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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2018 15:13:20 GMT -5
The National Enquirer's parent company has admitted to prosecutors that it made the $150,000 payment in "concert with" the Trump campaign "in order to ensure that the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before the 2016 presidential election."
"its purpose was to suppress woman’s story as to prevent it from influencing election”
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Post by tashoya on Dec 12, 2018 19:55:57 GMT -5
Care to elaborate on the "red state values" that get dismissed by the blue coasts? I feel like this is part-and-parcel of the "You coastal elites live in a bubble and don't understand us" claim. While it might be true, the flip side of that is also true: that a lot of people in red states live in their bubble. Why is that okay? It's not OK to live in your own bubble--it plays to the tribalism that is corrosive to the national dialogue. In that world prior to Donald Trump, taking away "values" was the standard messaging of late night Fox News: "they" (whoever they are) are trying to take "your" (whoever you are) values, from Hollywood to political correctness on college campuses to the oft-parodied War On Christmas. It also returns for that 3 to 5 days after a shooting that everyone in the media stands up and resolutely says to the camera, "we need to have a national dialogue on this issue," then they all lose focus and drift to another topic. It's the classic strawman argument, one which made Bill O'Reilly a lot of money. O'Reilly is still out there, living on the fringe of online media where, like Glenn Beck, Eric Bolling, and Pat Buchanan, they are persona non grata on major media, each for much different reasons. But O"Reilly's web site is precisely the problem with this line of shallow thinking. Its logo reads: "Take Your Country Back." So he's a Democrat now?
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Post by hoyarooter on Dec 12, 2018 21:21:11 GMT -5
Care to elaborate on the "red state values" that get dismissed by the blue coasts? I feel like this is part-and-parcel of the "You coastal elites live in a bubble and don't understand us" claim. While it might be true, the flip side of that is also true: that a lot of people in red states live in their bubble. Why is that okay? It's not OK to live in your own bubble--it plays to the tribalism that is corrosive to the national dialogue. In that world prior to Donald Trump, taking away "values" was the standard messaging of late night Fox News: "they" (whoever they are) are trying to take "your" (whoever you are) values, from Hollywood to political correctness on college campuses to the oft-parodied War On Christmas. It also returns for that 3 to 5 days after a shooting that everyone in the media stands up and resolutely says to the camera, "we need to have a national dialogue on this issue," then they all lose focus and drift to another topic. It's the classic strawman argument, one which made Bill O'Reilly a lot of money. O'Reilly is still out there, living on the fringe of online media where, like Glenn Beck, Eric Bolling, and Pat Buchanan, they are persona non grata on major media, each for much different reasons. But O"Reilly's web site is precisely the problem with this line of shallow thinking. Its logo reads: "Take Your Country Back." I actually think O'Reilly in his prime looked pretty sane compared to some of the loons out there now. Maybe I'm just viewing him through rose-colored glasses.
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Post by hoyarooter on Dec 12, 2018 21:25:19 GMT -5
Perhaps they should try this - Begin every meeting with Trump by saying "North Korea bad, Russia bad" and leave it at that.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 13, 2018 5:22:43 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 6:18:29 GMT -5
Max Boot:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 7:07:44 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 8:52:17 GMT -5
Republicans burned the goalposts to the ground months ago.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 13, 2018 16:46:42 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2018 17:25:35 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 14:55:42 GMT -5
Smh...
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 14, 2018 17:08:58 GMT -5
Most Americans don't believe the pathological liar Don the Con: For months, President Trump has claimed that U.S. Steel has announced plans to build more than six new plants. Throughout the midterm election, he repeatedly said that Democrats had signed onto an “open borders” bill. And he has long charged that millions of fraudulent votes were cast in the 2016 election. None of these claims is true. What’s more, most Americans don’t believe them, according to a new Washington Post Fact Checker poll. Fewer than 3 in 10 Americans — including fewer than 4 in 10 Republicans — believe these or several other prominent claims by the president, according to the poll. www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/political-knowledge-poll-trump-falsehoods/?utm_term=.a9d564f563bb
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 14, 2018 18:07:16 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Dec 14, 2018 21:56:14 GMT -5
Not SMH, but NMH. Nodding my head vigorously.
