fiscal 2017, and an all-time high But As a result of spending deficits for 2018 climbed $113 billion
Obama final year Individual income tax revenues went up by a mere 0.3% The deficit? It climbed by $148 billion.
So, in other words, the government did better on revenues and deficits in the year after Trump's tax cuts went into effect than it did in Obama's last year in office.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 14, 2024 23:48:12 GMT -5
The mainstream media not only censors Trump but they twist and distort everything that he says into something that can hurt him
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Post by bswiv on Aug 15, 2024 4:30:32 GMT -5
The only folks saying Biden is not fit enough to serve are magaas. His doctor, other politicians even Republicans say he can carry out his term. We all know he's not fit to finish another term. Anyone who's says he isn't is toeing the magaa line and really has no idea. Trump can barely finish a thought or a sentence, is a felon and sex offender yet seemingly sane people are going to vote for him. Crazy shit. Worry about your sub par candidate with all the symptoms of tertiary syphilis...not Biden or Harris. If this is true........and I am unconvinced......the media as it exists and has been performing its function is why there is any debate about it. Transparency, the give and take, the open squabble, both within a party and between....all that. We need it, we as free men deserve it, some of us at least. Trump has his problems. I can't stand to listen to his rambling and the showman style fabrication and puffing.....but at least he is out there and exposed and willing to take what the media says. It is the condition of the PRESS that worries me most......as it did Pulitzer. The quote you see below is oft left off at the word MOCKERY......but should not be.....and I would posit that the leaving off is more intentional of late for it shines the light hard. Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself."
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 15, 2024 5:47:46 GMT -5
I actually like the fact she is slowly rolling out her policies. It tells me she's not just going parrot Biden's stuff but is actually taking time and formulating her own ideas.
Now what those ideas are remains to be seen.
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 15, 2024 5:49:02 GMT -5
The mainstream media not only censors Trump but they twist and distort everything that he says into something that can hurt him Direct quotes and live video are difficult to distort. It's all up there for everybody to see.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 15, 2024 7:15:46 GMT -5
Selective clips and words taken out of context are easily twisted and distorted
For instance the words he used to describe the economic havoc that he predicted would happen to the Detroit Auto Industry while making a campaign speech in Detroit:
“ The Detroit auto industry will be crushed” “There will be a bloodbath if I’m not elected”
The sentence “There will be a bloodbath if I’m not elected” has been selectively taken out of context and intentionally misconstrued to falsely infer that he was threatening violence if he was not elected.
This is only one example of the distortion of his words by the mainstream media and the Democrat politicians. There are many many more
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 15, 2024 7:17:09 GMT -5
Selective clips and words taken out of context are easily twisted and distorted
For instance the words he used to describe the economic havoc that he predicted would happen to the Detroit Auto Industry while making a campaign speech in Detroit:
“ The Detroit auto industry will be crushed” “There will be a bloodbath if I’m not elected”
The sentence “There will be a bloodbath if I’m not elected” has been selectively taken out of context and intentionally misconstrued to falsely infer that he was threatening violence if he was not elected.
This is only one example of the distortion of his words by the mainstream media and the Democrat politicians. There are many many more
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Post by toldya on Aug 15, 2024 7:21:55 GMT -5
I actually like the fact she is slowly rolling out her policies. It tells me she's not just going parrot Biden's stuff but is actually taking time and formulating her own ideas. Now what those ideas are remains to be seen. Why would anybody be interested in what she says ? Her actions and communication in regards to the border should be enough to not let her be taken seriously. I guess she didn't take the time to formulate her ideas.
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Post by cyclist on Aug 15, 2024 8:00:52 GMT -5
I actually like the fact she is slowly rolling out her policies. It tells me she's not just going parrot Biden's stuff but is actually taking time and formulating her own ideas. Now what those ideas are remains to be seen. Why would anybody be interested in what she says ? Her actions and communication in regards to the border should be enough to not let her be taken seriously. I guess she didn't take the time to formulate her ideas. Magaa has constantly lied about her role, she was tasked with reducing illegal immigration from Central America. Google the numbers...she succeeded.
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Post by toldya on Aug 15, 2024 8:06:18 GMT -5
Why would anybody be interested in what she says ? Her actions and communication in regards to the border should be enough to not let her be taken seriously. I guess she didn't take the time to formulate her ideas. Magaa has constantly lied about her role, she was tasked with reducing illegal immigration from Central America. Google the numbers...she succeeded. Are you going for stupidest post of the month or of the year ?
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 15, 2024 8:12:01 GMT -5
I agree that a free press in theory is a good foundational point. It is also the first amendement to our constitution. The article was a editorial, which is fine for expressing a journalistic opinion. It is the proper format, and she makes valid points. I would like to see a town hall, or interview with hardball questions on issues and policy. I would like to see how a person running for president thinks on their feet, not a reading from a prepared speech. Off the cuff, unscripted, run what you brought to the races, ready for any question and able to give a coherent answer, even if it is a "I don't know at this point, but I will get a group of stakeholders from both sides to be able to see the issues and any unintended consequences of actions before deciding" but I will get back to you on it.
As far as journalism, I would like to see a return to news, and opinion with clear divisions instead of a blending of opinion with a few news facts. But it seems like that is the format of all the news media these days, so one must look at multiple sources and try and filter out opinion from facts. Kamala has been hiding behind comatose Joe, and he has had his handlers keep him out of media unless extremely scripted appearances. The campaign should be about issues and policy, but I doubt we will see much of that as the strategic play seems to be about ego, truthfulness, never trump, anyone other than trump, Team d, Team R, red,blue, donkeys and elephants, you know typical political circus.
Trump did the Twitter thing because he did not want media spin on things. Previously media covered press releases and events, and had bias involved.
I don't think the press ever got over that aspect of him.
Do you think the twitter thing was successful? That it changed any "undecided" voters?
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