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« Reply #25 on: November 28, 2020, 12:47:46 AM »

The day when we have a president who doesn't behave like a tin-pot Central American warlord can't come soon enough.
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« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2020, 02:06:32 AM »

SirWoodbury is such a sad little man to find this “tough”
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« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2020, 06:17:38 AM »

I wish our media were more like their UK counterparts. 

I used to think like that. Then I moved to the UK. It's just as bad over here. Maybe worse because of the deference shown to upper class elitism.
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« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2020, 06:27:28 AM »

I wish our media were more like their UK counterparts. 

The influence of the right-wing press here is just as pernicious as that of Fox News in the US.
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« Reply #29 on: November 28, 2020, 04:33:33 PM »

Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump.  
It's infuriating, the MSM practically carried him throughout the primary season and the election campaign. Instead of confronting him on his flip-flopping on the China plague, fracking, Ukraine, his son taking advantage of vulnerable women, left-wing violence, warmongering, etc, they ask him what ice cream flavors he likes.

They're not real journalists, they are paid propagandists, tools for the neoliberal establishment and their psychotic plans.
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« Reply #30 on: November 28, 2020, 05:22:25 PM »

Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump.  
It's infuriating, the MSM practically carried him throughout the primary season and the election campaign. Instead of confronting him on his flip-flopping on the China plague, fracking, Ukraine, his son taking advantage of vulnerable women, left-wing violence, warmongering, etc, they ask him what ice cream flavors he likes.

They're not real journalists, they are paid propagandists, tools for the neoliberal establishment and their psychotic plans.

I'm going to put everything else aside for a moment and just comment on you using the term "China plague."  You understand that that is racist rhetoric that causes immense harm to Chinese Americans, right? 

If your answer is "no it doesn't," then you're either stupid, ignorant, or both.
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« Reply #31 on: November 28, 2020, 05:28:41 PM »


Reminds me of this spring when people would always say it’s good for Trump whenever something happened LOL
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« Reply #32 on: November 28, 2020, 06:18:32 PM »

Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump. 
It's infuriating, the MSM practically carried him throughout the primary season and the election campaign. Instead of confronting him on his flip-flopping on the China plague, fracking, Ukraine, his son taking advantage of vulnerable women, left-wing violence, warmongering, etc, they ask him what ice cream flavors he likes.

They're not real journalists, they are paid propagandists, tools for the neoliberal establishment and their psychotic plans.

I'm going to put everything else aside for a moment and just comment on you using the term "China plague."  You understand that that is racist rhetoric that causes immense harm to Chinese Americans, right? 

If your answer is "no it doesn't," then you're either stupid, ignorant, or both.
This kind of dovetails into what the coronavirus should be called. China plague, in the way Trump uses it, is absolutely racist rhetoric. But at the same time, Covid is hardly any better. It's highly impersonal scientific terminology that fails to capture how personal the virus has been for so many people.
Ebola was a placename-driven name that didn't tar a single place with association with a bad virus, while simultaneously being just about descriptive enough.
From wiki:
"In 1976, Ebola virus (EBOV) was first identified in Yambuku, 111 kilometers (69 mi) from the Ebola River, but Peter Piot decided to name it after the river so that the town would not be associated with the disease's stigma.[5] Thus, the river is eponymous to the terms Ebola virus, Ebolavirus, and Ebola virus disease (usually referred to as simply "Ebola").[6]"
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« Reply #33 on: November 28, 2020, 06:34:48 PM »

Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump.  

This is perhaps one of the most infuriating fallacies employed by conservatives: the idea that the media needs to treat every politician with equivalent shares of positive and critical coverage, regardless of individual merit. Donald Trump and Joe Biden do not have the same records or the same behaviors. If Joe Biden was refusing to acknowledge the results of an entirely legitimate election, the media would "treat Biden this way." But he isn't. The reason that Donald Trump has been one of the most intensely scrutinized politicians in American history by the media (aside from Fox and OAN) is because he is objectively the least honest; there is simply no comparison between Trump and Biden in this regard. If most of the noteworthy things you do are negative, most of the questions and coverage you get are going to be negative.

