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Aztecs lived in Mexico. They have NO claim to land in the United States. Just because you're a native of Mexico, that doesn't mean you can walk into Michigan and claim this as your homeland. They couldn't do that 600 years ago. The natives, of Michigan, living 600 years ago, would have called you an invader and would likely have you killed. Those who are coming from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and others are NOT from Mexico and have no ancient tribal claim to land in the United States.
Also, the times have changed. The people of the United States have a distinct nationality now. That's all of them, no matter their ethnicity. This is recognised around the world and even by Mexico. It's the reality of today. The citizens of the United States have the right to limit the number of people coming into their country, just like EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Try it. Get on a plane and try to enter another country without a passport. It's NOT going to happen.
To top it all off, they're not being told that they can't come in. They're being told that there's a process and that they have to follow that process. That process has still allowed Mexico to be the number one source of new immigrants.....BY FAR.
Grow up.
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@alostsoul68
If we looked up every person in history, we'll find out that every one of them had issues. It's not so much that historical figures, modern ones too, were flawed, it's the journey that took us to where we are today that has to be remembered. Not just the saints, because in reality that perfection doesn't exist, but especially, ESPECIALLY, the flawed saints. We have to remember them because that's who we are. Flawed human beings.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -C.S. Lewis
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Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Great Britain have a combined population that's smaller than the United States. Yet they have 23,000 more deaths combined. GET THAT 23,000 MORE than the United States. In fact, Germany only had 10,000 deaths so that means that those 4 countries with almost 100,000,000 fewer people STILL has 13,000 more deaths.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California.....ALL DEMOCRAT STATES....put Covid patients in nursing homes. IN NURSING HOMES. The most susceptible to dying from Covid. The Commissioner of Health in Pennsylvania issued this order and then took her own mother out of a nursing home and put her up in a hotel.
You'll ignore all this because...hey.....ORANGE MAN BAD.
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@holthogan5562
Yes it was an emergency. How the media reacted though was appalling. Florida, with the largest elderly population in the US, didn't have the casualties that New York did. Why? Because the governor of Florida understood who was the most vulnerable and then made a concerted effort to protect that demographic. And it worked.
Not New York though. First, it told everyone that this was nothing, go out, have a good time, go to the Chinese New Year's Parade, because the Chinese travel ban was racist. Then, when everything went south, they panicked and locked EVERYTHING up, but refused help from a religious group, told Trump they didn't have ventilators, hardly used the facilities set up or the medic ship and then put Covid patients in nursing homes. All this and the media pretended that Cuomo might be a good candidate for the presidency. Then, only 5 days after calling people insane for going to a pool, they called the BLM protesters, good Americans, even after it led to tens of millions of dollars damage, destroyed lives and businesses, people ended up dead and injured and buildings burned to the ground.
Hey, but those protesters, that "stormed" the Michigan legislature were thugs and white supremacists and just plain detestable people even though not one punch was thrown, one shot was fired, no windows smashed, no stores looted, no buildings burned and they cleaned up the legislature before they left.
Like one store owner said. There were thousands of protesters walking shoulder to shoulder past his store but he wasn't allowed to sell anyone of them a t-shirt because the Covid threat was too dangerous.
That's what we're upset about. The insanity of how it was dealt with. "Shame and blame" just like Chris Cuomo said. That's what you got from the media and the left and he was proud of it.
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@1133saginaw
I'm afraid that politics has been added a long time ago. Almost every question that certain media types are asking are designed to GET the president. They never ask questions designed to help the situation, only as talking political points against the president.
Example....Jim Acosta saying "Doctors and hospital administrators say they don't have the necessary equipment. What do you say to that?" It's not a question at all. It's a jab.
If he was smart, he would have offered the name of an administrator and where he was from and then asked if there was someone, within the task force, that this specific administrator could get in touch with to resolve his problems. He could do this in and earnest manner. That would have challenged Trump. He would have shown the task force for what it was, honestly and openly, whether it be good, bad or a complete sham. He could have exposed it.....but he's not smart enough. Instead, he offers the same old "un-named sources", nothing specific at all. It exposes nothing and only invites anger from both sides of the political spectrum.
He's a horrible journalist and the rest aren't much better. The old correspondents, of fifty years ago, would been embarrassed to what happened to their profession.
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@randylachance
Trump was being sarcastic when he wished her well. He was saying that she didn't end up like Epstein. Dark humour. That's why Fox didn't report on it. It's not newsworthy. If Trump was as corrupt as you say, you'd think he'd get the Feds, Bill Barr and company, to back off Maxwell. Instead, it's full steam ahead and now there's even more Clinton involvement.
If the Democrats were so concerned with the Covid crisis, you'd think they'd discourage tens of thousands of people, in every city across the US, from marching arm in arm for weeks on end. Instead, they encourage it and then tell others they can't open their small businesses. You can march, throw bottles and bricks, fight with police officers, but go to the gym....that's dangerous.
The biggest problem concerning Covid is the absolute refusal to work together. That's not the fault of Trump. It's the Democrats who take the opposite stance no matter what. They brag about their border barrier in 2015 and when Trump says he want to build a wall, that's racist. It's how they approach everything concerning Trump. He bans travel to China, that's xenophobic. He puts together a task force....they're just old white men. He mentions it in the State of the Union Address, Pelosi tears it up. He restricts travel to Europe.....that's not going to work. He says the HCQ might be useful in fighting Covid, it's now poison and some governors tried to outlaw it. The media even made a big deal of a couple that took fish tank cleaner because it had a form of HCQ in it. Fish tank cleaner ffs. Trump calls for a lockdown and New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California lock down Covid patients in nursing homes. The Commissioner of Health for Pennsylvania made that decision and promptly took her 95 year old mother OUT of a nursing home and put her up in a hotel. If the Democrats weren't so busy hating on Trump and would just sit down with him to find a solution, the country wouldn't be in the mess it is in now.....but they refuse. No matter what Trump does, they do the opposite. On everything.
I'm not saying that Trump made good moves all the time but with a pandemic raging, you'd think the Democrats would reach out to try and solve this crisis together. NOT A CHANCE IN HELL. They'll fight him no matter what he does.
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@MrKGatl
It was the company that Biden's son was working for that was being investigated. Specifically the founder of the company, Mykola Zlochevsky, who had fled the company in 2014 and was living in London. He was Hunter Biden's boss. This guy had 23 MILLION dollars frozen, in lieu of the results of investigations into his activities. Strangely, shortly after this prosecutor was fired, that 23 millions dollars was released. The following year Zlockevsky was cleared of all charges and he returned to the Ukraine. Next thing you know, he was accused of graft, the result of telephone conversations he had with the current president of the Ukraine at the time. He was also accused of giving out bogus licenses to his own companies when he was Ecology Minister back in 2012. He's left the country again and is now living in Monaco.
You have to ask yourself why Hunter Biden was working for an energy company in the Ukraine. He had zero experience in energy, was drummed out of the American military for testing positive for drugs, he couldn't speak the language and his boss benefited from the firing of the prosecutor by his father. That final point might be the only reason he was worth the 63,000 dollars he was making a month as an executive there.
Even Marie Yovanovitch was briefed on the poor image of Hunter Biden working for a man who was suspected of corruption. That was revealed in her testimony. It was also mentioned by George Kent in his testimony and was reported on by Politico 3 years ago. The Obama administration wasn't comfortable about this situation, at all, so why wouldn't Trump want to look into it. Especially, with the video available where Joe Biden brags about telling the Ukraines that he was taking his money home with him if they didn't fire this specific prosecutor.
Maybe it WAS all innocent but if it had been Donald Trump Jr. working for Burisma and a corrupt owner, would you be so forgiving? I doubt it.
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@shaneclarke329
Of course we care. However, it's a pandemic. Over a million have died all over the world. In fact, if Democrat governors, in a least 5 states, didn't put Covid patients in nursing homes, there'd likely be 30,000 less dead. However, in the end, it's no one's fault. People get sick. It's the way of life since people started walking on this planet.
The strong at heart don't dwell on it. They keep on going because if they don't, the entire system will collapse. As it is, WHO and the UN has stated that world poverty will soon double due to the lockdowns. That means starvation, social unrest, maybe even civil wars. You don't want the cure to be worse than the disease.
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@MarkLewis-l3f
What business is it of mine? Maybe because it's happening here as well but not to the same degree....but it could start. It could happen in your neighbourhood as well.
Also, they ARE crossing the southern border. Remember when border guards were supposed to be whipping Haitians, from horseback, at the southern border? They were Haitians. Haitians have been encountered 53,900 times in 2022 and 76,100 times last year with no numbers this year available. So, YES they are crossing the border. Why would they do that? It's because they're NOT legal immigrants. They arrived at the border, from Mexico and declared that they were coming in, just like the millions who've came in the last 4 years.
Even if you fly or sail into the United States, you're still crossing the border. We need better immigration policies. What we have now will tear this country apart. It's pitting Americans against each other, against the immigrants and even immigrants against one another. Look what it's doing in Britain. It's going to come here. Why would ANYONE want this.
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As a person, I think Trump is a loudmouth and a braggart. As a president, I find little fault in the job he's done. As for Biden, he's been around too long, he seems to be degenerating, he has no policies except he hates Trump, he's associated with the movement to defund the police, that is obsessed with race, that makes excuses for rioting, is more about cosmetics (political correctness) than with real substance, wants to change long standing practices like the electoral college and the voting system, has no real stance on extended wars, seems to support globalism, specifically unbalanced trade with China, increased taxes, and have a whishy whashy immigration stance.
So, the choice seems easy to me. Biden, and the Democrats, just aren't fit for the job. They need to retool the party membership and rethink their political position and ideologies before I'd even consider voting for them. My vote goes to the loudmouth and braggart.
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Fknmando !
Wow. Since you obviously have trouble comprehending the situation, I'll repeat it for you.
There was a drive by shooting. That's where a citizen drives by in a car and shoots people on the street or in their front yard. Apparently, this is against the law. This time 2 people were shot.
Salvas's friend, the police officer, was called to the scene and was involved in a police chase involving the alleged car that took part in the shooting. The occupant of that car, a person strongly implicated in that ILLEGAL drive by shooting, tried to get away and was shot. You see, the police officer was pretty sure the guy had a gun in his possession. It's difficult to commit a drive by shooting without a gun....maybe even impossible so I'd say it was a pretty safe assumption. If the person was willing to shoot people on the street, he would likely be willing to shoot a police officer, as well. I don't know that for sure, of course, but....you know. I'd still go with it for safety reasons.
Salvas knew the police officer and knew him as an honourable guy. He may not be but when you couple that with the circumstances of the shooting, I'd say he has a right to feel that way and to express how he feels.
So....lets tie that in with the standing for the flag. I'm sure you've heard of Colin Kaepernick and the big kerfuffle over kneeling for the flag. This had to do with the police shooting of black youths and the belief in systemic racism in the legal system. Salvas said that he made that statement a year earlier, when this was big headlines. Now, I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. One year after saying that he stands for the flag, Salvas defends a police officer, a family friend, who was involved in a police shooting of an man allegedly resisting arrest. Maybe his Democrat "friends" might have let him off the hook for defending his friend but I don't know. However, his saying that he stands for the flag, might indicate that he sides with police officers in a police shooting. Defending the police officer in a real shooting validates his stance of police shooting. That is what prompted the "that's insensitive" criticism.
I've tied this up in a neat little package for you so you can fully understand what is happening here. Sorry if I'm seeming a little sarcastic (a lot, actually) but I have a feeling that you're being intentionally obtuse about the whole thing. You've implied that the alleged shooter in the drive by deserves to be declared innocent until proven guilty but the police officer shouldn't be given that right, given your statement that you don't know what a person is capable of when referring to the police officer. I'd say that's correct, to a degree. That police officer didn't know what that alleged shooter was capable of but he definitely had reason to believe that he could be extremely dangerous and that his own life was at stake. I guess the only way to know just how bad this guy actually was is to allow him to shoot the cop. Then we'd know for sure he was a bad guy. Makes being a cop rather hazardous though, don't you think?
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@christopherreichle6670
Anyone who thinks that someone else is going to make them happy, be it the government, their employer, or even the people around them, are going to spend their lives very sadly and end up disappointed. It's up to me to find meaning and satisfaction in my life. Besides, being happy is the end of an Utopian rainbow. It doesn't exist. The way to a good life is in the ability to freely pursue that good life.
Blaming others for what's going on in your head will get you nowhere. We are living in the most affluent times, for the average person, especially in the west, in human history. Yet, we still complain. I'll send you back 300 years. You'll be crying to come back to 2022 within the week.
Furthermore, do you really think that if you dismantle capitalism, that working in a factory will become somehow....exhilarating? That it will lead to life of deep happiness? Good luck with that. Someone's still gotta make your shoes. There will still be a boss and he'll still expect you to get the job done, except now you'd be an enemy of the people if you don't show the expected enthusiasm. You're looking for happiness in all the wrong places.
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@warrior-xd2xn
I should refer you to a previous comment that I made. Instead, I'll just copy and paste it so you won't have to search for it.
"There was a guy, who phoned reporters from the Washington Post, disguising his voice so they called him "Deep Throat", that brought down a president. Why? Because those reporters thought that IF Deep Throat's allegations were true, this would be a HUGE scandal and they went full bore into investigating the veracity of those allegations from this mysterious source. That scandal was Watergate.
Now, there's a laptop filled with videos and e-mails, a group of whistleblowers, a business partner, around 150 reports of suspicious bank transactions from 11 different banks, a video of Biden bragging how he threatened to withhold 1 billion dollars from Ukraine if they didn't fire a prosecutor, a guilty plea of tax evasion and a gun charge, a gun charge that resulted from that information from that laptop.......and the SAME newspaper that broke the Watergate Scandal, won't investigate ANY of this stuff.
THEY WON'T EVEN INVESTIGATE!!!! The entire MSM is ignoring all this stuff."
And YOU'RE talking about Republican logic? What about the "head in the sand" tactics that Democrats are using. They won't even investigate. I think that we BOTH know why.
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@garethjordan840
Fortunately, "peaceful" protests are the new vaccine.
It's a good thing that DeBlasio told NY citizens that they should go out on the town, that the subways were safe and they should ALL go to the big Parade in the middle of February, AFTER we all knew that Covid was so contagious. He kept this rhetoric up until the middle of March, when his own staff told him they'd resign if he didn't stop.
Good thing that New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients in nursing homes. That kept the most vulnerable safe, didn't it?
It was really a good thing that the Democrats were telling us how racist Trump was when he restricted travel to China. Kinda of strongly suggested that the travel ban was stupid and that Covid was wasn't much of a threat.
Then, on Feb. 4th, in the State of the Union Address, Trump told us how they were attempting to work with the Chinese government in studying this new virus, Pelosi did the only thing that could help the new threat. She tore up the speech, telling everyone that everything that Trump had said, in that speech, was a lie.....which would INCLUDE the part about the coronavirus.
When the virus was raging in Europe, it was a smart move for Biden to tell us all how a travel ban to Europe wasn't going to work. That sure made it seem that social distancing was important. What better social distancing than the Atlantic Ocean, huh. It sure kept the Indigenous people of the Americas safe from European diseases like smallpox for thousands of years. Not for Biden and all the Dem supporters though. They said it was dumb. Funny how the Europeans don't think it's dumb now.
See how easy the blame game is? I can keep it up if you want. I have LOTS more. Like how it would take the total populations of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Norway to equal the population of the United States YET....they have a total of 164,166 deaths.....23,000 MORE than the US.
SAME POPULATIONS.....23,000 MORE DEATHS THAN THE US.
Wow....numbers can sure be used to make a case can't they? Just about for anything you want to prove.
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@Wait Whet
I'll say it again. Greta, intentionally, went to the US, made a big deal on how she got there, stood up at the United Nations and made broad sweeping allegations and put herself on the world stage. Nicholas Sandman did NO SUCH THING. He went on a school trip and was randomly approached by that native who beat a drum in his face. Ten minutes earlier, Sandman had no idea that he was about to be thrust onto the world stage. It was NOT his choice to be vilified or praised or be put into the position. Greta MADE that choice. She got up, in front of the world, said her piece, made her accusations and then, according to you, no one is to say anything about it, unless it's praise and adulation.
You're comparing apples to oranges.
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@davids.2703
Who is forever talking about racism? Who supports identity politics? Who supports employment based on skin colour, sexuality, claimed gender and other equity based criteria? It's not Trump.
These are programs that separate, segregate and make your identity a defining principle on who you are, whether a job is open to you, takes away educational programs if you don't have the correct racial or identity appearance and may even decide who your political candidate should be, once again based on their preferred identity. Could even tell you where you must live. Must have even representation in all neighbourhoods so if your identity group is under represented in a poor neighbourhood, you may be the one chosen to provide identity equity, whether you like it or not.
School choice? Not if you're poor. Trump doesn't think that being poor should take away your choice but Biden, and his supporters, don't want you to have a choice. You go where they tell you and if the school is violent, the teachers are incompetent and your child is bullied and unhappy, too bad for them. That should make the poor feel a division between haves and have-nots, shouldn't it?
I have never, in all my seventy years, heard so much about race and other identity group profiling and it's all from the left and hardly any from Trump. His "Garden of Heroes" include people like Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Susan B. Anthony and Jackie Robinson. Sounds real divisive doesn't it? As divisive as tearing down the statue of Frederick Douglas in Rochester NY. It's Democrats that support tearing down statues so tearing down the statue of a great American statesman like a man, who was once a slave, must be Trump's fault. But why would he want that same man, Frederick Douglas, in his "Garden of Heroes"?
Your logic is baffling.
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@kayakuprising5914
When I was growing up, EVERY parent would have been "irresponsible". EVERY one of them. We walked to school, to the store, went fishing, bike riding, built forts in the woods, played soccer, baseball and hockey without a parent in sight when we were that age. We looked after each other and woe betide the child that caused enough trouble that their parent heard about it.
I feel sorry for those kids that never have a moment to be human beings, to have every action, word or decision be supervised from overbearing parents and adults. One day, they graduate from high school and are suddenly thrust into an adult world, either to work or college and they need their hands held at every moment. You're stunting their growth as strong, independent human beings and shame on you for doing that.
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Years ago, my wife and I were out shopping or something. When we got home, there was a envelope in our mailbox, naming those eligible to vote in our household. It named me, my wife and our dog, George. George Haveman....our DOG. Come voting day, we went to our designated voting station and sure enough, on the voter's list, there he was, George Haveman....our dog.
Fortunately, we live in Canada and we have to show ID when we vote. Since there is no George Haveman, and our dog can't vote, George Haveman didn't vote. It wasn't tallied. However, if you didn't have to show ID, anyone could walk in, claim he was George Haveman and vote for his favourite candidate.
I have to say, even though I'm Canadian and I've no say in it, Democrats are either foolishly naive or they want the ability to cheat in the elections. It's not a stretch to assume that they're not naive.
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@randylachance
Yeah....the dog whistle. Only you and the woke and insightful can hear it and understand it, and Maxwell, of course.
How the hell is he going to let her off? He may not even win the election this fall. There goes that power to let her off. Even if he wins, it's all over in 2024. She'll barely have started her prison term by then.
You're living in a world where every news item is somehow leading back to Trump and is spun into another reason to HATE.
Once you let hate, emotions really, control your life, all logic and reason disappear. Everything becomes about that emotion, in your case, hatred. No objectivity, no chance for redemption for those you hate, no forgiveness or understanding. Hate and more HATE, until rationalising for the violence we've seen the last 2 months becomes logical and reasonable.
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@nestorgonzalez6078
If you truly believe that Mexico would pay for a wall just on Trump's say so, you're fooling yourself. Only the most ill informed, uneducated hillbilly, Trump supporter actually believed that. Most of his supporters knew that it was just electioneering posturing. Surely you're not one of those hillbillies that thought this was a legit campaign promise? Would you get real.
