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ABC News Moderators Blasted For Extreme Bias, Fact Checking Trump But Not Harris

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By debunked you mean trump lying about being involved with it, when the people behind it say he was involved, many of the people working with trump were behind it and such? But your right it's impossible for trump to be involved.
So now you're accusing Trump of lying based on what other people said?
Sounds like you're willing to take an accusation at face value, while calling Trump a liar.
 
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By debunked you mean trump lying about being involved with it, when the people behind it say he was involved, many of the people working with trump were behind it and such? But your right it's impossible for trump to be involved.
I guess repeating something enough times makes it true.

I say that because in the number threads on the subject not one shred of evidence has been presented
 
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The same one we've been talking about all along. That's why I said the topic hasn't changed.
So, say which lie you're talking about. Is that too much to ask?
That's called projecting distrust through cynicism, remember?
If you're asking if the loaded question is projecting distrust through cynicism, that would depend on if you have evidence to support your claim or not. If not, then it's definitely projecting a negative prejudice towards Kamala.
 
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If you're asking if the loaded question is projecting distrust through cynicism, that would depend on if you have evidence to support your claim or not. If not, then it's definitely projecting a negative prejudice towards Kamala.
I was obviously addressing your statement, as evidenced by the fact that I quoted you.
But if you want to keep playing these mind games, you'll have to try it with someone else. I'm not interested.
Claiming that my question is a loaded question matches your own description of projecting distrust through cynicism. Calling it "grace through faith" may as well be blasphemy.
 
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I was obviously addressing your statement, as evidenced by the fact that I quoted you.
But if you want to keep playing these mind games, you'll have to try it with someone else. I'm not interested.
Claiming that my question is a loaded question matches your own description of projecting distrust through cynicism. Calling it "grace through faith" may as well be blasphemy.
I'm not playing mind games. I can prove it's a loaded question. Here's the question:

Aldebaran said:
Does that surprise you that a former prosecutor who takes pride in that profession and said she was going to prosecute Trump on the debate stage would lie to get what she wants, especially since she's legally allowed to do so?

You clearly ask if I am surprised Kamala had lied. Whether I answer in the affirmative or in the denial thereof it causes me to accept the unproven premise that she lied. Therefore, I answered forthrightly and loved you as I would want to be loved, and I pointed out that it was a loaded question.
 
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I guess repeating something enough times makes it true.

I say that because in the number threads on the subject not one shred of evidence has been presented
Here's the problem on this thread ----> Kamala claim: “What you’re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again.”

It's a pronouncement or declaration of what is going to happen.
 
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I'm not playing mind games. I can prove it's a loaded question. Here's the question:

Aldebaran said:
Does that surprise you that a former prosecutor who takes pride in that profession and said she was going to prosecute Trump on the debate stage would lie to get what she wants, especially since she's legally allowed to do so?

You clearly ask if I am surprised Kamala had lied. Whether I answer in the affirmative or in the denial thereof it causes me to accept the unproven premise that she lied. Therefore, I answered forthrightly and loved you as I would want to be loved, and I pointed out that it was a loaded question.
Try reading it again.
I asked if it would surprise you that she would lie.
You misrepresent my statement and said "You clearly ask if I am surprised Kamala had lied."
And again, calling my question a "loaded question" is an example of you projecting distrust through cynicism, which you yourself said is contrary to, "practicing grace through faith". If you don't believe me, check post #175 where you yourself made the claim.
 
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Here's the problem ----> Kamala claim: “What you’re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again.”

It's a pronouncement or declaration of what is going to happen.
And yet the opposite happened because he has consistently said he's not involved in any way with Project 2025. So she made a false statement.
But I will give her credit for saying, "But I'm going to tell you all, in this debate tonight, you're going to hear from the same old, tired playbook, a bunch of lies, grievances and name-calling."
She kept her promise to do just that.
 
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Try reading it again.
I asked if it would surprise you that she would lie.
You misrepresent my statement and said "You clearly ask if I am surprised Kamala had lied."
This is the context:
Aldebaran said:
When they take the same things out of context on a regular basis even after they've been shown the actual context is, and they have easy access to the accurate information, and they still quote the person out of context, then they've proven themselves to be a practicing liar. Does that surprise you that a former prosecutor who takes pride in that profession and said she was going to prosecute Trump on the debate stage would lie to get what she wants, especially since she's legally allowed to do so?

Okay you clearly ask if I am surprised Kamala would lie in the context that she had lied. It doesn't change the fact that it's a loaded question. Whether I affirm or deny I would be accepting the unproven premise that she had lied.
And again, calling my question a "loaded question" is an example of you projecting distrust through cynicism, which you yourself said is contrary to, "practicing grace through faith". If you don't believe me, check post #175 where you yourself made the claim.
I don't think you understand. You're the one saying Kamala is lying. You're the accuser here. I am asking for convincing proof that what you claim actually happened. Practicing grace through faith is in this case the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
 
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And yet the opposite happened because he has consistently said he's not involved in any way with Project 2025. So she made a false statement.
I'm reasonably confident that what Trump means is he wasn't involved in the creating of project 2025. But Harris doesn't claim he was involved in creating project 2025, she simply made a pronouncement that Trump would implement it. I see no evidence of an intent to deceive. Where is the proof of an intent to deceive?
 
