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FogBlueInSanFran said:
The lead story on ultra-liberal biased CNN currently. I wonder if Fox would ever lead with such a thing about Trump, or any GOPer.

www.cnn.com

Fact check: Biden falsely claims US has 'fastest-growing economy in the world' | CNN Politics

In a Wednesday appearance on the ABC late-night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," President Joe Biden made a dramatic claim about the US economy -- and repeated himself for emphasis.
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I know you’re being sarcastic slightly but the difference is that CNN is a news station and Fox is …. n’t
 
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Bigga said:
You know the ironic thing?

I laugh at the notion that these posters call me a 'purist' for the fact I can criticise my kind of politician... Yet they must see their own as too 'pure' to call out!!

It's laughable the height of their own soapbox when shouting me down!
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Have they called you a racist yet? That seems to be their bog standard term for any one who does not agree with their diktats
And the way their media covers up anything that is inconvenient reminds of Putin
I don't suppose our Man in San Francisco has mentioned his local prosecutor has been recalled because of the failure of his wishy washy policies. I am not holding my breath.
 
SWP's back said:
I see Trump is upset with his daughter.


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That’s not being upset with her, that’s disassociating her from the events of Jan 6th, the way I read it. Including using her surname (as if we all know another Ivanka) just so it’s on record. The punctuation and spelling is not his, that’s from his (or her) legal team, except maybe for the “he sucked” addition.
 
Bonzo Nododo said:
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Have they called you a racist yet? That seems to be their bog standard term for any one who does not agree with their diktats
And the way their media covers up anything that is inconvenient reminds of Putin
I don't suppose our Man in San Francisco has mentioned his local prosecutor has been recalled because of the failure of his wishy washy policies. I am not holding my breath.
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Bonzo lad, this is the "Jan 6th" hearing period! They'll, pretty much, shut out any other relevant news as a convenient excuse not to to think about anything else.

'Bullshit Reasoning 101', I think it's called?

Let me throw in a couple of "dodgy" information pieces I gathered on politicians willing to call out their own, when these poster lapdogs won't...





 
This video is well worth a watch. The author provides an extremely insightful perspective of the 1/6 hearings and of the Fox News response.
 
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Citizen of Legoland said:
That’s not being upset with her, that’s disassociating her from the events of Jan 6th, the way I read it. Including using her surname (as if we all know another Ivanka) just so it’s on record. The punctuation and spelling is not his, that’s from his (or her) legal team, except maybe for the “he sucked” addition.
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No. It’s in response to her saying she didn’t believe the election was stolen in her testimony. That’s why he’s saying she wasn’t involved, didn’t know the evidence and had already “checked out”
 
SWP's back said:
No. It’s in response to her saying she didn’t believe the election was stolen in her testimony. That’s why he’s saying she wasn’t involved, didn’t know the evidence and had already “checked out”
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You think he wrote that tweet with its complex use of commas to denote verbal asides and managed to capitalise the proper nouns, without resorting to the use of CAPS LOCK? Hmm, not convinced myself. Think it’s a response to the reporting of her testimony, yes, but it’s also got an eye on whatever political future she might want. Just my opinion of course.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
You think he wrote that tweet with its complex use of commas to denote verbal asides and managed to capitalise the proper nouns, without resorting to the use of CAPS LOCK? Hmm, not convinced myself. Think it’s a response to the reporting of her testimony, yes, but it’s also got an eye on whatever political future she might want. Just my opinion of course.
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Is he back on twitter?
 
west didsblue said:
No.
He posts on his own platform - Truth Social, which is the Social Media equivalent of Trump Steaks or Trump University.
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And a number of folks got kicked off it for trying to discuss the 1/6 hearings.

They’re conservatives. Who didn’t violate T&Cs.

Shocking, I know.

Where are our friends raving about the censoring of viewpoints and restriction of free speech?
 
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And what might Mark Twain, one of my favorite authors, make of the Right's response to the 1/6 hearings? Perhaps he'd sum it all up thusly:

"The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a man only tells them with all his might."
- Letter to San Francisco Alta California, dated May 17, 1867; published June 16, 1867

or this:

Carlyle said "a lie cannot live." It shows that he did not know how to tell them.
- Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)
 
west didsblue said:
No.
He posts on his own platform - Truth Social, which is the Social Media equivalent of Trump Steaks or Trump University.
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I was being facetious in response to the poster referring to it as a tweet.

Unfortunately/fortunately you can't view Truth social in the UK and I don't have any inclination to create an account or use a VPN to read what the pathetic loser has to say.
 
Fode N The Hole said:
I was being facetious in response to the poster referring to it as a tweet.

Unfortunately/fortunately you can't view Truth social in the UK and I don't have any inclination to create an account or use a VPN to read what the pathetic loser has to say.
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I too will be abstentious when it comes to Truth Social.
 
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