Also, how are the questions in the video remotely "tough"? They're asking about an extremely basic question that past presidents have never had an issue answering; actually, it's an extremely basic question that has never even needed to be asked before. It's only an issue because Trump is making it one.
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« Reply #34 on: November 28, 2020, 06:54:02 PM »

Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump.  
It's infuriating, the MSM practically carried him throughout the primary season and the election campaign. Instead of confronting him on his flip-flopping on the China plague, fracking, Ukraine, his son taking advantage of vulnerable women, left-wing violence, warmongering, etc, they ask him what ice cream flavors he likes.

They're not real journalists, they are paid propagandists, tools for the neoliberal establishment and their psychotic plans.

I'm going to put everything else aside for a moment and just comment on you using the term "China plague."  You understand that that is racist rhetoric that causes immense harm to Chinese Americans, right?  

If your answer is "no it doesn't," then you're either stupid, ignorant, or both.
This kind of dovetails into what the coronavirus should be called. China plague, in the way Trump uses it, is absolutely racist rhetoric. But at the same time, Covid is hardly any better. It's highly impersonal scientific terminology that fails to capture how personal the virus has been for so many people.
Ebola was a placename-driven name that didn't tar a single place with association with a bad virus, while simultaneously being just about descriptive enough.
From wiki:
"In 1976, Ebola virus (EBOV) was first identified in Yambuku, 111 kilometers (69 mi) from the Ebola River, but Peter Piot decided to name it after the river so that the town would not be associated with the disease's stigma.[5] Thus, the river is eponymous to the terms Ebola virus, Ebolavirus, and Ebola virus disease (usually referred to as simply "Ebola").[6]"

Huh? Covid isn’t inherently racist, that automatically makes it more than just “hardly any better.”
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« Reply #35 on: November 28, 2020, 09:26:49 PM »

Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump.  
It's infuriating, the MSM practically carried him throughout the primary season and the election campaign. Instead of confronting him on his flip-flopping on the China plague, fracking, Ukraine, his son taking advantage of vulnerable women, left-wing violence, warmongering, etc, they ask him what ice cream flavors he likes.

They're not real journalists, they are paid propagandists, tools for the neoliberal establishment and their psychotic plans.

I'm going to put everything else aside for a moment and just comment on you using the term "China plague."  You understand that that is racist rhetoric that causes immense harm to Chinese Americans, right? 

If your answer is "no it doesn't," then you're either stupid, ignorant, or both.

COVID-19 came from China.  That fact should not be overlooked.  Never.  That fact should also not be forgotten.  China is responsible for COVID-19, and there should be no letting them off the hook, rhetorically or otherwise.

China ought to be named and blamed early and often on COVID-19.
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« Reply #36 on: November 28, 2020, 09:35:05 PM »

Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump.  
It's infuriating, the MSM practically carried him throughout the primary season and the election campaign. Instead of confronting him on his flip-flopping on the China plague, fracking, Ukraine, his son taking advantage of vulnerable women, left-wing violence, warmongering, etc, they ask him what ice cream flavors he likes.

They're not real journalists, they are paid propagandists, tools for the neoliberal establishment and their psychotic plans.

I'm going to put everything else aside for a moment and just comment on you using the term "China plague."  You understand that that is racist rhetoric that causes immense harm to Chinese Americans, right? 

If your answer is "no it doesn't," then you're either stupid, ignorant, or both.

COVID-19 came from China.  That fact should not be overlooked.  Never.  That fact should also not be forgotten.  China is responsible for COVID-19, and there should be no letting them off the hook, rhetorically or otherwise.

China ought to be named and blamed early and often on COVID-19.

It's a disease that happened to get out of control within an arbitrary geographic grouping. It could just as easily have arisen in another country, maybe even in US factory farms. It doesn't know boundaries and doesn't discriminate based on nationality. In fact, China's government seems more competent than most Western ones especially the US one based on the contrasting death tolls, so it would be odd to name it after a country where it is less prevalent. The exact timeline of the spread is unclear-what is the latest point it could have been contained and could Italy have prevented it becoming a full-blown pandemic? At the very least, the actions of other governments helped accelerate its spread around the globe. Ultimately, making a point about the virus' name is harmful because it encourages racism, and imo this is an ignorant, counter-productive nationalist game-not worth playing.
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« Reply #37 on: November 28, 2020, 09:49:29 PM »
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Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump.  
It's infuriating, the MSM practically carried him throughout the primary season and the election campaign. Instead of confronting him on his flip-flopping on the China plague, fracking, Ukraine, his son taking advantage of vulnerable women, left-wing violence, warmongering, etc, they ask him what ice cream flavors he likes.

