President Trump Conviction

Oh, please! If you really followed Ben Shapiro closely, you would have known about his famous comment. You don't seem to know much about his extremist views, but you're quoting him like he's a credible historian. All you demonstrated is that you're not mature enough to discuss a public figure's sexual comments without directing sexual comments toward the person you're talking to. If me referring to what Ben Shapiro said was gross, then you must be calling him gross. He's the one who was talking about vaginas when he's supposed to be highly religious and a political commentator. This is like calling someone racist for criticizing someone else's racist comment. It's illogical.

You got checked on historical facts and comments on Ben Shapiro's credibility, which is why you could only follow up with that stupid comment about me being aroused. You could have used Google.

 

In amongst the other emotional nonsense is a true statement. I don't follow Ben Shapiro closely. You haven't actually successfully countered anything other than commit some logical fallacies.

In fact I try not to follow politics in general too closely. Little of the assessment is substantive or worth hearing other than reinforcing the idea that people really don't think. They emote and attempt to shore up already held beliefs by finding evidence to support them.

 

Unlike you, I actually do follow politics, which is why I'm more capable of recalling historical patterns and current events. You're admitting that you're not aware of many facts, but you're highly engaged in a political conversation, and you're quoting political commentators because they agree with you. You don't even know if they're credible or if what they're saying is factual. That sounds like an emotional response to me. I didn't even get into how you referenced the Nixon Foundation, which is, obviously, going to put him in a good light.

 

As I've said before, my parents were racists. They weren't southern racists just very racist against blacks. They switched their party from Democrat to Republican after the civil rights acts in the 60's, as did most racists.

 

Regarding Trump being racist, old history of his Father being a member of the KKK and him not allowing blacks to rent apartments from him is well known. Here's a more recent take on Trump's racism though.

https://www.vox.com/politics/352672/apprentice-trump-slate-racial-slur

I note that Vox is rated HIGH reliability and left leaning on MBFC.

 

Referencing the Dailywire is like referencing The Young Turks, which is a leftist media organization. It doesn't matter which side they're on. Their organizations are dedicated to pushing a political agenda. The Nixon Foundation article is an opinion piece written by an anonymous employee of a pro-Nixon organization. They didn't provide sources for their claims.

Ben Shapiro has a JD and BA in political science. Graduating from good schools does not make one an expert on everything. Political historians with PhDs in history, political science, and public policy disagree with him. Lee Atwater was a strategist for Reagan and Bush I. He was also a chairman of the RNC. He spoke about what he implemented. How does Ben Shapiro know more about Lee Atwater than what Lee Atwater knows about himself?

I graduated from a school that's ranked #28. Ignore the fact that I studied medical sciences. I'm an expert in Roman history, and I don't need to provide any sources when I disagree with the consensus of PhDs in history because I went to a good school.

 

First these are both opinion pieces. Second the NixonFoundation is not even a news source. The DailyWire is at least news but it is MIXED reliability news and even worse it is between Right wing and EXTREME Right wing bias. On top of that the article is just ridiculous.

If you're really interested in the truth about the "Southern Switch" this looks like a pretty good article by a right center biased source.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/misunderstanding_the_southern_realignment_107084.html

If you want more information then I suggest looking at the references used in here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Southern_United_States#:~:text=Many%20white%20southerners%20switched%20to,positions%20rejected%20by%20these%20voters.

quote: Many white southerners switched to the Republican Party during the 1960s, for a variety of reasons. The majority of white southerners shared conservative positions on taxes, moral values, and national security. The Democratic Party had increasingly liberal positions rejected by these voters.

 

I'm a little surprised Shapiro hasn't been charged as an unregistered foreign agent:

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/ben-shapiro-paul-manafort-rick-gates-robert-mueller-special-counsel-plea-agreement-documents-d4fc04a51e60/

 

Did the juror in Trump trial may have broken confidentiality?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/politics/trump-hush-money-trial-facebook-post-jury/index.html

The judge overseeing the hush money trial flagged a Facebook post seeming to imply that a juror revealed deliberations, breaking confidentiality. Justice Juan Merchan informed prosecutors and Trump's attorneys that a user published on the New York court system's Facebook, claiming their cousin was a juror, and gave away the verdict.

It’s unclear whether the user was being facetious or speaking truthfully about their relation to one of Trump’s jurors.
“Take it easy, I’m a professional sh**poster,” the user wrote Friday in a social media post.
They also added a definition of the word, which the user said means to post content that is “aggressively, ironically and trollishly poor quality.”

If it were found to be true, it would not automatically be grounds for a mistrial, yet the legal team argue a mistrial. Trump’s legal team could push for an investigation.
Elie Honig, a legal analyst with broadcaster CNN, suggested Justice Merchan was simply being “extra careful” and that “there’s a long way though between this and any impact on the case”.

 

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) suggested Friday that the New York hush money case against former President Trump was only brought forward because of his name and White House bid.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cuomo-trump-ny-hush-money-155827194.html
“The attorney general’s case in New York, frankly, should have never been brought,” Cuomo said Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” “And if his name was not Donald Trump and if he wasn’t running for president… I’m the former AG of in New York [and] I’m telling you that case would’ve never been brought.”

“That’s what is offensive to people, and it should be because if there’s anything left, it’s belief in the justice system,” he added.