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3 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
Congratulations to you and your family. I have no clue what you’re trying to say here.
The GOP can’t win in NYC - until we get this immigration mess fixed. But it’s coming.
Anyway….
3 hours ago, JDHillFan said:New Yorkers have spoken. It seems a tad unhinged to make the Mamdani situation about right wing whining. Very odd.
😭😭 It was only the primary! Keep imagining the coming of Putin, in reality one of these left wing socialist loonies will inevitably hold a high profile position. Better here than the senate or Presidency. The younger generation needs to learn that lesson the hard way, sadly.
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My, oh my, Oh. My! So many snowflake right wing crocodile tears here!😂😂
I miss the old days when I was a Republican. If faced with this situation they would be rejoicing the opportunity to win the NYC mayor's office and would already be working to make it happen.
Not anymore. Far right is just as useless as the far left. You've lost your spine and honed your whine while hiding in your own echo chambers pretending somehow, your view is the more intellectual one! Guilty until proven innocent. Brilliant!
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23 hours ago, Homelander said:
You’re praising this administration for being ‘true to their word’? That's nice.
Trump campaigned as the “peace candidate” and promised to end wars on day one.
Instead, he tore up the Iran nuclear deal during his first term - then never replaced it. And you seriously think Iran was going to negotiate a new deal with the same guy who shredded the last one just to look tough for his racist base?
That agreement was the only functioning, verifiable deal keeping Iran’s nuclear ambitions in check - and they were complying with it. Tearing it up wasn’t strategy, it was ego-driven politics.
Now the "no new wars" chuds are cheering on strikes that have escalated tensions and risked a wider regional war?
Let’s be honest: this was never about peace or strength. It was about optics. What you’re calling ‘consistency’ is just chaos wrapped in a flag and sold as patriotism.
And if you’re still buying it, congrats - you’re just another sucker who got played by a guy who never meant a word he said.
Every candidate of any political party makes promises they never keep, Mr. Naive. Iran has a long history of conducting nuclear weapons activities behind the scenes of whatever deal is in place.
"For years, however, Iran refused to answer the Agency’s increasingly detailed questions and insisted that the allegations were false. In 2011, the IAEA attempted to resolve all of its outstanding questions about Iran’s alleged efforts to pursue nuclear weaponization research, or the “possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program.” In November of that year, it published its findings based on information it had received from IAEA member states, information provided by Iran, and its own investigative efforts. The IAEA judged the allegations of work on nuclear weapons “to be, overall, credible” and “consistent in terms of technical content, individuals and organizations involved, and time frames.”
"When the JCPOA was agreed in July 2015, Iran and the IAEA signed a “roadmap” agreement intended again to resolve all of the IAEA’s outstanding questions related to this investigation. In December 2015, the IAEA issued its “Final Assessment,” concluding that Iran had a coordinated nuclear weapon-related program until 2003, and that some weapon-related activities continued through 2009. The report disclosed that Iran did not provide meaningful additional information for most of the 12 outstanding issues in the IAEA’s investigation. To many of the Agency’s questions, Iran offered no new information, made denials without explanation, or gave explanations contradicted by other information. Nonetheless, the IAEA Board of Governors voted unanimously to close the Agency’s investigation."
In short, IAEA swallowed its concerns (and Iran never addressed them) for the good of signing JCPOA. That doesn't mean Iran stopped its ambitions. Hid them, probably scaled them down but only the naive believe they stopped.
"In 2018, Israeli agents conducted a raid inside Iran and seized a trove of tens of thousands of documents relating to Iran’s past nuclear weapon effort, the so-called “Atomic Archive.” The Atomic Archive revealed Iran’s efforts to build nuclear weapons in much greater detail than was previously known (the AMAD Project). It also revealed the existence of a several sites connected to Iran’s nuclear weapon development effort. In particular, Parchin was home to high explosive test chambers and an underground tunnel site whose purpose might have been the production of uranium metal components for nuclear weapons."
This raid was in January 2018, Trump pulled us out of JCPOA in May 2018. I wonder why he did that?
