(03-18-2024, 09:28 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(03-18-2024, 04:38 PM)mikesez Wrote: There can be more than one problem at the same time.
Based on the pic, yes there is a dude armed and invading the country.  I hope they caught him.
Now, which piece of real estate is more important to secure?
A swampy patch along the Rio Grande with no bridges or dwellings, 
or,
The United States Capitol building while Congress is in a joint session
They're both important.
Which is more important?

Which is more germane to the original point, "I don't blame the media for exaggerating what Trump says, given what his followers have already done."

So, kinda like don't give the Dems a political victory on the border in an election year when we know who they are, what they do and what their end game is?

"Who they are" - vague - who really knows anyone else anyways?
"What they do" - vague again. They do a lot of things. Which things and why?
"Their end game" - not only is this vague, it claims to know secrets and predict the future.

This is religious language.  It could mean anything and yet it draws you in.  

I gave a very specific example of a single incident by a well defined group of people.  You did not.

To recap, allowing that border bill to pass would only be handing the Dems a victory if you allowed them to spin it that way.  There are two ways the Republicans could have spun it, "this is a band-aid, elect us for the full treatment (a wall, suppose)", or "all Joe Biden is doing is what we've been telling him to do for three years.  He doesn't get credit for stealing our ideas.  Elect us so you don't have to wait three years for common sense policy!"

If you're a politician and you don't think you can spin things in your favor, you got into the wrong line of work.

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