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G.O.P. Platform, Rolled Over From 2016, Condemns the ‘Current President’
New York Times ^ | 6/11/20 | Reid J. Epstein and Annie Karni

Posted on 06/12/2020 8:49:31 AM PDT by Meatspace

WASHINGTON — When Republicans read the platform their party is using for the 2020 campaign, they may be surprised to see that it is full of condemnations of the sitting president.

“The survival of the internet as we know it is at risk,” the platform reads. “Its gravest peril originates in the White House, the current occupant of which has launched a campaign, both at home and internationally, to subjugate it to agents of government.”

The warning about speech online is one of more than three dozen unflattering references to either the “current president,” “current chief executive,” “current administration,” people “currently in control” of policy, or the “current occupant” of the White House that appear in the Republican platform. Adopted at the party’s 2016 convention, it has been carried over through 2024 after the executive committee of the Republican National Committee on Wednesday chose not to adopt a new platform for 2020.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; fakenews; gopplatform; newyorkbeobachter; newyorkslimes; notnews
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1 posted on 06/12/2020 8:49:31 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Meatspace

THIS HAS GOT TO BE FAKE NEWS!


2 posted on 06/12/2020 8:50:39 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: Meatspace

It obviously was referring to Obama at the time.


3 posted on 06/12/2020 8:51:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Meatspace

What a waste of time, totally non-news worthy. Figures, the NY Times isn’t news.


4 posted on 06/12/2020 8:51:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Meatspace

Oh wait, it was written in 2016, so the ‘slurs’ are about Obama. But they absolutely should have rewritten it to stop the possible reference to Trump.


5 posted on 06/12/2020 8:52:06 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: Meatspace

Well, supposedly Jushner is in charge of it...


6 posted on 06/12/2020 8:52:18 AM PDT by jjotto (“Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.”)
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To: originalbuckeye

If it isn’t FAKE NEWS, they have been given over to reprobate minds and are doing satan’s demonic bidding.


7 posted on 06/12/2020 8:52:49 AM PDT by Maudeen (www.thereishopeinJesus.com)
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To: Meatspace

Umm, I don’t think so!


8 posted on 06/12/2020 8:55:22 AM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: Meatspace
Pure horse shi!. NYT is a communists piece of dung. Don't buy this rag.
9 posted on 06/12/2020 8:55:33 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Meatspace

Trump said too early to draft a platform.


10 posted on 06/12/2020 8:56:27 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Meatspace

Seems extremely lazy in a world where things change so quickly.


11 posted on 06/12/2020 8:57:02 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Meatspace

Everyone condemns Trump. Except most of the electorate.

I mean including the military chiefs who, until this recent takeover by the liberals in generals’ regalia, would not in a million years nor under enemy torture, express disagreement with the president, or, I should say, the electorate for whom they serve

It is not ok.


12 posted on 06/12/2020 8:58:15 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Meatspace
So, the Slimes hopes people will assume they mean Trump.

Plumbing the depths of misinformation are we? This is several fathoms down.

13 posted on 06/12/2020 9:02:08 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Freedom Is In Peril! Defend it with your life.)
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To: Maudeen

They were given over to reprobate minds a long time ago.


14 posted on 06/12/2020 9:05:01 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: jjotto
Well, supposedly Jushner is in charge of it...

Apparently they're just recycling the 2016 platform and blaming Covid for not rewriting it.

15 posted on 06/12/2020 9:06:27 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Meatspace

The platform for this year’s Presidential election HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN, nor has it been adopted.

This is totally-— TOTALLY contrived fantasist Ny Slimes idiocy— to dominate the news and try to give credence to the GOPe internal in the government as well as the continuing obamaumaoites embedded and still working against Trump.

To Wit: Judge Emmet Sullivan. Such are the stakes of having the entire Mueller FARCE thrown out and liable for a suit against the agency who put it out— that single handedly (not really-— the desperate left lawyers and fakirs) a Judge thinks he can still sentence someone against whom the prosecuting party as dropped the case... for governmental wrong doing of seriously CRIMINAL nature. The judge has joined the criminals and thinks he can be judge, prosecutor and jury and try the case all himself. He is headed for a very rude AWAKENING.


16 posted on 06/12/2020 9:09:50 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: DoodleDawg

Sure seems to me that just a few days after Kushner was tasked by the President with updating the platform, the RNC slaps him in the face by re-issuing the 2016 platform unchanged.


17 posted on 06/12/2020 9:11:21 AM PDT by jjotto (“Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.”)
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To: originalbuckeye
Well consider....it IS the NY Times..

Like reading A Propaganda Drop.


18 posted on 06/12/2020 9:11:29 AM PDT by caww
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To: Meatspace

Biden’s staff has had a bunch of failures with his telecommunications and whatnot. Makes Biden look like he can’t find decent people to support him.

If the GOP really issued a 2020 platform document that is a complete retread from 2016, then they don’t look any better than Biden’s team.


19 posted on 06/12/2020 9:11:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: jjotto

Kared Jushner?


20 posted on 06/12/2020 9:17:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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