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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 3:59 pm    Post subject: THE Political Thread (ALL Political Discussion Here - See Rules, P. 1)

The purpose of this thread is to allow political discussion. This thread is to be a safe space for ALL posters (regardless of political affiliation, political bias and/or political agenda) to post regarding political analysis, opinions and/or news. Therefore, ALL political news, opinions and/or debates will belong in this thread and this thread alone. At all times in this thread, you should be open-minded, reasonable, rational and respectful. This thread is NOT a sanctuary to promote mistruth, disseminate propaganda or engage in hyperbole. Likewise, if you want to post extreme rhetoric, don't post here. That's what your personal friends and Facebook are for.

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A FURTHER NOTE ON MODERATION:

(This addition is written 9/1/20 -- LC)

In the nearly four years since this thread was started, many people have been suspended or banned from LG based on their behavior in this thread. After being suspended or banned, a very common response tends to take the form:

* They banned me for having a different opinion, or:

* The liberal mods don't like people who disagree with them, etc.

So do we ban people for disagreeing with us? For having a conservative viewpoint? For being Republicans? No, no and no. Yes, the mods here are mostly (maybe all) Democrats. But we also do our best to moderate objectively, and in fact, we try to bend over backwards to accommodate a well-articulated, factual, resourced conservative argument. The problem is, the people who get banned usually fail to do any of those things. Instead, they very often do one, most or all of: regurgitating propaganda; making assertions without providing any support; making ad-hominem attacks, continuing to regurgitate the same points even after they are refuted, etc.

To quote DaMuleRules from page two-thousand-something of this thread:

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First there is the assertion that anything that is not a far left viewpoint is not allowed and that people get banned simply because they disagree with the liberals that are the preponderance of the frequent contributors.

Then there is the counter that, no, people don't get banned for their differing point of view. They get banned for either the manner in which they present that view i.e. ignoring the issues and going after posters with terms like snowflake etc. Or, they get banned for refusing to stick to facts and engaging in tactics such as trolling, or hyping debunked and baseless conspiracy as fact and refusing to have a discussion based on substance and merit after being given ample opportunity to do so.

Next comes the invite to the person making the assertion that this is unfair thread where dissenting viewpoints are not allowed, to substantively and factually address why the liberal or far-left viewpoints they are disagreeing with are incorrect or false. The door is opened to a reasonable discussion, and even debate, about a topic.

Occasionally someone will accept that invite and present their point of view. Their point of view is addressed by the gallery based on its merits, or lack thereof. What always happens is that when presented with well thought out rebuttals to that viewpoint, that person realizes that they have no footing to continue and rather than do the gracious, responsible thing, they play the victim. They complain that they are being ganged up upon by by the frequent members of this thread. They ignore the fact that their argument has been reasonably and factually rebutted and claim that their viewpoint "isn't allowed", which is of course nonsense.

This is the point that the conservatives and Republicans who complain about this thread invariably duck out. They realize that they incapable of reasonable discussion but try to play it off as their dissent not being accepted, as if people are just supposed to take their opinions at face value, not question them or point out the areas that don't hold up.

They slink away, not because their viewpoints are unacceptable, but because they know that they are incapable of dealing with the fact that they being engaged in a debate and challenged to back up their points.

Then those people frequently (bleep) and moan in other threads about how "unfair" this thread is, while lurking in this thread to try and bolster their belief that they, and other conservatives etc. are not "tolerated" . . . and they know this is true, that they can't refute that glaring reality because not once has any of them even attempted to demonstrate why that is untrue - which shouldn't be hard it were. But they don't try because they know what is actually going on.


So please, bring your arguments, but don't bring your slop. And if you do get warned, suspended or banned, please consider the above carefully and try to be objective about whether you brought an objective, sourced argument to the table, or just a bunch of name calling, hasty generalization, hyperbole and propaganda that doesn't withstand even a cursory fact check.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 4:10 pm    Post subject:

HEY! We were headed for 1 thousand Posts & 1 million views!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 4:14 pm    Post subject:

Aussiesuede wrote:
HEY! We were headed for 1 thousand Posts & 1 million views!


A fresh start was needed.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 4:20 pm    Post subject:

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President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States, The Washington Post and other news outlets reported Friday. Sessions is a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization whose elevation to attorney general could deal a blow to state-level marijuana legalization efforts across the country.