That entire argument is irrelevant and you're basing it on an intense dislike of Trump. However, the wall and whether it is necessary or not has nothing to do with Trump. The question is this. Are there criminals and drugs entering the US where the borders are wide open and should the American government do all it can to stop this.
Apparently, the Democrats believe a wall would help. They approved the construction of a wall only 5 short years ago. Shumer even bragged about its construction back then. Why does he oppose it now? What has changed? I can tell you and, deep down, you know exactly what that change is. It's the fact that Donald Trump is the president and they HATE, with a passion, anything that he would suggest or do. It won't matter what it is. If he saves a puppy from drowning, they'd find fault with it. You oppose it because Trump supports it and if you had any sense of integrity, you'd admit it. Your entire comment screams that out.
You don't care whether the wall is good for America or not. You don't want Trump to take credit for it. That's it and nothing else.
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You've never lived in a country that's been occupied by a foreign power, have you? You've never seen foreign soldiers marching down your streets, entering your homes, taking everything made of metal, food, books, magazines, radios or arresting people with no charges. Never watched your countrymen, including women and children hungry and even starving due to the brutal callousness of a foreign government.
If you had, you'd start to appreciate those soldiers, who you have the temerity to call "pawns", and put their lives on the line so you can live without the spectre of horror an invading army can impose on you.
It's a sad part of reality that we do need soldiers to defend our country, but what's sadder is your lack of respect for their efforts.
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@nandy1256
He does. He set up a task force on Jan. 27th. Democrats and the media criticised him, saying it was filled with old white men. He stopped travel to China on the 31st, along with Italy, the first 2 countries to do so. Biden called him xenophobic and, if you watched the video, so did NY politicians and told their constituents to go on as normal and suggested if you didn't, you were racist. He expanded the task force and put his vice president at the helm so the task force would be close to him. He's on TV everyday, talking about the crisis. He's had conversations with every governor of the US....all 50 of them. Sure, he said, in Mid Feb. that it wasn't serious yet, and it wasn't yet, it had the potential at that time, but he sure didn't do what those politicians in NY did, and as late as March 11th. That's why NY was hit so hard.
The same thing happened in Italy. They closed the borders and the following day, Mayor Nardello, of Florence, said it was racist and the good Italians should show the Chinese citizens and tourists that they weren't blaming them. That, in spite of the fact that the first 2 cases in Italy were Chinese tourists from Wuhan. The next few days people were going around hugging Chinese tourist. I don't have to tell you what happened there.
The New York pandemic didn't come from China directly. It got there through Italy and both Italy and New York were cursed with stupid politicians.
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Unfortunately, it's not just Biden. It's the entire Democrat Party. Look at the devastation in Minneapolis. The Democrats have been in power for decades and yet they haven't done anything to improve their own city police force. However, worse than that, Democrat Ellison had possession of the body cam that showed that the police officers weren't being at all too harsh on George Floyd and refused to show it. Now they want to abolish that police force but that Democrat city council did vote themselves a personal security detail. Wow.
Then the fiasco in Portland. 74 nights in a row....IN A ROW, of violence and destruction. The Democrat mayor stood right next to rioters as the shot high grade fireworks at the court house and watched them try to tear down the barrier that was put up around that building. Yet, somehow that's Trump's fault. Then, Nadler just blithely says that it's all a myth. New York, now there's another mess. Almost 500,000 people have left. They're talking a 30 billion dollar shortfall this year. 13,000 homeless people put up in high end hotels at 175 bucks a pop at the Upper East Side. Now they have people passing out on the streets, urinating and masturbating in public, yelling at people walking by. They're not wearing masks like everyone else in New York is supposed to. Crime is up in the area by almost 250% with murders more than double in the City over last year. Louisville, Kentucky city council wants to name racism as a public health threat. At the same time BLM reps are going from store to store demanding hiring quotas and forcing businesses to buy from black owned businesses or else give BLM 1.5% of the business revenue. Legalised extortion....but the Democrat leaders don't do a thing. I could go on about this for hours....non stop.
So no, it isn't just Biden. Biden just represents the incredible blindness of the entire Democrat party.
It's like Trump hired the entire bunch of them to make him look good and that's not an easy thing to do.
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So...you'd rather vote for those who're being supported by the establishment Wall St. cronies. The ones that want to maintain the sweet Chinese gravy train. If I were part of swamp, I'd vote blue, myself. No more big deposits, into offshore accounts, by big Chinese interests. No more sweet contracts in a country that has few, if any, environmental laws, quality control, worker's rights or safety standards. Those executives at the multinationals love you for voting for them to continue eating at the Democrat and Chinese trough. Voting for censorship? Why not? We don't need to know about potential corruption of the Biden family. Only if it was Trump doing it. And group identity politics....isn't that great stuff. I know I love it. Each on of us judged by our skin colour and if you dare to step outside your designated place in society, you know get uppity like this "nodding" woman, we'll set you straight. And pretending that the riots are happening. I love it. Burn down someone's business because you're enraged, "Day of Rage", what a concept, is good if you support the Democrats or at least the left.
I don't blame you though. Trump says stupid things. That's WAY worse than stuff I'm talking about.
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@jasminelindros8923
Funny how, at the time of Shokin's firing, Burisma's owner and founder, Mykola Zlochevsky and Hunter Bidens's boss, was hiding in London and had 23 million dollars in bank assets, frozen by the Ukraine government, for suspected corruption. I repeat, Zlochevsky was Hunter Biden's boss. A few months AFTER Shokin was fired, the charges against Zlochevsky were dropped, the 23 million bucks were released and Zlochevsky returned to Ukraine. It didn't take long and he was under suspicion of another corrupt act and he's out of the country again, avoiding the Ukraine feds.
I guess asking about the circumstances is deeper meddling in foreign politics than insisting on firing senior politicians or lose money. Party loyalty sure makes for strange logic.
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@mauriciomarchena9111
De Niro said "f--k Trump" and got huge laughs and applause. Actually said it. Griffin held a likeness of Trump's severed head like a trophy. Madonna said, in a public speech, that she dreams of blowing up the White House, referring to Trump being the president. She also received applause for saying it.
All this guy said was "Let's go Brandon". We know what that means but really.....he's now an insurrectionist? He, an average American citizen, should have his business destroyed, lose everything that he owns, for saying something that isn't even close to what some of the suggestions around Trump were about. Leave the poor guy alone, media and your acolytes. It was a joke, maybe in poor taste, but that's all it was.
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First of all, Republicans and Democrats are American citizens, so you can't deport them. Second, what kind of traitor wants to protect the border of his own country? What kind of logic is that?
Have you ever travelled to another country? Unless you present a valid passport, you don't stand a chance of entering any other country on the planet. Try it. They won't let you in. Yet, for some reason, Democrats think that people should be allowed to enter the US, no passport, no questions asked, just come on in. Come on in by the millions and give them free healthcare, welfare, education, a driver's licence and then let them work for depressed wages at the those famous jobs that "Americans refuse to do". "Who's going to clean your toilets?" Well....them foreigners, of course.
Lefties want to call Republican racists but they're the real racists, hiding behind a cloak of virtue but, in reality, exhibiting hate towards anyone that disagrees with them.
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@guaporichard
The unfortunate ones, the largest in the United States, live in a Blue state, who are supposed all about looking after the downtrodden. Yet, California has, by far, the largest homeless population in the country. Many aren't because they've fell on hard times. They're suffering from mental issues and severe addictions and the politicians aren't doing a thing about it.
Even if you've managed to get by as a blue collar guy, there are a lot of people who're handicapped (mental illness is a handicap) who can't get by and the state of California won't help them or provide housing or mental health care.
The fact is, California is losing population and there's a reason for that. There's no place on the planet that's perfect and there never has been, but for a beautiful state, there should be no way that people are leaving. Especially a state that's run by a party that claims to care about those who are in dire straits. It might be good for you but there's obviously a lot of people that are unhappy.
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@spltndddpairofaces680
Answer a question with a question, huh. Nice dodge. If the teachers didn't do it, they didn't do it. No problem. However, my question goes to the point of guilt. Do you think that, if those teachers are found guilty, that they do something that was reprehensible or not?
Should teachers keep secrets, from parents about their kids, to satisfy a personal ideology? Should there even be sexually oriented clubs, in schools, for minors?
This is what is at the heart of this entire video. I expect you to dodge the issue, just as you've done all along.
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I can see how they did that. Years ago, I didn't like Trump but I didn't really pay a lot of attention to him. He was easy not to like. Then, he ran for president and I had to pay attention. He's still has that same air about him, but he's ok. The thing is, those that didn't like him, back then, won't EVER accept that they might have been wrong about him. The more he proves them wrong, the more they dig in their heels.
Not what I'd call mature behaviour. His opposition have become just plain insane in their hatred. Most of the time, it's not that I'm defending Trump, I'm ragging on Democrat stupidity. Of course, their hatred won't let them see that. So, all I can say is......TRUMP 2020!! There's no way I want those lunatics to win now.
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@alexs1640
No one, but NO ONE, is required to show their taxes unless subpoenaed by a judge. That includes YOU. If a police officer knocked on your door and said he wanted all your tax information for the last 20 years, without an official document giving him that right, would YOU hand it over? I'm betting you'd say no. Of course, that would make you guilty of some kind of tax fraud, wouldn't it?
There has to be probable cause and since the IRS hasn't provided any information that would give probable cause, his tax information will remain private, as it should be. As yours should be.
If someone makes a claim and then recants....THAT'S transparency. If Trump says that his claim about sanctuary cities IS true....he just revealed that what he said in the first place was false. That's being transparent. I'm not sure it even happened that way but your using this as an example is illogical.
I'm not saying that Trump has never lied but he turned over every document that asked for. EVERY ONE. Also, a person has the right to not take a stand and be put into a position in which he might incriminate himself. That's the law. Any lawyer will strongly advise their client to not, voluntarily take the stand. Criminal law 101.
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The kids were found alone so they put them in cages? Wasn't that enlightened of them. Are you REALLY justifying that?
I suppose you've not heard of child trafficking, have you. Or that some of those attempting to get into the country, illegally, were using random kids as props to elicit sympathy to get into the country. Kids that they had snatched from the arms of their REAL parents, doing so in the hopes that border agents might not search them for contraband.
I'll bet you've never heard of actual American citizens, who, after being caught engaging in illegal activities, had THEIR children snatched from their parents arms when they were arrested by agents sent by child protection services. Strange how crossing a border, illegally, with children, isn't grounds for temporary separation but punching your neighbour might see your children snatched and placed in a foster home, complete strangers to those children. Those parents know the risks of taking their children across the border, illegally, and they decided to risk it anyway.
You're reacting emotionally, based only on a hatred for an individual. That allows you to justify the loving care shown by Obama when caging children and reviling the horrors of snatching children when it happens in Trump's term in office. It has nothing to do with the truth or reality of the situation. It has EVERYTHING to do with your lack of emotional control.
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@talldavid30
The Capitol was NOT in ruins. A couple of barriers were torn down, a few doors were wrecked but the building was being used the following day. Also, those Americans that are dead, all died of natural causes, except for one Trump supporter, who was shot.
There were over 50 thousand Trump supporters in Washington that day. Yet only a few hundred entered the building. Also, being strong doesn't mean that you have to be violent. That's YOUR interpretation of what was said. Not being weak can also mean just sticking to your ideals and not giving up. As for being conned, did you really believe the Brian Sicknick was killed in the line of duty? Did that phony funeral for the fallen hero, killed by rioters, really fool you? He died of a stroke the following day or hasn't anyone told you yet. Did you really fall for that staged event? Who's the fool, here?
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Obama brought change....oh yeah, he sure did. By the time he was done as president, racial tensions hadn't been this strained since the Rodney King events, almost 25 years before he left office. Riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Dallas and police officers were being executed, including a young black woman, a mother and police officer, was shot in the head while sitting in her squad car. Why? Because the shooter was angry after listening BLM speakers.
Oh yeah, he brought change, alright. This country was on its way to being more divided than at any other time since the Civil war.
Thanks Obama.
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@talldavid30
Your side looked the other way, last year, when BLM and Antifa, rioted, burned and looted to over 2 billion dollars in damage, over 25 dead and thousands injured. They stood behind the call to defund the police and now violent crime, in minority areas of the big cities, has skyrocketed due to less police protection. Also, they rioted all across the US when Trump was elected and even tried to break into the Supreme Court when Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed. Hundreds were arrested because of that riot.
For the first time in California history, population numbers are on the way down due to over taxation, high housing costs, homelessness, blackouts, expensive energy costs, poor fire management, crime in the streets (Poop patrols????),....yet, you want people to vote for the establishment that allowed these things to happen.
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@QuietRefl4378
Is being viable the beginning of that life? Every one starts as a one-celled being. If dead, that's how it ends...a one-celled being. However, if alive, it grows and grows, until it reaches the point of being "viable". Viable is the point when it can live OUTSIDE the womb and that can even be less than 24 weeks however it's chances aren't as good.
At conception, the new life is a one-celled individual with it's own DNA that determines if it's male or female, blue eyed or brown, blonde or brunette. If analysed in a lab, that one cell will be recognised as a human cell. That human cell will grow and grow, unless something causes it to die. One of those "things" that would cause it to die is an abortion. This is scientific fact.
So....why is it religious morality that decides whether ending that life is right or wrong? Why can't an atheist come to the same conclusion, that it's immoral to end that life? Just as immoral as it is to end the life of a 6 year old child.
If you can answer that question, you'll have come a long way towards convincing people that abortion isn't immoral. Now...try to convince me that the one-celled being isn't alive.
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@J C
First of all, Trump didn't dump this on the states. The Constitution did that. He was following the dictates of the Constitution, the law of the land. If you think the Constitution shouldn't be followed, you should say that but every President has taken an oath of office to uphold the Constitution. The articles of the Constitution are interpretive and this was the way that it was interpreted. Had Trump enforced a mandate on the states, he would have faced stiff resistance from the states, especially the Democrat states. Leaving it up to the states is the best way to seek cooperation and it worked to a degree. Cuomo and Newsom, both Democrat governors, have been supportive and praised Federal action.
The reopening guidelines are just that.....GUIDELINES. Guidelines are not laws and cannot be enforced, legally. If Georgia doesn't want to follow the guidelines, it's their right. If it's smart to not follow the guidelines, that's another question.
The guidelines are a list of suggestions for the states to follow. Trump thinks that they're a good idea. If Georgia, or any other state, doesn't follow them, there will be people that disagree with them, including Trump. In fact, if you think that Georgia is opening too quickly, then YOU'RE agreeing with Trump. If you think that Trump should FORCE Georgia to comply, then you oppose state rights, something that the Confederates fought FOR in the Civil War.
Are you beginning to see how complex this is? No matter what Trump did or how he handled the enforcement of the guidelines, he would be wrong and you'd have grounds to criticise. It's a win/win scenario for the chronic critics and I'm going to assume that you're a chronic critic of Donald Trump.
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@jussayinmipeece1069
No....his tirade, if that's what you want to call it, is based on the idea that if an idea offends someone, you should never, EVER, be allowed to say it. Like that kid who was offended by the Biblical verses about love. What was his point? Was it that maybe those verses should never be discussed again because it might hurt his feelings?
In other words, he and all those easily offended, only want their views discussed and encouraged. They're no different than the religious zealots of the past, the ones that forced Galileo to recant his heliocentric model. That's the "four legs good, two legs bad" slogan. They're the new ideology, the "four legs", that is so good, and the old guard, the "two legs", that's so the bad. Remember, the animals revolted against the farmer, the four legs that revolted against the two legged overlord. Also remember, that book ended with the pigs walking on two legs and the slogan was adjusted to fit that change. In other words "Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss".
The American way is to allow each person the freedom to believe what they want and the right to express it without reservation and overt repercussions. That's NOT what the new SJW culture is all about. They are doing EXACTLY what the religious masters of old Europe were doing. They have their own ideology and don't you DARE say anything that might question it. The claim of offence is their weapon to shut you up.
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@anneanne9009
Yes, it is like a war effort but it's not the same thing. Also, neither Trump or Fox has ever advocated against State's rights or the Constitution. In fact, Trump has said, numerous times, that he will allow the states to define their own response to the virus, as is outlined in the Constitution. He has said that he disagrees with Georgia, opening too quickly, but he can't force them to abide by his guidelines, no more than he can enforce the draconian rules that the State of Michigan has implemented an he disagrees with. He cannot do a thing, except withhold funding from the Federal government, which may or may not be a good idea, given the need to help the sick, or he can wait until it goes before the Supreme Court and a decision has been made that the State of Michigan has overstepped their bounds. That's the law of the United States and the procedures that MUST be followed.
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Oh really. Wasn't it Biden that said that Trump was being xenophobic when he imposed travel restrictions to China. Then he compounded it by saying that travel bans didn't work when Trump expanded the restrictions to Europe. Didn't the Governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients in nursing homes when it was common knowledge that Coved was deadly to senior citizens. Trump sent hospital ships that were NEVER used to New York and Los Angeles. The Javits Centre was turned into a makeshift hospital, by the Trump administration, that sat empty. The Mayor of New York kept telling people to get out and enjoy themselves until some of his staff threatened to resign. Pelosi went to Chinatown, hugging and shaking hands, saying all was well and to come on down. She tore up the SOTU address, in which Trump said that they were trying to work with China over the Covid outbreak.
Strange thing is, I listened to Trump as well and I decided that I'd better be prepared for this outbreak. When the great toilet paper panic struck, I was sitting pretty because I bought a extra groceries, every week, leading up to the lockdown to flatten the curve. I didn't just listen to Trump. I watched what he did and I was ready.
This wasn't a failure of Trump. It's a failure of people, like yourself, who didn't get ready for what was to come. However, you'll never own your failure to act. You'd rather blame someone else.
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@lordbread2083
I can't speak to that because I can't see into the future. Also, what's the difference between Trump's wall, Bush's fence and Obama's barrier? Nothing, except the size and scope of it.
EVERY country in the world demands a passport for entry. Britain, France, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Iran, Kenya.....EVERY ONE OF THEM. Yet for some inexplicable reason, we have these people that believe that the US is racist if they insist that you have a passport if you want to enter at the southern border.
The ONLY reason that the wall may never get built is due to the same people that believe that ONLY the US should not be allowed to ask for a passport for entry and to control their own borders. That's the only reason.
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@scottwasson
What? We are in the midst of an bad economy due to a pandemic. These people have NO jobs prospects, no skills, no money, many can't speak the language and some even HAVE Covid. We have to provide them with housing, food, water, health care, education and transportation and THAT doesn't cost money? YOUR money, Scott. Our schools are closed so we won't even be able to teach them how to speak English, an important skill if you want to, eventually, get a job. There will even be some that are criminals, fleeing justice in their own countries.
It's thinking like that that has turned California into the mess it's in right now. Not one bit of common sense and absolutely no idea on how to run a viable budget.
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@mycryptodance4353
Who said that there wasn't racism? We all know that it exists. However, this accusation, has become an obsession. The search to expose is relentless. We've all become "Joe McCarthy's" searching out the racists and denouncing them on the flimsiest of evidence....no evidence much of the time. Standards have been set that no one could pass and those who fail those test, and they undoubtedly will, are denounced, humiliated, lose their jobs, friends and alienated from their family. Those tests are no different than the witch tests of the past. If she drowns...she's innocent. If she lives...she's guilty and must be burned at the stake. That's the purity test.
And we ALL fail that test. Everyone of us. It's only the one that holds the power that can escape the wrath of the mob. Just hope that you can maintain that power because all it will take is for someone, anyone, that doesn't like you, to denounce you as a racist....the enemy of the people, as they used to say in Stalinist Soviet Union.
