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Friday, August 22, 2025

President Trump said that Intel has agreed to give the U.S. government a 10% stake in its business. Speaking with reporters on Friday, Mr. Trump said the deal came out of a meeting last week with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan " which came days after the president called for Tan to resign over his past ties to China. "I said, I think it would be good having the United States as your partner," Mr. Trump said. "He agreed, and they've agreed to do it." read more


Thursday, August 21, 2025

Judge Frank Caprio, who starred for two seasons on the syndicated courtroom show Caught in Providence and became a social media star in clips displaying his compassion, kindness and empathy, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer, his family said. He was 88. read more


Tuesday, August 19, 2025

President Trump announced Monday on his social media site, Truth Social, that he plans to "lead a movement" to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines in the country ahead of next year's midterm elections. read more


Sunday, August 17, 2025

Prison officials may have cleared Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell to leave prison on work release assignments " a privilege experts say authorities virtually never grant convicted sex offenders. Maxwell currently serves a 20-year federal sentence for sex trafficking minors. Maxwell's Bureau of Prisons classification now lists her custody status as "OUT," indicating she can work outside the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas with minimal supervision. The development comes just weeks after the convicted child trafficker spent nine hours over two days providing information to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as part of what sources describe as a cooperation agreement. read more


Wednesday, August 13, 2025

"Donald Trump has weaponized the DOJ to kneecap America's #1 public university system -- freezing medical & science funding until @UCLA pays his $1 billion ransom," the press office for the governor posted on the social platform X. "California won't bow to Trump's disgusting political extortion," it added. read more


Comments

#736 | Posted by boaz

Neither Obama or Biden governed like a third to half of the country were the enemy. That is indisputable. Both regularly used conciliatory and uniting language. Biden bent over backwards to invest in red states and red areas.

Trump objectively does not. He regularly demonizes anyone who disagrees with him, he is attacking blue areas, he is obviously intentionally trying to divide us.

You are objectively wrong to say Obama and Biden did not act like your president. You can disagree, even strongly with what they accomplished or attempted to accomplished, but they were enacting a vision that they viewed would benefit ALL Americans, again, like Biden sending the vast majority of CHIPS Act and Infrastructure investments to red areas. That is a fact. Trump does not do that, at all, in fact is actively attacking blue areas and moderate to left wing institutions. That also is a fact.

Please stop being pedantic about terminology, you know what I mean, Republicans have, for decades, been trying to use methods that disenfranchise whole swaths of people, yes Dems do it, but to a FAR less degree and certainly far less effectively. That does not make either right, but an actual reality to deal with.

Boaz, your recommendation is wholly impossible to implement. This is NOT the mid 19th century where political beliefs can generally be divided along regional lines. Yes conservatives are likely the majority in many states as are liberals in many states, but there are literally MILLIONS of conservatives in blue states and vice versa. You are advocating for essentially a permanent second class citizenship for millions of people. Either that or a disruption on a massive scale as millions of people flee from state to state. Simply a bad idea.

#736 | Posted by boaz

Neither Obama or Biden governed like a third to half of the country were the enemy. That is indisputable. Both regularly used conciliatory and uniting language. Biden bent over backwards to invest in red states and red areas.

Trump objectively does not. He regularly demonizes anyone who disagrees with him, he is attacking blue areas, he is obviously intentionally trying to divide us.

You are objectively wrong to say Obama and Biden did not act like your president. You can disagree, even strongly with what they accomplished or attempted to accomplished, but they were enacting a vision that they viewed would benefit ALL Americans, again, like Biden sending the vast majority of CHIPS Act and Infrastructure investments to red areas. That is a fact. Trump does not do that, at all, in fact is actively attacking blue areas and moderate to left wing institutions. That also is a fact.

Please stop being pedantic about terminology, you know what I mean, Republicans have, for decades, been trying to use methods that disenfranchise whole swaths of people, yes Dems do it, but to a FAR less degree and certainly far less effectively. That does not make either right, but an actual reality to deal with.

Boaz, your recommendation is wholly impossible to implement. This is NOT the mid 19th century where political beliefs can generally be divided along regional lines. Yes conservatives are likely the majority in many states as are liberals in many states, but there are literally MILLIONS of conservatives in blue states and vice versa. You are advocating for essentially a permanent second class citizenship for millions of people. Either that or a disruption on a massive scale as millions of people flee from state to state. Simply a bad idea.

#736 | Posted by boaz

Neither Obama or Biden governed like a third to half of the country were the enemy. That is indisputable. Both regularly used conciliatory and uniting language. Biden bent over backwards to invest in red states and red areas.

Trump objectively does not. He regularly demonizes anyone who disagrees with him, he is attacking blue areas, he is obviously intentionally trying to divide us.

You are objectively wrong to say Obama and Biden did not act like your president. You can disagree, even strongly with what they accomplished or attempted to accomplished, but they were enacting a vision that they viewed would benefit ALL Americans, again, like Biden sending the vast majority of CHIPS Act and Infrastructure investments to red areas. That is a fact. Trump does not do that, at all, in fact is actively attacking blue areas and moderate to left wing institutions. That also is a fact.

Please stop being pedantic about terminology, you know what I mean, Republicans have, for decades, been trying to use methods that disenfranchise whole swaths of people, yes Dems do it, but to a FAR less degree and certainly far less effectively. That does not make either right, but an actual reality to deal with.

Boaz, your recommendation is wholly impossible to implement. This is NOT the mid 19th century where political beliefs can generally be divided along regional lines. Yes conservatives are likely the majority in many states as are liberals in many states, but there are literally MILLIONS of conservatives in blue states and vice versa. You are advocating for essentially a permanent second class citizenship for millions of people. Either that or a disruption on a massive scale as millions of people flee from state to state. Simply a bad idea.