At a Senate drug hearing in April, Sessions said that “we need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it’s in fact a very real danger.” He voiced concern over statistics showing more drivers were testing positive for THC, the active component in marijuana, in certain states.

Sessions further argued that a lack of leadership from President Obama had been one of the drivers of the trend toward marijuana legalization in recent years. “I think one of [Obama's] great failures, it's obvious to me, is his lax treatment in comments on marijuana,” Sessions said at the hearing. “It reverses 20 years almost of hostility to drugs that began really when Nancy Reagan started ‘Just Say No.’ ”


Marijuana : RIP


It's going to be very interesting to watch the feds try to enforce policy that both City Mayors and Police Chiefs have been clear they will not enforce.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 4:48 pm    Post subject:

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President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States, The Washington Post and other news outlets reported Friday. Sessions is a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization whose elevation to attorney general could deal a blow to state-level marijuana legalization efforts across the country.

At a Senate drug hearing in April, Sessions said that “we need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it’s in fact a very real danger.” He voiced concern over statistics showing more drivers were testing positive for THC, the active component in marijuana, in certain states.

Sessions further argued that a lack of leadership from President Obama had been one of the drivers of the trend toward marijuana legalization in recent years. “I think one of [Obama's] great failures, it's obvious to me, is his lax treatment in comments on marijuana,” Sessions said at the hearing. “It reverses 20 years almost of hostility to drugs that began really when Nancy Reagan started ‘Just Say No.’ ”


Marijuana : RIP


It's going to be very interesting to watch the feds try to enforce policy that both City Mayors and Police Chiefs have been clear they will not enforce.


Trump doesn't win popular vote, but wins election. Conservatives say it was a mandate.
States pass legalizing marijuana. Conservative AG says we need to go against the will of the electorate .

God, you guys won. You'll have all the power to make changes via the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Can liberals at least have a vice to escape this crappy reality with! Please! Geez
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It's back!!!

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President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States, The Washington Post and other news outlets reported Friday. Sessions is a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization whose elevation to attorney general could deal a blow to state-level marijuana legalization efforts across the country.

At a Senate drug hearing in April, Sessions said that “we need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it’s in fact a very real danger.” He voiced concern over statistics showing more drivers were testing positive for THC, the active component in marijuana, in certain states.

Sessions further argued that a lack of leadership from President Obama had been one of the drivers of the trend toward marijuana legalization in recent years. “I think one of [Obama's] great failures, it's obvious to me, is his lax treatment in comments on marijuana,” Sessions said at the hearing. “It reverses 20 years almost of hostility to drugs that began really when Nancy Reagan started ‘Just Say No.’ ”


Marijuana : RIP


It's going to be very interesting to watch the feds try to enforce policy that both City Mayors and Police Chiefs have been clear they will not enforce.

It's absolutely hilarious how in this day and age, you still have people thinking marijuana is some dangerous taboo drug
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Aussiesuede wrote:
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States, The Washington Post and other news outlets reported Friday. Sessions is a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization whose elevation to attorney general could deal a blow to state-level marijuana legalization efforts across the country.

At a Senate drug hearing in April, Sessions said that “we need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it’s in fact a very real danger.” He voiced concern over statistics showing more drivers were testing positive for THC, the active component in marijuana, in certain states.

Sessions further argued that a lack of leadership from President Obama had been one of the drivers of the trend toward marijuana legalization in recent years. “I think one of [Obama's] great failures, it's obvious to me, is his lax treatment in comments on marijuana,” Sessions said at the hearing. “It reverses 20 years almost of hostility to drugs that began really when Nancy Reagan started ‘Just Say No.’ ”


Marijuana : RIP


It's going to be very interesting to watch the feds try to enforce policy that both City Mayors and Police Chiefs have been clear they will not enforce.

It's absolutely hilarious how in this day and age, you still have people thinking marijuana is some dangerous taboo drug


Sen. Sessions also had some comments about immigrants from Dominican Republic in 2006 senate floor speech:
“Fundamentally, almost no one coming from the Dominican Republic to the United States is coming here because they have a provable skill that would benefit us and that would indicate their likely success in our society,”
“They come in because some other family member of a qualified relation is here as a citizen or even a green card holder. That is how they get to come. They are creating a false document to show these are relatives or their spouses and they are married when it is not so.”
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 5:38 pm    Post subject:

Does Sessions know just how high Nancy was when she gave that speech?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 5:39 pm    Post subject:

To live in a world with Jeff Sessions as Attorney General is even more depressing than living in a world with Trump as president.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 5:39 pm    Post subject:

^^^^^ Keep a very close eye on Senators, Collins, Paul, & Flake during the confirmation process. I suspect all 3 names will receive considerable play during both the AG confirmation process, as well as the SC confirmation process. They're likely to wield considerable power during some of the more 'controversial' entanglements over the next couple years in a manner that many might find 'surprising'.
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LakerSanity wrote:
Aussiesuede wrote:
HEY! We were headed for 1 thousand Posts & 1 million views!