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@aleisterbroley900
Individual responsibility....that's what every person should believe in. To know and understand oneself, to learn all he can and try to do the right thing. No one should ever think that he knows it all and that self reflection is never necessary.
What got us into this mess is the human propensity to envy. It's the socialist mantra. "If he has it and I don't, then he doesn't deserve it". Every child believes that. "How come Johnny can have one and I can't". They never look to themselves to improve their life. It's always someone else's responsibility. Envy is one of the seven deadly sins for a reason and the call against coveting is one of the Ten Commandments, one of the Big Ten. It's that serious.
My willingness to look at all the facts, led me that conclusion, even though I'm not a Christian. Had I not been a classical liberal, I wouldn't look at all facts and ideas and I'd be one of the left wing ideologues who refuses to listen and wants to shut the mouths of those who disagree with them. If I wasn't a liberal, I'd never understand that it's my responsibility to see that I do more than assert my rights because I'd never have taken the time to think these things through. I'd accept what I was told by a world that obsessed with equity. Also, I make sure that I deserve those rights by trying to be honest, hard working and responsible and always ready to improve myself by honest self introspection.
Most people, these days, try to change the world by some crusade against the evil in others. I try to change the world by realising that the evil is within me and that I have to be in a continuous battle for self improvement. If you think that's wrong, so be it.
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Everyone did. When Trump announced the travel ban, at the end of January, the media was the one that vilified Trump for it, saying the flu kills more than the virus does and that he was racist and xenophobic. De Blasio telling people to get out, don't worry and both him and Pelosi told people to go to the Chinese New Year's Parades in their respective cities. Also, Tucker Carlson and Greg Gutfield spoke about the virus in January, one of the earliest.
This crisis is unprecedented. No one, on Feb 1st, could have predicted, with certainty, that we'd be where we are now. You don't have to like Trump or Fox News but you should be honest in how you gather information and how it's assessed and don't allow a bias to rule your thought processes.
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@JosephusCheveuxBoucles
Watch the video. It shows just how proactive he's been. They were on top of the situation right from the beginning and when Trump restricted travel to China, Biden called him a xenophobe. When he organised a task force, detractors said it was too white and male. NEVER offering help, just complaining, ostensibly no different than you are doing right now.
Yesterday, Trump had a press conference in the morning and signed a bill for 8.3 billion in funds to fight the coronavirus. Then he flew to Nashville to talk to the victims of those tornados. Then off to Atlanta, to the CDC to bring attention to what was being done about the coronavirus.
You're another one that's so vested in your hate for Trump, you find it impossible to even look at something that might put him in a good light. You're too blind with hate to realise that it's that very attitude, from the left, that's going to win the election for Trump, making the same mistake they made in the last election.
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@coreyham3753
Listen to you. An immigrant, who came to the US legally, works hard to establish a business, is sitting in JAIL for going to work and YOU babble about Tucker.
Why is so hard, for people like you, to understand that work is survival. That the people, who live in 3rd world countries that are starving, are the countries with no economy. Countries that are run by corrupt oligarchs that will only allow people to work for them and NOT for themselves, are the countries that have starving children. Now, Michigan is doing the EXACT SAME THING, deciding who works and why and you can't understand how this is the road to the same hell as those 3rd World Countries.
You're like a 4 year old child who thinks that hamburgers magically pop into existence at MacDonald's.
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@Ethan Hobigant Roche
Chris Cuomo....."Since when to protests have to be peaceful?"
A rather poor attitude. Especially when the very first Amendment of the Constitution says that we have the right to peacefully assemble to bring our grievances to bear.
If a protest is called, I'm going to assume it's going to be peaceful. It would be a peaceful assembly and it would be lawful. I'm an individual but so is the assembly. A group making a singularity, just like the Jack of Clubs is one card of the singularity called a Deck of Cards. Lose that Jack of Clubs and the Deck of Cards becomes unusable.
When someone in that assembly throws a brick, that singularity, called an assembly, is no longer peaceful. As an individual, protesting, I have 2 choices. I can stay, and quite likely watch that assembly escalate the violence or go home, thereby tacitly expressing my disapproval for how that peaceful assembly did NOT hold up to its promise. I go home and tell anyone, who asks why I left, that I left because the assembly was no longer peaceful.
When the union, at a company that I worked at, went on strike, I stood on the picket lines with my fellow union members. When they started throwing rocks and smashing car windows, I went home. The strike, like those who assembled to protest, was peaceful and I took part. The moment it became violent, I left because that strike was no longer peaceful. Many people stayed and claimed that they didn't throw anything or didn't approve of the violence. I say that the inflated numbers by the presence the peaceful strikers gave the violent ones the courage to do their foul deeds. I say the same thing about the "peaceful" protesters. When the violence starts, go home. The protest is no longer peaceful.
"could be white supremacists"? A rather weak statement. Sounds more hopeful that factual.
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@georgemurphy2579
I'd like to think I'm not biased, but, being human, I suppose I might be. Who knows what evil resides in the deepest recesses of my heart. Having said that, I'd rather judge a person as an individual. I'd say that we're all unique and that to me is TRUE diversity and not the phoney "I can see your oppression" diversity that seems to be so pop these days. It's a choice I make.
You're right about one thing, though. I don't like stupidity. I don't mind people that are wrong and are mistaken in their beliefs. To me, stupidity is when you persist in those beliefs, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. That's why AOC is stupid as far as I'm concerned. Morally right over factually correct. How stupid is that? Morality based on inaccurate facts isn't morality. It's judgement gleaned from gossip and BS.
As for Candace, she's sharp. She cuts through BS like the sharpest sword ever forged. I can't help but admire that, even if I am racist (I'm white, you know). There's an honesty about that I wish I could say I possess. She's a special individual.
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@morecomplex5233
This isn't a contest of who/what had the biggest numbers. The flu is a different disease than Covid-19. It's pathology is completely different. In fact, Trump, you or I has no idea if the outcome would have been different had the cupboard been full because, except for the testing, almost all needs were being met within a few weeks. Trump was right. The cupboard was bare and Obama should have replenished it. However, he should have done the same....but this is all politics and has no impact on how the country proceeds from here. Continuous blame, from both sides, doesn't solve the problem at hand. If you're going to criticise Trump, you have to criticise his detractors because they're doing the same thing. If it's wrong for Trump, it's wrong for you and I, the media and the Democrat party.
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@scurra1163
175 countries, out of 195 countries in the world, have cases of the coronavirus. If Trump is incompetent, so it EVERYONE else. Europe has a MUCH higher per capita rate than the US and didn't shut down travel to China until a lot later than the US did.
Trump's mistake was the he didn't pay more attention to Europe. He should have restricted travel to Europe, weeks before he did. It's how the virus hit the east coast of the US. However, the media would have lost their minds had he done that. Hell...Biden called Trump xenophobic when the travel ban to China was implemented.
This isn't the time to be looking back and pointing fingers, anyway. Screaming into the wind helps no one. It's time now to work together, without rancour, and encourage each other through this. United we stand, divided we fall. When this is over, THAT'S when we'll have the luxury of belly achin about what went wrong. Right now, do what's necessary to beat this thing and encourage others to do the same. Anger and bitterness makes isolation that much harder to live through.
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When you have the media, Big Tech, large corporations, the Rinos, public sector unions, the bureaucratic monster and the Democrats aligned against you, that doesn't mean that you're weak. It means that they're stronger. WW2 Germany wasn't weak. They took on too many enemies, at once and put themselves into an impossible situation....fortunately, I would add. Trump was in the same position. His opposition was too big and were well organised. Trump and the Republicans made errors but they had an impossible hill to climb.
Besides, in a Democracy, it's never over, There will be mid terms this fall. You keep fighting and you can turn it around at the polls. The type of defeat that you're talking about only happens in totalitarian government and unless you believe that the Democrats are a party of despots, Trump and the Democrats, can turn it around this year.
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Your Worst Nightmare - Facts
Aren't you the pessimist. I'm not seeing any revolution or even signs of it. I'm seeing a few crazies in the west, embracing some kind of socialist anarchy but they're far from mainstream. Actually, military conflicts and human violence, as the human condition, has been on the decline since the last world war. Not saying that it will end but that trend is there. Also, more people have been pulled out of abject poverty, over the last 20 years, than at any time in human history. Poverty is the great indicator of high birth rates. The affluent west has a negative birth rate and our populations would actually go down if it wasn't for immigration.
But, maybe revolution it is. Some seem to want the nightmare. I think it's insanity but unfortunately, insanity does exist. In fact, it seems to be encouraged in the west.
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@sir.lancelot8338
That's absolute nonsense and the numbers prove me right. Italy, the UK, Belgium, Czechia and Hungary have MORE deaths per million than the US and Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Bulgaria are right behind them.
This is a disease. People get it and unfortunately people die. The outrage is over a policy which INTENTIONALLY put people, with Covid, in the same place as the elderly.....ON PURPOSE. Would you allow me, if I had Covid, to go live with YOUR parents? If I did and they died, would you not be upset about it?
Or is your hatred for Trump that deep that you be mad at him instead of me? That's twisted....and I don't even like Trump.
Party politics is disgusting and you exemplify why that's true and you do it perfectly.
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@Punani Surprise
What an idiotic thing to say. First of all, the haircut thing was in response to the Chicago mayor, who had all these businesses locked down and then went to her OWN hair stylist to get her hair done. Second, this was about people wanting to go back to work, to their businesses, so they could once again be productive and earn a living. Did you notice that there wasn't ONE broken window, not ONE looted building, not ONE person beaten or killed, not ONE building set on fire, not ONE car smashed, not ONE landmark defaced? Not a one, during those protests.
I'm not even going to ask you to compare that to the protests of the last 2 weeks.
People have the right to protest, even if it's about something that you might disagree with.
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@jonathanp1884
I find that both FOX and CNN, actually all the big ones, interpret the news. They don't inform, they manage the information. The most egregious example is when they reported on the Covington Kids. I watched it on CNN and then went on a search for more information. It took me about 15 minutes to find the extended video that was condensed into the one on CNN. It showed that what I'd seen on CNN was total BS.
Think of it. I'm a guy, who lives in a one bedroom apartment, ALONE, in a different country, with no connections or staff and and an average cobbled together computer that my son-in-law built for me and I had this information before CNN, with all the resources that they have. Oh yeah...I'm a boomer too. You know...the generation that doesn't know much about computers or social media.
How was that possible? Either CNN and the rest of the MSM is totally incompetent or they lied. Everyone of them reported the same thing. Yet, one hour after the first news report, I was on Facebook arguing that it was all BS. Their response? How would I know. Do I think that I'm smarter than the press and media? Funny thing was....I was found to be correct.
You are correct about CNN not always being wrong. If it fits the narrative that they want, they'll be as honest as a Sunday school teacher. I double check everything and the internet has made that possible. The truth is quite obvious. Too many of us are too vested in our beliefs to allow them to be challenged. We won't even challenge ourselves even if it's in private. I find it a struggle myself.
It's what the biased media depends on.
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@patacleus6803
This isn't an Alabama sewage crisis. It has to do with Lowndes County, a rural area, where the county seat, Hayneville only has a population of 931 people, as of the 2010 census. The logistics of running a city style sewage system is prohibitively costly because there are only a little over 11,000 people spread out over 725 square miles. To compare, Manhattan has 1.6 million people living on 23 square miles. There is no work and money available is quite limited. San Francisco has a land area of under 50 square miles with 882,000 residents. Can you see the financial issues of putting a sewage system in a 725 square mile area now? How are the 11,000 people going to pay for it?
Worse, Lowndes County sits on a clay base which is notoriously bad for disposal using septic tank systems. This causes even more difficulties.
You're comparing an issue that is would cost more to install than all the sewage systems of Manhattan and has to be paid for by 11,000 people. Maybe you should try to get a deeper understanding of the problem instead of just reacting in a knee jerk fashion.
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Masson H
No one has said that Trump is a perfect human being. However, he's doing a good job as president, whether you like it or not. You're engaging in hate politics, not a good look and you refuse to look any issue objectively and without the bias of hate that seems to fill every comment you make. Emotions make for weak logic, at best and at worst, ignores logic altogether.
In fact, your rhetoric is hurting your cause. Democrats aren't going to win over hard line Republicans. They have to win over moderates, those who sit in the middle. Calling someone, who weighs all the arguments and evidence of an issue on an unbiased scale, a cultist, will expose hard line Democrats as intolerant, name calling elitists and that attitude will turn people away from your party and towards those you don't like.
It's why the Dems lost the last election and why they're going to lose the next one. I know that you won't believe it but you have to face reality sometime. Don't call people names if you want them to vote for your side. It's bad politics. "Hey, brain dead cultist.....VOTE for me" is as stupid a strategy as it gets.
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My parents were immigrants. As a matter of fact, I was conceived in the old country and born here. I spoke Dutch till I was around 4 and a mixture of Dutch and English till I went to school. It was a little more difficult for us because we lived on a farm and only had one neighbour who didn't like foreigners. Dad still lives there and has been there 64 years and that same neighbour does, too, except it's the kid that I grew up with and they still don't get along that well. Ironically, that kid was the one that, initially, taught me how to speak English. My mom had only a grade 6 education in Holland and never worked except on the farm and she taught herself to read and write in English.
You can throw water in my face all you want. Come to this country and become a part of the fabric of society. Your heritage is a part of who you are and can't be taken from you but when you immigrate, you've accepted that you're carving a new heritage for yourself as well, one that includes the old and that's melded with the new. I've seen what maintaining a position of isolation due to culture and religion can do, firsthand, from other Dutch immigrants, who looked at the local Canadians with disdain. It's not pretty. Fortunately, their children have blended in very well and that attitude has gone. We're still known as the Dutch because it's a small town but we're accepted as a part of the community because we have eventually integrated. That's important. Of all the Dutch people that immigrated to this area, only one was forced to go back, and that was for insurance fraud.
Become a part of the greater community. The only reason one would refuse is due to a sense of superiority. It happened in the Dutch community that I grew up in and it was not right what some of those people said and did.
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Free Thinker
Because the investigation into Burisma was carried out by the Ukraine government. That was the same prosecutor that Biden wanted fired. It would seem the best way to find out, EXACTLY, what happened here and to see whether Biden made a corrupt move or not, is to ask those DIRECTLY involved.
Besides, no matter who Trump asked to investigate into the Biden's alleged corruption, the response would still be that Trump was trying to get dirt on a political rival. The only problem was, in this case, Biden used American taxpayer money, to fire a prosecutor, in another country, who may or may not have been looking into his son, for some kind of wrong doing. That SOUNDS corrupt to me. It should sound corrupt to anyone. If he's innocent.....great. In the end, though, the investigation will always lead back to Ukraine, where the bulk of the information of corruption, or lack of it, lies. That's just plain common sense. I'm sure no one, including you, would never say that it's okay for a politician to be a crook in another country, using American taxpayer money as leverage to get what he wants. It does seem that Biden did just that. If he didn't, then why did he brag about it?
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@Thebobbyman
Yes, there is. The wall that is being proposed is also bringing with it a road, so border patrol agents can monitor activity more effectively. Way better than having to walk through miles of desert to monitor the borders.
It's set up a line, which isn't easy to cross, that any potential illegal can see and understand that this isn't to be breached. If you're on your own side of the wall, you're good. If you're on the other side, you're in violation of a law that forbids illegal entry into another country. EVERY country in the world has these laws. That's why you need a passport to travel.
It also makes it easier to set up surveillance equipment, so agents can be used in a more effective way. It's a clear cut guide for aerial surveillance, so they can monitor activity on both sides of the wall and then the roads, built while building this large, comprehensive wall, can transport the trucks and agents quickly to any problem areas.
That's only a start. There is definitely a point to the wall. The point is only lost if you're politically motivated and allowing that to cloud your perception.
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@jayv5093
He BEGGED for instructions and no one answered him. He was in charge of the officers, around the Capitol building, that day and when he called out for new instructions because of what was happening, NO ONE answered. So he took it onto himself to bring the members of Congress to safety. Wait for instructions? From who? The person who refused to answer him? Those officers were abandoned. Everyone knew that there were going to be protests and knew it for weeks in advance. Yet, when it turned ugly, there was no plan to help those officers out. THEN, the politicians made a big deal, later and lied about how Officer Sicknick died. They USED those officers as political pawns. Sicknick died of a stroke and heart failure, long after the riot and Biden even claimed, much later that he was killed by protesters. THAT'S A LIE.
This is NOT about Tucker Carlson. This is about why those in power didn't take the precautions that should have been taken. That should bother EVERY American but for some reason, you'd be quite comfortable with being abandoned, like these officers were, had YOU been a security officer that day.
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@gamera3d324
After you do your taxes, do you take the tax returns down to the local pub, church or to all your friends, neighbours, work associates and family and show them what you did? If I asked you, would you send a copy to me? I'm betting that you wouldn't.
Your tax returns are private. If your accountant posted your returns in the local papers and on the internet, you'd sue him and he'd lose his licence as an accountant. Why? BECAUSE IT'S PRIVATE!!!!!!
That's the law. Why does a sitting President lose his rights? Is he no longer a citizen?
Over 30 years ago, he was losing money and he didn't have to pay taxes. Since then, he's been doing a lot better and guess what? He has been paying taxes. A lot of taxes. His employees have been taxes as well.
You see, there's a reason that you're allowed to write business losses off. Businesses go through ups and downs over their existence. The government allows you those exemptions to allow you to recover from the downturn in a business and they do happen to every business. It's not illegal. It's not unethical. It's an agreement between the government and a business, a set of rules that, not only help the rich, but also the small privately owned business. The roofing company, the small bake shop, a machine shop, a shoe company, everyone benefits from those tax breaks. Why? Because, in the end, allowing downturns to happen you're giving the owner a chance to recover and that benefits everyone......including you. Almost every business suffers loses, especially starting out. If you didn't give those tax breaks, who, in their right mind, would even start a business? That would cripple the economy and we'd all languish in abject poverty.
If Trump had never paid taxes in his entire life and he's worth billions, you'd have a point. However, during those times, he wasn't worth billions. In fact he was billions in dept. His assets, when counted, were less than zero dollars. Now, he is worth billions. His assets are in the multi-billions and he's paying taxes. That's how it works. It works for Trump and it works for you as well.
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@richardthomas1531
This is one of those comments that shows a complete lack of understanding of history and the human psyche. At the time of the writing of the American Constitution, all 13 colonies had slavery. Slavery had been a part of the human condition for thousands of years but people like you think that it was going to end in one day. It's not. It was a long process of education, thought, debate, in-fighting and more debate.
Right after the Revolutionary war was over, some of the Northern States started to end slavery. 20 years after that war, all the Northern States abolished it and the non-slave states was about half the number of states. By the time of the Civil War, more than half the states were free states and it had come to a head. Over 600,000 people died in that war to end slavery, but you and people like you won't even give the American government and the people the credit of officially ending slavery in the United States. It was the US government that ended it and it was that American Constitution, that was behind the ideals that ended slavery.
The US has been slave free for most of its existence and it was the US government and its citizens that fought HARD to end it.
They wrote that ALL MEN were created equal with the understanding that this was AND IS a work in progress. Instead, it's become of work of hate....of self righteous hypocrites pointing fingers and laying blame. That's not what the Constitution was meant to be. It's a document that was supposed to be a method of working our differences out without violence and hate.
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Harris is supposed to be in charge of the border. If she had any spine, she'd at that border, every chance possible, talking to border agents, drug enforcement personnel, local citizens, migrants, migrant children, local politicians....anyone that's concerned with the border. She should be going out with border agents, seeing what they're seeing, going into migrant camps and on and on. If she did that and handled the problem effectively, she might well be a presidential candidate.
She's not done any of that. She's a failure at that and she'd be an even bigger failure as president.
