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@FLRW
Lol, all you had to do was ask instead of assuming stuff.
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@ebuc
1} OGP, why do you like Trumpet so much?
I don't
2} Do you see any flaws with Trumpets character { morals }?
Plenty
3} Do you believe the 90 or so indictments charged are all or some to be valid { with merit }?
Possibly a few
4} Who is your current choice for next president of USA?
Vivek or RFK
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@Sidewalker
Also, reported for unwarranted personal adhom attacks and insults against a forum user.
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@Sidewalker
I am not the one taking your tax money and laundering it overseas. Your outrage is wildly misplaced.
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@Sidewalker
GP learned how to value real estate at Trump University.
Politicians learned how to legally launder money from the taxpayer long before Trump was born. How do you think Trump learned how to do it?
The American Congress allocates around 40 billion a year of tax money to be sent overseas. When it returns to the shores of DC in the form of book deals and speeches and paintings, Congress then manufactures a need to send even more. The cycle continues. No Trump Derangement required.
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@Sidewalker
From book deals and paid speaking engagements,
All legal forms of bribing a US Senator. Plus selling a painting for 500k. Just because it's legal does not mean it isn't ill-gotten gains.
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@Sidewalker
Because you cant afford 400 million dollars of real estate on the salary of a Senator.
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@Double_R
The US has become the most accomplished and most powerful nation on earth as well as the envy of the world (although that's questionable over the past decade). We accomplished this because of the strength of our institutions,
I disagree, America achieved unique prosperity through the trust of the people to manage most of their own affairs without institutions. The Bill Of Rights is one unique American thing that keeps institutions out of the way of the people. The Bill of Rights entrusts the people with liberty and freedom.
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@cristo71
with the role of the media, if I were to use a courtroom analogy, the media should be the prosecutor, the political powerful should be the defense attorneys, and the judge should be the public. When the Defense attorneys are found habitually colluding with the prosecutors, you know that the judge is going to eventually get pissed.
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@Double_R
I wasn't accusing you. I was just saying, philosophically, what's the ideal framework the media should operate in?
Within all of this the default position is to tentatively trust what an individual says until we have justification not to.
Why is this more philosophically important than a neutral attitude? Why should the media presume innocence before guilt?
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Straight Arrow News launched in June 2021
The Pakman Show first aired in August 2005 on WXOJ-LP, a radio station located in Northampton, Massachusetts, later being nationally syndicated, and eventually achieving broader international distribution in a number of countries, as well as online.
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There is definitely no shortage of presumptions, I agree.
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@IlDiavolo
I guess this is the exact reason why Trump surpasses Biden in the polls by more than 10 points.
I don't know, there are still a lot of Biden supporters saying polls don't matter, and that news just needs to be even nicer to Biden. That's all.
Also, news has to stop talking about all the high prices and lack of high paying jobs to keep up with the high prices.
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@FLRW
So people with 5 houses will have 4 confiscated by the government. I am ok with this.
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As far as I know, Straight Arrow pays Pakman a fee for rebroadcasting their content. The Pakman Show existed a lot longer than the the many outlets subleasing the content from them. SAN rebroadcasts more than a dozen internet content creators from all over the political spectrum.
If you can provide an article saying the Pakman Show is created and funded by anything other than what the available articles cite regarding the show, feel free to do so.
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Dave Pakman works for Joe Ricketts.
I found zero sources for this. In fact, the entire article describing the Pakman Show has no reference at all.
You are taking the ridiculous argument that because a person once knew another person, then they can't be trusted.
Republicans did this with Obama by saying Obama knew Louis Farrakhan and was involved in the weather underground because Obama knew Bill Ayers. Wild claims like these belong in the trashcan.
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@FLRW
What about Biden with his 4 houses? Don't you want to tax 90% of those ill-gotten gains?
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Since when did news get more credible the richer the owner was?
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@Double_R
a point where there exists an entire media ecosystem built on telling people no one or there can be trusted and that the cause of their problems is [insert villain here]
Should the media ever start with a presumption that the government is trustworthy? What is the benefit to society when speech does not primarily focus on truth in opposition to power? What is the benefit to society when speech primarily omits the transgressions of power?
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Does is matter that FOX News is owned by the Murdochs?
Does it matter that WAPO is owned by a multi Billionaire? Since when did news get more credible the richer the owner was?
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@Double_R
Not to mention, most of these shows use "trusted media" for the source material of the shows....
the purity tests are set at such a high bar, it's a wonder there are any Democrats at all!
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Thank the lord WAPO, our lord and savior.
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@FLRW
I sincerely appreciate your non-Trump contributions to this forum.
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@Best.Korea
Well, I don't agree that everyone has the same behavior as the OP. I don't live near an assisted care facility though, so I don't normally see these kinds of behaviors.
I find it a bit strange that you think it is normal.
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those things happen to everyone.
Lol, serious question, do you spend a lot of time near an assisted care facility?
If so, then your opinion makes sense.
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@cristo71
Oh! whoopsies... didn't know I had to ask Trump for permission to laugh at other things...
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@Best.Korea
Did you find any humor in the clip about the current president?
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@Double_R
David Pakman can’t remember the last time he lost his cool.
That’s pretty rare for someone who makes a living talking about politics online, which Pakman has done for more than 13 years. Look across YouTube or TikTok and you’ll find videos of him forcefully but calmly making the case for progressive politics, sometimes in digital venues where those politics are not particularly popular.
I'd like to think you and Pakman share a lot in common, as you tend to keep your cool in this forum as well.
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@Double_R
This is what I meant about "the snake eating the tail"
If there are going to be such strict "purity tests" for a Democrat where an educated person like Pakman with millions of viewers is no longer welcome, that's going to be the eventual end of the left.
