President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
I do know what you mean, and I think this whole bias against someone running for office because they served as a prosecutor is pretty idiotic.
If you thought about the qualities needed in a leader, especially in troubled times, you might realise they aren’t well represented in lawyers and in particular in prosecutors.
If you thought about the qualities needed in a leader, especially in troubled times, you might realise they aren’t well represented in lawyers and in particular in prosecutors.
That's quite the hard pivot from your regular criticisms of "Kopmala" for "locking people up".
Press freedom in the United States has hit a record low, according to the latest World Press Freedom Index.
Politico with a very strong article which was (I think?) meant to be an indictment of Trump admin efforts at changing the course of society but is the best recognition that change is actually happening, and in a direction that was long overdue.
Some highlights
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The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights focus of the past 60 plus years.
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Yes please. Yes
/Not since Reconstruction
It’s a much larger pivot than simply changing hiring practices and stopping so-called DEI efforts.
“This is certainly the biggest rollback of civil rights since Reconstruction,” according to Mark Updegrove, a presidential historian and CEO of the LBJ Foundation./
Yes. Give me more of that. Dismantle FDR and LBJ legacy in full, piece by piece, destroy it to dust and wipe it away.
Eliminate everything leftism accomplished since the 30s.
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Comparing Trump’s effort to purge the country of diversity efforts and deconstruct the Great Society legislation, Updegrove drew a parallel between now and the period beginning during Reconstruction when post-Civil War advances like the 13th Amendment were hurt by the rise of White Supremacy and Jim Crow.
“We’re seeing something very similar now, rolling back the advances of the 1960s,” he said. While those Great Society laws were meant to be temporary measures to create a more equal society, Updegrove said the US is not yet there. “So called anti-wokeism,” he argued, is “essentially permission to accept racism.”/
Inject me more of this. YES. there is a constitutional unalienable right to hate, to be disgusted by, to not be associated with, anyone for any reason including race for anyone in his private capacity.
There is a fundamental right to be a racist in your life unless you are a public employee or politician.
There is no right to be loved, tolerated, respected, hired, rented a house or anything else by anyone in the provate sector.
That's not america, that is not the west, liberalism is anti western an unnamerican when it intends to use the power of the state to force it's morals upon the population.
Liberalism in spirit IS part of the west and america. But only when it limits itself to try to convince people of it's merits.
The state should NOT be part AT ALL of prompting any ideology including liberal ideology.
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Cuts to Medicaid spending, higher education programs like Pell Grants, or Head Start programs would also hurt efforts at making the US a more equitable society
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Which is a feature and not a bug, yes please.
Of course you can, you always vote for conservative parties like the donkey party who blame black men for not wanting to vote for the person who loves locking them up. How could they be so stupid and ungrateful and not listen to highly educated libs such as yourself?
By the way, Kamala started a program to give people reduced jail sentences for marijuana offenses if they went through a drug program when she was a prosecutor, which was a hugely progressive policy at the time.
Press freedom in the United States has hit a record low, according to the latest World Press Freedom Index.
Have you checked how they measure it?
Do you think Obama destroyed press freedom in 2014?
If the answer is no, like it is for me, then why do you give any validity to a ******ed graph by a ******ed organization that claims Obama destroyed freedom of the press in the USA in his second term?
That's quite the hard pivot from your regular criticisms of "Kopmala" for "locking people up".
You just don’t get it do you?
Press freedom in the United States has hit a record low, according to the latest World Press Freedom Index.
You'd have to be wearing some impressive blinders to not see that the current administration is targeting media for reporting news they don't like. And I don't mean opinion pieces, punditry or selection bias... we're talking outlets doing fairly straightforward reporting.
That said, it is not like they started this trend. The Obama administration and first Trump administration also had an allergic reaction to a free press, which I am glad this graphic shows.
You'd have to be wearing some impressive blinders to not see that the current administration is targeting media for reporting news they don't like. And I don't mean opinion pieces, punditry or selection bias... we're talking outlets doing fairly straightforward reporting.That said, it is not like they started this trend. The Obama administration and first Trump administration a
Lol omg
Have you checked how they measure it?
Do you think Obama destroyed press freedom in 2014?
