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    Quote Originally Posted by Fentoine Lum View Post
    The founders gave you a system in which only aristocratic white males who owned land were given the "right" to vote and a senate that was appointed by the aristocracy, not voted on at all.
    see

    its a Russian bot

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Losing what? The last election?
    public hearts and minds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    and when the suit is tossed out, i expect you to come on here and declare how wrong you were and how right I was.
    Whit House lawyers couldn't care less what they sue about. They aren't spending Trumps money, or their own. Its the peoples money that they are happy to piss away. Once they lose they can just blame it on liberal judges, all the while they knew they would lose.

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    The conduct of a handful of so-called reporters during President Trump’s news conference was disgraceful beyond measure. This is not journalism, this is narcissism.

    Naturally, the boorish Jim Acosta of CNN was the instigator. As is his habit, Acosta doesn’t ask questions — he makes accusations and argues. Almost daily, he does it with the press secretary; Wednesday, he did it with the president.

    “I want to challenge you,” Acosta began after Trump called on him. Trump realized he’d made a mistake, murmuring, “Here we go,” and Acosta didn’t disappoint.

    He insisted that despite the president’s use of the word “invasion,” the caravan of Central American migrants “is not an invasion.”

    He adopted a lecturing, I-know-best tone to declare that “they’re hundreds and hundreds of miles away; that’s not an invasion.”

    Trump’s response should not have been necessary: “Honestly, I think you should let me run the country, you run CNN.”

    After more back-and-forth, he called Acosta “a rude, terrible person” and said “CNN should be ashamed of itself.”
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    That should have been enough — Acosta got the attention he wanted and got Trump’s goat, giving his network video it could make hay out of for days. Besides, there were scores of other reporters raising their hands to be called on.

    But Acosta wouldn’t give up the microphone and kept talking over Trump, trying to lob another grenade.

    The president, clearly angry now and stepping away from the podium as if he might bolt the room, pointed at him and said forcefully, “That’s enough, that’s enough. Put down the mic.”

    Finally, Acosta sat down, then stood up to argue again, interrupting another reporter. That reporter, from NBC, praised Acosta and picked up the baton by making his own accusation disguised as a question. He mentioned Trump’s attacks on Democrats and “asked” the president: Why are “you are pitting Americans against one another?”

    Trump, to his credit, actually answered in a substantive way, but that didn’t satisfy because the reporter didn’t really ask a question. He too just wanted to make an accusation and argue. On camera.

    There was a time not long ago when young journalists were taught not to become the story. Apparently, many news organizations have flipped that lesson on its head.

    But we are witnessing something more insidious here than media trash talk. Plain and simple, we are watching expressions of personal hatred.

    Yes, it’s true that most journalists lean far left and their bias sticks out like so many sore thumbs. That’s been true for a long time, but political bias is an insufficient explanation for the Jim Acostas of our time.

    They hate Trump. They really, really hate him. There’s nothing professional about it.

    They are not alone. Take a poll of almost any major newsroom in America and the vast majority of those working there, if they are being honest, will confess that they too can’t stand the existence or the sound of Trump.

    Or try to imagine Acosta and his ilk behaving in similarly hostile fashion toward Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Keep trying, but you can’t imagine it because it never happened. Both of those pols lied to journalists repeatedly, yet you can bet 90 percent still voted straight Democratic.

    Even if they didn’t like Obama or Clinton, the political reporters would never dare accuse them publicly of anything, argue with them or interrupt them. Even when skeptical, they were respectful.

    Recall how Obama used to spend 10, 15 and even 20 minutes answering a single question — without interruption.

    Many in the press corps may have found him overbearingly arrogant. They may have resented the way he looked down on them and bristled at critical stories or tough questions.
    They knew he started more leak investigations than any other president, and might have feared him because his Justice Department wiretapped a Fox News reporter during a leak case.

    But they would never interrupt him or insult him or refuse to give up the microphon

    https://nypost.com/2018/11/07/jim-ac...of-journalism/

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    public hearts and minds.
    You are by far on the losing end of hearts and minds my friend. Your kind represents at most 30% of the electorate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    he controls the briefing, dipshit. learn what words mean.
    Easy Jerk-off. I've had lots of success writing. What have you had?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    You are by far on the losing end of hearts and minds my friend. Your kind represents at most 30% of the electorate.
    lol. you're projecting again, cleetus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Apisa View Post
    Easy Jerk-off. I've had lots of success writing. What have you had?
    a purple boner?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SmarterthanYou View Post
    and when the suit is tossed out, i expect you to come on here and declare how wrong you were and how right I was.
    Okay...I will.

    Remind me.

    Or...come here yourself and mention that YOU were wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    lol. you're projecting again, cleetus.
    Please look up the term "due process" and stop making a fool of your self again, honey bunny

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    a purple boner?
    Was it in your mouth or ass?

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Acosta will have his press pass reinstated.
    only if he grovels......

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    Quote Originally Posted by floridafan View Post
    Please look up the term "due process" and stop making a fool of your self again, honey bunny
    its not being convicted of something to not get a press pass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Apisa View Post
    Was it in your mouth or ass?
    why choose?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    why choose?
    Okay...maybe it was in both.

    I hope it went from your mouth to your ass...although with you, I suspect it may have gone the other way.

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