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Who do you hope wins the US Election? |
Trump |
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Don't Care |
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21% |
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Wonka
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I was thinking of putting a heap of cash on Biden the other day because I think he's a certainty to win the popular vote, but I'm wary about Trump's ability to steal it through a combination of: voter suppression, disqualifying postal votes & contesting the result before the conservative Supreme Court. |
Check SportsBet's terms and conditions re. contesting the result. |
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Tannin
Can't remember
Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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roar wrote: | My example had nothing to do with editing due to journalistic standards. He is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist that was been censored due to writing an article questioning the Biden issues.
Of course, that won't interest you because you seem to believe any approach used to battle Trump is fair, which is exactly the point we are making. |
Rubbish. Utter, unqualified transparent rubbish.
The point here is that there is no credible evidence as regards the allegations coming out of the Trump camp. They are just unsupported claims, made by known serial liars.
I'd sooner believe the babies overboard one. It wasn't quite so obviously a lie.
No credible newspaper would print that rubbish. (Murdoch did print it, which speaks for itself really.) _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Credible news sources are supposed to report news, not censor it.
By all means add caveats if they want around validity, but news is supposed to inform not shape opinion or censor stuff. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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roar
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I can scream "rubbish", too, but I don't because I realise it means nothing without substantiation, no matter how eloquent the rant.
Fact remains that a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has resigned from a media source - one he started to allow integrity of reportage and editorial independence - because the editors there wanted to censor his article because it was discussing issues with the Biden camp.
Unfortunately this is not an isolated case but rather, another quality journalist being pushed out of a media source due to partisan politics. We now live in a world where sides are picked and there is no dissension allowed within the "team" because the other side are considered "far worse', therefore cheating is allowed. _________________ kill for collingwood! |
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Tannin
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The fact remains that there is no credible evidence to support that muckraking. Stories that do not satisfy the basic requirements of journalistic honesty and ethics are not printed by any reputable paper, and rightly so.
If there was actual evidence, any hint of anything to see other than rumours started by Trump cronies - one of them already facing trial for fraud - then sure, print it. But there isn't. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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So what can we make of the Steele dossier being reported on uncritically by quality newspapers, along with the other preposterous claims that came out around Russiagate (that Trump was a Russian agent, etc.)? All of that stuff was bogus and poorly sourced, but it slipped past the editors because it served a political agenda they were sympathetic to. (And let’s not even get started on these same outlets’ utter credulity when it came to reporting on intelligence claims about Saddam’s WMDs eighteen years ago.) _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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roar
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There are heaps of examples, David, but it's no use as they won't accept anything that isn't bashing the "right". _________________ kill for collingwood! |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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If there's one thing that genuinely puzzles me about Trump, it's his relationship with Fauci. His supporters seem to despise him for some indecipherable reason, and yet Trump – who has rarely seemed averse to giving other officials their marching orders – seems half the time insistent on backing him and half the time willing to play into the animosity. Does he secretly realise that his COVID-19 response would be an even bigger shambles if Fauci wasn't there, but also resent the fact that Fauci is smarter than him, or something?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/02/donald-trump-threatens-to-fire-anthony-fauci-after-us-election
Either way, I look forward to (hopefully) no longer having to think or care about these questions in 48 hours. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Pi
Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Location: SA
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Tannin
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His campaign manager, and all of the other sane staff members left (if any), won't let him sack Fauci because they know that it would cost a heap of votes. But Trump hates Fauci with a real fury. Fauci does science, he does facts and he does evidence - all things Trump cannot abide - and he is a living, breathing, everyday reminder of how m,any Americans Trump has killed. Fauci's presence anywhere neat=r Trump is intolerable. Watch what happens after the election - there is a very good chance that Trump will fire him, regardless of the result.
The things the defeated Trump will do during the lame duck period don't bear thinking about. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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stui magpie
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That's a hell of a stutter. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
I dare you to try
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I do suspect a bit of bad faith on that site’s part – it’s clear to me that he said "international" and "pressure". Just not quite sure what the syllables in between were supposed to be! (As for whether it is actually a result of his speech impediment, I could actually buy that in this case.) _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Pi
Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Location: SA
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^ what; a journalist acting in bad faith? how dare you
Biden was never that bad, listen to his speeches from 30 years ago. Every time I listen to the video I hear something different. _________________ Pi = Infinite = Collingwood = Always
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David
I dare you to try
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Yes, I do think there's been a sharp decline in the last four years, no question. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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