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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
Get The Picture 
He’s going to Florida. Nuff said.
FTMF
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Fify:
He’s going to prison and bankruptcy court. Nuff said.
FTMF
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Wonder how he will like Rikers Island…
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You don’t have ole Donald J Trump to kick around anymore.
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Biden now has a thousand COVID deaths on his hands. That’s how this works, right?
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No, the pandemic ended at noon today. First everyone said it would be over Nov. 3. Then everyone said Dec 10, then Jan 6. So now we’re at the last possible date so I guess the “plandemic” is officially over?
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Should have thrown up a couple of peace signs a la Nixon. “I’m off to Mar-a-Lago!”
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https://images.app.goo.gl/9S6KiCLc3EqagTPp7
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It’s a new day in America. One that doesn’t smell like bronzer.
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I can’t wait to see the new things Biden’s 5 decades of government experience has inspired.
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But the country is gonna be saved by someone who has been in government for 50 years and 15 days! I’m sure he had no hand in creating the problems that plagued us the last five decades.
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We’ve certainly had a lot of problems over the last five decades. But things are also pretty great. We have a standard of living that only a small percentage of societies currently have worldwide and we’re light-years above where we were 50 years ago. This notion that the country is falling apart and we have to do radical things to blow up the system and prevent it is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy if people keep chasing it.
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I’m in complete agreement. I was no fan of Trump, but I also strongly believe that people who have spent literally half a century off the public dime are not the best choices to lead the country.
We are the envy of the world (even to those who don’t necessarily like us) and it’s critical to ensure individual liberties so that this experiment continues.
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Problem is the last 4 years were catastrophically worse…..
He was so bad he made Jimmy Carter look like Abraham Lincoln.
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Depends.
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Only if Joe wears them at night…..
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My Man!
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Four years of this incompetent asshat and enough people hated him to give two full branches of government to the democrats. This probably won’t end well.
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Forget all the other issues and forget your political inclinations – “incompetent” should have gotten him out of office.
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Which is indicative of a whole new class of issues that should absolutely not be ignored.
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We’ve replaced an “incompetent” executive with a dementia patient who was a dim bulb in his prime. Things are looking up!
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Cant be as bad… hell I would have done a better job than Trump (and no I am not kidding).
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Ignorance is bliss, right?!?
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You’re fired.
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They all lie, cheat and steal equally so don’t expect much to change other than how much money the government sucks up from us.
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That’s about the truth….no really, it is the truth.
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For every Churchill there’s Stalin. Like grains of sand really.
Can’t tell them apart. You look at Lincoln and see the Abscam pols. Same identical people really.
And of course the American people are victims of these liars since we have no choices here. None.
Its a government of, by and for liars while we are its helpless wee victims.
Damn Murica sucks don’t she?
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Yeah but all the socialism is coming and they gonna take muh guns!
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Teams of Muslim Mexican Transgender gun snatchers will be going house to house beginning at 12:01.
Saw it on Parler…. You know, its twitter but for traitors.
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Amxn and Awomxn.
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His kind have been rightfully called un-American for so long that the words have lost all meaning to them.
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Domestic terrorist’s ideas of patriotism are unpersuasive.
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Your attempt at satire pretty much summarizes the next 4 years!!
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Stupid people don’t understand the sinners vs saints model of government taught in elementary school. Some people mature beyond such bumper sticker civics. But many never do.
Derek and I will be listening to the choirs of angels inspired by the segregationist about to be sworn in. Cause the opponent of Trump is holy, by definition.
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You and Derek seem to be oblivious to the fact that you’re two sides of the exact same coin.
We need people like the two of you to unplug and focus your disdain on the ever growing threat of the government party instead of violently defending one half while attacking the other.
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Correction. We are in perfect agreement. Neither one of us can even. Literally.
Government force is the instrument of change. We can’t just sit around and wait for people to voluntarily recognize all 57 genders and that black people are still practically slaves incapable of thinking for themselves. We need government to force these policies upon people. Only then will we be truly free.
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You can’t be pro Trump and anti government. Fake libertarianism is the same as being pro big government, the difference is you’re just lying about what you really are.
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I’ve never been pro Trump. Long ago, I simply proposed the idea that Trump was not a Russian spy and was a fairly typical politician (elite, narcissistic, out of touch, nepotistic). But soon after, Derek, Bluto, and others convinced me that no, Trump wasn’t just a jerk similar to the other jerks in Washington. He was literally Hitler!
Because what was Hitler’s worst trait? His position on tariffs! And also his public statements that would have been on Twitter, if it existed!
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I don’t intend to argue about straw men. I said what I said and I stand by it.
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Show me one quote where I said that, troll.
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Easy Bluto. I’m agreeing with you, not trolling. Like you, I see no nuance in political discussions. Anyone who thinks that Trump probably isn’t a Russian spy is a fanboi, not an independent thinker. Anyone who doubts that Trump isn’t literally Hitler is a white supremacist intent on suppressing the votes of all the poor minorities who can’t possibly fend for themselves.
