Comments by "" (@ronjon7942) on "Fox News"
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As a right leaning centrist moderate, registered Independent, I absolutely would consider voting for Mr. Kennedy, even if Trump’s on the ticket. If Gov. DeSantis wins the nomination, voting for Mr. Kennedy might be a more difficult endeavor. If DeSantis decides to wait til 2028, I may vote for Mr. Kennedy based on his moderate centricity, even knowing the positive effect Trump will have on our economy. The con of another Trump administration, in my view, will be the continuation of the divisiveness started by Obama; no doubt the extreme left will hunker down hard, letting their feral hatred of Trump fester and grow. I’m so tired of the wasted energy this hatred consumes, by the extreme left AND right.
I could have a conversation with Mr. Kennedy, and be the smarter for it - I think he’s a principled man. I’m just not sure how the left extremists will react, if they will strive for common ground (cannot see that happening), or if society will finally reject both right and left extremism and they’ll both fade away, should Mr. Kennedy win the nomination and the presidency. Regardless, I’ll be engaged, hoping the Democrat Party does the right thing by nominating him.
I just hope I live long enough to see Democrats and Republicans talk to each other respectfully, move our country forward together, have some BBQ parties, and get back to getting the nation’s work done and back to making the nation the priority that our great nation needs them to.
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I love her and her. To say I’d be so happy with Tulsi as VP is a massive understatement. She is one of the most capable people I have ever known, and is more than qualified to be VP, and if need be, President. I personally would be at ease with her in either position, feel secure, and once again have pride in, and respect for, my national leadership. To me, she is a giant among thought leaders - in league with Jordan Peterson, Thomas Sowell,
I have decided to go all in by believing in her leadership, capabilities, integrity, and her vision of Democracy, peace, and prosperity. I know there are many on the right who distrust her for abandoning the democrat party. I do not. It was such a massive decision to switch, and I believe she is being completely authentic, genuine, transparent, honest, and forthright. And while she may have changed party affiliation to Independent, her core principles have not.
Laura is such
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Omg, her interview post debate...she was really wishing the abc moderator models were back.
See, this is the genuine kamalala we should have seen during the debate. The one who isn't coddled and protected by the fascist media/propaganda agencies.
I'm still puzzled why Trump prepped so badly; there's no way he took cues from Ms. Gabbard, for instance. He should have started the debate the way he ended it. The two moderators were terrible - as in, 'unethical' terrible - no question. But Trump should have dominated over all three, easily. Clearly, he wasn't in the mood. Perhaps he simply wasn't prepared, maybe he's just worn ragged from dealing with the fake charges, election interference, campaigning, rallying - even feral Trump haters have to admit the guy's busy.
I don't think he underestimated harris, but he did underestimate how seriously her handlers and abc took the debate prep.
I do think he walked into this thinking, God knows why, this would be a reasonably fair debate and he could just wing it because it's just harris. Well, it wasn't only harris. He got knocked off balance right away, took some really obvious bait, and wasn't taking charge until the closer.
The guy just couldn't hit his stride. All harris had to do was show up sober, and unless she either got crushed, or crashed, she won.
Substantively, yeah, he won. But to the voters who vote their emotions and crave drama...yeah, he lost. Too bad debates aren't about actual issues...
Or are they?
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My reply to a comment; also to those who may vote for Trump, despite Gov. DeSantis being the superior candidate:
Well put. If Trump really cared for our country instead of himself, letting his ego drive him to get even w Biden, plus getting his pathological need for attention satiated, he would step down and get out of the way of Gov. DeSantis. The best thing for the country would be for Trump to step down and throw all his support, and supporters, into Gov. DeSantis' campaign.
Governor DeSantis is so far beyond Trump in so many ways, and Trump is so far out of the league of the Governor, it would be an absolute travesty were he not elected our next president. But Trump being for himself first, and always, he'll continue to run, steal votes from Gov. DeSantis' campaign, thereby gift wrapping the election to President Biden; four more years handed to the left, four more years to drag our country into the gutter.
Governor DeSantis is a patriot in the truest sense of the word, and I believe he'll always do what's best for America, get things done, be fiscally responsible, and make sure our government gets back to work running this country instead of Congress just going round and round with this stupid, childlike display of political infighting.
