Elections; 2024
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I'll give you my 71 years of experience with Trumptards: they deserve the many misfortunes that, only to themselves, seem not to be their fault. Trump is suffering from numerous misfortunes that Trumptards fail to recognize as all Trump's fault.
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Proof for some of the worst claims about Trump
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You mean like Jacks health care needs. He has no job so he is living off the government teat. Trump is promising again to do away with the affordable care act.
Hey Jack, Biden is trying to get insulin down to 35 dollars a month for everyone. Like he has for seniors. You voting for Trump does mean you want to harm yourself because your healthcare will be gone. Too bad, but hey, you won't be angry anymore. You'll just be dead.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Did you miss the part about diabetes killing Sotomayor early? 6ix, you have a worse case of diabetes. You should be much more worried than Sotomayor about dying young, which is a thing Trumptards tend to do. We are all thankful when another smug worthless asshole Trumptard who can't hold a job dies.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The Atlantic: Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sonia-sotomayor-should-retire-now
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The Atlantic knows what way the wind is blowing.
They're not wrong. Sotomayor should retire now so you can put a young liberal on the court while you still have a chance.
My A1C is 5.6% to 5.8% and probably better than yours.
Don't worry about my diabetes. I'm managing it just fine, and I'm healthier than 90% of Americans even with it.
Once again, this thread is about the 2024 Elections. Not about your obsession with my personal life.
If you two goons had anything legitimately positive to say about the last 3 years the country as a whole has endured under its current "leadership", this election wouldn't be about Trump or people who vote for him, and it certainly wouldn't be about me personally.
Get a fuckin' life and deal with the fact Democrats are about to lose. Bigly.
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Also, there's zero evidence in the link you provided that my case of Diabetes is any worse than Sotomayor's. She's been Type 1 since she was 7 years old.
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She’s been in the news for her T1D life occasionally over the years, from book promotions to the news of her hypoglycemia event that required paramedics’ help, and when she started using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and her smartphone app beeped during the court’s oral arguments.
I've never required paramedic's help for hypoglycemia. When I first started managing my disease I did have some highs and lows while I was learning, but I'm at the point where I manage an average glucose in the 90s, while staying within my self-prescribed range of 60-160 99% of the time. I had to alter my monitor to do that, because the average they want you to be within is 80-180.
I'm not a dummy and I'm not going to end up needing paramedic's help like she did.
I can sympathize with her app going off during her work though. You can't even use the app if you put it on silent. It will wake me up at night on occasion to let me know that I'm getting low. She needs to manage her disease better, especially when she's working. There is a HUGE range of glucose levels you can fall between and not get loud alerts while you're working. The fact that I didn't even know about this incident until just now and you don't hear about this happening to her all the time would lead me to believe that she learned from this mistake and she hasn't let it happen again. This is good, since she has a job with a lot of eyeballs always on her. Good for her.
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Remember back in 2009, when Sotomayor was going through the nomination process and there was that TIME Magazine headline: “Sotomayor’s Diabetes: Will it Be a Handicap?” As DiabetesMine’s Editor Amy Tenderich wrote at the time: “Hell, no. Being a judge is a desk job, for God’s sake — all she needs is can of regular Coke handy, just in case.
I agree with the sentiment. There's absolutely nothing keeping her from working a desk job with T1D. But again, she shouldn't need to have a Coke on hand. She shouldn't ever even be drinking soda of any kind for any reason. Nobody should, honestly. There are much better options available for diabetics to keep on hand in the case they let their blood sugar get too low.
People with zero willpower that have diabetes use low blood sugar to justify consuming soda and candy bars. That's bullshit.
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Quote:5.1% HEMOGLOBIN A1C Collected on May 8, 2023 10:01 AM
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My A1C is 5.6% to 5.8% and probably better than yours.
Don't worry about my diabetes. I'm healthier than 90% of Americans even with it.
Once again, this thread is about the 2024 Elections. Not about your obsession with my personal life.
https://mychart.houstonmethodist.org/MyChart/app/test-results/details
The problem is that Trumptards have troubled lives (see the past 50 years of Trump's for examples of troubled), which follows from their health defects, their lives shattered by divorce/drugs/alcohol/sex/gambling/tobacco/consumerism/gluttony/etc., and the generalized purposelessness of their lives. 6ix, it is absolutely unsurprising that you don't work. For the Trumptards that I know who do work, they don't see any meaning in their jobs beyond the money so that they can get high after work. It is predictable they would attach themselves to Trump. He and they are the same, just separated by $billions. Trump has spent his life getting high, too, just like his Trumptards.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The key election for Russia is in November
The outcome of the Russian presidential vote was expected and won’t change the Russian status quo; the US election could.
By Leonid Ragozin | 19 Mar 2024
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/19/the-key-election-for-russ
ia-is-in-november
The Kremlin framed what essentially is the incumbent’s self-reappointment as a plebiscite on the war in Ukraine.
Trump’s election victory could be more consequential for Russia in a different way. His return to power would mean the American public has decided to take the path of sovereignism and nativism, of national and corporate interests explicitly trumping values at all times. This would signal a new era for the rest of the world, especially for Europe.
In this new world, Putin would be seen less as a rogue leader and more as an early pioneer of the new global political paradigm and definitely as someone the US could make a pragmatic deal with – and not only on Ukraine. It will vindicate his position after decades of isolation and ostracism and restore his membership in the club of world leaders.
In this sense, there is more at stake in the US election for Putin and Russia than in Russia’s own.
On the bright side, the belated realisation that Russia represents a grotesque manifestation of the Western crisis of values, rather than its own inherent evilness, may help those in the West who still cherish universal values to begin a critical reassessment of Western policies towards Russia in the last 30 years.
The Russian opposition has a lot to say about how the unholy alliance of irresponsible oligarchy and paranoid securitocrats can undo democratic institutions and other achievements of civilisation. Its experience will be of great value in the process of forming a global coalition to oppose creeping authoritarianism and to uphold universal values, rather than geopolitical interests.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:5.1% HEMOGLOBIN A1C Collected on May 8, 2023 10:01 AM
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My A1C is 5.6% to 5.8% and probably better than yours.
Don't worry about my diabetes. I'm healthier than 90% of Americans even with it.
Once again, this thread is about the 2024 Elections. Not about your obsession with my personal life.
https://mychart.houstonmethodist.org/MyChart/app/test-results/details
I do not for one second believe that you are stupid enough to post your personal mychart results online for me to figure out exactly who you are. Not only that, but the A1C test is not part of any basic or comprehensive metabolic panel tests. Unless there was a significant problem with your health, your doctors would not even prescribe A1C lab work for you.
Lucky for you, you have no idea how computers work, so the only thing that would come up if somebody clicks on the link you provided is a login page to Houston Methodist's MyChart.
Normally, it would go without saying, but... Please do yourself a favor and do not provide anybody here or anywhere else with your login credentials to see your tests results for themselves.
And BTW... even if you do somehow manage to have only a 5.1%, I'm not impressed because that's your body doing the work for you as it should.
According to NIH, here's the statistics of A1C in Type 1 Diabetics in the US:
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Of the 12,035 adults with type 1 diabetes in the T1D Exchange EHR database, 23% had an A1C <7%, 44.5% had an A1C of 7–9%, and 32.5% had an A1C >9%. Characteristics of these adults by A1C are shown in Table 1. Those with an A1C >9% were significantly younger and more likely to be Non-Hispanic Blacks, experienced more DKA and SH events, and had more depressive symptoms (P <0.001 for all). They also had lower BMIs, were less likely to have private health insurance, and were less likely to use CGM and insulin pump therapy compared with individuals with an A1C <7% (P <0.001 for all).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9845074/
23% have an A1C <7%.
44.5% have an A1C between 7-9%
32.5% have an A1C above 9%
They don't even bother figuring out how many fall into categories below 7% because it would make people's fee-fees hurt if they showed people like me in the 5% range that are under 6% and the <1% range that live their life in the high end of the normal range for people who don't have diabetes.
That's impressive, because unlike you, I actually have to work at it.
Would you care to talk about the elections in 2024 now instead of making a further ass of yourself, retard?
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Quote:6ix, you are so smart! As are all Trumptards! Just ask their opinion of themselves! Exactly like my medical records, brilliant you could see my bank account at https://www.bankofamerica.com/ . . .
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Would you care to talk about the elections in 2024 now instead of making a further ass of yourself, retard?
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if you knew my password and user name and have cloned my phone, which verifies I'm me if I log in from a computer I never used before.
But some people's opinions are that Trump, the original Trumptard, is not as smart as his latter-day Trumptards such as 6ixStringJack:
Donald Trump is an infallible judge of character, but his cabinet contained people who called him a “fucking moron," “idiot," "an idiot surrounded by clowns," “dope," "kindergartner," "idiot," “patient in an adult day care center," “empty vessel," “like an 11-year-old child,” "sixth-grader, “idiot," “crazy," and “goddamn dumbbell." -- Bill Maher
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Democrats should recognize their very real advantages
By Jennifer Rubin | March 15, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/15/democrats-advantage
s-biden/
This week, I review Democrats’ considerable campaign advantages that they might not fully appreciate, choose my distinguished person of the week and share something off the beaten path.
What caught my eye
Democrats — freaked out by premature polls, despondent over delays in former president Donald Trump’s trials and still suffering from flashbacks of the 2016 election — are prone to forget the considerable advantages their own side has over his MAGA cult following. To say polls show President Biden would lose “if the election were held today,” is silly. The election isn’t today, and its outcome will largely depend on what happens between now and then.
The election is no more predetermined eight months before Election Day than a Super Bowl winner is decided before the start of the regular season. Considering how much a single speech, such as the State of the Union, or a criminal conviction in one of Trump’s four criminal indictments might change perceptions, no one should underestimate the array of factors that will affect the direction of the race.
As Donald H. Rumsfeld famously said, there are known knowns (e.g., a MAGA movement cocooned from reality), known unknowns (e.g., whether Trump will be convicted) and unknown unknowns (e.g., an international event, a natural disaster necessitating a federal response). Faced with uncertainty, people seek refuge in irrelevant polling. Time is better spent sizing up the comparative advantages of the two sides, which, over time, take on larger significance.
We are all too familiar with Trump’s iron lock on his cult following and the media’s obsession with normalizing him. Shamelessness, some would say, is a superpower. But Biden has real advantages (in addition to sanity, a good governing record and experience) that Democrats should not take for granted. Since the State of the Union, several of these lesser-known advantages have become more evident.
First, Biden has self-awareness. He knows he is old and can joke about it. He and his team understand just how underestimated he is, making it easy to defy expectations. His opening ad was a tour de force in self-deprecation. A little self-awareness and a sense of humor go a long way, as evidenced by the edgier Biden media operation (e.g. Dark Brandon, the “presidential advice” video).
Trump, by contrast, fails to grasp when he is babbling, giving ammunition to his opponent or further incriminating himself. (The lack of self-awareness shows throughout the Republican Party and leads to missteps, such as the ridiculed response to the State of the Union.) Trump’s cluelessness might become more damaging to him as time goes on. His temper tantrums in courtrooms and boasts about his tyrannical agenda hurt him outside of his hardcore base. In sum, one campaign is flying blind, utterly dependent on a narcissistic figure degenerating under pressure; the other can adjust, improvise and compensate.
