Posted on 04/22/2016 8:30:37 AM PDT by Kegger
Like anyone who has ever decided to run for president, Donald Trump is a man who makes promises. Some are bold and stunning: he'll build a 50-foot high wall along the United States' southern border -- and he'll get Mexico to pay for it! If he wins the presidency, in his first term, he'll knock out Obamacare, Common Core, the Environmental Protection Agency, and defund Planned Parenthood! He'll even force cookie company Nabisco to make its Oreos in America again!
It's hard to predict whether he will be able to deliver on those pledges after the election. But it might be instructive to look at the promises he's made that are purely operative during the campaign cycle. He has discarded some, deferred others, and kept only parts of others. Here are just a few of them:
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No one else got personally attacked for posting it. It’s like you are possessed or something. Chill.
I can’t monitor and respond to every dishonest claim on FR. Just because others did it and didn’t get called out, does not make it right.
You seem to be okay with maligning Cruz this way. But you do not seem so gung ho on the idea of being treated in any way you feel is unfair.
Maybe next time you think about posting nasty criminal accusations you should consider how it would feel if someone did it to you.
It’s been going on for months now. And it is to be expected of leftwing, liberal idiots. It is not acceptable on a conservative forum.
How about Obama’s promises? “Affordable healthcare”? “Close GTMO in first year”? “Most transparent administration in history”? And a whole bunch of B.S.
“You seem to be okay with maligning Cruz this way.”
I didn’t do that. That is a strawman logical fallacy you have imagined up. I posted a tweet. That is all.
“I posted a tweet. That is all.”
No it isn’t. You posted a tweet making a malicious criminal accusation that is unsubstantiated.
Again, is it okay with you if I go ahead and post a tweet with a video link of a man walking past a park with children, and then add the comment that dynoman violated his parole terms as a sex offender?
Go ahead and let me know if that does not bother you. Otherwise, explain how that would be different than what you did.
You anti-Cruzers have been committing political arson for months. You start one fire, and while honest people try to put it out, you start two more.
So don’t go getting your feelings hurt when you get called out for it. Just stop doing it.
Let’s see today I’ve been called DynoHomo and pervert. So you imagine up a strawman that I’m a sex offender really doesn’t matter to much. Imagining up strawmen seems to be something you do well. So carry on however you wish. I have no defense against your imagination.
“So you imagine up a strawman that I’m a sex offender really doesn’t matter to much. “
Funny that you use a straw man to argue that I am using one.
I never said that YOU actually were a sex offender. I asked if you care if I were to post such on Twitter.
You just claimed that your reposting of an unsubstantiated accusation of criminal activity by Cruz does NOT mean you actually think it is true or were arguing that it is true. By virtue of your position, I am asking is okay for me to post a similar unsubstantiated allegation against you?
Well?
That wasn’t one of the strawman you imagined up. Think a little deeper.
That wasn’t one of the strawman you imagined up. Think a little deeper.
What I said was since you do seem to like to imagine up strawmen and attack with them go ahead and do it with the sex offended meme. That’s your style, it’s the way you roll. It’s in your posts for all to see.
Where are all the ranchers along the border excited that they’ve been asked for easements for the wall? That’s a year long process in itself, or more, what with flood plain considerations.
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IF Donald runs up against lawsuits whatever to prolong building the wall, he’ll put enough guards on the border to stop the illegal invaders. Count on it.
Cruz is too soft on immigration. He will do nothing.
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Sound like a parrot mimicking words you don’t comprehend.
Figures. The whole point is the DISHONESTY you parade with posts like the one that started this long, wearisome, one-sided conversation.
You dance around the issue as if it isn’t there. Every salient point you simply deflect with an accusation.
Just like when you claim calling you a sex offender is how I roll. Really? I asked you if it was okay. You still have not answered. I asked you how it would be different than what you did. You still have not answered. And it is because you can’t. So that is NOT how I roll. It is how YOU roll. It is what you already did but are not man enough to own up to and just call it a mistake. If you were not LYING about your intent of posting the link, you would have simply admitted you made a mistake by not putting quotes around the caption. The reality is that you wanted to promote the accusation as if it were true and a fact. And then you went into denial.
When all else fails you resort to calling me demon possessed. I recall a biblical passage of similar accusations being hurled. It did not go well for the false accusers.
I no longer intend or expect for anything remotely resembling honesty, integrity, logic or reason to come from your side of this conversation. So I will simply post for the record, as everyone can see how certain people rely on lies instead of truth in their arguments.
You know who you are. Everyone knows who you are.
“You, you , you, you” am I living in your head or what?? LOLOL!!
Saw that and was going to post it.