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First....NO evidence that the Russians helped Trump. NONE. I thought that it might have been true at one time but I wanted to see the evidence. There has been NONE shown. Innocent until proven guilty. Guilt is proven with evidence. No evidence....no guilt. So that part of your argument is getting to be just plain dumb.
Second.....Trump won through the electoral college vote. The electoral college was put in place over 200 years ago and the reason for it was quite simply why the United States rebelled against Britain in the first place. Taxation without representation. The 13 colonies were being taxed, without any input from the colonies, by the more powerful British government. The forefathers believed that each region should have a say in how they are governed and devised a system of regional representation. They didn't want the more populous regions to dictate to the more rural and distant regions. Why would states like Alaska, Hawaii, Montana and others like it even bother to stay in the union if New York, California, Texas and Illinois control the votes and the country. They'd separate from the US, just like the 13 colonies did from Britain.
A simple civics course would have helped Hillary, immensely. They she would have realised that fly over America was important and wouldn't have had the arrogance to not bother to campaign in those states. She lost because of her arrogance and disdain for a certain demographic of America. The very demographic that voted for Obama, voted for Trump. Calling them a basket of deplorables may well have been part of the worst campaign strategy in American history. It showcased an elitist attitude that a lot of Americans hated.
Actually, a civics course might do YOU some good as well.
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@loudharley6926
They didn't even go through with impeachment proceedings after the Mueller report.
Hillary lost because she didn't bother going to the swing states to campaign. She derided middle America, calling them a basket of deplorables and the Walmart shoppers. She told everyone that white people have to learn how to behave, that they have to accept their privilege and racist tendencies. Smart thinking that was. White people make up 65% of the population so she insults them and then expects them to vote for her. In the end, the VERY states that voted for Obama, voted for Trump.
At the time, I didn't support Trump but I kept telling everyone that Hillary was losing her bid due to her arrogance and that she had to change her strategy and attitude. They called me Trumpster. You're doing the same thing that they're doing and worse, what the Democrats are doing. When you fail at something, don't blame others. Figure out what you did wrong, what you missed and don't do it again next time. But guys like you and the entire Democrat party won't learn. They keep on saying the same thing over and over and keep losing. If they lose again, what then? Are they going to be like Schiff and suggest it was because Trump offered Putin Alaska.
I repeat....the VERY states that voted for Obama, voted for Trump. If the Democrats don't fix that, they'll lose again and mail in ballots and not requiring ID isn't going to help them.
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@MariaMartinez-researcher
Do you know what's rude. Claiming that you're a minority so you can get ahead professionally. That's not just rude.....that's racist. Trump mocking her might be crude but she has it coming to her. She pulled a dirty stunt. Seemingly giving approval to affirmative action so she could use it to her own advantage.
For almost 70 years, North Korea has been threatening the US, South Korea and Japan. Japan has had air raid sirens go off due to Kim's missile tests. All the former presidents did was add more sanctions which only hurt the regular North Korean but it didn't affect Kim one bit. Trump thought he'd try a different approach. Communication....this was once prized as a way of settling differences. Instead of amplifying differences, try to find common ground and it has shown some results. There's still a long way to go but at least the tensions have eased over what it was. That's good, unless you want to be locked into perpetual sabre rattling. Then you'd support the lack of communications strategy.
Anyone that thought that Mexico was going to give the US 5 billion dollars on Trump's say so, is either delusional or just using it as political fodder. Most Trump supporters knew what he was doing when he said it. Use your head....a little bit, anyway.
Also, the Greenland thing was an offer. There was nothing forcible about it. I could offer you money for your car. That doesn't mean I'm forcing you to take it. It was an idea, that's all.
I know Trump is brash and abrasive but you have to try to understand what it is he's trying to do. He's doing what no other president has ever tried. He's listening to the average American, no matter who they are. That's why he is the populist president. As long as the Democrats refuse to understand him, he's going to beat them. "Know your enemy" an abridged quote from the great Sun Tzu, would be exceedingly helpful for Democratic supporters. Instead, they just attack without ever getting into his head. It's why Trump won the last election and why he has a good chance of winning the next one.
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@nandy1256
If you dislike DeSantis because you dislike Gaetz, then yes, you are being juvenile. It's like the 2016 furor over alleged white supremacist Richard Spencer endorsing Trump. This, to many, proved that Trump was also a white supremacist and it was bit news. 6 months after the election, Spencer withdrew his support, extremely disappointed in how Trump wasn't endorsing policies that Spencer wanted. That was largely ignored. When Spencer endorsed Biden for President, that didn't mean a thing, not to the press anyway. Funny how that happened.
The point being, DeSantis can no more help who supports him than Biden can. It's illogical and juvenile to think otherwise unless you actually believe that Biden is a white supremacist and that Spencer's withdrawal of support from Trump proves that Spencer admits that he was WRONG about Trump being a white supremacist.
Do you see the quagmire that this type of reasoning leads to, now?
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Gerry Swaim
"trump's a LYING CHEATING STEALING NARCISSISTIC BRAGGING BLOWHARD BULLY of a president. Anyone that treats people the way he does is capable of anything."
This is exactly the problem. You don't start from there, capable of anything, and then start to go looking for that anything to make the name calling justified. The accusation of collusion has been investigated, scrutinised and combed over and there has been no solid evidence provided. If there had been, he would have been impeached already and these Ukraine hearings wouldn't be taking place as they would be redundant. No evidence and the law, American law, has to declare him innocent of those charges. That's how you treat gossip about people you don't like, as well. You don't spread rumours and innuendo until you have the evidence to prove those rumours correct. They didn't do that with collusion.
THAT'S BASIC AMERICAN LAW AND BASIC HUMAN DECENCY.
All the bankruptcies? Trump is worth close to 3 billion dollars. That's his net worth. Rachel Maddow showed his income return for 2006 and he made 156 MILLION dollars that year and paid 36 million in taxes. He's doing very well for a bankrupt business man. He's had some of his businesses go bankrupt, like his Atlanta casino, but he own's all kinds of businesses. Moguls like that always have some failures. That's par for the course when you have multiple business ventures. You've just show how little you understand business or economics.
So far there is no evidence of any wrong doing with Trump and Ukraine. "Do me a favour" isn't bribery. There was no caveat at the end of that phrase. No "or we'll do that to you" to follow. It's "Do me a favour". That's all. Anything else is reading into it what you want to read into it. The Ukraine president has said, repeatedly, that there was no pressure. He's the victim of this. The victim of bribery or extortion or pressure....whatever you want to call it and he's saying there was none. Not only him but members of his government are saying the same. Taylor just testified today that the first 2 times that he talked to Velensky, the guy never even knew that money was being with held. What kind of extortion is that?
HE DIDN'T KNOW THE MONEY WAS BEING WITH HELD.
That was after he talked to Trump. That's quite the extortion attempt by the American president. Extortion with no information or ultimatum.
Then Taylor says that one of his staff members heard a conversation on a phone. What? That's hearsay. Why didn't Schiff have the staff member giving testimony? That's the first hand information. That's what could really sink Trump.
You're hating too much and letting that make decisions for you. Me....I'm waiting till I see ALL the information, then I'll tell you if Trump extorted Ukraine or not. So far, Schiff has shown next to nothing. That's being fair. That's how you asses information in a judicious manner. You don't root for an outcome and then dismiss what doesn't give you the outcome you wish for.
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@ryanyeager1797
The very first comment that you made is a back handed insult, implying that you believe that he doesn't know history and that YOU do. The second was one where you deride someone for their lack of ability to communicate to your standards. As if he was below you in intelligence and therefore didn't deserve a response that befitted a fellow and equal human being. Both responses said nothing that could be taken as a positive or that had anything to add to the conversation or the topic. They were snide and derogatory, implying that you felt that you were dealing with uneducated rubes.
I never said I didn't care, in a general sense, that is. I said, and read my comment carefully, that I could care less what you thought of my punctuation or my ability to communicate. In other words, if your opinion, of me, is that of some backwoods hillbilly, I don't care. My self worth isn't predicated on the arrogance of some YouTube commenter that I've never met.
Do you get it now? Or do I have to hire a professional writer to make myself clear?
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@sleazyneezy
I see you didn't ask for the data. Not surprised.
You're cherry picking data, just like I did and I did it for a reason. You can make data work for you anyway you want.
I said that there may be other factors that you're not looking at. Like this one.
Could it be that because the Japanese aren't obsessed with racial virtue signaling that when they closed the border, no one was calling their government xenophobic? Could it be that they didn't have mayors like DeBlasio telling everyone, in February, to go out, have a good time, ride the subway and to go to the Chinese New's Years Parade to prove they weren't racist against the Chinese. Could that be why New York was the US hot spot? Could it be that the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients in Nursing homes, putting the most vulnerable people in the US in danger? Could it be because Biden said it was xenophobic to restrict travel to and from China? Could it be because Japan doesn't have this element of political hate that automatically rebels against anything the president says? If this was such a concern, why didn't the Democrats forego impeachment and concentrate on the virus and sit down with the president and come up with a plan, TOGETHER, to fight this thing? Could it be the hate they felt towards the president? Trump even talked about the virus it in the State of the Union address, the one the Pelosi ripped up, because she said it was ALL lies. Not one Democrat mentioned that this was one item that they should be concerned with.
And if you don't think hate is involved, don't YOU hate Donald Trump?
I don't like Donald Trump, either, but I don't HATE him to the point of trying to blame him for everything. It's too simplistic and it solves nothing.
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@istvanglock7445
No other president has EVER sat in a talk with any of the three Kims. Singapore was the very first time that happened. Trump now has sat down in face to fact talks, twice now. Unprecedented, no matter how one wants to look at it. We don't know what the North Koreans will do, but only a war hawk would be against negotiating for a peaceful resolution between North Korea and the US.
Anyone who expected Mexico to sign a check to Trump in order to build a wall is just plain delusional. I just told my wife that I'm buying her a new car and that you, Istvan Glock, is going to pay for it. Does that make you obligated to pay for it? Of course not and neither is Mexico. It was just a nonsensical election campaign game and the only ones who took it seriously were people like you.
It's easy to say that the deal with Canada and Mexico are bad deals for the US. It's another to prove it. I can say the moon is made of cheddar cheese. Claims are useless. Try giving a few facts. Also, there have been huge trade deficits with China for years. Only the most obtuse would say that this is a good thing and nothing should be done about it. The only reason you're saying anything is that you don't like Trump. You wouldn't support any initiative he suggests only for the reason that you don't like him. It doesn't matter how good or bad it is. You deal in the politics of personality......not in the politics of what is helpful to the people. It's not the issues you care about. It's your hatred of Trump.
She was a part of the US participation on that fund. The point being this. Is this a good idea or not? Once again, you're not asking that question. Why? Because, apparently, for you, that's not the issue. You'll criticise it because Ivanka Trump was involved and her husband signed the bill pledging US support. You'd stand against it for one reason only. You hate Trump. The politics of personality being, once again, the driving force.
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@brandonsmith9860
Yes....and he's discouraged coal production, essential in the production of steel. The steel that will be needed in that infrastructure plan. Guess where he'll be getting that steel from. China? That's American dollars LEAVING the country and no longer a part of the American economy. In essence, he's giving money to foreign interests, and using taxes, that come from American taxpayers, to pay American taxpayers to build infrastructure.
Guess what else you need to build infrastructure? Oil. Oil to operate the machinery and to transport goods. Oil that will be a part of the asphalt to pave those highways. So what does he do? He nixes the Keystone Pipeline. He discourages American oil production. Once again, he'll have to get that oil from somewhere. I'd say the Middle East, maybe even Venezuela. Once again, money LEAVING the US, American taxpayer dollars to buy oil, on top of the steel products, to add to the tax money to pay American taxpaying workers to build the infrastructure so they can pay taxes to pay themselves to to build infrastructure and buy foreign goods.
Oh he'll cut some great deals with giant multinationals. Won't the rich love that. They'll be getting money to sell products, foreign products, to the American government for their infrastructure plan which they can hide in off shore accounts.
It's a great plan alright, if it didn't help the very rich that you hate so much.
People, like you, don't get it.
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@philalexander7902
It was a hell hole around the WORLD in 2020. I'm not American and I can attest to that. 2020 was a year like no other in my lifetime and I'm in my seventies. There were things that Trump did that I disagreed with but it was the Democrat states that caused the biggest issues. NY, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California put Covid patients into nursing homes. Everyone KNEW that the elderly were in the greatest danger from Covid, yet they did it anyway.
Each state has the right to set their own policies on fighting the pandemic. Some of the states handled it horribly. Others did quite well. A lot of Democrat states are seeing people flee to Florida, Tennessee, South Dakota and Texas, all states that didn't take a strict stance on Covid restrictions. California, for the FIRST time in it's history has seen it's population go down.
I repeat....the whole world went through hell in 2020. I'm Canadian and you didn't want to be in Quebec that year. It was awful. The deaths in Europe were terrible, as well. You can't take a year, which was an extreme exception, and then use it to negate the previous 3 years. That's resorting to politics and that was the biggest problem that the United States had in 2020. Political hatred helps no one.
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@thechiefwildhorse4651
I just wondered how land ownership worked. Just owning your own piece of property does wonders for anyone, native or not, especially if you had to work to get it.
I live in Canada and I live between 2 reservations, 25 and 50 miles away respectively. Toronto is about 100 miles to the west and there are smaller cities all around us. The natives on the larger reservation work outside all the time and most are quite prosperous. It's not that way in all reservations in Canada. The more remote locations and, believe me, they are a lot more remote that where you live, don't have it so good. However, I have a close friend who was born in a remote area, attended a government school and moved to the small town that I live in and has done quite well. He came from a remote location in British Columbia and moved thousands of miles and found a better life.
I'm not doubting that the reservation that you live on was designed to keep you restricted to your spot but I can't help but wonder why you'd accept that. You can move if you want. Get a decent job, save your money and move back if you want when you retire but I'll bet that if you did move away, you won't go back.
Sometimes you have to grab life by the balls and do for yourself as best you can. You owe it to yourself to do that.
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@thechiefwildhorse4651
Do you think my buddy had a whack of money when he left the infamous reservation school? Honestly? You've given up before you've even started. You sound like the kind of person my dad used to talk about. He'd say "He sounds like the guy that won't go into the water until he's learned to swim".....meaning that if you don't try, you'll never succeed.
I just offered some advice that I've seen work for lots of people. If you don't want to do the work for it, say so but remember one thing. If you wait for someone else to do it for you, it's not going to happen. My dad, at 19, left his home in the Netherlands, landed in Canada with hardly a cent in his pocket. He took on a job at a dairy farm, milking cows. He worked hard, saved his money and finally bought his own farm. When I was growing up, he worked the farm, worked evenings at a shoe factory and weekends as a musician. He's now an old man and has travelled all over the world and it was all possible because he wanted it and was willing to sacrifice for it.
All it takes is determination.
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@topcat4059
If you can't see that it's happening ALL the time, you're wilfully blind. In fact, the most rigid places in the US, during Trump's administration, were the Democrat states, perfectly illustrated during Covid. Yet, Florida, which had the most lax mandates in the US, came in exactly where they should have in the pandemic. The state, that is 3rd in population, is also 3rd in cases and deaths of Covid. The strict mandates changed NOTHING.
Your political views are based on hatred of ONE man, not in logic or facts.
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@CreekyGuy
Don't start trying to tell me what prayer is all about. I've spent a lifetime in the church. 8 years in a private Christian school that was sponsored by our very fundamentalist Christian church. 5 years of Catechism. Calvinist Cadets for 5 years. Young People's society for 4 years, as a teenager. Prayer before and after every meal and Bible readings after noon and dinner meals.
I've read the Bible, cover to cover, TWICE and have read the works of many of the Christian thinkers of the last 1500 years. I understand what prayer is about and why it's important.
It's YOU that missing the point. When I said that I can't pray my car to start, when it doesn't, I meant that we can't just leave everything to God. WE have to take action for ourselves, too. God gave us 2 hands and a brain for a reason and it's not just to praise him. It's so we can use our physical assets to better the world around us, the one that He created for us.
Yet, I've read over and over, in this comment thread, that we need prayer or that "I'm praying for this country". You can work on some assumption that maybe God wants the car to start and he quite likely does. Do you know how I know that? He gave me the hands and brain to take action, find out why the car didn't start and then use my brain to fix it. It's a 2 way relationship and a big part of it is to go to work and do the best I can to solve it myself. I've already got the help from God that I need. Part of thanking him is to use the gifts that he's already given me to make things better. The biggest part of thanking anyone is the action of using what that person has given me to solve my problem. I can thank my neighbour profusely and repeatedly for lending me his tools but it's false gratitude if I never use them and sit on my couch watching TV all day. That's the same thing with thanking God. It's lame gratitude if all I do is pray. I have to show my gratitude my DOING something with the gifts that He's given me. If I don't, he might just as well made me a turnip. Prayer without action means nothing.
Now....how do we go about solving the issues that this country is facing. That's our job and we have to use the tools that God gave us to solve it.
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@thetruth401
Wearing a mask is to prevent spreading of the disease. Trump is being tested almost every day. He's not spreading the disease. That doesn't apply to me. I don't get tested everyday so I don't know whether I've been walking around asymptomatic for weeks or not, so I should wear a mask.. Trump, and his doctors, know that he hasn't been infected because of, you know, those tests.
Do you see the difference?
Also, Trump's doctor, HIS DOCTOR, told him it was alright for him to take the drug. HIS DOCTOR. Get medical advice before you take it....like Trump did. My doctor hasn't advised me to take the drug, so, guess what??? I DON'T TAKE IT. No medical advice so I don't take it.
Do you see the difference?
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Brian Laurence
All I said, in my original comment, is that Trump can't just send people to a foreign country and start an official investigation. It isn't done. If there was corruption surrounding the Biden's why wouldn't there be an investigation. You'd think that you'd want to see corrupt American politicians exposed, no matter who they are. What delusional about that? Trump asked for a favour. That's all he did and that's all that's shown in the transcript of that phone call. If he did refuse the Ukraines aid or money unless they did him the favour, show me, in THAT transcript, where he said it.
SHOW ME. Don't call me names or imply that I'm delusional. Show me the exact place and shut me up with facts, because if you can't, you're the one that's making up what's actually stated in that transcript. If it's there, it should be a simple thing to do. If it's not there, you've no other recourse but to call me names because the facts don't support you.
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@MilkByCow
The US has a population of 330 million. It would take the countries of Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom to match that population. Do you know how many deaths those 5 countries had, in total?
135k. Did you get that? 135,000 deaths to the United States 102,000 deaths. The same populations and those 5 Europeans have over 30,000 more deaths than the US.
So.....NO. I doubt that it would have made any difference had the Democrats been in power. There are factors involved that apply to westernised, mobile societies that weren't manifested in other, poorer countries.
But I suppose, there's a degree of satisfaction in laying blame. Don't want to take the joy of being so smug away from anyone but I thought I'd lay out some facts.
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@GA477
Your short 4 word question demonstrates EXACTLY where you're coming from. It shows a predisposition, a bias and a desire to lay blame on a specific target and you will REFUSE to consider anything that might go against your preconceived claims.
Those figures that I quoted.....don't matter. Spanky is to blame. That he restricted travel....no matter. Spanky is to blame. That it was a virus and situation that hasn't happened, in the memory of any living person on the planet....who cares. Spanky is to blame.
Unless you can prove that "Spanky" knowingly, and with intent, allowed the virus to come to the US and spread, then no, he's NOT to blame. You may be able to show errors in judgement but I can show you all kinds of errors in judgement that had nothing to do with him that cost lives. Do those errors have consequences? Of course they do. However, when you're faced with an unprecedented crisis, errors will be made. It's inevitable. That's why De Blasio saying that the travel ban was racist and that everyone should go to the Chinese New Year's Parade in New York is an error, even stupid, but doesn't mean that De Blasio is to blame, UNLESS he wanted New York to be the epicenter of the pandemic.
