I watched Larry Kudlow and later Rachel Campos-Duffy cover this story, but they did not have this information as presented in this article. I would like Erick to forward this to the Fox News host so they can answer the DeSantis critics with better information and tell the true story.
This is just well-written and succinctly put. You took their argument, turned it on its head, and clearly--in the whole process--defined what a Straw Man Argumentation is without stating "this is what it is." Very, very well done!
I guess that’s the other thing. I think it’s at least debatable whether you have any influence over the hard core Trump supporters. They definitely consider you the enemy. Problem for you is that crowd seems to be growing. So you become a proving ground for the hypocrisy of Trump haters. This country is in sad shape. More and more people feel Trump is the best hope for turning it around. You have admitted ( no real choice ) that most of what Trump did in office was good. The fact that he can’t run again is a bonus- not at all a bad thing. You do know that God used a Christian killer to write most of the New Testament- right? Actually, God ONLY uses imperfect people to do his bidding.
Oh, and another reason I don’t mine paying for now, I get to tell you and your readers what I think about what you say.
You cannot reason with the hardcore Trump supporter. No one can. Not you, not me, and not Erick. I also do not believe the press reports that they are growing. DeSantis will demonstrate that one when he announces I think (hope.)
My first thought when hearing this story was, “Where are they going to go instead? A blue state with higher taxes?”. I think Erick nailed it. It was a business decision to pull back & save money. They try to distract from their financial woes by pretending it’s about DeSantis.
The question that must be answered is why should anyone take you seriously when you complain about the NYT’s slanting the truth to favor their agenda when you do the same at every opportunity to disparage Trump. Hilarious…
That would be because I’m trying to decide if you’re a misguided brother in Christ. Either way, should Trump prevail, it’ll be interesting to see how you juggle. I also pay the NYT. But that’s to keep up with the enemy. If you turn out to also be the enemy I will not continue to pay you. The NYT will be a much better bang for the buck - as entertaining enemies go... I pray you’re not the enemy!
Ever since Trump came down that escalator in June of 2015, the media has tried to gaslight us all. There's freedom of the press, then there's criminal malfeasance in journalism...
We live in a narrative based world because the media are all controlled by corporations and billionaires that have an agenda for the US. I am going to repeat a comment I posted earlier for another article. Any candidate that has an "America First" platform or is considered "nationalist" will have the same "Deep State", media, democrat (and establishment republican), big money machine try to destroy the candidate and subsequent presidency if won. I have now realized that everything that was done to Trump was not because of his personality etc. It was due to his America First agenda. There are extremely powerful political, corporate, and donor class interests both domestically and politically that want to make the US part of a global alliance instead of having our own sovereignty and control of US interests. The push for "climate change" initiatives and an open border is all part of this effort. Global control will put a lot of money in the pockets of corporations and already rich democrats and republicans. It will hurt the working class and people like most of us that have worked hard to establish a middle-to-upper middle-class livelihood. If someone had said this to me 8 years ago, I would have called them an idiot, Qanon conspiracy freak. But the events over the past 7 years actually confirm it. Until people realize this and push back it is just a matter of time before our country is gone.
I don't know whether you're right or wrong on this, but I sure understand how you could come to this conclusion. Couple Erick's piece with your comments, then mix in the Durham report and you have a large number of verifiable facts that give credence to...well, nobody. Or everybody. And that's a problem for which I have no solution. Trust in literally EVERY institution has crumbled to a point where even the craziest of conspiracy theories seems at least somewhat plausible (that comment is not aimed at your post, BTW). I just know this corruption is so big, so prevalent, so entrenched, and so GLOBAL that draining the swamp will never happen. They don't even try to hide it anymore. As Erick said, they almost seem proud of it, I think, because they believe they are on the right side of history.
There's still a shot at draining the swamp, as they say. SCOTUS has a case before it that would be instrumental in removing the entrenched, entitled bureaucrat that causes these problems to by systemic. If that goes right, and I forget the name forgive me, it would allow a president, house, and senate who want to clean house, to clean house. The Progressive Left in America would scream bloody murder, but that's to be expected as their entrenched apparatus is dismantled.
Since when have actual facts ever gotten in the way of The Message the Progressive Left of America (yes, I think I'm going to start calling them the PLA and I know who had those letters first, but it's appropriate)?
I've been short-handing it to Pravada America but it isn't really Russian anymore is it. It's Chinese. I'm not sure what state-run Chinese news is called over there. Over here it's called MSNBC.
1) act as a wing of the Democrat party to advance a false narrative and assist Democrats in the next election.
2) deflect from Biden's terrible economy, as if Disney is laying off because Florida's economy is in the tank (agreeing with Trump) and not the entire country thanks to Biden's policies.
This is also a very succinct and easily related example of why the press has no credibility, well unless you like being lied to with conviction.
This is why I say. We don’t just have a trump problem. With trump endorsed candidates losing. We have a media and voter problem. Voters who are quick to believe a lying media as exposed in this story with the media making it look like Desantis cost Florida jobs.
Whatever they have done to trump they will do to Desantis.
