Just saw this going back over the discussion of yesterday. You are a liar AND a dick. You did not point that out to me, as I never asserted that he'd said it. And I didn't "concede" to your point. You responded to
@britbox , then I actually looked it up for myself, and posted this on p. 171:
https://www.tennisfrontier.com/threads/us-politics-thread.833/page-171
Both Britbox and BwokenWooWace said that Trump called it a hoax. Then you said this after examining the quote: "
So, by letter of his word, he didn't exactly call the virus a "hoax," but he sure as hell put it out there for his acolytes to munch on."
The bold line there was a concession on your part that what Britbox and BwokenWooWace said was incorrect, and, again, that's why Facebook flagged the Politico article which originally made the claim. The second part of your statement is simply your own speculation about how some people may have taken it. Nothing more. It was plain as day from Trump's quote - which the low-information bigot Bwoken is too lazy to look up - that Trump was referencing the Democratic treatment of coronavirus as the hoax.
All you care about is winning, no matter how sleazy your tactics or questionable your sources.
How questionable my sources? Lol. Right, so any article that doesn't serve the partisan interests of the Democrats - even if it is published in the New York Times or Washington Post - is immediately "questionable." Sure. But the media who promoted Michael Avenatti for president, bought the Jussie Smollett hoax, lied about the Covington Catholic kids and had to settle lawsuits because of it, and then popularized the tinfoil conspiracy theory of Russian collusion are completely credible and legitimate. Sure. As I have said many times, you exemplify the utter stupidity of the Democratic electorate.
I guess Moxie doesn't consider the CDC legitimate now either, since I cited their statistics on swine flu.
To reiterate my own point, it takes rather a deep-dive into his speech to glean that he didn't call the virus itself a "hoax."
No, it doesn't. It's very clear. Look at the quotes you cited again:
“Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that, right?” he said. “Coronavirus, they’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa.”
Then the president, who often dismissed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation as a hoax, continued, “They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax.”
Paragraph 1: Clear message is that the coronavirus is being politicized by the Democrats to discredit Trump.
Paragraph 2: Clear message is that the Democrats' criticism of Trump over coronavirus is an extension of their earlier hoaxes (such as Russian collusion), which were indeed hoaxes.
It's not surprising that it was misconstrued, and very much including by his faithful, who have decided to treat the virus as a hoax invented by Democrats to bring down Trump, or at the very least, overblown to the same end. (You get included in this.)
Yes, you can include me among those who believe this virus is overblown in terms of its potency and that it is being exploited by the Democratic media to discredit Trump. But now you have a big problem on your hands. In addition to the MIT biologist and Israeli disease expert I cited earlier as skeptics of how dangerous the virus actually is, you now have this piece in the New York Times. This article says exactly what I said all along. So I will ask you the same question I asked Britbox: when will you get with the program and catch up? Or is the New York Times now a "questionable source"? The author of this piece is the founder of a research center at Yale:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing.html
Whether intentional or not, it had the effect of a dog-whistle to the faithful.
No, it was a completely rational assessment of the political landscape. Before even 50 people had died in the U.S. from the virus, you had members of the media calling this "Trump's Katrina" (MSNBC and Yahoo), "Trump's Chernobyl" (Washington Post), and the "Trumpvirus" (New York Times). Now you may agree with that, but to deny that the Democrats were trying to making political hay out of this from the start is just ridiculous. Perhaps you don't follow the media very closely and need to raise your acuity level in that regard.
So, once again, you've been schooled. You're welcome, Moxie. I enjoy teaching. Study tonight and I'll see you tomorrow in class.