A fresh start was needed.


Agreed. Looking forward to it. Thanks LS. Hopefully we can all behave.
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Quick question regarding the guidelines re: "Do Not Intentionally Post Fake News: ".

Totally agree with that.

So what's the policy of blanketly claiming that news that is reported is "fake" when those people don't like what is being reported?

(Serious question, not being flippant. There's been a trend of people claiming that reported news is either false, or is not what it appears).
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 8:55 pm    Post subject:

Shaolin's Finest wrote:
Aussiesuede wrote:
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States, The Washington Post and other news outlets reported Friday. Sessions is a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization whose elevation to attorney general could deal a blow to state-level marijuana legalization efforts across the country.

At a Senate drug hearing in April, Sessions said that “we need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it’s in fact a very real danger.” He voiced concern over statistics showing more drivers were testing positive for THC, the active component in marijuana, in certain states.

Sessions further argued that a lack of leadership from President Obama had been one of the drivers of the trend toward marijuana legalization in recent years. “I think one of [Obama's] great failures, it's obvious to me, is his lax treatment in comments on marijuana,” Sessions said at the hearing. “It reverses 20 years almost of hostility to drugs that began really when Nancy Reagan started ‘Just Say No.’ ”


Marijuana : RIP


It's going to be very interesting to watch the feds try to enforce policy that both City Mayors and Police Chiefs have been clear they will not enforce.

It's absolutely hilarious how in this day and age, you still have people thinking marijuana is some dangerous taboo drug



People won't forget...trust me if they clamp down hard on legal marijuana there will be a landslide coming in 4 years.....
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 9:07 pm    Post subject:

It'd be nice if those people knew that there's an election in two years as well.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 9:13 pm    Post subject:

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It'd be nice if those people knew that there's an election in two years as well.


More importantly, actually go out and VOTE in 2018 and 2020.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 9:25 pm    Post subject:

Wilt wrote:
It'd be nice if those people knew that there's an election in two years as well.


Here here.

Great point. It seems like in general the country is getting more politically excited and aware and I think that is a good thing.

Sometimes in our country's past, the biggest societal changes came about through people becoming more politically aware and active.

Maybe that will happen again, I get the sense that the USA is at a bit of a crossroads as far as the future direction of the country and certainly the citizens getting more involved by voting and being engaged can only help in the long run.
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lakersken80 wrote:
Shaolin's Finest wrote:
Aussiesuede wrote:
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President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States, The Washington Post and other news outlets reported Friday. Sessions is a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization whose elevation to attorney general could deal a blow to state-level marijuana legalization efforts across the country.

At a Senate drug hearing in April, Sessions said that “we need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it’s in fact a very real danger.” He voiced concern over statistics showing more drivers were testing positive for THC, the active component in marijuana, in certain states.

Sessions further argued that a lack of leadership from President Obama had been one of the drivers of the trend toward marijuana legalization in recent years. “I think one of [Obama's] great failures, it's obvious to me, is his lax treatment in comments on marijuana,” Sessions said at the hearing. “It reverses 20 years almost of hostility to drugs that began really when Nancy Reagan started ‘Just Say No.’ ”


Marijuana : RIP


It's going to be very interesting to watch the feds try to enforce policy that both City Mayors and Police Chiefs have been clear they will not enforce.

It's absolutely hilarious how in this day and age, you still have people thinking marijuana is some dangerous taboo drug



People won't forget...trust me if they clamp down hard on legal marijuana there will be a landslide coming in 4 years.....


Completely agree.
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Reddit and the God Emperor of the Internet


Anyone who uses Reddit knows about The_Donald subreddit, which was a big source of false news and anti Hillary spin. New York Times do a writeup here about it. Here are some of the more interesting parts:

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The_Donald has around 300,000 members. Some are conservative stalwarts, others are meme-making teenagers; all are anonymous, hidden behind user names, making their origins and motivations difficult to pinpoint. But it’s fair to say that many saw themselves as political outsiders who reveled in rallying for the underdog.