Also, Gov. DeSantis has something Trump will never have: integrity. I'm so disgusted having to vote for the least worst candidate; I detest Trump as a person and was embarrassed he was elected our leader, and I literally felt dirty and sickened voting for him just to keep Hillary and then President Biden out. I will gladly vote for Gov. DeSantis because he is the best candidate we could ever hope for, maybe the best since President Reagan. He is a good man, and when I cast my ballot it will be for an American hero.
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Well put. If Trump really cared for our country instead of himself, letting his ego drive him to get even w Biden, plus getting his pathological need for attention satiated, he would step down and get out of the way of Gov. DeSantis. The best thing for the country would be for Trump to step down and throw all his support, and supporters, into Gov. DeSantis' campaign.
Governor DeSantis is so far beyond Trump in so many ways, and Trump is so far out of the league of the Governor, it would be an absolute travesty were he not elected our next president. But Trump being for himself first, and always, he'll continue to run, steal votes from Gov. DeSantis' campaign, thereby gift wrapping the election to President Biden; four more years handed to the left, four more years to drag our country into the gutter.
Governor DeSantis is a patriot in the truest sense of the word, and I believe he'll always do what's best for America, get things done, be fiscally responsible, and make sure our government gets back to work running this country instead of Congress just going round and round with this stupid, childlike display of political infighting.
Also, Gov. DeSantis has something Trump will never have: integrity. I'm so disgusted having to vote for the least worst candidate; I detest Trump as a person and was embarrassed he was elected our leader, and I literally felt dirty and sickened voting for him just to keep Hillary and then President Biden out. I will gladly vote for Gov. DeSantis because he is the best candidate we could ever hope for, maybe the best since President Reagan. He is a good man, and when I cast my ballot it will be for an American hero.
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Did I infer correctly he suffered heart palpitations due to a fall or near fall? I wouldn’t have seen it as I simply can no longer watch our two Executive Branch leaders. I do have to admit that was the most reasonable statement ever uttered by Mrs. Clinton, though, as contemptible as I find her. Like her or hate her, she’s mastered the politics game. Unlike President Carter…approached next.
I do have to question and look into the polling caricature of President Carter. He was hamstrung by the disastrous optics of the Iranian hostage rescue, along w the unpopular cancellation of the B-1 bomber where he instead approved the top-secret funding of the B-2 stealth bomber, to be sure, and suffered in silence over it. In large part, however, I believe he was an unpopular President because he administered according to his Evangelical Christianity Faith - something intolerable in swamp politics. As a Christian Catholic, I’m at odds with some of his church’s doctrines and beliefs, but in my mind his public proclamation of loving Jesus Christ makes him a personal hero. I wish I had but a fraction of this great man’s great Faith.
As quoted from the RNS (Religion News Service), “Jimmy Carter’s religious values were never far from his presidency or his policy.” I believe this is why people ignore his many social accomplishments and consider him a poor President, perhaps to a mistaken interpretation of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment, perhaps to Godless critics, or a society reminded how far from The Founding Fathers we have drifted. To me, this puts the citizenry, the media, academia, and political partys in a bad light, but as these groups write the historical narrative, President Carter’s credibility during his presidency, suffered. Watching this man actively demonstrate his deep personal commitment to human rights, both during his term and after, is so humbling, and he deserves the recognition and respect given to the Saints.
His legacy should not be measured by these polls so favored because they can be selected and manipulated to suit any opinion, but instead be measured by his living and leading, unwavering, by his beliefs and character.
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Omg, her interview post debate...she was really wishing the abc moderator models were back.
See, this is the genuine kamalala we should have seen during the debate. The one who isn't coddled and protected by the fascist media/propaganda agencies.
I'm still puzzled why Trump prepped so badly; there's no way he took cues from Ms. Gabbard, for instance. He should have started the debate the way he ended it. The two moderators were terrible - as in, 'unethical' terrible - no question. But Trump should have dominated over all three, easily. Clearly, he wasn't in the mood. Perhaps he simply wasn't prepared, maybe he's just worn ragged from dealing with the fake charges, election interference, campaigning, rallying - even feral Trump haters have to admit the guy's busy.
I don't think he underestimated harris, but he did underestimate how seriously her handlers and abc took the debate prep.
