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An Open Letter to the Colluding Press

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...pen_letter_to_the_colluding_press_137833.html

Interesting article from Real Clear Politics

Where are these accomplishments being ignored. Results and numbers don't lie

Almost 4 million new jobs have been created since President Trump’s election.
African-American, Hispanic-American, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached the lowest levels in history.
Women’s unemployment rate has reached the lowest level in 65 years.
Veterans’ unemployment rate recently reached its lowest level in nearly 20 years.
The unemployment rate for Americans without high school diplomas is at the lowest level ever recorded, and the Trump administration’s new workforce initiative will deliver job-training to more than 4 million Americans.
Manufacturing jobs are being created at the fastest pace in over three decades.
Nearly half-a-million manufacturing jobs have been created since the president took office. In the month of July alone, nearly 40,000 new manufacturing jobs were added.
Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since President Trump’s election.
The president crafted the largest tax cut in a generation, which led to savings for more than 80 percent of households and pay raises and bonuses for 4 million American workers.
President Trump protected American taxpayers by asking Congress to rescind $15.4 billion in unused appropriations.
The president has hired/nominated an impressive number of women to senior positions in his administration, including the first female director of the CIA, Gina Haspel.
He’s appointed two Supreme Court justices, and the Senate has now confirmed 26 appellate court judges of his choosing, as well as Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
He successfully negotiated the return of four American hostages in one month’s time.
President Trump’s Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Action has exceeded the 2:1 mandate, eliminating 22 job-killing regulations for every one new regulatory action.
President Trump signed the “Right to Try” Act to give terminally ill patients a chance to try lifesaving treatments.
The Department of Homeland Security arrested 796 MS-13 gang members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the previous year.
The president signed the VA Mission Act, which allows veterans who don’t live near a VA facility or can’t get an appointment in a timely manner to seek medical care from private health-care providers.
Signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which provides an $82 billion funding increase for the Department of Defense over the current period, including a $617 billion Pentagon budget, $22 billion for the nuclear weapons program and $69 billion for U.S. military efforts abroad, as well as new tanks, ships, and planes. The package includes a salary boost for service members, about a 2.6 percent raise—the biggest military pay raise in nearly a decade.

But by all means focus on bogus charges and promotion of hatred and let's ignore the record
 
Just how do you know any potential charges are bogus? You also forgot to mention Trumps never ending lying!

Because no voting booths were hacked and there is no law against freedom of speech
 
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...pen_letter_to_the_colluding_press_137833.html

Interesting article from Real Clear Politics

Where are these accomplishments being ignored. Results and numbers don't lie

But by all means focus on bogus charges and promotion of hatred and let's ignore the record

They don't ignore the numbers. :no:

What you see them doing is to credit all successes to the policies of the prior President, while only placing blame on the current President for any failures.

Those who oppose the current administration can't give credit where credit is due, because to do so even in a small way would legitimize his Administration.

You can't legitimize someone you are trying to turn into a "Folk Devil." It undermines the "fight evil with evil" justification narrative allowing one to (for example) "punch a Nazi."

Folk devil is a person or group of people who are portrayed in folklore or the media as outsiders and deviant, and who are blamed for crimes or other sorts of social problems; see also: scapegoat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_devil
 
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Because no voting booths were hacked and there is no law against freedom of speech

Th millions upon millions that were spent on influencing social media platforms done count, not do the intelligence services and congress who all said that Russia influenced our election.
Freedom of speech is fine with your kind, so long as it comes from the Russians.
 
Just how do you know any potential charges are bogus? You also forgot to mention Trumps never ending lying!

Oh, by the way misstatements are not lies, they are mistakes and amount to absolutely nothing but made up charges to promote divisive rhetoric and hatred. those so called lies that you claim don't come close to the Obama lies and corruption that you want to ignore. You really need to clean up your own party before trying to change or correct someone else.
 
They don't ignore the numbers. :no:

What you see them doing is to credit all successes to the policies of the prior President, while only placing blame on the current President for any failures.