I'm sure that you won't get it. You're so driven by hate and bias that you're incapable of making any objective assessments on this or anything. It's the blame that counts. Blame at all costs and to hell with the facts, circumstances or objectivity.
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@inigo4937
What? The first thing that Biden did, after the China travel ban, was call Trump and the ban "xenophobic". Yet, Doctors Fauci and Brix said it was the right thing to do. Mayor De Blasio, backed up by Governor Cuomo, said that there was nothing to worry about and people should go to the Chinese New Year's Parade. That's not being political? The reason that the Democrats and the MSM weren't in full anti-virus mode, on Feb. 1st, was because their focus was exclusively on impeachment. 24/7 coverage on impeachment at the time.
They were being political. In fact, the press should have been all over the virus, at the time, but they were too focused on the political games that they loved so much. A strong opposition should be pointing out potential threats and offering solutions. All they could think about was finding a way to rationalise why they lost in 2016 and that's exactly why they'll lose again in 2020. Stupid political games and a smugness that will not allow them to consider the fact that they could have made a mistake.
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@inigo4937
All I will say is that the coronavirus pandemic, in the way it has manifested itself around the world, is a brand new phenomenon. It's unprecedented in its scope and response. When dealing with the unknown, you're going to see mistakes.
Party politics didn't have to be an issue in the US. Unfortunately, it was the Democrats who started to lay the blame on Trump. "He called it a hoax". "He's xenophobic". That was a Democrat call. Then, when a stimulus package was presented, it was the Democrats that wanted to add items that had NOTHING to do with the virus. Equity in corporate boards? That's going to solve the Covid economic problems? Increased emission standards for airlines? Money for PBS? That's politics and nothing else. Had the Democrats shown more concern for beating the Covid crisis instead of using it as a platform for societal change, maybe they'd have greater support from the people. Instead of yelling "Trump's fault", they stood beside him, offering support and suggestions, they'd have shown themselves to be the advocate of the people, instead of trying to argue every word, phrase and utterance out of the president's mouth.
I've been saying this since 2016. The Democrats are the architects of their own political problems. I don't like it but it's the facts. Anyone, not willing to sit down and ask where they could have gone wrong, will NEVER solve their problems. Admitting that there is a problem is the first step to solving it. The simplest of axioms that the Democrats refuse to face.
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@damarmar1001
Of course Trump "wanted" to open this weekend. Who didn't want that 3 weeks ago? He also said he would have to defer to the medical experts before he could do that and before we even reached this weekend, he decided to prolong the crisis policies to the end of April, upon advice from, guess who(?).....the medical experts. At the end of April, this decision will be revisited to see what should be done next. In fact, Trump has said, repeatedly, that saving lives comes first, THEN the economy.
Maybe YOU should listen to EVERYTHING he says instead of only what you WANT to hear. Maybe then YOU'D have a "clue" to what is going on. Also, if a person can't make his mortgage payment, there are provisions that the payment will be deferred to the end of the mortgage contract.
I'm wondering who is truly the idiot here. No one has to say that you have to like Trump or vote for him but at least get your facts straight before commenting.
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@shawnmalloy2919
All vague and nothing substantial. Just like this impeachment sham. He never told anyone to storm the Capitol Building. "March peacefully and patriotically" yet people, like you, pretend that he never said that. His accusers, in the impeachment hearings, just edited that part of his speech out. Unreal....and I'm not even that big a fan of Trump.
When the government manipulates facts and call it the truth, I will no longer support that government. I don't care who the target is. I expect integrity from the leaders in government and RIGHT NOW, that's the Democrat party and they lied to me, AND YOU, by editing that part of his speech out.
What a poor excuse for an insurrection anyway. Over 100,000 Trump supporters, in Washington, and only 200 entered into the Capitol Building. They weren't armed and some were let in by security officers. They even stayed within the velvet ropes after they were let in. BLM and Antifa has better riots on any given night last summer. The whole thing was blown completely out of proportion. Those who broke in should be prosecuted and those guards who let and encouraged others in should be reprimanded. It surely didn't warrant turning Washington into a war zone. Political theatre, that's all it is, by a party that wants the US to become a one Party government.
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@russk8091
A lack of empathy huh? It isn't the Trump supporters who are promising free health care and education, housing and welfare. It isn't Trump supporters that are offering sanctuary cities and states. These are the promises that are luring these migrants to the US, promises made by Trump detractors, all the while knowing that if those people that they've lured to the US get caught, they will be subject to being detained. They know full well that this has been the law and the policy for decades, even under Obama, but they don't care. Offer more promises, more bait to catch them so they can use them to make political points against Trump. If they're lucky, maybe one of them will even die. That's a real coup in their fight against Trump.
Not one of them will ever say to those migrants, please don't make that trip. It's too dangerous for you and especially for the women and children, who are in the greater danger of physical and sexual abuse. Stay home until we can sort out what our new policies will be. Nope, they just increase the bait to lure the migrants to cross the borders and into those detainment camps.
That's what I call lack of empathy. I'd never take my child through the perils of a desert and expose them to potential predators and then confined in detentions centres. I'd never encourage anyone to put their children through that. Not the left though. We'll give you more free stuff and if you get caught, we'll express our outrage against a president we don't like. They'll sacrifice their hardship to score political points.
That's as cold hearted as it gets.
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@rebjiii
At least I've used actual quotes from Jesus. All you've done is make accusations and demonstrated your own feelings of superiority over another human being. As much as you think differently, we're no better than Trump and no more worthy of heaven or redemption than he is. Get over yourself.
You can realise that specific things that he does might be wrong but you're dismissing anything that he might do that is good for the country. Now I'll give another example from the Bible. King David was chosen, by God, to be the King of Israel. Yet, he arranged to have Uriah, one of his own elite soldiers, killed so he could have his wife Bathsheba. Could you imagine a president doing that? God sent Samuel, the Prophet, to chastise him for it, yet he still allowed David to continue on as the King. Think about it. David murders to get a woman and God still allows him to stay on as the leader of his nation. There has to be a lesson in this.
Donald Trump is a flawed individual and there are things that he does that I would like to believe that I wouldn't do. However, I have to admit that I'm a flawed individual as well. Moreover, if you look a little deeper into the life of Trump, he's done some things that are amazing compassionate. He's a complex individual and, unlike so many of us, he is very outspoken and blunt and allows his faults to lay wide open for all to see. Most of us hide them but they're still there, hidden away.
Instead of your anger and hate towards him, try to show compassion. That's something else Jesus taught. It doesn't say to "love thy neighbour that is perfect or that you like". It says to "love the neighbour" without qualification or distinction. Your last comment isn't one of love but of anger, superiority and intense hatred of someone. Are you sure that this is how you're supposed to love your neighbour. Maybe should love the sinner and hate the sin. A fine distinction but one that is demanded by Jesus.
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@rickmcdonald2233
There was a guy, who phoned reporters from the Washington Post, disguising his voice so they called him "Deep Throat", that brought down a president. Why? Because those reporters thought that IF Deep Throat's allegations were true, this would be a HUGE scandal and they went full bore into investigating the veracity of those allegations from this mysterious source. That scandal was Watergate.
Now, there's a laptop filled with videos and e-mails, a group of whistleblowers, a business partner, around 150 reports of suspicious bank transactions from 11 different banks, a video of Biden bragging how he threatened to withhold 1 billion dollars from Ukraine if they didn't fire a prosecutor, a guilty plea of tax evasion and a gun charge, a gun charge that resulted from that information from that laptop.......and the SAME newspaper that broke the Watergate Scandal, won't investigate ANY of this stuff.
THEY WON'T EVEN INVESTIGATE!!!! The entire MSM is ignoring all this stuff.
Honestly, if anyone has to grow up around here, it has to be YOU.
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@williamfranz9872
At least the GOP is having these hearings so that WE can know. Just this 5 minute segment was incredibly eye opening.....if people would take the time to listen or watch it. If the people, that's you and me, don't have any interest in taking in this information, nothing CAN be done about it. If the GOP does nothing, WE, the citizens, can threaten to primary them out and put someone in place who will.
The citizens of the United States keep passing the buck for various reasons, laziness, apathy, party and or ideological loyalties. The whole point of the Democratic process is for the citizens to hold our politicians to account. If we don't do our part, corrupt individuals will see an advantage and we will pay for it. Ultimately, we pick our representatives. It's up to us to pick ones that will do their job.
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@MrKGatl
Zlochevsky's corruption went back to 2012, when he was Minister of Ecology. Hunter Biden started at Burisma in 2014, the year Zlochevsky fled the Ukraine and had his money frozen. 2 years later, at the end of 2016, that money was released, after the prosecutor was fired at the urging of Joe Biden and others. Strange and inconvenient that suddenly, everything was all good after this prosecutor was gone and that now, with a new president, who has declared a war on Ukraine corruption, Zlochevsky is once again, out of the country facing the same allegations he was cleared of 2 years prior.
Is Hunter Biden or his father guilty of anything? I don't know but I do know that this doesn't exactly appear to be clean, either. As it stands, the Ukraine has it's aid, and has had it for months, and there is no information from the Ukraine on Hunter corruption of lack of it. Nothing. So they got their aid and did nothing to get it.
All of this information is easy to find but it takes time and you have to sift through a lot of contradictory statements. You have to weigh it up and then check on the veracity of each claim. One thing is indisputable. Joe Biden did brag about getting that prosecutor fired. It's on video and is easily accessed here on YouTube if one wants to see it.
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@sarahxyz2274
She parrots the old left wing trope that black Americans can't succeed without the help of white America. That Rep. Donald is nothing but a "token" black man and refuses to see him for the individual that he is. Why would she, a black woman, do that? Is to defend the idea that maybe SHE is the token black media personality? After all, MSNBC had to fill their diversity quota, the very thing that they espouse continuously. A $21,000,000 net worth might be incentive enough to accept being that token black AND woman employee. The network HAD to hire her to show just how inclusive that they are.
For the racially motivated, there's nothing more infuriating than a black man or woman making it on their own abilities and the merits of their ideas. They NEED America to be racist and they'll smear anyone, like Rep. Donald, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder or Candace Owens who don't fit into their concept of a black American.....what we call a stereotype. If these black individuals can do it on their own, it negates that stereotype and they can't have that. The irony is, that means that Joy Reid can't do it either, according to their own racialized ideology. That, to me, is "the soft bigotry of low expectations". They'll just give it to them whether they've earned it, through ability, or not. How condescending.
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getawaycar
It's because those who want to tear down the statues are also the ones that want to educate you. They want the ONLY source of information to be the state run educational system. No questions because you've been educated and that statue might cause a question that they don't want you to ask.
What do you think re-education camps are? They're camps to send those who have the audacity to question what they were taught the first time around. It's a do over, a try again. We're seeing them now, in a limited way, in our human resources departments where they're teaching you the dogmas of "inclusivity" and "equity". It's to make sure everyone gets that message and is programmed to believe it without question. If you question it after their "seminars" you're fired.
No individualism. No thoughts of your own. It's the beginning of the Orwellian society. If you didn't see it before, here's that warning again.
'Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.' George Orwell
You might as well read this, as well, from 1984.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right”
If you don't see this as the path to become a mindless drone, there's nothing I can say. It's the path to a dystopian future where destruction is seen road to enlightenment and we're all worker bees, obedient to the state, where revolutionaries like Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln are reviled. It's imperative that they are because we can't have revolutionaries or anyone who would believe in the rights of man.
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@kenbeasy
Desantis didn't put Covid patients into nursing homes, at all and under NO circumstances. That lessened the chances of the disease spreading into nursing homes, considerably. It's because he, and his team, looked at the data and the science, on their own, and targeted the most vulnerable as the focus of their protection policies. That's why Florida has done so much better than New York. One went at it with a plan, in a pragmatic manner and the other just reacted in a knee jerk manner without a plan. You can figure out for yourself which was which.
I'll give you a hint, though. There's a reason why New York put Covid patients in nursing homes, why they claimed they needed 40 thousand ventilators, when they didn't need near that many, why they couldn't find the ventilators that they had until, it was pointed out, by FEMA, that they were stored, in New York state leased warehouses, in New Jersey. Are you getting the hint, yet?
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@okay5938
If there is CLEAR evidence, then why isn't Pelosi pushing to impeach? In fact, she's doing the opposite.
There was no obstruction. Neither Mueller, or his team, were ever held up due the actions of the president. The investigations were never stopped, ONCE, because Trump intervened and stopped it. Trump was upset because he felt he was being unfairly targeted and that Mueller and his team were biased against him, but who wouldn't be. He even told some of staff that he wanted Mueller fired, but there was never any attempt to fire the guy or any of his staff. It was inner circle talk. The closest you can get to a legit charge is conspiracy to commit obstruction. That's extremely difficult to prove, especially, especially when there was no action taken.
I'm afraid there is no basis to impeach on obstruction. This is just wishful thinking on the part of those who hate Trump. It was their backup accusation, just in case they couldn't prove collusion.
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@okay5938
They called that interference of the Russians, collusion, because they wanted to show that Trump had a part in it. That's what everyone called it, repeatedly and incessantly. Let's get over the semantics of it, shall we?
Mueller mandate was to find if there was any interference by the Russians. What it found was that there was no evidence to link Trump or his team with that interference and that there was no collusion. The media treated the interference as a forgone conclusion. It was the media (CNN, MSNBC, WaPo and the rest) that wanted it about collusion and a lot of the Democrats hooked their wagon to their claims of collusion. They were all sure that when the report was finished that if would prove that Trump actively helped the Russians to interfere in his favour. It wasn't till Mueller said "NO collusion" that the obstruction stuff started.
Russian interference in the US election does not make Trump guilty of any crime, even if he benefits from that interference. It begins to be a crime, for Trump, if he "colluded" with the Russians to interfere in the elections to his own benefit. Trump is only guilty if he actively sought their help and there is NO evidence that he did.
Trump firing Comey isn't obstruction. Whether Comey was fired or not, he was still obligated, by law, to testify before the Mueller team. In fact, firing Comey would hurt Trump as it would have had the effect of turning Comey against Trump more than he already was against him. Firing Comey did nothing to stop his from testifying. Nothing at all. I can't for the life of me see how firing Comey would stop him from testifying. It's illogical. I don't see how firing Comey would stop him from telling the truth.
Since that's all you have, that's all I can comment on. You've not convinced me of a thing.
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@okay5938
Sorry, I meant to get back to you sooner but I've had some health issues and was kind of laid up and busy with doctor's. Things are better now and I've a little more time.
Comey didn't testify. However, he was the prime investigator into the Clinton e-mail scandal and he decided that there wasn't enough to build a case against her. Then, just before the election, new material was revealed and he re-opened the e-mail case. That upset a lot of Democrats, who felt that this strongly affected the outcome of that election. When Trump was calling for Russia to "find Hillary's e-mails", that's what he was referring to. He was talking about sensitive security material on Hillary's private computer that could easily have been hacked into by anyone, including Russia. In effect, he was asking Russia to admit that they had illegally accessed Hillary's private account and spied on sensitive security material. I don't see how that is obstruction. That's what the entire Comey investigation was about.
However, it was found that Comey had drafted a letter of exoneration long before the that investigation was over. Republicans were now upset. How can anyone draft such a letter before an investigation was complete? This was a major reason why Trump fired Comey. He felt that Comey had a greater interest in his personal politics than doing what was good for the country. If any president feels that way about the head of such an important group, he should fire that person. That had nothing to do with the Mueller investigation which was inevitable, since there was a great interest in the leadership of the FBI to investigate alleged Russian interference.
Interference, by a foreign power of agency in an American election, is illegal. Anyone that is involved in that interference is guilty of a crime. Adam Schiff said, repeatedly, that he had definitive proof that Trump aided and likely influenced Russian interference. That would have been an illegal act as helping a foreign power try to rig an election is illegal. That is what Schiff and others called collusion. The Russians tried to influence the election and Schiff and others were claiming they did so on an agreement they made with Trump. They called that agreement "collusion". They also claimed that this agreement, called collusion, was illegal and it became a major focus of the Mueller investigation. That investigation found no Trump involvement but it did point at Russian agents who are now open to charges in the US which they will never have to face, unless they enter the US.
I still don't see any case for obstruction.
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@The00Dude
Are you serious? Immigration was a mess when Trump started. He made deals with Mexico and other central American nations and illegal immigration was down when Biden took over. He stopped the building of the wall and rescinded the deals that Trump has made.
Also, Trump had to get a budget, secure funds, get proposals and estimates from contractors and then get the infrastructure in place to even BEGIN building. This isn't a "snap of the fingers" project. A lot has to be done even before construction can begin. Hell, it took 12 years, from first design concepts, in 2002,, to completion in 2014, to rebuild the World Trade Centre. You want a wall that's hundreds of miles long, over all kinds of terrain, to be done in less than FOUR years? You really have no concept of the magnitude of such a huge product.
Trump also had to contend with the RINOs, those Republicans, who made up the majority, and hate Trump and were responsible, in part, for Trump's defeat in 2020.
It's actually quite the accomplishment to get that much done, considering all what had to be done and the opposition to the wall....opposition that ended with shutting down the wall completely.
You sound as if you wanted the wall and you're angry at Trump for not finishing it. It's sounds contradictory.
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@cpataxpro
Then why is it that New York, a Democrat stronghold, is the centre of the virus? Why did Mayor De Blasio tell people to go to the Chinese New Year's Parade and well into March tell people it was okay to go on the subway and even recommended events for them to go to? Why did the head of the Dept. of Health in New York support him on TV? Why did Cuomo support that same message? Why did Pelosi rip up the SOTU address, the same address in which Trump talked about the Coronavirus and yet she, no other Democrat, OR the media mention how he was correct about monitoring the virus in that speech? Why did Pelosi tell people to go down to Chinatown, in late February? Why did the Mayor of New Orleans allow the Mardi Gras to continue and allow over a MILLION tourists to visit that city over the festivities? Why did Joe Biden, repeatedly call the travel ban from China, xenophobic and received no backlash from any of the Democrats?
Are you going to tell me that these were the correct actions? OR....are you going to use your vaunted 20/20 hindsight to select ONLY what you want to see and ignore the rest?
You're using politics and the blame game in an attempt to showcase your delusional moral superiority. People, like you, are the most dangerous of all to human freedoms....the ones who lay blame and then use the guilt of blame to suppress and ultimately oppress those they deem their moral inferiors.
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@DdotRay86
The desire for a secure border isn't racist. Right now, we're going through a crisis, that was brought into the country because of a border that wasn't secure to the point of being able to stop the disease from entering. This is only one reason why any sovereign nation has the right to monitor those who would enter their borders. Until Donald Trump became the president, that was the consensus of most American politicians, including Obama. Why wasn't Obama berated as a racist for HIS stance on illegal immigration? Why only Trump and by proxy, Tucker Carlson? Chuck Schumer bragged about the barrier the Obama administration erected to halt the illegal crossing of the border, yet called Trump's barrier racist. How anyone can't see the political manipulation and fraud in this is absolutely astounding.
To add, this isn't about Mexicans at all. It's about people, illegally crossing the border and it doesn't matter where it is they come from. The truth is that the largest percentage by far, come illegally from Mexico. That's why the focus on that border. It is also fact, that, by far, the greatest number of LEGAL immigrants, come from Mexico. In fact, of the top ten nations, where legal immigrants originate, not ONE is a predominately white nation. Nations like China, Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Honduras are in this group. This isn't about racism. This is about ideology.
Big pictures are made up of little pictures, pixels united to make a whole. Without the pixels, there is no whole. That's why we discuss the issues that Tucker is presenting so that the individual, doesn't get lost, in the big picture, so that you and I and everyone has a say, no matter how trivial it may seem.
