American Politics

[Tiny 12]

(...kkkk!) Nice admission of guilt!

Yeah, that's right, your insertion of inappropriate words (against ISG guidelines), I DID NOT WRITE, was the impetus and lead to admin stepping in to do a blanket delete.

The truth at last! Your welcome!

Selective quoting makes sense when you're trying to address a specific point or avoid violating forum rules. It's not a good thing to do to try to mislead. Here's the post you were replying to in its entirety.

LOL. The Administrator removed them so you can't find them.

I suggested to the Administrator that he or she delete the post where I inserted my comment in parentheses into your quote, as you requested. But not for the reason you cited. Rather the topic of conversation violated or was on the edge of violating the forum rule prohibiting discussion of sex with m*****. You may wish to familiarize yourself with that, as you seem intent on returning to the topic.

http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/...eid=ForumRules

Both of our posts were deleted, not just mine.

PVMonger and I also had a couple of posts deleted, for reasons I don't remember. Also a comment I made in a Bangkok report years ago about the size of my penis was deleted because I made a reference which I thought was very complementary to a certain group of people. The administrator however apparently didn't agree.

Those are the only instances I remember of my posts being deleted or modified.

[Tiny 12]

You're just scared your cushy worker benefits will go to the military if Trump forces you Frenchies to contribute more to NATO.

I didn't vote for Trump, or Harris. But there are two good things about the Trump victory.

1. The senseless war in Ukraine is more likely to come to an end. Neoconservatives will no longer have absolute control over foreign policy and defense.

2. The USA is less likely to become like France. Bill Clinton in his 2nd term was a good president. Obama went to the left of Clinton, and Biden to the left of Obama. And Kamala Harris is to the left of Biden. Say Kamala had been elected president. And Democrats had won the House and the Senate, after having ejected reasonable members of their caucus like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. And say they stayed in power for 20 years. We'd be in the same shape as France. Maybe 25% worse off than we could be otherwise in terms of per capita income. And in danger of becoming the next Greece. Harris may not be as crazy as Francois Hollande, but her preferred policies are more likely to bring economic stagnation to America than some other French leaders.

[Tiny 12]

The Trump / Repub 'squeaker' of a win just got squeakier, taking the Repub expertise at rigging elections to new heights:

GOP Gerrymandering in NC Tipped the Scales of Congress, Outgoing Lawmaker Says.
The MAGA Republicans in Raleigh didnt care about reflecting the will of the people, Rep. Wiley Nickel wrote.

https://truthout.org/articles/gop-ge...lawmaker-says/

In an op-ed for the Raleigh News & Observer, Nickel noted that the result of the presidential election in North Carolina and the results of other races in the state showed close to a 50-50 split, representative of the purple status North Carolina is known for. However, because of Republican gerrymandering last year, the congressional delegation leaned Republican, with a 10-4 split.

That six-seat difference is wider than the five-seat advantage that Republicans have over Democrats in the House of Representatives. Had the delegation had an even 7-7 split (as it has under fairer maps), control of the House of Representatives would have been granted to Democrats, not Republicans, as that chamber of Congress is set to have 220 seats for the GOP and 215 seats for Democrats.
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North Carolina Republicans were able to redraw the maps in their favor after winning control of the state legislature in 2020. But the maps they drew were determined to be partisan and racially discriminatory gerrymanders by the state Supreme Court, and they were ordered to redraw them. Republicans sued over that decision to the federal Supreme Court.

Eventually, that court, too, ruled against them, but the delay allowed for statewide elections to shift the balance of the state Supreme Court to conservative control. Republicans relitigated their maps to that changed court, which ruled in their favor, allowing the maps to be drawn to their advantage.

This "what if" line of reasoning appeals to you and some MAGA Repubicans. "What if" 100% of Muslims had voted for Harris? "What if" Republicans had just gotten 11,284 more votes in Georgia, 21,347 more votes in Wisconsin, and so on?

I saw the sanctimonious, delusional partisan Democrat, Wiley Nickel, on MSNBC's Morning Joe yesterday. He's the subject of the article you linked to above at bullshitout.org. Since 1946, Democrats have cheated much more effectively than Republicans, in getting more than their fair share of House seats. During that period, since 1946, Democrats got on average 3.9% more House seats than they deserved based on the House popular vote. That's an average of 17 more House seats, every election! (.039 x 435 total House seats = 17)

Republicans managed to turn the table in 2012 to 2016, but since then Democrats have gotten a marginally higher % of House Seats than votes.

