Oh come on now, this double standard $#@! is out of control...

[TheTexan]

The MSM, Texan. Changing the subject didn't help the Longhorns in quadruple overtime and it won't help you now. I'm talking about the media that reported the first, third and fourth place finishers in the 2008 Iowa Caucus. The MSM.

My answer would still be the same. The MSM never hated Ron Paul. They simply disregarded him as a kook. From a policy perspective they strongly disagreed with him, but they never hated him. He was never a threat. He was a wacky old conspiracy theorist, who hoarded gold coins in his basement. To them he was never a Presidential candidate, the same way that Vermin Supreme would never be a Presidential candidate.

They never hated him. I wouldn't even be so sure that they disliked him. They skipped him in the Iowa caucus because they knew, as we all should have known, that he had no chance, and was basically a protest vote.

[acptulsa]

My answer would still be the same. The MSM never hated Ron Paul. They simply disregarded him as a kook.

You consider failing to report the third place finisher in Iowa (in 2012, not 2008) as "disregard(ing) him as a kook". This in a race where they did report the name of the fourth place finisher, a kook named Newt Gingrich.

Your body may not be vaccinated, but your mind certainly was.

[TheTexan]

You consider failing to report the second place finisher in Iowa as "disregard(ing) him as a kook".

Your body may not be vaccinated, but your mind certainly was.

Yes, that's pretty much the textbook definition of disregarding. I don't see your point.

[acptulsa]

Yes, that's pretty much the textbook definition of disregarding. I don't see your point.

That's fine. Everybody else does--and his dog too.

I think it's sad anyone gives a $#@!. Whether they had genuine spleen to vent or not, their masters pointed cameras at them and said, "Vent your spleen about Trump." And they did, and their masters got trillions of freshly printed money at Warp Speed.

Am I proud I didn't get played? Yeah, for all the good that does me.

[Anti Globalist]

The worst part was the press fawning over him at the end. Grandpa is clearly out of his mind and does not belong behind the wheel.

Just a few more months and Kamala will finally be behind the wheel.

[Cleaner44]

The MSM, Texan. Changing the subject didn't help the Longhorns in quadruple overtime and it won't help you now. I'm talking about the media that reported the first, third and fourth place finishers in the 2008 Iowa Caucus. The MSM.



Yup. That's been the libertarian problem right along, coupled with this:



But, you know, emotions were running high in a certain British colony in the 1770s. And a libertarian group managed to do some amazing things with it.

I'm seeing people get emotional about things no one got emotional about in 2008. I have faith in my ability to teach people reasonable things now, and seeing them get emotional about them later.

The problem as I see it is that Marxists are teaching others 100,000 times faster than you. There are people that will listen to reason... and then there are many more reacting emotionally to propaganda. Cognitive dissonance means nothing to these people. They aren't bothered by their own double standards. They don't spend time thinking about it.

We need gun control! Only cops should have guns! All cops are bastards! Defund the police!

My body, my choice! Vaccines should be mandatory!

Segregation was bad! We should have separate graduation ceremonies!

Believe all women! Andrew Cuomo is a great governor!

All white people are inherently racist! Cancel all racists! Ralph Northam is a great governor!

We could go on and on...

AF is 100% right, the double standards are off the charts.

I am just observing reality.

[TheTexan]

The problem as I see it is that Marxists are teaching others 100,000 times faster than you. There are people that will listen to reason... and then there are many more reacting emotionally to propaganda. Cognitive dissonance means nothing to these people. They aren't bothered by their own double standards. They don't spend time thinking about it.

We need gun control! Only cops should have guns! All cops are bastards! Defund the police!

My body, my choice! Vaccines should be mandatory!

Segregation was bad! We should have separate graduation ceremonies!

Believe all women! Andrew Cuomo is a great governor!

All white people are inherently racist! Cancel all racists! Ralph Northam is a great governor!

We could go on and on...

AF is 100% right, the double standards are off the charts.

I am just observing reality.

It's reached the point of literal insanity.

