"Media conspiracy", your words, not mine. Point to where I've said that or stop misrepresenting I've said.

Well there's varying levels of what's a "blatant lie" isn't there?

First there are the actual blatant lies that have to be retracted like CNN story linking Anthony Scaramucci to the Russians.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40414886

Or there are the "anonymous sources" that has been used to print anything they want (often corroborated with other anonymous sources). Examples of this include what the Atlantic printed President Trump is alleged to have said about war dead or the example below about what James Comey was going to say during his testimony which also had to be retracted due to it being completely wrong.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...icts-reporting

Or this story regarding wire tapping, which was also turned out to be wrong (fake), but somehow didn't get retracted.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/18/p...ans/index.html

Then there's the little lies like the Donald Trump feeding the koi carp in Japan story.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/06/p...pan/index.html

These are just examples, there but it's also just the general spin. The frenzy over Russia meddling was the peak of this. Facts are rarely presented on their own merit to allow the reader to decide for themselves. Even the so called "fact checkers" can't be trusted as NBC news proved when they "fact checked" Donald Trump's claim that there'd be a Covid vaccine by the end of 2020.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...perts-n1207411

Donald Trump is a pathological liar and a narcissist, there has never been any need for the press to tarnish themselves in order to try and catch him out. Basic journalistic integrity and reporting of the facts would have been more than enough, as it is they've discredited themselves and done tremendous damage to Western democracy.

Actually, I did get that bit. It was the rest of your post that left me confounded. 18% approval = 82% disenfranchisement? That's a bit of a stretch. "I don't like the last decision that Congress made, therefore I feel completely unrepresented in Washington".

I would like to inherit them, ok? For the baby-goat yarn.

I believe the wine may be starting to talk but here goes:

I hearby forth call upon this juncture to officially form the American Moderate Party or AMP for short. #Areyouamped?

Our "marketing" will be our theme song which not only identifies those who oppose us but also a call for unity at the same time.

Are you ready for it..........tell me what you think....

Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you

ALRIGHT!!ALRIGHT!!!! Let's turn this AMP up to 11 baby!!!

*pours another drink.. its been a tough year, dont judge.

__________________
I wear the red blobs proudly.

Alibaba and his 250 000 bon-hommes.

I wonder where he's gone.

+100
Precisely. To add insult to injury US government has been outsourcing and off shoring American future for decades. First it was black market of illegal labor via Southern border and sanctuary cities that hit the blue collar workers, then it was call-center and CS/Helpdesk jobs that went to India. We were told it is all good for us, as Indians become richer they will consume more what we produce and we all have jobs (right). Then all that we used to produce was outsourced to China, so Indians are buying from Aliexpress. Then came H1B job outsourcing and 100,000s of IT and Science jobs went to China, India and if that was not enough US government allowed corporations to flood market with H1B Indians and Chinese to drive down wages in high income sectors. And the list goes on.
US Congress should be burned to the ground not just invaded.

This is what scares the hell out of me.

The Taliban have offered to send a peace keeping delegation to America.

Taking this example of your evidence of "fake news":

I had a look at the "fact check". The article doesn't state that Trump lies. It does, however quote experts who said (back in May 2020) that it would "take a miracle" to produce a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year. By the way, biopharmas were saying the same thing at the time. So the news organisation (NBC) accurately reported the facts available. If you really must blame somebody, it was the quoted experts who provided "fake news"—but even then, they were stating only what they believed and what was known to them.

Sorry to break this to you, but mainstream media outlets don't go around making up stories. They report the available information. Sometimes the data may later be shown to be incorrect. The news organisations do the best they can with what's available.

You take the yarn, I'll take the meat and offal.

Tom

Tom, that’s just offal.

That's your fallback tactic isn't it? if someone doesn't use your exact words even when you aren't being directly quoted you feign victimhood by misrepresentation.
I think I was quite clear in my description including 'not corrected'

Retracted - 0 points

Retracted - 0 points

Literally the first paragraph in that article is an editors note saying the IG report contradicts elements of the article and they added that note the day after the IG report - 0 points

What lies? there's video showing it happening, the link you posted even mentioned Abe emptied his box first and trump followed suit - 0 points.

"general spin" is not fake news, Russian interference has been established and was a huge story, a degree of breathless reporting is to be expected and I don't know what you're trying to say with the last link, he was accurately quoted in May when there were no vaccine candidates and I saw several experts interviewed around that time saying it was unlikely.

So your total is 0 points, thanks for playing, now I've wasted enough time on your nonsense, as several posters have mentioned, on an ignore list is where you belong. Console yourself if you like that your mighty intellect has vanquished another.

The sad thing is that you actually believe that, even after I posted examples of CNN “making up a story”. Again, it comes back to ones perception of reality.

All I can say is we must have had a miracle in 2020

If what you are saying is really happening is, then that implies a massive media conspiracy.

Comedy gold. Brilliant trolling* - and excellent dog whistling - well done.

Do go on. Because there's no way you actually believe anything you're posting is true.

Turns out one of those with a helmet was a West Virginia state senator (scroll down to 7.20 p.m. If you're a peaceful protester then why do you need a helmet? Why does a sitting state legislator think it's okay to advocate for storming the nation's capitol building?
https://apnews.com/article/ap-electo...d7713c42cf254a

Antifa and/or an inside job.



Agree, the 25th at this point is too little, too late.

Trump may have, to be honest. He's the one who said that the local police should be in charge, not the feds, and then told his supporters to march on the Capitol. He did not speak up or send more help when it was clear shit was going down.

And the media is largely responsible for Trump having been elected in the first place. He received billions in free press and probably will continue to even after he's out of office.

This. Moreover, the Electoral College means that both Ds and Rs can't really "allow" a strong 3rd party to grow. Otherwise the House would end up deciding every election since neither mainstream candidate would have 270 EC votes.

Probably his only chance of entering the Capitol building.

Meanwhile, the ramifications roll on...

• Stores run by the Trump organization and Trump's campaign were taken off Shopify on Thursday for violating the company's policy of supporting people who condone violence.
• YouTube will suspend, ban accounts violating policies following 'disturbing' Capitol riot.
• Supreme Court rejects Gohmert's last-ditch election suit against Pence

Fantastic how you think that simply by retracing a story it exonerates of any wrong doing in the first place. Headline story, retraction on page 32

You seem to think everything is fine though even though there are scientific papers available on the topic. I’m certainly not going to convince you though.

For there to be a conspiracy there would have to a certain level of planning and coordination involved. This is more the result of creating an environment where everyone thinks the same and agrees with one another, like those awful American “news” panel shows. Groupthink if you will, rather like this platform actually.

Don’t believe me? Just look at the circumstances over James Bennett‘s departure from the New York Times last year.

Interesting in view of your other posts that you pick a group that are about as politically opposite to Trump as it is possible to be.

Claims that antifa/BLM infiltrated yesterday’s insurrection are not based in fact. Facial recognition could find only evidence of Maga, white supremacists and Qanon.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybe...-insurrection/