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fishonjazz said:
Partisan Republican, that’s why.

My dad is a staunch word of wisdom following mormon.
With all things trump has said and done and the morals he shows that he lacks you would think my dad would hate trump.

But alas, my dad is a fierce Obama hating republican and sends me emails showing his support of trump frequently.

I just don’t get partisanship. I will never support someone or hate someone strictly based off of what party they are in. I don’t understand why anyone would yet I’m certain that I’m in the minority.
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Baffled by Mormon support of Trump.

My dad supports Trump too. I almost never speak with him because of his views. That's not all there is to it but it's a big part of our relationship disintegration.The interesting thing is that Hitler basically killed my grandfather(my dad's father) by sending him to battle on the Eastern front.

I put Trump in the same category as Hitler and treat people who support him as I wish people who supported Hitler would have been treated. We can't ignore this cancer and hope it goes away. It's not about politics, it's about humanity.
 
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str8line said:
Baffled by Mormon support of Trump.

My dad supports Trump too. I almost never speak with him because of his views. That's not all there is to it but it's a big part of our relationship disintegration.The interesting thing is that Hitler basically killed my grandfather(my dad's father) by sending him to battle on the Eastern front.

I put Trump in the same category as Hitler and treat people who support him as I wish people who supported Hitler would have been treated. We can't ignore this cancer and hope it goes away. It's not about politics, it's about humanity.
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My dad is actually awesome and we have a great relationship. He is a great and caring person. He is just a republican and therefore likes whoever is a republican candidate and doesn’t like whoever is a democratic candidate.

It makes absolutely no sense to me but people like that are the majority. By far. I mean that’s why trump and Hillary were the top 2 vote getters without a doubt.
 
Red said:
Well, this is the problem. The public's opinion of the press, broadcast and print, has been ebbing for years. Yet, I believe a free press is vital, and the last thing needed is for someone like Trump to label a free press the enemy of the people. The last thing we needed is to create a situation where there is no truth, only the truth one chooses to believe. Something like Pizzagate was a baldface lie, but it is still believed to be true by some, and at least one individual thought it factual enough to shoot up the pizza joint at the center of that lie. There is nothing I can personally do to improve anyone's opinion of journalism, but it saddens and worries me no end to enter this so-called Post Truth Era. I do believe it is an extremely negative development. And it is being applied in many areas, not just in our judgement of what is true or not true in the news fed to us. There is a reason the Flat Earth movement is enjoying an uptick, and it's very much connected to the erosion of trust in authority in many realms, and our entry into this Post Truth Era.
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I absolutely agree in a free press. But I very disappointed in what we are generally doing with out free press. But I fully oppose shackling the press by the government
 
infection said:
Where’s Briton?
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mindless spell-check editor probably did this. Pretty sure an Aussie like Rube would try to spell it right. The typical spell-checking editor programming keeps turning out the stupidest errors you can imagine.
 
str8line said:
You know what would be entertaining? If the Queen stuck a royal letter-opener through his neck during their visit. Even better if he survived in a semi-vegetative state. That would be hilarious! Do you think Melania would help take care of him? Would he still make fun of people with disabilities?
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And Republicans are the sick bunch? This is sick to wish on anybody.
 
Pretty interesting, with Helsinki and Putin being the next stop, that today the Department of Justice indicted 12 officers of GRU, the Russian military intelligence service, for interference in the 2016 election. The timing is striking, since Trump is to meet with Putin one on one with only translators present, and no other Americans in the room. Will he make today's developments the number one topic on the agenda? Should he? I'm guessing no on the first question, and if he's our president, it's a no brainer yes on the second question. Again, great timing as far as I'm concerned. Three days before the Helsinki sit down.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
Yeah, I'm sure the Russians will be thrilled about tens of billions more in NATO Defense spending. That's exactly what they were hoping for from a Trump presidency, right? And when Trump apologized for the headline that you referred to, saying that it misrepresented the content of his interview, do you know what May's response was? "It's just the press." Large swaths of the press clearly despise Trump and it does not bother them one bit to pick and choose his words in order to try to stir things up. Unfortunately for the haters Trump simply does not fit into the boxes they are so determined to stuff him in.
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But this sounds like the Fox News version of events, which is that part of the press which is basically compliant state media. Yes, Trump apologized. In an over the top manner that was comical. And he said it was "fake news". And May said "It's just the press". But, you left out the fact that the Sun stood by its story, and also left out the fact that the interview was recorded. I think it's relevant to make note of that fact.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...1e6558-86b5-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html
 
str8line said:
Why are you so determined to support this cretin who pisses everyone off and treats people like ****? What is wrong with you?
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I'm not determined to support him, but I do think that honest reporting would be a positive step. The left goes on and on about how he's working for Russia. Meanwhile, Russia can't possibly be happy with what he is doing for them (kicking out diplomats, increasing NATO defense spending, speaking out vehemently against Russian to Germany pipeline, etc.). Mainstream media stays strangely silent on all of that stuff. Haters have a narrative and they apparently can't let it go, even when it becomes obvious that their facts aren't matching up with reality.
 
Fox News is the most main of all mainstream media.
 
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