[RJB]

The reason for the double standard is that the sane side of politics is pretending to be offended right now with what Biden did. I actually thought what Biden did was kind of funny. I thought it was funny when Trump pulled stuff like that. However, I have lefty friends who were genuinely offended on a daily basis by every new thing Trump did.

It was totally TDS that causes the double standard. Sane people don't get offended by stuff like that. Granted there are some who hate Pelosi, Biden and others that they get offended by little stuff like that, but they are minimal in number and not quite as deranged compared to the TDS people.

Granted, I didn't take a poll. I am mostly going by what I see on social media.

[nobody's_hero]

I rather enjoy TheTexan's posts when they aren't dripping with satire and sarcasm.

You realize however that you are grouping me in with the collectivists, instead of treating me as an individual.

And more broadly, you are collectivizing the collectivists. They are individuals as well and you can't paint them with so broad a brush.

^^ Gold.

[Anti Federalist]

I saw a clip of this yesterday. My first reaction was the same as AF's.

When Biden does it, they laugh and applaud. But if it had been Trump, the corporate media would have lost its $#@! - his remarks would have been plastered all over the cable "news" and characterized as an example of his callous and vicious disregard for and contempt of the press, and the New York Times and Washington Post (among countless others) would have been frothing at the pen (or keyboard) about it.

And this result would have occurred regardless of whether it is the case that (1) Turmp was the arch-nemesis of the Cathedral, which hates him with a burning passion, or (2) Trump was the willing and cooperative cat's-paw of the Cathedral, or (3) Trump was a narcissistic blowhard who (more accidentally than not) upset the Cathedral's apple cart, or (4) any combination of (1), (2), and/or (3), in whatever degree.

In any case, and for whatever reason, the Cathedral's contrasting presentations and treatments of Trump and Biden respectively are all just part of the same smarmy facade - sort of like a "good cop"/"bad cop" routine, only played out with two perps instead of one.

It's all theatrics and just for show - namely, a puppet show (whatever strings might be attached however firmly to whomever).

And it is baleful and infuriating to watch.

+rep

[Brian4Liberty]

The reason for the double standard is that the sane side of politics is pretending to be offended right now with what Biden did. I actually thought what Biden did was kind of funny. I thought it was funny when Trump pulled stuff like that. However, I have lefty friends who were genuinely offended on a daily basis by every new thing Trump did.

It was totally TDS that causes the double standard. Sane people don't get offended by stuff like that. Granted there are some who hate Pelosi, Biden and others that they get offended by little stuff like that, but they are minimal in number and not quite as deranged compared to the TDS people.

Granted, I didn't take a poll. I am mostly going by what I see on social media.

Yeah, Biden’s joke was harmless, unless it was a Non-Binary Lesbian of Color that he threatened to mow down, then I am outraged!

[Occam's Banana]

[enhanced_deficit]

Biden was asked by a reporter while doing some glad handing propaganda fluff for Ford's new $100,000 electric F150, if he could ask a question about Israel.

Biden's reply: “No you can’t. Not unless you get in front of the car when I step on it.”

Pretty snappy comeback for Puddin' Joe, I thought...but, just imagine if it had been Trump.

Yea saw that earlier, media celebertaed it as 'great sense of humor'. Media will keep covering for him as long as Biden keeps up with Israel-Palestine playbook that is given to all the well-funded politicians.

One correction, question was about 'Israel-Palestine', him answering a question like that plainly could lead to breakup of Democratic party. This dissent within Dems is a good thing.
GOP leaders OTOH have been able to keep their collective heads burried in the sand on this issue for decades.. even to the point that the earlier "conservative" version of the party has been obliterated and now it has rebirthed itself into a slightly different wing of Progressive Dems.

‘This Sucker’s Quick!’ — Secret Service Allows Joe Biden to Speed Away in Electric F-150
Charlie Spiering 18 May 2021
...
In 2010, former President Obama drove a Chevy Volt for about 10 feet during a visit to a General Motors plant to promote electric vehicles, despite some protest from the Secret Service.

That's another double standard example.