See the last column in this table compiled by the Democrat-controlled Brookings Institution if you want to verify:

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content...s_ch2_tbl2.pdf

The table goes through 2018. Here's the difference between the Democratic percentage of seats won, and the percentage of votes won since then:

2020 +0.7%
2022 +1.2%
2024 +1.6%.

The 2024 results reflect a final tally of 220 GOP House seats and 215 Democrat seats. The Republicans won the House by a 5 seat margin, not one seat, as you keep repeatedly saying. .

So, Republicans are up to the same dirty tricks in North Carolina that Democrats (and Republicans) have been up to in other states for at least the last 78 years. Here are some stats for comparison.

North Carolina: Harris received 47.6% of the popular vote; House Democrats got 28.6% of the seats.

New York: Trump 44%; House Republicans 27%
Illinois: Trump 44%; House Republicans 18%
Oregon: Trump 41%; House Republicans 17%
New Mexico: Trump 46%; House Republicans 0%

You can reproduce using the following sites and switching states:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...-house-results
https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/re...north-carolina

Admittedly I could probably come up with Republican states just as wildly unfair as the blue states above. Still, historically, the Democrats have cheated more effectively than Republicans, as clearly shown by the numbers. Democrat think tanks and media sources attempt to show that Republicans are better at gerrymandering House seats, but the numbers clearly show they're wrong. Crafty Democrats.

[Elvis 2008]

But probably spot on also.

Imagine if you will Hunter sitting in a cell for trafficking heroin and / or fentanyl for CCPland, all strung out on dope, willing to spill the beans on the whole Scumbag Biden crew.

"just let me out of here, I really need a fix" ROTFLMMFAO!!

I'd scumbag Joe thinking of this also, and pardons the whole lot of them to preemptively protect them all from the Junkie?

No doubt a baby like Hunter would be singing like a canary within a day.

After the first 3 minutes of obligatory Trump bashing, Jon Stewart actually roasted Hunter, Joe, and the Dems pretty well here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5BcIHPMAHw.

What was the best line of all this crap? Yes, after saying Hunter Biden's laptop was not real, Joe Biden pardoned Hunter for what was on the laptop.

Yes, Hunter was pardoned for the time he "may have committed" crimes with his Ukraine connections. Any apologies coming Trump's way now for that bogus Ukraine impeachment? Any link between the crimes Hunter "may have committed" in Ukraine and the idiotic Ukraine war, Dems, hmmm?

And why are we supposed to hate Putin again?

The latest parondgate fiasco is here. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...mptive-pardons.

Among those discussed for potential pardons are high-profile figures like Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA), former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Their justification is that Trump will seek retribution, with their concerns growing more urgent following Trump's announcement last weekend appointing Kash Patel as FBI director. Patel, a staunch ally of Trump, has vowed to pursue the former president's critics, heightening concerns among Biden aides about possible investigations or indictments against officials who have opposed Trump in the past.

What are Dems so afraid of? Don't these people and Hunter have nothing to fear if they did not break the law? Or are they afraid that prosecutors can tun an allegedly incorrect expense entry into a crime? Why that would mean you could literally make up the law on your own and then claim someone was breaking it. Thing is I do not think you need to invent new laws. If January 6 was allegedly an interference into government function, WTF do you call Russiagate? Or the pandemic?

The biggest lie, one Xpartan just told, was that Trump has anything to do with Hunter. Hunter was convicted by Biden's own DOJ making his pardoning his son all that much worse. Why are you wasting your time with a prosecution if you are just going to pardon Hunter later? Did you really think he was innocent or did you think you could bully a jury into saying he was innocent? In any other case where someone is that fucking guilty, they take a plea deal.

Hopefully, this is the last we hear with Loony Tooms, Soy Boy Spidy the swamp creature, and Xpartan the war hawk on rule of law. What makes them such Democratic douches is they monger like crazy and swear up and down they are law abiding citizens.

[Spidy]

LOL. The Administrator removed them so you can't find them.

I suggested to the Administrator that he or she delete the post where I inserted my comment in parentheses into your quote, as you requested. ... Both of our posts were deleted, not just mine.

