Yeah Scott, both sides equally. Both sides believe Hillary runs a child sex trafficking ring from the basement of a pizza restaurant that does not have a basement.
President Donald Trump and his attorney general spun an ominous story of opportunistic leftists exploiting a national trauma to sow chaos and disorder.
They were the anti-fascists known as “antifa,” and according to the administration they were domestic terrorists who would be policed accordingly.
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Among the steady stream of threats from the far-right were repeated encounters between law enforcement and heavily armed adherents of the so-called boogaloo movement, which welcomes armed confrontation with cops as means to trigger civil war.
With much of the U.S. policing apparatus on the hunt for antifa instigators, those violent aspirations appear to have materialized in a string of targeted attacks in California that left a federal protective services officer and a sheriff’s deputy dead and several other law enforcement officials wounded.
The cache of law enforcement materials was recently hacked and posted online under the title “BlueLeaks,” providing an unprecedented look at the communications between state, local, and federal law enforcement in the face of the nationwide protests. In an analysis of nearly 300 documents that reference “antifa,”
The Intercept found repeated instances of antifa and left-wing protesting activities cast in cartoonishly grim terms alongside more substantive reports of lethal right-wing violence and threats that have received scant mention from top Trump administration officials.
“Throughout the documents you see counterterrorism agencies using extremism so broadly as to mean virtually anything that encompasses dissent,” Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, told The Intercept.
President Donald Trump’s harsh rhetoric against mail-in voting is causing a big problem for Florida Republicans, who once dominated the practice here.
So the state GOP came up with a solution: They doctored one of Trump’s tweets on the issue to remove the stigma.
In a mass-solicitation designed to boost flagging interest in registering to vote by mail, the Republican Party of Florida featured a Trump tweet from June 28 that praised absentee ballots but that had his opposition to mail-in voting strategically edited out.
“Absentee Ballots are fine. A person has to go through a process to get and use them,” Trump said in the tweet.
The rest of the quote was blurred out: “Mail-In Voting, on the other hand, will lead to the most corrupt Election is USA history. Bad things happen with Mail-Ins. Just look at Special Election in Patterson, N.J. 19% of Ballots a FRAUD.”
There’s no difference between mail-in voting and absentee ballot voting.
Trump is claiming a distinction that does not exist, all the while exaggerating the fraud risks, prevalence and effects of voting by mail.
Some Republicans privately fear the president is hurting his reelection chances — and the standing of the state party — by endangering one of the secrets to the GOP’s electoral success in Florida, where voters do not need an excuse to request or cast a ballot by mail.
The Gish gallop is a technique used during debating that focuses on overwhelming an opponent with as many arguments as possible, without regard for accuracy or strength of the arguments.
The term was coined by Eugenie Scott and named after the creationist Duane Gish, who used the technique frequently against proponents of evolution.
The mystery of my distant Trump-loving neighbors (the ones who hung a chair from their flagpole after Clint Eastwood’s bizarre anti-furniture rant at the GOP con) took down their omnipresent belligerent DFT signs seems to have cleared up: Their house is now up for sale. I suspect they’re looking to improve their curb appeal. I have to say, the property looks much nicer with that design choice.
You cannot live in a society as a solipsist, one who believes no one else is real, so they don’t matter, so you can believe whatever you want. The graveyards are filling up with solipsists.
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
Once again, Scott has his straw man and straw woman mixed up.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Problem is Carmen, most of them are on the conservative side. Stantis is just trolling liberals today.
braindead Premium Member about 4 years ago
Yeah Scott, both sides equally. Both sides believe Hillary runs a child sex trafficking ring from the basement of a pizza restaurant that does not have a basement.
Both sides.
Equally.
.
And Mexico will pay for it.
And one day, it’ll be GONE. Like a miracle.
Both sides.
Equally.
Pickled Pete about 4 years ago
People should never stand for having their beliefs interfered with facts!
Silly Season about 4 years ago
Well, some ‘fake news’ has a political purpose…
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President Donald Trump and his attorney general spun an ominous story of opportunistic leftists exploiting a national trauma to sow chaos and disorder.
