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Mr trump Tells ABC News "It’s not an interference. They have information. I think I’d take it."

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Deckard, Jun 13, 2019.

  1. dachuda86

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    Dobby. You are not a bad guy so I don't want to argue this, but really I just didn't see my question as being hard to answer but apparently it was. I don't care enough to push for an answer to a civil inquiry after being treated with hostility and instead see a post that prevaricates about with nonesense.
     
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    Yes, that’s exactly what he did. @dachuda86 took a cheap “out.”

    From @dachuda86:
    “Stopped reading when you called me dishonest for trying to have an honest discussion with you and just asking a question that you dodged and got bent out of shape about. I really don't have time to obsess over your opinion. I just actually thought you had something of value to say, but instead you want to be hostile. I see how it is deck. You ain't got no love in that ice cold heart of yours.’

    Dishonest, @dachuda86, because I didn’t “dodge” anything, and you know it. There are dozens and dozens of posts I’ve made here addressing exactly what you wanted to have an “honest” discussion about, so unless you never read my posts in D&D, you know exactly why I think he is a danger to the republic, among other things. Tell you what. Why not read the “Endorsement” of trump by Orlando’s major newspaper, widely seen as a Republican leaning newspaper. I’ll post it for you.
     
  4. Deckard

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    This is for you, @dachuda86. You want to know what I think about the fellow you support? Most of it is right here, from the editorial board of a Republican leaning newspaper, the major newspaper of Orlando, Florida, where Mr trump, your guy, formally announced today that he’s running for reelection in 2020.

    Our Orlando Sentinel endorsement for president in 2020: Not Donald Trump | Editorial

    By ORLANDO SENTINEL EDITORIAL BOARD
    | ORLANDO SENTINEL |
    JUN 18, 2019 | 5:30 AM


    Donald Trump is in Orlando to announce the kickoff of his re-election campaign.
    We’re here to announce our endorsement for president in 2020, or, at least, who we’re not endorsing: Donald Trump.

    Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the identity of his opponent.

    Because there’s no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump.
    After 2½ years we’ve seen enough.

    Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.

    So many lies — from white lies to whoppers — told out of ignorance, laziness, recklessness, expediency or opportunity.

    Trump’s capacity for lying isn’t the surprise here, though the frequency is.

    It’s the tolerance so many Americans have for it.

    There was a time when even a single lie — a phony college degree, a bogus work history — would doom a politician’s career.

    Not so for Trump, who claimed in 2017 that he lost the popular vote because millions of people voted illegally (they didn’t). In 2018 he said North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat (it is). And in 2019 he said windmills cause cancer (they don’t). Just last week he claimed the media fabricated unfavorable results from his campaign’s internal polling (it didn’t).

    According to a Washington Post database, the president has tallied more than 10,000 lies since he took office.

    Trump’s successful assault on truth is the great casualty of this presidency, followed closely by his war on decency.

    Trump insults political opponents and national heroes alike with middle-school taunts. He demonstrates no capacity for empathy or remorse. He misuses his office to punish opponents, as when he recently called for a boycott of AT&T to get even with his least favorite media outlet, CNN. He tears down institutions, once airily suggesting the U.S. should try having a leader for life as China now allows. He seems incapable of learning a lesson, telling an ABC interviewer last week — just two months after Robert Mueller’s report on election interference was released — that he would accept dirt on an opponent from Russia or China.

    Trump has diminished our standing in the world. He reneges on deals, attacks allies and embraces enemies.

    This nation must never forget that humiliating public moment in Helsinki in 2018 when the president of the United States chose to accept Vladimir Putin’s denials of Russian interference in the 2016 election over the unanimous assessment of the American intelligence community.

    Such a betrayal by a U.S. president would have been the unforgivable political sin in normal times.

    As if that’s not enough, Trump declares his love for North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, a genuine villain who starves and enslaves his people and executes his enemies with antiaircraft guns and flamethrowers.

    But he wrote the president a “beautiful letter.” Flattery will get you everywhere with this president, and that’s dangerous.

    Domestically, the president’s signature issue — immigration — has moved in fits and starts. Happily, he abandoned pursuing an outright — and unconstitutional — ban on Muslims entering the U.S., opting instead to restrict travel for people from a handful of nations, most of them majority Muslim.