While true, I think we do have a Trump problem. He is doing the same thing the left does, repeat the lie often and with conviction until people believe it, until they believe it was always that way.
At the same time he plays his supporters, look the NY Times lied about DeSantis they are lying about 2020.
Actual thought is no longer a thing, it was replaced with narrative.
Thinking is work.
The legacy media lied about Trump's presidency and still does.
They lie about Republicans.
They lie to fluff up Democrats.
2020 was not stolen.
All are true. A source does not determine if something is true. Liers can speak truth, good men can lie.
The problem with the 2020 lie is that it's getting cover and convolution as more is revealed about how Big Tech suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop and how the deep state colluded with a sitting president to obstruct the will of the American people and then that same deep state, along with their willing accomplices in the press worked to destroy a presidential administration dully elected by the American people. The fact that the Progressive Left in America refuse to see that as a threat to our way of life makes me ignore their cries of foul on Jan 6. They can pound sand.
We know more now than we did in 2020, we always know more later. Trump doesn't get to evolve his narrative, his lie.
It is insidious to tie his lie to the facts we now know regarding FBI incompetence and end around on the 1st amendment regarding Hunter Biden's laptop.
Doing so makes the real issues at the FBI and DOJ partisan. Every American regardless of how they vote should be worried about this, which should make them question their representatives.
But the Left won't because it isn't supporting The Message and doesn't get them where they want to go. They are complicate in the fall of our great country if this stands.
There are no more blue-dog democrats. They were expunged. The left only has somewhat moderates and progressives anymore. They cannot be trusted with anything because for them the ends justify the means. That means they will do anything they need to do, destroy anyone they need to destroy, or put forth any lie they need to support if it means getting what they want. They want a socialist America with central planners to tell you how to live your life based on what they think is right, not what you think is right.
Agree with Jay - great insight. Very few people read a story, and I bet even your flagship station will repeat the line DeSantis destroyed 2,000 great paying jobs… There is always the story by the press and then the actual story. That’s why I pay to read you. 😀
I watched Larry Kudlow and later Rachel Campos-Duffy cover this story, but they did not have this information as presented in this article. I would like Erick to forward this to the Fox News host so they can answer the DeSantis critics with better information and tell the true story.
This is just well-written and succinctly put. You took their argument, turned it on its head, and clearly--in the whole process--defined what a Straw Man Argumentation is without stating "this is what it is." Very, very well done!
I guess that’s the other thing. I think it’s at least debatable whether you have any influence over the hard core Trump supporters. They definitely consider you the enemy. Problem for you is that crowd seems to be growing. So you become a proving ground for the hypocrisy of Trump haters. This country is in sad shape. More and more people feel Trump is the best hope for turning it around. You have admitted ( no real choice ) that most of what Trump did in office was good. The fact that he can’t run again is a bonus- not at all a bad thing. You do know that God used a Christian killer to write most of the New Testament- right? Actually, God ONLY uses imperfect people to do his bidding.
Oh, and another reason I don’t mine paying for now, I get to tell you and your readers what I think about what you say.
You cannot reason with the hardcore Trump supporter. No one can. Not you, not me, and not Erick. I also do not believe the press reports that they are growing. DeSantis will demonstrate that one when he announces I think (hope.)
The enslaved press is STILL enslaved. Isn't that right, Pluto? 🔥
As the saying goes... And now we know the rest of the story, page 2
My first thought when hearing this story was, “Where are they going to go instead? A blue state with higher taxes?”. I think Erick nailed it. It was a business decision to pull back & save money. They try to distract from their financial woes by pretending it’s about DeSantis.
The question that must be answered is why should anyone take you seriously when you complain about the NYT’s slanting the truth to favor their agenda when you do the same at every opportunity to disparage Trump. Hilarious…
And yet, Bob, you pay me.
That would be because I’m trying to decide if you’re a misguided brother in Christ. Either way, should Trump prevail, it’ll be interesting to see how you juggle. I also pay the NYT. But that’s to keep up with the enemy. If you turn out to also be the enemy I will not continue to pay you. The NYT will be a much better bang for the buck - as entertaining enemies go... I pray you’re not the enemy!
I appreciate the money. I'll continue using it to tell everyone what I think about Trump. Couldn't do it without you.
Not at all, but this brother in Christ thinks any of the Republicans running for President would be a monumental improvement over JR Biden.
So my vote for US President will go to ABJ- anybody but JOE
The corporate media are making it quite clear who they want “Biden” to run against next year, and he doesn’t have an Italian sounding name.
Ever since Trump came down that escalator in June of 2015, the media has tried to gaslight us all. There's freedom of the press, then there's criminal malfeasance in journalism...