They were the anti-fascists known as “antifa,” and according to the administration they were domestic terrorists who would be policed accordingly.
✁
Among the steady stream of threats from the far-right were repeated encounters between law enforcement and heavily armed adherents of the so-called boogaloo movement, which welcomes armed confrontation with cops as means to trigger civil war.
With much of the U.S. policing apparatus on the hunt for antifa instigators, those violent aspirations appear to have materialized in a string of targeted attacks in California that left a federal protective services officer and a sheriff’s deputy dead and several other law enforcement officials wounded.
The cache of law enforcement materials was recently hacked and posted online under the title “BlueLeaks,” providing an unprecedented look at the communications between state, local, and federal law enforcement in the face of the nationwide protests. In an analysis of nearly 300 documents that reference “antifa,”
The Intercept found repeated instances of antifa and left-wing protesting activities cast in cartoonishly grim terms alongside more substantive reports of lethal right-wing violence and threats that have received scant mention from top Trump administration officials.
“Throughout the documents you see counterterrorism agencies using extremism so broadly as to mean virtually anything that encompasses dissent,” Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, told The Intercept.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/
Silly Season about 4 years ago
Of course, when Trump lies hurt the GOP…
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President Donald Trump’s harsh rhetoric against mail-in voting is causing a big problem for Florida Republicans, who once dominated the practice here.
So the state GOP came up with a solution: They doctored one of Trump’s tweets on the issue to remove the stigma.
In a mass-solicitation designed to boost flagging interest in registering to vote by mail, the Republican Party of Florida featured a Trump tweet from June 28 that praised absentee ballots but that had his opposition to mail-in voting strategically edited out.
“Absentee Ballots are fine. A person has to go through a process to get and use them,” Trump said in the tweet.
The rest of the quote was blurred out: “Mail-In Voting, on the other hand, will lead to the most corrupt Election is USA history. Bad things happen with Mail-Ins. Just look at Special Election in Patterson, N.J. 19% of Ballots a FRAUD.”
There’s no difference between mail-in voting and absentee ballot voting.
Trump is claiming a distinction that does not exist, all the while exaggerating the fraud risks, prevalence and effects of voting by mail.
Some Republicans privately fear the president is hurting his reelection chances — and the standing of the state party — by endangering one of the secrets to the GOP’s electoral success in Florida, where voters do not need an excuse to request or cast a ballot by mail.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/15/florida-mail-in-voting-trump-362519
Silly Season about 4 years ago
Gish Gallop:
The Gish gallop is a technique used during debating that focuses on overwhelming an opponent with as many arguments as possible, without regard for accuracy or strength of the arguments.
The term was coined by Eugenie Scott and named after the creationist Duane Gish, who used the technique frequently against proponents of evolution.
CoffeeBob Premium Member about 4 years ago
hunh, Winslow is my next door neighbor!
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 4 years ago
If the lunar missions had been false, the Soviets, with their satellites, would have denied the Americans before the whole world.
Kip W about 4 years ago
The mystery of my distant Trump-loving neighbors (the ones who hung a chair from their flagpole after Clint Eastwood’s bizarre anti-furniture rant at the GOP con) took down their omnipresent belligerent DFT signs seems to have cleared up: Their house is now up for sale. I suspect they’re looking to improve their curb appeal. I have to say, the property looks much nicer with that design choice.
ndblackirish97 about 4 years ago
Lot of Americans do in fact think the way Winslow thinks….just one step away from an Idiocracy.
mistercatworks about 4 years ago
You cannot live in a society as a solipsist, one who believes no one else is real, so they don’t matter, so you can believe whatever you want. The graveyards are filling up with solipsists.
braindead Premium Member about 4 years ago
If you’ve ever wondered what you’d have done in 1930s Germany, you’re doing it now.
Back to Big Mike about 4 years ago
Sometimes I wish I could be as stupid as Winslow…and then I wake up.
adrianrune about 4 years ago
When did Winslow become a member of the Trump cult?