2020 General Presidential Election Thread

[BlueK]

Well, the people over at CB seem to be embracing the story as true.

[USUC]

Well, the people over at CB seem to be embracing the story as true.

Whether or not the story is true doesn't matter. This was designed to expose the blatant media hypocrisy and the national news outlets predictably fell into the trap. Instead of investigating the story, they have tried to smother it. And now it's 10x bigger than it would have been.

[Northwestcoug]

Whether or not the story is true doesn't matter. This was designed to expose the blatant media hypocrisy and the national news outlets predictably fell into the trap. Instead of investigating the story, they have tried to smother it. And now it's 10x bigger than it would have been.

Riiiiight. So Trump wins anyways by exposing media bias since they won’t cover a story that they can’t independently verify. Somehow, it always comes back to the media.

[USUC]

Riiiiight. So Trump wins anyways by exposing media bias since they won’t cover a story that they can’t independently verify. Somehow, it always comes back to the media.

"Can't" independently verify? Can't doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

[Now who’s the dean?]

Whether or not the story is true doesn't matter.

Think about that for a minute.

[USUC]

Think about that for a minute.

From the Trump campaign's perspective, it doesn't matter. You think they care if it's true?

[old_gregg]

Whether or not the story is true doesn't matter. This was designed to expose the blatant media hypocrisy and the national news outlets predictably fell into the trap. Instead of investigating the story, they have tried to smother it. And now it's 10x bigger than it would have been.

what do you mean instead of investigating the story? they have requested copies of the hard drive from rudy and the trump folks, who have refused to give it to them. they have requested shots of the emails including the message metadata--nothing. the fbi allegedly has a copy of the hard drive. silence. it's not smothering a story to refuse to run one with the provenance you'd have to be a window licking, tinfoil hat wearing dipshit to begin to countenance believing; a story in which guy whose large cash flow is a key fact (a) doesn't just buy a new macbook, (b) takes them to somewhere that's not the apple store, (c) does not have his drive protected by the built-in apple encryption some of our esteemed posters here can tell you a lot about, (d) forgets this laptop full of pictures of him smoking crack and smoking gun text messages proving that his dad may have taken a meeting or even had some kind of equity interest in an international business while a private citizen (gasp!). oh, and by the way, the trump-loving owner of this independent computer repair store conveniently has some kind of vision disease and can't identify the person who actually dropped the laptops off. get the fuck out of here. if you believe any single aspect of this, you should be sterilized and never be allowed to vote again.

by the way, if we're worried about conflicts in office, why don't we start worrying about jared, ivanka, large sums allocated to trump resorts, currently outstanding trump projects in countries that are geopolitical enemies, etc.?

[old_gregg]

"Can't" independently verify? Can't doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

yes. can't independently verify. that is why they are not running the story. this isn't a case of the top secret pentaverate meeting triannually for the colonel (before he went tits up) telling them, with his wee beady eyes, to kill the story.

[SeattleUte]

Riiiiight. So Trump wins anyways by exposing media bias since they won’t cover a story that they can’t independently verify. Somehow, it always comes back to the media.

You mean like they reacted to the Steele dossier that never was independently verified?

[USUC]

what do you mean instead of investigating the story? they have requested copies of the hard drive from rudy and the trump folks, who have refused to give it to them. they have requested shots of the emails including the message metadata--nothing. the fbi allegedly has a copy of the hard drive. silence. it's not smothering a story to refuse to run one with the provenance you'd have to be a window licking, tinfoil hat wearing dipshit to begin to countenance believing; a story in which guy whose large cash flow is a key fact (a) doesn't just buy a new macbook, (b) takes them to somewhere that's not the apple store, (c) does not have his drive protected by the built-in apple encryption some of our esteemed posters here can tell you a lot about, (d) forgets this laptop full of pictures of him smoking crack and smoking gun text messages proving that his dad may have taken a meeting or even had some kind of equity interest in an international business while a private citizen (gasp!). oh, and by the way, the trump-loving owner of this independent computer repair store conveniently has some kind of vision disease and can't identify the person who actually dropped the laptops off. get the fuck out of here. if you believe any single aspect of this, you should be sterilized and never be allowed to vote again.

by the way, if we're worried about conflicts in office, why don't we start worrying about jared, ivanka, large sums allocated to trump resorts, currently outstanding trump projects in countries that are geopolitical enemies, etc.?

