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Saturday, July 23, 2022 10:27 AM

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Birth control isn't going anywhere you fuckin' dummy.

This isn't Ireland in the 1800s.
A Texas GOP lawmaker introduced a bill that would allow the death penalty for women who have an abortion.

"The bill will end the discriminatory practice of terminating the life of innocent children, and will guarantee the equal protection of the laws to all Texans, no matter how small."

https://bit.ly/3cCplPq

KEN PAXTON
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS

Advisory on Texas Law Upon Reversal of Roe v. Wade

For nearly half a century, Americans have lived under a legally incorrect and morally bankrupt court decision that created, out of thin air, a constitutional “right” to abortion. Roe v. Wade was an act of raw, partisan political will of unelected judges, and it had no basis in the text of the U.S. Constitution then or now. Today we celebrate Roe’s reversal, mindful that nothing can bring back the millions of lives lost since the Supreme Court federalized abortion policy and prohibited States from fully protecting their most vulnerable citizens. Thankfully, the current Court has finally acted to overturn this egregious act of unconstitutional judicial activism.

Texans want to know what to expect now that Roe is overturned. The answer is that without further action by the Texas Legislature, abortion will soon be clearly illegal in Texas. In 2021, the Texas Legislature passed the Human Life Protection Act of 2021 (“the Act”), which prohibits abortions in most circumstances and takes effect on the 30th day after “issuance of a United States Supreme Court judgment in a decision overruling, wholly or partly, Roe v. Wade. 410 U.S. 113 (1973), as modified by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), thereby allowing the states of the United States to prohibit abortion.”

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/execut
ive-management/Post-Roe%20Advisory.pdf

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

First, Abortion isn't Birth Control. You know full well that the bill they're trying to pass has nothing to do with Abortion and focuses on Contraception.

Second, there was nothing you posted here that backed up your claim that anybody is trying to force the death penalty on a woman who has an abortion.

If it was in your shady link, post the real link. Don't anybody click on the bit.ly link that Second posted.

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Saturday, July 23, 2022 11:26 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

First, Abortion isn't Birth Control. You know full well that the bill they're trying to pass has nothing to do with Abortion and focuses on Contraception.

Second, there was nothing you posted here that backed up your claim that anybody is trying to force the death penalty on a woman who has an abortion.

If it was in your shady link, post the real link. Don't anybody click on the bit.ly link that Second posted.

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The Texas Legislature is not in session until next year, but the law is written and ready to pass over the objections of every Democrat. A few lines from the law:

This Act may be cited as the Abolition of Abortion through Equal Protection for All Unborn Children Act.

SECTION 4. Section 151.002(a), Family Code, is amended to read as follows:
a living human child, from the moment of fertilization on fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum, is entitled to the same rights, powers, and privileges as are secured or granted by the laws of this state to any other human child.

(This is where the law says abortion is homicide without saying abortion is homicide, which is political poison, but a prosecutor can read this law and charge the woman with homicide, or even murder.)

. . . as legislators, to fulfill our oaths of office to the United States Constitution, so help us God, by disavowing the legal fiction that the constitution prohibits this state from exercising its reserved police powers to prohibit and criminalize homicide and from exercising its constitutional and God-given duties to provide equal protection to all persons within its jurisdiction;

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/HB03326I.pdf

If you won’t click bitly https://bit.ly/3cCplPq then copy and paste this, being sure to include the final -/ in the URL: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/28/instagram-posts/head
line-about-texas-lawmakers-anti-abortion-bill-/

6ix, your next gambit is to say the Texas law doesn't mean that abortion is murder and, besides, the Republicans won't enforce it. But it does means abortion is murder and Republican prosecutors will enforce it erratically, arbitrarily and capriciously against their political enemies.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, July 23, 2022 5:32 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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6ix, your next gambit is to say the Texas law doesn't mean that abortion is murder and, besides, the Republicans won't enforce it. But it does means abortion is murder and Republican prosecutors will enforce it erratically, arbitrarily and capriciously against their political enemies.

I already said what I am going to say about it.

You've said a lot and still refuse to post anything to back it up.

It's alright. Democrats are finished anyhow. Nobody cares about this either.

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Monday, July 25, 2022 7:30 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

• Abolish the Electoral College.
• Overturn Citizens United.
• Preserve Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms.
• Strike down union-busting ‘right to work’ laws.
• Require political candidates to disclose their tax returns for the previous 10 years.
• Preserve capital gains and inheritance taxes.
• Strip churches and the NRA of their tax-exempt status.
• Maintain a robust public education system.
• Institute free college for all who qualify academically.
• Ban lobbyists from campaign donations or tax exemption. Regulate their access to politicians.
• Create a nonpartisan watchdog group to oversee redistricting, to prevent gerrymandering.
• Impose term limits on political office.
• Draft some modem equivalent of the old FCC Fairness Doctrine.
• Institute common-sense federal gun control laws. Mandate universal background checks.
• Institute universal, single-payer healthcare.
• Protect abortion rights and Planned Parenthood.
• Restore robust environment protections.
• Restore adequate funding for scientific and medical research, the State Dept, and the UN.
• Preserve net neutrality.
• Treat simple illicit drug use as a civil matter, rather than criminal.
• Legalize recreational marijuana nationwide.

https://ifunny.co/picture/abolish-the-electoral-college-overturn-citiz
ens-united-preserve-dodd-frank-IvyaB1Ni9

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Monday, July 25, 2022 7:47 AM

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How many people work for the government?

About 3 million people work for the federal government; 5 million for state governments, and 14 million for local governments.

https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-how-many-people-work-for-the-govern
ment/

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Monday, July 25, 2022 10:09 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

That graph does an excellent job showing how many taxpayer dollars are wasted.