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Troll, your shtick has worn thin. Forget about the Hitler references and focus on trying to keep anti-Semitic references out of the comments.
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🙂
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Without a doubt the most assholic statement on this thread!!
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Are there two sides to domestic terrorism, insurrection and mobs sent to deprive Americans of their choice?
I have to respect that point of view?
I have to say its ok to lie and say the election was stolen? Lets have a respectful debate about undermining public trust in our democracy?
No. Fuck that.
The people who sowed that doubt and lit that flame and the people who lacked the judgment to understand that they were being lied to need to pay a price. I owe them nothing but contempt and thats all they’re getting from me.
If your point is that I framed the debate this way BEFORE 1/6/21, its because I saw this coming. You should have too. We all should have seen it coming. You can only lie to and scare people for so long before they lose their gd minds.
The left hasn’t spent 40 years making their fellow citizens into monsters to be feared even above Putin. The right did that.
The first thing we need to embrace is FACT and TRUTH.
We can disagree about what to do about the FACTS. Permitting people to manufacture false facts without consequences has to end.
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We’ve permitted people to manufacture false facts without consequences since 1964.
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Comments like that are why basically everyone hates you both. The pretentious virtue signaling is fucking nauseating. Especially when you pull your head out of your ass and realize there is only one government party in charge. “Both sides” incite riots in their own way and people defend them in the comment sections of football blogs, but ultimately you and NB are both shoveling shit onto the same pile. The only difference is you’re both standing in different sides of the pile.
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on”
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Has it ever occurred to you that I want to be liked? That its a goal of mine? I don’t want to be liked and I don’t like people whose goal it is to be liked.
Your both sides are bad is lazy. You’re a Neville Chamberlain. We can get along with Hitler if we meet him in the middle.
You can stand for something or you can stand for nothing.
The idea that someone else has their own Kristallnacht so be kind to the nazi so we maybe reach an agreement to kill a mere 3 million and not 6 so progress is fucked.
Not everything is a debate. Not everything is a matter of opinion. Some people actually have principles upon which there is no compromise. You should consider finding one.
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In other words …
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I hate Hitler and Stalin. Different ends of the spectrum with the exact same results. That’s a hard stance so we’re clear. Both ideologies are lurking on the fringes of congress and are of equal threat.
Again the virtue signaling. Fucking nauseating. It’s irrelevant whether you want to be liked, but when everyone hates you that’s an issue regardless of whether you choose to acknowledge it or care.
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Judging from the “likes” I get, I think you’re overstating it a bit.
Not that I give a fuck. The point is that you’re fos.
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This comment has zero likes. 👍🏼
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“Not everything is a debate. Not everything is a matter of opinion.”
And yet you debate endlessly with anyone whose opinion differs from yours – calling them stupid, ignorant, and other choice words that don’t encourage true debate. Therefore, you decide what opinions are true or not. You decide what is worth debate or not. Sounds like the same kind of narcissism you accuse former presidents of.
Interesting.
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The fact is without mail in ballots sleepy Joe is sitting in a nursing home today. The fact is that these pushed out ballots violated the multiple state constitutions. I’m glad appointed judges got to legislate from the bench.
The fact is the party of tolerance and unity sound a lot like Castro, Stalin, etc
The fact is while the left screams racist and white supremacy about Trump they failed to notice that Sleepy Joe is on record as pro-segregation and called the head of the WV Klan his mentor…
I’m cool with charging anyone who broke into the capital. Just make sure sure we use the same resources/charges against those who committed atrocities this summer.
I didn’t like Trump but I liked the majority of his policies.
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This is certainly one of the most coherent posts ever on the Playpen. Well done.
Maybe one day we will not see others with different opinions as enemies. Maybe…
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“we have no choices” If you’re not being sarcastic then for once, I agree with you. Maybe there’s hope for “Murica” after all.
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They do not all equally lie, cheat, and steal. Not even close. 45 in particular, set a new standard for corrupt and unethical behavior.
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He kept donating his presidential salary to charity while also allegedly being bankrupt. He’s either a saint or you guys are missing something.
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Right! It wasn’t Grant selling railroad grants. It wasn’t Jackson and his abuse of political patronage. It wasn’t Clinton keeping FBI files on political enemies, using the IRS to audit them, stealing White House property, and vandalizing the White House prior to Bush’s inauguration. It wasn’t Bush lying us into forever war. Nope. Since history began somewhere around 5-10 years ago, Trump is number one. Easily.
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None of them lied to incite a violent insurrection, misled the public about a pandemic that has killed 400k+ Americans, or sought foreign assistance to defeat domestic political rivals. 45 is the worst POTUS ever–by a country mile.
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Right. Wilson packed troops on ships while Spanish flu was killing them. But we don’t care. Clinton took campaign cash from China. But we don’t care. They weren’t Republicans!