I do think he walked into this thinking, God knows why, this would be a reasonably fair debate and he could just wing it because it's just harris. Well, it wasn't only harris. He got knocked off balance right away, took some really obvious bait, and wasn't taking charge until the closer.
The guy just couldn't hit his stride. All harris had to do was show up sober, and unless she either got crushed, or crashed, she won.
Substantively, yeah, he won. But to the voters who vote their emotions and crave drama...yeah, he lost. Too bad debates aren't about actual issues...
Or are they?
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Especially given the scientific evidence that states healthy people need not have to take the shot or worry about as much as worrying about the flu. Even so, if the Military announced a command to be vaccinated, based on the most authoritative evidence at the time. It is not oppressive for a military to have a universal requirement all soldiers are expected to obey and carry out. When the proper information was eventually made available, the Military, along with every other organization who were not idiots, changed their stance to taking the vaccine optional and, eventually, private. Orders are orders. I imagine there are battlefield situations whereby someone is ordered to do something that will result in that person getting killed, so having unknown, probably not serious or long term, health risks (although I did get seriously sick after a booster, so it happens) wouldn't be enough to exempt you from obeying the order.
However we've discovered that evidence is mostly false, and an authority is probably criminally issuing restrictions and guidelines that are unnecessary. These unnecessary and ineffective regulations have resulted in several impacts at local, state, and federal levels, and ALL the impacts have been hugely devastating at a national scope.
The following impacts include some, but not all, of the following: obviously, detrimental effects to the number and quality of military personnel due to concerns over the vaccine; pretty much bringing our economy to a standstill for two years, wreaking havoc the nation is still recovering from; and untold number of small and medium businesses that were forced to close and cease operations, generally permanently; a huge, untold number of layoffs from companies of all sizes due to the destroyed economy; setting an entire generation of students behind by two years of classroom education and socialization due to the inadequacies of teaching children, youth, and secondary education students remotely; massive increases in mentally related problems like depression, anxiety, addiction, domestic violence, boredom and nihilism. There seems to be no end of negatives which are the result of, and also the responsibility of, individuals and institutions the entire nation trusted. And evidence is piling up that said individuals and institutions knew from the start that all of their most impactful guidelines and regulations were ineffective and unnecessary.
There are individuals and institutions that need to be held accountable, probably prosecuted and punished, for a most significant set of economic, social, medical, cultural, and military effects, effects that probably have been the worst our society has seen or will see, in our lives.
The unnecessary and ineffective actions we took, based upon the words of supposed professionals expert in the handling of Covid, and a pandemic in general, were criminal; criminal of the highest level, and of such widespread and devastating effects, even treasonous.
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This was a good1, great jokes, funny.
Has Fox, the Five, Gutfeld…has anyone thought of a late night comedy show, like on a Saturday, at night maybe…and it could be live, in front of a studio audience…? It wouldn’t be a stretch, you could model it after…I don’t know…Carson! Sure, model it after Carson!
Good times, great show.
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@ReeCooks14579 I think Ree’s correct, folks; I was watching some episode where she was worth $30 million, which is ridiculous. I sourced Reuters, which indicates she has less than $60,000 in assets.
I don’t care for aoc any more than the next Conservative, but exaggerating her wealth, or outright lying about it just makes you out to be a bunch of chumps. We rail on the far left for corruption, lying, things out of context, stealing, and you don’t see the contradiction with your behavior?
She’s capable of screwing things up all on her own, we don’t have to embellish it. And every lie you tell that she refutes only makes her constituents more motivated to keep re-electing her. Your ignorance is making her out as a hero. Quit it.
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I get the appeal of sticking it to the view, I really do. Buuuut, like at 7:50, whoever that particular skeevy woman is (joy; joyce?), can you not keep their images up so long? And especially, for the love of God, Sister Clarence.
That gaggle is so repulsive, so repugnant, so rude, so, so…anti-feminine, I can barely stomach any episode they show up on.
That is, when Fox, Knowles, Shapiro, or Rubin feature them for their latest attempt at degrading moderate and centrist democrats, classical liberal democrats, woman, and of course, we conservatives, often times I can’t watch their episodes since that panel of journalistic perversion elicits such a nausea response I’m afraid I’ll vomit on my tablet.