At first, I thought this was satire, but I really think now some people really do think this way.
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There are concerns about President Biden's cognitive abilities and highlights recent incidents that have raised questions about his fitness for office.
- Biden repeats the same story word for word just minutes apart, indicating memory issues. (short term memory issues)
- Various bizarre instances of Biden's actions and behavior, such as walking into the clearly visible Brazilian flag and snubbing the handshake of Brazil's president. Brazil who at this time is threatening to sever economic ties with America in favor of the BRICS cartel, aiding both Russia and China.
- Biden leaving a Medal of Honor ceremony abruptly, which is clearly seen as disrespectful.
- Biden reads from note cards all during a meeting with the Brazilian president, making little eye contact, suggesting significant cognitive challenges, not to mention additional slights against Brazil.
- Biden's blank stare when reporters are asking questions, raising concerns about his awareness and state of mind.
Now let's be honest: It's not funny to laugh at someone with cognitive impairments, especially an elder who lived through a brain aneurysm. Yet some humor is still to be found here by noting the depths of deception by those who manage President Biden. Having cameras on him 24/7 provides immense entertainment for the public, no late night writers needed.
Did you guys find any humor in the clip?
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@cristo71
A recent ABC/WAPO poll had Trump ahead of Biden by 10 percentage points.
Independents simply don't trust the usual suspects.
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@Double_R
If you believe our country is fairly evenly split between right wing consumers vs left wing consumers,
It's actually not. The split is 30%/30% for establishment parties.
40% of America is independent.
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@Best.Korea
Back to the OP though, do you like Gavin?
Do you think Gavin can stop Trump? After all, Gavin can't be blamed for the failures of Biden, so a fresh slate?
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@Best.Korea
And you still didn't answer if you prefer Gavin to Trump, or if you would be OK with a President Newsom.
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@Best.Korea
That's what happens when you increase the debt by 8 trillion.
Presidents after Carter increased the debt without printing money. Printing money was entirely a Biden thing starting in 2020. Inflation went through the moon because Biden's administration thought the economy would keep up with all the printed money, but it did not. Biden took a gamble and lost, and now Americans are paying bigtime.
And you still didn't answer if you prefer Gavin to Trump, or if you would be OK with a President Newsom.
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@FLRW
Why would Gavin not be someone you would vote for?
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@FLRW
So I take it you do not Prefer a President Newsom?
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@Best.Korea
Does President Newsom sound like a better idea than President Trump?
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Biden defeated Russia in just 3 years.
If by defeat, you mean Russia becomes a solid ally of NK, Brasil, India, and China, Russia maintains the unconquerable defense of the Donbas from NATO encroachment despite hundreds of billions in aid to continue the 2014 Civil war against the Donbas people, and Russia establishes uncontested dominance in the global energy sector as USA sanctions itself into obscurity, then correct. Russia is defeated.
In fact, Russia is so defeated that even Poland is turning its back on Ukraine foolishness over the Donbas.
fixed inflation caused by Trump,
If by fixed inflation, you mean increased the supply of money so that people are now more worried about food prices than the regurgitated history of Trump, then correct. Nobody cares about Trump history now because of the existential threat of present day inflation, but they are worried about a president today that has an average of 6 percent annual inflation over 3 years when 2 percent annual inflation was the highest most Americans have seen since the Jimmy Carter days.
Back to the OP though, do you like Gavin?
Do you think Gavin can stop Trump? After all, Gavin can't be blamed for the failures of Biden, so a fresh slate?
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@Best.Korea
I would say Gavin is significantly less chewed than Biden.
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@cristo71
You don’t think the press has been doing its job properly?
Good question.
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Because California is one of the most one-party states in the country, the purpose of defying the far-left State Congress can only mean one thing: A serious presidential run.
What do you guys feel?
Gavin 2024 a possibility? Maybe Gavin is someone you would prefer?
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@Sidewalker
TDS is not a matter of partisanship
I should have clarified "the TDS movement" which is most certainly a campaign to recruit more people to the Democrat party.
that's what MAGA wants us to believe,
What "MAGA" (the opposite of the TDS movement} wants to portray is that more people are registering as republican, and republicans are the party that wants to make america great again...put america first...etc.
Clearly that isn't happening by looking at the data.
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@Best.Korea
Oh so he can go back to his basement again. Good plan.
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@Best.Korea
I wonder why so many people are ashamed to wear a Biden hat?
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@Sidewalker
One good thing to note is that no matter how hard both parties work to continue to polarize the country in the media, there is still 40%+ of the country that flips the middle finger at both established elite parties. Whatever they think is working actually is not.
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@Sidewalker
Largest Percentage of Americans Still Identify as Independents
When Gallup began conducting its interviews exclusively by telephone in 1988, there were similar proportions of Democrats, Republicans and independents in the U.S. In the early 1990s, independents began to outnumber Republicans and Democrats, but that advantage faded in the early 2000s.
However, since 2009, independent identification has grown and reached levels not seen before. Now, political independents (41%) greatly outnumber Republican (28%) and Democratic (28%) identifiers.
Most people in America, in fact, do not conform to either tribe.
So if you were to try to explain this trend, Government started sucking so badly around the early 2000's that Americans started to abandon both parties with an acceleration around 2009, thanks to the crap policies passed by GWB and a Democrat Congress. (and Iraq war)
8 years of TDS still hasn't done anything to reverse this, so it really doesn't matter if you are in a far left or far right tribe. The independents are the majority tribe still.
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@Vegasgiants
There are much worse things than being wrong.
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@Best.Korea
And neocons and rinos
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