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Even if true (and one has to take everything you say with a grain of salt), none of the events you cited are worse than what 45 did. Oh, I’m also not a Democrat, but by all means don’t stop assuming you know where I stand. That’s a big part of the reason our politics are so screwed up in the first place.
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I think a big part of the reason politics are screwed up is the indignant ignorance of some people. You don’t know what other presidents have done, but you definitely know that whatever they did, it wasn’t worse than Trump. That kind of righteous indignation practically requires ignorance. Because if you knew what past presidents had done (both Democrats and Republicans) you would understand that Trump is just another asshole in a long line of assholes. Better than some. Worse than others.
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I actually have studied American history. I excelled at it in school and enjoy reading it outside of school as well. I know what I’m talking about, and it is intellectually lazy to dismiss 45 as “just another asshole in a long line of assholes.” You, on the other hand, do nothing but troll, insult, and inject “whataboutisms” into every political discussion here. If you’re concerned about ignorance, you have a strange way of trying to correct it.
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Context is always important. If Trump’s mean tweets have caused you to believe that he’s the worst president in history, then you are quite ignorant of American history. American presidents have ordered illegal assassinations of foreign leaders as well as coups for regime change. They have spied on domestic political enemies. They have imprisoned journalists. FDR sent 120k American citizens to concentration camps. Not illegal immigrants temporarily detained while officials rule on their status. American citizens indefinitely held because they were Asian. I could go on. Books have been written on corruption that goes well beyond anything Trump did.
But insisting that Trump is the worst just trivializes the actual bad things. You’re concluding that mean tweets is worse than sending people to concentration camps based on their race. You become a parody.
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Trump did none of that. Get your shit straight ‘nine!!!!!
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Just out of curiosity out did you read the GAO appendix on the comparisons on the 2001 transition “vandalism” and the 1993 transition. Apparently that type of behavior was done by the previous administration as well. I only bring it up because your holding one side responsible but you should also see the same behavior occurred on the other side as well.
Click to access d02360.pdf
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I did mention Republican malfeasance in W’s lies about Iraq War 2. Obviously my list wasn’t exhaustive for either party, or even for any president I specifically mentioned.
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No need frankly to get political today (IMO) given everything the country has been through. And while I personally didn’t vote for Biden, I wish him the very best and all the success in the world. After all, if Biden is successful, then America is successful, and that is the ultimate goal (for most of us anyway), right?
I for one still believe in American exceptionalism, and I believe we will come out of this just fine.
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Well said. Hope we can get back to all being Americans with just different opinions.
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2 excellent posts.
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Yes. Now that your party has power again, let’s get back to unity – like when Obama’s IRS was targeting Tea Party PACs.
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PACS need to die. They are a legal way to hide political donations.
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My party? My party left me 4 years ago when they selected a bankrupt reality TV star and then continued to double and triple down with every idiotic thing the guy said. I never voted for Obama.
But I know how “your party” is. You’re either part of it or you’re a socialist/communist/something-ist. Stay in line or else!
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3rd, the problem is not what he wants to do, but rather how he plans to do it. If he does things his(and Kamala’s) way, we’re screwed!!
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The way we have handled the transfer of power over the years is very admiral….Good luck to Harris. We’re all gonna need it.
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What’s this got to do with the Navy, PTC???
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I don’t think Biden will be a great president, but… FTMF! Good riddance.
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1 Timothy 2: 1-2 “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”
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ugh …
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Less than a week and Fulmer is no longer the biggest big orange to get fired.
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I work on the outskirts of DC and I’m burning a vacation day so I don’t have to deal with traffic or any other silliness.
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I’m sorry that many people are disappointed that Trump lost. I’m not sorry that such a poor example of presidential leadership was defeated. I hope we can all find some common ground and come together as Americans, but more importantly as humans. Especially in our dysfunctional Congress where term limits would be an awesome start.
Carry on with the poo flinging…
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I have a feeling that it is only going to get worse.
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You don’t get to call for unity after what the Democrats did for the past 4 years. Do you still think Trump was a russian agent?
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How about what “your party” did claiming Obama wasn’t eligible to be president for 8 years?
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Well, he wasn’t!!!!
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Yet ted cruz is?
How?
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Trump got more done is 4 years than Obama did in 8. Without a doubt the greatest President in US history. I just hope Biden doesn’t fuck it up immediately. If he does at least we will have Trump back in 2024 to save us again.
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Who else could get us to 400k dead in 8 months?
We lead the world!! By a lot!!!
In deaths!!!
Yeah!!
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Trump is responsible for covid deaths just like the rest of the world leaders are responsible for all the deaths in their countries.
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Exactly.
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Presidents are responsible for everything that happens while they are in office. Unless they are Democrats. Then they are only responsible for the good things that happen and Republicans are responsible for the bad things. It’s not that hard.
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Trump blamed Obama for ebola.
2 dead americans from ebola.
