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Mueller FIRED (in Nancy Pelosi's world)

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fskimospy said:
So wait, we're getting angry about stupid fundraising emails now?

Are conservatives sure they want to go down that path? I haven't bothered to google it yet but I strongly suspect I can turn up about a dozen or more from conservatives/Republicans that are WAY crazier than that.
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Start with no whataboutism. Do not be them. As this case is, standing alone, this is a needlessly hysterical clickbait headline. It is indefensible.

Now, if they choose to say this is indicative of a huge and unique problem among Democrats, then, and only then can you destroy them with the batshit insanity of the right wing.
 
Amused said:
Start with no whataboutism. Do not be them. As this case is, standing alone, this is a needlessly hysterical clickbait headline. It is indefensible.

Now, if they choose to say this is indicative of a huge and unique problem among Democrats, then, and only then can you destroy them with the batshit insanity of the right wing.
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Maybe I should have been clearer with my point: this OP was made in obvious bad faith. He does not actually care about outrageous fundraising claims.
 
fskimospy said:
Maybe I should have been clearer with my point: this OP was made in obvious bad faith. He does not actually care about outrageous fundraising claims.
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That may be, but he did not expand his accusation and commentary any further than her. He focused only on her, her actions and intentions. He mentioned the left, but only in what effect this misleading clickbait headline may have on them. He alluded to no pattern or wider issue.

Thus, the only non-whataboutism response to that is to do the right thing. Condemn the clickbait headline.
 
Amused said:
That may be, but he did not expand his accusation and commentary any further than her. He focused only on her, her actions and intentions. He mentioned the left, but only in what effect this misleading clickbait headline may have on them. He alluded to no pattern or wider issue.

Thus, the only non-whataboutism response to that is to do the right thing. Condemn the clickbait headline.
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But are sensational click bait subject lines on fundraising emails even worthy of condemnation?
 
Amused said:
That may be, but he did not expand his accusation and commentary any further than her. He focused only on her, her actions and intentions. He mentioned the left, but only in what effect this misleading clickbait headline may have on them. He alluded to no pattern or wider issue.

Thus, the only non-whataboutism response to that is to do the right thing. Condemn the clickbait headline.
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Absolutely not. There is no reason to take an argument made in obvious bad faith as anything but that. The fundraising email is obviously stupid but it’s a fundraising email, most of them are stupid. Their point after all is to rile up partisans enough to give money. The odds that the OP is genuinely concerned about misleading fundraising email headlines are somewhere approaching zero.

When you treat arguments made in obvious bad faith as if they are legitimate all you’re doing is playing into the hands of the unscrupulous people making them to begin with.
 
dank69 said:
But are sensational click bait subject lines on fundraising emails even worthy of condemnation?
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I believe so. I hate misleading clickbaity shit from any source. When it comes from our leaders, that's a damage to the public trust.

It's weekly world news level bullshit. It's cheap, shady and indefensible unless done for a joke.

Like this example here:

 
boomerang said:
She sent out an email with that title. It was just a fundraising email so hey, why not tell a big fat lie in order to raise money? Absent the actual event, she evidently sees good reason to capitalize on a figment of her imagination.

Lacking a crisis that should not be wasted, why not create one in the minds of the left and capitalize on the emotional responses?

You go girl!

Article are plentiful. Read this one, or find your own.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-of-robert-mueller-firing-that-hasnt-happened
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Great story Bro! The big issue for me today is that I'm out of coffee beans.
 
Amused said:
Start with no whataboutism. Do not be them. As this case is, standing alone, this is a needlessly hysterical clickbait headline. It is indefensible.

Now, if they choose to say this is indicative of a huge and unique problem among Democrats, then, and only then can you destroy them with the batshit insanity of the right wing.
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I think you're overstating and over-hyping this. In the process bending over backwards to be considered impartial. And by doing so you are in fact being partial.
 
Amused said:
I believe so. I hate misleading clickbaity shit from any source. When it comes from our leaders, that's a damage to the public trust.

It's weekly world news level bullshit. It's cheap, shady and indefensible unless done for a joke.

Like this example here:

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It is important to understand the origin of hate. You may be driven to be totally trustworthy because you have been harmed by people in your past that were not, hate them for it and hate anything about yourself that might want to be like that too. I think this creates both a will to become better, a good thing, but also a division in the self that can lead to intolerance. I don't think you would lose the will to be trustworthy yourself if you lost the hate for its lack. Repressed urges bite back.
 