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Monday, July 25, 2022 1:59 PM

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Today the House voted on a bill to protect access to contraception.

Almost entirely thanks to Democrats, it passed. 194 House Republicans opposed it.

It’s 2022. How are they opposed to access to birth control?

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1550270150053892096

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 4:38 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

It makes you wonder what was ACTUALLY in the bill that 194 people would vote against it since nobody has a problem with contraception.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 7:57 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It makes you wonder what was ACTUALLY in the bill that 194 people would vote against it since nobody has a problem with contraception.

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Wonder no more, 6ix! Here is the text for H.R.8373 - To protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8373/text

By the way, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said that he would be pleased with overturning/reversing/nullifying all previous court decisions ruling that state laws forbidding contraception were NOT constitutional. In Thomas' opinion the states can do whatever they please about contraception because the word "contraception" is not in the Bill of Rights.

H.R.8373 was written to stop Clarence Thomas and the other Catholics Republicans on the Supreme Court, but they won't be stopped because no Republican Senators will vote for it. The bill was received in the Senate on 07/21/2022 but there has been no action, yet, because the Democrats know for sure that the Republicans will filibuster the bill for the same stupid reason Clarence Thomas gave: the word "contraception" is not in the Bill of Rights and therefore any state that wishes to forbid contraception can make it illegal as the Catholic Church wants.

The House will vote Thursday to protect access to contraception nationwide after Clarence Thomas suggesting overturning it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-legislation-ens
hrine-right-contraception-federal-law-rcna39167

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 11:17 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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It makes you wonder what was ACTUALLY in the bill that 194 people would vote against it since nobody has a problem with contraception.

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Wonder no more, 6ix! Here is the text for H.R.8373 - To protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8373/text

Cool. Thanks.

I figured it out.

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/117th-congress/house-rep
ort/420

The House passed these bills together.

Here's the other one with the pertinent parts underlined:

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H. Rept. 117-420 - PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 8294) MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION - PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 8294) MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION, AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2023, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 8373) TO PROTECT A PERSON'S ABILITY TO ACCESS CONTRACEPTIVES AND TO ENGAGE IN CONTRACEPTION, AND TO PROTECT A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER'S ABILITY TO PROVIDE CONTRACEPTIVES, CONTRACEPTION, AND INFORMATION RELATED TO CONTRACEPTION; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 8404) TO REPEAL THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT AND ENSURE RESPECT FOR STATE REGULATION OF MARRIAGE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

I won't explain how the internet works and let you click the links you need to on the page you provided to connect the dots.

Fuck your gaslighting.

Either that, or tell the people you get your news from to fuck their gaslighting.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 11:23 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Oh... And I should add...

Unlike YOU, I know FULL WELL and will admit that this type of bullshit is pulled on both sides of the aisle every single day. It's how most of the anti-American-people shit gets rammed through. With leverage.

I don't even blame Democrats for doing this here. It has been their job from the beginning to pull this shit, just like it has been the Republicans to do the same.

I blame the GODDAMNED LEGACY MEDIA for NEVER telling us the truth about anything.

They know that collectively we are so fucking stupid and self-centered that nobody asks any fucking questions about anything and the few who do would just be ignored by everyone else for talking about it.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 11:39 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I won't explain how the internet works and let you click the links you need to on the page you provided to connect the dots.

Fuck your gaslighting.

Either that, or tell the people you get your news from to fuck their gaslighting.

As per usual, you didn't even read what you're quoting. https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/117th-congress/house-rep
ort/420

The Republicans in Congress would have prevented that bill on Contraception from being voted upon, but the report says that debate would be limited to one hour. If there had been no limit, the Republicans would be making amendment after amendment to prevent the Contraception bill from ever coming to a vote this year. The report says "Although the resolution waives all points of order against provisions in H.R. 8373, as amended, the Committee is not aware of any points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature." Prophylactic means the Republicans cannot screw House Bill H.R. 8373 to prevent a vote on contraceptives.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 11:47 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I won't explain how the internet works and let you click the links you need to on the page you provided to connect the dots.

Fuck your gaslighting.

Either that, or tell the people you get your news from to fuck their gaslighting.
As per usual, you didn't even read what you're quoting. https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/117th-congress/house-rep
ort/420

The Republicans is Congress would have prevented that bill on Contraception from being voted upon, but the report says that debate would be limited to one hour. If there had been no limit, the Republicans would be making amendment after amendment to prevent the Contraception bill from ever coming to a vote this year. The report says "Although the resolution waives all points of order against provisions in H.R. 8373, as amended, the Committee is not aware of any points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature." Prophylactic means the Republicans cannot screw House Bill H.R. 8373 to prevent a vote on contraceptives.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Everything you just said wasn't in the official paperwork and you pulled it out of your ass.

I simply posted what was actually in the official paperwork.

You are fucking tool and having a conversation with you about anything is a waste of time and effort.

After November, your party is dead. You will never see Democrats in power for the rest of your lifetime.

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 11:56 AM

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You're not worth quoting. I finally see why the hell your life got into so much trouble. 6ix, you will not live to be as old as the now dead-as-a-door-nail Rush Limbaugh (70), another nonstop talker who the Dittoheads couldn't see was a big fat idiot. You're completely fucked up, 6ix.

6ix, why do angry poor white trash, aka Trumptards, die young? Some hints from the article: In poor neighborhoods, immigrants have the highest life expectancies

In 2017, foreign-born life expectancy reached 81.4 and 85.7 years for men and women, respectively. That’s about 7 and 6.2 years longer than the average lifespan of their U.S.-born counterparts.

Research shows that the difference between immigrants and the U.S.-born has widened substantially over time. The fact that immigrants are doing well suggests that there is a capacity to thrive in the U.S., but the U.S.-born aren’t fulfilling that potential. (Trumptards die young because they are negligent and they live stupidly.)