The community is home to copious Islamophobia, trolling of liberals and near constant bashing of Hillary Clinton. It has evolved a dialect decipherable only to insiders, which includes acronyms like “MAGA” (Make America Great Again); epithets like “God Emperor” (for Mr. Trump); insults like “cuck” (short for cuckold and often deployed against feminists); memes featuring a cartoon frog associated with racism; and nicknames like ’Pedes. (Centipedes, a term for Trump supporters adopted from a YouTube mash-up of the song “Centipede” by the band Knife Party and clips of Mr. Trump’s speeches. It might also be a penis joke. Seriously.)


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The_Donald’s policy states “no racism/anti-Semitism,” but it also warns “No dissenters or S.J.W.s,” as in social-justice warriors. “Concern trolling,” or questioning views expressed on the subreddit, is also banned.

The community is notoriously difficult to manage. Its top moderator team has turned over at least four times, according to Mr. Huffman. (This usually happened because the community revolted, as in one instance in which a lead moderator wrote that he believed he could get away with raping undocumented immigrants.) Moderators also suspend and bar members more frequently than do moderators of any other section of the site.


Its also been reported that they use bots to upvote the_donald posts to the front page for everyone to see. Videos would have more upvotes than views of the video or article itself.

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The community’s power soon reached beyond Reddit. Mr. Trump tweeted out memes and videos that originated on The_Donald and in July he participated in a popular Reddit “Ask Me Anything” discussion, after his team communicated with the moderators.

This would make little sense if The_Donald were all memes and derision. But according to Reddit, The_Donald’s moderators — nearly 50 far-flung volunteers — deftly managed to channel action out of the chaos. They hosted an extensive and at times informative Wiki about Mr. Trump’s policy proposals and instructed supporters how to help with the campaign. Members often suggested strategies for arguing persuasively against opponents.


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Perhaps most important, members organized an effort to comb through the Democratic National Committee emails released by WikiLeaks over the summer. In order to interpret and disseminate these documents, The_Donald relied on a network of subscribers it (adoringly?) named “weaponized autists.” Of particular fixation were emails from the Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta. In a debate in October, Mr. Trump said to Mrs. Clinton, “John Podesta said some horrible things about you.”


One of my biggest frustrations as a daily reddit user, seeing that sort of nonsense at the top page, even though mostly it was just madness. Couple this with the fact that there were a lot of pro-trump twitter bots posting 4 times as often as pro-Hillary it muddies any sort of constructive political discussion.

If you're ever bored and want some free entertainment, and want to look into the echo chamber of echo chambers, read some of the comments on their posts at reddit.com/r/the_donald

That's my rant, I'm glad the message board is back. Hope it works out for everyone. I appreciate a lot of the discussions you've all had.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:04 pm    Post subject:

There's no stopping marijuana why the goverment keeps trying to makes no sense to me. The new AG wont do anything to stop states. Atleast thats what I would put my money on.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:08 pm    Post subject:

Shlumpledink wrote:
Reddit and the God Emperor of the Internet


Anyone who uses Reddit knows about The_Donald subreddit, which was a big source of false news and anti Hillary spin. New York Times do a writeup here about it. Here are some of the more interesting parts:

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The_Donald has around 300,000 members. Some are conservative stalwarts, others are meme-making teenagers; all are anonymous, hidden behind user names, making their origins and motivations difficult to pinpoint. But it’s fair to say that many saw themselves as political outsiders who reveled in rallying for the underdog.

The community is home to copious Islamophobia, trolling of liberals and near constant bashing of Hillary Clinton. It has evolved a dialect decipherable only to insiders, which includes acronyms like “MAGA” (Make America Great Again); epithets like “God Emperor” (for Mr. Trump); insults like “cuck” (short for cuckold and often deployed against feminists); memes featuring a cartoon frog associated with racism; and nicknames like ’Pedes. (Centipedes, a term for Trump supporters adopted from a YouTube mash-up of the song “Centipede” by the band Knife Party and clips of Mr. Trump’s speeches. It might also be a (private man parts) joke. Seriously.)


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The_Donald’s policy states “no racism/anti-Semitism,” but it also warns “No dissenters or S.J.W.s,” as in social-justice warriors. “Concern trolling,” or questioning views expressed on the subreddit, is also banned.

