American Politics

[Spidy]

Repubs, from the RNC to the GOP, from the conservative centre-right to the "normiees", "moderates" and beyond the grave (ie. Lincoln and Reagan, must rolling over in their graves), may I say R.I.P.!!!

It's a purge, it's a takeover, it a gutting, it's a slashing of heads (metaphorically), ...yep it's "MAGA Trump", hollowing out of the "GOP/RNC donut" and filling it with "MAGA/QAnon Cult spineless jelly", as more than 60+ positions at the RNC are slashed and cut, to make way for Trump loyalists.

'Absolute bloodbath' at RNC as new leadership loyal to Trump purges...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ls-purge-staff

It's official RNC/GOP party, the "old guard" numbers, are almost to the point of EXTINCTION! Trump World, MAGAland, QAnon World and the Heritage Foundation "Project 2025" has officially begun in earnest.

Critics warn RNC 'bloodbath' a preview of what Project 2025 would do if Trump is reelected
https://www.commondreams.org/news/pr...ral-government

• Check out this quote and famous last words from Moscow Mitch (June 1st, 2016):
  

  "...Donald Trump is not going to change what I think, he's not gonna change the platform of the Republican Party, the views of the Repub party...I think we're much more likely to change him" (...kkkk!)
  
  "Because if he is president, he's much more likely to have to deal within, sort of like the center of right world, which is where most of us [Repubs] are..."

Fear not you stalwart "Never Trumpers" and RVAT voters, the good news is, that the Dems may yet get the House back (and hopefully more seats in the Senate), to do what you cowardly bunch didn't do when you had the power to do it.

If the remaining Repubs in congress, are as smart (or NOT as cowardly) as they claim, they'll not let the same think happen in the 2024 US Presidential Election, nor in the Ukraine (and beyond), with Russia.

Heed this gutting of the RNC and "blood bath" as a warning, to all ye remaining "good conservative" Repubs. The writing is on the wall!!!

Question and Point of Logic: With the "RNC blood bath" now in full swing, does this mean the party once known as the "Ruby Red Party", SHOULD BE now known as the "Blood(y) Red Party?" (...kkkk!)

[EihTooms]

In the article, I have to wonder, is Tik Tok (BtyeDance), really though, a substantially much bigger threat to US national security, anymore so than Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Samsung, Google or Microsoft, is with our data? Facebook/Instagram, is still reeling from the online Child Bullying and Exploitation hearings and so far, it's just a slap on the wrist and a sorry ass apology.

Perhaps the country should be worried about a would be corrupt president, who can easily be bought, sold and bribed, and how that effects US national security, wayyyy more than some App.

Point and case, on Aug 6th, 2020, Trump signed an executive order to ban Tik Tok unilaterally, then declaring it to be "bad", "evil", "dangerous" and tried to force the company to be sold. But eventually, it was struck down by the courts. Fast forward to today (Mar 8, 2024) and queue the corrupt, grifting Trump's Tik Tok (and Bud-light) "flip-flop", 180 about turn is complete and all it took was a nice donation. Even winger Steve Bannon, looked shocked and thinks "Trump has been bought" --here:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ht/ar-BB1jE1gh

I am not so impressed by Biden and his Dems targeting tik tok. After all, the Repub Pink Tinkle House is / was also ready to shut it down. And we all know the overriding principle of all major legislation is the worth of it, whatever it is, is diminished by every single Repub vote it garners; The most positive results for America being to pass legislation without a single Repub vote or at least without a single Repub vote required to pass it while the most negative results legislation being anything passed with only Repub votes. Always.

In that report, this was the part I cared most about:

This comes after the U.S. has been ramping up pressure on Chinese companies in recent years, particularly in the semiconductor, EV and biotech sectors.

But, definitely, Trump badly, badly, badly needs money. Turns out that claim of him being worth billions has been utter bullshit. As was his claim to have "substantially more cash on hand than $400 billion and increasing every month. " LOL. And it could be his dumb sucker Repub hillbilly donations are drying up.

Which means he is more ripe than ever for being "compromised" by anyone from any country for any reason who simply hands him a check in exchange for whatever National Security Classified documents and info he has stolen and willfully retained and hidden from the authorities requesting him to return them to their rightful owners.

And that also goes for whatever Classified info America-hating Repubs have foolishly delivered into his claws by their Repub Primary Votes this year.

