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4 hours ago, Tweety said:

I think the problem with Trump Derangement Syndrome not going away is that Trump himself is not going away.  He's still holding rallies like he's on the campaign trail.  He's still spewing rhetoric.  He still wants to keep himself front and center.  He's still spreading lies that he won the election, that inflation and the war in Ukraine never would have happened.   Politicians are too afraid to shut him up, and indeed far seeking his approval.

If he's shut up, maybe we'd forget out him.  

I think we're seeing some Biden Derangement Syndrome starting. "Biden's policies are causing blah blah blah and destroying America.(see Ms. Sanders Tweet above)  Biden caused gas prices, inflation, the war in Ukraine never would have happened under Trump, the border surge which never would have happened under Trump, and the rise in crime which never would have happened under Trump .  This is a very important message for the Republicans to get across as the mid-terms are approaching.  "Americans are hurting".  "Liberal cities aren't Safe".  "Gas prices out of control".  "Criminals at the border and infected covid carriers coming in and getting free stuff through an open border".  Blame Biden.  Fair enough he's the President.  

For a while it's fair to keep talking about a former President for a while into a new administration, sometime we have to stop.  We did it with Bush, it was always "well you weren't upset when Bush did....".   We did it with Obama and there were people that said "when are you going to stop giving Obama credit for handing Trump a good economy and give Trump credit for the economy".  I think about a year in while it might be fair to see how Trump set us up for our current situation, it's also time to stop talking about him ever single time a topic come ups and look at what Biden is and isn't doing.  

At the end of the day my opinion is that if Trump is not going away he's a target and deserves to be talked about it.  

No, it's not fair to blame the president in office just because they happen to be the person in the hot seat.  Nor would not be fair to blame Trump for things over which he had no control, but his narcissism prevented him for reacting reasonably to any crisis, so he certainly earned his demerits.  It is the end reaction of stupid people to need to assign blame - it makes everything so simple and then one doesn't even have to think whether a particular criticism was earned or unfairly awarded to the recipient.

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Mark Meadows removed from N.C. voter roll amid fraud investigation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/13/mark-meadows-north-carolina-removed-voter-rolls/

That's interesting ... 

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South Dakota AG impeached after leaving the scene of a fatal car crash

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/13/jason-ravnsborg-south-dakota-impeached/

How do you have faith in your state's justice when it's highest official conducts himself so dishonorably?

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Case of duped Secret Service agents called an alarming agency breach

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/12/secret-service-duped/

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The FBI also said the two Secret Service uniformed officers accepted free $40,000-a-year rental apartments from Taherzadeh for about a year in The Crossing, a luxury Navy Yard apartment complex where the two suspects are alleged to have had unusual control over several apartments and where they had set up surveillance. One of the officers told investigators that Taherzadeh claimed DHS had approved extra rooms as part of his operations that the officer could live in free; the other said Taherzadeh claimed another federal law enforcement officer was living rent-free.

The Secret Service was negatively impacted by the Trump administration.  

How Trump set back the Secret Service’s recovery from scandal and strain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-trump/2021/05/14/d5ab2a7a-b0f5-11eb-9059-d8176b9e3798_story.html

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8 hours ago, Tweety said:

I think the problem with Trump Derangement Syndrome not going away is that Trump himself is not going away.  He's still holding rallies like he's on the campaign trail.  He's still spewing rhetoric.  He still wants to keep himself front and center.  He's still spreading lies that he won the election, that inflation and the war in Ukraine never would have happened.   Politicians are too afraid to shut him up, and indeed far seeking his approval.

If he's shut up, maybe we'd forget out him.  

I think we're seeing some Biden Derangement Syndrome starting. "Biden's policies are causing blah blah blah and destroying America.(see Ms. Sanders Tweet above)  Biden caused gas prices, inflation, the war in Ukraine never would have happened under Trump, the border surge which never would have happened under Trump, and the rise in crime which never would have happened under Trump .  This is a very important message for the Republicans to get across as the mid-terms are approaching.  "Americans are hurting".  "Liberal cities aren't Safe".  "Gas prices out of control".  "Criminals at the border and infected covid carriers coming in and getting free stuff through an open border".  Blame Biden.  Fair enough he's the President.  

For a while it's fair to keep talking about a former President for a while into a new administration, sometime we have to stop.  We did it with Bush, it was always "well you weren't upset when Bush did....".   We did it with Obama and there were people that said "when are you going to stop giving Obama credit for handing Trump a good economy and give Trump credit for the economy".  I think about a year in while it might be fair to see how Trump set us up for our current situation, it's also time to stop talking about him ever single time a topic come ups and look at what Biden is and isn't doing.  

