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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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On 5/19/2025 at 10:53 AM, JDHillFan said:
It will certainly happen but is he any different now than he was during his previous presidency? If you believe the answer to that is yes, I would need some examples. Surely you have some specifics. The guy has always rambled on, saying whatever comes into his head. That doesn’t stop him from seemingly going strong at all hours of the day and night.
That was the excuse with Biden, "he's always been like this."
I think he's worse as per the Harvard Harlem gaffe I posted.
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On 5/18/2025 at 8:42 AM, BillsFanNC said:
No comment on the blatant propaganda lying by the media for years?
Shocking.
I'll answer your questions when you answer mine.
Did you need the media, any media, to tell you that Biden was a vegetable, or did you decide to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears and swallow the lies deeply?
No I did not need the media to tell me that the Biden decline was showing signs even when he took office. All you needed to see was how limited his availability was, how structured and limited the questioning was, how quickly the rope could be pulled, and with all that there was still the gaffes and drifting issues, though those became more obvious later in the administration.
I still feel Dem leadership set him up for that Trump debate as a sink or swim moment. All the conditions (no notes, "helpers", etc.) were totally counter to how he was handled up to that point and allowed them the excuse to pull the plug on him.
And let's be clear. Biden is not a "vegetable". It's not an all or none event, it comes on slowly. Just like is happening with Trump now. There are certain periods where it will accelerate, then slow while continually progressing.
As far as the media "lying", I'd rather see his wife, administration, doctors and others held accountable before the media. They were essentially guilty of fraud in multiple actions. Sadly for the Dems, Harris should have ascended to the Presidential role and ironically may have had a better chance in the election. Did the media swallow and trumpet the excuses? Absolutely. Did the media lie, at times during the admin? I'm sure, but find the most blatant times to make an example, because it will tie up too many resources to have a complete witch hunt. Focus instead on the administration.
I certainly was not happy with the situation, but there is precedent. Edith Wilson, Dolly Madison and Martha Washington. Does that make it ok? No, and I'm hopeful laws and/or the constitution changes to prevent this ever again. It needs oversight.
Do you realize Trump's decline is starting to show and in different ways than Biden but still occuring? Or will you continue to play the hypocrite? Wait till he hits 80 but it will progress before then.
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15 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
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Right off the bat. It hasn't happened to a significant effect yet.
Implying that there's actual evidence of any mental decline with Trump.
He's the same brash narcissist he's always been.
The guy gives off the cuff press conferences with a hostile media on a near daily basis.
Please with this nonsense.
Again 😂
When they did mention it, which was rarely, it was to tell you that the right was lying to you about his decline. Cheap fakes. Don't believe your lying eyes.
Going to the most secure election in US history as well...lol
Fox News and more recently Newsmax are the primary right leaning TV news outlets.
So?
10% maybe.
Again Im not denying that all news sources have bias, and that your stated effort to try to cull news from varying sources in attempt to cut through the BS is what I've often said in this very cesspool of a forum.
But again, you're talking about slanted coverage.
I'm talking about blatant lying propaganda.
Did you need any news outlet to tell you that Biden's brain is pudding or could you arrive at that conclusion via your own powers of observation?
Did you need the media to tell you covid came from the Wuhan market case closed or did it perhaps warrant an investigation that it might have come from a lab instead of censoring and canceling those who knew the lab leak was plausible?
These are two of the biggest stories of the past century and you were blatantly lied to and propagandized by the democrat party and legacy media on both of them.
You should be pissed off.
But sure, Fox News.
The beginning of Trump's mental decline. This is one example of many small ones:
During an April 30 interview with NewsNation, Trump was asked by Stephen A. Smith about his war against Harvard University. The president proceeded to describe imaginary riots in Harlem:
“Well, I say this. We had riots in Harlem, in Harlem, and frankly if you look at what’s gone on – and people from Harlem went up and they protested, Stephen, and they protested very strongly against Harvard. They happened to be on my side.”
