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11-17-21 09:45 #5362
Posts: 2579Do you mean
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/o...fbi-trump.html
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11-17-21 04:28 #5361
Posts: 3215Originally Posted by Paulie97 [View Original Post]
The problem with you is you assume there are two sides, and you are on the right one when you could not be more wrong. Matt Taibbi puts it better than I ever could:
Compared with how often you heard pundits rage about the "insurrection," how regularly did you hear that billionaire wealth has risen 70% or $2.1 trillion since the pandemic began? The economic news at the top hasn't just been good, it's been record-setting good, during a time of severe cultural crisis.
Twenty or thirty years ago, the Big Lie was usually a patriotic fairy tale designed to cast America in a glow of beneficence. Nurtured in think-tanks, stumped by politicians, and amplified by Hollywood producers and media talking heads, these whoppers were everywhere: America would have won in Vietnam if not for the media, poverty didn't exist (or at least, wasn't shown on television), only the Soviets cuddled with dictators or toppled legitimate governments, etc. The concept wasn't hard to understand: leaders were promoting unifying myths to keep the population satiated, dumb, and focused on their primary roles as workers and shoppers.
All sense of noblesse oblige is gone. The logic of our kleptocratic economy has gone beyond even the "Greed is Good" mantra of the fictional Gordon Gekko, who preached that pure self-interest would make America more efficient, better-run, less corrupt. Even on Wall Street, nobody believes that anymore. America is a sinking ship, and its CEO class is trying to salvage the wreck in advance, extracting every last dime before Battlefield Earth breaks out.
It's only in this context that these endless cycles of hyper-divisive propaganda make sense. It's time to start wondering if maybe it's not a coincidence that politicians and pundits alike are pushing us closer and closer to actual civil war at exactly the moment when corporate wealth extraction is reaching its highest-ever levels of efficiency. Keeping the volk at each other's throats instead of pitchforking the aristocrats is an old game, one that's now gone digital and works better than ever. That might be worth remembering after the coming verdict, and ahead of whatever other hyper-publicized panic comes down the pipeline next.
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The difference between the Republican retard and Democratic douche is the retard does not show his stupidity publicly while you guys are open about it, fighting to be queen of the douches with your hyperpartisan nonsense. I am not trying to win an argument. I really just wish you all would shut up with all your hyperpartisan bullshit on a hooker board, but it is so inbred in you all that it is normal.
As an example, if you are a douche, this is the greatest speech ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zNr8Pf1QkY.
To the rest of us, it is crude, unimaginative, and worst of all completely inappropriate given the setting but then what I can say? I am no douche.
And of course, Youtube has not taken it down.
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11-17-21 03:13 #5360
Posts: 2579You misspelled Harris
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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11-17-21 02:26 #5359
Posts: 3497As far as the topic of the Jan 6 mostly peaceful protest at the capitol, here's a fine black gentleman who puts things into perspective. This guy is obviously a fine American. He should run for public office.
https://youtu.be/UuGkvk3jYnk?t=254
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11-17-21 00:44 #5358
Posts: 1680Chris Christie Speaks
Regarding the big lie, that the election was stolen.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...a-bash-vpx.cnn
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11-16-21 21:54 #5357
Posts: 5436Strong Retail Sales Report
Stocks rise on signs of consumer strength despite rising prices, Home Depot leads Dow higher
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/stoc...ndroidappshare
U.S. stocks gained on Tuesday after a strong October retail sales report and better-than-expected third-quarter results from Home Depot and Walmart signaled the U.S. consumer is still ramping up spending even in the face of rising prices.
Because now they can.
Thanks, Brandon!
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11-16-21 21:15 #5356
Posts: 5436Yeah! Remember the good old days under Trump when food was FREE?
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
Damn that Brandon for recovering us from the Great Trump-Repub Recession/Depression so well and creating better and higher paying USA jobs so historically fast that we have to pay more for chicken dinners for a while!
And, by god and our lord and savior Trump, it was cheaper to drive to the Trump-Repub breadlines back then!
The Return of the Breadline.
In the 1930s, Americans lined up on sidewalks for food. Today, theyre lining up on the roads.
April 6, 2020
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the...the-breadline/
A police officer directs a double line of cars, stretching over a mile at times, in a queue waiting to pick up food outside the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, April 6, 2020.
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11-16-21 20:42 #5355
Posts: 1680Lolol
Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
https://fallacyinlogic.com/loaded-question-fallacy/
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman
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11-16-21 18:20 #5354
Posts: 1604Conservatives
See the attached photo. It is definitely 100% on the money.
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11-16-21 17:18 #5353
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
Sucker criminals were falling for targeting mailings offering "mystery prizes" to their last know address.
The suckers came running and got snatched up.
Good to get shit off the streets.
Dumb Shit.
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11-16-21 15:41 #5352
Posts: 1604The other side's POV?
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
You are a bunch of whiney clowns who long for the days when: women couldn't vote; blacks had to pay a poll tax to vote; schools were segregated (at least in the South); there were separate washrooms, dining rooms, drinking fountains, etc. For blacks (at least in the South); LBGTQ folks were in the closet and scared for their lives; most immigrants were white and European; the overwhelming majority of the USA was white and Protestant; and you could lynch blacks without consequence. That's the USA that RethugliKKKans want. That's the USA that you're fighting for.
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11-16-21 05:07 #5351
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]
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11-16-21 04:22 #5350
Posts: 1949Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
You might not know that, but what you do has a definition in psychology. It's called a "red herring," look it up.
1. No, Elvis, I don't think Trump was a Russian spy. He's too unhinged and undisciplined and narcissistic and, to be frank, dumb to be a spy. I do believe he was being groomed to be simply an agent of influence, but then, all of a sudden, there was a real shot at the White House.
2. Impeached? No. He deserves to be criminally prosecuted.
3. Why yes! He absolutely did put Russia's interests before America's.
4. Why yes! Of course, you fellas were duped. You still are.
5. No, you aren't Russian spies from what I know. You were duped (see #4).
6 and 7. No, I don't want any votes to be thrown out. For better or worse, every vote should count in a democracy.
Anything else I can help you with?
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11-16-21 04:01 #5349
Posts: 5436Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
But Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and the Dems are way too busy repairing the horrific, near fatal damage done to the country on all fronts by Trump and his fellow Repubs to devote the time required to deal with all that.
Maybe they can get to it after they pass Biden's 3rd or 4th historic economic recovery, expansion and infrastructure legislation well before Trump stopped hosting golf excursions at his failing resorts and holding self-glorifying MAGA rallies long enough to sign and pass his one and only significant (godawful, counterproductive waste of $2.5+ Trillion) economic "stimulus" legislation at this same stage of his spectacularly failed so-called presidency.
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11-16-21 02:15 #5348
Posts: 428Democrats are getting smarter. Defunding police and open borders are not in line with any sane American.
"A Texas Democrat switched his affiliation to the Republican Party over the party's left-leaning embrace of defunding the police policies and "chaos" on the southern border.
State Rep. Ryan Guillen announced in a Monday press conference that he would seek reelection to his south Texas seat as a Republican, saying the Democratic Party's far-left values are no longer in line with his party.