We live in a narrative based world because the media are all controlled by corporations and billionaires that have an agenda for the US. I am going to repeat a comment I posted earlier for another article. Any candidate that has an "America First" platform or is considered "nationalist" will have the same "Deep State", media, democrat (and establishment republican), big money machine try to destroy the candidate and subsequent presidency if won. I have now realized that everything that was done to Trump was not because of his personality etc. It was due to his America First agenda. There are extremely powerful political, corporate, and donor class interests both domestically and politically that want to make the US part of a global alliance instead of having our own sovereignty and control of US interests. The push for "climate change" initiatives and an open border is all part of this effort. Global control will put a lot of money in the pockets of corporations and already rich democrats and republicans. It will hurt the working class and people like most of us that have worked hard to establish a middle-to-upper middle-class livelihood. If someone had said this to me 8 years ago, I would have called them an idiot, Qanon conspiracy freak. But the events over the past 7 years actually confirm it. Until people realize this and push back it is just a matter of time before our country is gone.
I don't know whether you're right or wrong on this, but I sure understand how you could come to this conclusion. Couple Erick's piece with your comments, then mix in the Durham report and you have a large number of verifiable facts that give credence to...well, nobody. Or everybody. And that's a problem for which I have no solution. Trust in literally EVERY institution has crumbled to a point where even the craziest of conspiracy theories seems at least somewhat plausible (that comment is not aimed at your post, BTW). I just know this corruption is so big, so prevalent, so entrenched, and so GLOBAL that draining the swamp will never happen. They don't even try to hide it anymore. As Erick said, they almost seem proud of it, I think, because they believe they are on the right side of history.
There's still a shot at draining the swamp, as they say. SCOTUS has a case before it that would be instrumental in removing the entrenched, entitled bureaucrat that causes these problems to by systemic. If that goes right, and I forget the name forgive me, it would allow a president, house, and senate who want to clean house, to clean house. The Progressive Left in America would scream bloody murder, but that's to be expected as their entrenched apparatus is dismantled.
Since when have actual facts ever gotten in the way of The Message the Progressive Left of America (yes, I think I'm going to start calling them the PLA and I know who had those letters first, but it's appropriate)?
These days, the left-wing media is nothing more than TASS' American wing.
I've been short-handing it to Pravada America but it isn't really Russian anymore is it. It's Chinese. I'm not sure what state-run Chinese news is called over there. Over here it's called MSNBC.
The Xinhua News Agency is the official Chinese state-run media.... but it doesn't have the same connotations as Pravda or TASS..
sounds like the lead press agent is Goofy
For the NY Times this storey serves two purposes,
1) act as a wing of the Democrat party to advance a false narrative and assist Democrats in the next election.
2) deflect from Biden's terrible economy, as if Disney is laying off because Florida's economy is in the tank (agreeing with Trump) and not the entire country thanks to Biden's policies.
This is also a very succinct and easily related example of why the press has no credibility, well unless you like being lied to with conviction.
This is why I say. We don’t just have a trump problem. With trump endorsed candidates losing. We have a media and voter problem. Voters who are quick to believe a lying media as exposed in this story with the media making it look like Desantis cost Florida jobs.
Whatever they have done to trump they will do to Desantis.
While true, I think we do have a Trump problem. He is doing the same thing the left does, repeat the lie often and with conviction until people believe it, until they believe it was always that way.
At the same time he plays his supporters, look the NY Times lied about DeSantis they are lying about 2020.
Actual thought is no longer a thing, it was replaced with narrative.
Thinking is work.
The legacy media lied about Trump's presidency and still does.
They lie about Republicans.
They lie to fluff up Democrats.
2020 was not stolen.
All are true. A source does not determine if something is true. Liers can speak truth, good men can lie.
The problem with the 2020 lie is that it's getting cover and convolution as more is revealed about how Big Tech suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop and how the deep state colluded with a sitting president to obstruct the will of the American people and then that same deep state, along with their willing accomplices in the press worked to destroy a presidential administration dully elected by the American people. The fact that the Progressive Left in America refuse to see that as a threat to our way of life makes me ignore their cries of foul on Jan 6. They can pound sand.
100%
We know more now than we did in 2020, we always know more later. Trump doesn't get to evolve his narrative, his lie.
It is insidious to tie his lie to the facts we now know regarding FBI incompetence and end around on the 1st amendment regarding Hunter Biden's laptop.
Doing so makes the real issues at the FBI and DOJ partisan. Every American regardless of how they vote should be worried about this, which should make them question their representatives.
But the Left won't because it isn't supporting The Message and doesn't get them where they want to go. They are complicate in the fall of our great country if this stands.
I really like DeSantis….think he is what we need. Erick you have to keep pounding the BS we see everyday to get the story out.
The FBI mess is so disheartening ….clearly seem to be losing our country ….where are the congressional patriots?….on both sides🤙
There are no more blue-dog democrats. They were expunged. The left only has somewhat moderates and progressives anymore. They cannot be trusted with anything because for them the ends justify the means. That means they will do anything they need to do, destroy anyone they need to destroy, or put forth any lie they need to support if it means getting what they want. They want a socialist America with central planners to tell you how to live your life based on what they think is right, not what you think is right.
Agree with Jay - great insight. Very few people read a story, and I bet even your flagship station will repeat the line DeSantis destroyed 2,000 great paying jobs… There is always the story by the press and then the actual story. That’s why I pay to read you. 😀