Trump might like to call it the weave. Maybe fans like you agree, the rest of us know it's an excuse for his age showing. Especially those of us with parents around Trump's age. I'm saying it's not significant yet, but it's there and it will get worse and manifest in different ways than Biden's did.
Are you going to be pissed off if his administration lies, covers up and makes excuses? Or are you going to continue on the path to deniability just like you're doing now?
I get what you're saying bias vs propaganda/lies. Why do you then proceed to quote mostly unaccountable X quotes when you post here instead of higher quality sourcing?
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5 minutes ago, JDHillFan said:
Do you have some that you consider good that meet this standard?
Honestly, a lot of it comes down to inflammatory language and factual content that hopefully elucidates counterpoints to the main story. So, I'll usually browse MSN (not MSNBC!) and yahoo news which pull content from all over. Fox News, Newsweek, NY post, Wash examiner, Post, WSJ, BBC, some of the links here which seldom pan out less than extreme, but still I look at more facts behind the argument and how inflammatory the sentences are.
I'll check out CNN infrequently but they are way biased most of the time. Fox News is always interesting to me because they can offer inflammatory opinions and are seldom shy about it but they can put a lot of facts to their stories. Extreme left and right sources for a laugh and to check their fact content.
Really I should utilize one of these pay news apps that tries to limit bias but I'm too old and cheap. I do consider it more seriously now though. It's disappointing so few sources report all the facts and I don't mind overt opinions or bias as per Fox News but try and acknowledge other realities for the people or situation involved.
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23 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:
The main difference is with Biden it actually happened. With Trump you're claiming it would happen.
The mainstream media en masse blatantly ignored the obvious and severe cognitive decline of the friggin POTUS, lapping up the blatant lies from the WH and asking their viewers/readers to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears.
If Trump started to repeatedly attempt to shake hands with imaginary people, forget close aides names, get lost walking off stage, mumble incoherently etc. Fox News very well might provide slanted coverage like they always do, but they wouldn't ignore it as if it wasn't happening at all, or accuse democrats who bring it up as being purveyors of cheap fakes.
This scandal is so far beyond the both sides are biased argument.
That's true it hasn't happened to a significant effect with Trump yet. And the MSM didn't completely ignore Biden, they would make excuses for it, and I expect right wing sources to follow a similar playbook as Trump progresses down this road. Why do I say that? Easiest examples are their irresponsibility magnifying 2020 "steal" garbage Trump used to line his pockets, as well as J6 short term.
But I find it highly ironic and somewhat disingenuous you try and limit "right wing" to Fox News, one of the best sources. How often do you actually post their content compared to all the X and more questionable right wing sources? I can't get too involved with this board because eventually the willful ignorance bothers me too much, but you seem to post quite prolifically and the times I do check it out seems like your source is seldom never Fox News. What percent of your sources on here would you say come from Fox News?
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2 minutes ago, Doc said:
The Constitution talks about personal gifts. Not gifts to the US.
Congress has to approve/recognize it as an acceptable gift to the US.
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On 5/16/2025 at 1:16 PM, All_Pro_Bills said:
For me it's hardly an even fight betwen left vs. right media but instead a case of Fox vs. the entire cast of liberal legacy media outlets. Like 1 vs. 20 or so.
I get that, and I feel it's unfortunate you've come to look at it that way. It's certainly easy to do. For me, any news source takes certain facts about a story and ignores others to try and shape their biased version of the truth. The good ones on either side include the most facts and hopefully spin a less biased story. I definitely have to hunt more for decent right biased stories but overall I consider Fox News a go to right biased source.
But even good sources can have highly biased stories, it's easy to tell by the amount of infammatory words and wording.
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23 hours ago, Doc said:
I think there are more issues than "is this a bribe/gift to Trump personally." Like security. Or cost to make it secure.
You're right, and they all seem equally important. The bribe/gift is the only one spelled out in the constitution though. Repubs certainly can vote based on security and costs though.
McDermott not in Top 10 of NFL coaches per PFF.
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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.