    He’s tried separating families, sending troops to the border and declaring a national emergency. For all of that, illegal border crossings are, as the president himself calls it, at crisis levels.

    He blames House Democrats because casting blame is Trump’s forte. But Republicans controlled the House and the Senate for two full years. That seemed like an ideal time to fix what the president believes ails our immigration laws.

    Even with Democrats now controlling the House, where is Trump’s much-touted deal-making mojo, an attribute he campaigned on?

    “But the economy!”

    Yes, the market has done well since Trump’s election.

    The S&P 500 was up about 21% between Trump’s inauguration and May 31 of his third year in office. Under President Obama, it was up about 56% in that same period.

    Unemployment is headed down, as it was during seven straight years under Obama.

    Wages are up, and that’s a welcome change. But GDP increases so far are no better than some periods under Obama. Deficit spendingunder Obama was far too high, in part because of the stimulus needed to dig out of the Great Recession. Under Trump, it’s still headed in the wrong direction, once again pushing $1 trillion even though the economy is healthy.

    Trump seems to care nothing about the deficit and the national debt, which once breathed life into the Tea Party.

    Through all of this, Trump’s base remains loyal. Sadly, the truest words Trump might ever have spoken was when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose his supporters.

    This non-endorsement isn’t defaulting to whomever the Democrats choose. This newspaper has a history of presidential appointments favoring Republicans starting in the mid-20th century. Except for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, the Sentinel backed Republican presidential nominees from 1952 through 2004, when we recommended John Kerry over another four years of George W. Bush.

    As recently as 2012 we recommended Republican Mitt Romney because of what seemed at the time to be Obama’s failure to adequately manage the nation’s finances.

    If — however unlikely — a Republican like Romney, now a senator from Utah, or former Ohio Gov. John Kasich successfully primaried the president, we would eagerly give them a look. Same if an independent candidate mounted a legitimate campaign.

    We’d even consider backing Trump if, say, he found the proverbial cure for cancer or — about as likely — changed the essence of who he is (he won’t).

    The nation must endure another 1½ years of Trump. But it needn’t suffer another four beyond that.

    We can do better. We have to do better.

    https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opi...0190618-63ya7cyb5ngf3irllodwxnznui-story.html
     
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  5. dachuda86

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    I responded to you in your whole thread you made. But I will say it is quite lazy of you to just copy and paste something that explains your feelings and doesn't even answer the question I asked you. You're attacking me for no reason other than just asking you for an answer and making this a bigger deal than it needs to be. You are quite the drama queen these days. I really don't have much else to say to you so I am done. Call me names or misrepresent me in order to feel like you won, but you really need to step back and ask yourself if all of this attitude is needed when someone just asked for you opinion. I mean, I truly just wanted to hear your take on it bro and you're making this huge deal out of it. Last time I ask you for your opinion.
     
  6. fchowd0311

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    I don't think you are debating in good faith.

    Noticed the same pattern with my right wing friends i served with when I challenge them on obviously false unvetted memes they constantly share daily. When one side isn't sincere and one side genuinely cares you get posts that look exactly like yours where you tell people why they care so much.

    You saw some of this with Bush Jr. Initial massive support by the right wing but as time moves forward it was clear he was a bad president, instead of acknowledging that they were mistaken in their support of him, they resort to sincere trolling tactics and telling people they care too much when they get a massive information dump on them. Now hardly anyone will readily admit they ever supported Bush Jr. Same thing will happen to Trump. Eventually most of his supporters will just claim they were trolling online and never actually sincerely supported him.
     
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  7. dachuda86

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    I'd like for you to prove it since all you do is come at people who don't tow the far left line. I think you are a rude person and you can't stand not to jump in and be a jerk when given a chance. And I'm not right wing. Of course, radical leftists/progressives like you are aggressively pushing people like me away from the DNC and this is why the modern day "liberals" are doomed. You have bad attitudes, closed-minds, and you display an authoritarian attitude whenever someone doesn't fall in line with the agenda.

    Also it is funny you mention Bush Jr. Actually, a lot of so called "liberals" are warmed up to him just because he does his stupid idiot dance on TV a few times on daytime spots and gives Michelle Obama a candy and comes out against Trump. When you are aligned with Bush Jr on something, that should key you into where you stand (you in general, not you specifically).
     
