A really good website for anyone wantintg to follow the speeches being given at the Democratic National Convention: the Kamala2024 site is making videos of the speeches available on an ongoing basis.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
And, as many of us celebrate what appear to us to be promising and remarkable things happening with the Democratic party, things that point to a brighter future for us all, the mainstream media remain ever ready to pop the balloon in any way possible.
As Judd Legum notes, one current strategy is to employ fact-checking in a hair-splitting way that gives cover to Trump's toxic lies, while attacking Democrats.
#Democrats #Republicans #Trump #media
/15The fact-checking industrial complex
Holding powerful people accountable for lying is an important task for the media.
(popular.info)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by [email protected]
Why do the media insist on behaving this way (see /15)? Brian Beutler's explanation:
Mainstream media fact checkers actually often mangle facts to give cover to Donald Trump, as they "embrace pedantry, fallacious logic, and outright misinformation to insulate Trump from accurate Democratic attacks."
They do this because they WANT to give Trump cover. And we can expect endless media slams against the DNC for that very reason.
#Democrats #Republicans #Trump #media
/16Why Fact Checkers Mangle Facts To Provide Donald Trump Cover
Yet more journalists embrace pedantry, fallacious logic, and outright misinformation to insulate Trump from accurate Democratic attacks.
(www.offmessage.net)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Piousunyn on last edited by
@Piousunyn For sure. What an odious perspective, too.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to EtherAndRhum on last edited by
@EtherNRhum I agree. Well-stated.
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Piousunynreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@wdlindsy Be amusing to see what the MSN does with Trump not being the main character?
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Thadreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@wdlindsy I'm happy to accept whatever allies we have in this race.
But I won't accept the message that Trump is an aberration and doesn't represent the GOP of the last 60 years.
Folks like Giles can pretend there's not a straight line from Nixon to Reagan to Bush to Trump; whatever helps them sleep at night. But I won't.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Piousunyn on last edited by
@Piousunyn Won't it, though?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Thad on last edited by
@Thad I won't accept that distortion, either — and I don't hear any Democrats calling on us to do so. At the same time, I think we shoot ourselves in the foot if we don't find ways to welcome these "errant" brothers and sisters without raking them over the coals for the part they've played in bringing Trump to us. We all, after all, make mistakes and need others to accept us warts and all at many points in our lives.
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Domreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@wdlindsy Cool but can we stop mentioning "Kamala" all the time and say "Harris"?
She's going to be President Harris, not President Kamala.The right is pushing for using her first name because it 1) focus on the fact that she's a woman and 2) tries to diminish her professionalism.
Harris please.
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Ken Larsonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
I believe what you have noted is a fact. (wow that statement took guts!).
I also believe it will continue,
compounded by AI, to the point where there are so many versions of the facts that the truth will become near non-existent.Then, as optimistically noted by GP Harrison in the "Skeptical Inquirer", AI and misinformation could force us into a long overdue cognitive upgrade, where we wake up, grow up and become more rational species.
Looking for the Bright Side of the AI Apocalypse | Skeptical Inquirer
Rumors of impending artificial intelligence (AI) doom got you down? Take heart, there may be light at the end of this tunnel—and not all of it from the head ...
(skepticalinquirer.org)
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Thadreplied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
@wdlindsy Yeah, fair. If I were to meet Giles face-to-face, I'd thank him for his integrity, not condemn him for supporting everything Trump did short of a coup attempt.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Thad on last edited by
@Thad And I do agree with you that we should call all these Republicans who are now seeing the light to examine their legacies and see how in many ways they made decisions and advocated for policies that paved the way for Trump.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Ken Larson on last edited by
@Smalltofeds Let's hope we can become more rational — and wiser and more compassionate.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Robert H on last edited by
@Stinson_108 Thank you for that. There's a good article by Margaret Sullivan in today's Guardian about Luttig's support of Kamala Harris.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by [email protected]
Lifelong conservative Republican Michael Luttig states why, though his policy outlook may differ from Kamala Harris', he will cast his vote for her:
"Almost four years ago now, on January 6, 2021, a stake was driven through the heart of America’s Democracy, and on that day American Democracy was left teetering on a knife’s edge."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by [email protected]
This presidential election is a test of Americans’ commitment to America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law. It is so because the former president and the Republican Party have shamefully made it so."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by [email protected]
"The often lofty, at times even noble, policy differences that have been the hallmark of American Politics and partisan debate for almost a quarter of a millennium pale in comparison to the foundational national policy issues of America’s Democracy, Constitution, and Rule of Law."
Thanks to @Stinson_108 for this link.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
"J Michael Luttig has never endorsed a Democrat before. That’s no surprise since the well-respected legal scholar – a retired federal appeals court judge – leans well right of center. …
In an interview with CNN, which first reported his endorsement, Luttig explained that arriving at his decision to back Harris wasn’t complicated."
~ Margaret Sullivan
#KamalaHarris #DNC #Republicans #democracy #Jan6 #RuleofLaw #Constitution
/20Why did this conservative US judge endorse Kamala Harris? | Margaret Sullivan
What matters to Michael Luttig is getting past January 2025 with democracy intact. We can argue later about how to govern
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: on last edited by
"He described it as a simple matter of knowing right from wrong – not merely right from left.
Simple? Maybe so, but also admirable. And at this singular moment for US democracy, all too rare."
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