At the end of the day my opinion is that if Trump is not going away he's a target and deserves to be talked about it.  

I'm not sure you meant he "deserves" to be talked about.  That's exactly what he wants.

I agree with the author that it's bad for Biden that people are talking about Trump and not him.  Or, maybe more accurately,  it's a bad sign for Biden and the Democrats.  Even here in this thread, Trump is discussed way more than Biden is.  Most of the Trump news I hear is what I've read here, not from conservative talk radio I listen to or the few hours a week of Fox I watch .  That solidifies my belief that it's liberals just can't get him out of their heads and keep him in the spotlight.  This is Biden's opportunity to shine.  The Democrats are the incumbents.   It's their election to lose, but it's still all about Trump.

When on CNN, NYT, and even this thread, when whatever topic comes up, people keep repeating the same anti-Trump rhetoric over and over to their same small audience of folks who are already set in their view of him, you have to really think their may be something pathological going on.

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3 hours ago, subee said:

No, it's not fair to blame the president in office just because they happen to be the person in the hot seat.  Nor would not be fair to blame Trump for things over which he had no control, but his narcissism prevented him for reacting reasonably to any crisis, so he certainly earned his demerits.  It is the end reaction of stupid people to need to assign blame - it makes everything so simple and then one doesn't even have to think whether a particular criticism was earned or unfairly awarded to the recipient.

How lucky I am to be able to interact with some of the minority of Americans who think Biden is doing a good job.

So, tell me, when does "The buck stops with me Joe " become responsible for any of our crisis we are dealing with?

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7 minutes ago, Beerman said:

How lucky I am to be able to interact with some of the minority of Americans who think Biden is doing a good job.

So, tell me, when does "The buck stops with me Joe " become responsible for any of our crisis we are dealing with?

When the buck originates with the POTUS. 

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4 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

South Dakota AG impeached after leaving the scene of a fatal car crash

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/13/jason-ravnsborg-south-dakota-impeached/

How do you have faith in your state's justice when it's highest official conducts himself so dishonorably?

Was this person hand picked by Kristi Noem?  Why should anyone expect anyone more honorable picked by this stupid Trump Wannabe?  I'm not shocked the least bit by his bad behavior but impressed that anyone had the will and gumption to impeach him.  

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5 hours ago, Beerman said:

I'm not sure you meant he "deserves" to be talked about.  That's exactly what he wants.

I agree with the author that it's bad for Biden that people are talking about Trump and not him.  Or, maybe more accurately,  it's a bad sign for Biden and the Democrats.  Even here in this thread, Trump is discussed way more than Biden is.  Most of the Trump news I hear is what I've read here, not from conservative talk radio I listen to or the few hours a week of Fox I watch .  That solidifies my belief that it's liberals just can't get him out of their heads and keep him in the spotlight.  This is Biden's opportunity to shine.  The Democrats are the incumbents.   It's their election to lose, but it's still all about Trump.

When on CNN, NYT, and even this thread, when whatever topic comes up, people keep repeating the same anti-Trump rhetoric over and over to their same small audience of folks who are already set in their view of him, you have to really think their may be something pathological going on.

He deserves to be talked about because he says stupid things and is constantly repeating the Big Lie that election was rigged.   This might be why liberal press covers him more than Fox because Fox doesn't really want to portray him in his true colors.  Plus they are too busy convincing people what a horrible President Biden is and that our country is in ruins.  For them it's all about Biden.

If CNN or other press give Biden any props or any change to seize his moment to shine it's liberal press bias.  Can't do that.

Posters here have told us ad nauseam why they continue to give Trump space on these forums and I don't think they or news organizations are being pathological about it.  

 

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3 hours ago, Tweety said:

He deserves to be talked about because he says stupid things and is constantly repeating the Big Lie that election was rigged.   This might be why liberal press covers him more than Fox because Fox doesn't really want to portray him in his true colors.  

Well, maybe,  I guess.  I guess I' go back to everything that opinion piece says, but I won't.

3 hours ago, Tweety said:

Plus they are too busy convincing people what a horrible President Biden is and that our country is in ruins.  For them it's all about Biden.

Convincing isn't needed about him being awful.  He's going to go down in history as the worst.  I still think he'll be pushed out of office.  We'll see.

No, the country is not in ruins.   That's what liberals are often saying.

3 hours ago, Tweety said:

If CNN or other press give Biden any props or any change to seize his moment to shine it's liberal press bias.  Can't do that.

The media isn't giving him props because  they don't want to be perceived as being biased?  Mm, OK.