I use the trump standard when it comes to presidential responsibility for infectious disease deaths.
Applying that standard: 400k dead is trumps fault as trump himself established.
As did his press Secretary who declared that trump would not allow coronavirus to impact america.
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But Trump stopped the Chinese from entering the US after the Covid was already here so he did what he had to do!
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30,931 today (Dow)…..19,827 when Trump took office. Hopes it continues, but I ain’t confident.
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7,000 when Obama took office.
19,827 when he left.
Do the math greg.
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no one is comparing the two, only you are. But if you insist on it…factor in that one was in office 4 years and the other was 8 years.
So if want to lecture, consider all of it….otherwise, it makes you looks foolish telling me how to do “math”.
But I am not surprised, you would argue with a wall…
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Wall? Now that you mention it. We didn’t get a big beautiful one and Mexico didn’t pay for it.
15 miles in 4 years?
Sad!
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Forgot the link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46824649
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Just wait till the Mexicans learn how ladders and shovels work.
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Son, you just ain’t balanced…pretty sure that something is really wrong with you.
I have always suspected it, but pretty certain now.
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Derek – King of Whataboutism
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You make a poor point.
How this is done is that you explain yourself and THEN get to the conclusion.
If all you have is conclusion well you got nothing.
Read all of the articles below from all over the world saying trump is the worst president ever. Its not just a headline. They use words to explain themselves.
Try again.
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Not going to spend my time today arguing with a complete nut…..or to convince you of anything. I really don’t care.
We all voted…..or at least I hope we did. Time to move on and support who is in office.
Just hoping the market doesn’t tank.
Hoping the looney tunes act for you is just an act.
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Trump didn’t even start any new wars! That’s about as lousy a president as you can get!
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Why argue when you can’t win?
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Stock market growth under Trump works out to ~11.25% per year assuming you re-invest 100% and take advantage of compounding.
Stock market growth under Obama works out to ~12.5% per year assuming you re-invest 100% and take advantage of compounding.
Math gives Obama the win.
That said, I agree with others – stock market performance only matters to those with assets to invest, and even then only if you ignore the easy Fed policy, reckless spending, staggering inequality, and endangerment to future generations that made it possible.
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Haha, self own. Math really is hard. I was thinking relative to a personal portfolio. Obama wins going away.
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Given both parties have used easy monetary policy with the Fed to boost the market, I’m not sure how great of a measure the value of the Dow is to the overall health of the economy.
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Very true. Stocks are way over priced.
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So, are you shorting the market?
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Yep, that horse has left the barn. Neither party is going to be able to exert fiscal control even if it wanted to. Enjoy the party while it lasts. I don’t know how it’s going to shake out but it ain’t gonna be pretty. Especially for the middle class.
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It’s really too bad in 1994-95 when Clinton and Gingrich were working together to get some good things done, they couldn’t come to a meeting of the minds on a balanced budget amendment. Go back even farther to the 80s when Reagan and O’Neill worked together to get things done but couldn’t do it either.
Politicians are really good at spending other people’s money especially that of their children, their grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren.
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They actually had an entitlement reform bill ready for the President to sign on the afternoon the Lewinski story broke. Republicans then sensed an opportunity to renegotiate while the push for impeachment caused the Democrats to revolt. We’ve never been close again to bi-partisan agreement on this. They all share blame for this, and Biden was there. Be interesting to see if he dusts that one off…it’s not in his platform.
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There’s always room to blame both sides on the failure to solve the big issues.
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7,949.09 when Obama took office so…
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So it almost tripled while 20 to 30 is a 6th of that amirite?
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Yup, unfortunately numbers don’t lie.
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True, but yours and Derek’s grasp of numbers is so pathetic that it amounts to lying.
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you’re capable of doing percentages, right??
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Soooo… 10 is 1/6 of 12? Yikes! A lot of things about you are starting to make sense Derek.
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300% vs. 50%.
I see 6 50’s in 300.
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You’re fucking with me, right? Find a fifth grader or maybe the guy who cuts your grass, they can explain it to you.
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What was the net jobs gain over 4 years though?
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I agree. When Obama took office, the national debt was around 10 trillion dollars. When he left and Trump took over, it had grown to 20 trillion. I didn’t think anyone would be able to top that at the time.
But Donald Trump is no mere mortal. Despite only having four years to Obama’s eight, he’s been able to add another 7 trillion dollars to the national debt. Imagine what he could have done with another term!
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Joe Biden says: “hold my beer”
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The national debt is designed to explode. That’s just how it works. It doesn’t matter which party is in power. The debt will grow at an ever faster rate until it collapses.
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When Obama took office, the annual operating deficit was well over a trillion dollars, with even conservative economists saying unemployment would hit 20% if the govt went full austerity.
Obama reduced that by half to around $500 billion. Trump almost tripled it prior to Covid.
The only 2 Presidents in your lifetime to balance the federal budget: Carter and Clinton.