Yeah, it isn't just Trump's recent hilarious Flip-Flops on Bud Light and Tik Tok within hours of those entities' sources cutting him a check for any silly amount he was begging for. Xi, Putin, Kim, the Taliban, Hamas, Iran, you name it, will all be lining up (again) to cut checks for Trump as soon as he starts getting access to Classified information.

This time Trump is so desperate I would not be surprised if he handed over every tid bit of the info he gets to anyone who can clear a check for, oh, $5,000 or so. Loser beggars like him can't afford to hold out for anything but low rent chump change. And every potential buyer out there knows it.

[Spidy]

Add this to Trump's 37+ times he went limp dick on Russia, trying not only to reverse the imposition of sanctions against Russia for invading Georgia and Crimea and its unprecedented election interference to help Trump win but to actually reward Russia for it and you can see as clear as day why Russia and "Make sure I win" China loves Trump and dreads the idea of Four More Years of Biden.

'The decoupling's really in full force': expert warns of more USA Curbs on China.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/-us-...ndroidappshare

In the article, I have to wonder, is Tik Tok (BtyeDance), really though, a substantially much bigger threat to US national security, anymore so than Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Samsung, Google or Microsoft, is with our data? Facebook/Instagram, is still reeling from the online Child Bullying and Exploitation hearings and so far, it's just a slap on the wrist and a sorry ass apology.

Perhaps the country should be worried about a would be corrupt president, who can easily be bought, sold and bribed, and how that effects US national security, wayyyy more than some App.

Point and case, on Aug 6th, 2020, Trump signed an executive order to ban Tik Tok unilaterally, then declaring it to be "bad", "evil", "dangerous" and tried to force the company to be sold. But eventually, it was struck down by the courts. Fast forward to today (Mar 8, 2024) and queue the corrupt, grifting Trump's Tik Tok (and Bud-light) "flip-flop", 180 about turn is complete and all it took was a nice donation. Even winger Steve Bannon, looked shocked and thinks "Trump has been bought" --here:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ht/ar-BB1jE1gh

Now that his campaign received a rather large donation and/or campaign support, by one Jeff Yass (a billionaire, whose investment company owns 15% of ByteDance), Trump was singing a new and
different tune and w/r to banning Tik Tok.

Why Trump Flipped on TikTok
https://time.com/6900348/tiktok-ban-...rump-congress/

Sure ban it from ALL levels of gov't, but of the rest of the 150 million US Tik Tok users, are good entrepreneurs, that actually earn a decent living on Tik Tok. So I'm not sure this is a clear cut win for Dems. Think class action lawsuits for lost of wages/earnings and even a lost of younger voters, could spell trouble for Dems.

Yikes! Am I, in danger of siding with Trump w/r to Tik Tok (albeit for different reasons)? Someone wanna talk me down off this ledge? (...kkkk!)

[Spidy]

Spidy, my bad for not checking the record of your posts before.

The greatest contribution to this hookers forum was your post about 'whitezilla' (wtf?

What now?...NO DEBATE? Or follow up arguments to any questions, that were put forth to you? Now all you want to do is, discuss moi?

But wait a minute, wasn't it you that started your so called "debate", herein with your "small mind" quote from dear ol' Eleanor Roosevelt (R.I.P.)?

Here, let me refresh your memory:

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Oh Shit! It seems your recent post, has you stepping right into your own hypocritical "small minded bullshit"! Hmmm...very messy and small minded indeed! But good luck with that!

Right now, I think this quote/idiom, (although perhaps a bit morbid), is most befitting of the moment (me thinks)!

"If you give a man enough rope, he's sure to hang himself." --Unknown [Swinger]

BTW, poor ol' dear Eleanor, she must be just literally, rolling over in her grave! (...kkkk!)

[Spidy]

That's Common. The posters that pepper off a long list of questions are the ones that desperately want to debate, but can't.

I have to say, when you're right, you're right! And you're soooo RIGHT!

It does bears repeating! That when guys come here, to flex their "debating muscle(s)" and CANNOT, it's nothing new and as you've aptly said...it's VERY COMMON!. Must have seen it a several hundred times!

