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  • #61
    Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
    Right... Trump is just, like, the worst ever.

    Let's play a game, see if you can figure out who the following quote is referring to (no fair using an internet search engine):

    "I have never known a US president to be treated as disgracefully as this one. The political case against him is based almost entirely on media falsehoods, slanders, and greed for power. Not much rationality there."

    Wrong, it's referring to George W. Bush.

    Source: The psychopathology of Bush hatred

    (2008) The Bush hatred we are seeing in the media today belongs in the long catalogue of human psychopathology -- not rational behavior. The latest version is the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq. Iraq happens to be a hot war zone, in which tens of thousands of innocent people have been killed by hidden bombs. Bush's protective detail had no way of knowing whether an assassinaton attempt was under way, in just the way Saddam tried to assassinate George H.W. Bush, Sr. At the end of his two terms of office, the President flew to Iraq, into harm's way, knowing the dangers, to hold an open press conference.

    But our media harbor such bitter hatred for him that they turned a potential bomb-throwing incident --- by one of their own --- into a joke, just another reason to sneer at the President. If anybody threw a cream pie at Obama, screaming headlines would be launched for days afterward. Nothing but sneers followed the potential attack on George W. Bush, which he fended off with his usual grace and humor.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...f_bush_ha.html

    © Copyright Original Source


    The New Republic published an editorial in 2003 making a case for hating Bush:

    Source: Mad About You

    https://newrepublic.com/article/67136/mad-about-you

    © Copyright Original Source



    And remember this little gem?

    Source: The left's hypocrisy: Remember 'Death of a President,' a movie about assassinating George W. Bush?

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...sination-bush/

    © Copyright Original Source


    So please, don't try to lecture us about how the left's current unhinged hatred of a Republican president is all Trump's fault.

    I voted for Reagan. I voted for Bush I and Bush II, I voted against Clinton and Obama, both times. I know the difference between Reagan, Bush I, Bush II and Trump. Don't try to rewrite history or pretend this fellow is not orders of magnitude worse than anyone who has come before him as viewed from either a republican or democratic perspective. That is the difference MM. Whereas with Reagan, or the Bushes it might have been possible to dismiss the Media dislike as bias, with Trump it simply can't be. They don't have to invent things to be critical of, they don't have to focus on abortion or gay rights to find something to disagree with. Trump is so off in the weeds, he violates so many norms of decency and so many standards of what it means to be American that the reasons for their criticism can't be blamed on partisan bias.

    Jim
    My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1

    If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not  bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26

    This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19

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    • #62
      Originally posted by oxmixmuddle View Post
      Don't try to rewrite history...
      I'm not. I'm simply correcting your attempts to rewrite it.
      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
      Than a fool in the eyes of God

      From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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      • #63
        Did anyone notice the number of Democrats who REFUSED to stand and applaud in favour of this undeniably decent request from Trump? Is it just their hatred of Trump displayed here, or of humanity in general?

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        • #64
          Originally posted by xcav8tor View Post
          Did anyone notice the number of Democrats who REFUSED to stand and applaud in favour of this undeniably decent request from Trump? Is it just their hatred of Trump displayed here, or of humanity in general?
          He was shining a light on their culture of death, and they were too blinded to stand up.
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #65
            Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
            I'm not. I'm simply correcting your attempts to rewrite it.
            You post wan't a correction. It was just yet another attempt to cover up Trump's excess by pretending that He is nothing new, and that the response to Him is nothing new.

            If Andy is 'outraged' that Joe gives a child a candy bar - that is over the top.

            If Andy is outraged that John gives a child a candy bar laced with cyanide, that is justified.

            What you are doing is the equivalent of saying "Don't listen to Andy, there is nothing really wrong with John, see - Andy said the same things about Joe and he was a great guy!".


            Jim
            My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1

            If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not  bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26

            This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19

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            • #66
              Originally posted by xcav8tor View Post
              Did anyone notice the number of Democrats who REFUSED to stand and applaud in favour of this undeniably decent request from Trump? Is it just their hatred of Trump displayed here, or of humanity in general?
              As I said earlier. The problem is that the source has no credibility. Anyone can pretend to want good things. And a bully can do that to make his critics look bad if the people he makes the appeal before have no memory, are his chums, or are simply ignorant of the fact he's a bully. It is, in fact, a classic bully move, to beat up on someone and then when a crowd appears to offer them a helping hand. And then when the beat up kid lying on the ground refuses to take his bullies hand, he is made to look bad to the ignorant crowd.

              I was bullied a lot as a kid. I know a bully when I see one. And I know all the ignorant dupes they manipulate into thinking they are not so bad. That is you guys.


              Jim
              Last edited by oxmixmudd; 02-06-2019, 03:41 PM.
              My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1

              If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not  bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26

              This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19

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              • #67
                Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post
                You post wan't a correction. It was just yet another attempt to cover up Trump's excess by pretending that He is nothing new, and that the response to Him is nothing new.

                If Andy is 'outraged' that Joe gives a child a candy bar - that is over the top.

                If Andy is outraged that John gives a child a candy bar laced with cyanide, that is justified.

                What you are doing is the equivalent of saying "Don't listen to Andy, there is nothing really wrong with John, see - Andy said the same things about Joe and he was a great guy!".
                You are so over the top in your hatred of Trump that I honestly can't take you seriously.
                Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                Than a fool in the eyes of God

                From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                  You are so over the top in your hatred of Trump that I honestly can't take you seriously.
                  And you are so blind to his excess I can't take you seriously.

                  Jim
                  My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1

                  If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not  bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26

                  This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19

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                  • #69
                    Stephen Colbert's comedy segment after the State of the Union was particularly hilarious, all the more impressive because his team only had about an hour to write it before he performed it...
                    "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                    "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                    "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                    • #70
                      Pelosi Outsmarted Herself on the SOTU



                      I wasn't planning on watching the SOTUA, but did so out of curiosity how Trump would handle the delay and the drama.
                      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                      • #71
                        The 'bad lip reading' version of SOTU is the best version by far...
                        "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                        "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                        "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                          The 'bad lip reading' version of SOTU is the best version by far...


                          "You're a seal, I knew it!"

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