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ml1
Discussion: The Rose Garden and White House happenings: Listening to voters’ concerns

Seeing performances like Trump's follow up speech after his conviction suggest that he's the person for whom the debates are a serious risk. 

Biden will stutter at times and probably mix up a name or two. But there's a good chance Trump will spend a great deal of the debates on incoherent tangents, sounding like someone's drunk crazy uncle. 

Still won't cost him the base. But there have to be a few undecideds who hadn't been paying attention to Trump and will be finding out for the first time how addled he sounds. 

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dave
Discussion: Twitter is a Private Company

terp said:

Who gets to decide what is BS?

So you don't think threatening harm to the families of judicial workers is an unusual and unkind means of getting one's way?  Try to think about this for a while before responding or defending people I'm not even mentioning specifically. 

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joanne
Discussion: Twitter is a Private Company

Mr Terp, please note that our e-Safety Commissioner dropped the case. Technically, not a win just a cessation of negotiations/hostilities. Also, the role is about much, much more than ‘censorship’: we take privacy very seriously, stalking, cyber security etc.

As a result of the X ‘revelations’ an innocent young man was labelled a killer by a media outlet, and that spread nationally & internationally within an hour. Do you know the work he has to do to clear his name? Let alone get a job when his studies end in December??

Further, some people learnt family members were injured or killed before formal notification. That’s not how we do things here; we limit gossip, tale-spreading, sticky raking and idle speculation. We use media blackouts for good reason, and to good effect. 

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ml1
Discussion: 34 Felony Convictions! Prosecutors bat 1000

One thing that gets lost when calling Trump's crime a "hush money" case is the larger picture. He was covering up a conspiracy not only to spike negative stories about himself, but to use a national publication to libel his GOP primary rivals. I certainly have no positive feelings for the likes of Ted Cruz. But if a conspiracy to libel opponents isn't corrupting an election what is?

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jimmurphy
Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

Just got QB. No crazy words.

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DaveSchmidt
Discussion: 34 Felony Convictions! Prosecutors bat 1000

Morganna said:

Maybe my verbal messaging was off.

It wasn’t. And it never has been.

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jimmurphy
Discussion: 34 Felony Convictions! Prosecutors bat 1000

terp said:

I still think we should strive to maximize liberty.  I think its more how you get there that's changed.  My instinct is to be nice and do everything peacefully.  I do not think that is tenable.  Look how the entrenched institutions attack someone they can't control.  He didn't even detail anything in any real way, but he said a lot of things they did not like.  

So, I think you need to get control and tear down these institutions.   It sill probably take force or at least the threat of force to get this right.  This means the long march to the left this country has been on has to reverse.  We need a hard right movement to dismantle many of these entrenched powers that have been infringing more and more on our freedoms.  

I think that is in the cards anyway.  There was a time that scared me.  Now I think its a necessary evil.

Chilling response

Force is not the answer.

Given that you consider this a viable option, I will not be engaging with you from this point on.

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tjohn
Discussion: What does Putin want (and whatabout it)

nan said:

tjohn said:

DaveSchmidt said:

nan said:

And Diesen did not lie. He may have not been as clear as he could have been about a small detail in his presentation.

Diesen was explicitly clear about one of the first factual details he decided to share with his audience. Your book excerpt showed that he knew the detail was false. Thank you, belatedly, for providing that.

Don’t ask for an example of a lie if you’re dead-set against accepting one.

can’t we just call a misunderstanding?

Besides, as Nan stated recently, “Sometimes when you know the full story, the facts don’t even matter.”

I wrote you a long post yesterday.  Guess it was way over your head so instead of responding about the thread topic you decided to launch a personal attack.  You must be acting out. I'll scale back the vocabulary and use easier sentence structure next time. I want you to be successful.  

quoting your words is now a personal attack

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drummerboy
Discussion: The Rose Garden and White House happenings: Listening to voters’ concerns

Smedley said:

Man, even Biden stalwarts nohero and drummerboy have little or nothing to say about the election these days. Seems indicative of the malaise of the Democratic party?

what's there to say, other than polls are showing a shift to Biden, as predicted, as we get closer to the election and the undecideds slowly get their heads out of their ****.

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tjohn
Discussion: New Superintendent

Jaytee said:

Good luck with this guy. He’s been in so many school districts in the last ten years it begs the question… why? Why did he change his name to bing? Did they vet this guy properly? It was he given the position after one interview? I don’t think he’s gonna last two years in SOMA. Unbelievable!

Studies show that our school district is single-handedly depressing the average tenure of superintendents.

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