Joe Biden is now POTUS
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Add in the fact that the DNC had more viewership, than the RNC. It reads like a lot of enthusiasm to get rid of Trump. Yet if you let some people tell it...biden won't be able to compete
They will also tell you to not get too confident, while they try to make people unconfident. In otherwords they want you to feel less enthusiastic about voting and therefore you don't vote.
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How Trump’s “law and order” lies get promoted by the press
Dems blamed for GOP mayhem
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Actively inciting political violence, Trump continues his unprecedented push for re-election by willingly putting people’s lives at risk. He’s sprinting through a treacherous crossroads in American history, and much of the press is failing the challenge. News outlets are neglecting to aggressively and accurately describe Trump’s dangerous ways as he celebrates arbitrary violence and civil breakdown. Instead, they’re buying into his “law and order” rhetoric, and actually positioning him as a defender of stability.
Embracing GOP talking points, the campaign press is convinced Democrat Joe Biden is the one paying a political price for protest violence that has sprung up in recent weeks, even though Trump is the one encouraging the mayhem. Trump refused to condemn the killing of Black Lives Matters protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man. The BLM protesters were gunned down by a white, right-wing, Trump fan. In fact, Trump offered up a public defense of the shooter.
Since the killings, the media have been filled with claims that, politically, the violence is hurting Democrats. But how are headlines about a vigilante Trump supporter killing protesters in the streets supposed to hurt Democrats? If that were the case, wouldn’t Trump be hoping his supporters kill lots of people, because the political press will keep depicting the murders as Democratic setbacks? (i.e. All violence helps Trump.) This narrative is wildly irresponsible. The press, wed to regurgitating GOP talking points, is rewarding Trump for instigating political violence.
How is civil unrest the fault of the party out of power? Republicans run the federal government, but Democrats are to blame for the state of the nation? It’s up to a presidential challenger to heal a nation in crisis? That’s an absurd and unprecedented premise for any presidential campaign. Yet Trump’s rhetoric is being used as the starting point for a completely misguided and one-sided discussion about “law and order.”
It’s doubly shocking that the press is playing along with Trump’s “law and order” narrative considering his White House often resemble a criminal enterprise, with a parade of aides and former officials being sentenced to jail time. Even with day-to-day governance, Trump relishes the opportunity to ignore laws and statutes designed to prevent corruption — he obliterated the Hatch Act during the GOP convention, refuses to hand over his tax returns, and stiffed all Congressional investigator information demands during his impeachment trial. Trump also routinely calls for the jailing of his political opponents.
That makes a mockery of the “law” part. In terms of “order,” he’s presiding over a rampaging epidemic that’s still killing nearly 1,000 Americans every day. How does that reflect Trump’s ability to create calm in the U.S.? The whole premise is laughable, yet the press plays along.
““Law and order” without the rule of law is neither “law” nor “order,”” the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent correctly stressed. “And any news organization that uncritically describes President Trump’s reelection campaign as premised on “law and order” appeals, without placing his concerted efforts to destroy the rule of law in America front and center alongside them, is helping to drain those words of all meaning.”
Still, many rushed in to announce Trump’s winning hand. The Atlantic’s George Packer claimed Kenosha may end up being “the reason” Trump wins in November because the unrest there “played into” the GOP theme: “Biden is a tool of radical leftists who hate America, who want to bring the chaos of the cities they govern out to the suburbs where the real Americans live.” Again, the violence in Kenosha was sparked by a right-wing Trump supporter. But Packer is sure events there will re-elect Trump because they make Biden look weak and place Democrats in a “trap.” "(There’s been minuscule movement in national election polls since Kenosha, with Biden maintaining a large lead.)
“President Donald Trump recognize the potential political fallouts if protests in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting are seen as peaceful or as violent,” CNN reported last week, claiming street violence would help Trump politically. And that’s why Democrats are supposedly “worried about Kenosha,” according to CNN. But the network didn’t quote any Democrats to support that GOP-friendly idea. CNN simply embraced Trump rhetoric and started from the premise that he’s the obvious “law and order” candidate.
Meanwhile, the New York Times treated Trump’s campaign as being just as valid and factual as Joe Biden’s push to criticize Trump’s failed response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “Rival Themes Emerge as Race Enters Final Weeks: Covid vs. Law and Order,” read the Times headline, for a news article that made no attempt to distinguish between Trump’s false claims and Biden’s accurate ones. The lengthy article about Trump’s law and order push, “never once mentions that Trump went on a televised crime spree in the last week,” noted blogger Marcy Wheeler.
As Trump readied his trip to Kenosha on Tuesday, the Times, in a bout of straight-up campaign stenography, reported “Mr. Trump and his advisers have grown especially energized in recent days as they have pressed their law-and-order issue.” That same day, Bloomberg News reported that Kenosha had been “gripped by violence” since the Blake shooting one week ago, echoing GOP talking points. But that’s just not true. Remaining protests in Kenosha have all been peaceful.
