Last night the main debate was already on at ten to six when I checked in CNN. I watched just over an hour and a half of the debate but the thing was on for three hours from five o clock to eight, and there were two ad breaks in the middle. The most noticeable thing about both debates was the set up questions trying to pit participant against participant. Shawn played a whole string of them at the start of his show today and Shawn said “I’m no closer to deciding which candidate I like than I was”. This may be because I thought Trump had a bad night. For one thing he looked short next to Jeb Bush like maybe he was five eight or something. Trump didn’t get as much time this time and his remarks weren’t as whitty but I felt he was a man who was out of ideas and just going through the motions. Carley Feurina was the clear winner of last night’s debate. She never got flustered even when Trump was seeking to insult her. There were one on ones between Trump and Bush on the subject of immigration. And Rand Paul and Trump took on Bush and the rest of them on the subject of the Iraq war. Christie was noted for saying that he lived through 9 – 11 and this makes him qualified to be president. Apparently fact checkers found a lot of falsehoods stated last night and I came up with quite a few myself and was talking back to the screen. Huckibee said very little. Ben Carson and Trump crossed swords over immigration and Carson said that “I can get through any fence that will most likely be constructed”. I was unwilling to continue after the 7:25 break because it was turning into the all war all the time debate with Walker and Bush and the others piling on. The audience was very pro war. Carley and Trump exchanged carrier profiles- - and Trump got the better of Carley here because Trump was more successful than Carley was at HP. Marco Rubio tends to talk fast and many see Rubio as the “sleeper” who could come back to win it all, eventually.
Tom’s after ten guest was a guy who knew about
disenfranchising alleged Black felons in the Florida election in 2000. I’ve heard how they took off people with the
same name as a felon and didn’t follow it up even. They did some called “caging” and you’ll
have to refresh my memory. At any rate
Cathleen Harris and Jeb Bush orchestrated this purge of voter rolls to elect
his brother. Even so it wasn’t enough
for his brother to win, but by the tine the Times reported the final results of
the vote tabulation (with Gore on top) according to Thom, “We were right in the
middle of the 9 – 11 crisis and it didn’t seem appropriate to run an article to
make George W look bad”. That’s pretty
lame for a rationalization. At the beginning of his program at nine, Thom
went over a long list of items NOT talked about during the debates, and when
Bernie Sanders tweeted, he enumerated topics not talked about during the
debate. A LOT of topics were missing
from the table last night. Then Thom talked about how Billionaires sought
actively to build up the Reagan myth as in “tear down this myth”. Apparently the project was a massive
endeavor of rich people to falsify Reagan history, because the real Ronald
Reagan was in the throes of Alzheimers at this time and was in no position to
defend himself and his administration.
My
own “fact checking” came up with a lot of economic lies. One of the biggest whoppers was saying after
the Reagan tax bill of 1986 that the US experienced it’s longest period of
prosperity ever. Actually at MOST it
would have been four years or till the Gulf War recession of 1990. Under Clinton we had economic growth from a
troff in 1993 up through the middle of 2001 or something like eight years. There is the repeated LIE that the Clinton
economic surge was because congress CUT federal taxes. Actually they RAISED all sorts of taxes, as
people like Rush Limbaugh used to warn us endlessly about. Here are more fact checks. Rand Paul says that the Saudis are not
accepting ANY of the Syrian refugees.
The fact checker claims they are but from everything I’ve heard the
Saudis are far too paranoid to lie in the bed they made, or- - to reap the
fruit of all the terrorist funding they have done over the years. In terms of those videos of a live newborn
plreemie- - - this was NOT from aborted fetus that Carley Feurina claims it was
but this video was arbitrarily edited INTO the video at a later point. Chris Christie may have defunded planned
parenthood but fact checker claims it was done strictly because the economy was at that
time in a severe recession. Christie was
NOT a US prosecutor on September tenth 2001 as he claims. His nomination was not even ANNOUNCED until early
December 2001. This is just another way
to work 9 – 11 into the conversation.
The Florida state supreme court INVALIDATED the state school voucher
system that Jeb Bush claims he had successful implemented but it was eliminated. Fact checker examines whether there was a link
between school vaccinations and Autism. Ben Carsen’s statement is TRUE. There is no link. Trump’s assertion is false, in saying there Was a
link. Ted Cruz made false statements
about “self inspection” by Iranians of themselves in the nuclear treaty. Trump denies that he “lobbied for casinos in
Florida”. Fact check says he did. It is in fact TRUE that we in the long run
will NEED to import workers for Social Security to achieve solvency. It’s something to think about but we NEED
new workers. The final fact check says
the VETTING process for Syrian refugees would still be intact.
There are people who believe that everything about this "so called Capitalist economy" is manipulated. Everything from stock prices to interest rates to oil costs, to gold and silver to currencies are all manipulated. I don't like using that word because it's a strong word. It conotes "meddling with the prime forces of economic karma" or what have you. You are jimmying the very workings of a supposedly free market economy. Just for the record I'm not buying into this theory myself. For one thing I don't believe it's physically possible, not except in some highly unusual situations. Conservatives pride themselves on getting where they are by their own boot straps. When I was young I was a stronger believer in this theory than I am now. Shawn Hannity believes that BECAUSE you are rich, and for NO OTHER REASON this makes you a good person. Judy believes pretty much the same thing. Somehow it means ipso facto that you have "Contributed to the betterment of society simply by striking it lucky in the stock market. Conservative Christians apply this theory in public (to the "world) when it comes to Rightiousness and Salvation. They claim that one's deeds are weighed on the divine scales of justice. But if you're an INSIDER like I am (one time it pays to be an insider) you know this is not Born Again doctrine, but something they allow the world to believe. Actually God is the ultimate manipulator. If you believe classic protestent teaching- - NO ACTION of man brings him rightiousness. Salvation is often achieved IN SPITE of a person's own moral character or volitional actions. If God wants it, then it happens- - for good or bad. God in other words "Manipulates" the scales of justice, just like it's alledged that the whole world economies are manipulated. This is probably the leading cause of both my religious doubts, and the ultimate reason why I left the Church. There remained to me no incentive to even TRY to please a god who apparently "will not be pleased" if you believe these people. Not even the touted "humility" will work. These people's idea of humility anyhow is getting up on stage to receive some glitzy award for some merit the group decided merited such an award - and bragging about your humility to an applauding crowd shouting your praises. The whole thing is a little much.
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