Second, Biden has concrete advantages in resources. He landed a mammoth fundraising haul after the State of the Union, and none of his reserves need to be diverted toward astronomical legal bills. He has cohesive and functioning state parties, unlike Trump, and an impressive state-by-state operation to turn out the vote and marshal volunteers, something Trump also lacks so far. Biden hit the airwaves with a $30 million ad buy and has already staffed personnel in key states. Biden’s ability to travel anywhere as frequently as he wants (and hence run a more, not less, vigorous campaign than Trump) and tout popular projects will also bolster him as the election draws near.
Biden also benefits from the enormously effective surrogates such as Jill Biden and the more combative, confident Vice President Harris, who connects with key parts of the Democrats’ base. That’s not to mention polished members of the administration and other elected Democrats (from Tran
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Why Trump’s case against George Stephanopoulos is politically risky
Many Republican voters have no idea that Donald Trump was recently held liable for sexual abuse. Trump's new civil suit might help change that.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/media/trump-sues-abc-news-george-stepha
nopoulos/index.html
George Stephanopoulos did what other mainstream news interviewers generally have not had the nerve to do: Confront a Trump supporter about Trump's adjudication for sexual abuse against E. Jean Carroll. To illustrate the tenacity required to hold Republicans accountable, it is worthwhile to quote at length his exchange with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.):
STEPHANOPOULOS: Congresswoman, thanks for joining us this morning.
You endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges in two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming a victim of that rape. How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?
MACE: Well, I will tell you, I was raped at the age of 16, and any rape victim will tell you, I’ve lived for 30 years with an incredible amount of shame over being raped. I didn’t come forward because of that judgment and shame that I felt.
And it’s a shame that you will never feel, George, and I’m not going to sit here on your show and be asked a question meant to shame me about another potential rape victim. I’m not going to do that.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It’s actually not about shaming you. It’s a question about Donald Trump.
MACE: No, you are shaming me.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You've endorsed Donald Trump for president.
MACE: Right.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Donald Trump has been found liable for rape by a jury. Donald Trump has been found liable for defaming the victim of that rape by a jury. It's been affirmed by a judge. He repeated —
MACE: It’s not a criminal court case, number one. Number two, I live with shame, and you're asking me a question about my political choices trying to shame me as a rape victim and find it disgusting.
And quite frankly, E. Jean Carroll’s comments when she did get the judgment joking about what she was going to buy, it doesn't — it makes it harder for women to come forward when they make a mockery out of rape, when they joke about it. It’s not okay.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Doesn’t it make it harder for women to come forward when they’re defamed by presidential candidates?
MACE: It makes it harder when other women joked about it and she’s joked about it. I find it offensive. And also I find it offensive that you are trying to shame me with this question.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m not trying to shame you at all. In fact —
MACE: You are. I have dealt with this for 30 years. You know how hard it was to tell my story five years ago when they were doing a fetal heartbeat bill, when there were no exceptions for rape, incest or life — or — and — rape or incest in there? I had to tell my story because no other woman was coming forward.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm just asking —
MACE: No rape victims were represented. And you’re trying to shame me this morning.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm just asking you —
MACE: And I find it offensive. And this is why women won’t come forward.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Women won’t come forward because they're defamed by those who perpetrate rape. Donald Trump has been —
MACE: They are judged, and they’re shamed, and you’re trying to shame me this morning. I think it’s disgusting.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m — I’m not — I’m not shaming you at all. I called you courageous.
MACE: I told my story. It took me 25 years to tell my story. I was judged for it. I still get judged for it today.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m asking you a very simple question, explain what —
MACE: And I answered it. You’re shaming me for my political choices.
STEPHANOPOULOS: No, I’m not — I’m asking you a question about why you endorsed someone who’s been found liable for rape. Just answer the question.
MACE: It wa
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you are so smart!
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Would you care to talk about the elections in 2024 now instead of making a further ass of yourself, retard?
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Exactly like my medical records, brilliant you could see my bank account at https://www.bankofamerica.com/ . . .
I'm not the idiot who posted the login portal to my medical records as if it were citations for blood work results.
You did that.
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Democrats should recognize their very real advantages
They have none. Not one single advantage.
This is why they're desperately trying and failing to put their political opposition in prison. A lesson they learned from third world shithole dictatorships.
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6ixStringJack: There's no way Wish is coming back. Not only did I prove to her that I got her IP address without doxxing her, but I also showed her a picture of a church in her city to drive the point home. Her husband probably banned her from coming back here. Reaverfan was banned by Haken for making death threats and telling people to kill themselves. JO and Cap'n could make a comeback at some point.
You posted this in tag-log. It's still there. I posted once that you were collecting ip address and threatening members of this site. You said you did not. Well, you just admitted to it in tag-log.
I wonder how Haken would feel about people leaving the site because you were, are, threatening its members? And hey, I've got a couple of real nice screen shots showing your post.
tick tock
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Quote:Trump is in trouble with the law because he is nuts: Donald Trump is an infallible judge of character, but his cabinet contained people who called him a “fucking moron," “idiot," "an idiot surrounded by clowns," “dope," "kindergartner," "idiot," “patient in an adult day care center," “empty vessel," “like an 11-year-old child,” "sixth-grader, “idiot," “crazy," and “goddamn dumbbell." -- Bill Maher
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Democrats should recognize their very real advantages
They have none. Not one single advantage.
This is why they're desperately trying and failing to put their political opposition in prison. A lesson they learned from third world shithole dictatorships.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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6ixStringJack: There's no way Wish is coming back. Not only did I prove to her that I got her IP address without doxxing her, but I also showed her a picture of a church in her city to drive the point home. Her husband probably banned her from coming back here. Reaverfan was banned by Haken for making death threats and telling people to kill themselves. JO and Cap'n could make a comeback at some point.
You posted this in tag-log. It's still there. I posted once that you were collecting ip address and threatening members of this site. You said you did not. Well, you just admitted to it in tag-log.
I told EVERYBODY here exactly what I did, Ted. I posted a Rick-Roll video on YouTube that had a link which collected any IP address of anybody who clicked on the link.
I never once denied that I did this. In fact, after several days had passed I made a big announcement letting everyone know what I did. It is common knowledge and it has been for years and years now.
I also didn't threaten anybody with it, nor did I dox their location to any other members of the site. Hell, I didn't even post anybody's full IP address either. I simply posted a series of three 3-digit numbers. Two of them were random numbers I just made up, but one of them were the last 3-digits of their IP addresses. This was necessary to do just because of the fact that people didn't believe me when I told them what I did and what information I had. (And also why you shouldn't click on links without making sure you actually know where they're going to take you).
Wishy and Reaverfan were the only two people I did this to, and that's because they devolved into hardcore cyber bullying, regularly telling other members (not just me) to kill themselves and going into graphic detail how they should do it. I assume that Kiki left at the same point in time because she realized that I had her information as well and we hadn't been getting along very well while Covid was in full swing. I never took the steps to show her that I had her information, because simply arguing with each other is something that's always happened in the RWED. Wishy and Reaverfan were cancer and needed to know.
Since it appeared that Haken wasn't going to do anything about it, I took it upon myself to do something about it and let them know that their behavior was no longer anonymous. I never told anybody it was time for them to leave. Just that they'd better start behaving themselves and acting like human beings. Wishy left on her own. Hell... I know for sure Reaverfan got banned because he was never going to stop otherwise... But Wish might not be here anymore because Haken banned her too. She deserved it just as much as he did, so maybe I have it all wrong and her absence from this site was involuntary as well.
I NEVER ONCE DENIED THAT I DID ALL OF THIS. It's all in my post history.
Get your Vitamin D levels checked, son, because it appears that your memory is starting to fail you hard.
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I wonder how Haken would feel about people leaving the site because you were, are, threatening its members? And hey, I've got a couple of real nice screen shots showing your post.
Go ahead and tell him. If he was paying attention at all when this all went down, and I assume he was since he did ultimately ban Reaverfan, he already knows full well what I did.
I have absolutely no regrets about it and I would do it again if it were necessary.
So shut your fucking mouth about people eating bullets. You're not funny.
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Quote:It is only words, but people who have mental breakdowns when they hear what they don't want to know are people who should NOT be President. For example, Presidents should never have Crazed Meltdowns. Trump can't help but have at least one a day:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So shut your fucking mouth about people eating bullets. You're not funny.
March 19, 2024/9:15 a.m. ET
Still Unable to Post Bond, Trump Has Most Crazed Meltdown Yet
Donald Trump has no idea how to post bond in the fraud trial—and he’s absolutely losing it.
Read how silly Trump behaves at https://newrepublic.com/post/179929/trump-crazed-meltdown-fraud-trial
"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout" is a description of Trump every day in situations that don't go as Trump prefers. He is a silly man prone to having screaming fits of anger. He is not Presidential.
6ix, Trump has one week to solve his bond problem but he can't if he won't stop screaming his head off in a panic attack.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It is only words,
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So shut your fucking mouth about people eating bullets. You're not funny.
My uncle, who was like a brother to me, shot himself in the face. He fucked that up and my aunt thought it was a wounded animal out in the garage, which he took the time to wrap up floor to ceiling in plastic so nobody had to scrub out brains from the walls and work bench. They needlessly kept him alive for another 6 hours on a hospital bed before he finally died. Who knows how long he was out in that garage before that.
I was supposed to go to my grandma's and see him the previous weekend after a concert, but I ended up staying the night somewhere else after partying until the wee hours of the morning. That's something I have to live with for the rest of my life.
Fuck Ted, and fuck you. We all know that you're Reaverfan and you were going around telling everyone in graphic detail how to put a pistol in their mouths and pull the trigger before I got your alt account banned.
There's nothing funny about suicide, and if you need to start saying shit like that to other people because you can't win an argument, check yourself in the mirror because you two are the fucking bad guys.
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I went back a page and skimmed what I had missed. THUGR, you're just a toxic asshole. I hope you realize that I, for one, hardly ever read what you post. It's just too stupid.
SECOND OTOH lies as often as he posts. Also not worth reading!
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But they do have a point. Our dear daughter, through no fault of her own, she would never have gotten healthcare without Medicare. I'm sure the same is true for your brother, SIX. AFA your healthcare, you're probably getting it through a state aid program.
The Affordable Care Act IMHO is just a big wet kiss to hospital corporations and insurance companies and big pharma. It should have been replaced by Medicare for All,or at least the public option.
These programs need serious reform, but they are also absolutely necessary for many Americans.
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Many of the Trump administration’s health insurance actions still stand. For example, there’s the No Surprises Act, a bipartisan measure aimed at protecting patients from unexpected medical bills stemming from payment disputes between health care providers and insurers.
His administration also pushed price transparency regulations that require hospitals to post prices and insurers to provide estimated costs for procedures. Hospitals have been slow to comply.
Medicaid
While first-time candidate Trump vowed not to cut popular entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, his administration did not stick to that promise.
The Affordable Care Act repeal legislation Trump supported in 2017 would have imposed major cuts to Medicaid, and his Department of Health and Human Services later encouraged states to require Medicaid recipients to prove they are working in order to receive health insurance. However, the legislation did not pass.
Drug prices
The Trump administration was active on trying to reduce the price of prescription drugs for consumers. Trump signed measures allowing pharmacists to tell patients when the cash price of a drug is lower than the cost with insurance.
