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sandorski

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So, it seems the Rule of Law is only to gotcha Democrats but we should have no Rule of Law for Republicans and Christo-fascists because they are upset and there may be civil war. With that logic, might as well get the gas chambers ready for the gays, minorities, women who are not born again Christo-fascists subservient baby machines, and all men who are not the proper kind for the screamers of but my freedums.

the excuse making hypocrisy the current Republican Party adheres to makes my former Republican Party member self weep. Trump has literally said he loves the uneducated and now I see why. Over 30k lies and misleading statements in four years at White House and he worshipped as moral man of Christ. The willful ignorance is astonishing.

when I was younger I wondered how Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini etc. could rise to power and slaughter millions. After watching 35% of this country’s population abase themselves at the foot of Trump; I now understand.

It's a variation of the Ukraine War. Violence/Threat of is justified due to a perceived(not inaccurate) threat to what they view as an Entitlement(for very many, the US is Christian, to others "Capitalist"). It's the Culture War triggering a violent war.
 

Captante

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Assuming FBI takes the death threats seriously, I'm betting this AR15 troll actually poster online threat to Garland and the judge. So his online privileges going to be revoked soon.

But my comment about more than 1 per second death threats, later segment did confirm there were convicted Jan 6 people. So they got the light cushy sentence. Threatening government official AGAIN won't help


I reported SEVERAL Trumpers to the FBI on other forums over comments they posted back in 2020/21.

At least one of them WAS investigated too although I don't know what ultimately happened because I got banned for telling the guy to GFH.

:D


Those 2 certainly appeared to turn hard Right. At least Culturally, maybe they always were there and it was overlooked? Perhaps they are just trying too hard to remain relevant?


Dam.... I used to respect Yang too. :confused:
 
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Those 2 certainly appeared to turn hard Right. At least Culturally, maybe they always were there and it was overlooked? Perhaps they are just trying too hard to remain relevant?
Yang hasn't gone hard right. He is just trying to appeal to "independents," and as we all know, "independents" these days are just anti-Democrats that can't stomach the GOP any longer. The dude's number one policy is UBI, which is as far from right as you can get economically.
 

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Yang hasn't gone hard right. He is just trying to appeal to "independents," and as we all know, "independents" these days are just anti-Democrats that can't stomach the GOP any longer. The dude's number one policy is UBI, which is as far from right as you can get economically.


Same folks who helped the GOP usher in the Dumpster in the first place.

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Yang hasn't gone hard right. He is just trying to appeal to "independents," and as we all know, "independents" these days are just anti-Democrats that can't stomach the GOP any longer. The dude's number one policy is UBI, which is as far from right as you can get economically.
One could view UBI as a means to cut or undercut targeted welfare programs altogether.
 
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I think that's one of the big benefits of UBI - we eliminate all those other programs.
In principle, I agree. In practice, I think you'd see public support for targeted measures plummet because the public would see that people are already getting some basic income, even if that income did not make up for the programs that existed before.
 
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In principle, I agree. In practice, I think you'd see public support for targeted measures plummet because people are already getting some basic income, even if that income did not make up for the programs that existed before.
That's good though, we want to eliminate those targeted measures. They are inefficient and easy to demagogue against. Everyone loves social security and medicare because they are universal.
 

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Epstein or Stone you idiot. Fucking put 2 and 2 together. Please.

This drama show at Trumps residence was just as stupid as the arrest of Roger Stone. They could accomplish the same thing without all the drama and show for the media headlines.


I never said anything about Epstein. You need to put 2 and 2 together.
 
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That's good though, we want to eliminate those targeted measures. They are inefficient and easy to demagogue against. Everyone loves social security and medicare because they are universal.
Perhaps, but the costs to implement UBI may be politically infeasible, and the cost savings from eliminating targeted programs may not be as much as people think.

 

fskimospy

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This drama show at Trumps residence was just as stupid as the arrest of Roger Stone. They could accomplish the same thing without all the drama and show for the media headlines.


I never said anything about Epstein. You need to put 2 and 2 together.
We don't know that at all - remember Trump is well known for destroying documents.
 

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I don't think they are worried about what Trump or Stone would do. It's the people who rally behind them that might do something that require them to be armed and ready. Case in point, January 6.


Stones case was in the middle of the night and nobody was around. They had to wake up the old man.

Trumps case - He was in New York.

Way over done in my opinion.
 
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QueBert

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A slime all that anyone with eyes and half a brain could see coming before he was elected

His behavior since has just confirmed everything people like me have been saying about this guy

Yet people who voted for him claim Obama was more corrupt. I don’t know whether to just laugh or be concerned for the country

His followers believe anything he says and refuse to even consider anything negative about him as being a possible truth. I've only met 2 in real life that I had discussions with, but I honestly believed both were sincere when they said he was the by far the greatest president we've ever had. 1 even parroted Trump's "I've done more for black people..." So I brought up Lincoln FREEING black people from slavery. Apparently what Trump did for Africian Americans was still greater than that, who knew? I mean Trump did proclaim "the blacks love me" So maybe there is something to it.

I've seen a decent number of Trumpers bring up how much he's done for "the blacks" in the long list of great things he's done for this country. Which I find hilarious considering how 95% of them hate "the blacks".I know it's not true, but they believe it, so shouldn't they hate him because of that?

It would be ironic if Donny ended up in Prison with a black cell mate named Tiny.