(...kkkk!) Nice admission of guilt!

Yeah, that's right, your insertion of inappropriate words (against ISG guidelines), I DID NOT WRITE, was the impetus and lead to admin stepping in to do a blanket delete.

The truth at last! Your welcome!

[Asian Steve 22]

LOL. No it wasn't just some angry muslims in 3 states that switched their votes. The democrats lost over 7 million votes from the free mail in ballot election in 2020. Ballot harvesting isn't as easy when states don't loosen their mail in ballot laws and just allow everybody to have a ballot without having to go through the trouble of registering to get one. That's the difference between 2020 and 2024.7 million mail in ballots. I understand ballot harvesting is not illegal, but it's much harder to get a voter to agree to have to register a ballot to harvest than it is to harvest a ballot that automatically gets mailed to their home without them having to do anything. If you're just strictly talking about the electoral college, Biden won the 5 battleground states of Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan by a combined smaller total than Trump did in those 5 states combined this time around. So you can easily use that excuse for 2020 as well. But in the country as a whole, 7 million less people felt like getting their vote in this time around. Most likely because it didn't get automatically mailed to their home so that a ballot harvester couldn't just knock on their house and get an easy vote.

Isn't that the same James 'Carnival' who was giddy with joyous anticipation just days before November 5th because it was so obvious Harris had the edge over Trump?

Uh. There was a Joker in the deck that everyone knew about well before the election when both camps were maneuvering and campaigning to win them over because it was understood they were likely to be so critical to winning precisely those three states that made the difference between a President-elect Trump and a President-elect Harris; the Muslim community in PA, MI and WI.

Then, suddenly, a funny thing happened; when it actually DID come down to that Joker in the deck popping up in someone's card hand, everyone got selective amnesia about how and why they were so concerned about them and pursuing them leading up to the election. LOL. And just 114,848 of them spread over those three states voting for Trump instead of Harris made all the difference.

But James 'Carnival' and so many others don't want to accept that such a small sliver of incomprehensibly silly mindset voters produced such a horrific, history-altering result. Oh no no no. It must have been due to some vast and complex network of failed philosophy, results, messaging and campaigning.

I liken it to the refusal after all these decades to accept the fact that one lone gunman, a pathetic loser in almost every way, firing off a couple of bullets into his target in Dealy Plaza, Dallas, Texas was all it took to set in motion generations of dark clouds in America.

Yep. No more than 114,848 angry Netanyahu-hating but now regretful Muslims spread among just those three states fired those 2-3 shots and very, very likely effectively put an end to this 240+ year American experiment. Hard for some to accept, I know. But there it is.

LOL. Of course, pro Repub pundits like Bill Maher and in most of Mainstream Media would much prefer Democrats "examine their conscience", "reaaccess their whole Party mission" and dump what they have been doing to win more votes than Repubs in practically every presidential election since 1992, come damn close to winning the presidency again this time with a female of mixed minority ethnicity against a 2nd term white old man candidate and would have won back the House if not for Repubs rigging it like never before and despite their policies and stewardship producing every Historic Economic Recovery, Economic Expansion and Jobs Creation of the past 100 years including the one America is experiencing right this very minute and none of the Historic Economic Downturns and Jobs Destruction including the one the incoming Repub produced the first time around as well as the Repub before him, the one before him, the one before him, etc.

Because it had to be some momentous force that created such a momentous potential decline for America on November 5th, right? Nope. Just a Joker in the deck that everyone seemed to know about beforehand but just can not afterwards accept was as capable of producing as much if not quite a bit more damage to the country as one lone Dallas gunman or 15 hijackers performing a jihad against America in the cockpits of 3 airliners on one sunny September morning.

[EihTooms]

Something to think about and compare. Look at the families of most politicians, movie types, and sports people. Most are horrible. Now look at Trump's family and even his grand children. Kinda tells you a lot about the guy without even knowing him. Strong close family.

Which family from which wives? I think the wife who accused Donald of raping her and who was actually the financial and media star celebrity of the family while he was the embarrassing financial joke of the family was pretty strong.

[Elvis 2008]

I voted for the Pro Russia Pro Putin candidate as did 77 million other fine Americans.

So had they better love his Pro Russia Cabinet picks.

I Love Vladimir, Long Live the Motherland!!