Now in 2025 Iran either has or is very close to having hypersonic missiles, safe bet says they're figuring out how to put their theoretical nuclear warhead on it. Where that progress is, probably only Mossad knows.
Plenty of European leaders and our democratic leadership have been naive on Iran, so I understand that you are too. The stakes are too high to remain as such, thankfully Mossad has been planning for this a long time. When it comes to humanity and compassion, narcissist Trump is simply a human sh1t stain. But he's handled this situation correctly.
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8 hours ago, Homelander said:
Nothing screams foreign policy genius like a flashy airstrike that delays Iran's nuke program by a few months, rattles the whole region, and rebrands ‘mission accomplished’ for MAGA cosplay. But sure, if the real goal was to look tough on cable news while Iran quietly rebuilds and your base loses healthcare, then yeah... mission very much accomplished.
It's long been time to end the ridiculous charade of appeasing Iran and pretending them to be honored negotiations.
Kudos to this administration for being direct, consistent, and true to their word. Let Iran consider that in future dealings and the fact that none of their proxies and allies crawled out of their rat holes to help them. That says it all
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29 minutes ago, FireChans said:
IMO, if McD beats the Chiefs and wins a Super Bowl, he may be closer to top 5 than top 10.
THATS a massive IF but that’s the game
Honestly, I just want to see McD rise to the challenge of coaching a more creative defensive gameplan in the playoffs. Mahomes should not have been allowed to run that sweep right with impunity all game with Rousseau crashing down every time because that's what the system tells him to do.
We've seen the growth mindset with the offense, now show it with the defense. Adjust not just to win the regular season but to intellectually and creatively compete with the best coaching minds in the playoffs.
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Great article discussing restrained strength by Trump and Netanyahu:
"In the early days of this overt round of the ongoing Israel-Iran combat, pundits and prognosticators lined up with remarkable confidence to deliver their verdicts: the Middle East was on the brink of a full-blown regional war. From CNN panels to X threads, from Instagram reels to endless political press briefings, the narrative seemed set in stone.".......
"Yet here we stand, 12 days later. No Arab nation has joined the fray. The Strait of Hormuz remains open. No ground invasion of Iran has occurred. The oil markets remain remarkably steady. Tehran has neither launched a regional war nor exacted the cataclysmic reprisals so confidently predicted."
"This is the paradox many in the West struggle to accept: restrained power can be more humane than endless diplomacy. Especially when that diplomacy serves only to delay the inevitable, embolden aggressors and paralyse allies.
So let us say it clearly: what Netanyahu and Trump achieved in these 12 days was not a miracle. It was leadership. It was clarity. It was Churchillian – not in theatrics but in knowing when to act, and when not to. And in doing so, they rewrote the forecasts. No mass war. No Arab uprising. No oil collapse. Israel no longer threatened with elimination by its most powerful nemesis."
Full credit to Trump and the Israelis on this one, and thanks for showing some old fashioned leadership against bullies. Now if Trump could realize this approach to Putin...
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14 hours ago, FireChans said:
I was really simplifying it because it’s not like there’s an elite franchise guy in Cleveland.
I still stand by it though. to make the playoffs multiple times, with different QBs, with that horrific franchise, in that division, is just as impressive as anything McD has done.
to take it one step further, if the Bills were in a division with the Steelers, Ravens and Bengals, we would have much less overall team success and McD would have probably been fired by now.
The biggest problem potentially emerging with Stefanski may be his inability to develop and sustain a talented QB. We'll see how this year plays out. McDermott can easily pass him if he can just take this team and defense to the next level.
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12 hours ago, FireChans said:
Making the playoffs twice with 2 different QBs in Cleveland is as impressive as anything McDermott has ever done.
They started 5 QB's in 2023, just Baker in 2020. Really he made the playoffs with 6 different QB's. 2020 really stood out the most, fresh off the Hue Jackson 3-36-1, 1/2 season Greggo then the lost year of human buffoon Freddie Kitchens. Beating down Pittsburgh then giving KC a handful. That was an impressive turnaround.
