I don't wish anyone to get sick with Corona...or anything else, for that matter... Including those I despise...

Maybe over some time, perhaps even decades.

But Michael Moore has already called it.

Could'a should'a would'a.

Guess you don't get to Force People to say what you want them to say the way you tell them they should say it, huh?

The US does not have a dark and shameful past.

It was a disingenuous leading "gotcha" style of question, designed to produce the mindless media misrepresentations we are seeing now. I hope they DIDN'T LIKE his response.

"But I’ll tell you what. I’ll tell you what. Somebody has got to do something about antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem, this is a left wing. This is a left-wing problem.”

Suchmoon is attempting to argue there is some standard, obvious definition of "white supremacy" that Trump would be an idiot even to ask for a more precise definition.

I disagree, and obviously Trump disagreed.

The ‘Trump Won’t Condemn White Supremacy’ Garbage Is Media’s Lowest Moment

Chris Wallace had so many egregiously awful moments during the first presidential debate that it’s almost impossible to count them. His bias was evident almost from the first question and the journalistic malpractice he casually committed for the entire “debate” is the reason I think Republicans need to stop agreeing to participate in these charades.

As I have written many times, my issue with these political Kabuki theater “debates” is that the questioning is all framed around Democrat talking points. You’ll hear a lot of “Why don’t you believe in climate change?” crap but never anything like “How can you be a Catholic and support infanticide?” That would be a tough question. The kind a real journalist would ask. Sadly, real journalists have gone the way of the dinosaurs.

The moment from Tuesday’s debate that has gotten the most attention was Chris Wallace’s hacktastic demand that President Trump denounce “white supremacists and militia groups.” ....

Trump might have been able to handle the question better but I’m glad he didn’t completely take the bait. A key component to the Democrat/media collusion regarding the violence in America right now has been to blame it on “right-wing” “white supremacist” “militia” groups. I put all of those in quotation marks because they are the keywords that the MSM are supposed to use to deflect from the fact that the people who are actually setting cities on fire are left-wing progressive lunatics.

Rather than being pressed to acknowledge and condemn that easily proven fact, Biden was allowed to call antifa an “idea” and carry on with his drooling assessment of reality. That response of his should have been the real news from the debate.

It’s farcical that Trump is being forced to condemn the violence in America when most of it is being directed at him. In a sane world, journalists would be pressing Biden to disavow not only antifa, but the anti-cop, anti-American Black Lives Matter movement as well. Both groups have become threats to national security.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/10/01/the-morning-briefing-its-time-that-democrats-are-asked-to-condemn-some-things-n988670

You'd completely destroy the ability of Democrats to steal elections. Why would you think they'd agree to your proposal?

In fact I view, given the obvious shifting meaning of the term, questions about your feelings about "white supremacy" to be very misleading. You think it means one thing, and you agree, then later it's used in a completely different way and they'll say you agreed.

Suit yourself. All I'm saying is you can't approach another person, and tell them how to act, behave or what to say. There's something I intrinsically dislike about recitations of creed and dogma. Doesn't matter what it is.

And by the way, the phrase "white supremacy" is as we talk, being modified from it's old definition to a new broader, more inclusive one, as illustrated by the 1617 project.

You don't get to say how someone responds to a question. What you can do is try to understand how and why they responded like they did.

Let's look at some news reporting on this matter.

During the first presidential debate on Tuesday night, Fox News host and moderator Chris Wallace asked President Donald Trump to condemn white supremacists and the militia groups that have occasionally appeared at Black Lives Matter riots in American cities this summer. Trump, who has condemned white supremacists many times, asked for an organization he should tell to stand back. Democratic nominee Joe Biden suggested the Proud Boys, and Trump told them to “stand back and stand by.” Wallace did not press Biden to condemn antifa or Black Lives Matter, the movements behind most of the riots.

Democrats responded in two ways. They attacked the Proud Boys as white supremacists and they condemned Trump for supposedly being unwilling to condemn white supremacists. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proved the worst offenders, outright accusing Trump of being a white supremacist himself.

There's no "there", there.

Yeah, that's you trying to push someone else into doing something.

You can ask nicely.

Naw, leftists would rather sue to get them, or outright steal them.

I'm just quoting the actual conversation. Surely you don't have a problem with that?

As for wanting clarity in words, is it your right to tell someone else they don't need that, or their right to require it?

If one is at an outdoors table at a restaurant and some thugs come up and want me to raise my fist in support of BLM, does one automatically follow their request?

An example of an area of dispute between hotel/casino owners and the IRS is how remodeling is handled. This gets very intricate and complicated. There is a real world need to renew interiors periodically, let's say every 5-10 years. The standard IRS depreciation for most things on commercial buildings is 35 years.

A developer tears out a section of a casino that held a restaurant and puts something different in, still a restaurant. He is on the 7th year of 35 years depreciation on 3M costs, and has 80% deductions left (3M*.80=2.4m). The new buildout costs him 4M, of which he classifies 1M as equipment. Ice machines, tables, chairs, rolling buffet carts, and he assigns that fraction to a 5year depreciation schedule. He calculates first year depreciation at (3m/35 + 1m/5 + salvage). The IRS argues it is 4M/35 plus salvage.

Developer = 85,714+200,000 = 285,714
IRS = 114,285

The amount at dispute is 171,428.

Salvage value in both cases is 28/35 * 3M = 2,400,000. It would not be disputed by the IRS ... usually.

Multiply that single issue by about 100 and you've got an idea of ONE ASPECT of the complexity of billion dollar real estate dominant tax returns.

A lot of these issues were clarified and simplified in the Trump tax reform legislation. It's not perfect but a lot better than the previous. My example is of an issue prior.

But I answered that. You just didn't like the answer.

Just like BLM words say one thing and actions say another, "White Supremacists" can mean virtually anything the propagandist wants. Certainly once you add the concept of "systemic racism" to it.

You will note that Trump asked for specific groups.

There's nothing wrong in asking for clarity and precise definitions.

Chris Wallace: "Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups...?"

President Trump: "Sure, I'm willing to do that...Proud Boys, stand back and stand by! But I'll tell you what...somebody's got to do something about Antifa and the left."

No offense but you guys suck at misquoting and reframing reality to fit your confused objectives. Here's the actual event.

Wallace: “Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we’ve seen in Portland?”

Trump: “Sure. I’m willing to do that.”

Biden: “Do it.”

Trump: “You want to call them, what do you want to call them? Give me a name. Give me a name. Go ahead. Who do you want me to condemn? Who?”

Wallace: “White supremacists and right-wing militias.”

Biden: “White supremacists. Proud Boys. Proud Boys.”

Trump: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what. I’ll tell you what. Somebody has got to do something about antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem, this is a left wing. This is a left-wing problem.”

That's completely, totally meaningless in the presence of an ongoing, non-resolved, not-finalized tax audit.

The very meaning of the audit is that the numbers are not settled.

Duh....

The problem is likely the expansion of the term "White Supremacist" in the last year or two to include virtually all whites.

Wallace was also deflecting from the massive violence of the last six months, virtually all of which had nothing to do with such organizations.

Likely be pretty interesting.