I don’t see Tucker Carlson or Laura Ingraham being cancelled. They are 2 of my favorite programs during the week. I know there are millions of listener’s just like me.
No way will Fox turn on them. (say what you wish)
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Yeah, something like “screw you” is probably over the line.
I have never flagged a post because I disagreed with the viewpoint or opinion being expressed. Heck, if I did that I would be flagging half the posts here!! 
But I have flagged a few (very few) posts which contained bad language, asking only that that language alone be cut out, not the entire post. Nothing was ever done. However, that bad language as I recall was not directed against another member here, as yours apparently was.
Anyway, I created this thread to provide a platform for heated discussion and strong disagreement. I’m not disappointed with the way it has turned out. 
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I’m a Laura fan from back in the early days of her presence on the radio. But when she moved over to TV a lot of the zip went out of her radio show, which she later gave up.
I no longer follow her, since I have no access to cable at all and I’m not willing to pay for the privilege of watching her by other means. I’ve been a radio person since my youth. My radio back then, an old Silvertone, sat on the floor and was three or four feet tall. I’m happy still to have Rush on the radio, though he sadly appears to be dying. But at least he did not move over to TV like Laura and Hannity.
True story
Years ago, when she was on the radio, I wondered for a long time if Laura was related to Big Dan Ingraham, a radio icon. She’s not, of course. Big Dan Ingraham was one of the greats. I still enjoy from time to time listening to some of his recorded air checks.
Yes you did say that. What I said to you was not offensive and I did not attack you. Your response was offensive & inappropriate, as you just wrote. I did not flag it, because I wanted everyone to see your anger and a clear violation of the forum rules. Someone else must have realized this and flagged it, and if it was removed then a moderator agreed that it was inappropriate.
Such as?
If I recall correctly, the forum guidelines discourage outright cursing, but if it’s not flagged, it will not be enforced (and I guess even when it’s flagged it’s not always enforced). We’re all adults here. But the problem is not the presence of “offensive words” – the problem is in how those words are used. Attack IDEAS all you want. Attack PEOPLE and you cross the line. This has been the forum guidelines from the start. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this at least once before in one of these political threads.
Your words.
You wrote a full paragraph of unkind words about me. It wasn’t the first time you have done this to me. You ended by telling me to not write on the site if I have nothing worthwhile to say. That’s your opinion.
I replied with only 2 words.
Apparently these BLM protestors should spend a little more time in school and less time trying to “effect change”. A mob was hassling Rand Paul and his wife while they walked to their hotel in DC after giving a speech at the RNC.
The Kentucky Republican earlier Friday said he feared for their lives during the confrontation and lashed the demonstrators who chanted Breonna Taylor’s name without realizing he had authored a bill in her honor.
Paul’s bill banning “no knock” warrants is a clear step in the right direction in terms of limiting unnecessary police violence, still pending.
Edit: here’s Paul being interviewed afterwards with more details of the attack.
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Oh wait… That was actually Spain they lied was riots for Biden
Pence saysimplies liberals (protesters) killed Underwood. He was killed by a white supremacist…
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So tell us where he said that?
“The violence must stop, whether in Minneapolis, Portland or Kenosha, too many heroes have died defending our freedom to see Americans strike each other down. We will have law and order on the streets of this country for every American of every race and creed and color.
President Trump and I know that the men and women who put on the uniform of law enforcement are the best of us. Every day, when they walk out that door, they consider our lives more important than their own.
People like Dave Patrick Underwood, an officer in the Department of Homeland Security Federal Protective Service, who was shot and killed during the riots in Oakland, Calif. Dave’s heroism is emblematic of the heroes that serve in blue every day. We are privileged tonight to be joined by his sister, Angela.
Angela, we say to you: We grieve with your family. And America will never forget or fail to honor officer Dave Patrick Underwood.”
It’s pretty crass on your part to try to reduce that comment to “he’s just saying stupid stuff”.
That’s a mischaracterization, I did not write a full paragraph of unkind words about you. What I wrote is still there. It was four short sentences – the first two are not even about you, they are about me, the third was just a fact, and the fourth was my conclusion and advice based on the fact mentioned in the third sentence. You don’t have to like it or agree with it, but I did not attack you.
Yes, we are on different planets. You said you would stop responding. PLEASE DO!
You said that a couple times before. PLEASE stay off my planet. 
My support for President Trump in the upcoming election is not flagging; not one bit. And where I live my vote will make a difference. He needs it . . . and he has it.
All that said:
I think Trump is making a mistake with his outspoken efforts to frighten voters regarding all the things he is saying will happen if Biden gets in. As he so often does, Trump is leaving the door open wide for misunderstanding. It’s almost as if he is inviting it.
