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CIA: Russia manipulated the election to install Trump

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by SamFisher, Dec 10, 2016.

  1. MojoMan

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    Trump easily got more media time than Hillary. What Trump said in his rallies drove both how the media covered him and Hillary.

    The media covered Trump more because of ... get this ... ratings. People were tuning in hear the next bat **** crazy thing he said or tweeted. And the media obliged. The media showed that they were more driven by the profit motif than the ideology motif.
     
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    Now, see??? Perfect example of insightful post. Crazier tRUMP talk, the more media coverage he gets.

    You know saying, "If It Bleeds, It Leads"? Same thing.

    tRUMP is political version of Shaqtin a Fool.
     
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    Sometimes, media step in w/ opinion. But only b/c tRUMP lie so bad, they have to.

    tRUMP caused FactCheck.org to open up new division.
     
  5. MojoMan

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    Trump played the media like a Stradivarius violin. For that matter, he is still doing it to this very day.

    But they hated him with a white-hot hatred that could not be contained. They were positively out of control with the vitriol and the coordinated attacks on the guy. Everyone saw it. Some on the left may continue to lie, deflect and deny, as usual. But virtually nobody is buying it.

    The media did literally everything they could think to do to help Hillary win, except extinguish their profit motive, which considering how precarious the finances of the traditional media are these days, was not an option for them. Trump knew that an positively used these people like a $3 w****. But that was not in any way a show of support by the media. \

    They wanted him to lose and lose big and did what they could to cause that to happen. But they failed, because people see clearly who these people are now and they do not trust them.
     
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    Love how you guys are 100% behind Heil Trump as your Furer. He can do no wrong. We must crush our enemies (the Liberals) by partnering with Russian autocrats to save America from democracy and a free press.

    I mean, do you guys see what you've become? I think you really don't care about democracy at all. You really are all about imprisoning liberals and attacking the enemies of Trump. Scary.
     
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  7. Space Ghost

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    You have become a bitter sour sport who disrespects the millions of people who died at the hands of an evil dictator. You're spiraling out of control. You really need to take a break. Seriously dude, quit comparing the genocide of the Jews to Trump.
     
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    All Obama and his administration can say everything that has happened is that it is a "19th century act in the 20th century".

    If you'd have said to me in 2012 that Obama's foreign policy is a failure, I would have scoffed. However, now, after the destruction of Libya, Iraq, and Syria; the hack of the DNC by Russia; the re-invasion of Iraq; the rise of ISIS; the continual quagmire-like state of Afghanistan; and China's aggression in the South China Sea - I have to say that his foreign policy has been a failure.
     
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    Another straw man, which is what your brain is - straw. Now where did I compare Trump to the holocaust. Why do you keep making things up? Do you like lying? Did you always lack character?

    You can keep your blind allegiance to a megalomaniac to came to power by stocking fears of an ethnic group.
     
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    Yikes, I don't even want to know the context of this comment.
     
  11. Cohete Rojo

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    Yeah, that's just weird. Hitler actually lost his election and was appointed to Chancellor due to the fanaticism of his followers. Thank goodness we don't have anything like that happening right now.

     
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    Um, you compared Trump to Hitler which is the same thing.
     
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    Heil Trump? Hitler usurped a democratic nation through fear mongering and propaganda. That's not a holocaust reference. But I guess folks like yourself and SG don;t have the ability to see things outside of an absolute perspective. By the way, Heil Trump is a commonly used expression by the alt-right.
     
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    THE VIDEO ILLIBERALS DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE!!!!!!!

     
  15. Space Ghost

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    except you wouldnt be comparing Trump to Hitler if he didnt commit his acts of genocide and war.

    Again, you have lost it.
     
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    Here's your original quote:

    Love how you guys are 100% behind Heil Trump as your Furer.


    How is "Furer" not a direct reference to Hitler?
     
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    Because it's misspelled? :confused::oops:
     
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    Such nonsense. No candidate ever got more free media time than Donald Trump. It's not even close. This is just more of the paranoid right wing logic that any media that isn't Sean Hannity'esque is liberal and biased.
     
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    Again, Heil Trump is a saying that is used by alt-right - it's not a Holocaust reference.

    And I don't think talking about Hitler's rise to power is synonymous with the Holocaust. I compare him to Hitler not because of the Holocaust, but because his rise to power is most akin to Hitler's in terms of how he manipulated the media and build a cult of personality.

    After all Hitler promised to, "make Germany great again" - sound familiar?

    I don't know why people can't have these discussions without freaking out about the Holocaust.
     
  20. Space Ghost

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    You have the worst case of revisionist history. Trump didnt have a rise to power. He ran for president and won. How did he manipulate the media when they colluded with the DNC against him?

    Your Hitler reference is terrible and not even in the ball park. Quit using Hitler as your goto reference for everything.
     

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