However, many of Trump’s proposals were blocked by the courts. One plan that never took effect would have pegged the price of some expensive drugs covered by Medicare to prices in other countries. Another would have required drug companies to include prices in television advertisements.
A regulation allowing states to import cheaper drugs from Canada did go through. However, it took until January 2024 for the FDA to approve the first importation plan, in Florida. Canada won’t allow exports that risk causing drug shortages there, leaving unclear whether the policy is workable.
Veterans health
Some advocates credit Trump for overhauling Department of Veterans Affairs health care. He signed a major bill allowing veterans to obtain care outside VA facilities.
That said, White House officials also tried to scuttle passage of the spending needed to pay for the initiative.
Medical freedom
Trump scored a big win for the libertarian wing of the Republican Party when he signed into law the “Right to Try Act,” intended to make it easier for patients with terminal diseases to access drugs or treatments not yet approved by the FDA.
Trump said in a Jan. 10 Fox News town hall that the law had “saved thousands and thousands” of lives. There’s no evidence for the claim, and it is not clear how many patients have managed to obtain treatment using the law. The FDA had already typically granted requests for “compassionate use” of not-yet-approved drugs anyway.
The stumbling block, which the law did not address, is getting drug companies to release doses of medicines that are still being tested and may be in short supply.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/01/23/trump-health-car
e-plan-second-term/72280611007/
Many of these reforms are unworkable in specifics but do head in the right direction.
Right now Biden* is trumpeting that he's making prescription drugs more affordable. Do you know how many RX -out of the 20,000 that are out there- Medicare is bargaining
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“A major party candidate is saying, ‘You elect me, there’s going to be dictatorship, bloodbath, violence, retribution against my political enemies,’ that equals what we saw in Italy, in Germany and other places,” Beschloss warned.
He added, “If Americans do not get that, if they choose that voluntarily, then this country has changed in a way that I do not understand.”
Trump, suggested Beschloss, has actually “done us all a favor” with his violent rhetoric because he’d brought out into the open the possibility of how “fascism and dictatorship might come to America.”
Previously, a candidate with fascist tendencies could have pretended to be “a normal candidate” and then suddenly upended the Constitution after winning the election.
“In a way, Donald Trump has made it easier because when he tells you he’ll be a dictator for a day, we all know that dictators don’t resign after a day,” Beschloss explained. “When he uses the word ‘bloodbath.’ Yes, it was in the context of an automobile industry speech, but he knew exactly what he was saying. When he talks about suspending the Constitution, or migrants as animals, this is him. He’s telling you what this choice is.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-beschloss-donald-trump-favor_n_
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“A major party candidate is saying, ‘You elect me, there’s going to be dictatorship, bloodbath, violence, retribution against my political enemies,’ that equals what we saw in Italy, in Germany and other places,” Beschloss warned.
He added, “If Americans do not get that, if they choose that voluntarily, then this country has changed in a way that I do not understand.”
Trump, suggested Beschloss, has actually “done us all a favor” with his violent rhetoric because he’d brought out into the open the possibility of how “fascism and dictatorship might come to America.”
Previously, a candidate with fascist tendencies could have pretended to be “a normal candidate” and then suddenly upended the Constitution after winning the election.
“In a way, Donald Trump has made it easier because when he tells you he’ll be a dictator for a day, we all know that dictators don’t resign after a day,” Beschloss explained. “When he uses the word ‘bloodbath.’ Yes, it was in the context of an automobile industry speech, but he knew exactly what he was saying. When he talks about suspending the Constitution, or migrants as animals, this is him. He’s telling you what this choice is.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-beschloss-donald-trump-favor_n_
65f957c3e4b0cb9583b18484
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Here's a reminder of why lots of people are afraid of Trump's authoritarian streak:
• He tried to violently overthrow the 2020 election.
• He often speaks admiringly of foreign dictators.
• He has explicitly promised to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies.
• He wants to eliminate big chunks of the civil service so he can appoint his own loyalists instead.
• He writes about "rooting out" all the vermin who don't support him.
• He laughs about being a dictator on "day one" and then stopping.
These aren't merely points of ordinary partisan disagreement. They are the signs of a man who will at least try to bring down the rule of law for his own aggrandizement. He may not succeed, but it won't be for lack of desire.
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Donald Trump lost over 500,000 votes to Nikki Haley during Tuesday's GOP primaries, despite the former South Carolina governor dropping out of the race, with tens of thousands of other votes going against the former president.
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Trump Takes Questions After Voting In Florida Primary: Israel, Deportation, Trials
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/19/trump_takes_questio
ns_after_voting_in_florida_primary_israel_deportation_trials.html
Doesn't sound like a guy who's worried at all about the scam NYC civil trial.
... and to quote "Shab" from the comment section of this article:
"Wow, Trump is articulate, cogent, stable. He's not reading from a teleprompter or notes and most of all he is wearing normal shoes... unlike that other guy."
Yeah. If you haven't heard, Joe Biden* now needs to wear clown shoes to keep him from falling over.
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Trump won self-identified Republicans in the GOP primaries by 64 points, but he carried independents by only 27 points.
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Kennedy family set to step up its efforts to help Biden's campaign
WASHINGTON — For President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent candidacy looms as a potential political spoiler. But for members of the extended Kennedy family, the possibility that one of their own could tip the race for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump poses a different risk — spoiling a legacy.
Some members of the extended Kennedy clan already have issued statements making clear they stand with Biden this fall. But a gathering of dozens of Kennedys at the White House last weekend marked the beginning of a more active effort by the family to boost Biden’s reelection effort, and push back against one of their own.
“There was a point of having everybody there,” a senior member of the Kennedy family said of their gathering at the White House on St. Patrick's Day. The visit, which was captured in a photograph with Biden on the steps of the Rose Garden, included three generations and four branches of RFK Jr.'s relatives.
When it comes to potential future interactions with Biden, the senior member of the Kennedy family added: “I think timing is everything.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kennedy-family-set-to-step-up-
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Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) made absolutely clear this week that he will still not be voting for President Donald Trump, despite the former president having secured enough delegates to be his party’s presidential nominee.
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Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) made absolutely clear this week that he will still not be voting for President Donald Trump, despite the former president having secured enough delegates to be his party’s presidential nominee.
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Thanks for letting me know. He will be voted out.
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House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security
A budget by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 GOP lawmakers, highlights how many in the party would seek to govern if Republicans win in November.
The new budget also calls for converting Medicare to a "premium support model," echoing a proposal that Republican former Speaker Paul Ryan had rallied support for. The plan became a flashpoint in the 2012 election, when Ryan was GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's running mate, and President Barack Obama charged that it would "end Medicare as we know it."
Trump has offered shifting rhetoric on Social Security and Medicare without proposing a clear vision for the future of the programs. Trump shifty? Unclear? What's new about that?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-budget-raise-age-
retirement-social-security-medicare-rcna144341
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House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security
A budget by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 GOP lawmakers, highlights how many in the party would seek to govern if Republicans win in November.
The new budget also calls for converting Medicare to a "premium support model," echoing a proposal that Republican former Speaker Paul Ryan had rallied support for. The plan became a flashpoint in the 2012 election, when Ryan was GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's running mate, and President Barack Obama charged that it would "end Medicare as we know it."
Trump has offered shifting rhetoric on Social Security and Medicare without proposing a clear vision for the future of the programs. Trump shifty? Unclear? What's new about that?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-budget-raise-age-
retirement-social-security-medicare-rcna144341
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Trump hasn't been shifty. He's been quite clear that it won't be touched.
Fuck NeoCon Paul Ryan. I'm sure that Mitt Romney backed that one too.
I'm enjoying watching the remaining NeoCon wing of the Republican Party douse themselves in gasoline before Trump lights the match.
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The fact that there was even a debate about who the UAW chief was going to endorse in 2024 is horribly bad news for the Biden* administration.
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Quote:I was almost certain that 6ixStringJack knew what he was talking about Social Security and Medicare. Imagine my disappointment when I learned Trump says stuff then backtracks then backtracks on the backtracks because he is a Super-Salesman who will say anything to close a deal. The sad yet exciting story of Trump being on both sides simultaneously:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Trump hasn't been shifty. He's been quite clear that it won't be touched.
Fuck NeoCon Paul Ryan. I'm sure that Mitt Romney backed that one too.
I'm enjoying watching the remaining NeoCon wing of the Republican Party douse themselves in gasoline before Trump lights the match.
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+social+security+medicare
Once Trump is President, he will settle on one side, that of the Republican Party.
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Liam Neeson and Glenn Close Perform Chilling Readings of the Trump Indictments, to Save You the Effort
A new podcast unpacks the specifics of Donald Trump's charges, relying on the A-list actors to emphasize their gravity
Published on March 21, 2024 04:43PM EDT
Liam Neeson and Glenn Close are using their award-winning voices to help Americans understand why former President Donald Trump is under criminal indictment.
More at https://people.com/liam-neeson-glenn-close-perform-trump-indictment-re
adings-podcast-8612574
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That's awesome!
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's awesome!
The Republican Study Committee — which includes nearly every Republican in Congress — released its latest budget proposal:
https://rsc-hern.house.gov/media/press-releases/rsc-releases-fy25-budg
et-proposal-fiscal-sanity-save-america
It includes cuts to Social Security even though Republicans have spent the past year angrily denying Democratic claims that they plan to cut Social Security. Also included:
• Cut the pay of federal workers
• Reduce funding for the EPA, SEC, FTC, NLRB, OSHA
• Raise the Social Security retirement age even more
• A big pile o' deregulation proposals
• Drill baby drill
• Welfare cuts
• Defund the IRS
• Eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Tax cuts for businesses and the rich
• Eliminate the estate tax
• Convert SNAP into a block grant
• More defense spending
• Health Savings Accounts
• Block grants for Medicaid
• Premium support for Medicare
• Block grant SSI
• Balanced budget amendment
• Make tax increases essentially impossible
• Kill Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
• Eliminate climate funding wherever it's hiding
Old-timers will recognize most of these things as reliable warhorses in Paul Ryan's old budget proposals. In other words, the GOP isn't Donald Trump's party in any meaningful sense of the word. It's the same party it's been for decades, with the same old tired proposals.
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Truly Conservative Women Like Me Are Increasingly Fed Up With Today's GOP | Opinion
By Sarah Stogner | Mar 21, 2024 at 7:45 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/truly-conservative-women-like-me-are-increasi
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In the two weeks since the State of the Union, conversations I've had with fellow conservative women have been filled with criticism—but not for President Biden. Instead, they've revolved around the disturbing response delivered by Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and what it says about the state of the Republican Party.
The words "creepy" and "Handmaid's Tale" come up often. The message is clear: The GOP is looking to put a "pretty face" on a sexist, backward ideology. And I say this as someone who is running for office in Texas as a Republican.
For many of us, this was the final sign that the GOP has run off the rails. Our only choices at this point are to fight to steer it back onto the tracks, or jump off entirely before it crashes.
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Well, there's an answer to this supposed conundrum:
Vote "not Biden*" for President, since foreign policy and border protection is a President's bailiwick.
Vote your pocketbook for Congress, bc Congress does spending and domestic policy.
Seriously dood, stop with the false dilemmas.
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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Well, there's an answer to this supposed conundrum:
Vote "not Biden*" for President, since foreign policy and border protection is a President's bailiwick.