The community is notoriously difficult to manage. Its top moderator team has turned over at least four times, according to Mr. Huffman. (This usually happened because the community revolted, as in one instance in which a lead moderator wrote that he believed he could get away with assaulting undocumented immigrants.) Moderators also suspend and bar members more frequently than do moderators of any other section of the site.


Its also been reported that they use bots to upvote the_donald posts to the front page for everyone to see. Videos would have more upvotes than views of the video or article itself.

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The community’s power soon reached beyond Reddit. Mr. Trump tweeted out memes and videos that originated on The_Donald and in July he participated in a popular Reddit “Ask Me Anything” discussion, after his team communicated with the moderators.

This would make little sense if The_Donald were all memes and derision. But according to Reddit, The_Donald’s moderators — nearly 50 far-flung volunteers — deftly managed to channel action out of the chaos. They hosted an extensive and at times informative Wiki about Mr. Trump’s policy proposals and instructed supporters how to help with the campaign. Members often suggested strategies for arguing persuasively against opponents.


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Perhaps most important, members organized an effort to comb through the Democratic National Committee emails released by WikiLeaks over the summer. In order to interpret and disseminate these documents, The_Donald relied on a network of subscribers it (adoringly?) named “weaponized autists.” Of particular fixation were emails from the Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta. In a debate in October, Mr. Trump said to Mrs. Clinton, “John Podesta said some horrible things about you.”


One of my biggest frustrations as a daily reddit user, seeing that sort of nonsense at the top page, even though mostly it was just madness. Couple this with the fact that there were a lot of pro-trump twitter bots posting 4 times as often as pro-Hillary it muddies any sort of constructive political discussion.

If you're ever bored and want some free entertainment, and want to look into the echo chamber of echo chambers, read some of the comments on their posts at reddit.com/r/the_donald

That's my rant, I'm glad the message board is back. Hope it works out for everyone. I appreciate a lot of the discussions you've all had.


I've been looking at the_donald for almost a year. Literally every talking point and/or false claim I've seen propagated by Trump supporters (including all of the garbage posted on this forum) I saw on that subreddit first.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:31 pm    Post subject:

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Quick question regarding the guidelines re: "Do Not Intentionally Post Fake News: ".

Totally agree with that.

So what's the policy of blanketly claiming that news that is reported is "fake" when those people don't like what is being reported?

(Serious question, not being flippant. There's been a trend of people claiming that reported news is either false, or is not what it appears).


In general, as with any opinion or argument, someone should back up their claim with evidence. Likewise, if you believe someone is wrong, then you either ignore them or you provide evidence to disprove their point, but you never attack them or call them out for having some kind of agenda. If you believe they are trolling, use the report feature and then move on to other posts.

The mods can't discipline posters just because they are uninformed or haven't done their due diligence. Hopefully those posters would use this forum to educate themselves and, where they can, also educate others. They would certainly always have the opportunity to do so just so long as they don't violate the other guidelines listed.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:38 pm    Post subject:

Melania and Barron Trump won’t be moving to the White House

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Future First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron will not be moving to the White House after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, The Post has learned.

The president-elect’s 46-year-old wife and their 10-year-old son are staying put at the family’s glitzy Trump Tower penthouse so that Barron can continue attending his Upper West Side private school, sources told The Post.




Those living in the vicinity of Trump Tower are in for a huge lifestyle change. Melania and Barron are not going to the White House when Trump moves in. Trump says they won't move to Washington until he finishes school.
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That source said also that there is a possibility that Melania and Barron may move to the White House at the end of the school year, but no plans are in place.


Barron is 10, that would put him in the 4th grade. If he remains in New York that means SS will be on two fronts. In essence there will be 2 White Houses.

He may never get to Washington.
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I find myself hoping that Romney ends up as Secretary of State. That's where I think we are; that's just the reality of the current state of affairs.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 11:44 pm    Post subject:

jodeke wrote:
Those living in the vicinity of Trump Tower are in for a huge lifestyle change. Melania and Baaron are not going to the White House when Trump moves in. Trump says they won't move to Washington until he finishes school.

Baaron is 10, that would put him in the 4th grade. If he remains in New York that means SS will be on two fronts. In essence there will be 2 White Houses.

He may never get to Washington.


No need to get into what his and their reasons might be for this decision, but it is logistically impossible for Trump to live in Trump Tower, in terms of his ability to run the country from there and security issues. I suppose his wife and son do not need to be with him though.
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