But of course, there are those that then (often angrily and in frustration), naturally turn and grab the "lowest hanging fruit", that they can find and post it, as some form of "argument" or "counterpoint" to their so called idea of "debating". (NOTE: Often taking things out of context, to suit their boorish narrative)

This sophomoric attempt to flex whatever remaining shred of a so called rebuttal, they can muster, is soooo very reminiscent of the recent Repubs SOTU Rebuttal, that was widely panned,
mocked, ridiculed, SNL'd and even punk'd, clowned, (to some seen as) "creepy" and scorned as "cringeworthy" by her own fellow Republican colleagues. An historical low and one of the worst rebuttals in recent history.

Katie Britt State of the Union Rebuttal Torched by Republicans
https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...ns-1234983528/

"Parody-Level Terrible": Even Republicans Are Panning Katie Britt's...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/kati...union-rebuttal

Perhaps, they'd ALL do better, if they did a "tag-team-up" with ChatGPT AI, to write their nonsensical rebuttals? But then again, they'd probably fuck that up too! (...kkkk!)

[EihTooms]

Add this to Trump's 37+ times he went limp dick on Russia, trying not only to reverse the imposition of sanctions against Russia for invading Georgia and Crimea and its unprecedented election interference to help Trump win but to actually reward Russia for it and you can see as clear as day why Russia and "Make sure I win" China loves Trump and dreads the idea of Four More Years of Biden.

'The decoupling's really in full force': expert warns of more USA Curbs on China.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/-us-...ndroidappshare

In October 2022, the U.S. introduced rules aimed at blocking Chinas access to high-tech semiconductor chips and chip-manufacturing equipment amid concerns that China could use them for military purposes.

A year later, the U.S. said it was going to introduce more restrictions to close gaps that arose after 2022′s restrictions on AI chip exports went into effect.

"If it (U.S.) persistently monopolizes the high end of the value chain, and keeps China at the low end, where is fairness and competition?" Wang said.

[EihTooms]

Classic Repubs will say anything, do anything, lie, cheat and steal to make cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other now revered positive legislative accomplishments for the American people that Dems proposed, fought for and passed (but which Repubs never have) in order to shift American taxpayer dollars from funding those magnificent quality of life for everyone achievements into the pockets of their favorite political donor class wealthiest, top income margins and corporate CEOs.

Repubs always have and always will.

There you go again: Lessons from previous US debates

https://www.ft.com/content/15e746b6-...0-8ec15fb462f4

Reagans other famous one-liner from the debate was, There you go again, which he said in response to Mr Carters accusation that Reagan wanted to eliminate Medicare. After that, There you go again became Reagans signature rejoinder to his critics.

Reagan Budget Means Drastic Cuts In Medicare and Medicaid Programs.
Fifth of Nation Is Affected Reagan Budget Means Drastic Surgery for Medicare, Medicai.
Aug. 20, 1981

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-feb27dc78f9c/

Republican lawmakers push back after Biden says GOP wants to cut Social Security, Medicare: 'Dishonest move'

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics...urity-medicare

Trump says he's willing to cut entitlements to shrink the $23 trillion national debt.
March 12, 2020

https://markets.businessinsider.com/...0-3-1028972301

Trump on Social Security, Medicare cuts: There is a lot you can do.
March 11, 2024

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...ot-you-can-do/

[Questner]

Spidy, my bad for not checking the record of your posts before.

The greatest contribution to this hookers forum was your post about 'whitezilla' (wtf?

[Spidy]

https://www.heritage.org/press/overs...sed-hur-report

The President's "aliases include Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters and JRB Ware" Is it?

https://spectator.org/grumpy-old-man...-of-the-union/ No comments here.

https://www.theamericanconservative....ration-of-war/

I would say that the President has deep personal conflict of interest with respect to Ukraine and this conflict of interest costs everyone dearly.

Uhh?

To what or to whom does any of this part of your post address?

Is it answering to past questions, I asked of you? Or someone else? Or just new business you're wanting to address?

Well, I perceive bold text and capitalization both as shouting which is rude and patronizing to a reader, as if any reader can't follow or comprehend the whole text of the article.

Therein lies the artistry of the post. Granted, a writer's stylistic queues, my not suit everyone, but do that which makes you an individual. Or NOT!

Listen, there are many things ISGers, can point to that are REALLY and truly rude, least of which is the odd word or two, that is bolded, CAPITALIZED, italicized, or underlined. for effect, when writing.