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    This not about touting the left party line. I don't say the same thing about cml, commadore etc because they explicitly proudly admit they are Trump supporters and will always admit to that and not cower behind "oh I think you are just to harsh on little poor Donny thus I'll defend 99% of his actions here and then claim im not a supporter of his".

    4 years in right wing bubble, I've met hundreds of your types.

    Your sole basis of calling me a radical is having a grudge with you. Self centered like Donny. Name a single radical position I hold policy wise. You aren't a policy person. You are a "what is the latest social media outrage machine producing" type poster. We hardly ever have discussions on economic policy or foreign policy.

    I understand the shtick you are playing. It ain't sincere. No one dedicated this amount of time defending someone without being a cultish level supporter of his. I can admit I was a supporter of Obama and spent no where near the time defending him as you defend Donny on this message board. Just some perspective for you to consider. Some self-awareness goes a long way.
     
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  9. dachuda86

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    I'm not afraid to give my opinion. If I was a Trump supporter I would own it. I am not decided at this point. I didn't vote for him in the last election and I don't know if I can this time around. If he starts a war or if I think he didn't live up to his past promises, I likely won't vote for him in 2020.

    I don't know why it's so damn hard for you to accept that not everyone thinks like you do and not everyone fits into a box you have created to sort people. I think that you should try to be a bit open-minded, something most liberals claim to be but rarely practice these days.

    People who have different opinions are not something you need to hate, fear, or attack. True liberals are completely OK with this and don't seem to get their bee in a bonnet about what someone labels themselves. I think I know my own views better than you actually and you'd do well to actually listen for once instead of impose your beliefs on others.

    I do argue with people here about Trump though, and I do side with him sometimes. That doesn't mean I blindly support the man. I have many things I don't like about him, but honestly, they just usually aren't the same reasons most people here dislike him.
     
  10. fchowd0311

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    I added more to my post when you were typing your reply, sorry:
    I understand the shtick you are playing. It ain't sincere. No one dedicates this amount of time defending someone without being a cultish level supporter of his. I can admit I was a supporter of Obama and spent no where near the time defending him as you defend Donny on this message board. Just some perspective for you to consider. Some self-awareness goes a long way.

    You incessantly defend Donal at every turn here. You dedicate hours of your time defending him. You support him. Deal with it. Deal with having some sort of draw towards having a adult child manage the world's largest bureaucracy.

    And now you resort to the insincere "free speech" narrative. So predictable. Me calling you out on your cult like worship of Trump doesn't imply some type of totalitarian limits on ideas on my part.
     
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    You're not an actual liberal and you're closed-minded. You deal with that.

    I'm done with you.
     
  12. fchowd0311

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    Another case of projection I guess as I really don't care if I'm percieved as a liberal. It's not a virtue in my life to be called a "liberal". I have my beliefs. Currently my beliefs compel me to call you out on your insincerity that you aren't a Trump supporter when you are a part of his cult.
     
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    Lets be honest with ourselves . . . .there is a good 1/3rd of this country that would instantly become Russian
    it if meant they would not have to deal with any minorities and women would have to accept their 1950s roles in life

    That is the long and short of it all.
    They are not patriotic. . . .
    Their main beef with socialism and communisim is that someone who ain't THEM might benefit from it.
    They believe they are superior and should hold superior positions based on nothing but the circumstances of their birth
    and Donald Trump is exactly who they would be if they had money . . . .

    Rocket River
     
  14. fchowd0311

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    I've actually literally witnessed this with Marine grunts i served with of all people.

    I've literally seen justification for Putin's regime being cozy with Trump's campaign and business life for decades now with "well at least they believe in Judeo-Christian values and are enemies of Islamic terrorists".

    I agree. Their pride isn't rooted in American values but rather White Judeo-Christian culture. Hence why they are fans of Poland, Russia, Italy etc... Countries that are actively touting the same "others that don't stem from Caucasian judeo Christian culture are the problem".
     
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    Who said trump base is against globalization :eek:
     
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    Not only do they love globalism, but they love socialism in the their correct context. They love it under a ethno-white state like Poland.
     
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