Question: As bouts of political violence do flare up, is there any scenario where the press will consider them to be bad news for Trump, or is everything a setback for Democrats?
UPDATE:
Americans aren’t buying what Trump and much of the press are selling.
From Reuters:
Embracing GOP talking points, the campaign press is convinced Democrat Joe Biden is the one paying a political price for protest violence that has sprung up in recent weeks, even though Trump is the one encouraging the mayhem. Trump refused to condemn the killing of Black Lives Matters protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man. The BLM protesters were gunned down by a white, right-wing, Trump fan. In fact, Trump offered up a public defense of the shooter.
Since the killings, the media have been filled with claims that, politically, the violence is hurting Democrats. But how are headlines about a vigilante Trump supporter killing protesters in the streets supposed to hurt Democrats? If that were the case, wouldn’t Trump be hoping his supporters kill lots of people, because the political press will keep depicting the murders as Democratic setbacks? (i.e. All violence helps Trump.) This narrative is wildly irresponsible. The press, wed to regurgitating GOP talking points, is rewarding Trump for instigating political violence.
How is civil unrest the fault of the party out of power? Republicans run the federal government, but Democrats are to blame for the state of the nation? It’s up to a presidential challenger to heal a nation in crisis? That’s an absurd and unprecedented premise for any presidential campaign. Yet Trump’s rhetoric is being used as the starting point for a completely misguided and one-sided discussion about “law and order.”
It’s doubly shocking that the press is playing along with Trump’s “law and order” narrative considering his White House often resemble a criminal enterprise, with a parade of aides and former officials being sentenced to jail time. Even with day-to-day governance, Trump relishes the opportunity to ignore laws and statutes designed to prevent corruption — he obliterated the Hatch Act during the GOP convention, refuses to hand over his tax returns, and stiffed all Congressional investigator information demands during his impeachment trial. Trump also routinely calls for the jailing of his political opponents.
That makes a mockery of the “law” part. In terms of “order,” he’s presiding over a rampaging epidemic that’s still killing nearly 1,000 Americans every day. How does that reflect Trump’s ability to create calm in the U.S.? The whole premise is laughable, yet the press plays along.
““Law and order” without the rule of law is neither “law” nor “order,”” the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent correctly stressed. “And any news organization that uncritically describes President Trump’s reelection campaign as premised on “law and order” appeals, without placing his concerted efforts to destroy the rule of law in America front and center alongside them, is helping to drain those words of all meaning.”
Still, many rushed in to announce Trump’s winning hand. The Atlantic’s George Packer claimed Kenosha may end up being “the reason” Trump wins in November because the unrest there “played into” the GOP theme: “Biden is a tool of radical leftists who hate America, who want to bring the chaos of the cities they govern out to the suburbs where the real Americans live.” Again, the violence in Kenosha was sparked by a right-wing Trump supporter. But Packer is sure events there will re-elect Trump because they make Biden look weak and place Democrats in a “trap.” "(There’s been minuscule movement in national election polls since Kenosha, with Biden maintaining a large lead.)
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Meanwhile, the New York Times treated Trump’s campaign as being just as valid and factual as Joe Biden’s push to criticize Trump’s failed response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “Rival Themes Emerge as Race Enters Final Weeks: Covid vs. Law and Order,” read the Times headline, for a news article that made no attempt to distinguish between Trump’s false claims and Biden’s accurate ones. The lengthy article about Trump’s law and order push, “never once mentions that Trump went on a televised crime spree in the last week,” noted blogger Marcy Wheeler.
As Trump readied his trip to Kenosha on Tuesday, the Times, in a bout of straight-up campaign stenography, reported “Mr. Trump and his advisers have grown especially energized in recent days as they have pressed their law-and-order issue.” That same day, Bloomberg News reported that Kenosha had been “gripped by violence” since the Blake shooting one week ago, echoing GOP talking points. But that’s just not true. Remaining protests in Kenosha have all been peaceful.
Question: As bouts of political violence do flare up, is there any scenario where the press will consider them to be bad news for Trump, or is everything a setback for Democrats?
UPDATE:
Americans aren’t buying what Trump and much of the press are selling.
From Reuters:
A Kenosha man says the Trump-supporting 'owner' of a destroyed business in a photo op was actually his predecessor who sold the shop 8 years ago
Tom Gram, the owner of a destroyed Kenosha business, is accusing President Donald Trump of using his business for political gain, TMJ4 reported.
I meant to say if Trump wins...if Biden wins she going to hook me up with a PS5
I meant to say if Trump wins...if Biden wins she going to hook me up with a PS5
So what was the conversation/situation that led up to this bet?