They're not real journalists, they are paid propagandists, tools for the neoliberal establishment and their psychotic plans.

I'm going to put everything else aside for a moment and just comment on you using the term "China plague."  You understand that that is racist rhetoric that causes immense harm to Chinese Americans, right?  

If your answer is "no it doesn't," then you're either stupid, ignorant, or both.

COVID-19 came from China.  That fact should not be overlooked.  Never.  That fact should also not be forgotten.  China is responsible for COVID-19, and there should be no letting them off the hook, rhetorically or otherwise.

China ought to be named and blamed early and often on COVID-19.

You can't even prove that. COVID-19 may have been spreading in Bay Area since late 2019. Study Found Traces of Coronavirus in Europe in March 2019. The virus was discovered in Wuhan but it's entirely possible the virus was brought there from some other country.

In any case, China's coronavirus response is a model for the world to show that the virus can be eradicated and that life and the economy can be brought back to normal. Meanwhile, the United States is a model to show that with inept, feckless leadership, all the economic and scientific power in the world cannot keep the virus from spreading out of control, killing people and ruining the economy. We should call the coronavirus the Trump Virus since he is responsible for making the USA the coronavirus capital of the world.
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« Reply #38 on: November 28, 2020, 10:36:30 PM »

Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump.  
It's infuriating, the MSM practically carried him throughout the primary season and the election campaign. Instead of confronting him on his flip-flopping on the China plague, fracking, Ukraine, his son taking advantage of vulnerable women, left-wing violence, warmongering, etc, they ask him what ice cream flavors he likes.

They're not real journalists, they are paid propagandists, tools for the neoliberal establishment and their psychotic plans.

I'm going to put everything else aside for a moment and just comment on you using the term "China plague."  You understand that that is racist rhetoric that causes immense harm to Chinese Americans, right?  

If your answer is "no it doesn't," then you're either stupid, ignorant, or both.

COVID-19 came from China.  That fact should not be overlooked.  Never.  That fact should also not be forgotten.  China is responsible for COVID-19, and there should be no letting them off the hook, rhetorically or otherwise.

China ought to be named and blamed early and often on COVID-19.

Let's also not forget that the rhetoric of the "China virus" has led to discrimination, harassment, and hate crimes against Asian Americans.  Are you denying this reality?  Or are you comfortable with it?

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« Reply #39 on: November 28, 2020, 11:50:24 PM »

Notice no one treats Biden this way.  He's not had a tough or adversarial question for the entire campaign.

Good for Trump.  
It's infuriating, the MSM practically carried him throughout the primary season and the election campaign. Instead of confronting him on his flip-flopping on the China plague, fracking, Ukraine, his son taking advantage of vulnerable women, left-wing violence, warmongering, etc, they ask him what ice cream flavors he likes.

They're not real journalists, they are paid propagandists, tools for the neoliberal establishment and their psychotic plans.

I'm going to put everything else aside for a moment and just comment on you using the term "China plague."  You understand that that is racist rhetoric that causes immense harm to Chinese Americans, right? 

If your answer is "no it doesn't," then you're either stupid, ignorant, or both.

COVID-19 came from China.  That fact should not be overlooked.  Never.  That fact should also not be forgotten.  China is responsible for COVID-19, and there should be no letting them off the hook, rhetorically or otherwise.

China ought to be named and blamed early and often on COVID-19.

People like you probably would advocate for atomic warfare against China.
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« Reply #40 on: November 29, 2020, 01:36:16 AM »

Bigger loser, Trump or sir Woodbury? Genuine question.
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« Reply #41 on: November 29, 2020, 02:39:34 AM »

Bigger loser, Trump or sir Woodbury? Genuine question.

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