Vote your pocketbook for Congress, bc Congress does spending and domestic policy.
Seriously dood, stop with the false dilemmas.
- SIGNYM
Comrade signym would love for people not to vote. Better they vote for Biden than this mad man.
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Trump reportedly keeps lying and never learns his lessons. – March 22, 2024 11:39 PM ET
Donald Trump biographer Tim O'Brien recounted a time when the two were talking about the past and regrets especially about declaring bankruptcy. Trump had a few.
"He said, 'You know, my father always said, 'You never personally guarantee any loans.' And I made a mistake. I personally guaranteed too much money in the early 1990s. I didn't think it would catch up with me. And it did. And I learned my lesson. I would never personally guarantee a loan after that.'"
"I later found out he was lying to me in that very moment," he said. "I didn't know it, but it turned out he had personally guaranteed some of the loans on the new building he was developing in Chicago."
"So, he goes through these searing moments where he almost loses everything he can and has, and he says: 'I learned these lessons; I should've listened to my father.' Lo and behold, he is doing the same thing."
Trump is facing a Monday deadline to come up with $464 million bond.
O'Brien said it's a long pattern.
"Now here we are in 2024 and he is about to get exposed," he said. "It is going to be a slow grind. I don't think there's going to be a lot of drama on Monday. But the process of opening the kimono and discovering indeed Donald Trump has no financial clothing, at least not the kind of financial clothing he claims he's had, begins."
If Trump fails to remit the amount that is being asked of him, O'Brien believes the damage has been done to break through the real estate tycoon's Teflon veneer.
"It is a demonstration he doesn't learn his lessons," said O'Brien. "He does not anticipate problems properly."
"He doesn't do it because he is a juvenile delinquent; he lacks the maturity, wisdom, and strategic insight of an adult."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lied-to-biographer-loans/
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As the ex-president fans the flames of violence, experts and insiders say November will be a brutal test for US democracy
By David Smith | Sat 23 Mar 2024 15.45 EDT
A bloodbath. The end of democracy. Riots in the streets. Bedlam in the country. Donald Trump has made apocalyptic imagery a defining feature of his presidential election campaign, warning supporters that if he does not win – and avoid criminal prosecution – the US will enter its death throes.
The prophecies of doom, repeated ad nauseam at rallies and on social media, have raised fears that the former president is making an electoral tinderbox that could explode in November. While there has been much commentary assessing the implications of a Trump win, some experts warn that a Trump defeat could provide an equally severe stress test of American democracy.
“Regardless of whether Donald Trump wins or loses, there’s going to be violence,” said Michael Fanone, a retired police officer who was seriously injured by pro-Trump rioters at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. “If Donald Trump loses, he’s not going to concede and he’s going to inspire people to commit acts of violence, just like he did in the weeks and months leading up to January 6, 2021.
“If he wins, I also believe that there’s going to be violence committed by his supporters, targeting people who previously tried to hold him to account, whether it was members of the press, average citizens like myself, Department of Justice officials, state and federal prosecutors. I believe him when he says that he will have his vengeance.”
Trump has long sought to sow distrust in the electoral system while using rhetoric outside the boundaries of modern political discourse, dehumanising opponents and immigrants and portraying the US as a nation on the verge of collapse.
During his first run for president, in 2016, he encouraged his supporters to “knock the crap out” of protesters and said he would pay their legal bills if they got into trouble. Should he be denied the presidential nomination at the Republican national convention in Cleveland, he warned: “I think you’d have riots.”
In the summer of 2020, Trump is said to have called for the military to shoot peaceful protesters in Washington during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations. When he disputed his election defeat that year, he suggested that an adverse ruling by the Pennsylvania supreme court would “induce violence in the streets”.
Then, at a rally before his supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, Trump said: “You’ll never take back our country with weakness … If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country any more.”
After the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in August 2022, he predicted that “terrible things are going to happen”, and then quoted the South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham warning of “riots in the streets” if Trump were charged.
Since declaring his candidacy in November 2022, Trump has intensified inflammatory and racist statements on the campaign trail. He has promised to pardon January 6 insurrectionists, suggested that Gen Mark Milley should be executed and asserted that immigrants who are in the US illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country”.
At last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump declared: “This is the final battle, they know it. I know it, you know it, and everybody knows it, this is it. Either they win or we win. And if they win, we no longer have a country.”
He threatened “potential death & destruction” if he was charged by the Manhattan district attorney over a hush-money payment and criticised those urging his supporters to remain peaceful, fuming on his Truth Social platform: “OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED, AS THEY TELL US TO BE PEACEFUL!”
Much more at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/23/donald-trump-political
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Trump talks. We need to listen.
The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board, March 24, 2024
Most Americans don’t pay as much attention to candidate bloviation as journalists do, and yet, when it comes to Trump — “a rhetorical genius,” in the words of Jennifer Mercieca, a scholar of political rhetoric at Texas A&M University — we cannot not help but listen to the underlying message of his “weaponized rhetoric.”
Mercieca, who points out that she watched every Trump rally leading up to his 2016 victory, defines “demagogue” as “a leader who capitalizes on popular prejudices, makes false claims and promises and uses arguments based on emotion rather than reason.” She contends that Trump knows exactly what he’s doing, either intuitively or by design. Rhetorical tactics he regularly employs follow a demagogue’s playbook. They include ad hominem attacks, treating people as objects, alluding to the wisdom of crowds and — our favorite — “paralipsis.” (“I’m not saying, just saying.”)
Trump, Mercieca writes in her book “Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump,” is “probably the most successful demagogue in American history.” Whether intuitive or carefully choreographed, Trump’s rhetoric has been more effective than Huey “the Kingfish” Long, more effective than Joseph McCarthy or George Wallace.
For that reason, we can’t tune him out. And for that reason, we can’t play into his hands as many in the media did during his first campaign, rewarding his accessibility with endless airtime. We must listen — with our heads and with our gut. His blather connotes his inclinations.
We must pay attention, because this time, unlike in 2016, Trump has a team of professionals ready and willing, if American voters restore him to the White House, to translate his authoritarian inclinations into actual policy. Whether it’s weaponizing the federal bureaucracy — including, of course, the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department — or using state National Guards to round up thousands of suspected “illegals” and transport them to vast internment camps along the border, or abandoning Ukraine to Vladimir Putin’s rapacity, or sneering at the dangers of climate change, or pardoning hundreds of Jan. 6 insurrectionists or …
In other words, we may not know precisely what Trump means when he snarls about “poisoning the blood of our country,” but we know pretty much where we’re headed if he ends up back in the White House.
Mercieca suggests that we are in this fix — a political party in thrall to a dangerous demagogue — because we have neglected our obligation as citizens of a democracy. “The people have a responsibility,” she writes, “to hold their leaders responsible for their words and actions and to prevent them from becoming demagogues.”
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Quote:Because "the fix is in"?
TIME To Panic: Joe Biden's Campaign "In Trouble" Despite Obama Warning
"Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up." -Barack Obama
With less than eight months before the 2024 election, the Biden re-election campaign is in big trouble. Not only is Biden lagging in the polls vs. Donald Trump, the border crisis he created by shredding all of Trump's Executive Orders on immigration has resulted in 10 million illegals flooding into the United States - which has left even Democrats livid.
What's more, Biden is quickly losing the support of young Americans, and the latino vote.
Things are so bad that TIME magazine has just devoted 3,700 words to let us know that Barack Obama 'warned' the Biden campaign last June that defeating Trump would be harder in 2024 (because no pandemic or hoax dossier to set him up?). Six months later, Obama 'saw few signs of improvement.'
Obama returned to the White House in December, with a 'more urgent' message: the re-election campaign was behind schedule in building out field operations, and that an 'insular group of advisers' in the West Wing was hamstringing the effort.
Now, it's really bad...
Three months later, the 2024 general election is under way, and Biden is indeed in trouble. His stubbornly low approval ratings have sunk into the high 30s, worse than those of any other recent President seeking re-election. He’s trailed or tied Trump in most head-to-head matchups for months. Voters express concerns about his policies, his leadership, his age, and his competency. The coalition that carried Biden to victory in 2020 has splintered; the Democrats’ historic advantage with Black, Latino, and Asian American voters has dwindled to lows not seen since the civil rights movement. -TIME
Meanwhile, Biden's inner circle is "defiantly sanguine" as a "fog of dread" descends on Democrats.
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The rest of the TIME article is full of anecdotes of dissatisfied Democrats, particularly young voters such as 20-year-old Aidan Kohn-Murphy.
It has nothing to do, as many assume, with the President’s age. With palpable frustration, Kohn-Murphy enumerates the list of perceived policy “betrayals” as though they were “tattooed on the back of my hand.”
According to the report, GenZ voters "don’t understand why they should be compelled to cast their ballot for a candidate who has done so many things that are against their values," said Kohn-Murphy.
Losing the minority vote
In 2020, Biden carried 87% of the black vote. Now, he's polling at just 63%, a sharp decline. Meanwhile four years ago he won hispanic votes by a ratio of 2 to 1. He now trails Trump in that bloc.
Biden's support of Israel amid the Gaza war has "tanked his standing with Muslim and Arab voters," particularly in "must-win Michigan."
Overall, Biden’s advantage over Trump among nonwhite Americans has shrunk from almost 50 points in 2020 to 12, according to the latest Times/Siena poll.
"It boils down to voters of color, and those voters are pissed," said one former Biden campaign and White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "I think it’s very likely he’ll lose."
What's more, nearly two dozen senior Democratic sources told TIME that Biden's "campaign mechanics, structure, and staffing over most of the past year are partly to blame as well."
While Obama was marching to re-election over the summer of 2012, his campaign head count topped 900. Despite plans to hire 350 new staffers, the Biden campaign ended 2023 with only around 70 paid employees, according to campaign finance filings.
Biden advisers don't care about the president's dismal numbers with young and nonwhite voters, as the &qu
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I think everybody's matured quite a bit since the last two election cycles. That tends to happen when the economy goes down the shit tubes and nobody is happy or comfortable anymore.
It appears that you can't just tell the black electorate that they're not black if they don't vote for you anymore. I doubt very much that Joe* telling black people he carries around a bottle of hot sauce in his clown shoes would buy any votes this time either.
Should have done something about that border issue 3 years ago while you still had the chance, but instead you wanted to cater to the crazy, fat, white, college "educated" cat ladies on Twitter who are all losing their jobs in the media now.
Good luck in November, Joe*.
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New York Magazine: What the Polls Say Today: RFK Jr. Now Hurting Biden, Helping Trump
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-the-polls-say-today-kenne
dy-hurts-biden-helps-trump.html
They were always saying that Ed.
This is the problem with cherry picking polls instead of looking at the aggregate. (Which is exactly what you do in the article, by starting it off with two extremely biased Left-Wing polling firms, then going on to tell us what the RCP polling aggregate says today as well as what the state polls say today).
There is no such thing as a poll that is unbiased. So when you spend your days looking at only the polls that are telling you what you want to hear it hits you much harder when your cherry picked polls start telling you things you don't want to hear.
Trump has gained an additional 1 to 5 points over Joe Biden* in a 3-way race on the aggregate since the beginning and was never being hurt by RFK Jr. on the aggregate of polls. This Trump Bump in a 3-way race has more or less been mirrored on a state-by-state basis in the swing states since the beginning as well and is not a new phenomena.