Nancy's a bit crazy, but clearly this is the most egregious lie from our government that this nation needs to be concerned about. It is super serious.
 
Amused said:
I believe so. I hate misleading clickbaity shit from any source. When it comes from our leaders, that's a damage to the public trust.

It's weekly world news level bullshit. It's cheap, shady and indefensible unless done for a joke.

Like this example here:
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I agree with you and had you made such a complaint about this fundraising email (or had one of a dozen other people) I would wholeheartedly agree. When the guy who uncritically links articles about how Obama is an Islamo-Marxist dedicated to destroying the western world suddenly gets mad about a Nancy Pelosi fundraising email with a misleading header... no.

Just no.
 
boomerang said:
Outraged? Not me bubba. I think the methodologies of the progressive left are juvenile at best and I like to expose them to some daylight from time to time.

Just curious, how much did this email of hers prompt you to fork over? You can tell us, you're among friends here.
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The subject of the email actually read "re: Mueller Fired", if you click on it it goes on to further explain it. Is the email subject sensational, yes. Does anywhere in her email does she lie about Mueller being fired, No.

Now let me ask you, of all the things that have happened the last week re: Mueller, shit the last 2 days, why was this the only thing you found time to start a thread on?

Edit: I think this thread title is factually incorrect and misleading
 
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OK, that's cool. But at least I got to rickroll ya'll. 😉

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boomerang said:
She sent out an email with that title. It was just a fundraising email so hey, why not tell a big fat lie in order to raise money? Absent the actual event, she evidently sees good reason to capitalize on a figment of her imagination.

Lacking a crisis that should not be wasted, why not create one in the minds of the left and capitalize on the emotional responses?

You go girl!

Article are plentiful. Read this one, or find your own.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-of-robert-mueller-firing-that-hasnt-happened
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HEY .. Those buckets of Alex Jones Tears are NOT gonna carry them selves... back to work!
 
IJTSSG said:
She suffers from the same debilitating disease that a lot of Americans and about 99% of this forum suffer from. It's a successor to BDS or Bush Derangement Syndrome called TDS or Trump Derangement Syndrome. The inflicted are pretty easy to spot. You'll observe a pavlovian response to anything President Trump does to include: the gnashing of teeth, the wringing of hands, the rending of garments and hair and, of course, the clutching of pearls. These are usually followed by the starting of threads on echo chamber type message boards ( here, DU) which quickly evolve (devolve?) into a circle jerk that would make our olympic synchronized swim teams green with envy. The prize being the coveted ritz. Like shingles, there is no cure you only treat the symptoms and only hope it doesn't last more than 4 years.

Now it's time for the ignorant to call me a trump supporter. lol.
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Damn son. Found your alt.
 
Clearly a click bait email. It's pretty well in line with the rest of her public behavior. How she was ever a VP candidate is beyond me. Surely there was another woman Republican who didn't put her foot in her mouth so often.
 
interchange said:
Clearly a click bait email. It's pretty well in line with the rest of her public behavior. How she was ever a VP candidate is beyond me. Surely there was another woman Republican who didn't put her foot in her mouth so often.
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Has the provenance of this supposed email been determined? I have comments but I'd like verification with a high degree of certainty.
 
Amused said:
Yep. Even "Muller" is misspelled.

Um, could this be a huge backfire? Let's take a few to look.

Nope. verified by Vox and MSNBC. Though only the headline said that. The email itself did not. It was preparing people for what must happen next if he is.

Regrettable and indefensible clickbait headline, but not a lie as it stands.

https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/984917290570452992
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Without reading anything, I assumed it was a clickbait subject line with a "What can we do if it happens?" Message. Just takes a little critical thinking.
 
Zorba said:
Without reading anything, I assumed it was a clickbait subject line with a "What can we do if it happens?" Message. Just takes a little critical thinking.
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It appears to be a "grabber" headline and not a statement of an actual event. Muller is suspicious as Pelosi herself isn't prone to that error. Low on the importance radar anyway.

More amusing is the Trump self-promo that just happened. I don't think either this presumed email, his personal infomercial, nor anything else is going to distract from Cohen and Trump's egregious nature.
 
Is this as outrageous as fundraising emails when mass shootings happen that claim "liberals are coming for your guns".
 
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