CNN is so far away from actual journalism the past four years that I'm not sure it could be considered anything other than partisan theater, and it is the flagship progressive media.
we're talking about an election that was won with razor thin margins in a few specific swing states, with numerous statistical anomalies, hundreds of sworn affidavits, and a pending lawsuit to the scotus with 17 states attached.
prior to 2020 election, the democrats, CNN, NBC, and many others are _on record_ saying that Dominion Voting has the potential for massive fraud & shouldn't be used.
the problem is that they're effectively saying no one can question these anomalies, or the claims, and that "youtube" as the expert has adjudicated the election.
the truth is that it could take years of investigation to resolve whether or not some of the alleged evidence was credible or not, and neither youtube nor the claimants can say it's truth until then.
why does big tech get to decide who's right? that's the problem here & why it reeks Orwell.
I still think context matters, and he was clearly discussing illegal immigrants coming from Mexico & in relation to MS-13. The media would show that clip without context and instantly generate outrage.
His problem has always been that he's not an eloquent speaker, if he were, I suspect he would have sailed into a second term without a challenge. For his supporters, what he lacks in speaking ability is made up by his ability to plainly state the issues and communicate them without political speak.
For instance Biden's speech last night was a great speech at face value, but it's also a return to the usual platitude-filled politician speak. Trump just identifies problems he see's and (sometimes controversially) describes them in a matter of fact way.
> Like when he called Mexicans rapists/murderers/drug dealer
I think this validates OP's point. He never said all Mexicans are rapists etc, he was speaking about border security and describing the people illegally entering the country through the Southern Border. One of many soundbites spun into a scandal by the media and used to dehumanize him.
His supporters understood what he meant, his detractors took the media spin hook, line, and sinker.
We could do this same exercise with r/the_donald. While it's easy to find a few bad apples in any of these subreddits, it's pretty egregious to generalize it to the entire community.
> when white men rise up against oppression, they are heroes
Except most of the "peaceful protestors" are white.
One must be ignorant to claim that the Portland "protests" are peaceful, and not reasonably described as a riot. I've watched the youtube live streams, seen the extensive property damage, vandalism, and general aggressive nature of the anarchists torching the city.
It seems that the book you quote as scripture has it's own agenda to discredit ordinary language, while excusing the criminal behavior of many people.
It's funny I see this comment all the time on HN, but in a very similar scenario recently, where DHH launched Hey app and was stonewalled by Apple, I didn't see a single comment saying "hey just go build your own app store". Telling someone to "just go build your own" is lazy and weightless.
This is not true at all. I see comments like this and wonder if the person even ventured to TD, interacted in the comments, or just simply contrived such a story. I don't doubt that there were bad actors in TD, as there are in r/politics and every other political community, but having intermittently visited the sub since inception, I almost never saw anything remotely close to "hate speech" (whatever that is). Most of the comments were from regular people that support the President, and rightfully were tired of the hypocrisy coming from the other side. Don't forget that TD was a target from day one, and even exposed the CEO Steve Huffman manipulating comments on it. What message did that send?
The proclamation isn't even about ending H1B/H2B/J/L, it specifically says that it is to address the economic laborforce risk brought on by pandemic (thus it has expiration date).