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By Annoyed Liberall
18 Jun 2020 7:01 pm in No Holds Barred Political Forum
3 Sep 2020 5:16 pm
omh » 03 Sep 2020, 4:23 pm » wrote: ↑ you believe?????? how rock solid your mental capacity is without a clue as to why and how you only exist while simultaneously alive while spontaneously here one of a kind.
You always project the right to be more than proportionately alive by some gift from a higher power than natural perpetual balancing ancestral result going on as universally timed apart here.
endowed by our creator, the moment sustaining forms never the same results twice shaping the next generation one reproduction at a time so far. Not a damn intelelctual design necessary to keep it going with or without homo sapien details present.
Priceless understanding worthless to those pretending to be special.
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Phelix_Dacat Sep 03, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 03, 2020 5:40pm
3 Sep 2020 9:17 pm
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.
Belleau Wood is a consequential battle in American history, and the ground on which it was fought is venerated by the Marine Corps. America and its allies stopped the German advance toward Paris there in the spring of 1918. But Trump, on that same trip, asked aides, “Who were the good guys in this war?” He also said that he didn’t understand why the United States would intervene on the side of the Allies.
Trump’s understanding of concepts such as patriotism, service, and sacrifice has interested me since he expressed contempt for the war record of the late Senator John McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. “He’s not a war hero,” Trump said in 2015 while running for the Republican nomination for president. “I like people who weren’t captured.”here was no precedent in American politics for the expression of this sort of contempt, but the performatively patriotic Trump did no damage to his candidacy by attacking McCain in this manner. Nor did he set his campaign back by attacking the parents of Humayun Khan, an Army captain who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Trump remained fixated on McCain, one of the few prominent Republicans to continue criticizing him after he won the nomination. When McCain died, in August 2018, Trump told his senior staff, according to three sources with direct knowledge of this event, “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” and he became furious, according to witnesses, when he saw flags lowered to half-staff. “What the **** are we doing that for? Guy was a **** loser,” the president told aides.
Trump was not invited to McCain’s funeral. (These sources, and others quoted in this article, spoke on condition of anonymity. The White House did not return earlier calls for comment, but Alyssa Farah, a White House spokesperson, emailed me this statement shortly after this story was posted: “This report is false. President Trump holds the military in the highest regard. He’s demonstrated his commitment to them at every turn: delivering on his promise to give our troops a much needed pay raise, increasing military spending, signing critical veterans reforms, and supporting military spouses.
This has no basis in fact.”) Trump’s understanding of heroism has not evolved since he became president. According to sources with knowledge of the president’s views, he seems to genuinely not understand why Americans treat former prisoners of war with respect. Nor does he understand why pilots who are shot down in combat are honored by the military.
On at least two occasions since becoming president, according to three sources with direct knowledge of his views, Trump referred to former President George H. W. Bush as a “loser” for being shot down by the Japanese as a Navy pilot in World War II. (Bush escaped capture, but eight other men shot down during the same mission were caught, tortured, and executed by Japanese soldiers.)
When lashing out at critics, Trump often reaches for illogical and corrosive insults, and members of the Bush family have publicly opposed him. But his cynicism about service and heroism extends even to the World War I dead buried outside Paris—people who were killed more than a quarter century before he was born. Trump finds the notion of military service difficult to understand, and the idea of volunteering to serve especially incomprehensible. (The president did not serve in the military; he received a medical deferment from the draft during the Vietnam War because of the alleged presence of bone spurs in his feet. In the 1990s, Trump said his efforts to avoid contracting sexually transmitted diseases constituted his “personal Vietnam.”)
On Memorial Day 2017, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery, a short drive from the White House. He was accompanied on this visit by John Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security, and who would, a short time later, be named the White House chief of staff. The two men were set to visit Section 60, the 14-acre area of the cemetery that is the burial ground for those killed in America’s most recent wars. Kelly’s son Robert is buried in Section 60.