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You nailed it. I was reading comments, half listening to her, thinking “didn’t I just hear her say…..wait!…she said it again??
It’s lethal if we would actually do what we say we’re going to do, given particular limits and conditions that, if exceeded or violated.
It’s lethal if we would take a firm stance, show strength, exude decisiveness, and be crystal clear about what exactly will happen if America’s ultimatums are ignored.
Deterrence.
Right now, Israel, Iran, China, Russia, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah, the entirety of the Middle East, and NATO just think two carriers got together off the Gaza coast to do some competitive fishing.
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Msnbc and cnn and the others are just unapologetically lying for her, her ads are factually false, and the outlets are parroting the same false information on their editorial shows (can’t call it news if they’re knowingly lying), knowing full well the statements are not true. It’s like everyone has gotten the same email on what everyone is allowed to say, to keep all the lies consistent and synchronized, so their audiences keep hearing the same thing no matter who they tune in to.
Ya, I know, campaign ads are all bs, truths are stretched, stuff’s taken out of context. But harris and the far left media outlets don’t even try to lipstick a pig; they’re just outright lying. To use some simple math as an example, harris is basically saying 2+2=57. And so is msnbc, cnn, abc, cbs.
And now she’s co-opting Trump’s policies, calling them her own? And the outlets are just reinforcing her wave of popularity. If there was ever any doubt our nation and press are being run by some elitist machine, just watch the harris campaign. She’s obviously being scripted, the far left media outlets are being told exactly what to say - and to keep repeating it until the next script has been sent out. Even harris is repeating - her campaign ‘speeches’ on two of them are almost identical!
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Why would the administration sack KJP? Love her, hate her, but she’s a loyal servant, famous for stonewalling , redirecting, and outright lying.
You know darn well every democrat watches press releases at some time or another. So if she’s able to keep repeating the ‘obama administration daily talking points’ script by not directly answering questions criticizing her master, reiterating that Trump’s a dictator responsible for everything wrong in the world today, and lying about joe’s incompetence, those loyal democrats think KJP must be telling the truth. They’re also likely to believe she’s being persecuted by The Right, instead of admitting they are simply being manipulated.
Maybe they see that she’s cracking under the pressure at knowing the entire planet realizes she’s a lying puppet. It has to be causing her a huge amount of mental distress and anxiety to be hated on a national and global scale. How long can anyone be expected to lie on a daily basis to protect someone else?
BUT - if she IS about to be sacked, just watch how fast the regime she’s protecting turns on her.
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Regarding unemployment stats for AZ being low at the moment, and suggesting it’s in any way related to biden econ policies…
Arizona is a bit of an anomaly right now. Our state has been Red for a long time, and has had a VERY favorable and friendly environment for business, specifically high tech. Very energy intensive tech, satisfied by plentiful cheap power provided by nuclear power - two words that are basically swear words to the far left socialists who would rip that out at their earliest opportunity. AZ also is geologically stable, predictable climate - if a bit warm, plenty of available land, and free from weather-related natural disasters - all excellent checkboxes for massive data centers, chip fabs, national defense companies, aircraft manufacturing, finance & insurance headquarters, and so on. NONE of this is a result of democrat policies.
In fact, just the opposite - failed democrat policies in California have resulted in a MASSIVE exodus of Californians to the Phoenix area, most, if not all, able to work remotely. Due to this and the aforementioned qualities, the unemployment rate is pushed artificially low, but this will change. Due to the failure of democrat fiscal policy AND the influx of people from California, rents are now sky high and home prices are even higher, more than DOUBLING since I moved to Tempe around five years ago. Perhaps you have seen the t-shirts stating “Don’t California my Arizona.”
Middle class folks simply cannot continue to afford rent, and certainly can’t afford a home, and the same holds true for younger couples and families just starting out, as salaries have stagnated. Salaries have not even kept pace with inflation, never mind not being even close to keeping up with the dramatic increases in rent and home prices.
I moved to Tempe in 2018-2019, and although I rented then, I looked at an average three-bedroom ranch, no basement, two-car garage, average suburban yard, right across the street, for $210,000. In 2022, it went for $560,000 and was on the market less than two weeks. And if this was like every other home buying story I heard, aggressive buyer pressure likely bid the asking price up another $20-$30,000.
