It is déjà vu concerning the United States going to war against Iran. Back in a February of 2012 Republican presidential nomination race debate, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was asked about if the US should go to war against Iran because of the same purported threat that President Donald Trump is now using to support movement toward war on Iran — that Iran may soon have a nuclear weapon.
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J.D. Vance, Israel Firster
Donald Trump likes to talk about how he puts America first. Last night, Trump’s presidential race running mate J.D. Vance made it clear that Vance has other priorities. In answer to the first question of the vice-presidential debate, Vance asserted that his allegiance is to Israel first. Indeed, he suggested that America does not even come in second.
Glenn Greenwald is a skilled communicator regarding media bias. He delivered in a new video monologue an insightful and succinct rundown of ways in which the Tuesday presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was moderated with an extreme bias toward aiding Harris and hindering Trump. In short, declares Greenwald in the video, “the debate structure was so blatantly designed to favor [Harris].”
When Donald Trump debated Joe Biden in June in their one and only debate of this year’s presidential contest, the outcome was monumental. Biden’s very diminished state shone through clearly, leading to him being forced out of the race by people in his own party.
Americans have become accustomed to watching presidential debates, or at least seeing excerpts of them or reports on them, as part of the process of deciding who to vote for. These debates have become a routine, expected part of the election process. But, there is no requirement for successful candidates to participate in debates. This year looks like it could be the first time in a long time in which an American president is elected who has participated in zero debates, either in the primary contest or the general election.
People are commenting regarding the “diverse” signers of a Tuesday open letter at Harper’s Magazine supposedly championing tolerance and open debate. Don’t believe the hype. How diverse are the views of these signers? The letter they signed singles out one person in the world — United States President Donald Trump — for harsh criticism and twice condemns iterations of “right wing” people.
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600,000 Libertarians in America?
In a September 10 The Soho Forum debate, United States Libertarian Party Chairman Nicholas Sarwark declared the number of libertarians in America is “roughly 600,000” because that many people are registered as affiliated with the Libertarian Party in America. Sarwark then used this declaration of the number of libertarians in America as the basis for concluding that the party’s 2016 presidential ticket received several times the number of votes as there are libertarians in America.
Declaring that the registered Libertarians in America are synonymous with the libertarians in America is absurd.