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Democratic Leadership Should Apologize to the American People
RealClearPolitics/X ^ | Bill Ackman

Posted on 11/07/2024 2:20:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux

If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth.

Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on The NY Times, MSNBC, CNN and other mainstream media for their news. And they did.

If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM.

The MSM excerpted, clipped and cut to defame @realDonaldTrump while claiming that @JoeBiden was fit as a fiddle. Then when Biden’s polls collapsed, @KamalaHarris was anointed the candidate and her hagiography was written with glowing acclaim from the press. But this could not hold as she ducked the media and held fast to the teleprompter.

Citizen journalists with their phone cameras in hand captured the real Kamala forcing her to defend her record and her plans in more media appearances. It did not go well and the public demanded to learn more so @KamalaHarris had to risk more unscripted media.

The doom loop was underway with perhaps 60 Minutes as one of the more dramatic examples, even after CBS tried to save her, most glaringly by excerpting one answer to replace a word salad response to another. But the citizen journalists on @X quickly caught and outed this fraud and demanded a transcript.

As many who supported Kamala began to realize that they have been misled, they became open to Trump as an alternative, but they didn’t want to rely on the media to understand him because they did not want to be misled again.

They wanted to hear the candidate in his own words and that is where @lexfridman and @joeroganhq long form podcasts came to the rescue. When Kamala was offered the same opportunities to explain herself, she rejected them. And the voting public could only draw a negative inference.

When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information. It will push more people to @X , to podcasts and other empirical sources, and it will lead to a more informed public.

The other outcome I hope happens is the implosion of the Democratic Party. The Party lied to the American people about the cognitive health and fitness of the president. It prevented, threatened, litigated and otherwise eliminated the ability of other candidates for the primary to compete, to get on ballots, and to even participate in a debate. The Party and the administration used lawfare in an attempt to imprison, bankrupt or otherwise kill off Trump as a candidate. These acts are collectively grave threats to our democracy. With the highest irony in order to hide these acts, the Party accused the opposition candidate of being the grave threat to democracy.

The Democratic Party proved itself to be fundamentally undemocratic. It needs a complete reboot. The leadership should be thrown out and those responsible should apologize to the American people.

Honest Abe said it best:

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.


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1 posted on 11/07/2024 2:20:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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The Party lied to the American people about the cognitive health and fitness of the president.

And the Democrat Party and the media lied about the cognitive health and fitness of Kamala.

She's a brain-dead dolt.

2 posted on 11/07/2024 2:22:06 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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Instead, the Democrats will blame the American people for its own failures. You simply can’t reason with unreasonable people. To them, the truth and facts are irrelevant.


3 posted on 11/07/2024 2:23:50 AM PST by Spok (You cannot reason with an unreasonable person.)
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4 posted on 11/07/2024 2:26:32 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Thinking is difficult. And painful. That’s why many people just adopt ideologies.)
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Half-truths and selected stories - our Liberal Democrat / Uniparty Lying Main-Stream Media


5 posted on 11/07/2024 2:33:39 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: RoosterRedux

I don’t think the full truth can be found in x. It is an echo chamber and a cess pit.

The real media was SUPPOSED to be impartial, but it has failed - for years.

This leaves ordinary voters in a position where they need to check a number of sites - both news media AND social media and then research on their own to arrive at a position.

We here on Freerepublic should also acknowlege that we are an echo chamber - on most core issues we agree with each other. You see the same among those who watch ABC etc.

The difference would be that we on FR KNOW that we are in a similar minded persons group, while the other side are genuinely shocked that people differ in opinions from them - and then they are shocked by the outcome.

I wish we could have at least ONE site that published unbiased (or as much as possibly unbiased) news.


6 posted on 11/07/2024 2:48:29 AM PST by Cronos
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The Democrat Party is the Party of snakes. There is no need to apologize.


7 posted on 11/07/2024 2:48:36 AM PST by Mashood
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“...The NY Times, MSNBC, CNN...”

Those are just three subversive propaganda organs that need to go bankrupt and it’s CEO’s thrown in prison.

When Trump hires Musk to manage the Government Efficiency Department, part of the task will be to lead the charge in exterminating the filthy scumbag media industrial complex.

I predict that within four years of Trump’s term, CNN, MSNBC and The New York Times will not exist in it’s current form. It’s current members will be 6 feet under the ground, as worm food.


8 posted on 11/07/2024 3:37:15 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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no need to apologize
the depravity needed to be exposed


9 posted on 11/07/2024 3:41:34 AM PST by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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That would include Nancy, the San Francisco treat.


10 posted on 11/07/2024 3:42:34 AM PST by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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This might be a good source for just the news without bias. At least I’ve found it to be so. It’s the 1440 News Digest. Comes via eMail daily, is well curated with links, contains inline ads which are obviously identified.
Perhaps give it a try for a time. You can always unsubscribe. I have no vested interest or fiduciary involvement with it. This is just a suggestion. God love you…
https://join1440.com/


11 posted on 11/07/2024 3:43:37 AM PST by OriginalChristian (The end of the American Republic as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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I don’t think the full truth can be found in x.

The 'full truth' can't be found in any one place run by human beings. People always need to think for themselves and do their own research - from multiple sources. The good thing about X is that it isn't censored and agenda-directed to the degree that most of our news sources are.

12 posted on 11/07/2024 3:43:58 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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The solution for misinformation is more information.


13 posted on 11/07/2024 3:48:06 AM PST by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Don’t apologize, just get lost. The less I hear from them, the better. What are they going to say, “We didn’t really mean it when we called you Nazi garbage”? Did they think they could get away with that?


14 posted on 11/07/2024 3:54:11 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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I fear it’s worse than you are supposing. Hopefully someone can point me to something that will help.

So much of the supposed press is so faked, that I can’t rely on any of it. My best source for news is some of the conservative web sites (like this one) that reference stories they don’t agree with, as well as stories they do, and allow comments. When a story is just fake, you’ve got a decent chance that someone will call them on it.

I would like to be able to pair that with some left-wing web sites that allow comments. Unfortunately, every left-wing web site that allows comments, that I know of, will quickly ban any commentator who shows any grasp of facts. Comments from people who are all disconnected from reality, and who are chosen for their loss of reality, are not very useful.

Does anyone know of any left-wing web site, oriented on news, that allows comments from informed people? I don’t, but there are a lot of web sites that I don’t know about. Can someone help me out here?


15 posted on 11/07/2024 3:57:24 AM PST by Keb
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I’ve tried your source. It said that my e-mail address could not be “verified”, and that I should contact them to sign up. I don’t see any link to contact them. How would I proceede?


16 posted on 11/07/2024 4:04:54 AM PST by Keb
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To: RoosterRedux

No ,that’s ok, They can just all go to the nearest 5th story window and do a swan dive out of it. That will suffice.


17 posted on 11/07/2024 4:16:34 AM PST by spincaster
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Don’t apologize. That just means they get it. Encourage them to continue by suggesting Trump would have lost to Bernie.


18 posted on 11/07/2024 4:36:28 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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“Democratic Leadership Should Apologize to the American People”

Yes, and the criminally biased MSM owes an apology too.

All this demonstrates that Trump not only defeated Harris... he also defeated the MSM, the O'Bozo crime family, the Biden crime family, the woke agenda, the Liberal establishment, the Clinton crime family, Hollywood, traitorous government organizations, pollsters, etc....

19 posted on 11/07/2024 4:52:08 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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....as should the media


20 posted on 11/07/2024 4:58:06 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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