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J_J_

(1,213 posts)
Tue Nov 18, 2014, 07:41 PM Nov 2014

Majority of Americans, Democrats even, support Keystone! Are they just making shit up now? [View all]



The polls, where the lying corporate media keeps telling us what we believe....what evidence do we have that they are not just making up their own polls with their own talking points in order to manufacture consent for their own issues?


These asshole republicans are up there telling us we all support them, because of the (freaking phony election) and their stupid ass corporate media whores keep repeating the same bullshit.


Who in American was demanding that this Keystone pipeline get built? That was what everyone was voting for?

Who wants these bullshit trade agreements,

or even the stupid ass immigration bill?



Show me one politician who is actually presenting legislation that the American people want, have asked for, and will actually help US?

How far have we fallen that we don't even expect them to do anything to help Americans anymore?

We have record homeless starving children while Congress just had to cut off 8 Billion if food stamps.

Meanwhile Congress feels so much compassion for Iraq we must spend $25 Billion per year to bomb them.

Can't let people out of prison because they are firefighters "During the past four decades, the U.S. prison population has quadrupled even as the crime rate has dropped. We have some 2.4 million people behind bars, far more than any other country, costing about $80 billion a year to maintain."


Seriously what the fuck is Congress doing?

Why do we accept this?

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Yes they are making things up Kalidurga Nov 2014 #1
"NOW" they have been making shit up for years awake Nov 2014 #2
Amen Aerows Nov 2014 #37
I'd be shocked if more than 1 in 100 US citizens even know what the Keystone XL Pipeline is. Marr Nov 2014 #3
^^^THIS^^^ ...They probably think its some weird kind of porn. L0oniX Nov 2014 #27
And 1 out of 100 of those only know it from the PR spin arcane1 Nov 2014 #29
I doubt if 1 in 10K have ever heard of it. walkingman Nov 2014 #31
So your theory is that the media is making up poll numbers? mythology Nov 2014 #4
"The available evidence" is from lying corporate media whores J_J_ Nov 2014 #10
I think it's bullshit shenmue Nov 2014 #5
Lying. Kochs paid a lot of $$$ to purchase the Keystone votes today..They just failed!! Haa misterhighwasted Nov 2014 #6
Koch is affiliated with the competing Enbridge system. Sen. Walter Sobchak Nov 2014 #39
I hate to be cynical, but ... surrealAmerican Nov 2014 #7
Actually, all the polls I've seen published shows a wide approval. Agnosticsherbet Nov 2014 #8
Sheeple are easy to count. nt BootinUp Nov 2014 #9
Misleading Poll at best. Wellstone ruled Nov 2014 #11
Gerrymandered poll. L0oniX Nov 2014 #26
They assume the pipeline means jobs and low gas prices LeftInTX Nov 2014 #12
Most Americans are ignorant morons who think the pipeline will make gas cheaper. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #13
The oil winds up in the gulf refineries anyway. joshcryer Nov 2014 #15
Why the hell do they need another one, then? Odin2005 Nov 2014 #20
So they can ramp up Bakken production. joshcryer Nov 2014 #32
Is the corporate media also lying when the polls support ideas and positions you like? branford Nov 2014 #14
Most people may be resigned to the basic economics - bhikkhu Nov 2014 #16
Judging from comments I've read in the NY Times' coverage of the vote . . . markpkessinger Nov 2014 #17
Same ones that believed Saddam attacked us on 911. L0oniX Nov 2014 #24
PROPAGANDA woo me with science Nov 2014 #40
Pew poll julio_maracas Nov 2014 #18
I'm done going by those polls. A stripper poll is more accurate. L0oniX Nov 2014 #23
Pew did a poll in May showing broad support for the pipeline even among Democrats. pampango Nov 2014 #25
Rumors started about all kinds of stuff fadedrose Nov 2014 #19
"if you repeat something often enough, people will believe it." J_J_ Nov 2014 #35
They own the media - TBF Nov 2014 #21
Obviously it is not my government. It's just another loan shark taking my money for wars and shit. L0oniX Nov 2014 #22
Surely you jest thinking corp media and big oil would collude? JaneyVee Nov 2014 #28
As it is with most environmental issues - the messaging sucks. Drunken Irishman Nov 2014 #30
UNREC brooklynite Nov 2014 #33
REPUTATION? It means nothing if they have no contracts and are bankrupt aspirant Nov 2014 #38
Ah, so venting it is... brooklynite Nov 2014 #41
Venting what? aspirant Nov 2014 #43
I think based on all of the propaganda they probably do. davishenderson265 Nov 2014 #34
What good is a poll if... Oilwellian Nov 2014 #36
I bet it is true Township75 Nov 2014 #42
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