This is not sustainable. Something is going to crack. So don’t be so glib about AZ’s present economic bubble being the result of any magical democrat economic policy, because it surely was not. Don’t forget that not very long ago - around fifteen years ago when we started vacationing to Arizona, that same $560,000 ranch was likely on the market for $50,000 or less, and couldn’t even have been given away.
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I would be completely baffled if neither left and right moderates, or RINO's voted for Trump...who the heck would they vote for? Biden?
I would almost expect classical liberals to vote for Trump, because they're rational, logical, and thoughtful - but I'm not sure if they're in a bad enough place to detach from the party like that. I miss a world where the majority of folks were classical and moderate liberals AND centrist and moderate conservatives. I don't align with our extreme right wingers, but they're still a minority and haven't damaged our nation like the radicalized far left has. It was sinister, but not only did they pull their movement off after insinuating their acolytes in our academic, financial, scientific, technological, and other, institutions, as well as the state and especially federal bureaucracies, they expanded exponentially and have hijacked the democrat party.
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As a right leaning centrist moderate, registered Independent, I absolutely would consider voting for Mr. Kennedy, even if Trump’s on the ticket. If Gov. DeSantis wins the nomination, voting for Mr. Kennedy might be a more difficult endeavor. If DeSantis decides to wait til 2028, I may vote for Mr. Kennedy based on his moderate centricity, even knowing the positive effect Trump will have on our economy. The con of another Trump administration, in my view, will be the continuation of the divisiveness started by Obama; no doubt the extreme left will hunker down hard, letting their feral hatred of Trump fester and grow. I’m so tired of the wasted energy this hatred consumes, by the extreme left AND right.
I could have a conversation with Mr. Kennedy, and be the smarter for it - I think he’s a principled man. I’m just not sure how the left extremists will react, if they will strive for common ground (cannot see that happening), or if society will finally reject both right and left extremism and they’ll both fade away, should Mr. Kennedy win the nomination and the presidency. Regardless, I’ll be engaged, hoping the Democrat Party does the right thing by nominating him.
I just hope I live long enough to see Democrats and Republicans talk to each other respectfully, move our country forward together, have some BBQ parties, and get back to getting the nation’s work done and back to making the nation the priority that our great nation needs them to.
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@TheArtofKelso Arizona is a bit of an anomaly right now. Our state has been Red for a long time, and has had a VERY favorable and friendly environment for business, specifically high tech. Very energy intensive tech, satisfied by plentiful cheap power provided by nuclear power - two words that are basically swear words to the far left socialists who would rip that out at their earliest opportunity. AZ also is geologically stable, predictable climate - if a bit warm, plenty of available land, and free from weather-related natural disasters - all excellent checkboxes for massive data centers, chip fabs, national defense companies, aircraft manufacturing, finance & insurance headquarters, and so on. NONE of this is a result of democrat policies.
In fact, just the opposite - failed democrat policies in California have resulted in a MASSIVE exodus of Californians to the Phoenix area, most, if not all, able to work remotely. Due to this and the aforementioned qualities, the unemployment rate is pushed artificially low, but this will change. Due to the failure of democrat fiscal policy AND the influx of people from California, rents are now sky high and home prices are even higher, more than DOUBLING since I moved to Tempe around five years ago. Perhaps you have seen the t-shirts stating “Don’t California my Arizona.”
Middle class folks simply cannot continue to afford rent, and certainly can’t afford a home, and the same holds true for younger couples and families just starting out, as salaries have stagnated. Salaries have not even kept pace with inflation, never mind not being even close to keeping up with the dramatic increases in rent and home prices.
I moved to Tempe in 2018-2019, and although I rented then, I looked at an average three-bedroom ranch, no basement, two-car garage, average suburban yard, right across the street, for $210,000. In 2022, it went for $560,000 and was on the market less than two weeks. And if this was like every other home buying story I heard, aggressive buyer pressure likely bid the asking price up another $20-$30,000.
This is not sustainable. Something is going to crack. So don’t be so glib about AZ’s present economic bubble being the result of any magical democrat economic policy, because it surely was not. Don’t forget that not very long ago - around fifteen years ago when we started vacationing to Arizona, that same $560,000 ranch was likely on the market for $50,000 or less, and couldn’t even have been given away.