A first lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Robert Kelly was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan. He was 29. Trump was meant, on this visit, to join John Kelly in paying respects at his son’s grave, and to comfort the families of other fallen service members. But according to sources with knowledge of this visit, Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned directly to his father and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
Kelly (who declined to comment for this story) initially believed, people close to him said, that Trump was making a ham-handed reference to the selflessness of America’s all-volunteer force. But later he came to realize that Trump simply does not understand non-transactional life choices. “He can’t fathom the idea of doing something for someone other than himself,” one of Kelly’s friends, a retired four-star general, told me. “He just thinks that anyone who does anything when there’s no direct personal gain to be had is a sucker. There’s no money in serving the nation.” Kelly’s friend went on to say, “Trump can’t imagine anyone else’s pain. That’s why he would say this to the father of a fallen marine on Memorial Day in the cemetery where he’s buried.”
I’ve asked numerous general officers over the past year for their analysis of Trump’s seeming contempt for military service. They offer a number of explanations. Some of his cynicism is rooted in frustration, they say. Trump, unlike previous presidents, tends to believe that the military, like other departments of the federal government, is beholden only to him, and not the Constitution. Many senior officers have expressed worry about Trump’s understanding of the rules governing the use of the armed forces.
This issue came to a head in early June, during demonstrations in Washington, D.C., in response to police killings of Black people. James Mattis, the retired Marine general and former secretary of defense, lambasted Trump at the time for ordering law-enforcement officers to forcibly clear protesters from Lafayette Square, and for using soldiers as props: “When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” Mattis wrote. “Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.”
Another explanation is more quotidian, and aligns with a broader understanding of Trump’s material-focused worldview. The president believes that nothing is worth doing without the promise of monetary payback, and that talented people who don’t pursue riches are “losers.” (According to eyewitnesses, after a White House briefing given by the then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joe Dunford, Trump turned to aides and said, “That guy is smart. Why did he join the military?”)
Yet another, related, explanation concerns what appears to be Trump’s pathological fear of appearing to look like a “sucker” himself. His capacious definition of sucker includes those who lose their lives in service to their country, as well as those who are taken prisoner, or are wounded in battle. “He has a lot of fear,” one officer with firsthand knowledge of Trump’s views said. “He doesn’t see the heroism in fighting.”
Several observers told me that Trump is deeply anxious about dying or being disfigured, and this worry manifests itself as disgust for those who have suffered. Trump recently claimed that he has received the bodies of slain service members “many, many” times, but in fact he has traveled to Dover Air Force Base, the transfer point for the remains of fallen service members, only four times since becoming president. In another incident, Trump falsely claimed that he had called “virtually all” of the families of service members who had died during his term, then began rush-shipping condolence letters when families said the president was not telling the truth.
rump has been, for the duration of his presidency, fixated on staging military parades, but only of a certain sort. In a 2018 White House planning meeting for such an event, Trump asked his staff not to include wounded veterans, on grounds that spectators would feel uncomfortable in the presence of amputees. “Nobody wants to see that,” he said.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... rs/615997/
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JeanMoulin Sep 02, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 03, 2020 6:22pm
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.
Belleau Wood is a consequential battle in American history, and the ground on which it was fought is venerated by the Marine Corps. America and its allies stopped the German advance toward Paris there in the spring of 1918. But Trump, on that same trip, asked aides, “Who were the good guys in this war?” He also said that he didn’t understand why the United States would intervene on the side of the Allies.
Trump’s understanding of concepts such as patriotism, service, and sacrifice has interested me since he expressed contempt for the war record of the late Senator John McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. “He’s not a war hero,” Trump said in 2015 while running for the Republican nomination for president. “I like people who weren’t captured.”here was no precedent in American politics for the expression of this sort of contempt, but the performatively patriotic Trump did no damage to his candidacy by attacking McCain in this manner. Nor did he set his campaign back by attacking the parents of Humayun Khan, an Army captain who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Trump remained fixated on McCain, one of the few prominent Republicans to continue criticizing him after he won the nomination. When McCain died, in August 2018, Trump told his senior staff, according to three sources with direct knowledge of this event, “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,” and he became furious, according to witnesses, when he saw flags lowered to half-staff. “What the **** are we doing that for? Guy was a **** loser,” the president told aides.