Indeed! The only reason we have not had nuclear war is how rational Putin has been.

Like Trump said about the enemies within, the Pelosis and Schiffs are way more dangerous to America than Putin ever was.

[EihTooms]

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-elect...emocrat-brand/

Isn't that the same James 'Carnival' who was giddy with joyous anticipation just days before November 5th because it was so obvious Harris had the edge over Trump?

Uh. There was a Joker in the deck that everyone knew about well before the election when both camps were maneuvering and campaigning to win them over because it was understood they were likely to be so critical to winning precisely those three states that made the difference between a President-elect Trump and a President-elect Harris; the Muslim community in PA, MI and WI.

Then, suddenly, a funny thing happened; when it actually DID come down to that Joker in the deck popping up in someone's card hand, everyone got selective amnesia about how and why they were so concerned about them and pursuing them leading up to the election. LOL. And just 114,848 of them spread over those three states voting for Trump instead of Harris made all the difference.

But James 'Carnival' and so many others don't want to accept that such a small sliver of incomprehensibly silly mindset voters produced such a horrific, history-altering result. Oh no no no. It must have been due to some vast and complex network of failed philosophy, results, messaging and campaigning.

I liken it to the refusal after all these decades to accept the fact that one lone gunman, a pathetic loser in almost every way, firing off a couple of bullets into his target in Dealy Plaza, Dallas, Texas was all it took to set in motion generations of dark clouds in America.

Yep. No more than 114,848 angry Netanyahu-hating but now regretful Muslims spread among just those three states fired those 2-3 shots and very, very likely effectively put an end to this 240+ year American experiment. Hard for some to accept, I know. But there it is.

LOL. Of course, pro Repub pundits like Bill Maher and in most of Mainstream Media would much prefer Democrats "examine their conscience", "reaaccess their whole Party mission" and dump what they have been doing to win more votes than Repubs in practically every presidential election since 1992, come damn close to winning the presidency again this time with a female of mixed minority ethnicity against a 2nd term white old man candidate and would have won back the House if not for Repubs rigging it like never before and despite their policies and stewardship producing every Historic Economic Recovery, Economic Expansion and Jobs Creation of the past 100 years including the one America is experiencing right this very minute and none of the Historic Economic Downturns and Jobs Destruction including the one the incoming Repub produced the first time around as well as the Repub before him, the one before him, the one before him, etc.

Because it had to be some momentous force that created such a momentous potential decline for America on November 5th, right? Nope. Just a Joker in the deck that everyone seemed to know about beforehand but just can not afterwards accept was as capable of producing as much if not quite a bit more damage to the country as one lone Dallas gunman or 15 hijackers performing a jihad against America in the cockpits of 3 airliners on one sunny September morning.

[LoveItHere69]

Something to think about and compare. Look at the families of most politicians, movie types, and sports people. Most are horrible. Now look at Trump's family and even his grand children. Kinda tells you a lot about the guy without even knowing him. Strong close family.

[Asian Steve 22]

You're just scared your cushy worker benefits will go to the military if Trump forces you Frenchies to contribute more to NATO.

Not even president yet, but orange crazy dangerous shameful Trump already wants to show to the world, choosing number 1 in the world for tourism, my little so beautiful France. But I don't welcome his lack of respect. He should better stay in Florida. Under Biden, he had contacts with crazy dangerous shameful Putin, kind of twins, when he doesn't even respect US constitution. Both dangerous for our world.

[Asian Steve 22]

Yes, evidently you are having problems understanding what literally means. Trump never threatened to put anybody in jail without investigation. That's LITERALLY the truth. And if you take all the writers editorializing with it, you will not find a quote in any of those articles with Trump saying the things you claim. Why would you need a writer to translate English for you, LOL 😂128514;128514;128514;? Yes it's a novel approach to some, use your own brain, Trump isn't speaking a foreign language. If you understand English you don't need a news writer to translate Trump's words. I guess it's novel for some that need to rely on a writer because they are too intellectually lazy to form their own opinion based on the raw information.

"Reading the articles by taking out everything the writer says" is a very novel approach. Did you train long?

So it wasn't a threat because Trump didn't SPECIFICALLY threaten to lock him up by forgoing the due process? Is that the gist of your statement?