So either you are lying about a change occurring here now for some reason, or you weren't looking at the polling aggregate in the beginning but switched over to it now.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve looks on track to cut interest rates as the presidential campaign season heats up, potentially delivering President Joe Biden a boost as polls show Americans dislike his handling of the economy.
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Trump pushed away his closest allies – he’s finally paying the price
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Boy oh boy! He's finally paying the price now!
I mean, not the half Billion that NYC Democrats and the lying legacy media told you for months now that he was going to pay...
But THE PRICE!!!!
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Lame | Biden*-Harris 2024
Mistake | Biden*-Harris 2024
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Cancer | Biden*-Harris 2024
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"The president’s slim advantage over the man he defeated four years ago comes just one month after a similar survey showed Mr Trump leading Mr Biden by four per cent."
Biden gaining ground on Trump in swing states, new poll shows
President Joe Biden is erasing his polling deficit with his likely Republican election opponent in a number of key states that will decide the outcome of this year’s presidential contest, according to a new survey by Bloomberg and Morning Consult.
The survey of 4,392 registered voters, which took place from 8 March to 15 March, found that Mr Biden either tightened his margin against Donald Trump or overtook the ex-president in six of seven states, with the largest polling shift coming in Wisconsin, where Badger State respondents gave the 46th president a one-point lead, 46 per cent to Mr Trump’s 45 per cent.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/biden-gaining-ground-on-trump-in-
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House Republicans' (bad) plan for America
A higher retirement age, a national abortion ban, less health insurance
By Matthew Yglesias | Mar 26, 2024
https://www.slowboring.com/p/house-republicans-bad-plan-for-america
Many people who served in the Trump administration, including many at a very senior level, warn that Donald Trump is a dangerous threat to American values and the future of American democracy.
There’s a good chance that Trump will win in November, and if he does, there’s a good chance that we’ll look back on these warnings as the most significant aspect of the campaign. But as I wrote at the beginning of the month, I think the most under-covered and underrated aspect of the campaign is still the “boring” stakes.
And that’s why it’s worth talking about the Republican Study Committee.
Once upon a time, the RSC was something like the Freedom Caucus — a smallish right-wing factional organization in the House. But its ranks grew, to the point where it became the default caucus for a safe seat Republican in a House where the vast majority of members have safe seats. The Freedom Caucus came into being as the domain of the true die-hards, and today’s RSC counts 80 percent of House Republicans as members. In other words, it very much represents mainstream Republican Party thinking.
The group put out an annual budget proposal, and the proposal loops in a lot of non-fiscal stuff as well.
In it, the RSC endorses a Ronnie Jackson bill to prevent active duty service members from getting abortions, and a Michael Cloud resolution to prevent the Department of Veterans’ Affairs from performing abortions, and a Chip Roy bill to bar campus health services providers from financing or performing abortions. Which might seem superfluous because they endorse Mike Kelly’s bill enacting a nationwide six-week abortion ban, which itself is probably a bit superfluous since they also endorse Alex Mooney’s bill to endow embryos with the 14th Amendment rights of a person at the moment of conception.
The point isn’t that all of these bills will pass — it’s 80 percent of House Republicans, not 100 percent — but the mainstream GOP policy agenda previews the menu from which a new GOP governing agenda will be drawn. And it shows the kind of thinking and aspirations that will motivate a new Trump administration. If Republicans win tiny congressional majorities, they’ll only enact a few of the ideas off this fiscal menu. But if they win big majorities, they’ll enact a lot of it.
So it’s worth understanding what’s on the menu.
Huge cuts to low-income health care
The US government spends the most money on the military and on taking care of retirees. As Republicans have grown increasingly leery of cutting spending on those two big things, but remain as enthusiastic as ever about cutting taxes, their fiscal planning has come to focus more and more on cutting health care provision to families of modest means.
As a result, the real centerpiece of the RSC’s agenda for “fiscal sanity” is a 54 percent cut to Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA marketplace subsidies.
To make it hard to characterize who, exactly, will lose health care under this scenario, they also propose turning Medicaid into a “block grant.” So instead of getting fairly generous federal matching funds with a bunch of minimum coverage rules attached, states will get way less money but a lot more flexibility in terms of deciding exactly who gets screwed. One interesting wrinkle is that the current matching rate (FMAP) is designed to be more generous to poorer states. That reflects Great Society-era politics and also progressive instincts, but today that is a feature of Medicaid that is mostly friendly to Republican governors and state legislators. Nonetheless, House Republicans want to replace it with a flat FMAP.
Part of the logic here, I guess, is that red states like Mississippi already have very stingy Medicaid programs compared to a state like Massachusetts, so the big cut mechanically falls harder on Massachusetts than on Mississippi. Still, the r
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Today there are two Republican Supreme Court Justices willing to ban abortion. Trump will appoint more:
Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas are never ones to let an embarrassment of a lawsuit go to waste. And they were openly eager to embrace the chilling argument at the heart of ADF’s case: the notion that the Comstock Act of 1873 prohibits the distribution of abortion pills and perhaps even equipment used for procedural abortions. Under this theory, abortion is already a criminal offense under federal law, and every abortion provider in the country may be prosecuted and imprisoned immediately. Conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation are already urging Trump to issue an executive order on Day 1 banning medication abortion. Republican lawyers are preparing to use the Comstock Act to prohibit all abortions, not just pills. This reading of the zombie relic is so broad that a Justice Department and judiciary hostile enough to reproductive freedom could contort it to make all abortion care a felony.
Predictably on Tuesday, and with a case built of vapors to work with, Alito and Thomas went full Comstock. Alito scolded the FDA for letting providers mail abortion pills despite the existence of the law. “This is a prominent provision,” the justice told Prelogar. “It’s not some obscure subsection of a complicated, obscure law. They knew about it. Everybody in this field knew about it.” Thomas warned Ellsworth that her client, the maker of mifepristone, lacked a “safe harbor” from prosecution over Comstock. “It’s fairly broad, and it specifically covers drugs such as yours,” he told her. (That claim is very much in dispute.) Alito and Thomas know they will likely lose this case, so they’re preparing for the next one. Maybe Trump will win and commence Comstock prosecutions. Maybe Kacsmaryk will issue a new ban on mifepristone at the behest of red states, as he is currently threatening to do. Either way, Comstock is racing toward the Supreme Court. And two justices have already aligned themselves with a sweeping interpretation of its puritanical prohibitions.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/mifepristone-supreme-court
-alito-national-abortion-ban.html
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lol
Nobody is banning abortion.
You'll still be able to safely murder your babies without any problems.
60 Million dead people and counting. Most of them black.
It's almost as if we wouldn't "need" to bring in a bunch of illegal criminal invaders if all those babies were born though, huh?
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Quote:A Democrat won a landslide victory in an Alabama state legislature race because of abortion.
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lol
Nobody is banning abortion.
You'll still be able to safely murder your babies without any problems.
60 Million dead people and counting. Most of them black.
It's almost as if we wouldn't "need" to bring in a bunch of illegal criminal invaders if all those babies were born though, huh?
It's worth noting that the Republican, Teddy Powell, was not some kind of wild-eyed MAGA candidate who was doomed from the start in a swing district. He's a relatively moderate, technocratic guy. But the Democrat, Marilyn Lands, ran exclusively on IVF and reproductive rights and just killed him.
I wonder if Republicans rue the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned? I suppose not yet. But eventually they probably will. Banning abortion isn't popular even in Alabama, and it's going to continue killing Republican candidates as long they're forced to toe the hardline pro-life position.
https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1772807746749927711
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House Republicans' (bad) plan for America
A higher retirement age, a national abortion ban, less health insurance
By Matthew Yglesias | Mar 26, 2024
https://www.slowboring.com/p/house-republicans-bad-plan-for-america
Many people who served in the Trump administration, including many at a very senior level, warn that Donald Trump is a dangerous threat to American values and the future of American democracy.
There’s a good chance that Trump will win in November, and if he does, there’s a good chance that we’ll look back on these warnings as the most significant aspect of the campaign. But as I wrote at the beginning of the month, I think the most under-covered and underrated aspect of the campaign is still the “boring” stakes.
And that’s why it’s worth talking about the Republican Study Committee.
Once upon a time, the RSC was something like the Freedom Caucus — a smallish right-wing factional organization in the House. But its ranks grew, to the point where it became the default caucus for a safe seat Republican in a House where the vast majority of members have safe seats. The Freedom Caucus came into being as the domain of the true die-hards, and today’s RSC counts 80 percent of House Republicans as members. In other words, it very much represents mainstream Republican Party thinking.
The group put out an annual budget proposal, and the proposal loops in a lot of non-fiscal stuff as well.
In it, the RSC endorses a Ronnie Jackson bill to prevent active duty service members from getting abortions, and a Michael Cloud resolution to prevent the Department of Veterans’ Affairs from performing abortions, and a Chip Roy bill to bar campus health services providers from financing or performing abortions. Which might seem superfluous because they endorse Mike Kelly’s bill enacting a nationwide six-week abortion ban, which itself is probably a bit superfluous since they also endorse Alex Mooney’s bill to endow embryos with the 14th Amendment rights of a person at the moment of conception.
The point isn’t that all of these bills will pass — it’s 80 percent of House Republicans, not 100 percent — but the mainstream GOP policy agenda previews the menu from which a new GOP governing agenda will be drawn. And it shows the kind of thinking and aspirations that will motivate a new Trump administration. If Republicans win tiny congressional majorities, they’ll only enact a few of the ideas off this fiscal menu. But if they win big majorities, they’ll enact a lot of it.
So it’s worth understanding what’s on the menu.
Huge cuts to low-income health care
The US government spends the most money on the military and on taking care of retirees. As Republicans have grown increasingly leery of cutting spending on those two big things, but remain as enthusiastic as ever about cutting taxes, their fiscal planning has come to focus more and more on cutting health care provision to families of modest means.
As a result, the real centerpiece of the RSC’s agenda for “fiscal sanity” is a 54 percent cut to Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA marketplace subsidies.
To make it hard to characterize who, exactly, will lose health care under this scenario, they also propose turning Medicaid into a “block grant.” So instead of getting fairly generous federal matching funds with a bunch of minimum coverage rules attached, states will get way less money but a lot more flexibility in terms of deciding exactly who gets screwed. One interesting wrinkle is that the current matching rate (FMAP) is designed to be more generous to poorer states. That reflects Great Society-era politics and also progressive instincts, but today that is a feature of Medicaid that is mostly friendly to Republican governors and state legislators. Nonetheless, House Republicans want to replace it with a flat FMAP.
Part of the logic here, I guess, is that red states like Mississippi already have very stingy Medicaid programs compared to a state like Massachusetts, so the big cut mechanically falls harder on Massachusetts than on Mississippi. Still, the r
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Originally posted by second:Quote:A Democrat won a landslide victory in an Alabama state legislature race because of abortion.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
lol
Nobody is banning abortion.
You'll still be able to safely murder your babies without any problems.
60 Million dead people and counting. Most of them black.
It's almost as if we wouldn't "need" to bring in a bunch of illegal criminal invaders if all those babies were born though, huh?
It's worth noting that the Republican, Teddy Powell, was not some kind of wild-eyed MAGA candidate who was doomed from the start in a swing district. He's a relatively moderate, technocratic guy. But the Democrat, Marilyn Lands, ran exclusively on IVF and reproductive rights and just killed him.