The only three Presidents in your lifetime to reduce the annual operating deficit, two of them by $500 billion a year: Carter, Clinton, and Obama.
Republican Presidents, with big assists from predominantly Republican Congresses, create massive deficits.
This was the first huge issue causing me to leave the Republican Party. They were all talk and no walk on that issue,
We can’t fix the problem until we’re honest about it.
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I think its by design.
When they get the WH, no matter who has the congress, they go on a spending spree. Drunken sailors on a credit card. And no one pays the bill. They cut taxes and take in less and spend more.
They know both artificially create good short term economic conditions AND it comprises the government’s ability to maintain its commitments.
They said 30 years ago what the goal was: reduce government to the size it could be drug into the bathroom and drowned.
You want to get rid of Social Security and Medicare?
You can’t win elections on it but what you can do is bankrupt the government so that it can no longer be paid for. That is the plan.
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And even those rosy numbers for the Democrats are the result of accounting tricks where programs are assumed to have 10 year time frames. Or in the case of Obamacare, 10 years of funding to 6 years of expenses. And the unfunded liabilities of entitlements are never counted.
The fact is, Carter, Clinton, Obama, and all the Republican presidents since before the Great Depression left office with higher national debt than when they entered office. Again, ignoring unfunded liabilities. Biden will also join the club.
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Anyone who can talk about rosy numbers and disingenuous time frames without also prominently referencing the BS by which Reagan, Bush 1, Bush 2 and Trump sold massive tax cuts that never came close to paying for themselves isn’t being serious about the problem.
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Anyone who can talk about the budget of the general government and conclude that the problem isn’t expenditures, but rather revenue, is either foolish or dishonest.
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“The Greatest President in American History” will probably be indicted for tax fraud (New York) and election fraud (Georgia).
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Too late! He already did. Only took him 20 minutes in office!!! How’s that for “Warp Speed?”
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As George W. Bush said at the 2017 inaugural:
“That was some weird shit.”
I think it applies to all four years. Total weird, shit show.
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Hopes he makes it ALL 4 YEARS!
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L–d help us if he doesn’t!
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His greatest legacy in my book is that he kept Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt person in politics from becoming president. Godspeed Mr President!
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I dunno…his greatest legacy might be the circle he drew on the weather map. Or the totally illegal call he placed to Ukraine. Or how he called American voters “human scum.” Or how he threatened the GA Secretary of State, a Republican. Or how he mocked Jeff Session’s Southern accent. Or how he contributed to the retirement funds of Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels. Or how he dissed his own U. S. Intelligence Agencies and stood up for Vladdy Putin, the KGB agent, in Helsinki. Or how he threatened the Supreme Court decision on Pennsylvania election procedures would induce “violence in the streets.” Or how he treated his contractors and business partners before he even became President. Or his bankruptcies, prior and yet to come.
etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseum
God speed, indeed! And don’t come around here no more.
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I’m so glad the “dark days” are over. Now everyone will be happy and feel good about our country. I’m looking foreword to higher tax rates on corporations, green energy, more lockdowns to keep me safe, legalized drugs, fewer police (with less authority) and free college for all. I’ve always wanted to live in France.
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We can send you a video of a caged and crying Hispanic child to keep you warm at night, if that would help you in this time of loss.
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From the cage Obama built
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You do realize that the picture you are referring to is from the Obama administration don’t you? Like 99% of the criticisms of Trump, the caged child narrative was a lie.
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You’d be amazed at what literacy can do:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chantaldasilva/2021/01/14/family-separation-rule-never-should-have-happened-rod-rosenstein-says-as-report-reveals-how-he-and-jeff-sessions-pushed-policy-forward/
Obama did not prosecute parents and permanently separate them from their children.
You believe the “Obama did it” lie just like “i won the election in a landslide” lie.
Suckers are suckers and your con man knows his marks well.
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Suckers listen to the media. Keep on sucking.
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Why read when you can succor on every word trump speaks?
Are you joining him in Jonestown for the punch?
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Human trafficking isn’t real! I heard it on MSNPC!
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Trump criticized the wonderful MS13 members. We literally can’t even!
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Legalize it! I need that farm subsidy…
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-worst-president-history/617730/
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/19/trump-was-worst-president-ever-his-failures-set-up-biden-success/
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https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-worst-president-ever/article_d494d3cc-81d4-59f6-a63e-e71c4511595b.html
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-01-13/ranking-presidents-donald-trump-history-historians
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/01/10/arnold-schwarzenegger-slams-trump-riot-wields-conans-sword/6615933002/
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https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/is-donald-trump-the-worst-us-president-ever-historians-say-so-20210115-p56u9w.html
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https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/worst-us-president-ever
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-news-poll-trump-worst-president-b1777255.html
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FAKE NEWS
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American Pravda.
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The
Derek
Show
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Good to see some are able to think for themselves. It would be a shame if anyone depended on website articles to make their argument for them. That would be like using Clay Travis, Paul Finebaum, or Mark Bradley to make your point about the UGA football team. That would be both comical and sad. And yet….
