General Apathy wrote:Aside from calling for her being charged and demonstrating the truth of the items in Clinton Cash,what have I stated that you consider BS?
Let's start withh your authoritarian tone regarding the e-mail scandal. Yes, it is a scandal. Yes, Clinton played fast and loose with regulations -- as has pretty much every American president and cabinet member over the past couple of decades.
There is no concensus among the finest legal minds of the country that she broke the law. Certainly, there is zero legal precedent for that charge. Everyone else ever charged under that law in the hundred years it has been around has demonstrated intent to break it. Clinton hasn't. If she is guilty, Bush, Obama and a series of other figures on both sides of the party line are guilty and should be likewise charged. To make an exception for Clinton would indeed be a politicized decision. Everyone else does it, but only Clinton is investigated or charged? THAT is politics, JJ.
And even if she were charged and found guilty, we are talking about a misdemeanor, ot a felony.
But here you are, screaming the Trump camp's mantra of "jail her!"
And you're no Trumpette, right?
I haven't defended his position on foreign policy. Haven't supported him on trade. Haven't supported him as a sleaze, I can agree with some of his points without supporting him. Those same points are held by non-Trump individuals as well
In the current situation, an extremely sleazy election, where there are only two possible candidates, you have reported pretty much every lie made by one camp as if it were God's own truth, up to and including the out-and-out conspiracy theoretizing about Clinton's health. You have done all of this, urging folks not to vote for Clinton, as if there were any other possible scenario that could result in than a Trump victory.
You exagerate everything Clinton has done and said in the most extreme light possible, following the Trump camp's leading talking points at every opportunity. So you say stupid bullshit like "Oh, Clinton's paid to change her longheld position on...." bleah,, bleah, bleah.
But you make no comment whatsoever on the manifestly proven point that Trump is worse than Clinton on every one of these issues. In the JJ Parus world, Clinton is apparently running against Bernie Sanders and if we don't elect her, we get some sort of superhero as president.
No, JJ. The sad fact of the matter is that it is Clinton or Trump and Trump is the worse candidate in every conceivable measure. This doesn't mean Clinton is pure as the driven snow. She has plenty of problems. Most of these, however, are the problems of her political class at large, Democrat or Republican, and they are problems which Trump certainly shares. I mean, let's talk about flip-flopping on the issues. More than Donnie? Hello? And sexual morality? The worst that can be said about Clinton is that she married a guy like Trump. That would be a stunning condemnation.... were she running against Elizabeth Warren and not Donald Trump.
So you sit here talking shit about Clinton, most of it vastly exagerated, while ignoring the fact that we are four weeks away from an election where the only real choice is her or Trump... Then you wash your hands and say "But I don't support Trump"?
In this context you are, JJ. And that's made obvious by the fact that for all the evil shit Clinton has done which you feel is a game breaker, Trump has done worse and you can't even acknoledge that simple fact.
Hell, even I -- a Clinton supporter -- have posted links like that Stewart video where her problems are gone into at length. But we have yet to see you even really blink at anything Trump has done.
I mean, can anyone imagine the JJ Parus reaction if Clinton had sniffled 96 times during the debate? And another 50 or so the first time? Christ! You'd be on here claiming she has AIDS-related pneumonia and posting links from all across the conspiracy blogosphere showing that "doctors agree".
But Trump does this shit and not a word. Not a shrug. A sick Clinton, that's a threat to the nation. A sick -- or more likely stoned -- Trump? Not a concern. Not even worth a blink of an eye.
So when you are so massively biased against one candidate in a race where there are only two possible outcomes, please don't tell us about how you aren't supporting Trump. Yes you are, very concretely.
Furthermore, I am almost certain you know this. A Trump victory would please you greatly, damn the costs to the nation. But because you don't like being associated with the trailer park set and the alt. right in an election where they are increasingly being revealed as Trump's electoral base, you find it more convenient to bang on the drum of Clinton's supposed unfitness for the presidency while ignoring the obvious corrolary as to what would happen were people to listen to you. Thankfully, this being Frothers, there's no chance of that.