Income matters even more between the poor and the rich. We've known for a long time that this is probably the single biggest factor in longevity. Rich people have life expectancies nearly a decade longer than poor people.

https://jabberwocking.com/in-poor-neighborhoods-immigrants-have-the-hi
ghest-life-expectancies/

Trumptards are dying:

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
https://web.archive.org/web/20220726134232/https://www.slowboring.com/
p/tackling-americas-weirdly-short-life

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 2:44 PM

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They're calling themselves Christian Nationalists now. I prefer Nationalist Christians, that way we can call them Nat-C's for short.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG
I am being attacked by the godless left because I said I’m a proud Christian Nationalist.
These evil people are even calling me a Nazi because I proudly love my country and my God.
The left has shown us exactly who they are.
They hate America, they hate God, and they hate us.

6:05 PM • 7/25/22 • Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1551705165983621120

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 6:31 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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You're not worth quoting.

I'm not going to hold my breath on that one, dipshit.

You're a fucking idiot and a serial liar.

Get fucked.

The Democratic Party is dead.

Tick Tock

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022 6:01 AM

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The Dystopian Myths of Red America

July 25, 2022

The Big Lie about the election is embedded in an even bigger lie.

Desensitization is an amazing thing. At this point most political observers simply accept it as a fact of life that an overwhelming majority of Republicans accept the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen — a claim with nothing to support it, not even plausible anecdotes.

What I don’t think is fully appreciated, however, is that the Big Lie is embedded in an even bigger lie: the claim that the Democratic Party is controlled by radical leftists aiming to destroy America as we know it. And this lie in turn derives a lot of its persuasiveness from a grotesquely distorted view of what life is like in blue America.

Urban elites are constantly accused of not understanding Real America™. And, to be fair, most big-city residents probably don’t have a good sense of what life is like in rural areas and small towns, although it’s doubtful whether this gap justified the immense number of news reports interviewing Trump voters sitting in diners.

But I’d argue that right-wing misperceptions of blue America run far deeper — and are far more dangerous.

Let’s start with the politics. The other day The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel, reporting from the campaign trail, noted that many Republican candidates are claiming that Democrats are deliberately undermining the nation and promoting violence against their opponents; some are even claiming that we’re already in a civil war.

Some (many?) of these candidates have been winning primaries, suggesting that the G.O.P. base agrees with them. Actually, I’d like to see some surveys along the lines of those showing that most Republicans accept the Big Lie. How many Republicans believe that President Biden and other leading Democrats are left-wing radicals, indeed Marxists?

Relatedly, I’d like to know how many Republicans believe that Black Lives Matter demonstrators looted and burned large parts of America’s major cities.

Now, the reality is that the modern Democratic Party is a mildly center-left coalition, consisting of what Europeans would call social democrats, and relatively conservative ones at that. To take one measure, I can’t think of any prominent Democrats — actually, any Democratic members of Congress — who have expressed admiration for any authoritarian foreign regime.

This is in contrast to widespread conservative admiration for Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who recently denounced other Europeans for “mixing with non-Europeans” and declared that he doesn’t want Hungary to become a “mixed-race” country.

On the domestic violence front, a study by the Anti-Defamation League found that 75 percent of extremist-related domestic killings from 2012 to 2021 were perpetrated by the right and only 4 percent by the left.

Finally, about B.L.M.: The protests were, in fact, overwhelmingly peaceful. Yes, there was some arson and looting, with total property damage typically estimated at $1 billion to $2 billion. Here’s one point of comparison. Back in April, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, pulled a political stunt at the border with Mexico, temporarily imposing extra security checks that caused a major slowdown of traffic, disrupting business and leading to a lot of spoiled produce. Total economic losses have been estimated at around $4 billion; that is, a few days of border-security theater appear to have caused more economic damage than a hundred days of mass protests.

Yet pointing out these facts probably won’t change many minds. Nor does there seem to be any way to change the perception, also alluded to in that Post article, that a lax attitude toward law enforcement has turned America’s big cities into dangerous hellholes. It’s true that violent crime rose during the pandemic, but it rose about as much in rural America as it did in urban areas. And despite that recent rise, violence in many cities is far lower than it was not long ago.

In New York City, homicides so far this year are running a bit below their 2021 level, and in 2021 they were 78 percent lower than they were in 1990 and a quarter lower than they were in 2001. As Bloomberg’s Justin Fox has documented, New York is actually a lot safer than small-town America. Los Angeles has also seen a big long-term drop in homicides, as has California as a whole. Some cities, notably Philadelphia and Chicago, are back to or above early 1990s murder rates, but they’re not representative of the broader picture.

But who among the Republican base will acknowledge this reality? Whenever I mention New York’s relative safety, I get a wave of mail saying, in effect, “You can’t really believe that.”

The fact is that a large segment of the U.S. electorate has bought into an apocalyptic vision of America that bears no relationship to the reality of how the other half thinks, behaves or lives. We don’t have to speculate about whether this dystopian fantasy might lead to political violence and attempts to overthrow democracy; it already has. And it’s probably going to get worse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220725231005/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/07/25/opinion/the-dystopian-myths-of-red-america.html

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022 6:38 AM

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Trump returns to DC with apocalyptic speech: ‘Our country is going to hell’

The former president addressed a conservative think tank in Washington, where he painted a picture of a Democrat-run nation overrun by criminals and the homeless

IKER SEISDEDOSEL PAÍS, Washington - JUL 27, 2022 - 05:51 EDT

Donald Trump on Tuesday returned to Washington DC for the first time since leaving office, over a year and a half after the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill currently under investigation by a congressional committee.