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The point that people who are worth debating got was that there was a broad world wide consensus that trump was the worst president ever.
The point that people who are only worthy of mocking got is: reading is bad.
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Andrew Johnson says, “Hold my beer.”
Andrew Jackson says, “Mine too.”
But I don’t want to interrupt the fetish of the present when history is involved. Some are able to see the totality, some sadly are not.
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The virtue signaling about who is “worth debating” is also a nice touch. Thanks for once again showing how true debate cannot happen if you lead with moral superiority rather than open mindedness.
True for both sides by the way.
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The bandwagon fallacy is one of the best fallacies. You can’t possibly argue against Vox, The Atlantic, and CNN. That’s three completely impartial sources who literally can’t even! Jump aboard!
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But at least he was a leader…of a mob.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mitch-mcconnell-blames-trump-for-deadly-capitol-riots-2021-1
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Lets take this in a little different direction. Lets talk a little football. I saw that Wanya Morris had transferred to Oklahoma from Dumpster Fire University. Since he is from Georgia, it surprised me that there was never even a peep about him transferring to UGA. Did they not need or want him? If there some bad blood there such that he did not even consider coming home? Just curious as to why he was never even a blip on the transfer portal radar?
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I’m thinking he looked at the depth chart and decided to take an easier path.
What happens with Big Kat Bryant, who transferred into UTK to be with his high school coach? The coach was fired the next day. That’s some cold shit right there.
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Saw on twitter FB that he had deleted the tweet about transferring. Reckon he tucked tail and played nice with Harsin?
We shall see…
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Interesting. I wonder when a transfer actually occurs? I guess once he enrolls? Not sure why he was bailing on Auburn for that dumpster fire in (Ob)Knoxville.
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He was recruited by Sheldon Feldon, who jumped ship from aubrun to ut. Big Kat transferred to follow Sheldon, and about the time he announced Sheldon got shit-canned. According to Got Sr.’s allegedly reliable source Sheldon was one of the bag handlers at…You guessed it…The McDonalds lunch table!
I have no idea if the McDonalds thing is true or not but I’m reallt enjoying the idea of it giving the vowels a serious case of IBS.
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I guess Kelly Lofler’s dream of owning an Atlanta sports team has ended along with her Georgia political career. I assume her dream now is to move to another state where she can run for office. Oh, and own a sports team.
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Florida
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Welcome to Hell in a Handbasket!!
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If you’ve predetermined that Biden will
do terrible or wonderful things in office, and all you do from this point forward is seek out that validation and parrot it, then you’re part of the problem.
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That’s what 98% of the population does. Probably including you.
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Nope, not me.
I suspect it’s only 98% of the people who live on political message boards.
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If you truly do not let any predetermined biases affect your thoughts and decisions then I applaud you. It is very difficult to do. That’s why science relies on well designed, blinded, reproducible studies to arrive at the “truth”. Even then, unintentional bias can creep in.
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Biden TOLD us what he wants to do. He may not think so, but he wants to reduce us to banana republic status, taxing and spending us to death in the process while stifling all dissent in the name of “unity.”
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Exhale. And hope that GOP primary voters can behave a little more responsibly going forward.
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Also, whoever has been able to get Trump under control in the past week and a half is doing the Lord’s work. They should have taken away his phone long, long ago.
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No snark when I say:
Inauguration Day is officially a celebration day in my home from now on.
For 50+ years, all I have known is people – both sides – complaining about our country and every thing wrong with it. 3 days a year we celebrated our country, and 362 we let our radios and TVs tell us how it was going to hell in a hand basket.
Historically speaking, a day like this is a damn miracle. And we absolutely have taken it for granted.
Celebrate it. No matter how you voted.
God Bless the USA. We’ve got a lot of sins to reconcile. And it’s still the greatest country the world has ever known.
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Totally agree! Wish somebody would explain this to my neighbor who’s flying his American flag at half-staff today.
But at least he finally took down his flag that said “F*** Biden and f*** you for voting for him”
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Sounds like a great guy.
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God bless your neighbor bro
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83 comments in and Derek is responsible for exactly 1/3 of them (pathetic BTW), but hey everyone, be careful that YOU don’t write something that may lead the Senator to shut the thread down. LMFAO.
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Aw… are somebody’s panties in a wad? It’s the Playpen, dude. It’s the place where I let you guys repeat yourself endlessly, so you won’t fill up other comment threads with repetitive garbage.
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Panties in a wad? No, lol. Call it an experiment with predictable results.
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Whatever works for you.
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STOP CANCELLING HIM, BLUTARSKY!
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SB = Derek
Clicks
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Wut
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Speaking of pathetic…
Need something for butthurt?
Here ya go! Its your brand even!
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He’s one bored dude, that’s for sure.
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I will say this. I hope to never see a transfer of power like this again in my lifetime.
