Why would you assume that?
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Why would you assume that?
Fair enough. I rather assumed that it was done on the basis of IP address.
evince
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Because you call all politicians liars
They are not
You are fomenting hate for government
evince
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Geeko Sportivo
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He's like Tim Scott on PCP!
This is just common sense. It's been said pretty much since the beginning of time. It's kind of how we DEFINE politicians. If this is upsetting to you, it should be, but it's a fact of human life that seems to never change.
It's not that dire. We've obviously had a great run for these last couple centuries with politicians doing their usual stuff just fine.
NOW, that being said: I honestly think the current politicians have a LOT more lying going on from the Right than the Left. But I was merely noting that politicians lie because even the folks on the Left occassionally lie. It's how politics works.
I fear you may be overly dramatizing this point. It is a truth universally recognized that politicians lie. This is nothing new. If it is new to you then welcome to adulthood. It kinda sucks in many ways. One of those ways is that politicians lie.
Commander Dutch
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It's worse because the Party of Trump is being led by a kook with Vance supporting him. My guess is that the October Surprise will be a Party of Trump implosion.Mark Robinson and the Republican Whackjob Problem:
This is what happens when your Party stops trying to keep out the kooks.
Thursday afternoon, CNN reported that North Carolina Republican Governor candidate Mark Robinson frequented the porn site “NudeAfrica,” where he called himself a “Black Nazi,” said he wished slavery was still legal, heaped abuse on Martin Luther King, and discussed his affinity for transgender pornography.
Many of Robinson’s comments on Nude Africa stand in contrast to his public stances on issues such as abortion and transgender rights. Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography.
“I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
Of course, any political party’s vetting is bound to slip up from time to time. But understanding how Robinson won the gubernatorial nomination in a swing state requires a bit of context for how the Republican Party’s gatekeeping functions have deteriorated to their sorry state.
Mark Robinson and the Republican Whackjob Problem
What happens when you stop trying to keep out the kooks.nymag.com
All the conspiracy theorist idiots will, of course, blame the "Deep State". LOL
evince
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Your feeding the idiot fire with this trash
Commander Dutch
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Evince is a very passionate woman. Just because you don't agree with her doesnt mean she's wrong.
FWIW, evince is too far left for me, but I like and understand why women lean that way more than men.
evince
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People told me the same thing when I reported and proved to people here that Bush lied us to war
People here told me the same shit when I reported and proved Republicans have cheated in elections since Nixon
People here told me the same thing when I stomped the lies of the right here claiming we are not a democracy
I have so frequently turned out to be correct here that others now trust my reading of the FACTS
I spotted the Russian influence before the Government announced it
My record stands dude
I am not entirely certain why you are getting worked up. Apologies if I said something bad.
Just saying that politicians lie. It's nothing new.
I think it helps to recognize the flaws on our own side when discussing the flaws of the other side. And since all politicians lie it becomes a matter of how MUCH, how CONSEQUENTIAL and how BIG the lie is.
As you correctly noted: W lied us into the war in Iraq. And even good people like Colin Powell got pulled into the lie.
Sigh. No, it is an "aphorism". Obviously I'm certain there is, somewhere, an honest politician but they tend to be very hard to find.
It is the recognition that our side does some less-than-perfect stuff as well as their side. The goal is to ensure that we don't turn it into some moral equivalence because CLEARLY in the current case one side is lying FAR more than the other. And in more damaging ways.
I find Trump's lies to be repulsive not just because of the horrible things he kicks off with his language, but also because he lies about literally EVERYTHING, even stuff that really doesn't matter. Crowd size? Hurricane path? Biggest brain? All of it just flows like water for him.
But in order to take on Trump's systemic dishonesty we also have to be cognizant that our side is not pure as the driven snow.
Look at our previous candidate, Joe Biden. Turned out to be a pretty good president and generally a nice guy. But back in the 80's he lost his chance to run for president when it was revealed he had plagiarized some speeches in his career. To be quite honest at that time I was in university where plagiarism was a HUGE no-no so I came to really have a jaundiced eye toward Biden. He ultimately redeemed himself in my eyes with his tenure as VP and Pres, but the minute we think our shit don't stink is the minute we lose any leverage to get the OTHER side to seriously consider how smelly theirs is.
evince
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You dont understand plagiarism
It’s most often a complete mistake of too similar words and phrasing on a subject and not a theft or lie
No, I understand it quite well.
And if you wish to defend Biden's plagiarism kerfluffle be aware that Biden himself admitted to plagiarism in 1987 (HERE)
But that's not really the overall larger point.
evince
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Here is an at the time article about it
He wrote a shitty paper in college that got him and F in the class
And in speeches he used some lines of others without quoting
How many times have you heard politicians and others use the lines of others without quoting
Where does the phrase “make America great again” come from in example?