Democratic Convention
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There really is no bursting of the right-wing bubble here... hell... can't even dent it. Time to stop investing so much time trying. Think I'll try the y'all's approach for a while. Won't make a difference, but is a real time saver...
- Create title
- post link
- sit back
- disparage any contrary post
- rinse and repeat
Just one, oon-going bit to wrap up with OBF... who has shown the audacity to actually question Trump on his own...
Snopes has little credibility with me:
Snopes.Com Runs Interference for the Democrat Convention
Remember all those American flags onstage during the first night of the Democrat convention?
Me neither. That Democrats are allergic to the bars and stripes isn’t really a surprise. That being said, however, they did scramble to toss up a few token shows of patriotism for the second night.
The first-night snub of Old Glory was not missed, and the move was widely panned.
According to the Daily Caller, however, myth-busting site, Snopes.com, rushed to do damage control and stop the internet reports of that America-less first night.
First, the facts. TheDC reported on Monday about the lack of visible American flags at day one of the convention. Several flags were briefly on stage for the national anthem and pledge of allegiance, at which point they were carried off stage, as the C-SPAN video for Monday clearly shows at the 35:40 mark. Even PolitiFact, which tends to lean to the left, noted that “when the color guard left, so did the physical flag.” After that point, the stage was devoid of any American flags for the remainder of day one.
As reported by TheDC, the DNC added flags to the stage for the second day of the convention — Tuesday, July 26. That same day, Snopes writer Dan Evon wrote a “fact-check” article declaring it “false” that: “No American flags were on display at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.”
Evon offered as proof A) a screenshot from PBS’ coverage of day one, taken during the pledge of allegiance — before the flags were removed — and
the below screenshot of C-SPAN’s day two coverage (visible at the 6:36 markhere) and claimed it was from day one of the convention. In fact, Mallory Weggemann — the paralympic swimmer who gave Tuesday’s pledge of allegiance — can be seen sitting in her wheelchair as the flag-bearers walk past her.Snopes apparently took several shots at pushing the false narrative of the Democrats’ show of Americana from the first night forward; all disproven.
Just keep that in mind when you’re searching for facts from Snopes. The information given may likely be colored by their political leanings, so proceed with caution.
Nite one had one on the right hand side of the stage... I know I saw it... before the controversy erupted. I even remember thinking it was under-illuminated. It was just outside the right edge of the DC photo in the originally posted article.
Nite two I saw more flags, 8 in all with 4 to each side of the stage. More by design or in reaction to the controversy? I don't know... but I do know that the number again grew Nite 3 and by nite four every delegate had one suggestion a progression in the number displayed as the convention wrapped itself in them ever more tightly.
OBF, I've enjoyed our exchanges. Keep on questioning...
There really is no bursting of the right-wing bubble here... hell... can't even dent it.
I'm shocked it took you this long to figure that out. Notice how some of your more insightful posts were willfully ignored? Let's be honest, these guys need woody,Chris and Cleve if not it would be the same circle jerk of 3-5 posters at most literally repeating the same stuff.
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Democratic Reverend: White Male Christians, Not Muslims, Should Apologize For Terrorism "It is clearly white male Christians that are doing this kind of violence.”
The Daily Caller reports that a religious leader said yesterday at the Democratic National Convention that white Christian males like himself should be the ones apologizing for terrorism, not his "Muslim friends." Speaking on a four-person panel to an audience of more than one hundred people, Rev. Ron Stief, the executive director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, said “I’m tired of my Muslim friends having to be the ones having to stand up and say,‘Hey we are not terrorists. It doesn’t have anything to do with our religion.'”
“If you look at the hate crimes that are being committed in this country and all the violence that is being done against Muslim people, Sikhs, folks of south Asian descent it is clearly white male Christians that are doing this kind of violence."He didn't provide any examples of "all the violence" he claims is being committed in this country against Muslims, Sikhs, and South Asians. Nor did he bother to explain why, if terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, the Muslims increasingly committing massacres in the United States, Europe and around the world proudly insist that it does, and can cite chapter and verse of the Quran as justification for their mayhem.
“If anybody needs to be apologizing for violence in this country it does need to be American white Christians,” he added.
No, if anybody needs to be apologizing for terroristic violence in this country and elsewhere it's those who claim allegiance to ISIS and shout "Allahu akbar" just prior to going on shooting sprees, ramming trucks into crowds, slitting the throats of Catholic priests at the altar, torturing and mutilating captives, setting off suicide bombs, hacking train passengers with axes, driving cars into pedestrians on sidewalks, and on and on. Christians and other innocents are the victims, not the perpetrators, of such incomprehensible evil, and owe no one an apology.
