PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on February 10, 2021, 07:20:13 AM
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https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-impeachment-trial-starts-biden-democrat-agenda-crashes-reality
A month ago, Team Biden and its Democrat allies in Congress had a heady plan to appease their liberal base.
Impeach Donald Trump a second time, alleging he incited the Capitol riots. Blast out COVID-19 vaccines, and pass another stimulus. Impose climate policies. And raise the minimum wage nationally to $15 an hour.
Just a few short weeks into Joe Biden's presidency, those liberal ambitions have crashed into stark economic and political realities as Trump's trial readies to open Tuesday in the Senate.
Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO that spent millions to get Biden elected, excoriated the new president's climate policies this past weekend for erasing thousands of well-paying union jobs with the shutdown of the Keystone pipeline from Canada.
Gas prices, which hit the working class hard, are showing signs of creeping up.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office warned Monday that the Democrats' plan to impose the $15-an-hour minimum wage would cost 1.4 million jobs, adding to an already uncomfortably high unemployment level.
A new poll by Just the News added to the red flags Monday, showing a solid majority of Americans believed raising the minimum wage would be a job killer.
Twenty days into his presidency, Biden's purported hopes for a bipartisan COVID stimulus bill foundered for lack of Republican buy-in. And now even some Democrats, like former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, are questioning whether the current $1.9 trillion price tag is too much.
Current Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also warned that inflation may soon rear its ugly head with all of the government's deficit spending, saying it was a "risk" of the Biden stimulus plan.
Meanwhile, talk of rapidly vaccinating Americans slammed into the reality of supply shortages and highly disorganized local health care systems, as well as fears that new variants of the coronavirus are poised to create long-term challenges.
And the emotionally charged case that Trump incited the Capitol riot with his Jan. 6 speech, has developed deep cracks. Less than a half dozen Republicans have shown any interest in conviction as the facts increasingly show the riot was not spontaneous but rather planned for days and weeks with fund-raising, training, and combat threats.
Even the former Capitol Police chief has weighed in with a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying the attacks exhibited a "high level of coordination," undercutting the Democrats' spontaneous incitement narrative even further.
The likelihood of Trump's conviction has waned as the premeditation evidence mounts, and now Democrats once gleeful they could end the 45th president's ability to ever hold office again are now pressing to get the trial over quickly as acquittal seems assured.
"It's not clear to me that there is any evidence that will change anyone's mind," Hawaii's Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz told Politico.
Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, often an opponent of Trump, acknowledged the obvious, observing, "Both sides would kind of like to wrap it up fairly quickly."
The Senate trial will start Tuesday with a debate over whether the event is even constitutional with Chief Justice John Roberts refusing to preside, Trump already out of office, and a legitimate debate over whether Trump's speech was protected "free speech" as Democratic law professor John Turley has argued.
Once a dream of Democrats, the trial is feeling more like a burden to them as other elements pose obstacles and challenges to the Biden agenda.
Even Biden himself has little interest in watching the trial, his chief spokeswoman said Monday. "I think it's clear from his schedule and from his intention that he will not spend too much time watching the proceedings," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
The last few weeks recall the old adage that in Washington it is a lot easier to say what you are going to do rather than doing it.
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Everything the Democrats do crashes and burns because they base their actions on emotions, optics, idealism, fake science, political agendas, everything but facts and reality.
The only thing that worked was rigging the election and that only worked because they got the gift of covid and Fauci.
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Everything the Democrats do crashes and burns because they base their actions on emotions, optics, idealism, fake science, political agendas, everything but facts and reality.
The only thing that worked was rigging the election and that only worked because they got the gift of covid and Fauci.
Actually, the reason they succeeded with the election rigging was they had no opposition from the republicans and the DC establishment.
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Everything the Democrats do crashes and burns because they base their actions on emotions, optics, idealism, fake science, political agendas, everything but facts and reality.
The only thing that worked was rigging the election and that only worked because they got the gift of covid and Fauci.
That was no gift. IMHO covid was released per pact between China and the left, both knowing it would help eradicate Trump, and they knew they could count on firmly entrenched lefty Fauci.
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Actually, the reason they succeeded with the election rigging was they had no opposition from the republicans and the DC establishment.
That too. It’s like an airplane crash with the links in a chain theory. A lot had to happen, including the conspiracy they bragged about in Time magazine. If any of these things hadn’t happened Trump would be President today like the voters wanted.
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That was no gift. IMHO covid was released per pact between China and the left, both knowing it would help eradicate Trump, and they knew they could count on firmly entrenched lefty Fauci.
I’m not convinced the release was deliberate. I’m not convinced it wasn’t either, I’m reserving my opinion of that. Either way it was sure utilized and that part was deliberate.
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Everything the Democrats do crashes and burns because they base their actions on emotions, optics, idealism, fake science, political agendas, everything but facts and reality.
The only thing that worked was rigging the election and that only worked because they got the gift of covid and Fauci.
