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Originally posted by MaxVel View PostReading the article..
There's a lot of begging the question here. It's assumed that one narrative (that the impeachment hearings were a Democrat / corrupt official hatchet job etc) is correct, and the other narrative (Trump literally Hitler etc) is false. Assumed, but not argued.
The article does nothing more than relate a distinction between the events that were unfolding for anyone who was actually watching the hearings, and the way those events were portrayed by the Trump campaign through what I have called the "MountainMan Standard Operating Procedure:" Harvest select soundbites, sentences, and even parts of sentences to paint the desired portrait. Both sides do this to some degree - but Trump's campaign has turned it into an art and stepped up the frequency and distribution vectors.
Originally posted by MaxVel View PostOne could respond that what was really happening to the writer is that they were hearing the truth at last, and this was what was discombobulating them, as they left their left-wing media bubble.
Originally posted by MaxVel View PostOne could also respond that the article is merely a whine that Trump and his supporters are putting their arguments and opinions out there, and that's bad, because he's bad and evil. But to complain about that is undemocratic and unfair. And disrespectful to the public, who are capable (or should be in a democracy) of making their own minds up, either way.
Originally posted by MaxVel View PostIn short, the article reads like someone who is upset that Trump et al dare play the same game the left media and the Democrats have been playing for quite some time. Well, boo hoo. Turn about is fair play.
Ultimately, I think that will likely be the undoing of the Republican Party.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
They presented it as a legitimate intelligence analysis when it was bought and paid for smear campaign by the DNC/Clinton campaign (which as Donna Brazile admitted were one and the same at the time)
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostWho have been exposed as having been corrupt
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostWhich they leaked to the press and then claimed the news stories based on those leaks were "independent confirmation" of the dossier's claims.
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostAn understatement if there ever was one.
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostAfter being urged by Rosenstein to do so, who then immediately turned around and used the firing to rationalize ramping up the investigation.
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostA tacit admission that he was corrupt
Originally posted by rogue06 View PostOf course. He kept the queen from being coronated and that is unforgivable.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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