Trump was not invited to McCain’s funeral. (These sources, and others quoted in this article, spoke on condition of anonymity. The White House did not return earlier calls for comment, but Alyssa Farah, a White House spokesperson, emailed me this statement shortly after this story was posted: “This report is false. President Trump holds the military in the highest regard. He’s demonstrated his commitment to them at every turn: delivering on his promise to give our troops a much needed pay raise, increasing military spending, signing critical veterans reforms, and supporting military spouses.
This has no basis in fact.”) Trump’s understanding of heroism has not evolved since he became president. According to sources with knowledge of the president’s views, he seems to genuinely not understand why Americans treat former prisoners of war with respect. Nor does he understand why pilots who are shot down in combat are honored by the military.
On at least two occasions since becoming president, according to three sources with direct knowledge of his views, Trump referred to former President George H. W. Bush as a “loser” for being shot down by the Japanese as a Navy pilot in World War II. (Bush escaped capture, but eight other men shot down during the same mission were caught, tortured, and executed by Japanese soldiers.)
When lashing out at critics, Trump often reaches for illogical and corrosive insults, and members of the Bush family have publicly opposed him. But his cynicism about service and heroism extends even to the World War I dead buried outside Paris—people who were killed more than a quarter century before he was born. Trump finds the notion of military service difficult to understand, and the idea of volunteering to serve especially incomprehensible. (The president did not serve in the military; he received a medical deferment from the draft during the Vietnam War because of the alleged presence of bone spurs in his feet. In the 1990s, Trump said his efforts to avoid contracting sexually transmitted diseases constituted his “personal Vietnam.”)
On Memorial Day 2017, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery, a short drive from the White House. He was accompanied on this visit by John Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security, and who would, a short time later, be named the White House chief of staff. The two men were set to visit Section 60, the 14-acre area of the cemetery that is the burial ground for those killed in America’s most recent wars. Kelly’s son Robert is buried in Section 60.
A first lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Robert Kelly was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan. He was 29. Trump was meant, on this visit, to join John Kelly in paying respects at his son’s grave, and to comfort the families of other fallen service members. But according to sources with knowledge of this visit, Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned directly to his father and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”
Kelly (who declined to comment for this story) initially believed, people close to him said, that Trump was making a ham-handed reference to the selflessness of America’s all-volunteer force. But later he came to realize that Trump simply does not understand non-transactional life choices. “He can’t fathom the idea of doing something for someone other than himself,” one of Kelly’s friends, a retired four-star general, told me. “He just thinks that anyone who does anything when there’s no direct personal gain to be had is a sucker. There’s no money in serving the nation.” Kelly’s friend went on to say, “Trump can’t imagine anyone else’s pain. That’s why he would say this to the father of a fallen marine on Memorial Day in the cemetery where he’s buried.”
I’ve asked numerous general officers over the past year for their analysis of Trump’s seeming contempt for military service. They offer a number of explanations. Some of his cynicism is rooted in frustration, they say. Trump, unlike previous presidents, tends to believe that the military, like other departments of the federal government, is beholden only to him, and not the Constitution. Many senior officers have expressed worry about Trump’s understanding of the rules governing the use of the armed forces.
This issue came to a head in early June, during demonstrations in Washington, D.C., in response to police killings of Black people. James Mattis, the retired Marine general and former secretary of defense, lambasted Trump at the time for ordering law-enforcement officers to forcibly clear protesters from Lafayette Square, and for using soldiers as props: “When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” Mattis wrote. “Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.”
Another explanation is more quotidian, and aligns with a broader understanding of Trump’s material-focused worldview. The president believes that nothing is worth doing without the promise of monetary payback, and that talented people who don’t pursue riches are “losers.” (According to eyewitnesses, after a White House briefing given by the then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joe Dunford, Trump turned to aides and said, “That guy is smart. Why did he join the military?”)