Speaking at an event organized by the America First Policy Institute, a think tank he helped fund, the former president delivered a speech riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods in which he exaggerated the achievements of his administration, presented himself as a victim of the system, and focused on public safety, law enforcement and protection of the border with Mexico.

“Our country is going to hell, and it’s going to hell very fast,” he asserted, painting an apocalyptic landscape of crime-ridden cities controlled by Democrats that have become “war zones.” Trump described green areas taken over by homeless encampments, stores where criminals steal merchandise with complete impunity, and “sadists who prey on children and are released on bail.”

Trump, who is flirting with a new presidential run in 2024, promised to impose the death penalty for drug traffickers if he returns to power. “America first must mean safety first,” he said, supporting being “tough, nasty, mean if we have to, to restore public safety.” He also supported a return to “stop and frisk” policies and attacked the “ridiculous” idea of defunding the police.

Trump referred to “the anti-police narrative of the radical left” as “the big lie,” in a sarcastic reference to the way the media refers to the conspiracy theory he still espouses, according to which the 2020 election was stolen from him. “Have you ever heard that expression before?”

It was the first time in 566 days that Trump was seen in a public act in DC. The last time had been January 6, 2021, when he harangued thousands of his followers to march on Capitol Hill in a bid to influence the certification of the electoral votes that gave the presidential victory to Joe Biden. The insurrection that followed, which endangered the lives of hundreds of police officers, is the target of a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, as well as a probe by a congressional committee that last Thursday provided evidence that during the three hours that the assault lasted, Trump sat back and did nothing to stop the violent mob, even though he was “the only person on the planet capable of sending them home.”

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-07-27/trump-returns-to-dc-with-apo
calyptic-speech-our-country-is-going-to-hell.html

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022 7:17 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Lies, lies.

November is coming.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022 1:09 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

trouble?

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022 9:07 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

"It's a transitory iceberg.

Thank me for the $0.16 you saved on your July 4th, 2021 barbecue, you fuckin' ingrate."

~Joe Biden*, probably

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Thursday, July 28, 2022 9:41 AM

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Trump Got Burned by a Major Mistake in His First Term. He Won’t Make It Again.
(It is quite possible that any populist Republican would exploit Schedule F. It’s not just Trump. )

There’s a reason authoritarians target the bureaucracy. Once they have it under their control, they are better able to stifle dissent and criticism, reward friends and punish enemies, using the levers of government to maintain power. In his first term, Donald Trump largely failed to take control of the administrative state, that sprawling web of agencies that keeps the federal government running. To be sure, he ignored scientists and punished bureaucrats. But Trump’s officials largely lacked the capacity to manage the institutions they were charged with leading.

Trump will not make the same mistake twice. According to Jonathan Swann’s blockbuster two-part Axios report, the former president is currently overseeing plans to build a government based on personal loyalty to him. Trump’s weapon to disembowel government is an executive order he signed shortly before the 2020 election: Schedule F. It allows a president to force tens and potentially hundreds of thousands of career officials to become political appointees, stripping them of job protections. In short, it allows the president to fire civil servants who fail his political loyalty test.

Trump ran out of time before he could implement Schedule F, and Biden rescinded it. But if Trump wins in 2024, an aggressive purge of the civil service will be one of his first priorities.

When he was elected Trump’s use of the “swamp” and “deep state” terminology tapped into conspiracy theories much the same way that he tapped into birtherism, albeit more symbolically than with a strategic intent. He still hired institutionalists, like James Mattis and John Kelly, and even allowed some bipartisan Obama appointees to remain in place.

By the end of his first term, Trump absolutely understood the importance of controlling the bureaucracy. He became convinced that career public servants were responsible for his first impeachment. While Trump largely blocked political appointees from co-operating with the impeachment investigation, a number of career officials did testify.

The White House followed through on a promise of payback against these officials, publicly attacking some, removing them from positions, and denying promotions to the degree the law allowed. It is easy to imagine that with Schedule F, Trump’s payback would have been more comprehensive, simply firing all the officials who dared to respond to Congress, as he did to the inspector general who forwarded the whistleblower complaint about Trump’s withholding arms to Ukraine.

Trump struggled to direct the government because he lacked a deep bench of talented and loyal appointees. In Axios, Swann documents the massive scale of operations in place intended to not just fill existing appointments, but replace careerists by taking advantage of Schedule F.

There are multiple overlapping organizations in Trump World, a fully stocked army of loyalists ready to take control of government: the Center for Renewing America, Conservative Partnership Institute, Personnel Policy Organization, the American First Policy Institute, and the old standby of the Heritage Foundation. They are not just building a database of resumes; each institution has drawn on personnel involved in creating Schedule F and looks forward to exploiting it. Millions of dollars from conservative donors, including the Koch network, are funding their efforts. They are also funding a barely-disguised attack on American democracy.

Proponents of Schedule F presented it as a way of improving government performance by firing poor performers, and improving political responsiveness. Swann’s detailed reporting shows that the goal, instead, is a form of authoritarian control. This is reflected in a primary desire to take control of the national security and justice apparatus. Trump’s inability to capture these institutions stymied his coup attempt. If the top lawyers are Trump loyalists, the most outrageous power grabs and misdeeds will be declared legal, with the implicit backing of the military.

More politicized government workplaces result in lower employee capacity and performance. Swann’s reporting underlines that the types of candidates being sought for Trump World are loyalists first. Relevant experience, or a desire to work in the federal government for the long haul are viewed as a negative. Instead, the ideal candidate is someone who does not believe in government, who has a chip on his shoulder about the system. It would be a government of angry young men, who will not understand what they are doing and do not care.

