American Politics

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2626690]If you invested in the Keystone pipeline, voting for Trump was stupid.

If you do not want to be vaxxed, voting for Trump was stupid.

If your business has been hurt by any of Biden's other executive orders (airlines, health care), voting for Trump was stupid.

If you have relatives in Afghanistan, voting for Trump was stupid.

Here is what you are trying to say: Voting for Trump hurts my paycheck, and anyone who messes with my paycheck is stupid.

You do not even care to understand the other's side POV.[/QUOTE]Mainstream Media hope they can help enough Dems along with all those stable economic genius Repubs and Trumpsters forget all about those quite recent real world Trump-Repub economic decision results to get that Red Wave they so dearly desire.

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!

[B]The Return of the Breadline.
In the 1930s, Americans lined up on sidewalks for food. Today, theyre lining up on the roads.[/B]
April 6, 2020
[URL]https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the-return-of-the-breadline/[/URL]
[quote]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.[/quote]

[B]Stocks rise on signs of consumer strength despite rising prices, Home Depot leads Dow higher[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[quote]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.[/quote]
Looks like newly employed and re-employed Americans with better and higher paying jobs are buying a shitload of things despite the temporary higher prices.

Because now they can.

Thanks, Brandon!

Regarding the big lie, that the election was stolen.

[URL]https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/11/16/chris-christie-trump-regret-dana-bash-vpx.cnn[/URL]

As 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.

[URL]https://youtu.be/UuGkvk3jYnk?t=254[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2627086][B]Stocks rise on signs of consumer strength despite rising prices, Home Depot leads Dow higher[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

Looks like newly employed and re-employed Americans with better and higher paying jobs are buying a shitload of things despite the temporary higher prices.

Because now they can.

Thanks, Brandon![/QUOTE][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/politics/congress-confirmation-house-senate/2021/11/16/id/1044972/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Paulie97;2627067]Loaded questions loaded with straw men, a favorite fallacious angle of Elvis. He'd quickly be laughed off a debate stage in a formal setting, but it's enough to draw some attention in a hooker forum.[/QUOTE]What is a straw man question? Asking if Republican votes should count? LOL. No, I really wanted to know, and the people who indicated they should not count are the 100% [blue][Deleted by Admin][/blue]. The thing about Xpartan and you are much like it is rare to find a 4 leaf clover, you two break out of the 100% [blue][Deleted by Admin][/blue]world and actually do not support a one party dictatorship, and I really did not know what to say. Republican votes should count? Carter was not a great president? So in honor of Ivory Soap, I am going to call you two the 99.4% [blue][Deleted by Admin][/blue].

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: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zNr8Pf1QkY[/URL].

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.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2627076]Mainstream Media hope they can help enough Dems along with all those stable economic genius Repubs and Trumpsters forget all about those quite recent real world Trump-Repub economic decision results to get that Red Wave they so dearly desire.

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!

[B]The Return of the Breadline.
In the 1930s, Americans lined up on sidewalks for food. Today, theyre lining up on the roads.[/B]
April 6, 2020
[URL]https://prospect.org/coronavirus/the-return-of-the-breadline/[/URL][/QUOTE]When the FBI wasn't an arm of silicon valley and the CCP.

[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/opinion/steele-dossier-fbi-trump.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2626721]To recap the real results in pictures as well as words...[/QUOTE]Nice to see even your reference to let's go Brandon. You just helped verify the slogan.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2627209]the Big Lie[/QUOTE]I see they are finally admitting the big lie was indeed a lie. The Washington Post issued a retraction.

[URL]https://youtu.be/dFVxN-GmaO8?t=173[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2627086][B]Stocks rise on signs of consumer strength despite rising prices, Home Depot leads Dow higher[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/15/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

Looks like newly employed and re-employed Americans with better and higher paying jobs are buying a shitload of things despite the temporary higher prices.

Because now they can.

