CURRENT EVENTS July 14 - July 20

ChileG said:
Based on what metrics?
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This is actually an important point, though. I'm one of those pathetic people who tries to keep an eye on the right wing infosphere, where Ram and millions of other MAGAs get all of their information. That world was preaching for the last four years that Biden was running the country into the ground, even when all metrics showed otherwise. It's now preaching that the nation has suddenly reversed course and is doing better than it ever has, again, even when most metrics show otherwise.

What will eventually bring down our republic is not a foreign power or a pandemic. It's the disinformation being sown daily by right wing media, which has caused an extraordinarily large percentage of our population to lose all sense of reality.
 
nycfan said:




Note how Trump works in that Epstein died “three, four years ago” — which would be during Biden Administration. But Epstein died in federal custody during the first Trump Administration ….
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It's interesting how he changed from maybe releasing the files to It's a hoax.
 
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Trump-Appointed Judge Kills Rule to Remove All Medical Debt From Credit Reports

The rule was expected to improve the credit scores of 15 million Americans.
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Yet another Biden-era reform intended to make life easier for some Americans has been quashed. Late last week, a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down a rule issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed all medical debt from being included in people’s credit reports.


Judge Sean Jordan of the U.S. District Court of Texas’ Eastern District issued the decision Friday, declaring that the CFPB’s rule surpassed the limits of its authority. The agency previously stated its rule would have significantly improved the credit scores of millions of Americans. It’s the latest setback for the CFPB, which the Trump administration has effectively destroyed.

In March 2022, the CFPB published a report highlighting the burden of medical debt. It found that Americans owed at least $88 billion of medical debt in 2021, which represented 58% of all third-party debt collection tradelines. Debt collectors also often hounded people who had already paid off their medical bills, it found. The report concluded that medical debt was a poor indicator of people’s credit trustworthiness, especially given that it’s usually incurred through emergency and unexpected health problems. The CFPB’s pressure soon led the three major credit reporting agencies to announce that they would remove many forms of medical debt from their calculation of credit reports.
 
UNCatTech said:
There's no reasonable measure of a presidential term that would rate this administration anywhere near the best 6 months. He's passed almost no policy. His crowning achievement makes us a step closer to a dictatorship, while still under funding the government and risking people's healthcare. It's been rated the most regressionary police ever passed.

He's hurt the economy. He's hurt international relationships.

He's set science and education back by decades.

How anyone sees this as a success is puzzling in the least.
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Unfortunately, it’s not puzzling at all. Ramrouser exists in a world entirely engulfed in influencer-type people being paid by the Kremlin to lie to him incessantly about all things at all times to make him think that JOE BIDEN and WOKE is the root of all that ails him and not the fact that his political party has been commandeered and comprised by a bunch of billionaire robber barons, pedophiles, and their enablers.
 
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lawtig02 said:
This is actually an important point, though. I'm one of those pathetic people who tries to keep an eye on the right wing infosphere, where Ram and millions of other MAGAs get all of their information. That world was preaching for the last four years that Biden was running the country into the ground, even when all metrics showed otherwise. It's now preaching that the nation has suddenly reversed course and is doing better than it ever has, again, even when most metrics show otherwise.

What will eventually bring down our republic is not a foreign power or a pandemic. It's the disinformation being sown daily by right wing media, which has caused an extraordinarily large percentage of our population to lose all sense of reality.
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And to add to that the fear that seems to exist with centrist and left leaning TV media that is Leon them from reporting facts will be a contributing factor.
 
CFordUNC said:
Unfortunately, it’s not puzzling at all. Ramrouser exists in a world entirely engulfed in influencer-type people being paid by the Kremlin to lie to him incessantly about all things at all times and to make him think that JOE BIDEN and WOKE is the root of all that ails him.
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Have you seen the new Superman movie?

It's the monkeys 🐒. 😁
 
UNCatTech said:
He continues to blame Biden for everything, including his own choices.
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And he knows his base never checks anything, so they'll actually believe that Biden appointed him. In Trumpworld truth and reality are whatever you say they are. If you say that Biden appointed Powell, then his base will say that "By God, Biden appointed him!" Most of them have been addicted to reality shows for so long they can no longer tell the difference between reality and fantasy.
 
uncgriff said:
And not one reporter has the balls to say, you appointed him mr President why are you blaming Biden!
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Given how much of our news and social media is now owned or managed by conservatives and billionaire plutocrats it really isn't surprising that even basic follow-up questions aren't being asked to him anymore. Instead most of the questions he now gets are friendly leading questions from the right-wing reporters that are allowed to speak. The few genuine questions he gets he just attacks the reporter by calling it a "dumb question" or an "evil question" asked by an obviously evil and lying left-wing radical reporter. His press conferences are a total joke.
 
The right wing in this country, as exemplified by Ram, lacks the historical perspective and intellectual capacity to understand that the world is not binary, but to the extent it is binary, the division is not between capitalism and communism. The division is between democracy and autocracy. It is between science and myth. Between progress and reversion. Ram has somehow been convinced to support autocracy, myth, and reversion, not because those things are in the best interest of society or even of him personally, but because that's what his media sources have told him to support.
 
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