Sounds like a draft is being planned for the occupation of Iran, aka Vietnam v.4

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    6 days ago

    This sounds a little to close to “when they go low, we go high”. If the mainstream media had been willing to vilify Trump back in 2016 (even with lies of omission and sensational headlines), maybe he would have never gotten near the GOPedo nomination. Instead we have been fed a steady diet of civility and normalization.

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      Not even close, there are so many things to vilify and mock him for, this is more like diluting the pool.

      If someone does 10 shitty things, you don’t make up 100 other weaker accusations that can be easily dismissed or disproven. Its like someone kills 10 people and someone starts making up dumb little lies about them shoplifting and tripping old ladies and kicking 100 puppies instead of just the one they actually kicked. If a lot of what you’re hearing about the guy is a bunch of lies and half truths, it’s a whole lot easier for him to convince you that the ‘killing 10 people’ is just a bunch of exaggerations too.

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        I agree with your point for this particular story, but *my *point stands even if it was a side-track from this story. I am not saying that every story about Trump back in 2016 should have been lies or “toddlers in to wood chippers” clickbait. The media failed us hard and is mainly responsible for Trump through their grandstanding and normalizing of him back in early 2016 and every day since then. If they had done their job, there wouldn’t have been Trump the nominee, let alone President Trump. Maybe there would have been some other cryptofascist GOPedophile by now, but Rubio, Bush, Kasich, Cruz, etc. would have been orders of magnitude better than Trump…and human filth like Musk, Miller, and Bannon would have never gotten near the presidency.

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          Yeah, i think we probably agree on most things in that direction. My view is that early on they failed to focus on the glaring, obvious issues and instead used the ridiculousness of him as candidate as click-bait for views, and then later continued to focus on and fall for every misdirection he and his cloud of followers dropped, both intentionally and unintentionally. In my view they ended up hiding all the legitimate issues in a smokescreen of click-bait and likely doomed us to either Armageddon or who knows how long a period of cleanup or simply slow decline.

          This ‘his kid is going to avoid the draft’ angle, when not only has a draft not been brought up, but also that he simply falls into the range of ‘all tall kids that would be exempt’ is just the latest is a series of stories obviously relying on a false start just to get people riled up if they read just the headline.