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On 6/26/2025 at 3:26 PM, Roundybout said:
Wrong. He had a withholding of removal status.If he is convicted of a felony, bye-bye withholding status. It is amazing though, the amount of vitriol and vindictiveness this administration is displaying toward a man who is due his day in court. Sad they can't just shut up and let the system work first. Guilty until proven innocent. Yay Trump!
This should be interesting as he was pulled over there in TN with like 7 undocumented men in the vehicle. No charges were brought. Not sure how that's ballooned to thousands now. MAGA fake news.
His wife brought domestic violence charges against him a few years ago but withdrew them after they went to counseling and worked things out, she said.
But something about this guy most definitely doesn't add up. His brother has been a citizen for many years, Garcia is married to a citizen and yet he never bothered to get a green card. His brother has also remained silent throughout this.
This case is good for demonstrating this administration's hostility and personal vindictiveness/lack of respect for the legal system but Garcia is not a guy you want to hang your hat on as a poster child.
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On 6/26/2025 at 4:59 PM, GunnerBill said:
Stefanski was the one who hated Baker and wanted him out. That was HIS call. He is not as good a coach as Sean. Not even close.
Sorry I'm a bit late seeing this comment, I was wondering what you've seen and how you know this about him hating and it being his call?
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2 hours ago, Pokebball said:
Oh, the shades of grey defense. IMO that is " ignoring the law".
Your opinion is steeped in ignorance. The situation conforms to the law, it's just that there's more legal options than you would prefer.
Here's another example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iranian-woman-who-has-lived-in-us-for-47-years-taken-by-ice-while-gardening/ar-AA1Hxggc?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=e3a0033ecfa94b92ab824d48d80a4079&ei=26
Way to go ICEholes! Take the easy way to filling that quota rather than work harder to find and kick out the criminal immigrants who truly need to go.
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19 hours ago, Roundybout said:
They’re overcrowded because they’re desperately trying to hit their quotas, so they’re shoving people into facilities with no actual plan on processing them in an orderly fashion.
They’re still far below the goal.
Remains to be seen. It wouldn’t surprise me, given how barbaric and inhumane ICE agents are.You're way over the top on this until more facts are known. We don't know the man's medical history for starters.
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On 6/26/2025 at 8:57 AM, LeviF said:
Uh, yeah, that's what "deferred action" means. It's kicking your deportation down the road a couple of years as a matter of discretion. He had 14 years (renewed his deferment six times, that means) to get his ***** together and get out on his own.
It's also a grey area of the law utilized in complicated situations such as this. He was given a second chance 14 years ago if he met the conditions to check in every year and live a clean life, to be allowed to stay in the country. He made the right choices and ICE honored the agreement until this administration's ICE decided they needed to fill their quota and could point to his past. Well within their rights but that doesn't make it the correct decision. I definitely commend ICE for going after too many violent criminals the dumb ass Biden administration let in. This is not one of them and is just one example of ICE filling quotas so the administration can brag how many criminals they removed. How about they focus on the people that truly need removed even if it means lower numbers deported?
On 6/25/2025 at 4:30 PM, Pokebball said:Yeah, I stated it's a sad story. Or perhaps the better way of saying it is that it's unfortunate. And rather than arguing the differences between a green card and a visa, the point is that both come with requirements while in America. Thanks for acknowledging that he is the one responsible for meeting those requirements.
Like so many issues, this one comes down to (1) changing the laws or (2) ignoring the laws.
You forgot: 3) finding a grey area that the judges, ICE and person can agree on. That's where we were with the former green card veteran who has lived here since 7 years old, made some mistakes and got his life straightened back out. Then our new administration's leadership changed the playing field
18 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:Horrible story, though I have to tell you, I'm not sure I agree with you on 'what this country is all about'. I see cases where property owned by families for generations is seized by the government through eminent domain, people are overcharged for crimes or blamed/targeted for the actions of others. I think we probably both wish that sort off ugliness didn't exist, and outrage didn't fall around political lines, but that's the way it is.