Yet another, related, explanation concerns what appears to be Trump’s pathological fear of appearing to look like a “sucker” himself. His capacious definition of sucker includes those who lose their lives in service to their country, as well as those who are taken prisoner, or are wounded in battle. “He has a lot of fear,” one officer with firsthand knowledge of Trump’s views said. “He doesn’t see the heroism in fighting.”
Several observers told me that Trump is deeply anxious about dying or being disfigured, and this worry manifests itself as disgust for those who have suffered. Trump recently claimed that he has received the bodies of slain service members “many, many” times, but in fact he has traveled to Dover Air Force Base, the transfer point for the remains of fallen service members, only four times since becoming president. In another incident, Trump falsely claimed that he had called “virtually all” of the families of service members who had died during his term, then began rush-shipping condolence letters when families said the president was not telling the truth.
rump has been, for the duration of his presidency, fixated on staging military parades, but only of a certain sort. In a 2018 White House planning meeting for such an event, Trump asked his staff not to include wounded veterans, on grounds that spectators would feel uncomfortable in the presence of amputees. “Nobody wants to see that,” he said.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... rs/615997/
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JeanMoulin Sep 02, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 03, 2020 6:22pm
5 Sep 2020 11:26 am
They also execute fenced-in animals in canned hunts.simplejack » 04 Sep 2020, 7:47 am » wrote: ↑ Joe Biden’s son fought in Iraq while Trumpy’s sons stole money from a charity for children.
Did I get that right?
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simple jack Sep 04, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 04, 2020 7:40am
5 Sep 2020 6:57 pm
As someone who has served in the military, his remarks are completely insulting. I wonder what will go thru the minds of the military people who have to ferry his fat *** around when he wants to go somewhere. He will and is losing support of Vets and I imagine a lot of our active duty military due to his disdain of anyone serving in the military
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Older Guy Sep 04, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 04, 2020 12:30pm
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Older Guy Sep 04, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 04, 2020 12:30pm
6 Sep 2020 1:44 pm
A few days after Trump took office he took back an agreement Obama made regarding taking in a few thousand immigrants from Syria who were stuck on the small island country of Nauru. Australia took in many Syrian refugees from that worn torn country, and the US said it would help by taking in a couple of thousand, mostly teenage girls who had no parents.
Not sure if you are familiar with the story of Nauru - it was an island paradise, part of the Micronesian group of islands that became famous for its incredible wealth in phosphate rich rock that came to be after thousands of years of bat droppings. Nauru made a deal with the richest countries to sell all of their phosphates which in turn made each person in Nauru quite rich.
Sadly, it decimated their island state and left it baron. Those teenagers from Syria - teenagers mind you, lost all hope. Major depression ensued over these poor kids who were stuck on this island where nothing grows.
What Trump did just then, shows how evil he is. It would have been so easy to take these kids in. But, and I don't know why, perhaps he wanted to undo all that Obama did because he hates Obama,
But he did it all the same!
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bludog Sep 05, 2020
Go to original post on Aug 29, 2020 8:40pm
Not sure if you are familiar with the story of Nauru - it was an island paradise, part of the Micronesian group of islands that became famous for its incredible wealth in phosphate rich rock that came to be after thousands of years of bat droppings. Nauru made a deal with the richest countries to sell all of their phosphates which in turn made each person in Nauru quite rich.
Sadly, it decimated their island state and left it baron. Those teenagers from Syria - teenagers mind you, lost all hope. Major depression ensued over these poor kids who were stuck on this island where nothing grows.
What Trump did just then, shows how evil he is. It would have been so easy to take these kids in. But, and I don't know why, perhaps he wanted to undo all that Obama did because he hates Obama,
But he did it all the same!