Fox and other right wing polling organisations have him catching up, while
everyone else has him remaining behind. Because of how low key the DNC
was, I thought Trump might make up serious ground with his bombastic and
boisterous convention. However, it seems people have already made up their
minds and want to see him gone. The unheard of happened. He had an RNC
and got no bump. That spells serious trouble.
everyone else has him remaining behind. Because of how low key the DNC
was, I thought Trump might make up serious ground with his bombastic and
boisterous convention. However, it seems people have already made up their
minds and want to see him gone. The unheard of happened. He had an RNC
and got no bump. That spells serious trouble.
Yeah. I thought the RNC stuff along with the carnage he's keeping up all over the country would have benefited him more. Even the recent polls say that Americans would feel safer if Biden was POTUS. That's huge. The Law and Order bullshit isn't working, for now.
Leave truth alone.
nah bruh.
Let Dr. Truth be Dr. Truth. If you’ve visited any sports threads over the past decade, you’d know why. LOL
I have come to the conclusion that we can't live together. Today people assume the democracy is just the normal state for humans, it's not. They were no democracies for 1500 years. I don't believe that America can survive as a multicultural state. I don't know how it's going to end. It's not 1861 and we're not separated regionally. We're living amongst each other. It's town vs. town, neighbor vs. neighbor. Urban vs. suburban vs. rural within the same state. I think we're living through a cold civil war. I think the end result will be something akin to bleeding Kansas and the guerilla wars in Missouri. It's looking a lot like the Balkans.
It really comes down to these two sides. One side wants a liberal society like Canada and western Europe. The other side want's a society like Israel in which there are second class citizens. Both sides want a socialist system similar to western Europe, the so-called conservative don't want "others" to participate in it. The Liberal side now realizes the reason they don't have the society they want is because of white supremacy.
Judge:" Mr. Cisco, you unloaded the entire clip into the victim and you want me to believe it was self-defense?"
Gene:"I choked?!?"
It's crazy that I can understand what he is trying to say but it is said in such a fucking clumsy manner that it's the most unpolitical shit.
He lacks the capacity to express himself well. What he's trying to say is the police panicked.
Many cops aren't built for the job and the unions make it difficult to weed them out.
Many have talked about Biden's gaffes. Yet few have talked about Trump gaffes and the biggest thus far is the "Biden's America" talking point.
That made him look totally stupid and it has people who may have been somewhat on fence. Finally deciding to jump the fence away from Trump.
He's looking like Ronald Reagan in his last years in office. Mentally challenged.
That made him look totally stupid and it has people who may have been somewhat on fence. Finally deciding to jump the fence away from Trump.
He's looking like Ronald Reagan in his last years in office. Mentally challenged.
That’s not cool b. I predicted the 2012 Super Bowl.
I posted earlier in this thread, don’t go listening to these polls making it seem Biden is in the lead and thinking nobody is gonna vote for Trump.
The same narrative was repeated constantly in 2016 saying the same thing that Hillary was gonna win it. Look what happened.
Now if you notice, Trump is pushing to get his ass into Wisconsin. If you remember Hillary was suppose to win that state along with Michigan and Pennsylvania. Trump took all 3 of those states.
Trump wants to get back in that state and campaign like he did in 2016 and try to claim that state.
If Biden can win Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania (which is his home state) and get the turnout Obama got in 2008, he can win this in a landslide and cleanly without any controversy.
Remember, ignore the polls and get your ass out and VOTE!!!!
Do not underestimate the power of ignorance and stupidity...those are some of the reasons the Moron won in 2016.
The same narrative was repeated constantly in 2016 saying the same thing that Hillary was gonna win it. Look what happened.
Now if you notice, Trump is pushing to get his ass into Wisconsin. If you remember Hillary was suppose to win that state along with Michigan and Pennsylvania. Trump took all 3 of those states.
Trump wants to get back in that state and campaign like he did in 2016 and try to claim that state.
If Biden can win Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania (which is his home state) and get the turnout Obama got in 2008, he can win this in a landslide and cleanly without any controversy.
Remember, ignore the polls and get your ass out and VOTE!!!!
Do not underestimate the power of ignorance and stupidity...those are some of the reasons the Moron won in 2016.
Shit is still too close given how bad of a president he's been. Thats a muthafuckin shame.
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Half or quarter that spread... this is a Conservative ploy to gin up the rank and file lunatic base/party
I'm not sure an astounding electoral defeat is enough to end Trumpism. Electing Trump is the kind of decision that shows you the nation is broken. His conduct and the failure to remove him from office demonstrates flaws in the Constitution and our way of government. We cannot sustain the current path we are on.
I think this quote sums it up "There is no sustainable future for a working class that allows itself to be divided on identity lines."
We now know that 42% of the country would have would be comfortable in Germany in 1933. They may not have liked the end result but they're willing to take the first steps down that path.
The country is broken. We'll never get back the soft power we had internally either. It's over in many ways.
Trump is the kind of mistake that your family, friends and peers never forget. They now realize they can’t count on you on they way they thought. If Trump is defeated we will have to do Walk of shame internationally, everybody has seen us for what we really are.