I wonder if Republicans rue the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned? I suppose not yet. But eventually they probably will. Banning abortion isn't popular even in Alabama, and it's going to continue killing Republican candidates as long they're forced to toe the hardline pro-life position.
https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1772807746749927711
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Nah. Not in the case of Alabama. Republicans are just terrible at campaigning, particularly in special elections.
You could check my post history though. I said that they should drop the whole abortion issue years ago. We have far, far more important issues in this country and these idiots want to risk the country falling into an even deeper pit because they can't let this one issue go.
The Republican party needs better strategists. The Democrat voter is a stupid and easily manipulated voter. It's not hard to win elections against Democrats if you don't constantly shoot yourself in the foot.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:A Democrat won a landslide victory in an Alabama state legislature race because of abortion.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
lol
Nobody is banning abortion.
You'll still be able to safely murder your babies without any problems.
60 Million dead people and counting. Most of them black.
It's almost as if we wouldn't "need" to bring in a bunch of illegal criminal invaders if all those babies were born though, huh?
It's worth noting that the Republican, Teddy Powell, was not some kind of wild-eyed MAGA candidate who was doomed from the start in a swing district. He's a relatively moderate, technocratic guy. But the Democrat, Marilyn Lands, ran exclusively on IVF and reproductive rights and just killed him.
I wonder if Republicans rue the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned? I suppose not yet. But eventually they probably will. Banning abortion isn't popular even in Alabama, and it's going to continue killing Republican candidates as long they're forced to toe the hardline pro-life position.
https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1772807746749927711
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Nah. Not in the case of Alabama. Republicans are just terrible at campaigning, particularly in special elections.
You could check my post history though. I said that they should drop the whole abortion issue years ago. We have far, far more important issues in this country and these idiots want to risk the country falling into an even deeper pit because they can't let this one issue go.
The Republican party needs better strategists. The Democrat voter is a stupid and easily manipulated voter. It's not hard to win elections against Democrats if you don't constantly shoot yourself in the foot.
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Lands will finish the term and will be up for election in 2026, when the governor's office and other races will be on the ballot.
Just as Democrats pass school property tax referendums all the time by putting them in primaries and special elections, she got voted in because hardly anybody even knew there was an election.
https://ballotpedia.org/Marilyn_Lands
She's raised $284,799 since 2017 and spent $261,273 of it both on this Special Election and her failed 2022 campaign.
https://www.transparencyusa.org/al/candidate/marilyn-lands?cycle=2017-
to-now
Teddy Powell, who she beat, raised $100,295 since Q4 of 2023 and only spent $37,455 of it.
https://www.transparencyusa.org/al/candidate/teddy-powell?cycle=2017-t
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That's just stupid. Was he not even aware there was a special election himself? He deserved to lose.
In this current election, Marilyn Lands out-raised her opponent by 10% ($110,885 vs. $100,295) and doubled the amount that he spent on his campaign ($63,439 vs. $37,455).
https://www.transparencyusa.org/al/candidate/marilyn-lands
Extremely doubtful that she is even a longshot chance in the 2026 election.
I wouldn't read too much into this almost non-event that took place in state legislature. It made for good clickbait headlines on an otherwise boring Wednesday though.
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The polls had the guy winning easily, yet she destroyed him.
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The polls had the guy winning easily, yet she destroyed him.
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Yes. I already explained in detail why this happened, Ted.
If you can keep this one in your brain for another 2 1/2 years, watch how she gets destroyed during an actual election.
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Just as Democrats pass school property tax referendums all the time by putting them in primaries and special elections, she got voted in because hardly anybody even knew there was an election.
https://ballotpedia.org/Marilyn_Lands
She's raised $284,799 since 2017 and spent $261,273 of it both on this Special Election and her failed 2022 campaign.
https://www.transparencyusa.org/al/candidate/marilyn-lands?cycle=2017-
to-now
Teddy Powell, who she beat, raised $100,295 since Q4 of 2023 and only spent $37,455 of it.
https://www.transparencyusa.org/al/candidate/teddy-powell?cycle=2017-t
o-now
That's just stupid. Was he not even aware there was a special election himself? He deserved to lose.
In this current election, Marilyn Lands out-raised her opponent by 10% ($110,885 vs. $100,295) and doubled the amount that he spent on his campaign ($63,439 vs. $37,455).
https://www.transparencyusa.org/al/candidate/marilyn-lands
Extremely doubtful that she is even a longshot chance in the 2026 election.
I wouldn't read too much into this almost non-event that took place in state legislature. It made for good clickbait headlines on an otherwise boring Wednesday though.
This meant nothing. It means nothing.
I'd say she'd be unemployed in 2 years, but apparently she's got a lot of money. She put tens of thousands of her own cash into her campaign according to those records. At least 10% of the $285k or so her campaign raised since 2017 was her own money. Maybe even 20% of it.
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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has warned of the negative effect that presumptive GOP 2024 nominee Donald Trump will have on down-ballot Republican candidates.
“I think we’re going to lose more seats than we otherwise would with Trump because there are just too many suburban swing voters that just don’t like him, that therefore vote against Republicans,” Ryan said in an interview with Southern Methodist University’s student-run Daily Campus on Tuesday.
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Paul is a warmongering NeoCon Bushite and he's just butt hurt that the Republican party no longer belongs to his kind.
I wouldn't worry about the down ticket stuff too much. Ronna McDaniel isn't heading the RNC anymore.
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Bidenomics Is Making China Angry. That’s OK.
March 28, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET
A persistent theme in Republican campaigning these past few years has been the effort to portray Democrats in general, and President Biden in particular, as being soft on China — in contrast to Donald Trump’s supposed toughness.
One of the major planks in the G.O.P. case against Biden’s China policies, by the way, was that he was showing his softness by not banning TikTok. This looks ironic now, since Trump, who had favored a ban, suddenly reversed his position, reportedly around the same time that he had a sit-down with a billionaire who donates to Republican campaigns and has a large stake in the Chinese-controlled company.
Even before his TikTok flip-flop, however, the reality was that while Trump talked and imposed showy but ineffective tariffs, he never had a coherent strategy for confronting our biggest rival. Biden, on the other hand, has quietly taken a very tough line on trade, especially with China.
Biden’s sophisticated economic nationalism is a big deal, much more so than Trump’s protectionist thrashing. Biden’s policies are so tough on China that China just filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization about the Inflation Reduction Act, which, despite its name, fights climate change by subsidizing the transition to a low-emission economy. Specifically, China complained about electric vehicle subsidies that it says unfairly discriminate against production using car battery components made in China.
America’s new industrial policy does favor domestic production and — we’ll see — might be in violation of W.T.O. rules. But for China, of all countries, to complain about targeted subsidies is an act of colossal chutzpah.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/opinion/biden-trump-china.html
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The Trump show is coming back on, to every television screen near you, no matter what channel you want to tune in to.
The past eight years of being a woman in this country has been to ride the roller coaster from Access Hollywood to #MeToo through the Kavanaugh hearings and eventually into losing Roe v Wade. It’s amazing that in the midst of all that, having a president who calls one of his former sexual partners “horseface” still ranks as something to be mad about. But Donald Trump is coming back—and when he does, he will give us something to be mad about every stupid day. And we won’t be able to turn it off, because once again, he’ll be the star of the show.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/stormy-documentary-donald-
trump-return-2020-despair.html
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The Trump show is coming back on, to every television screen near you, no matter what channel you want to tune in to.
The past eight years of being a woman in this country has been to ride the roller coaster from Access Hollywood to #MeToo through the Kavanaugh hearings and eventually into losing Roe v Wade. It’s amazing that in the midst of all that, having a president who calls one of his former sexual partners “horseface” still ranks as something to be mad about. But Donald Trump is coming back—and when he does, he will give us something to be mad about every stupid day. And we won’t be able to turn it off, because once again, he’ll be the star of the show.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/stormy-documentary-donald-
trump-return-2020-despair.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Oh sure.
Let's pretend like you guys haven't been pissed off every day and invoked Trump's name every day for the last 8 years. That's almost 3,000 consecutive days out of you now.
You've had the ability to turn it off every single day, especially the last 3 years, but you can't help yourselves.
I look forward to watching you get especially crazy over the next 6 months.
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Quote:Today, my sister asked me to go look at a house on her street. The house had been foreclosed on and she wanted my opinion about what it was worth. Unasked, I also gave her my guess about the politics of the former owners: "These people were Trumptards." She came back with a: "How could you know? They had Trump 2020 signs in their yard, but those were taken down years ago." I told my sister that there were portents, visible under ultraviolet light and that these people were much the same as Trump, but smaller assholes less successful than him. Trump has cleverly made himself into an object of sexual desire for Trumptards. When Trump is around Trumptards reveal themselves as beasts, fools, incompetents, and crooks in a feedback loop amplifying the Trumptards' defects. When Trump is more in the news, the Trumptards act more like the stupid obese beasts they are.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh sure.
Let's pretend like you guys haven't been pissed off every day and invoked Trump's name every day for the last 8 years. That's almost 3,000 consecutive days out of you now.
You've had the ability to turn it off every single day, especially the last 3 years, but you can't help yourselves.
I look forward to watching you get especially crazy over the next 6 months.
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The Trump show is coming back on, to every television screen near you, no matter what channel you want to tune in to.
The past eight years of being a woman in this country has been to ride the roller coaster from Access Hollywood to #MeToo through the Kavanaugh hearings and eventually into losing Roe v Wade. It’s amazing that in the midst of all that, having a president who calls one of his former sexual partners “horseface” still ranks as something to be mad about. But Donald Trump is coming back—and when he does, he will give us something to be mad about every stupid day. And we won’t be able to turn it off, because once again, he’ll be the star of the show.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/stormy-documentary-donald-
trump-return-2020-despair.html
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Oh sure.
Let's pretend like you guys haven't been pissed off every day and invoked Trump's name every day for the last 8 years. That's almost 3,000 consecutive days out of you now.
You've had the ability to turn it off every single day, especially the last 3 years, but you can't help yourselves.
I look forward to watching you get especially crazy over the next 6 months.
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Quote:Trump is officially selling a patriotic copy of the Christian Bible themed to Lee Greenwood’s famous song, “God Bless the USA.”
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Oh sure.
Let's pretend like you guys haven't been pissed off every day and invoked Trump's name every day for the last 8 years. That's almost 3,000 consecutive days out of you now.
You've had the ability to turn it off every single day, especially the last 3 years, but you can't help yourselves.
I look forward to watching you get especially crazy over the next 6 months.
Jesus officially called Trump a robber. In other translations, Trump is a thief. Either Trump is a robber or a thief, it is six of one, half dozen of the other:
15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2011%3A15-17&ver
sion=NIV
The Christian reaction to Trump’s Bible endorsement goes deeper than you think
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-christians-angry-trump-god-173235981.ht
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Originally posted by second:
The Trump show is coming back on, to every television screen near you, no matter what channel you want to tune in to.