TED CRUZ BRIBING DELEGATE, CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3423851/posts
TED CRUZ BRIBING DELEGATE, CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3423851/posts
“Maybe you can comment on the content instead of protesting people’s lying eyes.”
Maybe you should read my comments before opening your mouth and making false statements about what I said AND what the video shows.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3423610/posts?page=53#53
Unlearner: “I have no idea why Cruz might hand someone cash. Maybe he was handing back a donation and telling him he should donate online. Maybe it was a staffer getting his lunch. Maybe he lost a bet. Maybe he owed the guy money. We do not even know who the person was to whom he gave the money.”
Tell me what you think your eyes saw. I know what I saw. I saw a graining, choppy, low-resolution video depicting Cruz handing someone what looks like a bill of US currency. The resolution is so poor, it is hard to tell what the document is or what amount of cash it was. It shows no one but Cruz and bunch of other people’s bodies and hands. Someone appears to be trying to get a book autographed. No evidence whatsoever of the crime he is accused of.
How would YOU like it if CNN showed a guy walking past a park and then claimed it was PA Engineer, who is a Free Republic contributing private citizen journalist and convicted sex offender? And CNN said you were in violation of your parole. Would you be okay with me chiming in and agreeing because I don’t have “lyin’ eyes”? I can see plainly there is a guy walking past a park with kids. So it must be true. You okay with that as proof?
Like many other attacks on Cruz I foolishly thought maybe there is something to this. I have been promised PROOF that Cruz supplied the photo of Trump’s wife. Proof never came. I was promised PROOF that he had multiple affairs. Proof never came. I promised I would switch my support to Trump if either of these things were true. (Specifically, I said if Cruz committed a recent affair or even one in the past that his wife did not know about and reconcile over, because this makes him a blackmail risk.)
And this video shows nothing. NOTHING.
NO explanation of where and when it was shot. No explanation of who received cash. No one’s face except Cruz is in the video.
Maybe it was shot by a Planned Parenthood operative. Maybe it is “highly edited”, because there is NO context at all. Why? Why is there NOTHING to provide context?
AND I DID COMMENT ON THE VIDEO. The heated debate with the one posting the link was to address the lies and malicious attacks that have been ongoing.
So, let me repeat. Why would anyone ASSUME that Cruz giving someone cash is automatically a crime?
He is a Harvard lawyer who has clerked for the Supreme Court who only the biggest fool would underestimate by saying he is not intelligent. And I am supposed to believe he committed a felony in front of a large crowd of people with cameras running. I can see another camera in the video. Cruz expected to be photographed and video recorded. Yet he committed a crime? Insanity.
Just because someone posts a Youtube video of Cruz handing someone cash does not mean their caption has the slightest validity.
And, as I pointed out, the Cruz haters here post new lies about him faster than they can be answered and refuted. It is political arson. And honest conservatives need no part in this nasty business.
So you should not be questioning why I rebuked the poster, you should be applauding it.
If Cruz committed a crime, as I am supposed to believe, please contact the DA in the city where this bribery occurred and have him arrested. Otherwise, stop posting stupid lies.
If you want Trump to win, FINE. I’m with you. Do it honestly. Get back on message. Save the hateful criticism for the real traitors of the nation, which includes Hillary Clinton.
Awesome. This is the proper way to vet something on FR.
And posting a link to the FR thread is the best way to do it from some other thread.
And if you don’t want someone else’s comments or tweet to be mistaken for your own view, I suggest putting them in quotes. Feel free to listen or ignore my advice. Whether you believe it or not, it is meant sincerely.
And I do not hate you or your preferred candidate. But I do often choose a very aggressive approach to make my case, just like Trump does. Maybe you can appreciate that. Maybe not.
You have the unique honor of being THE ONLY person here who has been confused about a tweet I posted. Congratulations!
Well, I will post the same thing I posted earlier.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal
anecdotal fallacy: You used a personal experience or an isolated example instead of a sound argument or compelling evidence.
First of all, you are PROJECTING that your decision to not explain your post, comment on it, or put quotes around the words of someone else, represent a fault on MY part.
Second, I don’t care. I gave some helpful, friendly advice. Choose to ignore it and remain stupid if you wish. You really do not need to justify your choice to me because, as I said, I don’t care.
Third, because MANY, MANY conservatives are simply weary of your stupid, inane, worthless, nasty, disgusting, putrid, immoral, unethical, liberal-loving vitriol, they may not bother to respond.
So, in your mind, being IGNORED by people constitutes agreement. It doesn’t. But if it makes you feel better about yourself and more accomplished as a participant on this forum, feel free to continue living in your imaginary world. But while you hurt yourself bending your arm to pat yourself on the back, just don’t get your panties all in a ruffle if I don’t share your irrational exuberance.
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