That is the leftwing socialist playbook, always place blame on someone else for their own failures and placing blame detracts from the actual results generated. When asked what Obama accomplished for the 9.3 trillion dollars added to the debt we get socialist rhetoric and lies. Obama didn't end the recession, TARP did. Obama didn't create 14 million jobs but rather 6, Obama left us with a declining GDP not growing GDP, and Obama left us with a 20 trillion dollar debt along with rising interest rates leading to a 500 billion dollar projected interest payment on the debt, most of the so called Trump deficits
 
Oh, by the way misstatements are not lies, they are mistakes and amount to absolutely nothing but made up charges to promote divisive rhetoric and hatred. those so called lies that you claim don't come close to the Obama lies and corruption that you want to ignore. You really need to clean up your own party before trying to change or correct someone else.

The are over 4000 proven lies from trump and his administration to date, be proud!!
Yet there was NO corruption in the Obama administration and what you consider to be "lies" amounts to a handful in 8 years, compared to the aforementioned 4000++ in just over a year.
 
Th millions upon millions that were spent on influencing social media platforms done count, not do the intelligence services and congress who all said that Russia influenced our election.
Freedom of speech is fine with your kind, so long as it comes from the Russians.

Yep advertising isn't a violation of the law either as your party has been doing that for decades and condoned. Russia didn't influence you nor me so how do you know they swayed the election?
 
The are over 4000 proven lies from trump and his administration to date, be proud!!
Yet there was NO corruption in the Obama administration and what you consider to be "lies" amounts to a handful in 8 years, compared to the aforementioned 4000++ in just over a year.

Of course there are, all in the liberal mind and none of which amount to a hill of beans, results matter and that is what the American people see. You see nothing but hatred because you don't like Trump. Wonder how many lies I could find in your rhetoric over the last year or were they just misstatements and mistakes? Name for me the worst so called lie from Trump that really hurts you, your family or the country? I posted actual results which you want to ignore. Rhetoric means nothing and won't win a debate, a court case or pay any bills no matter how bad you want it to be
 
Yep advertising isn't a violation of the law either as your party has been doing that for decades and condoned. Russia didn't influence you nor me so how do you know they swayed the election?

The entirity of our intelligence community, every single branch, has agreed that Russia influenced our elections, my dear. Add to that both branches of Congress and just about everyone else in the know. Thats good enough for me and the vast majority of Americans.
 
Oh, by the way misstatements are not lies, they are mistakes and amount to absolutely nothing but made up charges to promote divisive rhetoric and hatred. those so called lies that you claim don't come close to the Obama lies and corruption that you want to ignore. You really need to clean up your own party before trying to change or correct someone else.

See, here's the problem, Con. You build a point, you put up some numbers, and then you make it clear that you have zero integrity whatsoever by coming up with an endless parade of excuses to legitimate criticism of the man.

Unfortunately, you paint yourself into a corner, because you only allow for two options:

1) Your president constantly "misspeaks", which implies complete incompetence, especially in comparison to pretty much any previous president in times recent enough to record enough of their statements for comparison purposes. Ignoring for the moment that it seems strange that Trump only "misspeaks" in a direction that benefits him (hmmmm), one can only deduce that if, in fact, all his lies are actually misstatements, then he is in no way capable of delivering the positive results you are posting...in which case, thank goodness for the machine (aka swamp) that keeps your country rolling despite having a dumbass in the WH.

2) Your president is a filthy ****ing liar, who shouldn't be trusted no matter what results get posted.

Which is it, Con?
 
The MSM doesn't even pretend to be unbiased. Their mission is to remove a duly-elected President, and if they can't do that, they will attempt to damage him so badly that he's unable to affect the agenda he was elected upon.
Fortunately, Trump has been a one-man steam roller and has accomplished a great deal, as you've linked in the OP, in the face of Cat 5 hurricane winds.
And that's just from Jim Acosta's whining!
 
The entirity of our intelligence community, every single branch, has agreed that Russia influenced our elections, my dear. Add to that both branches of Congress and just about everyone else in the know. Thats good enough for me and the vast majority of Americans.