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Post by hoyarooter on Dec 14, 2018 21:58:03 GMT -5
Most Americans don't believe the pathological liar Don the Con: For months, President Trump has claimed that U.S. Steel has announced plans to build more than six new plants. Throughout the midterm election, he repeatedly said that Democrats had signed onto an “open borders” bill. And he has long charged that millions of fraudulent votes were cast in the 2016 election. None of these claims is true. What’s more, most Americans don’t believe them, according to a new Washington Post Fact Checker poll. Fewer than 3 in 10 Americans — including fewer than 4 in 10 Republicans — believe these or several other prominent claims by the president, according to the poll. www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/political-knowledge-poll-trump-falsehoods/?utm_term=.a9d564f563bbI guess I'm a glass is half empty kind of guy in this instance. I cannot comprehend how 3 in 10 Americans can believe this garbage. Fake News Network viewers, I suppose.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 15, 2018 4:09:13 GMT -5
Most Americans don't believe the pathological liar Don the Con: For months, President Trump has claimed that U.S. Steel has announced plans to build more than six new plants. Throughout the midterm election, he repeatedly said that Democrats had signed onto an “open borders” bill. And he has long charged that millions of fraudulent votes were cast in the 2016 election. None of these claims is true. What’s more, most Americans don’t believe them, according to a new Washington Post Fact Checker poll. Fewer than 3 in 10 Americans — including fewer than 4 in 10 Republicans — believe these or several other prominent claims by the president, according to the poll. www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/political-knowledge-poll-trump-falsehoods/?utm_term=.a9d564f563bbI guess I'm a glass is half empty kind of guy in this instance. I cannot comprehend how 3 in 10 Americans can believe this garbage. Fake News Network viewers, I suppose. You are correct. Trump supporters are cultists: Our polling team aggregated the overall responses to false claims made by Trump. Those who identified Fox News as one of their top two sources of political news were much more likely to believe false claims from Trump in general than those who don’t identify Fox News as a top source of news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/14/media-consumers-most-likely-believe-trumps-falsehoods-fox-news-watchers/?utm_term=.c42361fbfea1
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 15, 2018 10:02:39 GMT -5
Another one bites the dust. Corrupt Zinke leaving the Trump Regime Another disgrace.
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 15, 2018 15:51:35 GMT -5
A fish rots from the head down. And Trump said that if HRC was President, it'd be nothing but investigations. What a moron. Two years after Donald Trump won the presidency, nearly every organization he has led in the past decade is under investigation. Trump’s private company is contending with civil suits digging into its business with foreign governments and with looming state inquiries into its tax practices. Trump’s 2016 campaign is under scrutiny by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, whose investigation into Russian interference has already led to guilty pleas by his campaign chairman and four advisers. Trump’s inaugural committee has been probed by Mueller for illegal foreign donations, a topic that the incoming House Intelligence Committee chairman plans to further investigate next year. Trump’s charity is locked in an ongoing suit with New York state, which has accused the foundation of “persistently illegal conduct.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mounting-legal-threats-surround-trump-as-nearly-every-organization-he-has-led-is-under-investigation/2018/12/15/4cfb4482-ffbb-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?utm_term=.c2a6f5214ba7
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 17, 2018 5:08:28 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 17, 2018 8:53:44 GMT -5
Fake tough guy Don the Con loves to pretend like he's a mob boss. Republicans must be very proud. But Obama wore a brown suit and once put his feet on the coffee table in the Oval Office!! But in 2018, “rat” is the language that emanates from the White House. President Trump applied the term on Sunday to his former attorney, Michael Cohen, who told a federal court that the president had directed him in violating campaign finance law, including by buying the silence of two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump before he became president. A federal judge last week sentenced Cohen to three years in prison, in a development that dramatized just one of the numerous legal woes facing the president, which reach nearly every aspect of his business and political life. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/17/calling-michael-cohen-rat-trump-brings-american-underworld-lingo-white-house/?utm_term=.e7275e66929b
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