In this case, I'd think somewhere between "open borders and chaos" and "forcing a 55 year old veteran of the US Army to leave" is probably where we all want to be. That said, we have what we have because of what was allowed and encouraged. It's a mess.
Perhaps cooler, more compassionate heads with prevail and this man can be brought back to his family.
Let's hope so, and I do hope they will. I also hope ICE will narrow their focus to the immigrant criminals everyone would like to see removed instead of removing productive members of society just because they have an excuse to do so. There can be humanity in administering the laws and I think most Americans would want to be in that space.
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8 minutes ago, Pokebball said:
While a sad story, who is responsible for his visa status?
?? There's no visa status since he moved to this country at 7 years old. He was a former green card holder who made mistakes after his serving his country, served his time, lost his card in 2009 after crimes and a prison term, but was given deferred action status if he stayed clean and sober and checked in every year which he was doing for 14 years. A family to look after, and by all accounts recently ICE simply decided to end his deferred status and gave him the option to self deport before they kicked him out.
Gotta meet that Trump quota for kicking criminals out. Traffic tickets, crimes no matter how long ago and even after fully prosecuted/resolved it doesn't matter.
All ICE could do was cite his criminal past and ignore the fact that he's lived a clean life since then as they required him to do to maintain deferred status. Worked a job, paid his taxes, raised a family.
Who's ultimately responsible for the situation? He is and he knows it. He blames no one, but was shocked yet resigned that he must go back to Korea and probably not be allowed to come back and visit his family again. Classy and an optimist who is grateful for the privileges he has enjoyed in his life here.
But if you or anyone doesn't have the conscience to realize this is wrong and not what this country is about, that's on you. This NPR article does a better job of quoting his story then the rest:
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https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/06/24/us-army-purple-heart-veteran-forced-self-deport-hawaii/
After 48 years in the United States, decorated Army veteran Sae Joon Park left his life and family in Hawaii on Monday, not knowing when he’ll see them again....
Park was honorably discharged and returned to his then-home in Los Angeles, where he suffered from severe PTSD. He turned to marijuana to cope with nightmares and sensitivity to loud noises and moved to Hawaii in 1995 for a better lifestyle. But he became addicted to crack cocaine and struggled for years to get clean.
“Drugs had a big control throughout my life and that’s what eventually got me into trouble with the law and everything,” he said.
In 2009, he was convicted for drug and bail offenses and served two and a half years in prison. When he was released, ICE agents detained him and revoked his green card.
He fought deportation in court and as a Purple Heart veteran was allowed to stay in the U.S. under deferred action, as long as he checked in each year and stayed clean and sober.
“These last 14 years have been great, like really proud of myself, proud of my kids, how I’ve been acting and how I’ve been living my life,” he said.
But this month, officials ended his deferred action status and told him he had to leave the country or be detained and forcibly deported. He was given an ankle monitor and three weeks to handle his affairs. He and his family were in shock.
“People were saying ‘You took two bullets for this country. Like you’re more American than most of the Americans living in America,’” he said.
Way to go ICEholes.
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4 hours ago, Buffalo Boy said:
At least 75% posters on here don’t seem to get this.
No Josh Allen = .500-.600 coaching record for McDThe problem I have with this take is most of the best coaches will have this type of record without a premier QB. And the coaches who have good records without a premier QB usually have a premier GM to feed them more premier talent than other GMs. It's the NFL. If all you have is middle of the road talent, even the best coaches won't consistently dominate.
For me, the best coaches in the league (top 12 or so) built a consistent performing and winning team in the regular season. The premier coaches have also done this consistently in the playoffs. Top 5 premier coaches should all have won a Superbowl.
To make the leap from best coaches to premier, they have to perfect their game day adaption and decisions. The coaching and/or talent at playoff level demands it. 1-3 plays is usually all you have in these games to tip the game to beat the best.
I feel McD is firmly in the 6-12 range depending on your value weighing. One of his strengths is his continuous improvement mantra. He's shown it in his offensive philosophy and style changes over the years. Now he needs to more quickly apply it on the defensive side, talent development side, and game day decisions side.