You mean a politicized intelligence community that was in the pocket of the Democratic Party? Really? that is your outrage? it is the duty of the intelligence community to be non partisan and report accurate data and not take sides in a Presidential race but apparently that isn't a problem with you when it supports your party or your ideology

I will put my faith in the results while ignoring the rhetoric. You on the other hand buy the rhetoric because that is what you want to believe and you ignore the results. My dear, you are part of the problem certainly not part of the solution that is being generated today. you are going to have to do better than just provide rhetoric to demonize Trump because the actual results make you look foolish and part of a cult
 
Of course there are, all in the liberal mind and none of which amount to a hill of beans, results matter and that is what the American people see. You see nothing but hatred because you don't like Trump. Wonder how many lies I could find in your rhetoric over the last year or were they just misstatements and mistakes? Name for me the worst so called lie from Trump that really hurts you, your family or the country? I posted actual results which you want to ignore. Rhetoric means nothing and won't win a debate, a court case or pay any bills no matter how bad you want it to be

Yes. results matter and that is why the forthcoming elections will be a total disaster for the GOP. If Obama had done even a small fraction of the crap that Trump has pulled you would have been screaming for his impeachment months ago.
You were always demanding lower debt and balanced budgets, yet now with a Fascist in power you couldn't care how large our national debt grows.
 
You mean a politicized intelligence community that was in the pocket of the Democratic Party? Really? that is your outrage? it is the duty of the intelligence community to be non partisan and report accurate data and not take sides in a Presidential race but apparently that isn't a problem with you when it supports your party or your ideology

I will put my faith in the results while ignoring the rhetoric. You on the other hand buy the rhetoric because that is what you want to believe and you ignore the results. My dear, you are part of the problem certainly not part of the solution that is being generated today. you are going to have to do better than just provide rhetoric to demonize Trump because the actual results make you look foolish and part of a cult

Almost every member of the intelligence community is a card carrying Republican. Come on sweetie, lie some more.
 
See, here's the problem, Con. You build a point, you put up some numbers, and then you make it clear that you have zero integrity whatsoever by coming up with an endless parade of excuses to legitimate criticism of the man.

Unfortunately, you paint yourself into a corner, because you only allow for two options:

1) Your president constantly "misspeaks", which implies complete incompetence, especially in comparison to pretty much any previous president in times recent enough to record enough of their statements for comparison purposes. Ignoring for the moment that it seems strange that Trump only "misspeaks" in a direction that benefits him (hmmmm), one can only deduce that if, in fact, all his lies are actually misstatements, then he is in no way capable of delivering the positive results you are posting...in which case, thank goodness for the machine (aka swamp) that keeps your country rolling despite having a dumbass in the WH.

2) Your president is a filthy ****ing liar, who shouldn't be trusted no matter what results get posted.

Which is it, Con?

Sorry, I make no excuse for the man, never have liked Trump but voted for him to implement the changes we are getting today. Never in my career in the private sector did I solely buy rhetoric, always learned from Reagan that you "trust but verify" and when you verify the leftwing rhetoric you find nothing but bull****. Results matter and that is what Trump is generated and he has my support, not for his rhetoric but for the results being generated

What is it about you and the rest of the radical left that cannot celebrate successes. As I have stated how many times has rhetoric won a court case or paid any bills?? NO, results and facts win court cases and all you have against Trump is rhetoric. I don't like it either but overlook it because rhetoric has never hurt me or my family, results however do
 
Almost every member of the intelligence community is a card carrying Republican. Come on sweetie, lie some more.

OMG, every member of the intelligence committee changes over time and this is the same intelligence committee that told Clinton and Bush that Iraq had WMD. Your partisan bull**** is evident in every post as you try and skew the results being generated. Not going to work, your party is intellectually bankrupt and corrupt to the core.

I posted a list of results and all you do is counter with rhetoric or words spoken by Trump that don't trump results. Name for me any court case that was won on rhetoric, name for me any debate that was won on rhetoric, name for me any bill paid by rhetoric. RESULTS matter, what are the Obama results you want to try and defend?

