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No. of Recommendations: 5
Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv
The leader of the Houthis, Ali al-Kahum announcing that they've been working with Russia to destroy western shipping should be no surprise to anyone except the western politicians that continue to block aid to Ukraine.(unverified)
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gtconway3
There’s some commentary saying we should disregard Trump’s “bloodbath” remarks last night because he was talking about potential harms to the auto industry.That is misguided. 1/x
Trump may well have been referring to a “bloodbath” in that industry. He’s sufficiently incoherent that, as is so often the case with him, it’s hard to tell one way other what exactly he’s talking about at any given moment. 2/x
I’m willing to assume for the sake of argument that he was referring to cars. And it makes no difference to his malicious intent or to the danger he and his rhetoric poses. 3/x
What matters is that he consistently uses apocalyptic and violent language in an indiscriminate fashion as a result of his psychopathy and correlative authoritarian tendencies, and because he’s just plain evil. 4/x
It’s a classic trait and technique of authoritarian demagogues. He catastrophizes *everything* to rile up his cultish supporters, and to bind them to him, and to make them willing to do his bidding. 5/x
That’s dangerous all around because he’s encouraging them to believe that conditions are so bad or will become so bad, and that the political opposition is so awful, that anything is justified—including law-breaking and violence—to prevent those conditions and to destroy the opposition. 6/x
And so it doesn’t matter what he’s specifically referring to at the moment. He could be talking about trans people in public bathrooms or the state of the auto industry or the border—it doesn’t matter. 7/x
He’s a dangerous psychopath, and after more than eight years of watching his sick behavior, we must not give him the benefit of the doubt. 8/8 (end).
typos/corrections2/x — “one way or the other” 7/x — “talking about trans people” 3/x — “the danger he and his rhetoric pose”
No. of Recommendations: 3
That’s dangerous all around because he’s encouraging them to believe that conditions are so bad or will become so bad, and that the political opposition is so awful, that anything is justified—including law-breaking and violence—to prevent those conditions and to destroy the opposition
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LOL, if there ever was a pot/kettle accusation....
No. of Recommendations: 2
That’s dangerous all around because he’s encouraging them to believe that conditions are so bad or will become so bad, and that the political opposition is so awful, that anything is justified—including law-breaking and violence—to prevent those conditions and to destroy the opposition
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“LOL, if there ever was a pot/kettle accusation....”
Trump does not have to encourage anyone to see how bad the conditions are becoming in America.
Even left wing rags are now reporting on Biden’s you all come murderers, drugs, gangs, rapist, thieves, cop beaters moving in and in some instances taking over one nice neighborhoods and parks while being supported by American taxpayers.
No. of Recommendations: 2
LOL, if there ever was a pot/kettle accusation....
No kidding. The hatred they've dumped into the body politic didn't start with Trump. It goes back decades.
These same people then turn around and talk about unity.
Then they complain when people tune them out. There's only so much hypocrisy that anyone can take.
No. of Recommendations: 12
LurkerMom:
Even left wing rags are now reporting on Biden’s you all come murderers, drugs, gangs, rapist, thieves, cop beaters moving in and in some instances taking over one nice neighborhoods and parks while being supported by American taxpayers.The facts are not on your side.
Charis Kubrin and Graham Ousey have researched decades of data and analyzed numerous studies on immigration and crime -- which you'll find in their book “Immigration and Crime: Taking Stock” -- and the data say that there's virtually no correlation between immigration and crime.
Well, there is a slight negative correlation: crime goes
down in areas that have more immigration.
Across a variety of studies that use different years of data that focus on different areas of the United States — with some exceptions, there’s some nuance there. I don’t want to deny the nuance — in general, on average, we do not find a connection between immigration and crime, as is so often claimed. The most common finding across all these different kinds of studies is that immigration to an area is either not associated with crime in that area, or is negatively associated with crime in that area. Meaning more immigration equals less crime. It’s rare to find studies that show crime following increases in immigration or with larger percentage of the population that are immigrants.Fewer studies exist of undocumented individuals: "But that body of research is growing, and it pretty much reaches the same conclusion."