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bludog Sep 05, 2020
Go to original post on Aug 29, 2020 8:40pm
7 Sep 2020 12:37 am
This article is a disturbing glimpse into some of the dark forces that are flourishing under the Trump administration. This is not what a representative democracy looks like. This is budding fascism.
We need to vote like our lives depend on it in November.
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Olivaw Sep 06, 2020
Go to original post on Aug 30, 2020 8:43pm
We need to vote like our lives depend on it in November.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... urder.html
In the final week of August, the United States saw its biggest deterioration in societal norms and steps towards outright fascism since President Donald Trump came to office four years ago under a mantle of barely veiled authoritarianism. The troubling developments of the past week are almost too many to count.
On Tuesday, 17-year old Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly crossed state lines with his automatic rifle and murdered two demonstrators at a protest of another horrific police shooting of a Black man. Local police did not arrest Rittenhouse or other armed white men—who went to Kenosha following the “call to arms” of a group calling itself the Kenosha Guard—for violating curfew, or even as suspects in the immediate aftermath of a murder. Instead, officers supplied them with water, thanked them for coming, and allowed Rittenhouse to walk away after allegedly murdering two men and seriously wounding a third. Kenosha’s chief of police responded by blaming the victims for having violated curfew while nearly exonerating Rittenhouse by describing the murder in the passive voice.by describing the murder in the passive voice.
Meanwhile, the day prior, Ammon Bundy and dozens of other armed white and unmasked protesters pushed their way past police in Boise to pack the gallery overlooking Idaho’s House of Representatives. The gallery had been restricted for social distancing, but after the confrontation, which resulted in the shattering of a glass door, protesters were allowed to fill every seat.
It was also the week of the Republican National Convention, which culminated with a grand and illegal presidential acceptance speech with the backdrop of the taxpayer-funded White House decked out in Trump-Pence 2020 propaganda.
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Olivaw Sep 06, 2020
Go to original post on Aug 30, 2020 8:43pm
7 Sep 2020 9:35 pm
Has nothing to do with fighting.JeanMoulin » 07 Sep 2020, 8:38 pm » wrote: ↑ So why are we still fighting? If he really believes that, then he's as ignorant as his cult followers. We will always be at war, somewhere. That's an historical fact, and if you believe what he says, you must believe in unicorns. These wars have been around for our entire history, and always will be. If you think 4 or 8 years of one president is going to change anything, you're an idiot.
Who do you think he gave all of that money to, when he brags about increasing military spending?
The troops?
It went straight to the same place it always goes.
The defense contractors.
Who then give him kick backs.
And then allows him to invest in their stocks that just went up because they got more money.
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JeanMoulin Sep 06, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 07, 2020 7:16pm
9 Sep 2020 12:23 am
Thanks for trying to seem educated beyond normal human capacity.
One of MY "Word for the Day" calendars has "stultifying".
Gee, could you provide me with an example of that?
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Cannonpointer Sep 08, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 08, 2020 8:44pm
10 Sep 2020 10:38 pm
The onset of COVID19 brought into sharp focus, which Americans are the most important for the continuance of society.
Among them are:
Garbage pickup
Nurses
Grocery store clerks
People with jobs in water supply and wastewater
Retail warehouse workers
Agriculture and food production
Transportation - Bus and truck drivers
Social Service workers
So why are most of these people which the government itself pronounced "essential", among the most humble and low paid in society, There is not one occupation on the list which falls in the top 20% of earners in the US.
We need to rethink wealth distribution in this country.
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Older Guy Sep 09, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 07, 2020 11:01am
Among them are:
Garbage pickup
Nurses
Grocery store clerks
People with jobs in water supply and wastewater
Retail warehouse workers
Agriculture and food production
Transportation - Bus and truck drivers
Social Service workers
So why are most of these people which the government itself pronounced "essential", among the most humble and low paid in society, There is not one occupation on the list which falls in the top 20% of earners in the US.
We need to rethink wealth distribution in this country.