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..he (Trump) has consistently said he's not involved in any way with Project 2025.
He's gone even further disavowing any knowledge of it.
For Trump, or anyone else, to say that is an abject lie. Period.

In April 2022, standing in front of the Heritage Foundation, the group who were creating Project 2025 at the time; Trump said, “This is a great group, and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do, and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America,"
So she made a false statement.
On this issue, she did not make a false statement.
She merely rephrased what Trump has said in his own words, If he's elected, that's exactly what he will do (his words, not mine, not Kamala's).
That is bolded in the quote above. Here's a link to the full speech. The quoted comment comes at (46:24 linked to transcript and video).

He either stood in front of the Heritage Foundation and lied to their faces, or he's lying now about not being aware of it.
There is no in-between.
 
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He either stood in front of ther Heritage Foundation and lied to their faces, or he's lying now about not being aware of it.
There is no in-between.

It's interesting to see the MAGA faithful turn on the Heritage Foundation, an instituion that until recently , was the holy grail of the cultural warriors on the right. Their policies play well in a GOP primary....but not in the general elecition. Trump certainly recognizes this....hence his disowning of Heritage / Project 2025.
 
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I'm reasonably confident that what Trump means is he wasn't involved in the creating of project 2025.
Of course Trump wasn't involved in creating the plan, he's incapable of such. He bragged in 2015 that he would repeal and replace Obamacare with his plan. At the recent debate he claimed to now have a "concept of a plan."
Frankly, I think he exagerrated going that far. (who knew healthcare would be so hard..)
But Harris doesn't claim he was involved in creating project 2025, she simply made a pronouncement that Trump would implement it. I see no evidence of an intent to deceive. Where is the proof of an intent to deceive?
There's no deception at all. Trump has said that the Heritage Foundations plan is, "exactly what our movement will do.. when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America,"
 
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Of course Trump wasn't involved in creating the plan, he's incapable of such. He bragged in 2015 that he would repeal and replace Obamacare with his beautiful plan in 2015. At the debate he claimed to have a "concept of a plan."
Frankly, I think he exagerrated going that far.

There's no deception at all. Trump has said that the Heritage Foundations plan is "exactly what our movement will do.. when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America,"
Except there was no plan at the time. This was in 2022. Since then they wrote Project 2025 and he has now said he isn't going to follow it. So Harris is lying when she said he is going to do so. She is a liar.

I'd like to know what's so bad about project 2025 anyway. I've been reading it and haven't found anything in there yet that is so bad as the liberals claim. Have you read it? If so, please point me to the sections you find so abhorrent. Every time I ask that question I get crickets because no one has actually read it, they just spread rumors without justification or evidence.
 
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Except there was no plan at the time. This was in 2022. Since then they wrote Project 2025
Not true. The plan was establsihed in April of 2022, the same month that speech was made.
It would've already been completed or nearing completion at the time of that speech.
and he has now said he isn't going to follow it.
so which is it?
I'd like to know what's so bad about project 2025 anyway. I've been reading it and haven't found anything in there yet that is so bad as the liberals claim.
okay
Have you read it?
yes I have. I have it downloaded on my machine and I've read it a couple times.
If so, please point me to the sections you find so abhorrent. Every time I ask that question I get crickets because no one has actually read it, they just spread rumors without justification or evidence.
Subject for anothe thread but I won't leave you with crickets.
For starters, there are currently seven Federal Income Tax brackets.

2024 tax brackets​

Tax rateSingle filersMarried couples filing jointlyMarried couples filing separatelyHead of household
10%$11,600 or less$23,200 or less$11,600 or less$16,550 or less
12%$11,601 to $47,150$23,201 to $94,300$11,601 to $47,150$16,551 to $63,100
22%$47,151 to $100,525$94,301 to $201,050$47,151 to $100,525$63,101 to $100,500
24%$100,526 to $191,950$201,051 to $383,900$100,526 to $191,150$100,501 to $191,150
32%$191,951 to $243,725$383,901 to $487,450$191,151 to $243,725$191,151 to $243,700
35%$243,726 to $609,350$487,451 to $731,200$243,276 to $365,600$243,701 to $609,350
37%$609,351 or more$731,201 or more$365,601 or more$609,351 or more


Project 2025 calls for reducing those brackets from seven down to two. The tax brackets would be 15% and 30% (page 696).
Anyone who understands a progressive tax scale (like our current tax brackets) understands that this is a tax increase on those who make the least (currently in the 10%, 12% ) brackets and would even include most in the intermediate tax brackets (because that's how progressive taxation works)
It would be a decrease in taxes for the wealthiest, those making 191K and above and the more you make the larger the decrease.
At the very minimum this increases taxes on the very poorest by 5% and decreases taxes for the very richest by 7%.
This is immoral in my opinion.
 
