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A conclusion you have come to simply because of your ingrained bias against any establishment democrat politician. Also a conclusion that you would rant and scream about if anyone said something similar about Trump without absolute proof, let alone without any evidence except an assumption. And you can lie all you want. Hunter said he probably got the job because he was a Biden, not that Joe Biden did or said anything to make it happen. There is an enormous difference. In the meantime, with all of the direct, undeniable nepotism pervading the Trump administration your comment has been.... nada.

You just can't help lying, can you? I directly addressed what you said. The reply you gave is nothing but deflection. If you're unable defend posting pro-Trump conspiracy theories you're not going to make it any better by taking your frustration out on me.

A cartoon is not a photograph, none of the details are accidental. The sign was put there on purpose, for a reason - not to mention it matches your stated position. By the way, what did you take out of all the stories about Trump's insane bleach and UV suggestions? You fixated on one small detail of the coverage that didn't even exist. Unlike yours, my observation is not a lie.

Hmm, so Biden lied about his University record - while Trump stole money from thousands of people by selling an entire 'University' that was a lie. Decisions, decisions...

Lol, so you're still pushing Trump's baseless Biden/Ukraine conspiracy theory... but you're not biased.

Oh my word.

Probably based off studies with racial bias. Powder cocaine is also extremely addictive and comes with various chronic side effects. Crack will also fuck up your lungs, but that's more down to the physical process of smoking than differences in the chemical. And you think normal cocaine is fine for them? But again, the concern over crack babies was due to flawed, racially biased studies that overlooked many other factors like malnutrition in the poor, black mothers. The following hype over crack babies specifically and not cocaine babies in general was also for sure racially biased. It was also highly sensationalised. From Wiki: Many recall that "crack babies", or babies born to mothers who used crack cocaine while pregnant, were at one time written off by many as a lost generation. They were predicted to suffer from severe, irreversible damage, including reduced intelligence and social skills. It was later found that this was a gross exaggeration. However, the fact that most of these children appear normal should not be over-interpreted as indicating that there is no cause for concern. Using sophisticated technologies, scientists are now finding that exposure to cocaine during fetal development may lead to subtle, yet significant, later deficits in some children, including deficits in some aspects of cognitive performance, information-processing, and attention to tasks—abilities that are important for success in school. The over-criminalisation of crack vs powder was absolutely driven by racism. And it's not just that, the exact same thing is happening all over again with opioid abuse vs heroin use, both in law and in public opinion. From the abstract of The war on drugs that wasn't "A content analysis of 100 popular press articles from 2001 and 2011 in which half describe heroin users and half describe prescription opioid users revealed a consistent contrast between criminalized urban black and Latino heroin injectors with sympathetic portrayals of suburban white prescription opioid users. Media coverage of the suburban and rural opioid “epidemic” of the 2000s helped draw a symbolic, and then legal, distinction between (urban) heroin addiction and (suburban and rural) prescription opioid addiction that is reminiscent of the legal distinction between crack cocaine and powder cocaine of the 1980s and 90s. This distinction reinforces the racialized deployment of the War on Drugs and is sustained by the lack of explicit discussion of race in the service of “color blind ideology.”... ...Arising in tandem with, rather than in tension with, the official “War on Drugs” and its mass incarceration of blacks and Latinos, white opioid images have helped to carve out a separate space for white opioid use in the popular American imagination, one that leads to racially stratified therapeutic intervention and works to further insulate white communities from black and brown drug threats, leaving intact law enforcement crackdowns on black and brown urban residents in the name of public safety.... ...In this sense, the popular press is helping to create a form of narcotic apartheid that is inscribed not only on divergent narratives of the human qualities, family, and community lives of white compared to black or brown addicted people, but that is also inscribed on racially divergent legal codes and local, State and Federal policies. In this way, media coverage of the suburban and rural opioid “epidemic” of the 2000s helped to draw a symbolic, and then a legal, distinction between (urban) heroin addiction and (suburban and rural) prescription opioid addiction (even after its progression to heroin addiction) that is reminiscent of the legal distinction between crack cocaine and powder cocaine of the 1980s-90s" I've been trying and failing for a while to find an interview with one of the creators of 'The Wire' who was a longtime Baltimore PD detective where he talks about crime stats, and how far north of 90% of people who were incarcerated for possession charges in Baltimore were black. He was asking are we saying that white Baltimore doesn't have a drug problem? That the suburbs don't have a drug problem? Because that's insane, of course there are a huge number of recreational and hardcore drug users there. The disparity in incarceration is a disparity in enforcement.

Probably not in the way you think. The US and Canada have approximately the same percentage of people living in cities, but with Canada's population much more skewed into a few major cities. Well over 30% of Canada's population is contained by its 3 biggest metro areas, for the USA it's 13%. Imagine where the US's figures might be today if New York and LA were 3 times as populous as they are. As for Canada's mean population density, that doesn't really matter. The empty spaces are so empty that there aren't enough people in them to be meaningfully skewing the numbers even if they're all completely safe from infection.