[Xpartan]

The Kremlin could not be more delighted by their Puppet Trump's Cabinet nominees and Administration staff appointments. All that messaging and "news" copy passed to and through Fux News, Sinclair News, Congressional Repubs, etc and into the enthusiasticslly receptive skulls of MAGAs, Direct Repubs and Bothsider / Neithersiders really paid off.

However, as everyone here knows by now, they also need to give a special nod of thanks to that relative handful of angry Netanyahu-hating but now regretful Muslims spread across the only three battleground / swing states that mattered in determining the winner and came through beautifully for the Kremlin's purposes.g.

Well, I suppose that really means they owe a great debt to Netanyahu himself, really.

KremlinTV Gushes About Trump's Cabinet Picks.
"If they are allowed to get in, they will quickly dismantle America, brick by brick. They are so great!

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/12/k...trumps-cabinet

To be honest, I thought you were grossly exaggerating. Then I saw it myself.

We now have a whole team of Manchurian Candidates supported by 50% of the population. No Hollywood visionary could've ever imagined this real-life nightmare.

[Tiny 12]

Indeed, a whistleblower reported that the CIA intervened to stop the IRS from interviewing Hunter.

Sorry I meant to write the whistleblower said the CIA intervened to keep the IRS from interviewing Hunter's art patron and Sugar Daddy.

[EihTooms]

The Trump / Repub 'squeaker' of a win just got squeakier, taking the Repub expertise at rigging elections to new heights:

GOP Gerrymandering in NC Tipped the Scales of Congress, Outgoing Lawmaker Says.
The MAGA Republicans in Raleigh didnt care about reflecting the will of the people, Rep. Wiley Nickel wrote.

https://truthout.org/articles/gop-ge...lawmaker-says/

In an op-ed for the Raleigh News & Observer, Nickel noted that the result of the presidential election in North Carolina and the results of other races in the state showed close to a 50-50 split, representative of the purple status North Carolina is known for. However, because of Republican gerrymandering last year, the congressional delegation leaned Republican, with a 10-4 split.

That six-seat difference is wider than the five-seat advantage that Republicans have over Democrats in the House of Representatives. Had the delegation had an even 7-7 split (as it has under fairer maps), control of the House of Representatives would have been granted to Democrats, not Republicans, as that chamber of Congress is set to have 220 seats for the GOP and 215 seats for Democrats.
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North Carolina Republicans were able to redraw the maps in their favor after winning control of the state legislature in 2020. But the maps they drew were determined to be partisan and racially discriminatory gerrymanders by the state Supreme Court, and they were ordered to redraw them. Republicans sued over that decision to the federal Supreme Court.

Eventually, that court, too, ruled against them, but the delay allowed for statewide elections to shift the balance of the state Supreme Court to conservative control. Republicans relitigated their maps to that changed court, which ruled in their favor, allowing the maps to be drawn to their advantage.

Now, that 1 House Seat Majority Gerry-'mandate' for the Repubs was also facilitated by Trump himself, who knows so many of "the best people" for truly difficult and critically important jobs in his administration that he has to draw only from proven slavishly devoted Repub nutcases already in Congress or on Fux News regardless how utterly incompetent and unfit they are to do anything else but be slavishly devoted to blatantly obvious grifters and con men. Or, rather, because of it.

Which begs the question; doesn't Trump want to get any legislation passed and funded in his "First 100 Days", traditionally the best time for any president to get such things done and passed?

I mean, I thought the Biden Economy was so terrible for so many Americans that it was of utmost importance for the incoming Golfer-in-Chief to hit the ground running or at high speed in his golf cart so he can immediately wave his magic wand, say the magic words and finally make it possible for Americans to buy gas, pay rent, travel, eat an egg, buy crypto, buy stocks, engage in business and commerce. You know, things no American has been able to do since 12 Noon on January 20,2021.

So why on Earth would the Wizard of No Wars and Wonderful Low Rents and Gas Prices essentially lay down his magic wand and stifle his magic words by taking out so many of his necessary Sorcerer's Apprentices where the purse strings for his "rescue" of America from this terrible, terrible worst economy of all time reside, leaving him with no choice but to coast on what Biden-Harris and the Dems have handed him and, well, just play lots and lots and lots of golf over likely half of his otherwise most productive "economic rescue" year?

It is a puzzlement, isn't it? LOL.