Schedule F would burn down the civil service system. It would be a government of the lawless leading the incompetent.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/07/donald-trump-schedule-f-ci
vil-service-authoritarian.html

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Thursday, July 28, 2022 10:44 AM

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I can't wait for Trump to get in there and fire 50,000 people.

All of those poor diversity hires will have to go back to Starbucks for jobs.

If Starbucks will even take them.

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I can't wait for Trump to get in there and fire 50,000 people.

All of those poor diversity hires will have to go back to Starbucks for jobs.

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I look forward to Trump firing the auditors at the IRS, who have been trying to get him to pay taxes. Senator Ted Cruz agrees. He tweeted so last week:

Jayne Cobb (or Adam Baldwin who plays Jayne) Retweeted Senator Ted Cruz @tedcruz

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Democrats want 80,000 more IRS agents.

That’s like asking for an infestation of locusts and lice!

Instead, we should ABOLISH the IRS!

5:53 PM · Jul 29, 2022·Twitter Media Studio
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1553151691729641473

It is a fact that about $1 trillion per year in taxes are not collected from wealthy. But with Senator Ted Cruz’s suggestion to abolish the IRS, no taxes will be collected from the wealthy.

Rich people and corporations need to pay up, says IRS head as agency looks to collect $1 trillion in unpaid taxes – April 13, 2021
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-wealthy-people-corporations-1-trillio
n/

"Wealthy tax cheats have proven that with enough attack-dog lawyering, they can litigate the IRS into submission and rip off working taxpayers for big money," said Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden in Tuesday's hearing. The Internal Revenue Service has seen a dramatic decrease in funding and staff in recent years and its commissioner suggests the United States is missing out on collecting as much as $1 trillion a year.

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Sunday, July 31, 2022 8:47 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Whatever, idiot.

I didn't listen to you the last 1,000 times you made that post. Not listening to you now either.

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Whatever, idiot.

I didn't listen to you the last 1,000 times you made that post. Not listening to you now either.

You've bragged about not paying taxes. Trumptards I know brag about the sneaky ways they cheat on their taxes.

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Sunday, July 31, 2022 9:30 AM

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Whatever, idiot.

I didn't listen to you the last 1,000 times you made that post. Not listening to you now either.
You've bragged about not paying taxes. Trumptards I know brag about the sneaky ways they cheat on their taxes.

I've never bragged about not paying taxes that I owe, which you are insinuating here, liar.

I've said that I'm never going to make more than the standard deduction for the rest of my life and I will not be paying FEDERAL taxes, because I don't agree at all with how they spend that money. I brag because I've set myself up for a life where I have a house and car that are mine and zero debt to anybody else so I can EASILY do that for the rest of my life whenever I feel the need to work without ever having to worry about how what small amount of bills and cost of living I have will be paid.

I still have to pay property taxes. I still have to pay sales taxes. With a measly $1,000 state tax deduction I will still have to pay state and local taxes when I work.

Go fuck yourself, idiot liar.

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I've never bragged about not paying taxes that I owe, which you are insinuating here, liar.

I've said that I'm never going to make more than the standard deduction for the rest of my life and I will not be paying FEDERAL taxes, because I don't agree at all with how they spend that money. I brag because I've set myself up for a life where I have a house and car that are mine and zero debt to anybody else so I can EASILY do that for the rest of my life whenever I feel the need to work without ever having to worry about how what small amount of bills and cost of living I have will be paid.

I still have to pay property taxes. I still have to pay sales taxes. With a measly $1,000 state tax deduction I will still have to pay state and local taxes when I work.

Go fuck yourself, idiot liar.

Four other things, beside cheating on their taxes, that all Trumptards I know do, are
1) brag about their moral/mental/spiritual superiority,
2) brag about how well they are supporting themselves,
3) brag about their honesty (despite me knowing as a fact they are stone cold liars, but they don't know I know who they really are)
4) complain that Democrats are immoral/stupid/liars/criminals/etc.

6ix, you did all 4 things in this one comment. Once again, 6ix, you are completely predictable because I know Texas Trumptards without having known you. And I also know why their family/financial/work life is screwed up beyond all reason, even if they have no clue why life is aggravating for them, other than it is all the fault of Democrats. In small doses, you Trumptards are entertaining me in your never-ending soap operas and family dramas, as is Trump himself.

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Sunday, July 31, 2022 10:38 AM

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Four other things, beside cheating on their taxes, that all Trumptards I know do, are
1) brag about their moral/mental/spiritual superiority,

Not a brag. It's just a simple truth that I am morally, mentally and spiritually superior to you. Ted is morally and spirtually superior to you. It's not hard to do at all.

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2) brag about how well they are supporting themselves,

Yeah. Maybe I shouldn't be bragging so hard. That's easy too.

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3) brag about their honesty (despite me knowing as a fact they are stone cold liars, but they don't know I know who they really are)

Oh... You know who I really am, do you? By all means, go ahead and doxx me right now, Arthur.

I know who you are too. The only difference is, I'm not lying.

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4) complain that Democrats are immoral/stupid/liars/criminals/etc.

They are. It's an objective fact.

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Trumptards don't pay $1 trillion in taxes each year. Trump paid only $750 per year in taxes before he was President and less after he was elected because he cheated.

Donald Trump's Tax Returns Expose 'Lying, Cheating Felon,' 'Art of the Deal' Co-Author Says
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-tax-returns-expose-lying-cheati
ng-felon-art-deal-author-tony-schwartz-says-1534532

It is what Trumptards do. When asked for comments, Trump denied everything. Meanwhile, all Democratic Presidents provide proof they paid all their taxes.

Presidential Tax Returns
https://www.taxnotes.com/presidential-tax-returns

The President and Vice President release their 2021 tax returns - April 15, 2022
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/2022/04/15/the-pr
esident-and-vice-president-release-their-2021-tax-returns/

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Sunday, July 31, 2022 11:57 AM

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Trumptards don't pay $1 trillion in taxes each year. Trump paid only $750 per year in taxes before he was President and less after he was elected because he cheated.