Point and case, in your recent post for instance, you didn't include my quote (or anyone else's) in your post, to whom your criticisms, explanations, or comments are directed toward. This can also be seen as rude. Not to mention very confusing to readers.

Also leaves the reader confused as to whom or to what some of the other comments, links and articles, in your post are addressing. Or perhaps just lazy posting, where it's left up to the reader to figure these things out for themselves?

Personally, I tend to focus on the actual WORDS that are being said, by the writer of the post. Consider the rest as "a poetic license" or colorful way, to draw the reader in, as writers have done before me, for eons.

That's Common. The posters that pepper off a long list of questions are the ones that desperately want to debate, but can't.

Yes, very common indeed! My fav. the post with ONLY a single link to some video/article "debate" counter argument.

[Spidy]

No doubt about it; after Trump's economic and national security policies, stewardship and lies converted a likely easily manageable endemic confined to one region in China into the historic deadly, worldwide economy Crashing, Supply-Chain collapsing, millions upon millions of jobs-destroying, Hyper Inflation-triggering Pandemic it became, Joe Biden's Great Dem Recovery has produced the Strongest Economy in the World.

According to Ultra Winger Fux News Economic Expert, Stephen Moore, in agreement with Joe Biden himself:

Stephen Moore Agrees With Biden, US Economy Best In The World
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/03/s...den-us-economy

"...The facts, figures, and numbers are so strong that even these idiots can't deny that the US economy is roaring under President Biden."

Great Post! The more great economic news to report, the less Repubs will have to campaign on.

Let me be so bold, as to also extend those undeniable, factual and truthful reporting, w/r to yet another glowing report on the US economy under President Joe Biden, to our Russian "useful idiots" and so called Repub ISG "economists", and say that the US economy is not just okay, tepid, or mah...it is indeed R.O.A.R.I.N.G.!!!

• Not to add more insult to injury, but more great news. The Feb 2024, US job numbers are better than expected, coming in with 275K added: https://www.cnn.com/business/live-ne...-24/index.html

...on FOXY Muse or any other right-wing propaganda outlet....but I would hold my breath!

Correction: Should have read: "...but I wouldn't hold my breath!"

[Spidy]

Shocker. It turns out that new Ruby Red MAGA Repub Senator from Ruby Red Repub Alabama who gave that weepy, whiny, GOP response to Dem Joe Biden's terrific SOTU Address is a flat out LIAR.

Shocking, I know.

That story she told in detail about some young girl being repeatedly gang raped in the USA by drug runners let in by evil Joe Biden that she has repeatedly told and told again with relish in her internationally televised GOP response? Yeah, it happened in Mevico while Ruby Red Repub GW Bush was so-called president.

Joe Biden was not the President at that time. He wasn't even Vice President at that time.

Katie Britt Used Decades-Old Example of Rapes in Mexico as Republican Attack on Biden Border Policy.

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/artic...order-policies

I am sure Fux News will insist she appear on one of their top-rated prime time lie-fests to apologize to the World, America and specifically Joe Biden for repeating that favorite Ruby Red MAGA Lie in her GOP response the other night. Lolol.

"Shocker", that more Repubs are being disingenuous and misrepresenting the truth, on such big issues like border security...yeah don't say! (...kkkk!)

Was Trump supporter Katie Britt caught in whopping lie about graphic sex trafficking story?
See inset video by journalist, Jonathan M. Katz, who broke the story.
https://www.nj.com/news/2024/03/was-...ing-story.html

Once again, even with something as important as a SOTU Rebuttal, Repubs are being disingenuous, insincere and spreading misinformation, to the American people, knowing full well, "...a lie travels half-way around the world, before the truth can get it boots on!"

We'll see about any forthcoming retraction, on FOXY Muse or any other right-wing propaganda outlet....but I would hold my breath!

[Spidy]

You douches blather on about rule of law. How about shoplifting in San Francisco? That is fine with you douches. How about a rich Indian family who flies into Mexicali, pays the drug cartels thousands, crosses the border illegally and then calls 911 for an emergency to come pick them up? Oh yeah, fuck that rule of law. Fuck the taxpayers who are paying for 911 services. We are looking at potential future Democratic voters. That and only that as we have seen is more important than any so called law.

Well you just can't please everyone! Look, is SF no longer a "blue" city?