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Probably because Biden’s team isn’t taking multi million dollar payments on the side from Putin’s oligarchs.
Trump sent the entire DOJ and American intelligence community after Biden’s campaign. Came up with squat.
The make-believe world you inhabit is just spectacular. You’ve turned yourself into a lemming in the greater cause of enriching Pander Media personalities. Who don’t even have to be clever about it. They can completely contradict the laughable conspiracy they were pushing last week with this week’s content – because you’re that malleable. You’re that easy a mark.
Congrats?
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You’ve got me all wrong. I’m on your side. Biden using his office to enrich his family is good politics. Trump looking into it was an impeachable offense. Russians hacking the 2016 election is a given. Irregularities in 2020 when a candidate who didn’t campaign won more votes than ever despite performing more poorly in every bellweather county but one and doing worse among minority voters than the candidate who lost in 2016 is a conspiracy. Why? Because it’s our side! That’s why!
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You’re Tom Parsons. Willingly and gleefully parroting whatever Big Brother tells you is the truth.
Hand recounts? Paper ballots? Extensive audits? 2nd recounts? Republican election officials trying to explain to you how votes are verified? Against death threats directed at them and their families?
Too complicated. You’re too lazy. Just pick up your Babylon Bee and Daily Stormer and blindly regurgitate whatever they tell you.
Reliable useful idiot. Can’t think for yourself.
Which is why the real conservative movement is going to have move on without you.
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Again, you’re confusing your sides. Evidence is bullshit. Democrats good. Republicans bad. Can you follow that? It’s not that hard.
Statistical irregularities are nonsense. Adding thousands of ballots days after the polls close is fine. Millions of voters may not have confidence in elections, but why should we give a damn? Shut up proles! The truth is what we leftists say it is. Russians hacked the 2016 election. Do we have evidence for that claim? Of course not. Do we need it? Of course not.
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I’m curious about you, ASEF. What do you believe is the “real conservative movement”? I’m not trying to troll you. I’m genuinely interested in what you think.
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You do realize that is a satire site along with The Onion.
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So Obama didn’t spy on Trump?
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“Here, let me quote some tweet by some random nut job and pretend it’s emblematic.”
How many times you going to quote this nobody?
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As often as she accurately frames our leftist positions. Stop running from the truth, man.
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Mexico will pay for the wall > You’ll pay for the wall > You’ll pay Steve Bannon for the wall that didn’t get built > I’ll pardon Steve Bannon for defrauding you.
The Big Orange presidency, from start to finish. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
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Mexico didn’t pay? Are you sure? Dang. Next thing you know they’ll be telling us tariffs are paid by importers not exporters. Wait? China never paid a penny in tariffs?
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The customer pays the tariffs. Meaning you and I.
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The tariffs weren’t meant to raise tariff revenue. It was meant to reestablish manufacturing in the US and encourage investment in India. You may not be aware of this, but the People’s Republic of China is using slave labor.
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Had it been up to me China wouldn’t have been given MFN status without significant human rights concessions.
We trusted an ideology that said that freedom would follow capitalism as naturally as spring follows winter. It didn’t happen. They got rich, but they didn’t get free.
The right doesn’t own that alone but it was the right, Nixon and then Bush 41, who really opened up the doors to China’s rise to economic and military prominence.
Imho, we need to be willing to suffer whatever economic hardships may befall us in making sure that China, and the rest of the world, understands the economic rewards of free societies will not be used to enrich anti-democratic tyrants anywhere and everywhere.
We need a similar plan to confront China to the one George Kennan put together to confront and defeat the USSR.
The sooner the better. And start with that sawed off little evil fuck in Pyongyang. No more photo ops and handshakes.
Terminate. With extreme prejudice.
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I’m not as enthusiastic about going to war with the Chicoms and Norks as you are, Derek. That didn’t go quite as well a I’d like last time.
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I have no enthusiasm about it. It there were good options, we’d have tried them. However, I just don’t think we can have our chain rattled by that guy with China’s tacit endorsement indefinitely. I’m not suggesting military options initially either. I want China to pay a cost for not cleaning up the neighborhood.
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I agree completely Derek. There’s a lot we can do short of a shooting war.
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Holy shit.
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Hope it goes well. Not expecting much out of Washington. I used to bitch about how all the presidents and politicians sounded the same. Now I miss the old “middle of the road” class of politicians on both sides. At least they passed a budget! Biden was one of them then, but he doesn’t sound like that now. We’ll see!
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Our long national nightmare is now officially over!!
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What will we do now?
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“How do we get dumb people to robotically cut and paste our stuff into other people’s websites?”
“Tell them how smart they are for reading us and that everyone else is a sheep.”
“Well, damn, that actually worked.”
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It hasn’t started yet!
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Oh it has. Today!
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You better pray for the health of Joe Biden!!
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Sometimes we get the President we deserve, but I’m praying this time that we got the President we need.