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@TheArtofKelso Ya, there’s that. But perhaps we took that too far for fear of being called righteous in front of? Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying we should impose our Catholicity on anyone, or start a metaphorical Crusade to force others to believe as we do - God gave us a free will after all. Besides, I never said I was a ‘good’ Catholic; just hopefully a ‘good enough’ one :). And I’d be a hypocrite if I were to say everyone else must follow the Ten Commandments, especially since I’ve broken all of them.
I guess it’s just always been a bit tough to be a Catholic, and getting harder - just like it is for our other Christian brothers and sisters. If we’re not going to live our Faith outside of Mass on Sundays, we’re going to have a tough time carving out a slice of American society we want to thrive within. Or, in the case of myself, try to.
I’m sorry how my words could have been heard. If someone wants to be Catholic, Baptist, nondenominational, agnostic, atheist, or just doesn’t care - I’d fight for their right as an American to choose. But more and more often, we are being targeted for persecution by what I perceive as a socialist, marxist threat to our American way of life. It’s one thing for the Catholic population to vote, but just voting is no longer enough. The list of our American institutions that have been hijacked the far left socialist activists, INCLUDING the Democrat Party, is getting alarmingly long.
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The democrats keeping President Biden in office, and those (including the First Lady) manipulating him to run again, are guilty of elder abuse.
A man doesn’t go this far against his convictions, or reverse this many of his previous policies and political views, unless he’s being coerced and his diminished mental acuity being exploited. This is beyond shameful, absolutely disgusting, politically and humanly unacceptable, and disgraceful. I sincerely think he believes himself a patriot and is doing what he views as necessary, and these admirable qualities President Biden has are being severely taken advantage of, right along w his diminished mental faculties. This man should be home playing with his grandchildren and spending his remaining years in retirement surrounded by his family and friends. This is beyond criminal, so beyond.
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Msnbc and cnn and the others are just unapologetically lying for her, her ads are factually false, and the outlets are parroting the same false information on their editorial shows (can’t call it news if they’re knowingly lying), knowing full well the statements are not true. It’s like everyone has gotten the same email on what everyone is allowed to say, to keep all the lies consistent and synchronized, so their audiences keep hearing the same thing no matter who they tune in to.
Ya, I know, campaign ads are all bs, truths are stretched, stuff’s taken out of context. But harris and the far left media outlets don’t even try to lipstick a pig; they’re just outright lying. To use some simple math as an example, harris is basically saying 2+2=57. And so is msnbc, cnn, abc, cbs.
And now she’s co-opting Trump’s policies, calling them her own? And the outlets are just reinforcing her wave of popularity. If there was ever any doubt our nation and press are being run by some elitist machine, just watch the harris campaign. She’s obviously being scripted, the far left media outlets are being told exactly what to say - and to keep repeating it until the next script has been sent out. Even harris is repeating - her campaign ‘speeches’ on two of them are almost identical!
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Oh wow, this spokeswoman is up there with KJP at WH. Dodgy, and her answers - no, replies! - are the canned descriptors you can get off the Pentagon’s website. Irritating, because she’s being asked fairly direct questions, which aren’t even that sensitive in nature. There is no reason the press people representing this administration, in general, can’t be more informative and helpful, and motivated to assist reporters by WANTING to answer questions.
We want to be informed by our press corp, and we want answers to our questions, options about what alternatives are being considered, and the volunteering of information even if it hasn’t been asked for (yet).
We’re sick of an administration which programs their press agents to reveal the absolute minimum, if anything at all. This isn’t an open democracy. It’s the start of a fascist regime.
Is anyone actually smarter after listening to her?
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Especially given the scientific evidence that states healthy people need not have to take the shot or worry about as much as worrying about the flu. Even so, if the Military announced a command to be vaccinated, based on the most authoritative evidence at the time.
However we've discovered that evidence is mostly false, and an authority that is probably criminally issuing restrictions and guidelines that are unnecessary. These unnecessary and ineffective regulations have resulted in several impacts at local, state, and federal levels, and ALL the impacts have been hugely devastating at a national scope.