I can defend every one of the Trump results and whether you like them or not they are on the Trump scorecard. that is the way the world works. you really need to get over your hated as it isn't healthy nor productive
 
Yes. results matter and that is why the forthcoming elections will be a total disaster for the GOP. If Obama had done even a small fraction of the crap that Trump has pulled you would have been screaming for his impeachment months ago.
You were always demanding lower debt and balanced budgets, yet now with a Fascist in power you couldn't care how large our national debt grows.

Trump isn't on the ballot in November but his policies are. What is your party slogan this year, "I tried to keep those evil Republicans from allowing you to keep more of what you earned, vote for me!"

Impeachment does exactly what for the country and the American people? You put so much faith in rhetoric that you are incapable of ever celebrating successes. You are ignoring the causes of the debt, debt service of 500 billion dollars this year alone on the debt OBAMA and prior Presidents left Trump. That is reality but as usual you are incapable of doing research nor do you care
 
Th millions upon millions that were spent on influencing social media platforms done count, not do the intelligence services and congress who all said that Russia influenced our election.
Freedom of speech is fine with your kind, so long as it comes from the Russians.

*millions upon millions*

Is a drop in the bucket compared to the 2billion plus spent by the presidential campaigns. Not to mention, when do we investigate the 100's if 1000's of foreign news sites posting pro or con stories about US candidates. After all meddling is meddling right ??
 


Sorry, I make no excuse for the man, never have liked Trump but voted for him to implement the changes we are getting today. Never in my career in the private sector did I solely buy rhetoric, always learned from Reagan that you "trust but verify" and when you verify the leftwing rhetoric you find nothing but bull****. Results matter and that is what Trump is generated and he has my support, not for his rhetoric but for the results being generated

What is it about you and the rest of the radical left that cannot celebrate successes. As I have stated how many times has rhetoric won a court case or paid any bills?? NO, results and facts win court cases and all you have against Trump is rhetoric. I don't like it either but overlook it because rhetoric has never hurt me or my family, results however do
Trump's success flies in the face of the Left's identity politics. Have yet to see a Democrat celebrate black or hispanic unemployment. They are too busy bemoaning losing rights they've never lost, and never will lose.
It's all about keeping the base aggrieved and dependent.
 
*millions upon millions*

Is a drop in the bucket compared to the 2billion plus spent by the presidential campaigns. Not to mention, when do we investigate the 100's if 1000's of foreign news sites posting pro or con stories about US candidates. After all meddling is meddling right ??

When do we investigate the U.S. media's colluding to destroy a duly-elected President?
 
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...pen_letter_to_the_colluding_press_137833.html

Interesting article from Real Clear Politics

Where are these accomplishments being ignored. Results and numbers don't lie

But by all means focus on bogus charges and promotion of hatred and let's ignore the record

It is an open letter by Sean Spicer and the America First Action Super PAC who's sole purpose is "electing federal candidates who support the agenda of the Trump-Pence administration."

What we have here is bias calling out bias, with one pretending to be a victim.

While many of those numbers are accurate context is equally important.

Example... "Almost 4 million new jobs have been created since President Trump’s election" assumes Trump is entirely responsible for the direction of the economy, which is a lie.

Another example... "African-American, Hispanic-American, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached the lowest levels in history" very similar to the first example. Assumes the trend before him was not on this path.

Another... "Women’s unemployment rate has reached the lowest level in 65 years" same as the first two, assumes the trend and results are all Trump. Another fabrication.

Our issue is the same, telling an audience what they want to hear... something Sean Spicer is doing just as much as our more liberal leaning MSM. None of it is excusable, but America First Action Super PAC pretending the moral high ground is insane.
 
Because no voting booths were hacked and there is no law against freedom of speech

You Know NOTHING of the Kind as to whether voting booths were hacked or not, Conservative.

You do know GOPutins led by McConnell have been Colluding with the GRU Russians since the 2014 elections.

You also know the most Bastardized and Lee Atwaterized GOParty of Putin is in Bed With #45’s Russian Mafia in the 2018 Elections — in all 50 states — especially the recent ones YOU know.
 
When do we investigate the U.S. media's colluding to destroy a duly-elected President?

The Ghost and Memory of Stalin should be able to Help you on that one.

GOPutins are indeed ‘Thd Enemy Within’.
 
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