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They want women to wear pearls to honor Kamala. Do they not listen to ZZ Top?
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For some reason, this gem comes to mind today:
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Garth Brooks with hair was not something I was expecting to see today. Wonder if he saw the same team that did Jurgen Klopp’s plugs?
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Probably saw the guy that did Biden’s plugs.
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I will say this for the ex-president. Single moms with small children benefited from his tax plan. The employees we have in that category were able to improve their quality of life in some areas. It was much needed for a few of them.
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Trump is a conundrum that I’ve spent too long analyzing. His greatest achievement was transforming the Republican party into his image. He managed to grasp the anger of the middle class American people and create a tidal wave populist movement. Even though he lost the election, he made gains with his base of white working-class voters and inner-city Black Americans and Latino minorities. Any Republican running for office will still have to get his endorsement or mention his name (at least for the next few years).
If he wasn’t a hyper-narcissist, arrogant, sociopath he could have surrounded himself with people who had the ability and knowhow to actually achieve solutions. His obsession on ultimate loyalty, golfing during a pandemic, and Twitter pissing matches cost him the election. A friend of mine stated the other day, “Trump won the Twitter battle, but lost the war.” If the die-hards that stormed the Capitol would step back and re-group, they would recognize that even though they feel defeated in terms of the election, Trump has proven that someone willing to hear their opinion and listen to their grievances can get elected.
For context, I am not Trump supporter and donated to the Sanders campaign, but I will give credit where it’s due. Trump did not increase our military presence overseas during his term (reducing it), he did not start or expand a war, he commuted the sentences of many low level drug offenders such as Alice Marie Johnson:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-commutes-sentence-grandmother-serving-life-drug-charges-after-kim-n880291
And a friend of mine:
https://fox17.com/news/local/president-trump-pardons-nashville-businessman
He made moves to decentralize the US government (such as moving the BLM agency from DC to Colorado) and he changed the US government’s hiring practice giving more priority to an applicant’s job skills over a college degree (the government being the nation’s largest employer).
Biden being President won’t affect me personally or financially and I’ll keep on trucking like normal. While I consider Trump a Presidential failure, for good or for bad, he set this country on a new path that won’t change anytime soon.
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Fuk Biden and his whore vp and every fool that voted for him. F all you MF’ers.
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Are you Chopdawg’s neighbor? Or just a disillusioned QAnon cultist?
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MAGAts hate the lack of treason in the WH.
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He’s probably pissed Trump didn’t pardon him but did pardon Bannon, who stole his “build the wall” money.
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Misogynistic response.
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Somebody’s got a case of the Monday’s! And it’s Wednesday.
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There are far fewer Americans in Russia. Its the right place for you.
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Tell us how you really feel, monticellodawg!
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Derek, I think Monticello is talking to you.
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You scumbag motherfucker.
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Last night’s memorial service for the 400,000 lost to COVID and this morning’s prayer of remembrance for them were very moving. It was time that those we have lost were honored.
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Biden already has 1,000s of COVID deaths on his hands.
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Debby’s post didn’t mention Trump or blame. She also shared on the blog that she just lost a parent to COVID. But snark away.
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What a douche bag.
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The office is larger than any one person and the role is more important than any ego who has held it or vied to hold it.
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Xin Loi asshole.
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The Proud Boys’ anger toward Mr. Trump has heightened after he did nothing to help those in the group who face legal action for the Capitol violence. On Wednesday, a Proud Boy leader, Joseph Biggs, 37, was arrested in Florida and charged with unlawful entry and corruptly obstructing an official proceeding in the riot. At least four other members of the group also face charges stemming from the attack.
He fucked them and he’d fuck you if he had the chance.
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And fuck himself if you would pay to see it.
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Well, he pardoned Bannon, who stole all that QAnon/Proud Boi money that was supposed to “build the wall”. So Trump screwed them a couple of times there.
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I’ll never forget taking a sharpie Tina hurricane map, or standing at the CDC and telling people that the scientists were amazed by how smart he was and how he like, totally gets it.
Good riddance. Enjoy Otisville.
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Has anyone’s opinion been changed by this enlightening debate?
And yall are the smart ones.
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Not mine.
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Is that the point?
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If its not the point, then why does thou protest so much.
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Protest what?
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“ And, while we’re at it, maybe turning your party over to Generalissimo Walter Mitty, his hideous scheming spawn, and the studio audience from Hee-Haw was not just absolutely aces as a political strategy.‘
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https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1351912319601676288
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https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1351906896320491521
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https://twitter.com/Tengrain/status/1351937936607092736
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https://twitter.com/Tengrain/status/1351901360678195202
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More investigations! Mueller was right on the cusp of discovering the conspiracy. Unless he was in on it!
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Lets open up the libel laws!
Fake news! So bad for our country!
I’m guessing the defendants will be humping Times vs. Sullivan to death in these lawsuits. Hypocrisy IS the game.
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https://twitter.com/skolanach/status/1339440140133883906
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