Referring to slavery and lynching in America's past, “all places where torturing was a key component of life for whites against African Americans,” Stief said, “If you go back in history you can double down on my claims ten times over.” Stief didn't explain what this has to do with Islamic terrorism or with violence against Muslims, Sikhs, and South Asians.
Of course, one doesn't have to go back into the past to find that slavery, lynching, and terrorism are still alive in well in many Muslim countries, but nowhere in Christian territories. But if Stief wants to go back in history, he will find 1400 years of examples of terrorism carried out in the name of Islam which, unlike the extremely rare modern instances of terrorism committed by American white male Christians, continues today.
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There really is no bursting of the right-wing bubble here... hell... can't even dent it.
I'm shocked it took you this long to figure that out. Notice how some of your more insightful posts were willfully ignored? Let's be honest, these guys need woody,Chris and Cleve if not it would be the same circle jerk of 3-5 posters at most literally repeating the same stuff.
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At least you're capable of embedding a .gif and crafting clever responses, I give you that.
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There really is no bursting of the right-wing bubble here... hell... can't even dent it.
I'm shocked it took you this long to figure that out. Notice how some of your more insightful posts were willfully ignored? Let's be honest, these guys need woody,Chris and Cleve if not it would be the same circle jerk of 3-5 posters at most literally repeating the same stuff.
I'm shocked it took you this long to figure that out. Notice how some of your more insightful posts were willfully ignored? Let's be honest, these guys need woody,Chris and Cleve if not it would be the same circle jerk of 3-5 posters at most literally repeating the same stuff.
This place is good for my filter bubble.
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Trump is truly shitposting his way to the white house
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Trump is truly shitposting his way to the white house
Trump is truly shitposting his way to the white house
Slick Willie and Hitlery haven't slept together in decades. He just wants back in the WH to get 20 y/o interns to use his Viagra with.
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I think bill is sick. I have nothing to back it up but I do think he is.
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I think bill is sick. I have nothing to back it up but I do think he is.
I think bill is sick. I have nothing to back it up but I do think he is.
It might be the new vegan diet he is on? Looks like he was caught taking a snooze while Hillary was speaking.
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His hands were shaking during his speech too
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Hypocrisy: Left Says It’s Okay When They Use Grieving Parents to Make Points, but Not the Right
Typical media bias...what is wrong when republicans do it is OK when the dems do it,
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Some good news for Trump:
CNN: Trump BEAT Hillary in ratings
CNN is reporting that Trump’s RNC speech beat Hillary’s DNC speech, with Trump pulling in two million more viewers than Hillary:
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I think bill is sick. I have nothing to back it up but I do think he is.
It might be the new vegan diet he is on? Looks like he was caught taking a snooze while Hillary was speaking.
It might be the new vegan diet he is on? Looks like he was caught taking a snooze while Hillary was speaking.
He's been on that diet for years. Its probably the only reason he's still alive. He was looking "very" frail about 3-4 years ago. My dad caught it right away cause some of his friends who had passed had the same look about them.
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Some good news for Trump:
CNN: Trump BEAT Hillary in ratings
CNN is reporting that Trump’s RNC speech beat Hillary’s DNC speech, with Trump pulling in two million more viewers than Hillary:
Some good news for Trump:
CNN: Trump BEAT Hillary in ratings
CNN is reporting that Trump’s RNC speech beat Hillary’s DNC speech, with Trump pulling in two million more viewers than Hillary:
Trump beats everybody in ratings
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And I'm betting that something will happen with ole Bill come October time.
Announcing some kind of terminal illness in something - help Hillary gain pity vote in the election.
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And I'm betting that something will happen with ole Bill come October time.
Announcing some kind of terminal illness in something - help Hillary gain pity vote in the election.
And I'm betting that something will happen with ole Bill come October time.
Announcing some kind of terminal illness in something - help Hillary gain pity vote in the election.
Ur really letting urself go ed
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Ur really letting urself go ed
I put nothing past the Clintons - it's reasonable speculation to think something's wrong with him given that Bill looks like he's gone to shit the last few years.
Shaking hands is an early sign of Parkinsons, but I believe Bill has denied that before.
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And I'm betting that something will happen with ole Bill come October time.
Announcing some kind of terminal illness in something - help Hillary gain pity vote in the election.
And I'm betting that something will happen with ole Bill come October time.
Announcing some kind of terminal illness in something - help Hillary gain pity vote in the election.
He has aged bad. Could be the genes, or could be something bad. Remember he had heart bypass surgery a few years ago. Not that that has anything to do to vote for the crooked bitch.
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