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Maher Rips Media for Liz Cheney Firing Squad Hoax: ‘Just Don’t Lie to Me’

Have you ever, perchance, heard of a thing called "Combat"?
This is not what Trump was saying. Attempting to cover for the orange asshole is a bad look.
It's where you have weapons, and your opposition has weapons, and ya'll try to kill each other with them.

It is also, clearly, based on both his words and context, what Trump was talking about in this instance.
More bullshit.

Covering for the orange asshole is a bad look.
It's still a gross and wrong attack. Democrats were wrong to make it in the mid 2000's, and Trump is wrong to make it now.
Nonsensical bullshit.
But when folks in the media and on the left generally try to turn it into a twisted, hyperbolic, version that he did not say, they turn the story into their inaccuracy, and mean that he won't face any consequences for it. All that will happen is that this will tie people more to him, because his opponents will look dishonest, discrediting their other criticism of him.
Nonsensical bullshit.
This kind of crap immunizes him from losing supporters, because they point to the falseness or tortured attempts to make something worse than it was as a way of shrugging off valid criticism.

How many times have you heard MAGA use "Russiagate" as a means of brushing off stories about Trump's abuses?



Yeah - he's talked about having military tribunals for domestic political opponents. He's a would-be autocrat. He's dangerous.

So we should stop helping him by distorting what he says, which discredits criticism of him.

Nobody distorted anything.
 
Agree Trump doesn't do well making his own case. i can think of 100 better ways to say what he said - but look at the entire comment and it's clear he was referring to neocon warpigs happily spreading US interventionism. of course you never get the entire quote just snippets of damnation
The guy no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.
 
Right. I mean - we are talking about Maher and Breitbart.
What's normal to do on a message board is to specifically point out how they are supposedly wrong, but I'm guessing you won't.
 
Good on Bill

“I woke up to the headline ‘Donald Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney,’ said Maher, adding, “and this is what I really don’t like about the media — No, he didn’t.”


Maher goes on to explain what Trump clearly said. “He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean she is Dick Cheney’s daughter.” Maher then read Trump’s full and unambiguous quote. Here it is:




“Just to be clear,” Maher continued, “this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said. [Trump is saying], ‘You know what, it’s very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die.’”


He then said to the media, “Just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that … again, sounds like what hippies used to say.”


Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) quickly agreed that the media lied.
“I agree with you on the lying,” he said. “That’s ridiculous and absurd and counterproductive.”

Trump's violent rhetoric didn't bother him?
 
Good on Bill

“I woke up to the headline ‘Donald Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney,’ said Maher, adding, “and this is what I really don’t like about the media — No, he didn’t.”


Maher goes on to explain what Trump clearly said. “He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean she is Dick Cheney’s daughter.” Maher then read Trump’s full and unambiguous quote. Here it is:




“Just to be clear,” Maher continued, “this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said. [Trump is saying], ‘You know what, it’s very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die.’”


He then said to the media, “Just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that … again, sounds like what hippies used to say.”


Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) quickly agreed that the media lied.
“I agree with you on the lying,” he said. “That’s ridiculous and absurd and counterproductive.”


Thank you for explaining the context.
 
What's normal to do on a message board is to specifically point out how they are supposedly wrong, but I'm guessing you won't.

Why should I waste my time with giving you information that you’ll not believe anyway? I have better things to do, like put meatballs in vacuum sealer bags to stick in the freezer.

That is a much better use of my time, than trying to inform a MAGA of anything that isn’t sourced from Fox News, OANN, or Breitbart.
 
Why should I waste my time with giving you information that you’ll not believe anyway? I have better things to do, like put meatballs in vacuum sealer bags to stick in the freezer.

That is a much better use of my time, than trying to inform a MAGA of anything that isn’t sourced from Fox News, OANN, or Breitbart.
Like I said you won't because you only have talking points to fall back on.
 
Like I said you won't because you only have talking points to fall back on.

Says the person who is defending Breitbart. That rag wouldn’t know the truth if it jumped up and bit them in the ballsack.

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Now please. Defend them a little more. Show how much factual information really means to you.
 
Really stupid people believed it because,...well,....they're very stupid people.

These stupid people are commonly known as stupid liberals. They'll believe anything stupid.



Note: I tried dumbing it down for those still struggling with mental challenges.
 
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Really stupid people believed it because,...well,....they're very stupid people.

These stupid people are commonly known as stupid liberals. They'll believe anything stupid.



Note: I tried dumbing it down for those still struggling with mental challenges.
i literally can’t wait when Trump says in two days that “Yes, I think a firing squad is appropriate for Liz Cheney”.

You know it’s gonna happen.
 
Trump speculated that a woman would be shot in the face multiple times.

That's not something that a leader should be doing.

TBH, it's not something that any decent person should be talking about.
 
Good on Bill

“I woke up to the headline ‘Donald Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney,’ said Maher, adding, “and this is what I really don’t like about the media — No, he didn’t.”


Maher goes on to explain what Trump clearly said. “He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean she is Dick Cheney’s daughter.” Maher then read Trump’s full and unambiguous quote. Here it is:




“Just to be clear,” Maher continued, “this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said. [Trump is saying], ‘You know what, it’s very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die.’”


He then said to the media, “Just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that … again, sounds like what hippies used to say.”


Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) quickly agreed that the media lied.
“I agree with you on the lying,” he said. “That’s ridiculous and absurd and counterproductive.”
So what?

You think Maher has any influence on Americans votes?
 
So what?

You think Maher has any influence on Americans votes?
hell no. I cut my digital teeth on his Realtime message board back aroun 2000. It was just a "comments" section' Like the old chat rooms.
So he's old, but he has integrity.
 
hell no. I cut my digital teeth on his Realtime message board back aroun 2000. It was just a "comments" section' Like the old chat rooms.
So he's old, but he has integrity.
Purely subjective.
 
Liz & Dick = warpig,, glad to see she's getting her proper place in history
You mean MAGA history

Which often has little basis in fact
 
Good on Bill

“I woke up to the headline ‘Donald Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney,’ said Maher, adding, “and this is what I really don’t like about the media — No, he didn’t.”


Maher goes on to explain what Trump clearly said. “He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean she is Dick Cheney’s daughter.” Maher then read Trump’s full and unambiguous quote. Here it is:




“Just to be clear,” Maher continued, “this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said. [Trump is saying], ‘You know what, it’s very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die.’”


He then said to the media, “Just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that … again, sounds like what hippies used to say.”


Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) quickly agreed that the media lied.
“I agree with you on the lying,” he said. “That’s ridiculous and absurd and counterproductive.”
Maher had Megan Kelly on recently. It pisses me off that he lets the Trump cult get away with so much bullshit. He just let her gaslight and gaslight without fact-checking her!
 
Maher had Megan Kelly on recently. It pisses me off that he lets the Trump cult get away with so much bullshit. He just let her gaslight and gaslight without fact-checking her!
cry me a river when you consider the entire MS press gaslights Trump
 
It is unsupported, and contrary to the evidence available.
When Trump was challenged about the January 6th mobs chanting “hang Mike Pence”, he didn’t say “that’s too far” nor “that’s too violent” nor “that’s not want I wanted”, he said “because it’s common sense.”

I remember his “if Hillary gets elected, nothing you can do, nothing you can do. Maybe the second amendment people” statement. I remember him saying he wouldn’t mind if someone shot the news media at one of his rallies. I remember January 6th. I remember him saying to punch hecklers.

How far are you really willing to go to defend and excuse his violence?
And predictably, those supporters benefit from the fact that his critics feel the need to exaggerate and twist it into something worse, shielding Trump from accurate critique by turning the conversation into one about how the media is dishonest.
There’s no exaggeration. Trump is using intimidation to influence politics.

If there was a high school debate and some kid said “if you had 9 guns pointed at your head” it would never, ever be treated as equivalent to “you wouldn’t be so quick to go to war if you were the one on the front lines.” Your interpretation is not honest. He is fantasizing about a specific imagery.
Because it was. It simply was not him calling for her to be executed by firing squad. That it would be totally in-character for him to have done so is one of many indications that he's not worthy to be President, however, he didn't, actually, do so. Trump's lies do not justify lying about him.
He mentioned guns trained on her face. Trump compared himself to Al Capone who famously could not be prosecuted because he spoke in a mobster code to protect himself. So it’s one thing to say Al Capone could not be proven in court to have killed those people, but it’s something else to cry that he’s innocent because he didn’t explicitly state his intentions.

If only Al Capone had managed to seed people’s minds with the idea that the “fake news” was biased against him, he could have had this ridiculous level of deniability enforced on his behalf.
 
Have you ever, perchance, heard of a thing called "Combat"?

It's where you have weapons, and your opposition has weapons, and ya'll try to kill each other with them.

It is also, clearly, based on both his words and context, what Trump was talking about in this instance.

It's still a gross and wrong attack. Democrats were wrong to make it in the mid 2000's, and Trump is wrong to make it now.

But when folks in the media and on the left generally try to turn it into a twisted, hyperbolic, version that he did not say, they turn the story into their inaccuracy, and mean that he won't face any consequences for it. All that will happen is that this will tie people more to him, because his opponents will look dishonest, discrediting their other criticism of him.
Even if he meant what your lame translation from Drumpf speak was what was struggling for, One does not put ones political enemies standing up with a gun with the
barrels of 9 guns trained on there face. Gaslight MAGA's if you will, but please...
If relying on accurate accurate statements from e Slug was all MAGA listened for, he would have been crushed in the 2015 primary. The only policy he ever articulated, was the wall, that Mexico would pay for, xenophobia& Tax Breaks for his peers, with some change for the MAGA.
This kind of crap immunizes him from losing supporters, because they point to the falseness or tortured attempts to make something worse than it was as a way of shrugging off valid criticism.

How many times have you heard MAGA use "Russiagate" as a means of brushing off stories about Trump's abuses?



Yeah - he's talked about having military tribunals for domestic political opponents. He's a would-be autocrat. He's dangerous.

So we should stop helping him by distorting what he says, which discredits criticism of him.
 
Maher thinks Trump is a Fascist. Find it hilarious when some use only bits of what he says or believes to support their narrative.
 
Maher thinks Trump is a Fascist. Find it hilarious when some use only bits of what he says or believes to support their narrative.
Correct. Maher has been anti-Trump the entire time. He even sounded the alarm that Trump would refuse to accept the 2020 election results more than a year before the election. He plays to the right sometimes because he doesn't like PC outrage. These jokes at the MSG went way off the deep end though and it's wild he doesn't see through it.
 
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