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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Um, no.

    Occam's razor is the principle that the simplest explanation is most likely to be correct.

    People can decide for themselves which is the simplest of the two explanations: 1) He couldn't produce documents he had promised relating to Joe Biden, because the only copies were sent by some unspecified delivery service, which opened it and made them vanish. ... Or 2) He is lying.
     
    The Big Ragu, Oct 29, 2020
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  2. champ_kind

    champ_kind Well-Known Member

    The motives are quite clear. He wants his audience to believe Joe Biden is corrupt. Since he can't produce any evidence, he resorts to a story about how there was evidence, but it was stolen. That way he still gets to claim proof Joe Biden is corrupt without the burden of showing it.
     
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  3. TowelWaver

    TowelWaver Well-Known Member

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    TowelWaver, Oct 29, 2020
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  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    The whole "laptop" storyline was pretty rickety, was it not?

    The administration and the kayfabe apparatus that feeds it - and feeds on it - is a weak season on WWE.

    Maybe ask it this way: why wouldn't he just make it up?
     
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  5. TowelWaver

    TowelWaver Well-Known Member

    When you put it that way, yes, Vince McMahon would have rejected this storyline.
     
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  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Because lying is wrong.

    And making it up might damage his reputation.

    And as a journalist, he's concerned with truth and objectivity.

    Oh wait. ...
     
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  7. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Not totally. They did just have a "hacker" storyline with a mystery guy in front of a bunch of computer screens supposedly creating chaos, that they never really finished until a couple of weeks ago, when one wrestler did a "by the way, I'm the Hacker".
     
    Baron Scicluna, Oct 29, 2020
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  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Trump is about as deep and calculating as a Virgin freshman teenager at his first frat party. Obvious in the goal but no tact and no skill and no chance of success.
     
    heyabbott, Oct 29, 2020
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  9. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

     
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  10. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Which Fox's own lawyers defended in court by noting that it was not a news show but "entertainment".
     
    Neutral Corner, Oct 29, 2020
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  11. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    He wasn't making up a story for us. He knows we won't buy that bullshit. Now the mouth-breathers in his TV audience, they'll believe in copper bracelets that cure arthritis and that Trump is a savvy deal maker, and they eat his bullshit up with a spoon and ask for more.
     
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  12. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

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