All you're doing is getting us lost in the big picture so it's impossible to discuss the specifics of our situation. It's a justification for the egregious behaviour that Tucker was talking about because it hasn't impacted you, as yet, and you can feel the power of moral superiority over others when they make the "small" transgression against the "BIG" picture. It's how tyrants rule the insignificant citizen and you've acquiesced, to the state, your position as an individual of significance to the big picture called the state. That's why you don't want to discuss the issues. You're no longer you. You're the BIG PICTURE.
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@MrKGatl
A few minutes later, he said that he meant that those who believed in the 2nd Amendment would be voting as a block and would vote for him. He claims that is what he meant. It isn't a clear cut call to assassinate anyone unless one wants to believe that narrative and refuses to believe anything else.
Also, it wasn't a member of the media that was sucker punched. It was a protester. How did the guy know that he was a protester? Because the guy was being, in his words, a "loudmouth". In other words he was disrupting the rally. Trump said, when asked about it, that his people were looking into paying his legal fees. Not a good idea but if I went to Democrat rally wearing a MAGA hat, I'd be attacked.
As a matter of fact, there are incidents of people attacking those in MAGA hats almost every week, not the other way around. Chris Cuomo of CNN has even said that Antifa is fighting the good fight. Anyone that thinks that Antifa doesn't use violent tactics isn't paying attention. That's a clear cut call to violence from a journalist. Also, look at the violent rhetoric directed at the Covington kids, basically for wearing MAGA hats. Lots more violence for the opposition to Trump than the other way around. There was even a well known entertainer that wanted to blow up the White House and another one holding up an effigy Trump's severed head.
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.
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@MrKGatl
The vast majority are from the extreme right. Almost all those who lean conservative don't belong with the White Supremacists or Nazis. They're a very law and order crowd. These extreme right winger are more apt to commit the more violent crimes because they generally support gun ownership more than the left. Therefore the more extreme violence comes from the right. Another thing the left does is that anything that appears to be a little off is called violence. "It's ok to be white" signs are hate crimes. A 12 year old kid draws a swastika, on a school yard with chalk, is also deemed a hate crime. The extreme left sees this as violence, which is ridiculous, especially in the case of the sign. Now, even the OK gesture is a hate crime.....more violence.
Yet it's the left, that commit physical attacks that aren't as deadly. Punching those in MAGA hats. Using pepper and bear spray, disrupting traffic and banging on cars, setting fires, stealing property, blocking entry to right wing speaking events and so on.
It's pointless, however, to turn it into a contest. No matter what extremist is doing the violence, right or left, it should be called out. NO exceptions. We both should be calling out that type of political violence and stop turning it into a game of "who's the worst". Most people are left leaning or right leaning and aren't into the violence. It's the extremists that are the problem and they live on both sides of the political spectrum. Even you believe that when you said "most" violence comes from the right. That implies it comes from the left as well.
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@eljisprincess1131
I don't have to wait a week to get back to you. I have a sister who, suddenly, starting saying that those trails were chemtrails a few years ago (new boyfriend influence. Happens all the time with her). I knew that they were contrails but I looked into it anyway. I found nothing that would indicate that someone was spraying us. In fact, it didn't make sense.
This kind of project would be one of the biggest industries in the world. Where are the factories making the millions of tons of spray? I've been online and asked till I was blue in the face. No answer. I asked why we never seen the thousands of tankers heading toward airports. No one seems to know how they get the stuff to the airports.
If this were true, you'd know people that were working on this, somewhere in the supply chain. Hundreds of thousands of people, making spray, sprayers, installing them on planes, maintenance crews would be involved, pilots, ground crews, a chain of command in the government, hundreds of millions, likely billions of dollars allocated, weather specialists, scientists studying the soils and waters, people in agriculture, even hobby gardeners, who get their soil tested would end up with weird samples. Nothing from any of them. Just your assertion that they last and look weird.
Of course they last. They're man made clouds. Clouds last. Hell, we had 3 days of cloud last week. If natural clouds last, so will man made clouds. Also, people, around the world, fly a lot more than in the past, especially over the last 20 years. When I was a kid, it was rare to go to the Caribbean or Europe. Now, everyone goes to the Caribbean every winter. Tourism is HUGE down there, now, growing spectacularly over the last few years.
Speaking of Europe, my dad grew up in war time Holland. Towards the end of the war, Allied planes flew overhead everyday loaded up to bomb German targets. Dad told me that the skies were filled with contrails somedays, not always but sometimes they would cloud the sky with their contrails and they would last for hours. The Dutch loved to see them because it meant that the Germans were getting pounded and that the war would soon be over. However, Allied pilots didn't like them. It made their planes visible. The contrails were like huge fingers in the sky, pointing out the planes to German gunners on the ground.
You see.....I've looked into it. It makes no sense and there's no real evidence of it. None. That they look weird sometimes isn't evidence. It's an observation that begs a question to be answered and the most logical way to get an answer is to find the science behind it.
I could go on but, unless you're interested, it's not going to change things much. People tend to believe what they want to believe and ignore what contradicts it. Not a lot of interest in facts.
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@SportySP
Look assess it as if it's just an ordinary person, a layman, asking a doctor and a researcher about something. It's not Trump, it's you, asking about something you don't know about. Then, when you find out that it's might be rather naive, people start hounding you over it, telling you how STUPID you are, how ridiculous, telling you to shut-up, that you're an idiot. Do you agree with them? If you do and they keep it up, do you agree with them again? Will there ever be a point where you start to lose your patience and say something to get them OFF your back about it. A simple question and they just NEVER STOP!!!! Would you take it with a smile and a nod, FOREVER?
People are making it about who asked the question, not the context and content of the exchange.
Also, it's too late to question on who the right person is, right now. Trump is the guy. He's what we have to work with. Instead of battling him, EVERY STEP of the way, maybe the press and the Democrat party would be of more service to the people by helping him, giving suggestions, asking questions that would help the American people. Maybe cooperation and working with him, all of us working together and showing a willingness to compromise would be a better way to handle this crisis than continuous sniping and whining about EVERY word the president says. It solves nothing.
Also, it wasn't a Republican or Trump that forced Covid patients into nursing homes, housing them with healthy and susceptible elderly people. It was the Democratic administrations of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan that did that. If you want to express outrage, do it over that instead of a STUPID and NAIVE question by a person that admitted that he wasn't a doctor and that he DIDN'T KNOW in the context of that question.
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@SportySP
I never once mentioned Obama. Also, that some people of interpreting information in a rational manner doesn't discount what another person might say. I may not understand my doctor's reasoning, at times, but I'll listen because he's the one talking. If I need help understanding, I'll go to someone that does understand and get all the information possible.
My reason for bringing up those Democrat governors is to show you how people, like you, are obsessing over a simple question, when there have been decisions made that have directly impacted lives. Sick people put into nursing homes with susceptible elderly people is a HUGE issue, yet I've YET to hear the outrage over that from the press or those you're forever going on about a simple question. I said it to make a point.
The point it this. Your outrage is centred around politics, NOT reality. No outrage about the decision to put Covid patients into nursing homes because it was a decision made by Democrat governors. Outrage over a dumb question because it was Trump, who asked the question. Trump, a Republican. It's why the press harangues the president about that and why they're NOT haranguing him about putting an end to putting sick patients in with healthy ones in nursing homes. It makes the Democrats look bad.
It's why you've decided to not talk to me anymore. You don't want the politics of this to be exposed so you'd better get the hell out before it is.
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@SportySP
Now it's Russian bots. An allusion to the claim that has NEVER been proven to denigrate people that disagree with you.
Also, the nursing home fiasco is not a tragedy. This was a decision made by the same people that are telling us to stay home, not go outside, to maintain social distancing, close businesses and schools, even threaten to arrest people that don't follow guidelines, because Covid is extremely contagious and then put sick people in nursing homes where the most vulnerable of our populations are gathered in one place. That's NOT a tragedy. That's either stupidity of the grandest scale, or just plain cold hearted. In fact, Pennsylvania's top health official took her elderly mother out of a nursing home and had her stay somewhere else, where it was safer. That we weren't ready for the disease is one thing and even understandable. It's of a scale that no one alive has ever dealt with. That led to this tragedy that we're facing. Putting sick people in the same place as healthy seniors, knowing how contagious it is and how vulnerable the elderly are, is NOT a tragedy. Had Trump done that, it would be the scandal of this century.
That's not a bot speaking. That's reality and deep down you know it.
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@0rionsaint
Yokols......You nailed the reason that Trump is in the Whitehouse right now. The Democrats have went on and on about the "deplorables" or "yokols" as you would call them. It's that arrogance, that aura of elitism, that turned so many Americans off. Instead of looking inwards, a little self examination, over why they lost, they tried to blame everyone else....the Russians, racists, misogynists, homophobes, anyone but themselves for treating a large segment of America like a bunch of uneducated hillbillies. It's why the Dems lose again in 2020 and¸ unless they change their ways, they will lose again in 2024.
Being the party of "revenge" isn't going to win votes. If they want to win elections, they'll have to deal with the issues that people care about....like jobs, immigration, personal freedoms and opportunity. A platform of "Get Trump" does nothing to help a country and so far, it's hurt the country and hurt it a lot.
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@hughmatthias7279
How do YOU know what Trump is hankering for? Can you see his inner thoughts and ambitions? I can't.
However, one thing I do know is that the one over arching similarity between the Soviets, like Lenin and Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and the Kim family is their original adherence to Marxism. They all had Marxist roots.
Trump is no Marxist. He cut personal and business taxes which will increase personal autonomy, NOT greater ties to the state. Even through all the violence, Trump has hardly interfered or tried to use this as a method to increase a grip onto power. Do you think Stalin would have allowed this lawlessness in his country? Trump has criticised it but what person, in his right mind, likes to see people being killed? BLM matter leaders aren't pleading for the killings, like that of an 8 year old little black girl in Atlanta, to stop. In fact, it was BLM supporters that shot and killed her while demonstrating their support for their cause....BLM.
It isn't Trump who wants to tear down statues like that of Frederick Douglas in Rochester NY. He wants his statue placed in his proposed "Garden of Heroes" along with other great Black luminaries like Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Susan B, Anthony, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman. BLM aren't the ones wanting to honour these great black Americans....Trump is.
Trump wants to include Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that was the single greatest inspiration to the Abolitionist movement of its time. BLM types use the hero of that book as a racial slur. To them, the fictional hero, that inspired millions, to insist of the abolition of slavery, is one to be mocked and ridiculed. It's beyond ridiculous. It's as Orwellian as it gets. In fact, it's the Marxist inspired despots like Stalin and Mao who did everything possible to erase their own history, not Trump who wants to honour the American past, all of it, the good and the bad, so we know that we're not perfect, that we must struggle to improve the wrongs that lie within all of us.
Did you know that the city of Seattle is forcing its white employees to undergo "White fragility" classes. ONLY whites and they MUST attend. There goes Martin Luther Kings contention about the content of ones character over the colour of your skin as criteria of judgement. Skin colour, in Seattle, is proof of guilt. Skin colour, in this entire movement is the definitive essential quality that separates us. Time to tear down Dr. Kings statue and cancel him out of history as well, it would appear.
You can't even see the bigotry in your own heart because you're too busy looking for it in others. Also, I don't expect any response to any point that I've made...only more generic "Trump bad.....Marxist BLM good."
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mkbxtr44
In January, Trump organised a preliminary task force to look into the threat of the virus. On January the 31st, he announced travel restrictions from China to take effect on Feb 2nd. On Feb 4th, in the State of the Union address, the very one that Pelosi ripped up, he talked about the virus and how they were closely coordinating with China of the progress of the disease. So he was taking it seriously, already back in January. I can prove everyone of my statements if you wish.
Also, he's NOT my president. I'm not an American. I'm Canadian but politics in the US greatly affects what happens here in Canada, more so than any other country in the world. In fact, I took my cue from the way that Trump was talking but also acting. When the Great Toilet Paper Panic struck, I was ready sitting comfortably on my couch. Too many people were hating on Trump instead of listening carefully and understanding what he was saying and doing.
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@jsmcguireIII
First of all, I'm Canadian. Second, this isn't about Trump, as much as some of you want it to be. It's about doing what's best for your country.
My sister was deported from the US, too. Why? Because she was there illegally. It had nothing to do with the colour of her skin. She's as white as white can get, with red hair, blue eyes and couldn't get a tan to save her life.
Another thing that you lefties want to do. Everything is about racism. Well, this has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with sovereignty of their borders and it's the same as any other country. I know WHITE Canadians who cannot go to the US for even a visit because they once had an impaired driving charge. The US doesn't want them and they have that right to make that decision. In fact, there are Latinos who immigrate to the US everyday, legally. They are allowed and those WHITE Canadians can't cross over on a shopping trip.
You like to think that you're so virtuous and wonderful but, in reality, you're a pompous self righteous blowhard, no different than a go gooder Christian.
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@jsmcguireIII
If they're asylum seekers, looking for safety, why didn't they accept the asylum offered by Mexico? From there, they could have applied for legal status as immigrants to the US. It's because they're not looking for safety or asylum. They want to live in the US and there has to be reasons why they can't or won't apply for legal status. If they could, they would.
Instead, they're at the border, throwing rocks and bottles at uniformed officials. If I throw a rock or a bottle at you, you'd call the police. Strangely, these people throw rocks at others just doing their job, and you seem to think this is indicative of the kind of citizen that would be a good American.
They're not looking for asylum. The definition of asylum is this. "the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee." They got that from the Mexican government. It's not what they're looking for. They're not refugees, at all.
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@jsmcguireIII
That's right. We don't know who they are. Maybe they are crisis actors. You have NO IDEA, either. Strange thing is, no one seems to be concerned enough to find out. That's the main issue here.
You started out saying that they're asylum seekers. When that doesn't seem to be that logical a conclusion, you've constructed a conspiracy theory about FOX news. There's nothing there that gives evidence but the one thing you don't seem to wan to hear is that maybe they are exactly what they appear to be. People, trying to cross into the US, anyway they can. However, whoever they are, they're not getting in without proving who they are and why they'd be good American citizens. So far, they've not done that.
Please, forget about your conspiracy theories unless you can back them up. Another thing, demand that your news sources tell the truth. Not just the ones you don't like, FOX as an example but also the ones you do like, because they haven't been all that forthright either.
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@richarddefortune1329
You talk about a good investigator, yet you don't seem to know a thing about the corruption of Zlochensky, Hunter Biden's boss. What if Joe Biden pressured to get rid of a prosecutor to take the heat off of his son? Had Donald Sr. done that for Donald Jr. wouldn't that bother you? Or is this just selective outrage?
If this was indeed a corrupt act, shouldn't it be investigated? I'd think so. I know you'd want it investigated if it was Donald Sr. doing it. I know this because you're insisting on his guilt right now for what is basically the same thing except Trump is wondering why a person could use American taxpayer money to pressure a foreign government that might be an advantage to his own son. This investigation wouldn't just help the American people but also the Ukrainian people, with a new president who ran on an anti-corruption platform.
I would also ask you this. Do you really think that we should be giving aid to a country that we know is the most corrupt country in Europe? You'd think you'd be reluctant to do that. It seems that Trump was. However, the aid was given and if you could show me what the Ukrainians did to get it, that would be evidence to prove quid pro quo. As far as I've seen, the Ukraines did nothing. No investigation into Burisma, no information on Crowdstrike. They just got the aid after the American president was sure that the new Ukraine president was sincere in fighting corruption. That was for is own peace of mind. He never even mentioned it to Zelensky.
They didn't even know that the money was being held back. Ambassador Taylor testified to it. How can you have any bribery when the person being bribed doesn't know he's being bribed. You have to tell your victim.
This isn't about being for or against Trump. It's about facts. If Taylor says Zelensky didn't know and Zelensky and his Minister of Foreign Affairs didn't know, how is there bribery or quid pro quo. That's something that you're ignoring. Also the fact that the head of Burisma, at the time Biden withheld money, had fled to London and had 23,000,000 dollars of assets frozen due to an investigation. Hunter Biden's boss was avoiding prosecutors in the Ukraine and he is to this day.
Once again, this isn't about being a Trump supporter. If you can't show whether Zelensky knew he was being bribed or not, you have no crime.
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@babs_babs
The person that he was talking about was ME, when I was 20. I wasn't going to school. I was hardly working.....partying all the time. I was told to get out and make my own way and it was the best thing that they could have done for me. 4 years later, I was married, had a good job and a baby on the way. A year after that, we bought our first home.
I now have a great relationship with my dad, my mom passed away a few years ago, my daughter and grandchildren. Why? Because I grew up. That stupid adolescent doesn't exist anymore. It was okay to be immature when I was 15 but by the time you're 18, you should be looking at becoming an adult. Go to work, no matter how menial it is. Do the best you can. Build a reputation in your community as hard working, responsible and reliable and you'll work your way out the entry level jobs into work that really contributes to your life, your family and your community and QUIT YOUR BELLYACHING. Be grateful for what you have and don't allow resentment of others fester into a pus filled boil, because you're envious of what they have and you don't.
Grow up. You owe it to yourself, your family, your community and to your parents.
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@shannontower2176
It's not just my families life story. It's the story of the entire North American continent. I still see the odd person working and living that way today. They're doing just fine. These are people that look for solutions to their problems, not people to blame. In fact, my brother in law, works a 60 to 70 hour week even though he's done well over the last 25 years. His son is following in his footsteps, doing his own thing, started from scratch and at 31 years old, already owns his own home. So don't tell me about life being so "great" in the fifties. People were a lot poorer than they are now. The big difference is their attitude over the attitudes so prevalent today.
Back then, NO ONE, that I knew, went on vacation in the Caribbean in the winter. Now, it seems as if everyone is going. Waitresses, factory workers, cab drivers, just ordinary people. My dad didn't go on a vacation for 17 years when he was young. That's the way people lived back then.
This "do your research" is one of the cheapest and meaningless comments that people throw around these days. It's dismissive, vague and arrogant, as if the person using that admonition is the only one that could possibly know anything about the subject due to their extensive knowledge and education. Instead of accusing and blaming and making vague remarks, try looking for solutions for yourself. I've heard this all before as a bartender. People whining about how their life sucks and how they have nothing, all the while swilling back up to 30 bucks worth of beer nearly every day. They're clueless.
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Your Worst Nightmare - Facts
In 1960, I was 9 years old. I WAS one of those hippies. I lived through Vietnam, remember the the repeal of Jim Crow and saw the whites only signs that had yet to be taken down in 1969. So don't give me this superior attitude.
Where did you get the idea that I don't believe that global warming isn't man made? I never said that at all. I said that if you force change without thought, that it could be a disaster worse than what climate change could bring. If you take too much of our resources and the wealth that we've created to transform the world overnight, you might find that we'll end up with nothing.....like Venezuela.
Also, you've not even addressed one point that I've made, including the big one about population growth. It's a fact that affluence has brought birth rates down and that most of the Western countries would be experiencing population declines were it not for immigration. That's a fact. Also, outcomes from global warming are still speculative. Global warming is real but there are other factors in play that may be overlooked or even considered.
You're doom and gloom. I'm saying that if we work hard, make the changes as they make sense and don't force it, we will likely stand the best chance of survival.
Have you ever heard of Thomas Malthus? He predicted over 200 years ago that the population will reach a point that we will not be able to feed the world. Well, that hasn't happened. Yes, there are hungry people in the world, but that's not because of an inability to grow enough food. It's political or more to the point, political strife and corruption. These are always the poor countries where corrupt leaders prevent freedom and the economic growth of the average citizen.
There may yet be solutions to those problems of climate change that haven't even occurred to us, just like solutions were found that Malthus, and those that followed, couldn't imagine.