If the answer is no, like it is for me, then why do you give any validity to a ******ed graph by a ******ed organization that claims Obama destroyed freedom of the press in the USA in his second term?
I see you're not even going to acknowledge being completely ****ing wrong in your "NPR and CBS" post. Standard right wing behaviour.
I know reading is hard when you're in the middle of having an apoplectic fit about rAdIcAl leFtIsT mEdIa bIaS, but it's PBS, not CBS.
Well I answered about NPR, which you quite nicely dodged as usual and as expected.
CEO is an actual radical leftist with foam at her mouth like the most rabid activists
Well I answered about NPR, which you quite nicely dodged as usual and as expected.
CEO is an actual radical leftist with foam at her mouth like the most rabid activists
Right, so when I was talking about cutting funding to educational programmes, did you think I was talking about the political organisation NPR, or the educational organisation PBS?
Right, so when I was talking about cutting funding to educational programmes, did you think I was talking about the political organisation NPR, or the educational organisation PBS?
I wrote C wrongly instead of P, I know less about PBS than I do about NPR, but the idea itself of doing education with tv broadcasting (median tv viewer age is what, 69 today?) is beyond ******ed in this era.
And anything with the "education" label in the public federal sector is leftism anyway definitionally, a rightwing person wouldn't even start by thinking education is a matter for the federal government at all in any form (hence the "bur the DoE down").
But I don't have proof at hand PBS was radical leftist (I didn't claim that though).
Do you acknowledge NPR is a radical leftist cesspool from the top and that fully justifies burning it down and spreading the ashes ?
And we should all praise trump profusely for attempting that?
Have you checked how they measure it?
Do you think Obama destroyed press freedom in 2014?
If the answer is no, like it is for me, then why do you give any validity to a ******ed graph by a ******ed organization that claims Obama destroyed freedom of the press in the USA in his second term?
You seem to live under a very weird political rock.
The Obama administrations were infamous for their crusade against reporters during both his terms, using the Espionage act both to try and get reporters to give up their sources and also for indicting and going after their sources.
That you can't fathom how an organization dedicated to keeping the press free can be critical of both that and the current administration says a lot about your politics.
I wrote C wrongly instead of P, I know less about PBS than I do about NPR, but the idea itself of doing education with tv broadcasting (median tv viewer age is what, 69 today?) is beyond ******ed in this era.And anything with the "education" label in the public federal sector is leftism anyway definitionally, a rightwing person wouldn't even start by thinking education is a mat
I have no idea about NPR, but you're pretty much the last person on the planet whose judgement I'd trust as to what is "radical leftist" and what isn't.
And anything with the "education" label in the public federal sector is leftism anyway definitionally
Love it when these guys tell on themselves.
When you wrote this out, did you think anyone would actually believe it?
You seem to live under a very weird political rock.The Obama administrations were infamous for their crusade against reporters during both his terms, using the Espionage act both to try and get reporters to give up their sources and also for indicting and going after their sources. That you can't fathom how an organization dedicated to keeping the press free can be critical of
"In which I liked Obama more than the freaking leftists in the forum"
So you're just a reetard is your final answer?
Well I answered about NPR, which you quite nicely dodged as usual and as expected.
CEO is an actual radical leftist with foam at her mouth like the most rabid activists
If you were in any way capable of objectively evaluating your own writing, it might give you pause before accusing others of "foaming at the mouth" and being a "rabid" anything.
I’ll let chezlaw explain it to you. That should prove a suitably humbling experience.
Well, I'm not overly interested in which politicians the leftists of the forum like. To their merit, they aren't riddled with the hero-worship that has become such a big part of modern day "conservatism", so it is not really a topic that comes up a lot.
But no, persecuting journalists is not a good thing, regardless of which party or ideology you belong to. However imperfect the media might be, it isn't worse than a government without transparency.
Well, I'm not overly interested in which politicians the leftists of the forum like. To their merit, they aren't riddled with the hero-worship that has become such a big part of modern day "conservatism", so it is not really a topic that comes up a lot. But no, persecuting journalists is not a good thing, regardless of which party or ideology you belong to. However imperfect th
I mean you don't need to sanctify Obama to admit he was one of the most liked and successful politicians on the center left of the last 30+ years worldwide.
and no he didn't reduce press freedom, that's the point