Kubrin asks why the headlines focus on the handful of incidents where a migrant has been arrested for crimes -- not to minimize their seriousness ever -- rather than on the tens of thousands of migrants coming here from some of the most difficult living conditions and without possessions of any kind who are not engaging in crime?
But it's interesting that republicans no longer feel a need to hide their eager embrace of the The Great Replacement theory and have so quickly parroted Dementia Don's dehumanization of migrants as ‘Not People ... These Are Animals’.
Well, at least this is no longer a religious-focused board 'cause I'm thinkin' your "Hate Your Neighbor" screed is clearly not a WWJD biblical philosophy.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/us/border-migrants-...
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and that the political opposition is so awful, that anything is justified—including law-breaking and violence—to prevent those conditions and to destroy the opposition
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LOL, if there ever was a pot/kettle accusation....
Not at all Mike. While the situation is painted as dire, never once have I read that it's so dire that anything is justified - including law breaking and violence on our side. Instead, the situation is so dire they need my money, and my vote. No blood bath at any time is suggested. Yes, they are painting Trump as a pathological, narcissistic demagogue, but that's also because that's accurate. And, btw, your role as a proto-fascist is slowly slipping away as you became a full on fascist. That will be cemented bout five months after Trump's elected, I think. And you will own anything he does, Mike. Anything.
No. of Recommendations: 2
The facts are not on your side.That’s okay, minimize the recent facts the American people are noticing. As a liberal it’s
your job to make OldJoe look good;
The American people are sitting up and taking notice of the
recent happenings in the here and now, not piled up statistics of bygone years. For instance, the brutal murder of Laken Riley, the rape of a 15-year-old Tennessee girl, a 12 year boy killed in a car crash by a drunken illegal alien, parks not habitable because the illegal alien use it for their toilet, crowded schools, hospitals, ER, fentanyl and other drugs coming across the border,
US tax dollars were/are paying to support these criminals.
Border Patrol has arrested 6,400 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions, 178 gang members in FY24
https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-patrol-arrested-...Violent new Venezuelan gang seeping through southern border
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/violent-new...Border Crossings: A Look at the Very Real Threat of Cross Border Gangs to the U.S.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstract...And what about all these missing children we are hearing about?
“Under Joe Biden, Have 85,000 Undocumented Children Gone 'Missing'?”
https://www.newsweek.com/under-joe-biden-undocumen...And the screwed up Justice System
“Migrants busted for shoplifting in NY won’t be deported — unless they’re convicted
https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/migrants-busted-for-...I won;t even go into what is happening in the Border towns and border Ranchers and their $loss.
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"And, btw, your role as a proto-fascist is slowly slipping away as you became a full on fascist. That will be cemented bout five months after Trump's elected, I think. And you will own anything he does, Mike. Anything."
Oh good, a name calling game everyone can play. By this illogic, you own everything Biden does, Lqpsody.
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Oh good, a name calling game everyone can play. By this illogic, you own everything Biden does, Lqpsody.
Oooo, let's play.
Biden's weaknesses led to Putin invading the Ukraine and Hamas butchering their way across southern Israel. So all these Biden voter own that.
Our open Southern border? Oh, hey - I think somebody dropped dead from Fentanyl someplace. In another few minutes someone else will, too. That goes on his ledger also.
We can do this all day. BTW, how many have lost houses because their adjustable rate mortgages went zooming higher?
Lots 'o red on his scorecard!
No. of Recommendations: 3
Oh good, a name calling game everyone can play. By this illogic, you own everything Biden does, Lqpsody.
It's recognizing unpleasant facts, etc, Boater. I actually do own everything Biden does and have no problem with taking the good and bad of it. You should look up what proto-fascism means, its rise, be objective, and decide for yourself - can't do it for you, but no MAGA will do that.