The past eight years of being a woman in this country has been to ride the roller coaster from Access Hollywood to #MeToo through the Kavanaugh hearings and eventually into losing Roe v Wade. It’s amazing that in the midst of all that, having a president who calls one of his former sexual partners “horseface” still ranks as something to be mad about. But Donald Trump is coming back—and when he does, he will give us something to be mad about every stupid day. And we won’t be able to turn it off, because once again, he’ll be the star of the show.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/stormy-documentary-donald-
trump-return-2020-despair.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Oh sure.
Let's pretend like you guys haven't been pissed off every day and invoked Trump's name every day for the last 8 years. That's almost 3,000 consecutive days out of you now.
You've had the ability to turn it off every single day, especially the last 3 years, but you can't help yourselves.
I look forward to watching you get especially crazy over the next 6 months.
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Donald Trump, Grifter Extraordinaire, Is Now Selling Bibles
It’s almost too perfect.
In doing so, he has stepped into a role American film and literature have long associated with grift. A rhetorical cousin to the traveling snake oil salesman or the villainous priest, the fictional Bible salesman has, through books and movies, become the metaphorical manifestation of the biblical warnings against those who “peddle the word of God for profit” (2 Corinthians 2:17, NIV).
The 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the psychotic, one-eyed, loquacious Bible salesman Big Dan Teague (John Goodman) never appears to be innocent. Big and sweaty, he makes no secret of the fact that “it’s all about the money, boys.” After all, he declares, “people are looking for answers, and Big Dan sells the only book that’s got ’em.” Teague might be a smooth talker when it comes to selling “the truth,” but he beats Ulysses (George Clooney) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) senseless with a tree branch before running off with their car and cash.
Big Dan is also a member of the Ku Klux Klan and an active participant in an attempted lynching in the movie. Through this side of his character, the story adds to the Bible salesman trope, linking violence and theft disguised by religion to the South’s history of racial violence in the name of “culture and heritage.” Big Dan’s career as a Bible salesman is a metaphorical hood that allows him to get away with theft, while his Klan hood allows him—and the rest of the hate group—to get away with murder at night while maintaining the veneer of upstanding citizens by day.
American culture continues to be shaped by the fact that, to quote the opening line of the 1969 documentary Salesman, “the best seller in the world is the Bible.” It’s not surprising, then, that as a mask for greed and shamelessness, upselling bibles is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-
lee-greenwood-reviews-paper-moon-o-brother-where-art-thou.html
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I can't imagine how hard it is being you. I'm so sorry for what you have to deal with everyday.
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Quote:Trumptards live like you, 6ix. Products of divorce. Dumped by girlfriends. Unemployed. Fat. Self-medicating to easy their afflictions by diseases and mental illness. Short on money and respect. But their obese hero Trump will rule America as God rules the heavens. "Believe me", says Trump.
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I can't imagine how hard it is being you. I'm so sorry for what you have to deal with everyday.
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Larry David unloads on 'little baby' Trump in interview with Chris Wallace
Appearing in a segment with Chris Wallace, Larry David didn't mince words when talking about Donald Trump's election denial and other routine behavior.
"He's such a little baby that he's thrown 250 years of democracy out the window by not accepting the results. He's such a sociopath. He's so insane. He just couldn't admit to losing. And we know he lost. He knows he lost," David said while speaking with Wallace.
"He's such a sick man."
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The nationwide poll conducted in mid-March by Florida Atlantic University found 73% of voters agree that “Democracy may have problems, but it is the best system of government,” including 50% who strongly agree. Just 13% disagree.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-poll-asked-voters-if-democra
cy-is-the-best-system-then-came-all-the-unexpected-responses/ar-BB1kLkMn?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b64f8d2a077a42059ee8682c9dea13c7&ei=95
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Larry David unloads on 'little baby' Trump in interview with Chris Wallace
Appearing in a segment with Chris Wallace, Larry David didn't mince words when talking about Donald Trump's election denial and other routine behavior.
"He's such a little baby that he's thrown 250 years of democracy out the window by not accepting the results. He's such a sociopath. He's so insane. He just couldn't admit to losing. And we know he lost. He knows he lost," David said while speaking with Wallace.
"He's such a sick man."
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I noticed THUGR never reposts his brainless posts where he's hyperventilating about TRUMP!RUSSIA! COLLUSION!
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards live like you, 6ix. Products of divorce. Dumped by girlfriends. Unemployed. Fat. Self-medicating to easy their afflictions by diseases and mental illness. Short on money and respect. But their obese hero Trump will rule America as God rules the heavens. "Believe me", says Trump.
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I can't imagine how hard it is being you. I'm so sorry for what you have to deal with everyday.
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I'm pretty much in a good mood most days. I get to do whatever I want to do. I learn new things all the time. I buy new tools all the time. I create things. I improve things. I have a purpose in life.
You post about Trump 10 times per day for 3,000 days straight and you're a miserable little gremlin.
You're probably the worst possible advertisement for your side.
Meanwhile, this MSNBC article is about you...
More and more Americans are feeling unhappy. It doesn’t have to be this way.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/us-world-happiness-report-
2024-chris-murphy-rcna145108
Get some friends. Touch some grass. Stop being an unbearable asshole to every person you come across.
There's still hope for you. I know you can do it.
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S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies are looking at interceptions of both communications and financial transactions as part of “a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump,” according to a new report by the New York Times.
It begins = THUGR
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61321
Russian hackers from a military intelligence unit hacked Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company Joe Biden’s son Hunter works for, which is also at the center of President Donald Trump’s impeachment. According to The New York Times, hackers used tactics reminiscent of 2016 attacks on the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign and were searching for information to embarrass the Biden family.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61321&p=3
I was right again. Trumps been colluding with Russia since 2016.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65833
I am completely confident that the house and senate republicans would much rather have Pence at the top. Given enough cover ( depending on what Trump does ), I think they would impeach him in a heart beat. Furthermore, I believe if they see a disaster coming, like a war or Trump being blackmailed by Putin, they themselves will be desperate to find a way to do it.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61377
Mueller Investigation Is Over / Part two are the trials. Hey Jack, I Was Right. 20 Plus Russians Charged, 19 Of Trumps People Convicted of Felonies.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63004&p=1
I seem to remember you getting all twisted about a Russian bank pinging a computer in Trump Tower.
That, plus all the idiocy you posted about Russia and Ukraine.
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In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman published Friday, Mark Cuban was asked why he believes "Biden would make a better president than Trump."
"If you look at the people he's hired, there hasn't been any turnover in his cabinet — at all," Cuban said. "If you look at the people he's hired over the course of his career, or while he was Vice President in particular, there's nobody who's turned on him and came out and written books and published statements about how he's bad for the country."
"Now compare that to Trump. The people closest to him — almost all of them turned unless there's a financial relationship involved," he added. "To me, that says everything."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mark-cuban-won-t-vote-for-trum
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I noticed THUGR never reposts his brainless posts where he's hyperventilating about TRUMP!RUSSIA! COLLUSION!
SIGNYM
Posts about Putin and Russia are in the appropriate threads. That said, they are trying as hard as they can to take down Biden with lies and propaganda.
You know, the shit you post.
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Gender gap expands between Biden and Trump, new poll shows
Biden holds a slight lead over Trump in Wednesday’s poll from Quinnipiac University.
More women said they would support Biden over Trump in this latest survey, with 58 percent backing Biden and 36 percent backing Trump. Last month, the Quinnipiac poll found 53 percent of women supported the incumbent Democrat, compared to 41 percent for the Republican challenger.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/31/gender-poll-2024-biden-trump-
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Quote:I wonder what could end 6ix's smugness? Nothing. It soothes the Trumptards to create false stories about their antagonists being failures and Trumptards being healthy, successful and proud of it. 6ix, you and Trump are not successful and your self-pride is excessive. For example, look at what you posted. The titles say it all:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm pretty much in a good mood most days. I get to do whatever I want to do. I learn new things all the time. I buy new tools all the time. I create things. I improve things. I have a purpose in life.
You post about Trump 10 times per day for 3,000 days straight and you're a miserable little gremlin.
You're probably the worst possible advertisement for your side.
Meanwhile, this MSNBC article is about you...
More and more Americans are feeling unhappy. It doesn’t have to be this way.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/us-world-happiness-report-
2024-chris-murphy-rcna145108
Get some friends. Touch some grass. Stop being an unbearable asshole to every person you come across.
There's still hope for you. I know you can do it.
"Second and Ted Murdered Laken Riley"
"Oh? I thought he wasn't able to appeal unless he posted a half-billion bond? I guess the media lied to you again, huh?"
"Well... He was no longer useful to the DNC or the Ukraine Money Laundering Scheme... So justice was served"
"The Biden Budget Is Nothing But Record Tax Hikes"
"Looks like Congress is going to spend another $1.2 Trillion to keep government workers employeed for another few months"
"Ha. Haha! HAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!!"
6ix looks at this list of titles for threads he started and will see himself as a beacon of sanity and his antagonists as evil. I see it as 6ix should stop wasting the rest of his life. But so should Trump. Maybe he should become a philanthropist rather than an opinionated jerk. Check out his jerk speeches which are on the same subjects as 6ix's threads. 6ix and Trump are a Unity, a single mind in many brains, sharing the same feelings.
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The dead man’s wife explained why the couple had ingested fish tank cleaner: “I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, ‘Hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re (Trump) talking about on TV?’” The bottle that killed Gary Lenius and sent Wanda Lenius to the hospital on March 22, 2020, contained chloroquine phosphate. Days earlier President Donald Trump had touted chloroquine as a possible “game changer” in the fight against Covid-19. “The nice part,” he assured the public, “is it’s been around for a long time, so we know that…if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody.” Pharmacies saw alarming increases in prescriptions for chloroquine products.
In those first days of the pandemic, Trump repeatedly made dubious medical claims, in press conferences and on Twitter, that were then repeated on conservative television networks and social media. As the death toll rose, he sought quick solutions. During a press conference on April 23, 2020, Trump boasted that he had told the White House coronavirus response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, to find out if “disinfectant” could cure Covid-19 in humans, through “injection inside or almost a cleaning.” In the same press conference, Trump wondered aloud about ultraviolet light therapy: “Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.”
Birx remained silent, blinked rapidly, and looked down. She was wishing “for the floor to open up and swallow me whole,” she writes in Silent Invasion, her memoir of her time in the Trump administration. “I had come into the White House knowing that having the president’s ear would be crucial to my success…. I had to continue to ensure that science was at the decision-making table inside.” This may explain her decision to damage her credibility by vouching for Trump as he offered dangerous misinformation about a pandemic that eventually killed more than one million Americans. “He’s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data,” she told the Christian Broadcasting Network on March 25 that year. “And I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.”
Birx, a physician, award-winning researcher, and retired Army colonel, had been in public service for more than four decades. In 2014 President Obama appointed her as the State Department’s global HIV/AIDS coordinator. In the White House, Birx was meant to be what Politico dubbed a “czar-like figure,” coordinating the pandemic response and reporting directly to the vice-president. Working in the chaotic Trump administration, however, meant that she had to jockey with other Trump appointees for the president’s attention, and her influence waned over time.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/the-corruption-playbook-tr
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Donald Trump’s plan to destroy civil service protections if reelected is more than an employees’ rights issue. What’s at stake is democracy itself.
April 18, 2024 issue
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Trump has said that in a second term he wants to sidestep civil service laws that protect government employees from political pressure. Those laws are meant to keep them loyal to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the public—not only the president.
