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A strong plurality of those yet to be vaccinated are Republicans. And a strong majority of those who say they will never get the vaccine are Republicans. Maybe Biden can reach some of the rest, but even if he shows more leadership on this issue I would bet a lot of money those Republicans would be even less likely to listen. Some of these folks are unreachable at this point, except perhaps by one of their cult leaders. But as we recall, Trump did his best to keep quiet that he even got the vaccine. Hopefully other conservatives are stepping up.
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So the death threats were five years ago, Hilary and Bill are essentially irrelevant now, the suicide investigation is being handled by local police — not the Feds, and yet people in this thread think there some grand conspiracy and that someone would murder this guy over things that are ancient history politically?
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“The true President of the US lives in Florida but possession is 9/10ths of the law.”
I guess he can’t run for a third term then.
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Yes, according to a recent poll (from late March), 31% of Republicans still blame Antifa. There was also a thread about it posted by Cardcrimson on this board shortly after the incident.
PL, you wrote: “A really mature approach would be to understand why they would be pissed enough to storm the Capitol, but that’s an investigation that is too sensitive for politics. Instead we will blame qanon and try to stick it to Trump.”
We know why they were pissed off. Their leadership lied to them repeatedly about “the steal” – and continues to lie about it. And the fact that nearly a third of Republicans believe the insurrection was antifa is indicative of a serious break with reality and basic facts among conservatives.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at how easily conservatives are whitewashing this incident, making it out to be no big deal. Just a few disgruntled tourists who just happened to storm the capitol during the formal and legal conclusion to a democratic election. Nothing to see here. Maybe we can have a 34th hearing on Benghazi instead.
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I don’t see the problem. Voter fraud is essentially non-existent, statistically speaking, and everyone has the right to vote.
Unlike voter fraud, the pandemic is still very real and you do not have a right to attend a game and spread a disease — a very real possibility with major health consequences for people.
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Yeah, it was just your garden variety storming of the capitol. Only 5 people died and 138 officers were injured. What’s the big deal? /s
Also:
Before and after the storming of the Capitol, NBC News reported, police seized a dozen firearms, including an assault rifle, and thousands of rounds of ammunition from seven people attending the rally for President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. Other weapons included a crossbow, a stun gun and 11 Molotov cocktails.
… we will never know how many rioters might have been armed with guns on Jan. 6, because only some were arrested that day.
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gpn: Every President gets discussed for some period of time after they leave office because the issues they were handling are still relevant for some time. It was the same way with Obama. He was mentioned on the CEB frequently by you all for at least six months to a year after he left office. Same with Bush 8 years earlier.
And Trump is no doubt going to run again, so we’ll be talking about him plenty in the future, unfortunately.
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Legend, I don’t think was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. He was the President of the United States at the time and 74 years old. Nobody — not even the most strident liberal outlet — was going to fault him for line jumping. The guy spent a year trying to have it both ways: he did some things that were helpful and also went out of his way to not alienate his anti-mask, anti-vax base. That’s not leadership. It’s negligence. Leading from behind, as you all used to say about Obama…. Same behavior when the Capital was stormed. He waited hours to finally come out and issue some mealy-mouthed statement (I love you; please go home), while everyone was wondering where the hell he was… Same thing in Helsinki when he said he trusted Putin more than our intelligence leadership that he had appointed. He had to come out the next day and read from a prepared statement claiming that he had mistakenly used the word “would” when he had meant to say “wouldn’t”.
The fearless leader who supposedly tells it like it is actually won’t tell it like it is when it really counts.
Not to dwell on Trump, but the Rocky thread reminded me of the dear leader’s “fearless” leadership on COVID that had real consequences with people’s health. Blame Newsome and others too – I don’t care. But don’t pretend Trump was some beacon of light on this subject. He tried to have it both ways for a year and it cost many lives. More forceful communication from the leading Republican surely would have helped more Republicans and conservative news outlets from embracing conspiracies.
And, yes, I realize there are some Democrats who refuse to be vaccinated. But the disparity versus Republicans is not some statistical noise. It’s a massive difference. It’s a failure of conservative media and Republican leadership.
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I also remember when Trump said Kim wrote him beautiful letters and they fell in love. Such a bizarre four years.
Meanwhile, it’s been nice not having to hear about Trump’s latest temper tantrum every day. Apparently he’s in talks to launch his own social media company in a few months, though, so the peace and quiet may only be temporary.
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The Washington Post screwed up by using supposed direct quotes based on memory of someone instead of a summary. So, yes, Trump didn’t say “find the fraud”. But I’ve got a bridge to sell you if you don’t think that’s essentially what he was asking. The guy wasn’t calling just to shoot the breeze.
The real story still remains that it was wildly inappropriate and possibly illegal for a President to be calling election officials and trying to get them to change votes. There is audio of him calling Raffensperger and asking him to find 11,780 votes.
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