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Older Guy Sep 09, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 07, 2020 11:01am
12 Sep 2020 5:54 am
Trump is going to be voted out. Most Americans are sick to death of the pettiness, division, and hyperpartisanship that Trump brings to the table.rippy3838 » 09 Sep 2020, 10:46 am » wrote: ↑ The second wave will show up in January... just about the time Trump is being sworn in for his second term.
Worst. President. EVER.
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DennisTheMenace Sep 12, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 10, 2020 12:46am
12 Sep 2020 7:15 am
nefarious101 » 11 Sep 2020, 5:30 pm » wrote: ↑ I would go as far to call you people...more like a parasite than mimics it's host
Why the apostrophe in "its" you moron?
We are a family of working class veterans of English descent.
Learn America's official language.
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WillFranklin Sep 12, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 12, 2020 8:14am
15 Sep 2020 9:58 pm
When half of production is automated, goods and services are literally churned out on autopilot, and society generates more valued commodities and finished products in one day than we could have in 20 years before automation, it’s hard to keep people broke. It really is.
Thats why you see these immense giveaways to the billionaires. TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars just thrown at them, cuz they don’t know what else to do with the extreme overproduction of modern technology. It can’t be given to the workers, cuz then the whole hierarchy would be **** up. If everybody was rich, confusion would reign. We are still just chimps whose interactions are mostly dominated by figuring out who is the “alpha chimp” based on status, i.e. wealth.
This, BTW, is why the aliens don’t welcome us into the galactic federation, they won’t communicate with us, cuz our primitive fear based thought processes are like a contagious disease, higher life forms don’t want to be infected with the ugliness of our human nature.
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SJConspirator Sep 15, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 15, 2020 9:39pm
16 Sep 2020 1:20 pm
This is a thread fail.
Because any economist already knows the revised annual GDP numbers for 2015 (3.1%), 2017 (2.3%), 2018 (3.0%), and 2019 (2.2%).
And a real economist would at least address those numbers as they relate to any claims of a Trump Boom.
There is no Trump Boom.
Trump even had to revise 2019 down and use those products, goods, etc. to add to 2018 to make it 3.0%.
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WillFranklin Sep 15, 2020, Olivaw Sep 15, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 16, 2020 8:39am
Because any economist already knows the revised annual GDP numbers for 2015 (3.1%), 2017 (2.3%), 2018 (3.0%), and 2019 (2.2%).
And a real economist would at least address those numbers as they relate to any claims of a Trump Boom.
There is no Trump Boom.
Trump even had to revise 2019 down and use those products, goods, etc. to add to 2018 to make it 3.0%.
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WillFranklin Sep 15, 2020, Olivaw Sep 15, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 16, 2020 8:39am
18 Sep 2020 1:03 am
Being in NHB doesn't give anyone the right to stalk someone every day for years. NHB doesn't mean someone should be forced to read repetitive nonsense over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
You and Terminhater are damn lucky Misty has been as patient with you as she has.
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Olivaw Sep 17, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 17, 2020 4:15pm
18 Sep 2020 7:55 am
Strawman. Literally no one believes that the climate is static. No one. Hot summer days are used to bolster the argument for AGW, which is just as ignorant as using cold winters to bolster the converse. The central question is "How much does human activity impact global climate?". That answer seems to be little to none. Human activity contributes a small fraction of greenhouse gas emissions. Proposed solutions for climate change are clearly feel good cultish wealth redistribution schemes.skews13 » 16 Sep 2020, 10:15 am » wrote: ↑ conservative **** isn't an opposing view
it's conservative ****
conservative **** has no legitimate place in any conversation or debate
and should never be taken seriously by anyone
Example: it's cold in the winter, so global warming is a hoax
that's not an opposing view. that's mental illness
you're welcome. i'm in a helpful mood today.
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Annoyed Liberall Sep 18, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 16, 2020 10:34am
19 Sep 2020 8:41 am
You are a social identity by vocabulary, I am a mutually evolving reproduction timed apart as conceived to proportionately alive now. you may want to recant that accusation. I navigate around 7.8 billion delusionists.