The following impacts include some, but not all, of the following: obviously, detrimental effects to the number and quality of military personnel due to concerns over the vaccine; pretty much bringing our economy to a standstill for two years, wreaking havoc the nation is still recovering from; and untold number of small and medium businesses that were forced to close and cease operations, generally permanently; a huge, untold number of layoffs from companies of all sizes due to the destroyed economy; setting an entire generation of students behind by two years of classroom education and socialization due to the inadequacies of teaching children, youth, and secondary education students remotely; massive increases in mentally related problems like depression, anxiety, addiction, domestic violence, boredom and nihilism. There seems to be no end of negatives which are the result of, and also the responsibility of, individuals and institutions the entire nation trusted. And evidence is piling up that said individuals and institutions knew from the start that all of their most impactful guidelines and regulations were ineffective and unnecessary.
There are individuals and institutions that need to be held accountable, probably prosecuted and punished, for a most significant set of economic, social, medical, cultural, and military effects, effects that probably have been the worst our society has seen or will see, in our lives.
The unnecessary and ineffective actions we took, based upon the words of supposed professionals expert in the handling of Covid, and a pandemic in general, were criminal; criminal of the highest level, and of such widespread and devastating effects, even treasonous.
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That guy is a sociopath. But consider, that maybe he's right and he has no clue about the new crimes policies that exist letting shoplifters go - that would mean he's actually being fed the low crime rates and statistics (because no one is reporting crimes of $1000 or less, it seems like aggregate crime rates are falling), and believes 'his' state is a beacon of the innocent. Another, after the high crime drives out ALL of the retail segment, maybe crime DROPS DRAMATICALLY because there's nothing left to steal? And again, Newsom is fed this POST CRIME data, and things look great.
Could any governor be that clueless? So disconnected from the state of his state? There's no way he doesn't know - perhaps his narcissism is driving him to present CA in the best light, with the most favorable statistics. He just continued his charade that everything is perfect with his plans and policies, and went so far as to blame the shopkeeper for the theft he just witnessed! Since he is a narcissist, maybe he's sold himself on the lie that everything is good; he's repeated the false crime narrative so many times, he now believes it.
Or is he so pathologically narcissistic that, because he's the top man, everything around him MUST be the best within every category, out of every other state? Maybe his brain simply cannot conceive that any policy of his would result in the criminal behavior his eyes are are witnessing. He is, after all, a sociopath.
If he IS clueless, where is he getting his news and info that everything is going so well? No doubt he watches CNN and MSNBC - are they simply not featuring the rampant crime and lawlessness and the rapid decline of retail businesses in cities across the state? What and how are they editorializing the situation such that after Newsom listens to his media outlets, he can conclude his state has little or no crime?
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The two Fox guys clearly weren’t understanding Lieutenant-General (ret) Kellogg’s Civil War and WWII examples, or have a poor grasp of history. When Sherman’s Scorched Earth March to the Sea was finished, the Confederacy knew they were defeated since continuation would just result in more cities burned to the ground. Dresden, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima rammed home the fact that further resistance to the Allies was futile, as continuation would simply mean more cities bombed and burned out of existence. The enemies were DETERRED from continuing to make war. Maybe the scope was too large for these two media guys to wrap their heads around.
It also was disrespectful to challenge Kellogg using those two’s tone of voice and, especially, interrupting and talking over him. They both immediately assumed the Lieutenant-General’s examples either covered the entire war, or that the two examples were somehow escalatory to the chaos of the two wars. The Fox gentlemen were completely incorrect, but for some reason they chose to get very defensive and assume Kellogg didn’t know what he was talking about. Since he was an invited guest contributor, protocol and just plain manners dictates he’s going to be correct and that it is yourselves that weren’t understanding. You guys cut him off and eliminated his opportunity to explain his examples.
Bad form.
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Our smart spokeswoman was all over the ‘holds on promotions’ question at 8:00. A fairly complete answer that provided plenty of information, without speculating on the ‘what and when’ unknowns.
Now go back and apply this technique, of truthfully providing information, to the previous nonsense answers.
EDIT: Ok, her answer to the last question, regarding Iran’s involvement with the Oct7 massacre, was pretty good. Not great, still somewhat evasive, but a big improvement. If she really did ‘readjust’ her style on the fly, then that’s pretty impressive and she’ll probably be a decent spokeswoman. Let’s hope so, she’s obviously a talented public speaker - no one wants the reputation that press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has garnered for herself.
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