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What singularly characterizes the left? Contempt!

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 8/1/2024 7:17:16 AM

President Trump was invited by the Black Journalists of America to be a guest at a debate or conversation with his opponent. But no opponent showed up; it was a set-up … that’s what the left does. ABC’s Rachel Scott submarined the former president right off the bat. She was arrogant, rude, and so unserious. She was just a hit-person, disrespectful and oozing contempt. Like the rest of the left, she didn't play fair. But, no matter, Trump can handle himself with far more aplomb and respect for his interrogators than those on the left ever do.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: skacmar 8/1/2024 7:53:52 AM (No. 1770429)
Alleged "journalists" like Rachel Scott go in to interviews with Donald Trump looking to be offended. They make negative statements framed as accusatory questions. Any attempt to respond is met with more accusations framed as questions. Offense is taken with every response and every word parsed for white supremacist and racist deep meanings. Scott could have asked Trump if water was wet and she would have said Trump's response was a lie showing how he hates peaceful migrants seeking a better life.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: The Remnants 8/1/2024 8:16:06 AM (No. 1770438)
It strikes me that one of the left's favorite words is "hate", and they are always accusing others of doing the hating - never themselves.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Citoyen 8/1/2024 10:52:28 AM (No. 1770585)
FTA: "Perhaps Rachel Scott, like Kamala Harris, does not know that it was the Republican party that freed the slaves, that got the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s passed despite the Democrats’ opposition. Maybe she does not know that it was Democrats who imposed the Jim Crow laws that were meant to prevent American blacks from succeeding and that it was Republicans who overturned those laws." Of course Rachel Scott and Kamala Harris know these things but it is likely that a significant slice of voters, black, white, etc., do not. Such ignorance, in part, is due to Republicans refusing to highlight the racism that has always defined the Democrat Party. It is frustrating that Republicans will not remind the people that it was the Democrat Party that wanted to preserve and expand slavery, fought a war to preserve it, established laws to prevent black people from voting, launched the KKK to enforce the Party's racism and lynched black men and women for a century. A video of Harris interrogating an ICE official while she was senator has surfaced. She, of course, is despicable but what fills me with rage is how absolutely clueless is the ICE agent. He lets her walk all over him and he never once questions the premise of her attack, which is that some people, never defined, have a perception that ICE is like the KKK. Republicans must to better. History is on their side.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: daisey 8/1/2024 11:04:34 AM (No. 1770593)
Two main characteristics of democrats-snarky and the belief in their moral and intellectual superiority.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: EQKimball 8/1/2024 12:04:48 PM (No. 1770634)
Rachel Scott deserved a rebuke, but not in anger. He could have smiled and said calmly, "And a very good afternoon to you, too, Ms. Scott. Thank you for your introduction. I want to thank the National Association of Black Journalists for allowing me to meet with you. After years of finding myself being consistently drawn into a debate with the press, I have decided that combative dialogue serves no good purpose. Journalists have the unique opportunity to report the news without becoming part of it. I will respect that role by not engaging rhetorical questions with defensive answers. So when asked if I regret being Donald Trump, I will tell you about the accomplishments of our administration and the nation during my previous term of office. ...
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mifla 8/2/2024 6:04:17 AM (No. 1770989)
Trump has the courage to walk into the lion's den. Harris only walks into liberal enclaves.
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