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Came across this article with the following title:
ABC News Stuns America & Announces That Trump Might DROP OUT Of 2016 Race
I was, undoubtedly, curious.
I tried to follow the sources back to the original ABC News article, but I was only lead around to many different, almost identical, news articles and then to the front page of a random news website. After a quick internet search I found the article here with the following title:
Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options if Trump Drops Out
Just going off the title, it didn't sound anything like what previous articles such as this one and this one were going on about. After reading the short article it turns out all ABC News was talking about was that there were senior GOP officials that were so frustrated with Trump's behavior that they were thinking about what they would do if Donald Trump did actually drop out of the race. They DID NOT insinuate that Trump was planning on or "might" drop out of the race. No source, spokesperson, homeless guy, or news agency was eluding to a Trump drop out, it was just an article about GOP officials considering what would happen if he did.
This kind of idiotic reporting really bothers me. Stop trying to manufacture drama where there is none.
TL;DR: The original ABC article here was talking about GOP officials considering what would happen if Trump actually dropped out because they were frustrated by his erratic behavior. The article was NOT saying that Trump was considering or "might" drop out of the race.
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[–] OhBlindOne [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Well with Obama's administration repealing the Smith Mundt Act, it's no surprise that the propaganda has sped up in the U.S.
To be fair, though, Hillary Clinton is a criminal. She has committed multiple felonies and has definitely had her hand in election fraud. Yes, both sides are guilty of doing such things in the past, but currently, Hillary is taking the cake. The Clinton's are evil, and that's not a matter of opinion. I don't like when people assert that it's only the democrats that are doing illegal stuff, because both sides do it, it's just the democrats that are doing it more this time around (it's been the republicans more for some elections).
I just hate all the lies and propaganda from both sides. I wish people would stop just blindly supporting whichever side suits them.
The whole reason I created this subverse was to point out all the lies, regardless of which side the come from. Sadly, I don't have enough time to read through every article I come across and correct it.
[–] flyawayhigh ago (edited ago)
We need to be a little smarter. If we take advantage of convenient situations that cut against our interests -- and especially if we do so for partisan purposes -- we are hurting ourselves.
Here's my idea: let's avoid things that meet the following two conditions:
Do not go after Hillary for things that shouldn't be criminal
Do not go after Hillary for laws that Republicans oppose.
Is there anything left? Yes, plenty.
You mentioned one:
go after that, although it leaves a bitter taste.
The 2000 election was stolen. The partisans then were saying "Sore Loserman" and crazy things like "How do we know how many votes there are if the votes were not counted?" Remember that one? They used paid Republican staff members blocking the vote count and banging on the doors. The Supreme Court stepped in with arguably its worst decision ever -- maybe Dred Scott was worse.
But the partisans only cared about one thing -- getting Bush in. And look what happened [Place really long essay here.]
Interestingly, Democrats did not care very much about the increased election stealing in the next few elections. After they won in 2006, they shut up totally -- even though Republicans stole four percent of that election too.
On one hand it's cool that she is sticking it to them with their own tactics -- on the other, those tactics need to end.
The irony here is that Hillary is mostly Republican on the economy, and not a very big supporter of traditional Democratic social platforms.
Despite that harsh truth, I still think it's a good idea to go after Hillary on the election issue because we can actually win something in the end -- better elections. Let's think carefully for the people. :)
[–] OhBlindOne [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Election fraud isn't the only thing left here, though. There's still the matter of the email servers, lying under oath, and sending classified material to people without the requisite security clearance. But, yes, election fraud is still a good one to go after.
Both sides commit election fraud (as I mentioned earlier.) Currently, people are only focusing on the deomcrats as they're the one's doing it the most this time around. Republicans have done it this election, however. Ted Cruz stole a bunch of votes while he was still running, etc.
But, it didn't originate with either side. E.g. it's not like "the republicans did it first," or vice versa. So something like your statement here:
insinuates that it's in some way the republicans tactic to steal elections (I'm assuming that isn't what you were saying, but just for the sake of discussion). Both sides do it and it's sick. The fact of the matter is, the rich and powerful run the show, whether we the people like to realize it or not. No one seems to want to face the truth that both the democratic and the republican party is garbage. We have to fix the system from the ground up. Citizens need to start focusing on their local government elections and start electing people that aren't total crap and go from there. People also need to start thinking for themselves (another thing that the gov. media, etc. don't want people to do) and stop being lead around like sheep with all of this propaganda the permeates both sides.