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Fishking

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The left is obsessed with Trump. He is in the front of their minds all day and every day. It's ridiculous and, ironically, it's been this "boy who cried wolf" mentality that has cause much of the country to tune out the criticism. It has become background noise, but it's still very annoying. These are smart people who have let an obsession reduced their ability to think reasonably and rationally. This has been gong on for years and can't be healthy and it has to be exhausting. I know most of the nation is tired of it.

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We've been through this.

Trump is the current leader of the Republican party.

Trump, a former POTUS, also has like 3 investigations of him and his holdings going on. Your boy Trump loves being in the news.

Also, with Trump it's typically a cascade of news.
First he does something illegal or completely inappropriate for a sitting or former POTUS.
Then he lies about the coverage.
Then he makes up more lies, attacks them, etc.

You get a lot of news from one bad guy. But face it...Trump's bad behavior is on the GOP's historical record now. You'll never really be rid of it.
 
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Mach said:
We've been through this.

Trump is the current leader of the Republican party.

Trump, a former POTUS, also has like 3 investigations of him and his holdings going on. Your boy Trump loves being in the news.

Also, with Trump it's typically a cascade of news.
First he does something illegal or completely inappropriate for a sitting or former POTUS.
Then he lies about the coverage.
Then he makes up more lies, attacks them, etc.

You get a lot of news from one bad guy. But face it...Trump's bad behavior is on the GOP's historical record now. You'll never really be rid of it.
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Biden is the current President and Trump hangs out by himself in his home sending messages on Truth Social. People are causing themselves mental trauma, and that is then inflicted on everyone else.
 
CaughtInThe said:
uh. if the crook and thief would go away no one would care.
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That is literally impossible because of ya'lls own actions. You cause what you claim to want to stop, making me wonder if you actually want Trump to go away. I don't think ya'll can exist without him at this point.
 
Fishking said:
The left is obsessed with Trump. He is in the front of their minds all day and every day. It's ridiculous and, ironically, it's been this "boy who cried wolf" mentality that has cause much of the country to tune out the criticism. It has become background noise, but it's still very annoying. These are smart people who have let an obsession reduced their ability to think reasonably and rationally. This has been gong on for years and can't be healthy and it has to be exhausting. I know most of the nation is tired of it.
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Can you imagine if Trump wins in 2024. It would be the mother of all meltdowns.
 
Fishking said:
The left is obsessed with Trump. He is in the front of their minds all day and every day. It's ridiculous and, ironically, it's been this "boy who cried wolf" mentality that has cause much of the country to tune out the criticism. It has become background noise, but it's still very annoying. These are smart people who have let an obsession reduced their ability to think reasonably and rationally. This has been gong on for years and can't be healthy and it has to be exhausting. I know most of the nation is tired of it.

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Oh look, another thread crying about the left caring about Trump when he’s done anything but slink away into the shadows and his cultists remain very real threats to the country.

Nobody cares that those who fanatically hate “the left” are throwing a tantrum over Trump being held accountable. Deal with it.
 
aociswundumho said:
Can you imagine if Trump wins in 2024. It would be the mother of all meltdowns.
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I honestly don't want to Trump to even run. I think his personal characters and behavior is too toxic and it poisons the well of the legitimate policies he supports (which his policies were mostly spot on and very good). So I don't want him to run for those reasons, but I also don't want him to run because I'm just so damn tired of listening to the screeching. You literally can't talk about a single thing without Trump being made the topic.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Oh look, another thread crying about the left caring about Trump when he’s done anything but slink away into the shadows and his cultists remain very real threats to the country.

Nobody cares that those who fanatically hate “the left” are throwing a tantrum over Trump being held accountable. Deal with it.
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REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
 
Fishking said:
The left is obsessed with Trump. He is in the front of their minds all day and every day. It's ridiculous and, ironically, it's been this "boy who cried wolf" mentality that has cause much of the country to tune out the criticism. It has become background noise, but it's still very annoying. These are smart people who have let an obsession reduced their ability to think reasonably and rationally. This has been gong on for years and can't be healthy and it has to be exhausting. I know most of the nation is tired of it.

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Some people are just silly like that, I guess. When you have someone who incited an insurrection against the U.S. government, has sucked up to Communist Dictators, insists on using a platform to continually discredit, and undermine our electoral processes, is a clear and present danger to U.S. national security, and is most assuredly planning on a 2024 POTUS election run ( assuming he isn't first disqualified from running ) --- YES - That guy is going to get a LOT of attention - attention, he clearly craves. Does any of this actually surprise you @Fishking?
 
Tigerace117 said:
“Waaaaah! Democrats won’t just ignore Donald Trump despite the fact he literally just got busted with multiple boxes of classified information! Waaaaaah!”

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Less classified documents than Hillary had on her home server, and she wasn't even the President who had classification authority, but go on with your inane obsession. It's totally accomplishing the opposite of what you claim to want.
 
Fishking said:
I honestly don't want to Trump to even run.
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I don't either.

Fishking said:
I think his personal characters and behavior is too toxic and it poisons the well of the legitimate policies he supports (which his policies were mostly spot on and very good).
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I wouldn't go that far. Trump is an economic illiterate. Like many people, he thinks the economy is a jobs program.

