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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5
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I have a question.
Do you think that Twitter should not be allowed to ban abusive posters at all ? Or do you think that Alex Jones should be exempt ? Please explain why you think that way.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5
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quote: I was going to investigate your accusations about Acosta, but since you’ve admitted here that they were baseless and Trump was in the wrong (by any reasonable standard) there is no need. Acosta was being banned for being too good at his job. Edited by PaulK, : Fix typo
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5 |
On the contrary, you made it obvious that Acosta was making legitimate points.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5
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quote: Why not ?
quote: In other words you want him banned from press conferences because he has a point of view that you want suppressed.
quote: I have no idea what you are talking about. Edited by PaulK, : No reason given.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5
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The issue is Senate confirmation. Whitaker doesn’t have that, while Sessions did and his successor will need it, too. So it is questionable whether Trump can go outside the ordinary rules of succession to appoint an acting AG.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5 |
Rosenstein WAS confirmed by the Senate for the Deputy AG position. Which would normally include taking over while a replacement was recruited.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5
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quote: Given the current sensitivity of the office I think that scrutiny is both necessary and inevitable.
quote: I’m not sure what your point is, especially as that would put Rosenstein in charge. Correction. I see you are objecting to the law which allows the appointment of a replacement in some conditions but not if Sessions was fired. I guess it’s to make things more difficult for a President who tries to get out of trouble by firing officials as Nixon did. Which seems a valid reason.
quote: Come off it. If Obama has been under investigation, sacked the Attorney General (after previously complaining that the AG should be protecting him, which is not the AG’s job) and bypassed the usual procedures to install a dubious character as acting AG you can bet there would be questions. Even from Democrats.
quote: I think that could be fairly applied to Trump’s actions, but certainly not to raising valid Constituional questions. If the President can appoint whoever he wants as acting AG whenever he wants doesn’t that mean that he can effectively bypass the Confirmation hearings? Edited by PaulK, : Added correction
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5 |
He’s been criticised for it by Tobias Ellwood (Minister for Defence) and Sir Nicholas Soames MP (a grandson of Winston Churchill). Both Tories.
BBC With the appointment of Whitaker on top of that, US veterans have a right to feel upset with Trump.
New Miami Times - the scam targeted veterans in particular (although they weren’t choosy, they’d take money from anyone).
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5
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quote: For the same reason you found it necessary to point out that it was the Democrats who were trying to stop Black people from voting. Even when everyone knows that’s currently a Republican tactic. We all know that Trump is pushing nationalism, populism, xenophobia and a good dose of conspiracy theory to boot. That’s a lot more fascist than the demonstration outside Tucker Carlson’s house which seems to have been no more than a nuisance, unpleasant as it might have been. And just a a reminder the people changing the Jews will not replace us in Charlottesville were from Unite the Right, not Antifa.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5
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quote: If by deny it you mean deny that it is happening now you would be right but silly. If you mean deny it altogether then you are still making things up. But the fact is that you still responded to a true accusation with a false one.
quote: Odd that you seem ignorant of such well-known facts.
quote: They are, however, features of Fascism, which was my point.
quote: In other words extreme nationalism.
quote: Trump is certainly willing to pander to racists, as we have seen. The xenophobia he promotes is obvious from his comments on Mexican illegal immigrants to the Muslim ban to the whole business with the refugee caravan.
quote: And those are the lies you will use to persecute all who oppose your tyranny.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5 |
You can condemn both, but one has obvious hallmarks of facism while the other does not.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5 |
quote: For the reason I said. I had pointed out that Republicans were engaging in voter suppression, especially in Black areas (which is a widely-known fact). Faith insisted that the Democrats were doing it.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5 |
Indeed. The Right were desperate to find criticisms of Obama and were reduced to pettiness. Trump just serves it up on a plate.
Don’t blame us. It’s the Right who chose Trump as their candidate and elected him. It may not be fair that you’re lumbered with him, but that’s not our fault.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5 |
Have you noticed that the Right - and often you personally - are guilty of pretty much every accusation you throw at others ? You’d have to be blind to miss it.
And, Tucker Carlson seems pretty racist to me, if these reports are accurate:
He has opposed demographic changes in the United States, writing that the demographic change seen in Hazleton, Pa., which saw Hispanics go from a small minority to a majority over a 15-year period is "more change than human beings are designed to digest.
When Mitt Romney condemned then-candidate Donald Trump for his refusal to condemn the Ku Klux Klan, saying it was a "disqualifying and disgusting response... His coddling of repugnant bigotry is not in the character of America," Carlson criticized Romney. Carlson said, "Obama could have written" that
In September 2018, Carlson said that sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh demonstrated "the left's war on old white men", and suggested that there could be a race war in the United States.
wikipedia
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.5 |
I have to wonder why the number of followers is at all relevant. Trump does what he does, says what he says and inevitably it gets reported.
Perhaps Faith means followers like Cesar Sayoc. It’s about the only way it makes sense.
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