To pick just one example among several: socialism
Yes, sure, America will lean distinctly more socialist under Biden. That is no lie. But Trump ignores, or he is simply unaware of, the political brilliance on the Democrat/socialist side. Those people know how to boil a frog. They are masters of incrementalism. And to hear Trump you would think the socialism is going to infect us overnight.
That’s not how it works, Mr. President. That’s not how they operate. Communists/socialists/Marxists are patient people. By the time they have wrought their destruction there is no going back, no possible recovery of lost freedom and liberty. Socialists play the long game.
People who do not follow this stuff closely, listening to Trump, have to have doubt. They know instinctively, correctly, nothing is going to happen all at once. So Trump, to them, must sound off the mark. And he is. His messaging needs work.
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Lots of details on how to pull off mail in ballot voter fraud, from someone who did it for a living. Many security issues and vulnerabilities.
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Here’s a well timed book debut -
[Looting] provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that’s a part of it that doesn’t really get talked about—that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.
Sounds so uplifting I might have to loot a copy next time I’m in a bookstore. I’m sure the author would approve 
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And here’s a report from a former counterintelligence agent. I realize that it’s natural when something supports one’s beliefs, no matter how insane it is, one tends to believe it, and use it to further solidify one’s beliefs. This explains flat earthers, climate changers, and TDS.
ETA: This report was used by Democrats to impune the integrity of the last presidential election, and to spy on the Trump campaign, knowing that it was made up and paid for by the Clinton campaign. This act of treachery did more to harm the U.S. electoral process than everything Russia has done for the past 60 years.
Aha! Now I know who you are. You write Bruce Willis movies, the chunky karate guy movies, and copy for that guy on AM radio at 2:00 am. All are readily accepted and soon proven to be fact-checked documentaries.
All bastions of fact based news. We all know, if it’s on the internet, and it fits the socialist agenda, it’s gotta be true.
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Exactly why do say boldly? In Cuba, if you don’t whisper low enough, you end up in jail, or worse.
Truer words …
While I understand your post, I disagree with it on a couple of points.
- I don’t think he’s trying to frighten anyone. I think he truly believes what he’s saying. I also don’t believe that he thinks it will happen overnight. What I believe, and hope he believes, is that what happens overnight, night after night after night, leads to Uncle Joe killing 40+ million dissidents.
- And liberals will. They can’t help but believe the worst. They are doomsayers extraordinaire of anything that does not further the march toward socialism. The President cannot say or write anything in any way that they will not construe, represent, interpret, or lie about in some way to make the President look like a slave owning Indian Jamaican Hitlerite.
- He does, and has done it for as long as I recall. It is also part of his negotiating style. He presumes that you understand exactly what he said, or you are smart enough to ask. He doesn’t take 10 times the effort to make certain you can’t misunderstand it. It is not a style that I particularly care for, but have seen it enough to recognize it.
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Wow! I’m shocked that he’s a Democrat. Maybe they will consider a name change to Demofraud. Oh wait, this isn’t the decade of transparency. Nevermind. 
[In a monotone, quaaluded voice] And next week on NPR’s “Books That Make Sense” will be Bill Clinton, author of the soon-to-be bestseller “In Defense of Rape and Sex with Teenagers”, with a very lengthy foreword by Jeffrey Epstein. 
Makes it sound like looting is a victimless crime. What a way to cash-in on some drug induced mental trip, selling a book about the virtues of looting. I agree with the license to ignore intellectual property rights of the author as well.
True, rioting could be cathartic for someone experiencing lots of frustration (probably just about everyone under COVID these days). That much I’ll give them but looting is just exploiting circumstances to try to get away with larceny. No amount of lipstick will turn this into anything else than a pig.
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Well, duh. Why would they tell the fraudsters what’s being done to prevent fraud? 
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Trump is transforming the US into a developing nation:
"The five epic failures of the contemporary United States under the Trump regime are:
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Out-of-control U.S. fiscal and monetary policies
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The rise of the police state
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An inadequate and ineffective health care system
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A rapidly degrading environment and
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A deteriorating infrastructure."
Failure 6? Shredding democracy
"These five epic failures are bad enough. But they would exclude one more characteristic of developing countries that actually represents the Trump Administration’s biggest failure — or rather deliberate act of brazenness: It is Donald Trump’s assault on democracy itself.
The fact is that the President seeks to put in place a form of government that is no longer anchored in the basic principles of democracy. It has become detached from the tenets that shape duly elected governments in other developed nations.
Like despots in so many developing countries, Trump governs more and more by decree in the form of executive orders. In so doing, he bypasses almost entirely the people’s elected representatives in the Congress, which itself has grown increasingly dysfunctional."
He attacks and tries to destroy the Post Office, the Census Bureau, and voting itself, all essential ingredients of democracy and everyday life.