No. of Recommendations: 2
"It's recognizing unpleasant facts, etc, Boater. I actually do own everything Biden does and have no problem with taking the good and bad of it."
Oh well, Ok . Thanks for the weaponization of the legal system,, and thank you for the censoring and manipulation of Journalism, and without a doubt so many thanks for the catastrophic results of unrestricted and controlled migration into this country. You must be so proud of of these accomplishments.
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Oh well, Ok . Thanks for the weaponization of the legal system,, and thank you for the censoring and manipulation of Journalism, and without a doubt so many thanks for the catastrophic results of unrestricted and controlled migration into this country. You must be so proud of of these accomplishments.
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All that is gibberish. You'd have to spend time outlining what your weird beliefs are, and, as in the past, I'd have to guess because RW usually can't articulate what they believe in in a meaningful communicative way. So it's just more unfathomable half baked hardly recognizable thoughts that aren't based on reality, but on some fourth rate propaganda hidden in the back rooms of rumble or such. No loss.
No. of Recommendations: 1
I'm not here to debate your fantasies on what you think is attributable to Biden. Those are the result of partisan RW propaganda.
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"All that is gibberish. You'd have to spend time outlining what your weird beliefs are, and, as in the past, I'd have to guess because RW usually can't articulate what they believe in in a meaningful communicative way. So it's just more unfathomable half baked hardly recognizable thoughts that aren't based on reality, but on some fourth rate propaganda hidden in the back rooms of rumble or such. "
Wow speaking of gibberish, this is some world class half baked gibberish
No. of Recommendations: 13
Boater: Thanks for the weaponization of the legal system,, and thank you for the censoring and manipulation of Journalism, and without a doubt so many thanks for the catastrophic results of unrestricted and controlled migration into this country. You must be so proud of of these accomplishments.
Yeah, president Biden is such a devious, clever manipulator of the department of justice that he had his only living son, a recovering drug addict, indicted on multiple felonies.
Look, Biden isn't Trump. Biden doesn't involve himself in decisions of the DOJ, unlike Trump who openly urged his AG, Bill Barr, to indict Joe Biden during the close of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump also very publicly called for his various AGs to prosecute former president Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Comey, and others.
Show me one instance of Biden asking his AG to indict anyone.
As far as "censoring and manipulation of Journalism" is concerned, that's equally laughable.
Has there ever been a president who worked to discredit journalists throughout his presidency, labeling the mainstream media biased, more than Trump? His claims of “fake news” is a rallying cry.
And Trump signed an executive order to regulate tech companies and social media platforms, infringing on the First Amendment rights of private companies in his attempts to circumvent the two other branches of government.
The supreme court is reviewing just such a case right now.
Finally, we talked endlessly here about immigration. Trump instructed republican House Speaker Moses Johnson to kill the bi-partisan senate legislation that was endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council:
“Approximately 60% of all border apprehensions are single adults, a good number of whom are men of military age. The Border Act of 2024 will codify into law authorities that U.S. Border Patrol agents never had in the past. This will allow us to remove single adults expeditiously and without a lengthy judicial review, which historically has required the release of these individuals into the interior of the U.S. This alone will drop illegal border crossings nationwide and will allow a great many of our agents to get back to detecting and apprehending those who want to cross our borders illegally and evade apprehension.”
You got the bill republicans have wanted for years and Trump killed it to make immigration his top reelection campaign issue because he's a pathological narcissist who cares nothing about the country or about others but only cares about himself, especially staying out of prison.
No. of Recommendations: 14
Look, Biden isn't Trump. Biden doesn't involve himself in decisions of the DOJ, unlike Trump who openly urged his AG, Bill Barr, to indict Joe Biden during the close of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump also very publicly called for his various AGs to prosecute former president Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Comey, and others.
Has there ever been a president who worked to discredit journalists throughout his presidency, labeling the mainstream media biased, more than Trump? His claims of “fake news” is a rallying cry.