The gift of Covid, Fauci, the MEDIA, Tech, Social Media, foreign entities and Democrat Governors and Mayors nationwide.
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I’m not convinced the release was deliberate. I’m not convinced it wasn’t either, I’m reserving my opinion of that. Either way it was sure utilized and that part was deliberate.
I believe the confluence of circumstances was far too convenient to be chance.
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I believe the confluence of circumstances was far too convenient to be chance.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/2017-dr-fauci-predicted-a-pandemic-under-trump/vi-BB14h4x7
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All circumstantial.
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Actually, the reason they succeeded with the election rigging was they had no opposition from the republicans and the DC establishment.
And the willing accomplices in the media. Within a day or two I started to read or hear the words “false, lies, conspiracy theory” and other words meant to IMMEDIATELY discredit efforts to get to the bottom of the election fraud, implicate the seekers of the truth, and discredit and disqualify Trump supporters from participating in public discourse about the issue. I’ve never seen anything like it.
I read Orwell’s 1984 in high school. Doublethink, blackwhite, Ministry of Truth, Nationalism, Thought Police, thoughtcrime. All concepts in a work of fiction, or so we thought.
The powerful are now using 1984 as a checklist.
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And the willing accomplices in the media. Within a day or two I started to read or hear the words “false, lies, conspiracy theory” and other words meant to IMMEDIATELY discredit efforts to get to the bottom of the election fraud, implicate the seekers of the truth, and discredit and disqualify Trump supporters from participating in public discourse about the issue. I’ve never seen anything like it.
I read Orwell’s 1984 in high school. Doublethink, blackwhite, Ministry of Truth, Nationalism, Thought Police, thoughtcrime. All concepts in a work of fiction, or so we thought.
The powerful are now using 1984 as a checklist.
Exactly. I keep seeing the term “baseless allegations of fraud” in supposed objective journalism. You never saw this before now. You would see “allegations” and everyone knew that the very definition of allegations is claims as yet unproven. “Baseless allegations” doesn’t even make any sense. For any allegation there is some reason it is made, that is the base. Even if it turns out to be flimsy. And the reasons the fraud allegations were made are far from flimsy.
So there is plenty of “base” to make these allegations. Doesn’t mean they will be proven or disproven, you have to explore the evidence. But the journalists make a pre-judgment on their own that the allegations are false without having examined any evidence and then claim there is no “base” for them.
Journalism doesn’t exist anymore. Just a bunch of propaganda manufacturers.
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Exactly. I keep seeing the term “baseless allegations of fraud” in supposed objective journalism. You never saw this before now. You would see “allegations” and everyone knew that the very definition of allegations is claims as yet unproven. “Baseless allegations” doesn’t even make any sense. For any allegation there is some reason it is made, that is the base. Even if it turns out to be flimsy. And the reasons the fraud allegations were made are far from flimsy.
So there is plenty of “base” to make these allegations. Doesn’t mean they will be proven or disproven, you have to explore the evidence. But the journalists make a pre-judgment on their own that the allegations are false without having examined any evidence and then claim there is no “base” for them.
Journalism doesn’t exist anymore. Just a bunch of propaganda manufacturers.
You know that the reason to prefix “baseless” is to hope the audience will assume it is synonymous with “false” so they don’t actually have to use the word “false”.
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You know that the reason to prefix “baseless” is to hope the audience will assume it is synonymous with “false” so they don’t actually have to use the word “false”.
The media has no problem freely using the word false when talking about Trump. I routinely read in front page articles "Trump falsely claimed". That is followed closely by "Trump said, without evidence . . ." I always wonder if they are implicating that he had no evidence, or he didn't provide evidence, but regardless, the phrase "Trump said without evidence" is made solely to make people believe he had no evidence.
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You know that the reason to prefix “baseless” is to hope the audience will assume it is synonymous with “false” so they don’t actually have to use the word “false”.
The real reason is to train their communist democrat slaves to simply dismiss any serious discussion by brainwashing baseless into their empty heads.
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The media has no problem freely using the word false when talking about Trump. I routinely read in front page articles "Trump falsely claimed". That is followed closely by "Trump said, without evidence . . ." I always wonder if they are implicating that he had no evidence, or he didn't provide evidence, but regardless, the phrase "Trump said without evidence" is made solely to make people believe he had no evidence.
The media isn’t implying anything. They are just focusing on conditioning all of us to separate ourselves from Trump and conservative thought. They’ve been doing it for 5 years.
Reflexively, I will bet literally 95% of liberals will claim, with the confidence of believing they have facts on their side, they Trump is racist. White liberals, black liberals, brown liberals and Asian liberals ALL say it. Yet, when pressed for examples, they cannot come up with anything other than “calling Mexicans ‘criminals and rapists’” (which is completely false) or claiming he sided with white supremacists in Charlottesville (which is also completely false). That’s it. They have NOTHING.
Yet that belief is so ubiquitous that when WE deny that he’s racist, that casts US as RACISTS.