Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 23

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Tony Fauci has nothing to do with NFL Football. They are planning a very safe and controlled opening. However, if they don’t stand for our National Anthem and our Great American Flag, I won’t be watching!!!

 

[lomiller]

Attack the arguer not the argument.

Pointing out that someone is citing garbage sources IS addressing the argument instead of the arguer.

Attack the news venue not the article.

If a news venue is known for frequently presenting falsehoods, it calls into question anything they assert as facts, and therefor disqualifies them as a source of facts on which you can base an argument.

 

[William Parcher]

Pointing out that someone is citing garbage sources IS addressing the argument instead of the arguer.



If a news venue is known for frequently presenting falsehoods, it calls into question anything they assert as facts, and therefor disqualifies them as a source of facts on which you can base an argument.

It's usually breaking news that I cite from Daily Mail. I have not found them to be presenting falsehoods or errors that would make them garbage as compared to other news agencies. When there are errors these same errors can often be found in other breaking news venues.

 

[kookbreaker]

Trump Tweets

Tony Fauci has nothing to do with NFL Football. They are planning a very safe and controlled opening. However, if they don’t stand for our National Anthem and our Great American Flag, I won’t be watching!!!

Expect another “Celebration of America” type event when the season starts.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

It's usually breaking news that I cite from Daily Mail. I have not found them to be presenting falsehoods or errors that would make them garbage as compared to other news agencies. When there are errors these same errors can often be found in other breaking news venues.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/

Factual Reporting ranked as "Low".

 

[Craig4]

Expect another “Celebration of America” type event when the season starts.

I hope so because that will blow up in his face. The players will humiliate him.

 

[Garrison]

I think you mean loose-cannon police organisations. When entire SWAT units resign over the treatment of police

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...wat-team-resigned-last-week-thats-good-start/



Many police unions also need utterly disbanding.

You would think the Republicans would be up for a bit of union busting.

 

[Trebuchet]

You're probably right it might not be Miller. But given Miller's history and high profile position, do we really think he is the only hard core racist in the Trump administration?

I don't know how that related to my post, but Miller is most certainly not the only hard core racist in the administration, nor probably even the most hard core. Trump tries to surround himself with people who think like him. Probably even more racists in the campaign than in the administration, being that they are less visible.

 

[William Parcher]

Factual Reporting ranked as "Low".

That's only because they said that Richard Gere put a gerbil in his butt. They were half right.

 

[Stacyhs]

Don't forget at this "level" resignation and sacking are pretty much synonymous, I'm presuming a judge is allowed to resign?

Why would a liberal judge resign at this point? Remember, unless one of them dies between now and the inauguration (if even that late), there is no opening. A liberal judge is not going to resign knowing that Trump an McConnell would push through a right wing judge. No one can 'sack' a SC judge. There are three things that can create an opening:
1. A judge dies
2. A judge retires/resigns voluntarily
3. A judge is impeached

Trump has zero ability to sack/force to resign a SC judge.

 

[dudalb]

"I don't do politics" is the single most disingenuous lie someone can tell in a world where everything, up to and including base concepts like "There are facts" is politicized.

And from a guy who for a while was calling out anybody who posted what he considered "off topic" posts in a thread....

 

[The Great Zaganza]

That's only because they said that Richard Gere put a gerbil in his butt. They were half right.

that's not the "only" reason, as the provided link shows.

 

[dudalb]

Maybe it would be more understandable if I said I don't do Republican or Democrat or Independent or Libertarian.

A friend says that in the political realm I am a hermaphrodite. I didn't disagree but said okay as long as that's not a political party. I thought he was actually very good at evaluating me because the term hermaphrodite isn't about being Centrist and it isn't really one thing or another. The hermaphrodite is everything at once and yet is difficult to describe or predict or maybe even understand at all. And you don't tell a hermaphrodite that they need to make up their mind and decide what they are.

Sorry, I don't get your pont. I don't speak Gibberish.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Maybe it would be more understandable if I said I don't do Republican or Democrat or Independent or Libertarian.

A friend says that in the political realm I am a hermaphrodite. I didn't disagree but said okay as long as that's not a political party. I thought he was actually very good at evaluating me because the term hermaphrodite isn't about being Centrist and it isn't really one thing or another. The hermaphrodite is everything at once and yet is difficult to describe or predict or maybe even understand at all. And you don't tell a hermaphrodite that they need to make up their mind and decide what they are.

Oh please. Look who you're talking to.

There's a difference between "Political categorizations are largely arbitrary and just ranking people on where they fall on some Left to Right spectrum and labeling the parts is largely a waste of time" and your sad little "LOL facts don't exist, all sources are biased" routine.

You're not a centrist or a free thinker or some sort of "Labels don't apply to me" hipster. You're just yet another bog standard nihilistic contrarian hiding behind an appeal to openness in a place already filled to the brim with me.

 

[William Parcher]

And from a guy who for a while was calling out anybody who posted what he considered "off topic" posts in a thread....

You must be talking about me reporting posts that are in violation of a Mod Box Warning. The Covid disease and science thread where you dropped partisan politics cluster bomb blitzes.

 

[acbytesla]

Why would a liberal judge resign at this point? Remember, unless one of them dies between now and the inauguration (if even that late), there is no opening. A liberal judge is not going to resign knowing that Trump an McConnell would push through a right wing judge. No one can 'sack' a SC judge. There are three things that can create an opening:
1. A judge dies
2. A judge retires/resigns voluntarily
3. A judge is impeached

Trump has zero ability to sack/force to resign a SC judge.

I can however imagine an older conservative jurist resigning. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito might be talked into resigning just so they can put in some 40 year old right winger to keep the balance of the court represented by troglodytes for decades to come. As much as the left is afraid of Ginsburg dying the right's nightmare is Trump loses Ginsburg steps aside and Alito and or Thomas kick the bucket.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump Tweets

Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!

So Trump is threatening ANY protester, peaceful or not? I got news for this Orange Turd, peaceful protesters have the right to assemble under the Constitution. I don't think another Lafayette Square is going to go down well with Americans.

 

[William Parcher]

Oh please. Look who you're talking to.

There's a difference between "Political categorizations are largely arbitrary and just ranking people on where they fall on some Left to Right spectrum and labeling the parts is largely a waste of time" and your sad little "LOL facts don't exist, all sources are biased" routine.

You're not a centrist or a free thinker or some sort of "Labels don't apply to me" hipster. You're just yet another bog standard nihilistic contrarian hiding behind an appeal to openness in a place already filled to the brim with me.

What a terrible thing I be.

ETA: And a pox upon this forum. I be.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Yeah in the future can we maybe, just maybe, not put the entire hopes and dreams of us continuing to live in a functioning democracy entirely on the hope that an 87 year old 3 time cancer survivor can continue not dying.

 

[JoeMorgue]

What a terrible thing I be.

Glibness is neither an answer nor a defense.