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omh Sep 19, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 19, 2020 9:39am
21 Sep 2020 11:45 am
400,000 of US lowest wage earners earn exactly $7.25 an hour, which does not pay rent in any state.NeoConvict » 21 Sep 2020, 6:44 am » wrote: ↑ The poorest working class Americans enjoy a standard of living on par with previous generations upper classes. A standard so high that if enjoyed by the global population we would cut down every tree on the globe, strip mined every mountain, and caught all the fish in a decade. Yet you scream for more.
More make $7.30 an hour, etc...
And there is no health coverage for hardly anyone.
This is the wealthiest nation on Earth doing this to its workers.
You prissy lying cuck.
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WillFranklin Sep 21, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 21, 2020 7:53am
22 Sep 2020 11:32 am
I believe it was a bluff, just as Democrats are bluffing now and for exactly the same reason. Any currently sitting Senators know that any major change they decide to do will then be undone immediately afterward and would cause retaliation from the other party the next time the Senate changes hands.Misty » 21 Sep 2020, 9:12 pm » wrote: ↑ That door was opened in 2016 when many Republicans said that if Hillary won the election, they would keep the 9th seat open throughout her term.
So what do you think the justification for that was?
Why do Republicans believe that they own the courts?
But you're wrong that this was caused by any hypothetical scenario that Republicans proposed. This was caused years ago by Democrat Senate leader Harry Reid, who changed the requirement for seating judges to a simple majority from a 60 vote for approval minimum in the past, so the Democrats could force through some of Obama's choices that had failed to be approved by coming up short in the vote. By doing so, he opened the door for the Republicans to retaliate by allowing the same new rules for SC justice approval.
All told, I think the current system is fair. Congress has become far too partisan and now use their own subjective criteria for rejecting a judge or justice, and this makes the process much simpler. A sitting President should have the ability to appoint the judges he wants, especially when he has provided the public with a list of qualified candidates he will pick from during his campaign as Trump has done. If he doesn't have a Senate majority, he would likely need to pick a more moderate one to obtain the approval of the Senate. If he does, he can pick one as extreme as he likes.
So why hasn't Biden provided us with the same list of candidates as Trump has done?
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Annoyed Liberall Sep 22, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 22, 2020 6:58am
22 Sep 2020 12:29 pm
Nothing illegitimate about what the Senate did in 2016, and Democrats would have done the exact same thing! Besides, Democrat voters had two opportunities to thwart that strategy. They could have elected Hillary or they could have elected a Democrat majority in the Senate. And they failed at both!IkeBana » 22 Sep 2020, 11:47 am » wrote: ↑ Oh **** please. After what the GOP has pulled with the Garland nomination and now this nomination you're gonna call anything the Democrats ever do "phony?"
Every one of these **** in 2016 said "No...no...no...there can't be a Supreme Court nomination and vote at the end of a Presidential term. An now it's...no **** problem. We already knew there wasn't anybody in the party with a shred of integrity...so this is just more confirmation.
The other option for Republicans in 2016 would have been to let the Garland nominee stand then vote against him, forcing Obama to withdraw the name and submit someone else. And Republicans could have drawn it out the same way until the clock ran out on the Obama presidency.
But those are the consequences of losing elections. The fact is that if Hillary had won, she likely wouldn't have nominated Garland anyway and chosen someone far more liberal. That's the chance the Republicans took, and they would have regretted it if Trump didn't win.
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Cannonpointer Sep 21, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 22, 2020 10:00am
22 Sep 2020 7:41 pm
Yes a retired teacher can work where they want. Nobody in this country has morals.nefarious101 » 22 Sep 2020, 7:39 pm » wrote: ↑ Pizza titty bar candidate?...now that's a real winner
That you think Hooters sells pizza, then bring up the gay bar, as in the earlier post, shows your viewpoint is limited and focused elsewhere.
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WillFranklin Sep 22, 2020
Go to original post on Sep 22, 2020 8:41pm
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