Posted on 01/24/2024 9:19:24 AM PST by Heartlander
The Democrats have settled upon their 2024 campaign message: “Former President Donald Trump poses a threat to democracy and must be stopped. He has openly admitted he will become a dictator on day one.”
Liberals make these statements about Trump and so-called MAGA Republican “extremists” because they know if they are repeated enough, they will stick. And they’re right. No evidence is required because the Democrats know they will never be called upon to support their claims by their comrades.
When questioned by conservatives, however, they simply hold fast to their lies. Take, for example, Fox News host Bret Baier’s interview last week with Biden campaign official Quentin Fulks, who blamed Republicans for the influx of more than 300,000 illegal immigrants at our southern border in December alone. “President Biden took office, sent a comprehensive immigration reform package to Congress,” he said. “They have refused to pass it or do anything.”
Baier quickly reminded him that Biden reversed the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” and catch-and-release policies on day one.
Fulks said that “Donald Trump rounded up immigrants, separated families, and put them in cages. That’s not how we treat human beings.”
Baier was having none of it: “There are more kids in custody under the Biden administration than there were under the Trump administration. You know that.” He added, “You have to concede immigration is a vulnerability for the Biden campaign. Can’t you concede that?”
Fulks replied: “What we concede is that President Biden is working on this issue and that Republicans in the House are playing political games and doing Donald Trump’s bidding so no real results get done. They are the least effective House since the Great Depression because they are playing political games instead of trying to get real results done and working with this president for the American people.”
The exchange shows that this blubbering imbecile either had no understanding of the topic or was lying through his teeth. My money’s on the latter. And unfortunately, Fulks’s disingenuousness is typical of most liberals. They will defend the indefensible at all costs — no matter how dishonest they sound. When called out on their lies, they turn into sniveling idiots.
Conservatives, on the other hand, are generally well armed with the facts. They need to be because it’s not a level playing field.
Baier, for example, refused to let Fulks’s lies stand — a strategy every conservative should adopt when dealing with the Left. Pin them down. Question their “facts.” Force them to explain themselves. Be the 3-year-old in the room who never stops asking why.
Here are six questions we must ask our liberal friends:
How exactly does Trump pose a threat to democracy? Too much has been revealed by the House Republicans’ investigations, the “Twitter Files,” and the conservative media for them to make this claim credibly. From the Russian collusion hoax in 2016 to the Democrats’ current lawfare campaign against Trump, the party’s hypocrisy is on full display.
Why, specifically, do you hate Trump? Did they hate the robust economy we had before the pandemic? The 1.4% inflation rate? The low gas prices? Were they unhappy when the United States was energy-independent? When Russia and China stayed in their lanes? When the Trump administration enforced U.S. immigration laws?
Can you name three accomplishments of the Biden administration? Were they happy when Biden returned Afghanistan to Taliban rule? Are they pleased that more than 7 million immigrants have entered the U.S. illegally since he took office? That 100,000 people die annually from drug overdoses from the fentanyl that flows over our open border? That their reckless spending has driven the national debt to $34 trillion and that consumer prices are up over 17% overall (38% for energy and 20% for groceries, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics) on his watch? Or that mortgage interest rates have doubled?
Do you honestly believe Biden is mentally competent? Virtually all public appearances end in humiliation for the president. The Wall Street Journal’s Barton Swaim summed up Biden’s incompetence in a September op-ed, pointing out that his deficiencies are very different (and far more dangerous) than Trump’s. The painful truth, according to Swaim, is that Biden’s “personal culpabilities and political liabilities are what any normal, uninvested person would call grave.”
Swaim wrote: “Mr. Biden’s cringe-making decline is on display nearly every time he appears in public; examples are too many, and too painful, to describe. His diminished state might be funny in a novel or a movie, but in the real world it’s a continuing invitation to bad actors to engage in devilry and expect no consequence.”
Are you proud of Biden on the global stage? Biden has become the object of ridicule by leaders around the world. After Biden’s physician released a post-examination statement saying the president remained “healthy” and “vigorous,” Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi compiled a montage of his most cringeworthy moments. By the end of the segment, she was laughing so hard, she cried. Suffice it to say that in Biden’s case, age isn’t just a number, and the rest of the world is well aware of that.
And finally, are you better off now than you were three years ago? As Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Fox News last week, “Unless you’re a Big Tech billionaire or a drug lord, you’re not.”
A vote for any Democrat, anywhere, anytime is a vote to destroy the American nation.
Answers to all 6 questions
Orange Man Bad
We know some with this mind (?)set. No discussions, they “know” so don’t try to talk them out of it.
/sarc
Why are you so F’n stupid?
Why do you have no common sense?
Why do you hate America?
The list is endless.
“Unless you’re a Big Tech billionaire or a drug lord...”
Why do they call the “lords”?
7. Biden has claimed that “White Supremacists” pose the “greatest threat to Democracy.”
Can you explain what a “White Supremacist” is and point to several concrete examples and then explain as to how they are the “greatest threat to our Democracy?”
Ditto
Be asked my leftist co-workers these questions.
Due to living on a steady diet of daily CNN/MSNBC, they have learned their Pat answers.
“How does Trump pose a threat to democracy!”
A: “..NO other head of any country has ever told their followers to HATE another group of people of their country!!…”
Really. I ask exactly WHEN he did this. Answer: “..WHA… UHHH.. he does it ALL the time!! He CAMPAIGNED on it!..”
Q: Why - specifically, do you hate Trump??
A: “..the dude is DANGEROUS! He’s CRAZY! He just wants to help himself and all his rich friends!! He’s buddies with Putin, the North Korean dictator and the Chinese dictator!!! He’s a dictator wannabe!!..”
Q: Can you name three accomplishments of the Biden administration?
A: “.. he got us out of Covid! He fixed the broken economy that Trump left! (Trumps ‘good’ economy was just the result of 0bamas policies, doncha know..)
And he’s the first President to finally get an infrastructure bill passed! The country was falling apart!!! Roads and bridges! Shovel-ready jobs!!! Biden got us back working again!!”
It’s amazingly bizarre to hear them spew this leftist nonsense all the time. Non-stop. When we are having a slow work month, it’s because - “ gun violence! People are afraid to go out nowadays!!..”.
Whatever that weeks’ story is on CNN, THAT’S why we have problems with our band…
Truth is, MAYBE it’s because you fell out with that theater OWNER when you found out he voted for Trump… but no.. it’s because of Covid kicking up again.. CNN said so!..
The answer to every question is the same: Racism.
Good questions but you’ll never get a straight answer out of any of them.
#7 question: would you like a blindfold and cigarette?
If you want a preview of how the conversation will go here is what to do.
Go visit the chimpanzees in the local zoo and ask them the six questions....
From inside the cage.
Lol.
Need to ask Democrats: “Would you prefer Kamala
as the presidential candidate........ rather than Joe?”
ping
"A vote for any Democrat, anywhere, anytime is a vote to destroy the American nation." .
“Be the 3-year-old in the room who never stops asking why.”
Then expect them to start investigating and imprisoning people for asking why. Dissent will not be tolerated.
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