San Francisco 'can no longer be called progressive city...
https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-fr...-measures-pass

As for SF, I'd thought you'd be happy (ie. you know, like Trump's two fisted, hand pumping from side-to-side, jerking-off two dicks simultaneously happy...kkkk!), with the "anti-woke" laws that just passed, it seems to me SF, is addressing and tackling some of it's problems and not running away from them, because Trump tells them "...when and how high to jump".

I don't know WTF you are talking about with some border bill. There were executive orders in place that had this mess under control and as I showed, Biden rescinded them like on day one of his presidency.

Yes the border bill, the one with bipartisan support in the Senate (when I said it passed, I misspoke). The same one that had everything Repubs, wanted for US Border Security. The very same one,
Biden shamed Repubs with, in his brilliant SOTU speech. The very same one, Trump ordered the House Repubs to put the kibosh on, where it was basically DOA in the House!

Donald Trump brags about his efforts to scuttle bipartisan border deal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-border-biden/

Yes, that border bill, the one Trump put the kibosh on!

Yes, the same border, Repub Sen. Katie Britt, was being disingenuous about and malodorously implied, her sex-trafficking sob story happened during Biden's term.

Was Trump supporter Katie Britt caught in whopping lie about graphic sex trafficking story?
See inset video by journalist, Jonathan M. Katz
https://www.nj.com/news/2024/03/was-...ing-story.html

As for the rest of your incoherent and blabbering rant, if you choose to willfully overlook and ignore the rather large elephant in the room, that is Trump, well that's on you.

You Repubs, may cowardly turn a blind-eye and are often blinded to Trumps malignant, crazy, destructive, malicious and pernicious behavior and thuggin' influence, the rest of us see the wanna be fascist dictator, for what he truly represents, is nothing short of insidious.

[Paulie97]

Uhh?

Have you NEVER before seen newsprint, articles, magazines, poetry and/or books, that have words or sentences in bold or CAPITALIZATION? Or italics? Or when words are underlined?

It is a very common thing writers, penmen, poets, wordsmiths columnists and authors will do for any number of emphatic stylistic reasons.

Lot of good questions here, with a wide range of topics, I would love to debate. But I'm afraid I didn't catch the video and what it meant in relation, w/r to each your questions.

Could you explain each of your points of view w/r to the questions your asking? Yes, please state your cases!

BTW, the simple answer to all of your questions could easily be "YES", "YES", "Very", "Depends", "Depends", "Probably", but that's not exactly a debate...now is it?

The posters that pepper off a long list of questions are the ones that desperately want to debate, but can't.

[Questner]

Well, I perceive bold text and capitalization both as shouting which is rude and patronizing to a reader, as if any reader can't follow or comprehend the whole text of the article.

https://www.heritage.org/press/overs...sed-hur-report

The President's "aliases include Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters and JRB Ware" Is it?

https://spectator.org/grumpy-old-man...-of-the-union/ No comments here.

https://www.theamericanconservative....ration-of-war/

I would say that the President has deep personal conflict of interest with respect to Ukraine and this conflict of interest costs everyone dearly.

[EihTooms]

There are other opinions on the 'fiery' speech:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...rist-sees-sig/

Where's Elder Justice Initiative?

LOL. I'm guessing most of the article titles that nobody heard of and had absolutely nothing to do with the purpose of Trump's Fed Appointee Powell's hearing rattled off by numbskull Repub Senator Kennedy in your previous post link originated at The Washington Times or similar too, right?

So is our conclusion supposed to be that even a drugged up, senile, decrepit, mentally incapacitated old Dem is more lucid, better informed, more truthful, more competent, capable, coherent and certainly more effective in producing positive results for America than any Repub potus in the past 100 years or more and especially way, way more than the most popular and beloved (among Repubs) Repub candidate opposing him today?

Well, if just a few bucks worth of that miracle drug Biden supposedly was given also contributed to his producing one of the greatest and strongest American economies in history while $2+ Trillion American tax dollars upfront and an estimated $1. 5 Trillion added to the deficit every 10 years for Trump's one and only economic "stimulus" legislation that produced at least a million fewer jobs with it than without it and, at that, still only managed to place his 3 "best" years prior to Trump's Pandemic at #8 out of the 12 most recent presidents' economies, I say go ahead and mix those tablets into Joe's ice cream scoops every now and then.