Get back to me when you get Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates to pay their share, fucktard.

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Originally posted by second:
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Trumptards don't pay $1 trillion in taxes each year. Trump paid only $750 per year in taxes before he was President and less after he was elected because he cheated.

Get back to me when you get Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates to pay their share, fucktard.

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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos paid a true tax rate of 0.98% as his wealth grew by a staggering $99 billion between 2014 and 2018; he reported just $4.22 billion in reported income during the same period.

0.98% of $99 billion is $1 billion. Trump paid $750. Trump is a crook, but then every Trumptard is a crook. Until Democrats treat crooks like they should be treated, America will be in deep trouble.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2021/06/08/richest-americans-
including-bezos-musk-and-buffett-paid-federal-income-taxes-equaling-just-34-of-401-billion-in-new-wealth-bombshell-report-shows/?sh=454e08537fe1

'i don't pay taxes because i'm smart' - trump
Trump brags about not paying taxes - Sept 26, 2016
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/26/trump-brags-about-not-paying-taxes-tha
t-makes-me-smart.html

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Sunday, July 31, 2022 12:27 PM

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Trumptards don't pay $1 trillion in taxes each year. Trump paid only $750 per year in taxes before he was President and less after he was elected because he cheated.

Get back to me when you get Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates to pay their share, fucktard.

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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos paid a true tax rate of 0.98% as his wealth grew by a staggering $99 billion between 2014 and 2018; he reported just $4.22 billion in reported income during the same period.

False.

Jeff Bezos has much more complex tax structure than your average prole's 1040.

Don't try to gaslight your betters you little fucking worm.

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False.

Jeff Bezos has much more complex tax structure than your average prole's 1040.

Don't try to gaslight your betters you little fucking worm.

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ProPublica has got everything on the billionaires that Trumptards hate.

ProPublica can't get Trump's records or the records of any other billionaire loved by Trumptards since Trump loving billionaires are crooks.

Crooked billionaires Peter Thiel, Charles Koch, all the Trumps, etc. never share income tax forms with journalists because, you know, they are crooks.

6ix, you have no ideas. You are hollow.

The "Secret" IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never
-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

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Sunday, July 31, 2022 10:52 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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False.

Jeff Bezos has much more complex tax structure than your average prole's 1040.

Don't try to gaslight your betters you little fucking worm.

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ProPublica has got everything on the billionaires that Trumptards hate.

ProPublica can't get Trump's records or the records of any other billionaire loved by Trumptards since Trump loving billionaires are crooks.

Crooked billionaires Peter Thiel, Charles Koch, all the Trumps, etc. never share income tax forms with journalists because, you know, they are crooks.

6ix, you have no ideas. You are hollow.

The "Secret" IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never
-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

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Dude. I know how taxes work.

Jeff Bezos' little fake income he gives himself is a joke.

Fucking AOC knows more about money than your stupid non-business-owning ass.

Maybe you should just parrot whatever dumb shit comes out of her mouth and than nobody can say that you're dumber than her.

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Dude. I know how taxes work. (. . . crude American petulance . . .)

I’m not sure what Americans were like in the 18th and 19th century, but they have to have been a lot tougher, less whining, less self-important and paradoxically more exceptional without thinking they were exceptional than Americans of today.

Even Americans born well into the 20th century had a stoic quality and a modest sense of their own importance that seems to have been washed out of our culture. Not many WWII veterans left, but the ones I’ve met spoke about their battles at Normandy or in the South Pacific as just something that needed to get done. The people I knew who lived through The Great Depression said it was tough but made light of their own hardships.

Much of our citizenry today resemble loud spoiled children, whining and whingeing at every inconvenience, and trotting out opinions on the most complex matters with zero formal training or any in-depth research. I fear that to other countries we look like one of those screaming toddlers having a fit in a very public place. Sort of an international cringe.

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/08/crude-american-petulance
.html

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Can Inflation Reduction Save the Planet?
by Paul Krugman

Aug. 1, 2022, 7:00 p.m. ET

After all the false starts and dashed hopes of the past two years, I’m reluctant to count my chickens before they’ve actually been signed in the Oval Office. Still, it appears that Democrats have finally agreed on another major piece of legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act. And if it does become law, it will be a very big deal.

First, would the law, in fact, reduce inflation? Yes, probably — or at least it would reduce inflationary pressures. That’s because the legislation’s increased spending, mainly on clean energy but also on health care, would be more than offset through its tax provisions; so it would be a deficit reduction act, which other things being equal would make it disinflationary.

But you want to think of the Inflation Reduction Act as being like the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, which probably did strengthen national defense a bit but mainly benefited America by investing in the nation’s future. This bill would do the same, and maybe even more so.

To understand why this bill inspires so much hope, it’s helpful to understand what has changed since Democrats’ last big effort to deal with climate change, the 2009 Waxman-Markey bill, which passed the House but died in the Senate.

The core of Waxman-Markey was a “cap and trade” system that would, in practice, have operated a lot like a carbon tax. There were and are good arguments for such a system, which would give companies and individuals an incentive to cut emissions in multiple ways. But politically, it was easy to portray it as an eat-your-spinach plan, one demanding sacrifices from ordinary workers.

With the failure of Waxman-Markey, the Obama administration was reduced to a much more limited agenda, one that relied on carrots rather than sticks — tax breaks for clean energy, loan guarantees for companies investing in renewables. I think it’s fair to say that most economists didn’t expect these measures to achieve much.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the climate apocalypse: There was revolutionary progress in renewable energy technology, probably jump-started, at least in part, by those Obama-era policies. In 2009, electricity generated by wind power was still more expensive than electricity generated by burning coal, and solar power was more expensive still. But over the next decade wind power costs fell 70 percent, solar costs 89 percent.

