In my understanding, what happened to the Maine wasn't common knowledge at the time, so believing the newspaper account was understandable. Now, we can't even get everyone to admit that defaulting on US debt would be a bad thing.
SOME did a little but they at least said it was because of the war which was "a" factor but yes it was less
Now see folks, this is what happens when someone only sees what they want to see of a post.
Your posts are useful for a laugh now and then.
You're still mad about the death of Jim Crow? We remember when Democrats controlled the South. It wasn't pretty.
Hey, as you wrote earlier, look at what Dems did to inner cities. I invited you to look at several Republican lead Southern States with the exact issues.
We were talking about the truth of the Maine in the public's eyes. Other policies at that time were not a part of the perception of what happened to the Maine.
It's par for the course for the completely moronic right wing. All they do is project and post stupid one line lies. they can't ever defend or point to anything. The negatives right now of Biden, the inflation, is directly the result of the COVID lockdown and economy opening up again, problems with supply chains across the world, nothing to do with Biden or any policies. Same wiht the border. No policy has changed. Trump made a mockery of the process and its causing issues withprocessing. And in fact, its republicans that keep falsely advertising the border is open, so likely they are responsible for any influx. but that's what they do, they purposefully try to tank a democrat administration or block dems admins attempt to fix things, then blame them. Same cycle over and over and it works because the republicans base is so incredibly stupid and brainwashed and don't live in reality
Right, but the Maine isn't why I brought up policies; your bringing up current opinions on raising the debt ceiling, is why I brought up opinions on issues then for comparison.
I tried that just yesterday, watching MSNBC, which is an alternate news source for me. A majority of the hour I watched was about the investigation into Trump. There was not a word about the southern border or the Americans still in Afghanistan, for example. Maybe liberals should try an alternate news source and learn a little of what the glaring issues in America actually are. I'd argue the investigation into Trump is far down the list and nearly all media is deliberately and purposely tailoring their media in a strong attempt to shape public perception - rather than do the job of reporting important and current news.
I get it. My point on the debt default was not so much a policy thought, but an example of how something that everyone knows is true (defaulting on our debt would be bad) can still be denied by some people that don't care if they are telling the truth.
I don't see the debt ceiling issue as about the truth, but policy. I don't think they're lying about the effect of not raising it so much as choosing to cause the harm for political reasons, such as 'protesting spending' but really more likely to hurt Democrats. I don't recall anyone ever saying 'not raising the debt ceiling will not hurt the economy'.
If you can find one economist that says defaulting on our national debt is not terrible for the economy we can discuss the political impact. It is truth, with no room for denial, that defaulting on the debt would hurt the US and world economy. Period.
MSNBC is no different than Fox only LW instead of RW, very unbalanced reporting in my view. When I watch US cable news I watch CNN which is reporting on the border crisis, the current issues in Congress, Afghanistan, the issue with France, Covid, as well as other things and they are definitely not giving Biden anywhere near a pass. They don't do much on Trump except when he does something worthy of reporting or something new comes out about the times leading up to the 6th or the days after. I don't watch their primetime lineup, except Anderson Cooper now and again, so I can't comment on that.