Seems like it's pretty easy case to make that the emails and the story are bullshit. Great. Make the case then. Story is killed. Done. It's not hard.

Clearly this is all shady, so why shy away from covering it? The national media thinks they over covered the Hillary emails and cost her the election. Now they are over compensating and creating a story out of a non story.

[old_gregg]

Seems like it's pretty easy case to make that the emails and the story are bullshit. Great. Make the case then. Story is killed. Done. It's not hard.

Clearly this is all shady, so why shy away from covering it? The national media thinks they over covered the Hillary emails and cost her the election. Now they are over compensating and creating a story out of a non story.

what the hell are you talking about? do you want nbc to run stories debunking every national enquirer article with pictures of elvis and hitler hanging out in 2020 argentina? that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard.

[Jeff Lebowski]

what do you mean instead of investigating the story? they have requested copies of the hard drive from rudy and the trump folks, who have refused to give it to them. they have requested shots of the emails including the message metadata--nothing. the fbi allegedly has a copy of the hard drive. silence. it's not smothering a story to refuse to run one with the provenance you'd have to be a window licking, tinfoil hat wearing dipshit to begin to countenance believing; a story in which guy whose large cash flow is a key fact (a) doesn't just buy a new macbook, (b) takes them to somewhere that's not the apple store, (c) does not have his drive protected by the built-in apple encryption some of our esteemed posters here can tell you a lot about, (d) forgets this laptop full of pictures of him smoking crack and smoking gun text messages proving that his dad may have taken a meeting or even had some kind of equity interest in an international business while a private citizen (gasp!). oh, and by the way, the trump-loving owner of this independent computer repair store conveniently has some kind of vision disease and can't identify the person who actually dropped the laptops off. get the fuck out of here. if you believe any single aspect of this, you should be sterilized and never be allowed to vote again.

by the way, if we're worried about conflicts in office, why don't we start worrying about jared, ivanka, large sums allocated to trump resorts, currently outstanding trump projects in countries that are geopolitical enemies, etc.?

You said that a lot better than I did.

[USUC]

what the hell are you talking about? do you want nbc to run stories debunking every national enquirer article with pictures of elvis and hitler hanging out in 2020 argentina? that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard.

Look, this ain't my game plan. You have a point on wasting coverage on unsubstantiated stories. But SU just pointed out the problem. And that's why it's a win-win either way for the Trump campaign.

[old_gregg]

Look, this ain't my game plan. You have a point on wasting coverage on unsubstantiated stories. But SU just pointed out the problem. And that's why it's a win-win either way for the Trump campaign.

so, the problem is that in the past the media has reported on stories you viewed to be unsubstantiated. now that there is a story that you like but is admittedly unsubstantiated, you want them to report on that too. am i getting that right? that the desired outcome here is for the media to report on something that is unverifiable?

the hilarious part in all of this is that rudy will not release the hard drive, any metadata or any other way to independently and conclusively verify this shit to anybody in the media. if you trust rudy to be the gatekeeper of verification here, you're going to get skunked. i suspect the biden campaign is silent on this because they know it's not true and are waiting for the right time to shit over rudy and trump, who together don't have the horsepower to understand what the borat and the babylon bee are. numbskulls. you are being duped.

[Jeff Lebowski]

so, the problem is that in the past the media has reported on stories you viewed to be unsubstantiated. now that there is a story that you like but is admittedly unsubstantiated, you want them to report on that too. am i getting that right? that the desired outcome here is for the media to report on something that is unverifiable?

the hilarious part in all of this is that rudy will not release the hard drive, any metadata or any other way to independently and conclusively verify this shit to anybody in the media. if you trust rudy to be the gatekeeper of verification here, you're going to get skunked. i suspect the biden campaign is silent on this because they know it's not true and are waiting for the right time to shit over rudy and trump, who together don't have the horsepower to understand what the borat and the babylon bee are. numbskulls. you are being duped.

Really curious to see how Biden addresses this in the debate tonight.