05-22-2020, 10:55 AM
(05-22-2020, 02:55 AM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah, you do not defend Trump. You only relentlessly attack Trump critics on everything. You hunt for every possible exaggeration, every little terminology that might be constructed as over the top, evey bigger or even microscopical wrong in their posts. I guess you do so to show that Trump is just a normal president, like Obama, like Bush, like everyone, that just enrages the left because they are so biased and unreasonable.
Never mind that I think this approach often fails on its face -- I also see it as a huge logical flaw, to think that by proving the left (or one individual person, often Dino) is unreasonable and over the top and exaggerating in one point or another makes Trump a normal POTUS. He still is not a normal POTUS. Eg. his whole handling of corona is inept, moronic and would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. There are lists of a million other unnormal and flat out awful things he said and did throughout his tenure and before. And even you finding someone going after him unfairly in one instance or another does not change that, that deductive inference is just wrong. And you permanently choose to die on that hill. Hence, you do not get to complain about being perceived as a Trump defender.
I for one think you're captured in a conservative vs. liberal culture war, but sure so are others. I give you the credit you "demand" with your Benghazi example, for it's true, you do not follow every conspiracy and don't quite go down every "deep state" rabbit hole, which distinguishes you from most other "conservatives" really. Your disdain for the left, however, unites you with them. Which is why you always go after Dino, but almost never against those on your side that hammer outlandish conspiracy theories into their keyboards.
Because Dino!
Yes, that implies a kind of projection, acting out the behavior one imputes to others, but that cannot unite the projector with "the left" in this case unless "the left" really is defined by constant distortion of a not-really-all-THAT-bad Trump's actions, plus "forgetting" of the many many scandals under Obama.
Fox left has always been FAR WORSE than Trump; and people lose sight of that when Dino posts every new allegation of sexual assault or outrageous lie tweet or disinformation about COVID-19 or abuse of power in plain sight, thereby normalizing and validating a "left" which now presents as guardian of decency and traditional norms appealed to by the Right two decades ago. Dino has turned your "Trump Tweets Thread" into a legitimate research archive into Trump misbehavior. Has to be some pushback. Somehow.
So we get "because Trump" because Dino. And maybe "because Hollo," too, as no one so far has demonstrated your capacity for marshalling the concrete specifics of Trump malfeasance in every category, ranging from marital infidelity to pandemic disinformation to summitry.
(05-22-2020, 02:55 AM)hollodero Wrote: Specifically, I can guarantee that if the chancellor of my country had repeatedly promoted an unproven and explicitly unrecommended drug to fight corona, including "what you got to lose?" and doubling down by claiming he self-medicates with said unproven unrecommended drug, there would be an uproar in my country. Chances are chancellor would not be chancellor any longer. This is not a prime example of leftist exaggeration.
LOL Most certainly not! Es lebe Kakania!