For me, he has the capacity. But can he do it quickly enough before Allen's window closes? Or do we need a better GM or at least scouts to feed him better talent?
All difficult questions which risk upsetting what has been built, so I understand the big majority are content to keep riding with the current FO. But this year is it for me, we need to see a more dominant defense in the playoffs, more coaching creativity defensively to tip the scales. Josh is 7 years in. At some point he and we are going to lose a season to injury, it's inevitable and that will further set the future SuperBowl victory back. We can't continue to squander this amazing Josh Allen
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23 hours ago, sunshynman said:
This is new? That looks like rookie Josh. He's more rugged now.
They label him "Josh Allen MVP Quarterback", so I'd say new. Hailee made him trim down to stubble.
23 hours ago, sunshynman said:This is new? That looks like rookie Josh. He's more rugged now.
They label him "Josh Allen MVP Quarterback", so I'd say new. Hailee made him trim down to stubble.
23 hours ago, sunshynman said:This is new? That looks like rookie Josh. He's more rugged now.
They label him "Josh Allen MVP Quarterback", so I'd say new. Hailee made him trim down to stubble.
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18 hours ago, Homelander said:
I like the guy just behind her right arm who's aimed his pointer at her.
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5 hours ago, FireChans said:
The games are close because our offense usually plays very well.
A bit of luck or a bounce or two or a few more difference makers is not a sufficient explanation for the Chiefs playing one of their best offensive games of the season year after year against the Bills in the playoffs, imo.
They lost their #1 WR for the year in week 4 for cripe's sake. They had to trade away Tyreek Hill for salary cap reasons and have had their last 2 seasons being fifteenth in points scored. How is that not luck for the Bills?
Yeah, I like McD and believe as Gunner that they could improve their coaching, but his identity is tied to his almighty system, so I'm less confident he makes that leap, especially after so many years now. So I come in more on your perspective overall. These playoff games come down to one or two critical plays and it seems to end up that we can't stop the other team. Sometimes the coaching adjustment or surprise wrinkle just needs to be made for one big play but when have we ever done that defensively in the playoffs?
Definitely wearing thin with me if we are to capitalize with Josh. I remain optimistic he shows the growth this year. I'd feel better if he had an experienced in-game manager to help him out
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On 6/9/2025 at 9:11 AM, Gregg said:
Both teams are probably scared to rebuild as they watch the Pirates never ending rebuild
Highly doubtful, the Pirates are a different beast. Their never ending rebuild is purposeful. Their business model is to keep payroll amoung the lowest in the league, develop and cycle in new talent to bring a quota of fans to the stadium each year, and trade most of that talent for new talent when it's due a big payday. Rinse, repeat. For many years now.
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Isserdasani was informed “out of the blue” his visa was terminated because he was identified in a criminal records check, the lawsuit said. He acknowledged an arrest for disorderly conduct on Nov. 22 when he and his friends engaged in a verbal argument with another group after leaving a bar, though he said he believed it resolved after the district attorney declined to pursue the case.
A non-immigrant visa-holder such as an F-1 international student can have their visa terminated on the grounds of “criminal activity” if they are convicted of a crime with a sentence exceeding one year. Conley said the maximum punishment for a misdemeanor is 90 days, and said Isserdasani had a “substantial, if not overwhelming, likelihood of success” in proving his visa was terminated without cause.
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https://news.yahoo.com/ice-arrests-record-number-immigrants-230743116.html
"Hundreds of the people who were arrested had been enrolled in ICE’s Alternative to Detention (ATD) program, three sources familiar with the arrests said. Under the program, ICE releases undocumented immigrants who are deemed not to be threats to public safety and then keeps track of them through ankle monitors,"
"An NBC News reporter saw seven people who had come for check-ins at a New York City ICE office Wednesday being led out in cuffs and put into unmarked cars. One, a 30-year-old Colombian man, was followed close behind by his wife, who was sobbing loudly, and his daughter, who tried to chase after him as law enforcement agents in masks led him and two other men in handcuffs into waiting vehicles.