Add in plunging battery prices and it has become possible to see the outlines of an economy that achieves drastic reductions in carbon emissions with little if any sacrifice, using electricity generated by renewable energy — as opposed to burning fossil fuels — to heat and cool our buildings, run our factories, power our cars and more.

The climate portion of the Inflation Reduction Act is, for the most part, an attempt to accelerate that energy transition, mainly by offering tax credits for the adoption of low-emission technologies, including electric vehicles, but also by offering incentives to use less energy in general, notably by making buildings more energy efficient.

There’s every reason to believe that these measures would have large effects. Unlike fossil fuels, which have been around for a long time, renewable energy is still an “infant industry” with a steep learning curve: The more we use these technologies, the better we get at them. So providing incentives for clean energy now will make that energy a lot cheaper in the future.

And support for electric vehicles also helps solve a chicken-and-egg problem, in which drivers are reluctant to go electric because they aren’t sure they’ll find charging stations, and businesses don’t provide many charging stations because there aren’t yet that many electric cars.

The point is that while the climate and energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act — about $370 billion over the next decade — would be only about 0.1 percent of projected gross domestic product over the same period, they could well have a catalytic effect on the energy transition.

And they could also transform the political economy of climate policy.

For years, environmentalists have been arguing that transitioning to clean energy should be considered an opportunity rather than a burden — that in addition to saving the planet, the transition would create many jobs and new business opportunities. But that’s a hard point to get across without widespread concrete examples of success. As long as serious climate policy was a proposal, not a reality, it was vulnerable to attacks from right-wingers portraying it as a nefarious plan to undermine the American way of life.

But those attacks will become less effective once people start to see the real-world effects of climate action (which is why the right is so frantic about trying to block this legislation). If Democrats can pass this bill, the chances of additional action in the future will rise, perhaps sharply.

So let’s hope there aren’t any last-minute snags. The Inflation Reduction Act won’t deliver everything climate activists want. But if it happens, it will be a major step toward saving the planet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220801231119/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/08/01/opinion/can-inflation-reduction-save-the-planet.html

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Krugman is a piece of shit, soyboy worm of a man.

Fuck Krugman.

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Dude. I know how taxes work. (. . . crude American petulance . . .)
I’m not sure what Americans were like in the 18th and 19th century, but they have to have been a lot tougher, less whining, less self-important and paradoxically more exceptional without thinking they were exceptional than Americans of today.

Even Americans born well into the 20th century had a stoic quality and a modest sense of their own importance that seems to have been washed out of our culture. Not many WWII veterans left, but the ones I’ve met spoke about their battles at Normandy or in the South Pacific as just something that needed to get done. The people I knew who lived through The Great Depression said it was tough but made light of their own hardships.

Much of our citizenry today resemble loud spoiled children, whining and whingeing at every inconvenience, and trotting out opinions on the most complex matters with zero formal training or any in-depth research. I fear that to other countries we look like one of those screaming toddlers having a fit in a very public place. Sort of an international cringe.

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/08/crude-american-petulance
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Sounds like you are describing Democrats on TikTok and Twitter.

Go ahead and check them out.

I'll wait.

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Viktor Orbán laid out his dark worldview to the American right — and they loved it

The European Union’s only autocrat came to CPAC Dallas and sold American conservatives on a vision of a Western civil war.

About two weeks ago, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a speech in which he declared “we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.” On Thursday afternoon, he gave the opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, a bookend to former President Donald Trump’s closing address this weekend at the influential right-wing gathering.

That Orbán took the marquee spot at American conservatism’s most prominent jamboree despite his recent mask-off moment — one that led a longtime Orbán adviser to resign, calling his speech “worthy of Goebbels” — is a testament to his country’s place in the US right’s imagination. Under Orbán, Hungary has become for them something like what the Nordic countries are for some progressives: an idealized model of what they hope America could become. The most important difference is that the Nordic countries are firmly democratic, while Orbán’s Hungary very much is not.

Orbán was careful to reject charges of both racism and authoritarianism in his CPAC speech, mocking such accusations as “fake news” produced by “idiots.” Yet if you listened to his speech carefully, the dark heart of his project was plainly apparent: a conspiratorial belief that “globalists” were driving the West to the brink of cultural suicide, paired with an open acknowledgment that conservatives “cannot fight successfully by liberal means.”

More at https://www.vox.com/2022/8/5/23292448/orban-cpac-dallas-2022-speech-tr
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Viktor Orbán laid out his dark worldview to the American right — and they loved it

The European Union’s only autocrat came to CPAC Dallas and sold American conservatives on a vision of a Western civil war.

About two weeks ago, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a speech in which he declared “we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.” On Thursday afternoon, he gave the opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, a bookend to former President Donald Trump’s closing address this weekend at the influential right-wing gathering.

That Orbán took the marquee spot at American conservatism’s most prominent jamboree despite his recent mask-off moment — one that led a longtime Orbán adviser to resign, calling his speech “worthy of Goebbels” — is a testament to his country’s place in the US right’s imagination. Under Orbán, Hungary has become for them something like what the Nordic countries are for some progressives: an idealized model of what they hope America could become. The most important difference is that the Nordic countries are firmly democratic, while Orbán’s Hungary very much is not.

Orbán was careful to reject charges of both racism and authoritarianism in his CPAC speech, mocking such accusations as “fake news” produced by “idiots.” Yet if you listened to his speech carefully, the dark heart of his project was plainly apparent: a conspiratorial belief that “globalists” were driving the West to the brink of cultural suicide, paired with an open acknowledgment that conservatives “cannot fight successfully by liberal means.”