#736 | Posted by boaz

Neither Obama or Biden governed like a third to half of the country were the enemy. That is indisputable. Both regularly used conciliatory and uniting language. Biden bent over backwards to invest in red states and red areas.

Trump objectively does not. He regularly demonizes anyone who disagrees with him, he is attacking blue areas, he is obviously intentionally trying to divide us.

You are objectively wrong to say Obama and Biden did not act like your president. You can disagree, even strongly with what they accomplished or attempted to accomplished, but they were enacting a vision that they viewed would benefit ALL Americans, again, like Biden sending the vast majority of CHIPS Act and Infrastructure investments to red areas. That is a fact. Trump does not do that, at all, in fact is actively attacking blue areas and moderate to left wing institutions. That also is a fact.

Please stop being pedantic about terminology, you know what I mean, Republicans have, for decades, been trying to use methods that disenfranchise whole swaths of people, yes Dems do it, but to a FAR less degree and certainly far less effectively. That does not make either right, but an actual reality to deal with.

Boaz, your recommendation is wholly impossible to implement. This is NOT the mid 19th century where political beliefs can generally be divided along regional lines. Yes conservatives are likely the majority in many states as are liberals in many states, but there are literally MILLIONS of conservatives in blue states and vice versa. You are advocating for essentially a permanent second class citizenship for millions of people. Either that or a disruption on a massive scale as millions of people flee from state to state. Simply a bad idea.

#736 | Posted by boaz

Neither Obama or Biden governed like a third to half of the country were the enemy. That is indisputable. Both regularly used conciliatory and uniting language. Biden bent over backwards to invest in red states and red areas.

Trump objectively does not. He regularly demonizes anyone who disagrees with him, he is attacking blue areas, he is obviously intentionally trying to divide us.

You are objectively wrong to say Obama and Biden did not act like your president. You can disagree, even strongly with what they accomplished or attempted to accomplished, but they were enacting a vision that they viewed would benefit ALL Americans, again, like Biden sending the vast majority of CHIPS Act and Infrastructure investments to red areas. That is a fact. Trump does not do that, at all, in fact is actively attacking blue areas and moderate to left wing institutions. That also is a fact.

Please stop being pedantic about terminology, you know what I mean, Republicans have, for decades, been trying to use methods that disenfranchise whole swaths of people, yes Dems do it, but to a FAR less degree and certainly far less effectively. That does not make either right, but an actual reality to deal with.

Boaz, your recommendation is wholly impossible to implement. This is NOT the mid 19th century where political beliefs can generally be divided along regional lines. Yes conservatives are likely the majority in many states as are liberals in many states, but there are literally MILLIONS of conservatives in blue states and vice versa. You are advocating for essentially a permanent second class citizenship for millions of people. Either that or a disruption on a massive scale as millions of people flee from state to state. Simply a bad idea.

#685 | Posted by boaz

Your missing my point boaz.

I agree that the rethoric on both sides is destructive. to argue who started it first is a pointless exercise, neither side will accept the responsibility

What I am saying is that there is literally one person who can change the course of our division.

No matter what you say Obama and Biden did not act anywhere near how Trump acts.

They acted like president of ALL of us and certainly far more than Trump does.

I know you won't accept that simple fact but it is true. Neither Obama or Biden, ON A DAILY BASIS, spoke with the way Trump does of his opposition.

I challenge you to post links to Obama or Biden speaking or acting in the way Trump does with his constant verbal and social media attacks, personal lawsuits against media companies, sending or threatening to send the military into cities controlled by the other party, etc. Trump's words and actions are FAR worse than ANYTHING Obama or Biden ever did.

I am not saying ordinary liberals and dems aren't using similar rhetoric, I freely admit I do

But I have no power, Trump does.

Trump can govern like a conservative, I would not like it, but I argue that we need a normal president.

He can enact all sorts of conservative policies, that is not the central problem right now.

The problem is that the man with by far the most power in our country does not govern like a conservative, he governs like madman authoritarian. He is attacking free speech (far far far more than any dem president has ever), he is suing or threatening media companies, law firms, universities and corporations to his will through the use or threat of use of the full power of the federal government (That is not conservatism), he is extorting businesses to either give him a cut or a stake in their companies-that is LITERAL communism. He is shipping ordinary people to concentration camps or warzones without trial, he is sending or threatening to send federal troops into blue cities over nothing AND SO MUCH MORE.

This is not normal, this is not how our politics have or should run.

The problem is that Trump does not govern like he is the President of all of us, he governs like the entire population are his subjects.

You will argue Obama and Biden did the same but you would be fooling yourself.

And with all that power Trump has he could, easily change the course for our nation. He could govern like he is a President, not a king, for the ENTIRE country and THAT means compromise and RESPECT.

Nothing that dems or liberals could do right now could effect the necessary change in our politics like he could. I would argue that we are in the place we are in because the democrats have been pitiful in responding to the non-stop attack on democracy that has been going on for decades-fox news propaganda, Newt Gingrich, Bush and his wars, McConnell and his efforts to make Obama a 1 term president and on and on. Dems have been pathetic in responding to this onslaught

And ever since Trump came down those escalators in 2015 he has accelerated that anti-democratic program like nothing before. He has broken norms beyond count, he has cowed the republican party and put dangerous people in his government. These people do not care about the constitution, ANY of it, they see no constraints on what they can do. That SHOULD scare even you.

And Trump could LITERALLY become one of America's greatest presidents if he led us out of this. It won't be smooth, but I think it would be a lot easier that people think. All he would need to do is STOP treating anyone who disagrees with him as enemies of the people or vermin, to STOP acting like a dictator,

Govern like a conservative not a dictator.

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