Margaret Cargioli, the directing attorney at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, who represents the family, told reporters afterward that the man had gone “to every single [ICE] appointment. He was, you know, very cooperative with all of the requirements that were made of him.”
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23 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
All that was clear to you and yet you seem to want to hand wave around the legacy media and administration ignoring it at best and telling you not to believe your lying eyes at worst.
Why is that?
Weird that you seem to have a bone to pick with Fox News in particular but not a huge swath of the media that collectively engaged in blatant propaganda.
Trump deflecting, rambling and not directly answering questions is a hallmark of cognitive decline now?
That's every single politician in Washington.
I want to see shaking hands with air, repeatedly forgetting how to get off stage, speaking in gibberish, outburst of shouting and creepy whispering, shuffling gait etc.
You want me to acknowledge Trump might be showing cognitive decline? Show me Trump speaking in concise coherent sentences and I'd take that as a potential sign.
The friggin guy has been constantly doing rallies, interviews and press conferences non stop for the past two plus years. You're grasping at straws.
Should the media be asking tough questions of our elected leaders and those who speak for them? I certainly think they should.
Why do you think they ask Trump and those in his administration tough questions to the point of absurdity and Joe Biden got questions about ice cream?
Let's do another exercise. Suppose Trump casually mentioned in a speech that he has cancer, like we witnessed from Biden in 2022. Do you think this WH could put out a statement that it was simply a gaffe and the media would then dutifully let it go like they did with Biden or would it be closer to DEFCON 1?
So cognitive decline is not a linear predictable process, yet with Trump, where no reasonable person will say there's currently any evidence of it at all, it's not only predictable but you know exactly when it will progress.
Got it.
And I'm a hypocrite? The iron law baby. 😂
"Hand waving the legacy media?" No. Why didn't I do anything about it? Including Clinton/Trump, our presidential candidates in these three elections are turd sandwiches on both sides. What did you do about it other than whine like a baby and quote idiots on X?
I don't have a bone with Fox News. Simply that they are the same as the "legacy media", you are just too biased and self centered to admit it. Worse, you rarely quote them in your posts and they're a legit source.
Cognitive decline takes a toll in most right around 80. No, I don't know exactly what it will look like, only that it's begun with him and will be different than Biden.
The rest of your post is just your highly biased opinions. You can't even address his Harlem/Harvard gaffe, that will simply be your blueprint for any other examples I bring. Pointless. That's fine and it's completely unsurprising that your "normal" sees nothing wrong with him.
Plenty of normal people realize his thus far slow decline.
But your view and excuses about Trump are akin to Biden's supporters made excuses for him. They didn't want too see it until it was way too obvious. As it will be with you, hypocrite.
24 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said:Maybe you havent been listening to the actual right because everyone I listen to is saying what a piece of garbage hypocrite Tapper is.
He really is completely loathsome for playing both sides of the fence.
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On 5/19/2025 at 2:43 PM, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
IMO, it comes down to this:
Whatever Biden and his team did, they did. Not the first nor last time it will happen.
The media side is a bit more complicated:
-They have sources or they don’t have sources. Part of the leap of faith when they quote sources deep within is that they are accurate.
-The media missed a major story about a president in crisis. It was open and obvious, it was clear to thinking people, and it started long before the debate.
Given that, there are two ways to look at it:
1. The media is incompetent and thus everything they put out should be questioned regardless of politics;
2. The media was complicit in the illusion of sharp as a tack Biden.
Given the post-mortem handwringing, I’d say complicit is most likely, but can see why others might think it was a competence issue.
I agree with you, there was a small incompetence factor as lazy reporters quote other reporters, but mostly complicit. And let's be honest, strong bias can make people miss the obvious. Willful ignorance.
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Jeffrey Epstein Arrested, DEAD in apparent suicide 8/10/19. Epstein Handler Maxwell arrested/denied bail.
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Thank you. This is the elephant that really explains everything but people continue to try and argue their political side is innocent and the other guilty.😂
Why didn't Trump release it? Why didn't Biden release it? It's called collateral damage, probably also exposes too much of the swamp and also Trump's lie that he somehow is not a member.😂