Besides, no matter how much I worry, those things are going to happen, anyway. My worrying isn't going to change a thing except make MY life pessimistic and miserable. I'm not living the last few years I have left unhappy. That doesn't help anyone one bit.
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@Robbie S
You've misunderstood EVERY word I've said. Of course, the man living on an island doesn't become rich by himself. We're social creatures and it's how a person operates as a part of that society. You contribute as an individual, doing the things that benefit yourself and society as a whole. It's a two way street, a symbiotic relationship.
....and, of course, Jeff Bezos didn't get rich on his own. He needs staff and more importantly, customers. However, I, as an individual, don't have to work for Jeff Bezos if I don't want to. I don't have to buy off him, either. That's my choice as a self determining individual. However, I CAN approach his company and apply to work for him.....if I want. Then, it is up to me to make my way, as an employee of Bezos, in the best way that I can. If it doesn't work out, I can walk. There may be unpleasant consequences, for the time being, anyway, but there are more options than just Jeff Bezos in the world.
In fact, it's a good thing that there are those options, should I need them. I may never have the finances of Bezos, but so what??? I'm not living his life and his property doesn't belong to me. I, Jack Haveman, belong to me and any property, whether in cash, land or products is mine. That's what concerns me. I don't spend my days gazing at the piles of others because that's one sure way to guarantee the neglect of the way I live my life and use my own assets. I will NEVER allow envy to rule my life.
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@cortical1
I did give you facts. I told you they made a big deal about Trump throwing fish food into the coy pond. That actually happened. it was the stupidest news story that I'd ever heard and the media edited footage just to make up the narrative. This was NEWS to them. I told you about Nick Sandman, a kid that was doing nothing and the press went berserk about it. Also with a made up narrative, with edited footage and everything. Trump took an extra scoop of ice cream, and THAT was news to them. A SCOOP OF ICE CREAM!!!!! And they made a big deal of it. Was it illegal? NO. It was a scoop of ice cream.
If you think that the MSM wouldn't have taken a story about Don Jr. lying on a gun application and made it a big story, then YOU'RE delusional. The thing is, they'd have been right to do so. Get that!!!!! I'll repeat it.
Had this been Don Jr., they would have been RIGHT about reporting it as a big story. It would have been the RIGHT THING TO DO!!!! It's shows corruption. Not 2 scoops of ice cream corruption but using the power of the presidency to cover up an illegal act.
Once more, had Don Jr. done this, the media would have been right to report it in a big way. I don't care who it is. If the son of a president, vice president or someone running for the president does something like this, it's BIG news...whether it was Biden, Trump, Obama or even Abraham Lincoln. YOU want to pick and choose based on whether you like them or not. I choose it based on whether the DEED was right or wrong. YOU base it on your feelings.
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@bean-spiller
First, the wall isn't finished. Biden stopped it. It's like saying that you started building your home, you sadly passed away and you're kids didn't finish it and that's YOUR fault, somehow. Biden stopped construction almost immediately, when he took office and when Trump was metaphorically dead. There are huge sections of the wall that are just lying there, waiting to go up and if Trump had won the election would be up and standing. What I find ironic is that Clinton, Bush and Obama had barriers put up and even bragged about it but when Trump wanted to put up a wall, it suddenly became racist. That's just politics and nothing else.
The part about Mexico paying for it, wasn't about Mexico just cutting a check. It was a warning to Mexico that if they didn't help, he was going to impose trade tariffs. That's how he was going to get Mexico to pay for it. It was a threat, not a promise and most reasonable people knew that.
Right now, illegal immigration is at its highest, ever. That's a fact and pointing the finger at Trump doesn't change that.
The separation of children was happening during the Obama administration as well. Why? Because the cartels are using children for all kinds of reasons. It's as if no one wants to admit that child trafficking exists for all kinds of nefarious reasons. Migrants cross the border, with kids, with no ID but that's just fine? Why would ANYONE allow a man, with a child to cross the border and not expect that man to prove that this child is his? That's as irresponsible as it gets.
I don't know if Trump's policies would be working better than Biden's right now because I can't see the results of something that didn't happen. What I do know is that in the Congressional hearings is that the Democrats are reluctant to admit that there is a problem. If they had any integrity and courage, they'd say, with regret, that the problem is immense and look for ways to mitigate the numbers coming in. They just won't do that. I've not heard any new ideas from the Biden administration and if there is I'd like for you to enlighten me so I can evaluate its effectiveness. Right now, it is a disaster and us babbling about Trump does nothing to improve the situation.
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@JohnBarron-s4c
Do you know what's even more despicable? Supporting the idea that we MUST affirm a child's identity claims and allow them puberty blockers, drugs and surgeries on their say so. This is the only place in medicine where the patient, who can be minors, are the ones diagnosing their own mental health.
As long as they support the genital mutilation of minors, I will NEVER vote Democrat. As long as they support affirmative action, which cheated Americans of Asian heritage of placements in our top universities in the name of DEI, I will NEVER vote Democrat. As long as they pit race, gender, ethnicity, religions and other identities against one another, I will NEVER vote Democrat.
Trump may be a little uncouth but he never support the amputation of healthy breasts off of a 15 year old girl and he NEVER say that hundreds of riots which killed over 25 people, injured thousands more and caused billions in property damage, are just "peaceful" protests. Also, he does NOT support what's happening in the Democrat supporting cities of America. The homelessness, the open drug abuse and deaths by overdose and the deterioration of once great cities like San Francisco and New York.
Kamala is the ONE??? She tried to put the mother of a girl with sickle cell anaemia in jail because her daughter missed school due to hospitalisations and much needed blood transfusions to save her life. It took her 2 YEARS to finally have the charge dismissed, even though the mother had all the medical proof to back her up. That woman is a monster.
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@DahHar117
The California Civil Rights Act is against both discrimination and preferential treatment based on race, etc. That means if you give preference to one race over another, that's against the law in California AND the United States. The Democrats wanted to repeal the Act because they did want to give preferential treatment. The thing is how can you give preferential treatment to one group without discriminating against another? They go hand in hand.
My statement said "would have" supported the Republicans to abolish slavery. I also said that I would have supported the Democrats, WOULD HAVE being the important part, had they wanted to abolish slavery. I was talking about had I been alive BACK THEN. NOT now. At the time of slavery. Then I went on to say that TODAY I can't support those who want to allow drugs and surgeries to transgender minors. I also can't support CRT and DEI. That's TODAY, not at the time of slavery but what's happening right now. Also, I don't mean it as a badge of honour. I meant it as a matter of fact. Yes, Democrats do support segregation in school dormitories and graduations and support affirmative action. It's quite inconsistent. Democrats support segregation at UCLA campuses in LA and Berkeley, Western Washington in Seattle, Roper Hall in Washington DC, MIT and more.
It's sad that you can't understand past and present tense. It would sure help you in understanding what I'm saying.
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@hanshansen3885
Crap like privilege tests and placing students in "privilege" groups based on skin colour, gender, immigration status, religion and political beliefs. Crap like their obsession about teaching all aspects of sexual activity to children as young as kindergarten age and even trying to diagnose kids with gender dysphoria. Crap like telling students that math, science and history are all racist and that black kids can't understand mathematics because of math is about white supremacy and racist.
Worse, they're not teaching the kids to do math or read of write. American kids, especially in the inner cities, are not meeting grade level standards and are falling far behind, compared to other nations. Yet, they won't allow parents, who want a better education for their children, the freedom to send their kids to another school. If you have the money, NO PROBLEM.....send them to any school that you want but if you're poor and can't afford to do that......eff em. Go to the school that they tell you. There is no second option.
The American education system, in the primary levels, are in terrible shape and designed for the elites. Poor and especially minority kids are victims, according to them, and will never succeed because rich white men hate them. What a horrible way to bring up a generation.
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@hanshansen3885
I think that we all should be treated as individuals with all due courtesy, regardless of what they now call the "identity" group. The identity group is irrelevant to how anyone should be treated and that's the problem. If my child...or yours...is singled out as a victim and is helpless unless the oppressor group gives him a hand up, I'm going to object. If your child or mine, is held up as privileged, over others in the class, I'm going to object. Especially when the kids are being told not to tell their parents about what is being said in class or extra-curricular activities. It happens and how rare it happens is irrelevant. If it's being kept a secret in one school, how do we know if it's not being kept secret in another.
As parents, we have the right to know what is being taught to our kids and why. There are too many school board videos, on YouTube, where parents are upset about what they see and are dismissed.
If someone refuses to be transparent, then you're going to invite suspicion. That's normal human nature. That's all we want. Let us know what is going on in our classrooms. Yet people fight us on this ALL the time. You're even doing it now. If what is being taught is open to parents, the suspicion will have now foundation and this will all go away. For some reason, people are fighting transparency and only the most naive would never stop to wonder why.
People who are trying to hide things usually have something to hide.
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@hanshansen3885
If it's happening in one school, you go and see if it's happening in your local school. If they're reluctant to tell you what's going on in their school, THEN you insist that they tell you. If they're open and above board, you can trust them. If they're reluctant or put you off, I wouldn't trust them.
If an incoming Supreme Court Justice can't tell you what a woman is, then we know that this ideology has reached the highest levels of government. When our president fills positions based on group identity, it only confirms it. Why would our state funded and operated schools be any different? All I want is to be able to see what's being taught.
"I am pretty sure that everything the students are taught is on the schools webpage and in the curriculum." Pretty sure isn't good enough. Every day I see videos where teachers go on TikTok and tell us the most outrageous things. Drag queens brought into school. Kindergarten kids participating in mini Pride Parades. LGTQ flags hanging all over the classroom. Telling us how they discuss their private lives with the student. All you have to do is look it up. Kali Fontanilla, a teacher, has a YouTube channel and she talks about it all the time and she's FAR from the only one.
If you're comfortable with being pretty sure...well that's up to you. However, there's one thing I've learned. When you trust something or someone implicitly, you leave yourself open to be fooled explicitly. Do more than just doubt it. Find out for sure. One thing is sure and that is that war, genocide, slavery even a lot of famines and mass starvation are the result of governments. Why a government or those in power, would suddenly stop at using schools to further their cause is illogical. It's why the American Constitution is so strong on giving power to the people and taking it away from the state. Our schools are state operated and that should always mean that they should be open to inspection.
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@elsierodgers4874
It took him less than one day. The day that he announced that he was running for president, the Democrats, the media and the left declared war on the Americans who live in fly-over America. Guys, like YOU, can't understand that Trump was a symptom of the rot in Washington, NOT the cause. The Democrats have spent everyday since that announcement, dividing us along lines of race, gender, religion and economic status and they've done a great job. Your ilk did this. This guy, a conservative, the bane of the Democrats and the left, is talking about unity. Blaming another race or gender for your problems is NOT unity. You refuse to understand the Trump phenomena. You just lay blame and will always advocate for disunity as long as we long for unity with all Americans. It's why you cheered when football players refused to stand for the symbol that's supposed to unite us all. You want us angry....and we're not going to give you the satisfaction.
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@patacleus6803
Your point is illustrated by the fact that Lowndes County is losing population every year and has been for years. The county seat lost 200 people in 10 years, a lot when the population is already only around 1000. That means that the cost per unit for sewage is getting even MORE expensive. You're not talking 15 to 20 thousand a hookup. This is getting close to 100,000 a hookup, maybe more. Therefore they almost have to remain with some sort of septic system. University students found it easy to spot the problem but a solution wasn't coming, not one anyone could afford, anyway.
The homeless of San Francisco aren't looking for opportunities. Not the one that are causing the need for a Poop App, anyway. They have serious drug and mental issues and the local governments seem paralysed in coming up with any solution. In fact they make it worse for the average citizen. For one thing, police are told to not even bother investigating a crime under 800 dollars in value so theft is out of sight. Discarded needles are everywhere and 1/3 of them are needles that the city is handing out in their needle exchange program. You can't take your kids to the park, not with all the needles laying around. But all the politicians and local activists can say is that you can't arrest someone for being homeless and the problem continues. Housing is crippled by unbelievable red tape and all kinds of restrictions. It cost a fortune just to get all the permits and you haven't even turn a shovel of soil yet to lay the foundations.
These blue states have issues and it's not economic issues. It has more to do with idealism and maybe even corruption. Money keeps being poured into the issue and none seems to ending at the point where it's needed. Where is it going?
At least, in Alabama, they're not losing the money. They're not getting it, because it's too difficult to justify the cost of fixing it, especially when they're already in a economically depressed area. That's NOT the problem in San Francisco.
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@patacleus6803
It's government policy when the person is pooping in broad daylight and nothing is done about it. It's government policy when they're living in tents and there's garbage everywhere and no one cleans it up. It's government policy when businesses have people sleeping in their entrances and their complaints fall on deaf ears. The money is there, in San Francisco, after all, the area is home to Silicon valley. They're just not using it to help these people. It's not like Alabama, where there is no Silicon Valley, and no huge income to get the money in taxes to get the job done. If there's no money to help the homeless in downtown San Francisco, how are ever going to get the money in Alabama to put in a good sewage system? Money doesn't grow on trees. Alabama has to have a source for the cash they need and they don't. San Francisco has the source of income to tax and they can't get it done. In fact, California has some of the highest taxes in the US and still things get steadily worse.
At least they have a home and they're not living in tents.
Also, I've seen the homeless, not in California but in Detroit, Toronto and Buffalo and most of them have serious mental and drug issues. I've seen them in the small town that I live in and it's the same. There are those that are temporarily homeless but they generally find away out, either through finding a job or government assistance. It's the druggies and the mentally disabled that can be a problem and they have to find a solution that's better than just ignoring them.
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@patacleus6803
What this dialogue has shown is that both states have problems that are unique to their positions. Right now, California has some of the highest taxes in the US and still has problems getting things done, as an example, the high speed rail line. California has reached as place of bureaucratic complacency, what happens when a society reaches an overt state of affluence. Alabama is just the opposite. They've always been poor and are finding it difficult to get out from under it.
Texas is in the middle. It's a high growth state, taxes are low, bureaucracy is still minimal and it's flourishing. A lot of middle class people are leaving California and are shocked at how low state and municipal taxes are in Texas in comparison to California. It won't last. Once the affluence becomes generational, the complacency will settle in and the bureaucracy will grow. It's an inevitable cycle. Alabama may see the same thing in the future.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
It seems to be a cycle that has been seen over and over in history. California won't be spared as long as it adheres to a philosophy that doesn't include personal responsibility, hard work and common sense. California has these homeless problems, not due to lack of money or a lack of a desire to fix it. They're mired in a bureaucratic maze of their own making. Those people shouldn't be living in the streets that way that they are. Not with all the money that's available to those in power. There's something deeper going on.
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@clayc8115
These are toys. Toys aren't harmful. They're items that kids play with to amuse themselves. All toys are gender neutral. Why is a toy race car a boy's toy? Don't women drive race cars? Why is a doll a girl's toy? I fed, bathed, changed my kid's diapers as a man. Does that make me a woman? Get a grip.
As for cigarettes and alcohol, they're known to be harmful to the health and growth of impressionable children. Is a toy tractor dangerous because you happen to think of it as a boy's toy? My sister might argue that. She's out in the fields on a tractor all the time as are a lot of women in the farming communities. How do you make a gender neutral tractor, anyway?
This is dividing our children into subgroups. Little boys play with this and little girls play with that, yet the gender neutral kids play with the SAME toys that little boys and girls play with. Now business owners must pay for signs to tell parents what they SHOULD be buying for their kids, as if they're not smart enough to figure it out for themselves.
What next? Mandated toy sections for white kids, black kids, Asian kids, Hispanic kids. Don't conflate the use of abusive, addictive and unhealthy products with children's toys. It's divisive and completely foolish and it's not the business of our government to decide what toys our children should be playing with.
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Free Thinker
Zlochevsky was in London, England, avoiding Ukraine authorities and had 23 million dollars in assets frozen back in the Ukraine. It benefited him greatly, because shortly after that prosecutor was fired, that money was released and 8 months later he returned to the Ukraine. It didn't take long and he was in trouble again, over things he did when he was Minister of Ecology back in 2012 and he's left the country again.
Zlochevsky was an extremely corrupt individual, a businessman and politician in a country named the 3rd most corrupt nation on the planet. Why would his company employ an American, with no fossil fuel exploration experience, couldn't speak the language and didn't even live in Ukraine? Could it be that his father was the vice president of the most powerful country in the world? I don't know.....not for sure, but when his father, that vice president, tells their government that they won't get 1 BILLION dollars unless they fire the guy that investigated his son's boss, I'd like to know what is going on.
I'd think any reasonable American would and I would think that party politics would be irrelevant. Apparently, I would be wrong.
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@windycity258
What a childish comment. The riots were propped up by a press that was solidly against the president and supported the political agenda of the Democrats. Trump asked Lightfoot if she wanted help to halt the riots and she, in a very snotty manner, said she didn't need any advice from him....so he did as she asked and didn't send help and the riots continued. Federal agents went to Portland, to protect a Federal courthouse, that's it, and the Democrats, the Press and the mayor of Portland called them "Trump's storm-troopers". The Constitution says that it's up to the state to ask for help and Trump honoured the Constitution and what the state's wanted. Apparently, Oregon, Washington and Washington DC, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York and other states, didn't want Trump's help because not ONE of them asked. All Democrat states and not ONE condemned the "peaceful" protests, the destruction of property, the looting, the violence, the increase in crime due to police defunding and when Trump mentioned it, they ALL cried foul.
And it's ALL irrelevant right now. Maybe you want to solve last year's problems but I'd prefer to tackle the problems that we have NOW and that's up to the current president and the state leaders that are in office, today.....unless you want Trump to step in, but I kinda doubt that's what you're getting at.
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@syav4467
Republicans hate what California has become. They hate the politics that has brought on the highest taxes in the US, the most homelessness, rolling blackouts, highest property and home prices, the bureaucracy, the highest energy prices, the strict Covid mandates, the garbage and pollution, high crime....and on and on. Most loved the old, free California and are saddened by what has happened to a once beautiful and unshackled state.
Abrams just hates Georgia. She hates the history and the racial diversity, especially what she see as the "good ole white boys".
Republicans just want to change the political atmosphere in California. Abrams will never be happy until all white voices are suppressed, chased out of Georgia or done away with. Until then, she will hate her home as she has always done. I believe this because any white man that would disagree with her on anything, will be called a racist and since that will always be the case, she will hate her home state.
I'm Canadian. I love my country and would prefer to live here over any other. However, I hate what Justin Trudeau and his cronies are doing to my homeland.
Do you get the difference now?
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@jill3906
I can't even figure out what that means. I'm different than anyone that I know. In fact, no 2 people, that I've ever known, are exactly the same. Diversity is a given fact, no matter who is in that group. When one starts to put people in categories, that's NOT diversity. It's dividing things up. When you're in the US and you're a citizen, you're an American. Nothing else. To start separating us into groups of hair texture, eye shapes, religions, ancestral origins or skin colours, you're dividing us. I could care less about those divisive characteristics. If you're a good person, work hard, mind your own business, you're ok by me. Those other things mean crap if you suck as a human being.
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@snarkloaf
He was referring to "Crowdstrike" when he asked about the favour. Crowdstrike is the name of a server that might have been relevant in the last election.
So, if a person, an American politician to be specific, goes to another country and uses taxpayer money, 1 billion dollars, to stave off an investigation, he can declare that he's running for president and he's now beyond reproach or investigation? Really? He can do as he likes in a foreign country and no one is allowed to find out about it?
Joe Biden did something shady. He's not in an election, not yet. The Democrats are deciding on who is going to run in the election and Biden is one of the candidates. This process isn't an election. This is a process of the Democrat party not the election of a new president. If a candidate for the leader of a political party breaks the law, he can't hide behind his position and say I'm in my safe space and you can't investigate. That would mean that you couldn't ask the Ukraine or Russian government to give evidence against Trump either. He's also up for the next election.