More at https://www.vox.com/2022/8/5/23292448/orban-cpac-dallas-2022-speech-tr
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Sounds like he's on to something.

The fact that Vox has a problem with it only solidifies that.

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Sounds like he's on to something.

The fact that Vox has a problem with it only solidifies that.

Trump matches Orbán, even exceeds him, in understanding just how far you can go once you’ve convinced your followers that their nation’s very survival is at stake.

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Sounds like he's on to something.

The fact that Vox has a problem with it only solidifies that.
Trump matches Orbán, even exceeds him, in understanding just how far you can go once you’ve convinced your followers that their nation’s very survival is at stake.

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The city I grew up in has had two drive by shootings this summer as well as a guy who got shot inside his house for yelling out the window at 4:30AM when he woke up to noise and saw 4 hooded thugs in his neighbor's driveway breaking into his car. It used to be a nice neighborhood.

Democrats are spending record amounts of money and destroying the value of the dollar and still managing to turn the US into Mexico.

Nobody needs any convincing.

Get fucked.

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The city I grew up in has had two drive by shootings this summer as well as a guy who got shot inside his house for yelling out the window at 4:30AM when he woke up to noise and saw 4 hooded thugs in his neighbor's driveway breaking into his car. It used to be a nice neighborhood.

Democrats are spending record amounts of money and destroying the value of the dollar and still managing to turn the US into Mexico.

Nobody needs any convincing.

Get fucked.

Orbán, whose speech opened the conference in Dallas that Trump will close, has complained bitterly against Jews. Funny how the next country over from Orbán's country blamed all its problems on Jews. Funny Republicans blame their problems on Democrats. Funny how that works.

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The city I grew up in has had two drive by shootings this summer as well as a guy who got shot inside his house for yelling out the window at 4:30AM when he woke up to noise and saw 4 hooded thugs in his neighbor's driveway breaking into his car. It used to be a nice neighborhood.

Democrats are spending record amounts of money and destroying the value of the dollar and still managing to turn the US into Mexico.

Nobody needs any convincing.

Get fucked.
Orbán, whose speech opened the conference in Dallas that Trump will close, has complained bitterly against Jews. Funny how the next country over from Orbán's country blamed all its problems on Jews. Funny Republicans blame their problems on Democrats. Funny how that works.

As a Democrat, you're not a protected class. How dare you compare yourself to a Jew for being a Democrat?

Get fucked, worm.

Meanwhile, in reality...

I've got about 10,000 posts here from you that are examples of Democrats blaming all of their problems on Republicans. Funny how that works, huh?

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Meanwhile, in reality...

Democrats Are Running as Opposition Party

During the 2022 midterm, there are a couple of ways in which the Democratic appeal is essentially that they will act as a counterweight against an out-of-step Republican party.

1) The first involves the Supreme Court. Historically we refer to the legislative and executive as the “political branches,” as opposed to the supposedly apolitical judiciary. The general public no longer sees the Court that way. In a Quinnipiac University survey, 63 percent of voters agreed that “the Supreme Court is mainly motivated by politics.” And a Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that 74 percent of adults say the Court has become “too politicized.”

If people regard the Court as a political branch that is overreaching what the public wants, then they may view the midterms as a way to check it.

2) Another target for checks and balances is Donald Trump. In normal times, voters would not see any need to check the loser of the last presidential election. But these are not normal times. Trump is likely to run in 2024 and has already said as much.

Most Republican voters believe the lie that Trump won the 2020 election and as we saw on January 6, some of them are willing to act on that delusion. Trump and his followers are openly trying to stock Congress and state governments with election deniers. Many of them will be in office next year. Accordingly, a vote for Democrats is a vote against a powerful foe — not an incumbent administration, but a government-in-waiting and its accomplices.

More at https://www.thebulwark.com/democrats-are-running-as-opposition-party/

3) People notice that Trumptards are unemployed assholes with guns shouting that climate change is a hoax and abortion is murder. Do people want to vote for the candidates favored by assholes? Not unless they are assholes, too!

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Former President Donald J. Trump told his top White House aide that he wished he had generals like the ones who had reported to Adolf Hitler, saying they were “totally loyal” to the leader of the Nazi regime, according to a forthcoming book about the 45th president.

“Why can’t you be like the German generals?” Mr. Trump told John Kelly, his chief of staff, preceding the question with an obscenity, according to an excerpt from “The Divider: Trump in the White House,” by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, published online by The New Yorker on Monday morning.

Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals

How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220808133145/https://www.newyorker.com/m
agazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals

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Democrats Are Running as Opposition Party

No. No they aren't.

It's been 16 straight years of Democrats getting everything they wanted, even while Trump was in office.

They've fucked up the schools, they've fucked up the economy, they've fucked up foreign relations, they've fucked up immigration, they've fucked up criminal punishement, they've fucked up corporate culture, they've fucked up anything that Americans used to find enjoyable in life.

And then they went and fucked up every aspect of entertainment, so there's almost nowhere you can even go to get a break from them anywhere.

You are not the Opposition Party when you run everything (into the ground).

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They've fucked up the schools, they've fucked up the economy, they've fucked up . . .

I heard the same complaints against Democrats from my East Texas relatives continuously from 1965 until today. Every problem was the fault of Democrats. When Republicans took control of the county government and state, still the same complaint that problems were the fault of Democrats. I know my relatives. Their problems couldn't be corrected by any elected official, but my relatives aren't the kind that understand they and well known local people living close-by (a greedy employer, an incompetent manager, a cheating-lying store owner) are the real problem, not some Democrat they heard about in the news. But my relatives are afraid of these very real people they see all the time. My relatives are much braver and more vocal attacking people they will never know in person.

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