sir if there is a single point in the article you dispute, dispute it. otherwise..
i dont read anything so i can adopt it as my own. i read to become informed. i don't need to borrow anyone else's ideas. i'm pretty ok at formulating my own ideas; actually in the political spectrum i'm an anomaly; a "libtard" who actually cares about a balanced budget and is disgusted by the enormous trade deficit with China and who thinks we should make our own stuff and send Chinese garbage back to china? who thinks a wealth tax is a dumb idea? i could go on and on but i wont. (side note: it is a travesty that we have only 3 companies here with the knowhow to manufacture ventilators and CPAP devices to meet demand for covid19: GM, Chysler, and Ford. have you ever ever heard that in left wing, or any wing for that matter, media?)
i can always tell when i'm talking to a brainwashed right winger-different from a principled conservative or libertarian whom i respect-because the convo eventually turns to "Well George Soros.." and i just look at the ceiling like i'm hearing a pitch about great "business opportunities on Amway." it's all George Soros' fault the war in iraq went badly, that we're 21 trillion dollars in debt and about to jump to 23 trillion, and every other problem in America..
i start with what is real and what the evidence supports and i go from there. i checked on Fox News first for info on Trump's firing of the 2 trillion dollar coronavirus bill Inspector General to avoid the perception of bias, and when i found an article on Fox News, critical of trump no less, had been posted later, i updated the thread.
i'm always interested in contrary opinions that are based in reality. George F. Will is an example of a principled conservative whose ideas i enjoy countenancing, even if i am not always in agreement with.
of course you will reply that he's just another Never Trumper. that may be true, but the important question is, why is he a Never Trumper? did he wake up one day and swallow the left's koolaid, as you put it? or maybe there's a different reason why he became a Never Trumper based in the Constitution of the United States, which clearly trump has never read, has no interest in reading, and tramples on every day without a second thought.. Originally Posted by pxmcc
But you keep making your case by citing opinion pieces that are obviously slanted to the left and make tons of assumptions about intent that they have no real way of knowing.
It's like this assumption that is floated around that that you and two or three others are one in the same. There are arguments for it and there are arguments against it. Stating it as fact one way or the other and backing that up with assumptions made about posting style or any other subjective criteria doesn't hold water with anyone but those predisposed to believing whichever argument in the first place. It doesn't convince anyone to change their mind.
Let's say that I wanted to make an argument that you are really a socialist/communist instead of the libertarian that, I think, you claim to be. I could cherry pick statements of yours all day long and put them together, in a thesis, as proof positive that that my theory is correct. I can do the same thing if I wanted to make an argument that you are really a conservative that likes to see how many liberal sheep you can get to follow you just for shits and giggles. (I know one guy who does that) It wouldn't be hard to make the claim. What would be hard is convincing anyone with half a brain that either is correct. Only you know what is correct. Shouting it from the rooftops to the ones with their minds made up would just make me hoarse.
Secondly, time and again you present things as fact that simply are not true. Time and again I correct you on them. It ruins your credibility.
Your statement that GM, Ford and Chrysler are the "only companies here" with the know how to make CPAP machines and ventilators is patently false. Devilbiss makes their CPAPs in Somerset PA, Respironics, which is now a division of Dutch owned Philips, CPAPs are made outside of Pittsburgh, it's not clear where their ventilators are made but if they can build CPAPs here I would assume they have the "know how" to build ventilators here. 3M and GE are capable of producing ventilators and as a side note Italian owned Fiat Chrysler is building ventilators at their factory in China. I think the only "know how" Chrysler has left in the US is marketing and assembly.
George Will? You mean the guy who can say nothing at all in 5000 words or less? He is principled in is trying to recover his reputation from his own lack of intellectual honesty and political awareness. He predicted that Trump would make a horrible candidate, he was wrong. He predicted that Trump would never win, he was wrong. He predicted that Trump would destroy the GOP, He might have been right on that to a certain extent but not the way he predicted. Trump has certainly changed the GOP.
Might as well cite Bill Kristol next. He let his clouded predictions of Trumps inevitable failure take down an otherwise decent conservative rag. Why? because just like Will he was so entrenched with the beltway insiders he had blinders on. There was no way in either of their minds that a guy like Trump could win the presidency. Hell, they didn't think he could win the nomination and when he did they doubled down on their hate for the guy.
