My apologies, but I haven't the time to reply to every person who attacks me.
To those who've actually argued the substance of my statements, thank you ... and I will later try to reply to any sincere retorts.
To ad hominem idiots...why would I bother..?
Aridas
I appreciate the objective nature of your reply and I'll do my best to reply to the points you hit:
(I apologize but the editing features are primitive -- I hope you see this. I used italics to quote you.)
Did you believe that Putin was controlling Trump..?
Or that the 3-year investigation wasn't motivated by animus and partisanship..?
Do we agree that presently, he's criticized for virtually anything he does irrespective whether it's actually wrong / bad, etc...?
Don't people see how distorting what he says (for instance the implication that he was saying the racists were 'very fine people' in Charlottesville..) would make someone believe that it doesn't really matter whether the criticism is legitimate, the first priority is to criticize, regardless.
Example: people here immediately attacked me, even though I made claims, this 'supposed' intellectual forum started off with ad hominem... They're probably assuming political beliefs -- other than those explicitly stated and would likely be wrong.
I'd bet the exodus of "Liberals" to the Right (the values of the parties are changing, also) in the U.S. is greater in the past 4 years than in any for the last 30 years.
Given the idiotic (QED: reactions to my post) attacks against people vs. their claims/beliefs/ideas from OTHER people (not you) ... you can't blame them; they're trying to avoid the vitriolic waste of time, as very little discussion actually occurs. They CERTAINLY don't bother trying to see things from the perspective of others.
Honestly, Trump been getting off remarkably easy, objectively speaking, when it comes to coverage. Don't believe me? What other President has really obviously engaged in numerous acts of fraud, tax and otherwise? What other President has quite the history of being caught committing perjury in courtrooms?
Trump is not getting equivalent treatment, it's true. He's getting off easy, in fair part because there's just too much to really focus on.
I 100% agree and thought so at the time. Does anyone think that people who're more Right-leaning these days DOESN'T find a considerable amount of his antics to be pathetic and embarrassing..? AND UNNECESSARY..?
Another person who pointed out his pathetic, ego based idiotic **** re: the hurricane's path.
That also was humiliating and PATHETIC for him to do. For anyone who hadn't previously realized, Trump reiterated how frail his ego was.
I've always known him to be a relatively unintelligent person (certainly relative to Obama, whom, though I absolutely disagree with many beliefs he held, was much smarter, and a MUCH better communicator ... and I have ALWAYS known Trump to be prone to pettiness, self aggrandizement, etc.
Re: the fraudulent **** (Trump university..? PURE fraud) was ALL previous to his presidency. And irrespective whether I thought he should be viable or even legally ABLE to become the choice of the American people, they chose him. My judgement's now, begin from there.
RIGHT now, with ALL of the crises there are ... and since he IS who the president is ... I don't care about his previous pathetic moral failings. I'm talking about the decisions he implements, however that sausage is made.
Forget the tu quoque retorts of Hillary's worse conduct (Uranium One) which should illustrate, to the extent they deemed her "qualified" ... should expose the "flexible" moral-criteria of the Left. And in the same manner the Left justified the details of the Uranium One scandal redounding to the financial benefit of an elected official, I'd assume so also did people on the Right ... justify the **** Trump did. Personally I see both as criminal and disqualifying. But there's some flowchart of Uranium One events that convinces the Left that it's all copacetic... and likewise do people on the Right. I regard it all as self-deception and ********. But similar enough.
UNLESS there's a means to remove him (and there isn't) to wind-back the clock ... it's IRRELEVANT. And we need to be honest about the quality and efficacy of the decisions, today.
Tangentially, holy ****** The CIA and FBI (and The House) were UTTERLY corrupt in that BS investigation, tactics and claims ... wholesale! I have a background in Law Enforcement, in search warrants, investigating crimes, rights of the accused, the criteria, etc etc. From every lawyer in Mueller's bullpen having donated to Democratic candidates, to Strzok's text messages ... yet, supposedly there wouldn't even be the APPEARANCE of prejudice..? Are. you. freaking. KIDDING me..? If someone can't admit that, the conversation's OVER. They are NOT intellectually honest. Why continue..? What a STUNNING miscarriage of due process and rights! That investigation was SO corrupt! I feel confident there WILL be indictments, prosecutions and even convictions. Once the accused admits guilt and is sentenced ... we can continue this conversation. As of now, other than Michael Tracey, virtually NO ONE has shown themselves to be intellectually honest.
Lots of that with Gorsuch, eh?
... that claim is utter and complete BS -- Gorsuch serves as an example to prove it to be totally wrong.
As for the race stuff? Try not to drink white supremacist propaganda too uncritically.
Gorsuch didn't scare them as much. Kavanaugh changed the odds. I might mention, I'm pro-choice. I'm also an atheist, ANTI-THEIST, who's spent years loving the process of debating how inane people who believe in a god, let alone, religion.
The same people who were saying we should "Believe all Women" also say "Due Process" when more credible claims are made about people on the Left.
I might add ... Ford wouldn't even provide the YEAR in which the supposed attack occurred. Why..? Because such specificity would allow someone to falsify her claim. That sort of deliberate vaguary is the HALLMARK of someone avoiding sufficient specificity to get away with a fabricated claim. It's amazing to me how "homogeneously mentally disabled" to scrutinize the credibility of someone is ... only to be fully restored when the allegation is made about someone else.
If the left calls DATA white supremacist propaganda ...
We agree: Ignorance and distortion is the Lefts Propaganda.
If you think the numbers I provided re: racial violence is opinion, or unsupported..?
Please search for the following:
city-journal org democratic-candidates-racism-crime Heather Mac Donald
And if you REALLY want..? I'll show you it via the BJS' numbers, directly. They're there, but they don't put them
next to each other to avoid hurt feelings. But it's ALL there.
PRECISELY: 2018, Blacks committed 537,204 out of 593,598 — violent-interracial-felonies
Please search for the following:
bjs gov htus8008.pdf
But maybe you'd prefer to see the information from US News..? Or the Guardian..?
You'll need to search this:
usnews: 2016-09-29 race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers
(It's too "dangerous" to let me post URL's you see..?)
The guardian's is my FAVORITE. You think ... men commit more MURDERS than women... no..? (I did).
Funny... they do, if we look within races. But if you compare black women to white men..? Black women actually are MORE murderous. Think about that.
Please check this out, also:
theguardian com us-news 2016 sep/26 rate-murder-fbi-increase
Look up things that really show hatred ... like the number of times per year someone gets BURNED to death. Look at those races...
Go look up the actual number of hate crimes in the US. For one thing, they recycle some of the same crimes, OVER and OVER. Because there just aren't that many. And I'd agree, they really are upsetting... but if you have that same attitude when the demographics are reversed..?
Last -- look at interracial rapes. The stat for whites who rapes blacks..? It's functionally ZERO. It's so rare... as to be too low to calculate. Not so for the reverse.
But hey, maybe the actuaries who are obviously a diverse group (Federal Hiring..?) maybe the blacks within it are too brain washed to blow the whistle on the racists in the FBI and DOJ who're confabulating violent crimes of blacks..? WHO KNOWS, right? It's all just a racist / white supremacist's propaganda. Factual numbers, that is. Because, facts are racist, right..?
Again, regardless of our disagreements, I appreciate the manner in which you went about it.
For your convenience I can PM you the links if you'd like ...