3 hours ago, Tweety said:
3 hours ago, Tweety said:

 Posters here have told us ad nauseam why they continue to give Trump space on these forums and I don't think they or news organizations are being pathological about it.  

I'm not sure who that is.  I'm the only one present who thinks he did a good job, and I seldom speak of him.  I've also said I think it's time for Republicans to move on from him.

 

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6 hours ago, Beerman said:

The media isn't giving him props because  they don't want to be perceived as being biased?  Mm, OK.

That in my mind is obviously had some sarcasm too it. My bad.  Still how often do Tucker Carlson, et al and Fox News talk about "mainstream media" in a negative fashion as if the most watched Cable News Network isn't "mainstream"

Fox actually gives coverage to a lot of stories but not a lot on Biden per se unless they are reporting about his low approval ratings.  

Today CNN talks about the war in Ukraine, the murder in New York, Amazon raising prices, but not much on Biden but that he's "torn to pieces" at a missile strike of Russians on civilians.  Fox is talking about the UN's statement that the Russian war in Ukraine will call global prices to rise, Hunter Biden, a white man killing his wife in front of his child, trans athletes, DesSantis and immigration, and abortion.  They hit all the hot topics on their agenda.  Their hosts and opinion writers are another thing.  They talk about Biden all day.

Both covered  him in Iowa this week but there isn't much to say.  Fox framed it around him staging a re-election. 

Biden isn't much in the news today, nor is Trump.  CNN has widely covered Biden's struggles.  They just don't use words like "feeble".

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/13/politics/biden-inflation-gas-prices-iowa/index.html

They also cover Biden butting heads with Democrats over immigration.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/politics/title-42-democratic-strategy/index.html

I agree that if the current course doesn't get any better Biden will be a one-term President and a Republican will be President, and maybe with both houses.   I just hope it isn't Trump or someone that follows the Trump playbook like DeSantis and seeks his approval.  We can do better.  

With Trump holding rallies, campaigning for other Republicans that follow his playbook,  and an investigation going on about January 6th, doubtful he's going to exit our conscious anytime soon and I don't think it's "Trump Derangement Syndrome" to talk about it.  

I don't think it should be a default deflection when talking about something unpleasant about Biden. 

 

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I'm not sure who that is.  I'm the only one present who thinks he did a good job, and I seldom speak of him.  I've also said I think it's time for Republicans to move on from him.

I presumed you were talking about the the person that posted about Trump above you and perhaps another poster that continues to post about him.  I'm wasn't talking about you.  

I will say I do appreciate you're persistent posts and calling us out.  I remember during the Tea Party years there as a poster named Timothy and some of us would go back and for multiple times a day about socialism , stimulus packages and Obamacare, and that eventually left.  I miss him.  Several people that posted multiple times a during the  2016 election dipped when Trump won and showed himself.  There were some times when conservatives here were many in number.  Helps to keep things in focus and blanked.  Same with a lot of us liberals.  Very few of us are still here that were here during the Bush years and Obama years.  

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8 hours ago, Beerman said:

Well, maybe,  I guess.  I guess I' go back to everything that opinion piece says, but I won't.

Convincing isn't needed about him being awful.  He's going to go down in history as the worst.  I still think he'll be pushed out of office.  We'll see.

No, the country is not in ruins.   That's what liberals are often saying.

The media isn't giving him props because  they don't want to be perceived as being biased?  Mm, OK.

 

It was wise not to use the fabricated TDS nonsense. 

Biden may be pushed out of office.  That's how elections work.  We can be guaranteed that if he loses the election that Biden will establish a transition team and work to prepare the next administration. If you are successful in reelecting Trump that would likely be the last peaceful transition the country will see for that high office. As you'll recall, Trump didn't facilitate a transition of power in 2020 in spite of a pandemic and international tensions that Trump played a part in stirring up. 

Currently, any politically based article on social media is filled with conservative opinion that Biden and liberals are ruining the country. They use that word specifically so it's odd that you mention it and then put it in liberal mouths. This is language that is very close to that of Lindsay Graham or Rona Barrett or Steve Scalise or Sean Hannity.  Perhaps you are remarking on the acknowledgment of some of the intentional damage done to some federal institutions by Trump appointees and cabinet members. 

 https://www.propublica.org/article/the-government-donald-trump-left-behind

don't you think it's a good idea for media to at least attempt to minimize the appearance of bias in their reporting? 

When Trump supporters talk about Biden going down in history as one of the worst presidents it really really sounds like projection since Trump is, in actual fact, listed as one of the worst presidents in American history.  

 

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