Wouldn't it be nice if the misinformation you spout due to your partisan bias would include consideration of the effect of the publics willingness to follow rules which their leader is telling them are pointless rules that were enacted by their political enemies in order to falsely hype a hoax crisis?

And how does the Obama/Castro comparison help you do that? What altered posters, and what are those reasons? Are you saying it's the same thing to call out a comparison which exists as it is to deliberately falsify evidence in order to create a comparison to call out?

Why is that a problem? What makes you think that is the case? 1) Like another thing that wasn't done by the NYT? 2) CBS fired or forced out Dan Rather and the 4 senior producers on the show, thus demonstrating that, like the NYT, they do have journalistic integrity. 3) Why do you think this is like that?

Why, when I'm here? ?? Not everyone feels the need to run around with a zillion screen names. You should stop projecting.

And it sounds like so far the PD is covering for them. In addition to blaming the protestors for a situation it sounds very likely that the police in fact instigated and escalated. " Police maintain it was the protesters who started the violence by jumping on an unmarked police vehicle stationed at the mouth of a public parking garage around 6:50 p.m. Officer Stylianee Hayes, who was driving the black 2019 Toyota Camry, felt her “life was in imminent danger,” according to her official incident report. She said she was so worried for her safety that she did not turn on her body camera. “She came over the radio screaming for help. She was being surrounded,” Maglione, the chief, told the Herald a few days after the incident. A nearby officer on a motorcycle who was present at the moment Hayes called for help did not make an emergency call of his own. None of the hours of body camera footage released by police, nor the more than 100 photos and videos taken by photographers on the scene and reviewed by the Herald, show anyone touching Hayes’ vehicle. Nor was Hayes’ 6:51 p.m. call for backup the emergency distress call of a terrified officer described by Maglione and dozens of officers in sworn incident reports. ”

And Patton, of all the Generals and Admirals to choose from? Somehow I don't think Trump really understood the film.

That doesn't seem fair, he's clearly sooooo progressive and not at all racist! "Santos challenged the man, asking if he followed her because she's black. 'I don’t know what color you are… what color are you?' the white man replied. "

Even that is an overstatement. There are many US police departments without any dedicated Internal Affairs division.

Perfect

Also, pollsters don't just sit around twiddling their thumbs in between elections. Last election cycle was a bit of a perfect storm in terms of a highly unconventional campaign and candidate, the drastic rise in social media influence and the changing ways in which people communicate and are contactable by pollsters. But the major polling companies all have a product to sell and that product is only worth something if it works. They'll have spent the last 4 years analysing what went wrong and doing their best to fix it this time round. Also, recall that the election before last how convinced all the Republicans were that the polls had got it wrong and they were actually a shoo in? That time the pollsters were proved absolutely right. So last time they got caught out, it doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing.

Ok. And?

Yet another thing you post that is objectively untrue. Like, congratulations on knowing how to spell and all, but you'd be a lot better off if you knew how to research, or at least bullshit filter.

And the only reason he claims George Will has pivoted to the far left is because George Will is critical of Trump. But Turtlespeed isn't a defender of Trump, no way - what could possibly make anyone think that?

You seem to be confused on a number of issues. First, Buzzfeed published the Steele dossier. Buzzfeed is not the New York Times, nor is it part of the same company or ownership structure. Second, the Steele dossier and the Russia collusion story are not the same thing, and you can't treat the two as completely interchangeable. Did you need to do that because you mispelled something? Be honest now

As one example, the LAPD gets 50% of the municipal budget of LA. How much money do those programs get? Are they? The US social welfare system is terrible compared to many other developed nations, and your policing and incarceration system is massively turbocharged compared to any other nation, period. If something is making the problem worse, what do you think it is? And that is exactly what is lacking. Where is the hand up?

A) The NYT has excellent journalistic credibility. You're simply too biased to know real news if it smacked you in the face and ran off with your wife. B ) What was congress briefed on if the intel doesn't exist? https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/nancy-pelosi-demands-briefing-russian-bounties-344219

Except you constantly call out legitimate criticism of Trump as hate, you lie about what people say in order to portray it as hateful, and you deny the facts about what Trump is doing in order to argue against people who point out those facts. You've gone so far as to state that even when Trump publically lies, even when his policies are flawed and even when those flaws lead to real harm... we should still assume that at least he meant well and it's more important to give him credit for that. You are without a doubt his most vocal cheerleader on this forum. If you claim that doesn't reflect how you really feel, then it's on you to vote honestly. Errrrm, you realise the Castro Viva poster is a deliberate copy of the Obama Hope poster, right? It correlates because it absolutely is supposed to correlate. Let me again express my great surprise that you manage to find an example that illustrates the exact opposite of the point you attempt to make.