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24th May 2018, 11:44 AM | #3121 |
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24th May 2018, 11:44 AM | #3122 |
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how is that a question?
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24th May 2018, 12:35 PM | #3123 |
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Trump tweets
"Not surprisingly, the GREAT Men & Women of the FBI are starting to speak out against Comey, McCabe and all of the political corruption and poor leadership found within the top ranks of the FBI. Comey was a terrible and corrupt leader who inflicted great pain on the FBI! #SPYGATE" |
24th May 2018, 02:05 PM | #3124 |
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My favourite part of Starsky and Hutch was when they went undercover to investigate a crime and then, when they caught the criminal red-handed, he said “You were spying on me!” so Captain Dobey told them to drop all the charges and let them go.
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24th May 2018, 02:15 PM | #3125 |
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Reporting after the Congressional briefing of Nunes et al today:
MSNBC and CNN: there were no spies, the FBI was looking at Russians interfering in the election, including using an informant while investigating members of Trump campaign who had contact with Russians. The Clintons were pissed as hell that none of this investigation came out before the election. IOW, how could this have possibly been something to get Trump when the FBI actually protected Trump? Upside down world, Fox News: Spygate blah blah blah, Nunes announced the same conclusions he had already drawn up before the meeting (prove him wrong, the meeting was secret). In the meantime, Nunes' fund-raising is scoring big payments, more than a couple million. |
24th May 2018, 03:30 PM | #3126 |
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That's a statement, not a question.
Questions are easy to spot. They have question marks after them. Some questions are less easy to spot, but you can usually work out what they are by adding a question mark to the end of a sentence and seeing if it reads like a question would. If you add a question mark to the end of the statement "It will be interesting to see what he gets." it still does not read like a question. Do you see how this works? |
24th May 2018, 04:59 PM | #3127 |
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24th May 2018, 07:01 PM | #3128 |
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25th May 2018, 01:19 AM | #3129 |
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25th May 2018, 01:32 AM | #3130 |
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Is SPYGATE catching on yet?
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25th May 2018, 02:02 AM | #3131 |
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25th May 2018, 03:28 AM | #3132 |
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25th May 2018, 05:21 AM | #3133 |
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25th May 2018, 05:23 AM | #3134 |
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25th May 2018, 07:16 AM | #3136 |
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Back to spies for Trump
" The Democrats are now alluding to the the concept that having an Informant placed in an opposing party’s campaign is different than having a Spy, as illegal as that may be. But what about an “Informant” who is paid a fortune and who “sets up” way earlier than the Russian Hoax?" " “Everyone knows there was a Spy, and in fact the people who were involved in the Spying are admitting that there was a Spy...Widespread Spying involving multiple people.” Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist Senior Editor But the corrupt Mainstream Media hates this monster story!" "Can anyone even imagine having Spies placed in a competing campaign, by the people and party in absolute power, for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain? And to think that the party in question, even with the expenditure of far more money, LOST!" |
25th May 2018, 08:05 AM | #3137 |
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There's little that has happened in the last couple of years in US politics that has shocked me, but it's happened today. Here is a statement that Captain Swoop has quoted Trump as making: "And to think that the party in question, even with the expenditure of far more money, LOST!" I fact-checked it and, you know what? It's actually true. There was more money spent on the Clinton campaign than on the Trump campaign. I'm so used to the blanket, pointless lying, that this really stands out.
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25th May 2018, 08:34 AM | #3138 |
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25th May 2018, 12:27 PM | #3139 |
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No. I think it likely that they're answering what they believe the *intent* of the question is, not the literal question itself. It's not uncommon. We've seen plenty of people here who will stick to what they think the intent of a politician's statement is regardless of what the actual words are. This isn't limited to any specific party, it's a trait of humans in general.
That doesn't make one "stupid". It merely makes one normal and not a pedant sucked into a semantic wormhole. |
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25th May 2018, 12:42 PM | #3140 |
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It may be worth noting that it also doesn't even try to include the decades of money and effort spent on very loud Clinton vilification by the GOP nationwide. Trump's procession of frequently much more real problematic behavior has been treated as more of a joke, on the other hand, and has nothing even remotely similar going on.
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25th May 2018, 12:49 PM | #3141 |
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To be fair, that bit was kinda smart it turns out. While you and I thought that every stupid comment was pissing his chances away, his voters seemed to eat it up. And it didn't cost him much at all.
So, yeah, that free publicity was not money he spent on the campaign. Maybe it's a shame that it worked so well, but so it goes, evidently. |
25th May 2018, 01:26 PM | #3142 |
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On the other hand, many people think that the media was far too generous towards Trump in that they didn't challenge his "stupid comments" as strongly as they should have at the time, either because it was good ratings or because they wanted to appear impartial.
Take for example the Matt Lauer foreign policy "forum"... Clinton got hammered on the email issue (and got repeatedly interrupted), whereas Trump was given softball questions and never challenged on his obvious lies. Its not enough just to show Trump saying stupid stuff (and maybe commenting on it later... "how dumb was that"), but they would have needed to actually challenge Trump at the time he said the stupid stuff. |
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25th May 2018, 02:32 PM | #3143 |
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26th May 2018, 02:19 AM | #3144 |
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26th May 2018, 12:48 PM | #3146 |
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Trump tweets
"With Spies, or “Informants” as the Democrats like to call them because it sounds less sinister (but it’s not), all over my campaign, even from a very early date, why didn’t the crooked highest levels of the FBI or “Justice” contact me to tell me of the phony Russia problem?" He lies again. He was warned in 2016 by the FBI that the Russians might be trying to infiltrate and influence his campaign. calling his own agency crooked? and "This whole Russia Probe is Rigged. Just an excuse as to why the Dems and Crooked Hillary lost the Election and States that haven’t been lost in decades. 13 Angry Democrats, and all Dems if you include the people who worked for Obama for 8 years. #SPYGATE & CONFLICTS OF INTEREST!" |
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There's more
"When will the 13 Angry Democrats (& those who worked for President O), reveal their disqualifying Conflicts of Interest? It’s been a long time now! Will they be indelibly written into the Report along with the fact that the only Collusion is with the Dems, Justice, FBI & Russia?" |
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So the FBI And the Democrats are colluding with Russia?
Trump isn't very bright, but he sure knows how to lie to confused and low-information people. I can see it actually working. |
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Irrespective of guilt, Lawyers will invoke discovery, subpoenas, etc so that a legal defense can be organized. Don’t you agree that’s the prudent action you’d take if you were charged with a crime? If it isn’t, please explain what action you would take. |
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By the way, the amount of evidence Mueller has to consider is flooding in. The Trump corruption is so obvious Nunes had to cover up what the House investigation found and block the committee from looking at all the available evidence. |
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