Fishking said:
So I don't want him to run for those reasons, but I also don't want him to run because I'm just so damn tired of listening to the screeching. You literally can't talk about a single thing without Trump being made the topic.
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Agreed, it's quite annoying.
 
Fishking said:
Less classified documents than Hillary had on her home server, and she wasn't even the President who had classification authority, but go on with your inane obsession. It's totally accomplishing the opposite of what you claim to want.
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Oh look, sobbing “but Hillary”.

I hate to break it to you but that isn’t actually an excuse for Donnie Draft Dodger’s actions.

Gee, you mean you folks who already vehemently hate “the left” are going to cast your one vote even HARDER?

Or are we going to see more Trump cult terrorism?
 
NOW, let me get this right:

The Left is obsessed with Trump? Is that the theme of this thread?

Ok, let's explore that.

Trump loses an election and declares fraud. Was it the Left that stormed the Capitol? Was it the Left that refused to accept the election results? Was it the Left who hired Ninjas to audit a state's election results?

NOW, the FBI raids Mar A Lago. Is it the Left that is bleating non-stop about the FBI and DOJ overstepping their boundaries? Is it the Left that is constantly defending him as if he is above the law?

Now the real irony: The OP accuses the Left of being obsessed with Trump and points to the number of threads that mention Trump by name.

OK, fair enough, but WHO IS BEING SPOOKED BY THIS??? Who is it that is SO upset at Trump being "attacked" that they have to create a thread defending him? Who is it that can't put on big boy pants and realize that on discussion forums, political leaders are fodder? How many Biden threads did the OP count?

Sad, pathetic, whiny, simps crying in their soups because, OH NO, Trump is being criticized. OUR FEARLESS LEADER is being attacked. OH THE HORROR!

This thread, like so many others, blaming the Left for pointing out Trump's failings, is PATHETIC!!

Yet, THEY don't see it. THEY only see "attacks" and weep in frustration.

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Fishking said:
That is literally impossible because of ya'lls own actions. You cause what you claim to want to stop, making me wonder if you actually want Trump to go away. I don't think ya'll can exist without him at this point.
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YET, YOU, yes YOU posted this thread defending Trump.

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Fishking said:
Less classified documents than Hillary had on her home server, and she wasn't even the President who had classification authority, but go on with your inane obsession. It's totally accomplishing the opposite of what you claim to want.
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Whataboutism gives a clue to its meaning in its name. It is not merely the changing of a subject to deflect away from an earlier subject as a political strategy; it’s essentially a reversal of accusation, arguing that an opponent is guilty of an offense just as egregious or worse than what the original party was accused of doing, however unconnected the offenses may be.

The tactic behind whataboutism has been around for a long time. Rhetoricians generally consider it to be a form of tu quoque, which means "you too" in Latin and involves charging your accuser with whatever it is you've just been accused of rather than refuting the truth of the accusation made against you. Tu quoque is considered to be a logical fallacy, because whether or not the original accuser is likewise guilty of an offense has no bearing on the truth value of the original accusation.

www.merriam-webster.com

What about 'whataboutism'?

If everyone is guilty of something, is no one guilty of anything?
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Tigerace117 said:
Oh look, sobbing “but Hillary”.

I hate to break it to you but that isn’t actually an excuse for Donnie Draft Dodger’s actions.

Gee, you mean you folks who already vehemently hate “the left” are going to cast your one vote even HARDER?

Or are we going to see more Trump cult terrorism?
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I hate to break it to you, but I demonstrated your statement to be ****ing dumb in it's lack of novelty.
 
I'm sure you were quite happy with the attention Trump was attracting, when he was President. But now you'd like us to pretend he's not in legal trouble. But he is.
 
Tigerace117 said:
“Waaaaah! Democrats won’t just ignore Donald Trump despite the fact he literally just got busted with multiple boxes of classified information! Waaaaaah!”

🙄
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The constant whining by the Right is quite amusing actually. It's like they are deliberately saying "Look at me, I am SO upset that you are criticizing Trump, that I will accuse you of TDS." I mean, the argument isn't even original. If it were it might say something. But their arguments come right out of a textbook:

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Fishking said:
I hate to break it to you, but I demonstrated your statement to be ****ing dumb in it's lack of novelty.
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The only thing you “demonstrated” is that people not turning a blind eye to Trump’s actions triggers you.
 
SNOWFLAKE said:
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Whataboutism gives a clue to its meaning in its name. It is not merely the changing of a subject to deflect away from an earlier subject as a political strategy; it’s essentially a reversal of accusation, arguing that an opponent is guilty of an offense just as egregious or worse than what the original party was accused of doing, however unconnected the offenses may be.

The tactic behind whataboutism has been around for a long time. Rhetoricians generally consider it to be a form of tu quoque, which means "you too" in Latin and involves charging your accuser with whatever it is you've just been accused of rather than refuting the truth of the accusation made against you. Tu quoque is considered to be a logical fallacy, because whether or not the original accuser is likewise guilty of an offense has no bearing on the truth value of the original accusation.

www.merriam-webster.com

What about 'whataboutism'?

If everyone is guilty of something, is no one guilty of anything?
www.merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com
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I don't give a **** about your whining over "whataboutism". "Whataboutism" is a word made up but deranged leftist screeching about things they are guilty of themselves. Sorry, but I have a different word for you, hypocrisy.
 
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