Thanks, Brandon![/QUOTE][URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/opinion/democrats-midterms-biden.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2627209]What is a straw man question? Asking if Republican votes should count? LOL. No, I really wanted to know, and the people who indicated they should not count are the 100%. The thing about Xpartan and you are much like it is rare to find a 4 leaf clover, you two break out of the 100% world and actually do not support a one party dictatorship, and I really did not know what to say. Republican votes should count? Carter was not a great president? So in honor of Ivory Soap, I am going to call you two the 99.4% .[/QUOTE]I really have no idea what you just said and this is a common trait with you. Anything that's as rare as finding a 4-leaf clover can't be 99.4%. If we "break out" so much we would be like 0. 06% or are you a little rusty with your calculus?

And what of your "ivory soap" metaphor? Did you mean ivory tower (which is also dumb, but at least decipherable)?

You should lay off the sauce until you learn how to make a coherent argument. Of course, since making a coherent argument is not your goal to begin with, you're exactly where you want to be.

[QUOTE]Of the many types of logical fallacies, the straw man fallacy is particularly common in political debates and in discussions over controversial topics. The basic structure of the argument consists of Person A making a claim, Person B creating a distorted version of the claim (the straw man), and then Person B attacking this distorted version in order to refute Person As original assertion.[/QUOTE]Hope it helps. Although I suspect, it doesn't.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2627209] SNIP

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: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zNr8Pf1QkY[/URL].

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.[/QUOTE]Of course Youtube hasn't taken down the DeNiro video. If you knew anything about the Constitution, what he said is protected by the 1st Amendment. Given, of course, that RethugliKKKan retards (your words) and the former guy would rather that the pesky Constitution didn't exist (except for the 2nd Amendment), that's not surprising.

BTW, the fact that you call Democrats douches is crude, unimaginative, and worst of all completely inappropriate. But since you're a douche, it is completely understandable.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2627209]What is a straw man question? Asking if Republican votes should count? LOL.
...
Carter was not a great president?
...[/QUOTE]Carter was merely a better than average Dem president but produced MILES better results on average annual USA Jobs Creation than any Repub president in history and, unlike most Repubs, did not skyrocket the debt and deficit while Crashing the economy into a typical Great Repub Recession/Depression. So, absolutely, compared with Repubs, Carter was a great president.

If he had been a Repub instead of a Dem he would be considered indisputably a "GREAT Repub President", maybe "The Greatest Repub President Ever!" But as a Dem he was mostly better than average.

Lol. I love pointing out Carter's far superior results vs every Repub in defiance of what typically pro Repub Mainstream Media has repeated in total contradiction of the actual data and record of results.

I mean, it's no fun pointing out how much better the FDR, JFK/LBJ, Clinton, Obama and now Biden results were than any Repub's results. By far. That's just too obvious and inarguable.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2627468][URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/opinion/democrats-midterms-biden.html[/URL][/QUOTE]Mucho mas? Shouldn't there be at least "some" in the public school system before you demand "more"?

Rebubs don't need there to be "any" actual issue to really exist in order to rile up their sucker base to vote against it in terror. LOL. So there is no need to waste your wishes by wishing for something unnecessary.

Better for you to wish the next Repub president doesn't Crash the USA economy into another Great Repub Recession/Depression and isn't puzzled over whether or not to defund the CDC and pull out all of its Pandemic Prevention and Response monitors from those Chinese labs against all expert advice not to do something so dangerous and stupid, lie about the next potential virus Pandemic for personal image reasons and thereby mass murder 750,000+ Americans, wipe out tens of millions more USA jobs and destroy international travel for years afterwards.

I mean, as long as you're wishing for something impossible.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2627413]I see they are finally admitting the big lie was indeed a lie. The Washington Post issued a retraction.

[URL]https://youtu.be/dFVxN-GmaO8?t=173[/URL][/QUOTE]So that's the imbecile who suckers you into making grand pronouncements online about important issues that turn out to be something like 500% Incorrect?

Lol. Thanks for revealing the solution to that mystery.