Most of the government’s work doesn’t require political decision-making. Government scientists are supposed to follow science; government lawyers are supposed to interpret laws honestly and provide expertise for drafting regulations; other officials are supposed to disburse benefits, enforce laws, and protect public health and safety without political bias. Federal law prohibits the government from firing most federal employees for refusing to obey orders that would require them to violate any law, rule, or regulation. It also protects employees who report corruption.
If managers fire employees for inappropriate reasons like partisan affiliation, an independent agency called the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) can reinstate them. Another agency called the Office of Special Counsel can investigate and pursue charges with the MSPB when officials retaliate against whistleblowers or engage in other “prohibited personnel practices” (like making personnel decisions based on something other than merit, coercing political activity, or deceiving prospective candidates about their eligibility for federal employment). These protective measures pose a threat to a would-be authoritarian president, which is why Trump inveighs against his imagined “deep state.” Loyalty to America had no place in an administration that valued only personal loyalty to him.
Trump experimented with approaches to destroying the merit-based civil service over the course of his term, but his efforts peaked in October 2020 with an executive order that created a new category of federal employment called Schedule F. Employees transferred into Schedule F would no longer be covered by civil service protections, the administration claimed. Trump’s order paid lip service to retaining rules against various “prohibited personnel practices,” but there was a hidden catch: the Office of Special Counsel would no longer be able to investigate violations of these rules or to pursue action against those who committed them. Instead Trump’s political appointees would be responsible for policing themselves whenever an employee alleged that they had violated the rules. The order also exempted Schedule F positions from merit-based hiring rules, which would have allowed Trump to install loyalists. But he never got the chance to implement his order, which was issued just thirteen days before he lost the 2020 election. No employees were transferred to Schedule F before Biden took office and revoked it.
Trump has pledged to reinstate Schedule F if he is elected to a second term, and then to go further. According to Axios, the Heritage Foundation is leading Project 2025, a coalition of over one hundred right-wing organizations, directed by former Trump administration appointee Paul Dans; the group is drafting plans for Trump to launch on Inauguration Day. Presidents normally get to fill about four thousand positions, a number critics say is already too high compared to other Western nations. But proponents of the plan estimate that Trump could transfer roughly 50,000 federal employees into Schedule F, which would make them easily replaceable with his own picks. He may go further than that: “We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,” Trump said at a March 2022 rally in South Carolina.
This isn’t just an employees’ rights issue. What’s at stake is democracy itself. The civil service laws protect the public as well, with vital everyday consequences. For instance, right now retirees an
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I wonder what could end 6ix's smugness? Nothing. It soothes the Trumptards to create false stories about their antagonists being failures and Trumptards being healthy, successful and proud of it. 6ix, you and Trump are not successful and your self-pride is excessive.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm pretty much in a good mood most days. I get to do whatever I want to do. I learn new things all the time. I buy new tools all the time. I create things. I improve things. I have a purpose in life.
You post about Trump 10 times per day for 3,000 days straight and you're a miserable little gremlin.
You're probably the worst possible advertisement for your side.
Meanwhile, this MSNBC article is about you...
More and more Americans are feeling unhappy. It doesn’t have to be this way.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/us-world-happiness-report-
2024-chris-murphy-rcna145108
Get some friends. Touch some grass. Stop being an unbearable asshole to every person you come across.
There's still hope for you. I know you can do it.
It isn't smugness, dude.
Do you EVER hear me complaining about anything in my own life?
I face challenges all the time. And yeah, a lot of them were self inflicted. A lot of them aren't. Just like every other human being on the planet. Whether they're honest with themselves about it or not.
You're the one who throws my past mistakes in my face every single day to try to bring me down. And then you tell yourself and everybody else that you don't have any problems of your own because you vote Democrat.
You think WAY more about my problems, past and present, than I do. You sit and stalk the garden thread that you've been invited to participate in multiple times not to engage in conversation, but to build up a little cache of ammo to fire at somebody when you can't win an argument.
You ever think maybe I talk to you the way that I do because you're just an asshole?
Stop being an asshole.
I'm trying to do that. You're not making it easy.
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The dead man’s wife explained why the couple had ingested fish tank cleaner: “I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, ‘Hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re (Trump) talking about on TV?’” The bottle that killed Gary Lenius and sent Wanda Lenius to the hospital on March 22, 2020, contained chloroquine phosphate. Days earlier President Donald Trump had touted chloroquine as a possible “game changer” in the fight against Covid-19. “The nice part,” he assured the public, “is it’s been around for a long time, so we know that…if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody.” Pharmacies saw alarming increases in prescriptions for chloroquine products.
In those first days of the pandemic, Trump repeatedly made dubious medical claims, in press conferences and on Twitter, that were then repeated on conservative television networks and social media. As the death toll rose, he sought quick solutions. During a press conference on April 23, 2020, Trump boasted that he had told the White House coronavirus response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, to find out if “disinfectant” could cure Covid-19 in humans, through “injection inside or almost a cleaning.” In the same press conference, Trump wondered aloud about ultraviolet light therapy: “Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way.”
Birx remained silent, blinked rapidly, and looked down. She was wishing “for the floor to open up and swallow me whole,” she writes in Silent Invasion, her memoir of her time in the Trump administration. “I had come into the White House knowing that having the president’s ear would be crucial to my success…. I had to continue to ensure that science was at the decision-making table inside.” This may explain her decision to damage her credibility by vouching for Trump as he offered dangerous misinformation about a pandemic that eventually killed more than one million Americans. “He’s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data,” she told the Christian Broadcasting Network on March 25 that year. “And I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.”
Birx, a physician, award-winning researcher, and retired Army colonel, had been in public service for more than four decades. In 2014 President Obama appointed her as the State Department’s global HIV/AIDS coordinator. In the White House, Birx was meant to be what Politico dubbed a “czar-like figure,” coordinating the pandemic response and reporting directly to the vice-president. Working in the chaotic Trump administration, however, meant that she had to jockey with other Trump appointees for the president’s attention, and her influence waned over time.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/the-corruption-playbook-tr
ump-walter-shaub/
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Oh. You're talking about Wanda Lineus. The lifelong Democrat who was under investigation for murder of her husband in Arizona before the case just disappeared.
Yeah... I'll bet she drank a bunch of fish tank cleaner because Trump told her to do it.
Here's a list of her campaign contributions:
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributo
r_name=wanda%20lenius
Among them are ActBlue, Arizona Democrat Party, Democratic Action and Mark Kelly For Senate.
She's spent thousands upon thousands upon thousands of her retirement funds making 848 contributions since 10/27/2022, all to Democrats. Sometimes making 4 separate contributions to ActBlue in a single day.
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Quote:Just reminding you that you post alotta crap, son. About 80-90%. And the crap that I dug up is all about Trump, and relevant to this thread I don't take anything you post about ANYTHING ... Trump, Biden, Russia, Ukraine, me... seriously. In fact, rarely read your posts, and I NEVER listen to your videos. And I gave examples of why that is.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I noticed THUGR never reposts his brainless posts where he's hyperventilating about TRUMP!RUSSIA! COLLUSION!
THUGR: Posts about Putin and Russia are in the appropriate threads. That said, they are trying as hard as they can to take down Biden with lies and propaganda.
You know, the shit you post.
That said, I have to give you credit for not posting as much crap as SECOND, who seems to spend all of his time on the internet hunting for it and reposting it here. Also, insults, libel, hate speech, and threats. It would take a lot of work on your part to catch up to the sheer volume of hate and shit he throws against this wall.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Just reminding you that you post alotta crap, son. About 80-90%. And the crap that I dug up is all about Trump, and relevant to this thread I don't take anything you post about ANYTHING ... Trump, Biden, Russia, Ukraine, me... seriously. In fact, rarely read your posts, and I NEVER listen to your videos. And I gave examples of why that is.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I noticed THUGR never reposts his brainless posts where he's hyperventilating about TRUMP!RUSSIA! COLLUSION!
THUGR: Posts about Putin and Russia are in the appropriate threads. That said, they are trying as hard as they can to take down Biden with lies and propaganda.
You know, the shit you post.
That said, I have to give you credit for not posting as much crap as SECOND, who seems to spend all of his time on the internet hunting for it and reposting it here. Also, insults, libel, hate speech, and threats. It would take a lot of work on your part to catch up to the sheer volume of hate and shit he throws against this wall.
SIGNYM
I'll tell you what's funny comrade signym. You being a Russian shill, a enthusiastic customer of Russian and any other authoritarian leaders bullshit.
Then you accuse others of it thinking nobody will notice who is really lying and posting bullshit. Now that's funny. And if that's not correct and you really don't know the difference, they wow you're an idiot.
T
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Quote:Struggle much with life, Signym? You and 6ix (and especially Trump!) put the Retard in Trumptard. I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time. Even converting Trump's all CAPS LOCK rants to lowercase is effortless:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
That said, I have to give you credit for not posting as much crap as SECOND, who seems to spend all of his time on the internet hunting for it and reposting it here. Also, insults, libel, hate speech, and threats. It would take a lot of work on your part to catch up to the sheer volume of hate and shit he throws against this wall.
Behold Donald Trump's Easter morning message of redemption and grace to the American people:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Happy Easter to all, including crooked and corrupt prosecutors and judges that are doing everything possible to interfere with the presidential election of 2024, and put me in prison, including those many people that I completely & totally despise because they want to destroy America, a now failing nation, like "deranged" Jack Smith, who is evil and "sick," Mrs. Fani "Fauni" Wade, who said she hardly knew the "special" prosecutor, only to find that he spent years "loving" her, long before the Georgia persecution of President Trump began (and thereby making the case against me null, void, and illegal!), And lazy on violent crime Alvin Bragg who, with crooked Joe's DOJ thugs, unfairly working in the D.A.'s office, illegally indicted me on a case he never wanted to bring and virtually all legal scholars say is a case that should not be brought, is breaking the law in doing so (Pomerantz!), was turned down by all other law enforcement authorities, and is not a crime. Happy Easter everyone!
Mar 31, 2024, 10:21 am
There's an ancient online controversy about how best to respond to manufactured outrage like this. One camp says we should ignore it. The folks who produce this stuff just want attention, so by responding we're taking the bait. The other camp says that it's not enough for only political junkies to see this stuff. The broad public needs to see it in its raw form, and by burying it we let the lunatic right off the hook.
I've gone back and forth about this, but these days I lean toward engaging with it. An awful lot of non-MAGA voters seem to believe that Trump has moderated over the past few years, which just isn't true. Not in policy and not in rhetoric. It's hard to get people excited about policy, but what if Trump's tirades were read every day on the evening news? Would swing voters start to get the message?
More generally, lefty Twitter has lately been discussing the state of conservative opinion chatterers. The current shape of things is that mainstream TV and print outlets feature plenty of "Never Trump" Republicans but not many MAGA Republicans. But MAGA Republicans represent a big chunk of the country. Shouldn't they be represented?
The problem with this is obvious: mainstream outlets don't want people who are going to yell and scream and spout endless lies. They want sober, intelligent analysts. But it's hard to find MAGA partisans who fit this description.
Is it time to give up on this? Maybe middle America needs to be exposed to raw, violent, dimwitted MAGA sewage, if that represents the real world. Or would this just give the lunatics the attention they crave?
It's an endless debate and there's still no good answer.
https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-celebrates-easter-with-yet-anot
her-vicious-rant/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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