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Except there was no plan at the time. This was in 2022. Since then they wrote Project 2025 and he has now said he isn't going to follow it. So Harris is lying when she said he is going to do so. She is a liar.

I'd like to know what's so bad about project 2025 anyway. I've been reading it and haven't found anything in there yet that is so bad as the liberals claim. Have you read it? If so, please point me to the sections you find so abhorrent. Every time I ask that question I get crickets because no one has actually read it, they just spread rumors without justification or evidence.
The plan was shown on April 14, 2022. Trumps speech at the Heritage foundation praising the plan was on April 21, 2022. I have not seen where Trump said he isn't going to follow it, and even if he did, from prior experience I am not prone to believe anything he says.

I think people should be asking themselves why Trump applauded the introducing of project 2025 during his heritage foundation speech, and then later on say some of it is very radical right-wing stuff even calling it absurd, and then finally claim he has nothing to do with it and he never even read it. I say this because it's not just "the so called left" that is alarmed by what's in it as some might suppose.

A few other points. The left/right political dichotomy exists to denote that there is an abstract center; that's the whole point. In other words, it is meant to represent an objective view at the center of two opposing subjective views that are both equally valid. So, anyone who speaks hypocritically by working both sides against the middle is reasoning upon bias and cannot be trustworthy.

Having said that, it's upsetting to find there is divisive language in the document that speaks out of partisan bias, using terms like 'the left" and "identity politics" and "wokeness" and "diversity" with only negative connotations. That shows whoever wrote it reasons upon negative prejudice.

But the real problem with project 2025 is that it is propaganda designed to characterize the move away from democracy and towards autocracy as the intention of restructuring the inefficiency of institutions through removing the mechanisms that also happen to be the inhibitors of a dictatorship. By the centralizing of power into the presidency, it allows one person the right to impose/dictate their vision of what's best for all people on all levels of government.

Examples would be the forced implementation of the authoritarian approach to governance, giving the federal government the power to charge elected state attorney generals or other state officials for not carrying out federally mandated positions of ideology, and/or the hiring and firing of people in government positions according to whether they agree or disagree with an autocrat's personal views.

Therefore, the document contains descriptions that would allow draconian directives threatening people such as Dreamers, who through no fault of their own have grown up in America and have established lives and ties in their community. It would force those communities to abandon love your neighbor as yourself, and support uprooting these people or go to jail. It could also do away with asylum status altogether, and hiding or protecting a person who is regarded as a parasite poisoning the blood of the country would be a punishable offense.

 
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The moderators had nothing to do with his total unpreparedness for the night but we know it’s not in his wheelhouse to be self critical or to reflect on what he did wrong and could improve for next time so instead we get the typical blame game. Rinse and repeat. The people are tired of this same old song and dance.
You could never have prepared against the bias of the moderators no matter what he would do. Trump does pride himself as going live with living in the moment thinking or hoping his assertiveness will win the day. Not really though but his voters will LOOK at his policies. That's why they'll vote for him. As for people tired of the same old song and dance.....that pretty much sums up of what think of mainstream media debates anyway. It's got old and I'm tired of the dance of seeing such an obvious display of their showing bias. As far as I"m concerned they the debates all belong in the trash! The question is what's the basic thing one is saying about policies.......

I may not care or see eye to eye with the package by which they're delivered but WHAT do the Dems stand for....and what does Trump stand for. I've seen this in the work force. Having been employed by a large company I've had many bosses....different divisions etc. Some of my superiors I just couldn't stand on a personal level....but I'll tell you more times than not they were the best bosses I've had! They always got things done and addressed our issues......other's more likeable on a personal level were horrible at being able to make the work floor function. Harris indeed may be more likeable or even know who to speak showing a little bit more diplomacy but she can take you down the road to being taxed to death and not so good things happening in the nation. That's what's called looking at the BIGGER PICTURE.
 
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But she sounded far more professional and coherent than Trump,
She could very well have. I didn't watch the debate. I refuse to subject my mind to everybody's manipulation but Harris might have sounded more professional....yes even more coherent.....she did practice for the debate something Trump might see as a weakness. But look everyone knows the basic polices of the Dems.....and they truly know those of Trump. The debates are just noise but the policies are central. They don't talk about policies much (at least in debates I've seen) but folks you all do know them. You will pick and choose on the day but I'd hope your choice wouldn't be based on personalities.....the policies of the other might give you a reality check sometime in the future you may not find desirable to experience.
 
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