While I appreciate your having taken the time to post this, I want to remind you of Jonathan Swift, who said (paraphrase) “You cannot use facts and logic to dissuade someone who did not use facts and logic to arrive at their thought.”
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This will allow us to remove single adults expeditiously and without a lengthy judicial review,
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And this fantastic, new border-crisis-solving tool will be taken away in three years. Yes, it is just that good, so effective that in three years the border will be so placid we will wonder why we wanted this rule change in the first place.
No. of Recommendations: 5
dope:"The hatred they've dumped into the body politic didn't start with Trump. It goes back decades.
So true.
Going back to McCarthy, and Roy Cohn, Joe Pyne, Wally George, Rush Limbaaah, the whole Murdoch organization, .... and don't forget good ol' Newt Gingrich who made it a shanda for right wing politicians to consort with the left side of the aisle for any reason.
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Boater: Thanks for the weaponization of the legal system,, and thank you for the censoring and manipulation of Journalism, and without a doubt so many thanks for the catastrophic results of unrestricted and controlled migration into this country. You must be so proud of of these accomplishments.
And thanks for the perfect example of the inversion of reality that is required to avoid having your head explode from extreme cognitive dissonance. The price of being a Trumper.
No. of Recommendations: 1
You left out Lee Atwater.
No. of Recommendations: 3
And this fantastic, new border-crisis-solving tool will be taken away in three years.
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There's a sunset clause , but that doesn't mean it's taken away. I like it, but if people like it and want to retain it, then they'll have to deal. So far I see people who won't deal and want a guy in office who completely disregards the law.
No. of Recommendations: 6
dope:"The hatred they've dumped into the body politic didn't start with Trump. It goes back decades.
So true.
Going back to McCarthy, and Roy Cohn, Joe Pyne, Wally George, Rush Limbaaah, the whole Murdoch organization, ....
And don't forget that the Orange Hate-Monger sought out Roy Cohen to become his lawyer and mentor. He enthusiastically admired Roy Cohn's approach.....lie and lie and lie, and ignore your bills.
No. of Recommendations: 13
"Oh well, Ok . Thanks for the weaponization of the legal system,, and thank you for the censoring and manipulation of Journalism, and without a doubt so many thanks for the catastrophic results of unrestricted and controlled migration into this country. You must be so proud of of these accomplishments." - Boater
How do you always manage to get everything exactly backwards?
I have two suggestions for you. Either one will greatly improve your life:
1. Do the George Constanza. Whatever your instincts say, do the opposite. Your life will be much better.
2. Use better information sources. Don't use sources that openly and regularly deceive you. You will instantly be better informed at stop being always wrong about everything you post on these boards.
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"How do you always manage to get everything exactly backwards?"
I see that you are still as clueless as you have always been
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"How do you always manage to get everything exactly backwards?"
I see that you are still as clueless as you have always been
Boater.....going through life with eyes wide shut. As cult members do. Is it too painful to recognize and accept the truth, and acknowledge that you've been seduced?
No. of Recommendations: 16
"I see that you are still as clueless as you have always been"
You realize that being called clueless by George Costanza is really a compliment, right?
Remember do the opposite if your instincts are almost always wrong.
You post a list of assertions that were wrong on an actual basis and a relative basis if a person even had just a basic understanding of the context surrounding your assertions. Then you call someone else clueless. Unintentional irony is always hilarious.
Here is the thing though, even though your unintentional irony makes it quite easy and fun to laugh at you, the way you are being so ironic is serious business. Whatever your reason for continuing to use sources of information that take advantage of you and make you look foolish, just know that it is hurting the very institutions that made this country great. Democracy, rule of law, basic common sense. You choose to throw those all away and are willing to look like a fool in support of a con man that doesn't give a rats patootie about you and is only using you for your money/vote/adoration.
Democracy requires a well-informed populace. Do your part better. You are letting the rest of the country down.
