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  Who cares. Ask them about fixing our health care system. You know the important questions
context: Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), who chairs the House intelligence committee, refused to answer Chuck Todd when asked whether he’d been briefed on the several incidents during the Trump administration. Instead, Turner pivoted back to his claim that Biden is “not seeing the urgency” of the current situation.
  
  Why should they answer truthfully when 78% of fox viewers think this is the first spy balloon to enter US airspace? >
  
  You don't need to be a TV pundit to handle these evasions.  Just follow up with a statement like 'Given your refusal to answer the question, I'll assume you are aware that there were similar incidents in the Trump administration."  Make them make their denial explicit. >
  
  No - that might 'upset' them and then you might lose 'access' to their wise words. >
  
  
  According to the White House, President Joe Biden was first briefed on the balloon last Tuesday, and a day later authorized the military to shoot it down as soon as it was in a location where civilians wouldn’t be at risk of damage from the debris. But Republicans have spent the weekend criticizing the administration for not acting fast enough to take down the balloon.
  When confronted about the various instances of Chinese balloons entering U.S. airspace during the Trump administration, those same Republicans avoided giving a direct answer.
  
  If it wasn't for double standards, republicans wouldn't have any standards at all... >
  
  Consistency and hypocrisy are only concerns for those whom care about whether what they believe and tell others is true or not. That concern is not part of the GOP nor conservative mindset. >
  
  I just remember the Goofus and Gallant cartoons from Highlife Magazine.  Can they have picked Goofus for so many years?  If you remember, they don’t say which cartoon is right.  I’ll bet thousands of the GQP had relatives named Goofus or something close. >
  
  Imagine those balloons making front page headlines anytime between late 2015 until boring ass a Biden settled in. Donnie 2 Scoops had the entire media working 8 day weeks to keep up with his insanity. >
  
  Reporters need to grow balls and refuse to ask another question until these people actually answer the fucking questions. >
  
  Tbf, their answers are always hypocrisy, projection, and bs. No need to expound. >
  
  Yes. That’s why you ask the question like ‘you’ve come out hard against the Biden administration for their actions, why is your response to the trump administration different?’
  Spell it out plainly. >
  
  "We had a different relationship with China during the Trump Administration, and accordingly we made different decisions at that time."
  It's easy to come up with reasonable responses, the fact that none are forthcoming shows that they highlight thier hypocracy on purpose. It's a virtue to Rs and R-voters, it's Doublethink on display and they want Republicans to embrace it. >
  
  They’re not that smart. >
  
  In fairness to Trump, he would not have known about it if the intelligence agencies had hidden this information in his daily briefings. >
  
  In fairness to Trump, he would not have known about it since he never really paid any attention to stuff that required reading.  Didn’t someone claim the daily intel briefings just bored him to death and he would rather just watch FoxNews to get his “intel”? >
  
  Yes, that was the joke. :) >
  
  Just like little children.  If I dont acknowledge it, it never happened.  And Trumps crazy thoughts that he's to respected for it to happen are extremely hilarious. >
  
  One 2024 candidate looks up at the sky for spy balloons while the other 2024 candidate looks up at the sky for solar eclipses. >
  
  Sometimes it is nice that conservatives live in their own news bubbles and won’t hear a story like this. It can set up such a fun conversation with conservatives.
  You to a conservative: Did you hear that Biden let three other Chinese balloons enter US airspace and did nothing about it?  We, as citizens, weren’t even informed!
  Conservative: Without a second thought bashes Biden for these actions (be prepared, there’s a good chance their comment may be unintelligible, unhinged or sprinkled with schoolyard ad hom about democrats).
  You: Just kidding, that was actually Trump.
  Then enjoy the show! >
  
  They just say "Lugenpresse". I've seen this show on repeat for the last four years, we did the same with "Did you hear Obama let  happen? JK it was Trump." >
  
  "We need to focus on the real threat to democracy, Hunter Bidens laptop!" /s >
  
  In this case silence = '"BUSTED!" >
  
  They haven't been answering real or difficult questions for a couple of decades now, why would they start?