Fake news

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

It's also worth noting that Trump's ethical lapses (there are many) are not applicable to everyone else in the party. All things considered, I find the air quite tolerable on our side.

Of course his ethical lapses are not applicable to anyone else. Most people recognize that. However you find something you don't like about a Democrat and you apply that to everybody. By the way do you know the manufacturer of Confederate flags? I'd like to purchase some stock in the company since they have been very prevalent since Donald Trump got elected president. Glad you like the air up there.
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[scottw]

Originally Posted by PaulS

By the way do you know the manufacturer of Confederate flags? I'd like to purchase some stock in the company since they have been very prevalent since Donald Trump got elected president.

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gets stranger by the post

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by scottw

gets stranger by the post

Put your critical thinking cap on.

And tell us again how his lies are not a big deal.
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[scottw]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Put your critical thinking cap on.

And tell us again how his lies are not a big deal.
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which one exactly?

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by scottw

which one exactly?

Any of them. Do only some lies concern you?
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[scottw]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Any of them. Do only some lies concern you?
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be specific......you seem to label everything he says as a lie.....actions concern me....statements, not so much...unless it's your guy..then I'm deeply concerned.....we're told these politicians sometimes often make erroneous statements when they are tired from doing politician stuff...and Trump has been very, very busy you know....

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by scottw

be specific......you seem to label everything he says as a lie.Pls. point out where I have ever said anything remotely close to that....actions concern me....statements, not so much...unless it's your guy..then I'm deeply concerned..I don't know if that is your usual snarkiness or a double standard?...we're told these politicians sometimes often make erroneous statements when they are tired from doing politician stuff...and Trump has been very, very busy you know....

I agree they make erroneous statements (like Obama stating he visited 57 states - most people let mis-statments like that go and if they don't there are petty people. I do remember it being brought up here a few times though).

3 min. doing a search came up with the following:

Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama "spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace."

"Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants."

Says Barack Obama "is the first president in modern history not to have a single year of 3 percent growth

"Nearly half of African-American children under the age of 6 are living in abject poverty."

"Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique."

"14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote

"Ford is moving all of their small-car production to Mexico."

The stories from women saying he groped or forced himself on them "largely have been debunked."

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Of course his ethical lapses are not applicable to anyone else. Most people recognize that. However you find something you don't like about a Democrat and you apply that to everybody. By the way do you know the manufacturer of Confederate flags? I'd like to purchase some stock in the company since they have been very prevalent since Donald Trump got elected president. Glad you like the air up there.
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Yesterday you accused the entire "right" of losing so "much" of its "morals" because some have defended Trump (which, I guess, you think is immoral). Yet you think, I guess, that it is wrong to apply to all Democrats something that is not nice about one Democrat.

And now you're implying, I guess, that there is some not nice thing about Trump which is connected to, or inspires a love for, the Confederacy. And that, a mirror image of applying to everybody what is about one person, you now apply to one person (Trump) something pertaining to a whole segment of people.

Aside from your hypocrisy, would you be speaking code, or blowing a dog whistle, implying, or actually saying, that Trump is a racist? Or that he actually does not love America nor does not want to make it great, but actually hankers to the greatness of the Confederate States? Or something like that?

That's the kind of fake news that the Democrats constantly propagate. And have been doing for many years. That's why their outrage over trump seems fake to me. Is he different now than all the years before he ran for President? How come there wasn't this constant barrage of "news" about what a racist, sexist, homophobic, hateful person he was all those years? How come he was actually a celebrity? Befriended by the "left" even more than by the "right"?

That's why it's about politics--his audacity to run against the left and their anointed next-in-line. That's why the Democrat rage over certain fake news is fake rage to me. They've disseminated so much fake news over the decades that it seems to flow effortlessly out of their every orifice.

Scottw's football analogy explains a lot of what passes over you. Probably, Democrat fake tactics have been so pervasive and unchecked by the very media which approved and fed into it with its own fakery that it has been accepted as a norm, was normalized to the point where it wasn't noticed as anything peculiar. Certainly, it was never alluded to as fake news. Even though much of it was.