Also, what if the Ukraine investigation shows that Biden did nothing wrong? How does that help Trump? The Democrats were looking to impeach the day that Trump was inaugurated. He hadn't even done anything officially as a president and they had already decided they were going to get him out and it's been one impeachment motion after another. An investigation looking for a crime. They think they've found the crime and now they're spinning it the way they want to public to hear it.
And I don't even like Trump and I can see that this isn't about anything he's done wrong. It's about Democrat hatred towards Trump and a determination, to use a current expression, to cancel him.
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@michaelshishido8151
LMAO!!! Wow....this cap locks kinda makes you look a little insane. I'm picturing you, all red in the face with spit flying, as you pound out this comment. Relax, man. Calm down. LOL.
It seems that you like Red Tape. You must be a bureaucrat. The guy who insists that forms are signed in triplicate before you move on to the next form, which is signed in duplicate and then sending the client to the next department, 10 miles away, to get Form 3A-6663321-BB signed in triplicate to bring back to you, so you can have him sign another form which he has to send, by mail, to another department, to get authorisation papers which must be signed by the Ministry of Signing Authorisations.
I love those guys. We all love those Bureaucrats who live off Red Tape.
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@atticuswalker8970
That didn't make a difference. The members of that response team spent years waiting for a new pandemic, doing nothing but waiting. Trump didn't fire them. He had them placed in real productive areas where their expertise was also needed. Then, even before the pandemic came to the US, but was hitting the news, he had a team put together, including members of that team. It was the Democrats who criticised him for putting together that team. They used that old race card.....calling the team nothing but a bunch of old white men, basically mocking them. Trump even offered to send members of that team to China to help them out but the Chinese refused. Then, when Trump curtailed travel between China and the US, the Democrats called him xenophobic. When Trump held up travel between Europe and the US, they said that it just wouldn't work and it was pointless. This was all done at the suggestion of the team that he put together.
How much would you want to bet had Trump kept that original Obama team together and followed their suggestions, they STILL would have criticised his response, which was no different than the responses of most other countries? Look how quickly Trump got the respirators manufactured and ready for distribution or outfitted 2 hospital ships for NY and LA. The media said it couldn't be done and it was complete only a few days past Trump's target, which was said to be impossible. Then the leaders in NY refused to use the hospital ship sitting in their harbour. Instead, they put Covid patients in nursing homes....one of the worst things that they could have done, killing hundreds of the elderly.
The big problem was that they used Covid as a political tool. The "I'd never get a Trump vaccine" went to "You'd better get a vaccine or lose your job" in a few short months.
This political posturing is destroying the US and keeping those kids masked and out of school for 2 years had nothing to do with the early response team. This was a policy of state Democrats, NOT the Federal government or Trump.
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@syav4467
But we weren't talking about that. The video was about something that happened LAST NIGHT and it was reprehensible behaviour. But you come along and deflect the conversation away from topic at hand and start your own pet conversation.
I didn't see ONE comment about Hunter, Benghazi, Hilary's deleted servers or even the BLM riots until people, LIKE YOU, changed the subject and deflected to Jan. 6th.
Also, why did you say "you guys". How do YOU know who I support? I'm saying you're making assumptions because I pushed back on the way you attempted to deflect the conversation.
I will say one thing, though. That lack of action is rather weak. The riots lasted about 3 hours and then the bozos just WENT HOME. All on their own. No police coming after them. No big gun battles. No one arrested in the building. No perp walks out, handcuffed with their heads down. None of that. They just went home. What should Trump have done? Would they have gone home an hour earlier if Trump had asked them to....if that was even possible. You can't hold Trump for not doing something. That's not against the law. That would be like holding Trump responsible for the BLM riots because he did nothing to stop them. Doing nothing isn't against the law.
Also, why, when there were almost 100,000 Trump supporters out there and everyone knew that they were coming, wasn't there more security in place? I find that totally perplexing. ALL those people and no added security. It doesn't make sense. Also, only a few hundred forced their way in. Others were waved in by security. Had the doors held open for them and everything and only a few hundred out of a 100,000 people. It was the lamest insurrection that I've ever heard of.
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@Julie B
Yup. Look at the mess that's New York right now. First, De blasio tells everyone that there's no problem, everything is fine, take the subway, go out for a night on the town, go to the big parade.....no sweat. Trump's a racist for his China ban. Wow....his own staff had to threaten to resign if he didn't stop it. Then, the Governor puts Covid patients in nursing homes. Now that's brilliant. He tells everyone they don't have enough respirators and the Feds tell him that they should have lots. Then they find them.....Where? In New Jersey, in a warehouse that the state rents out because the rent there is cheaper. Smart bunch. Then the protests starts. What social distancing? Lets fill the streets with hundreds of thousands of protesters. That'll be fine. But of course.....lets cut the city police budget by 1 billion bucks. They're racist....right? Crime goes up 250% over last year but it's a minor detail. People are under lockdown but they still manage to get out to commit serious crimes. OH...here's another smart idea. Let's let a whack of prisoners out of jail. Don't want them dying of Covid. So here they are, out in the streets, "Peacefully" relieving people of the property, and smashing a couple of windows, during the protests. Less police on the streets and MORE criminals. What could go wrong? Here's another brilliant idea. Why not put the homeless in hotels at $175 a night. The really fancy ones on the upper West Side. 10,000 of them. Now, they're urinating, masturbating, doing drugs, passing out and intimidating regular folk......doing all this out on the streets. This is a program that supposed to on through October. Man is that going to cost. Speaking of cost, they figure on a 40 billion dollar budget short fall this year. I wonder why that is. Maybe 1/2 a million, you know, 500,000 people, the richest people too, have left the city and took their tax money with them. De Blasio knows how to fix that though. He's going to tax the rich even more....duh...that should work. Maybe that's why he's put checkpoints at the exits of New York. Lock em in.
That's one Democrat state. Do you want me to do another?
Trump is a long way from perfect, but do you really want the New York style of government in the White House? The US will be like Venezuela in 5 years.
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@atticuswalker8970
So do I. I value the rights of female athletes to compete on a level playing field. I don't think that a man, Leah Thomas as an example, should be allowed, with full MALE "bits", to compete with women. All world athletic records show that men outperform women by 10% or more. That may not seem a lot if you don't know much about sports but in sports it's immense. It shows that there's a reason why there are mens and womens categories in sports. It isn't as if we're telling Thomas he isn't allowed to be in sports anymore. He spent 3 years competing in men's swimming. He can continue to do so.....but that means no medals and sports records as he wasn't any thing special as a national class swimmer.
Then there's the freedom for women to have their own spaces. There's a reason for that, which includes the sexual dynamics between women and men. Men are an existential threat to women under some circumstances and a women's locker room is one of those places and circumstances If I look too long at a woman in my workplace, I could be accused of the male gaze and lose my job. The entire MeToo movement was adamant of this point. Yet, Thomas can walk into a women's locker room, all "bits" intact and it's the girls, in that locker room, who were gaslit by being told that there were mental health experts that would help them through their fears, as if there was something wrong with THEM.
I'm not even sure what freedom that you're talking about. Transgenders can still compete in athletics. We just think that they should compete in the gender that were assigned at birth and verified through a DNA test. No loss of freedom. They can still be transgender and compete. Not ONE of those transgenders, who have or had their "bits" cut off, will EVER get pregnant. NEVER. That's how we know that they're biologically different than women. They'd be men with their "bits" cut off.
That's the freedom that I care about. Why should YOUR caring supersede mine? That's not very democratic at all.
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@marisawright2224
They died of a disease. I'm sure you've heard of it. These rioters are destroying on purpose. David Dorn was killed, intentionally, to get a TV.
The US has 330 million people. Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Great Britain have 320 million people. Yet the have over 30,000 MORE deaths. The same amount of people but more deaths. Is that Trump's fault too? Or the fault of the leader of those nations. In fact, if you take away Germany's 83 million people, the remaining 240 million in the other 4 countries would STILL have 20,000 more deaths.
Explain that, why don't you? I can prove these numbers, too but I doubt that I'll have to. I've thrown these stats out before and I've YET to get a response. People don't like to hear facts. They prefer their emotions, especially, it seems, HATE....and you sure do hate, don't you.
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@snowflake1958
You really don't get economics, do you. The rich aren't getting these loans. It's corporations that are in trouble. Do you know who owns corporations? Shareholders, that's who. Shareholders aren't just rich Wall Street Tycoons. It's almost everyone. If you have a pension at work, you have money invested in corporations. If you have money in the bank, it's being invested in corporations. Your 401 money is invested. If they go bankrupt, all those things are affected, negatively. If too many go bankrupt, it's the entire economy that goes belly up and we'll be like Venezuelans....eating out pets.
Corporations work on a very small profit margin. It's calculated on percentages of money invested. It may sound like a lot of money to you and I but when it's a percentage, it's relative to the size of the investment. A 1 million dollar profit, over a year on 1 billion dollars invested is terrible. I'd love to have 1 million bucks but as a profit on 1 billion dollars, a corporation is cutting it awful fine. A corporation needs, at least, a 5% annual profit margin...at the least. If it gets lower than that, it's starting to bleed and the longer it lasts the more trouble it's in. In fact, a corporation operates in the same way a household does. It's in larger sums but, just like a household, it NEEDS to make money to pay off it's creditors and suppliers. Some are doing quite well, but there are lots of them running month to month just like the average guy working paycheck to paycheck.
They deal in bigger sums of money but it's exactly the same. If you let them go bankrupt, we're all in big trouble and they do go bankrupt. Obama bailed out GM because it was done. They paid back their loan and are now starting to make face masks to fight the virus.
1.3 TRILLION to the average guy, small businesses and the fight against the virus. Please....we ALL need this money. You're hatred of the rich is going to cripple us.
Worse....If the people think that it's the Democrats that are the ones holding up this money, Trump WILL WIN THE NEXT ELECTION. They will blame the Democrats. I don't care if Diamond Jim might finagle some money out of this. I want to see help for the average Joe and it's in there. Even the Democrats acknowledge that it's there. Please, encourage your congressman to let us have it.
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@harrisonsturm857
All he did was congratulate the new president of Ukraine. He encouraged him to combat the corruption in his country and asked about an e-mail server and a vague reference to Biden. In fact, Adam Schiff got up, in Congress, and invented, out of his head, the entire phone call. Trump, freely released, the tapes of that phone call and even the president of Ukraine said that there was no pressure or quid pro quo, as far as he knew.
You're hearing what you want to hear. It's the same way that the MSM tried to push the nonsense about the Covington Kids, Jussie Smollett, the "all immigrants are animals" manipulation, the pretending that the BLM violence didn't happen, that Antifa was a myth, the "good people on both sides" distortion, that he called Covid a hoax......I can go on and on. Everyone of those lies and manipulations playing into the heads of those who "want to believe".
Had this been Joe Biden holding money to get something done by a foreign government leader, it would have been ignored. Oh wait, he did do that and it was ignored. And then the Hunter Biden laptop information was ignored and people talking about it on social media were censored and even had their accounts purged. Time Magazine wrote an article, not as an expose, but to show how the Democrats, Rinos, the media, big tech and large corporations worked together to "fortify the election to ensure the proper outcome."
The Democrats are trying to form a one Party state and people, like you, are helping them. They've lied, manipulated and encouraged violence and last summer over 30 lives were lost and over 2 billion dollars in damages reported in riots, yet you'd still ignore it all. Enjoy your censorship when they come after you when you happen to disagree with one thing that they want you to believe.
I'm astounded that you can't see what the Democrats and the multinationals are doing. You will but it may be too late when it does.
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@davidblasko2159
Schools are funded from grades 1 through 12 because children are required, BY LAW, to go to school. It is good for the children and good for society to have a decently educated young base.
Education is NOT mandated after high school. That is a personal decision. You don't require others to pay for what you choose to do. I want to buy a house, I pay for it. I want an advanced education, I pay for it. It is something I want and choose to do. A 12 year, MUST go to school of some sort. If he doesn't, he'll face truancy charges and eventually his parents will be called to task, by the law.
High tuition rates are another issue. If institutions of higher education are getting government money, they should be called to task for the increasingly high tuition hikes. Also, students might find it in their best interests to find alternative means of career advancement. Nothing holds you back more in your personal growth than high debt, including a huge educational debt which has no solid value as inventory or collateral.
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@westberryjim
I guess those statistics, that I cited, didn't impress you one bit. You just plain ignored them and went on, in an hysterical panic, insisting that your child is in imminent danger, EVERY day from Covid. Yet, and I'll bet you don't even care, that your daughter is in greater danger of dying of being permanently maimed every time you strap her into a car seat belt. You'd drive around, without a care in the world, even though she's 2.5 times more likely to die in that car than of Covid.
Your fear is irrational and based on media propaganda, not the facts OR SCIENCE. In fact, you're using your daughter as a political prop to support a political ideology. When you ignore the science and still insist on the horrific menace to your daughter's life, that's the only conclusion that I can arrive at.
This isn't about your daughter. This is about your own need to show how much you care about others. You're like the Pharisee, praying out loud so all can hear....." “I am not like other men – robbers, evil-doers and adulterers” and then proceeds to outline all the good things that he has done.
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@OliverDePlace
So, his proposal is going to funnel money to Trump Towers or something like that? No one would want that. Not even Tucker Carlson would be good with it. That money is for businesses that are in trouble and lots of them are facing serious financial setbacks, possible ruin. The "for his own benefit" is a reading between the lines exercise that Trump haters engage in. Don't make decisions based on emotion and don't hate big business because they have more money than you. If a huge corporation goes under, due to the economic effects of the virus and the lockdowns, no one will benefit and the hardest hit won't be the executives. It'll be the bottom workers, the cleaners, assembly line workers, people who will come out of this with their finances depleted and no job to go to. Worse they'll be fighting other workers, for jobs, who lost them because the big corporation, that you hate, have also gone bankrupt and these big companies DO GO BANKRUPT.
This isn't about FOX and I hardly ever go on Facebook and when I do, more people dislike Trump, in my circle, than do.
Your entire premise starts out with "I hate Trump" and it expands from there to validate your hate. If there is 500 billion to help businesses, then there is OVER 500 billion to help others....the ordinary people.
Also, are you seriously trying to say that tax cuts to wind and solar use, racial profile posting of corporate boards, aircraft emissions and this stuff is what we NEED right now?
Hatred is an insidious drug. Get off it. It has destroyed more lives in history than any other single human endeavour.
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@OliverDePlace
You're ignoring the stupid points of plane emissions, racial makeup reports of board members...etc. What is this doing here? How is this appropriate?
If you're allegation is true about of allocation of funds, that would be an easy issue to settle, if that's all that the Democrats were worried about. It's not and the perception, to the average American is that Democrats are playing politics and using the crisis for their own agenda. I've seen it everywhere, even people that I know that hate Trump are scratching their heads, upset at what Pelosi is doing. It's terrible politics and if the Dems don't stand up and appear as if they're in it for ALL Americans and not just for special identity groups, they'll lose the election this fall and lose drastically.
Most people sat in anticipation of a stimulus package being passed and all they're hearing is that the Democrats are blocking it. Besides, it that Trump, Mnuchin thing is the REAL obstacle, why throw in all these other issues. It only muddies the waters. All they have to do is centre on that. Make it a one issue problem that they're trying to solve. Americans would get that. They don't get what plane emissions have to do with the coronavirus. All the Dems have to do is make a provision to the package that would ensure that neither Trump nor Mnuchin can give their own enterprises money. It would be easy as it's illegal already.
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@Ryooken
FOX may be wrong when they claim that it's the ONLY reason why recruiting numbers are down but it is a factor. A FACTOR. Not the ONLY one but it is a mitigating factor.
If you can't understand that difference, then you don't want do get it. You're ignoring that factor, one of the MANY factors, including the ones that you've listed.
Your report came out in 2014. This was before the LGBT stuff was as prevalent as it is now. Also, this is a Department of Defence report. They're not about to report that they could be at fault for some of the problems. This report places the issue on external factors, absolving them of any responsibility for recruiting problems. That's human nature. No one wants to blame themselves, even if it's only a part of problem. People don't like to criticise themselves.
If only 23% qualify, of those who apply, what about those that don't apply, for any reason, including the new progressive ideology. There's no way to know why they're not applying and people are quitting jobs over progressive policies. I know that if my company demands that I acknowledge my white privilege, I'd refuse. I don't care if they fire me or not. I don't do that. It's the same with pronoun stuff. You can't make me say or do anything that I don't want to say or do. That's no different than my boss telling me that I must become Catholic to work there. I ain't doing it and I would never voluntarily go to any government or business entity that does that per policy.
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@Yves_Ka
First, the United States wasn't even close to being the last nation to abolish slavery. Many held onto it until well into the 20th century. Saudi Arabia and Yemen didn't abolish slavery until 1962. That's 100 YEARS after the US.
Also, the southern United States was conducive, due to climate, the nature of the soil and the geography, to the type of agricultures that were labour intensive enough that made slavery advantageous, especially the growth or cotton and tobacco. The north didn't have that type of agriculture and Canada especially didn't have those types of industries. It's easy to abolish slavery when you don't have a big slave system and then so smug to pat yourself on the back for it. Slavery was also a HUGE part of the system in the Caribbean and in certain countries of South America. Brazil didn't end slavery till 1888, 25 years AFTER the United States did. When was the last time you heard people blasting Brazil over their history with slavery?
I'm really puzzled by the myopic approach or vision, of such a complex cultural issue, of slavery. It's as if the United States invented it, upheld it and we see it nowhere else. Yet we KNOW that this isn't true. So why just vilify THEM for it?
And choosing to question those, in the US who stand for freedom now, because their ancestors may or may not have had slaves, is illogical. It smacks of MORE identity politics. You can tell, just by looking at them, whether their ancestors had or supported slaves or not. So how does that account for the large support from Hispanics in Florida, who believe in the same thing? Did THEIR ancestors support slavery?
Slavery has been a part of the human condition for thousands of years and was prevalent all over the planet. Even the natives had slaves before the Europeans arrived in the Americas. It's time to look at slavery as it was, not through the lens of retribution, personal arrogance and hatred. It happened EVERYWHERE....yet you zero in on one country and that's it. It's self serving and arrogant.
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@JoeSmith-mp2fn
We were talking about Chicago and you made a statement that crime was everywhere. I used Toronto to show that, in spite of the fact that crime IS everywhere, it doesn't have to be as bad as Chicago. Second, YOU'RE the one that made the assertion that conservatives are liars. All I did was show you that Chicago had mayors and administrations for 90 years, who are NOT conservative and violent crime is horrific.
The people have elected the SAME group of politicians for 90 years and the awful crime rates has remained the same, right along with it. They keep sticking their hand in the same trap and wonder why things don't improve.
Hey.....but at least those lying conservatives are in charge. Do you know who else is lying? YOU are.....to yourself.
Go ahead, keep sticking your hand in the same bear trap. Eventually your hand will get that strong and build an immunity to the pain.
Also, I know that there have been liberal mayors in Toronto. That's not my point. My point it that it doesn't matter the ideology of the administrations...liberal or conservative. What matters is the pattern of success. Toronto is one of the fastest growing, vibrant and crime free cities in North America. That's a success that we want to perpetuate. Chicago is a city in decline, with horrific violent crime rates. If you want to perpetuate that record, vote for the same people, that brand of Democrat that have been there all along. If they've failed all along, what makes you think that they'll succeed in the future? I know....at least they're not conservatives. LOL. You sure have a twisted sense of logic.
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Wayne Gambill
He tries to stop the press from speaking about him? Really? Like how? Arrests? A knock on the door in the middle of the night? Journalists disappearing and never heard from again? That's how true dictators do it.
This is one vague allegation. The press hasn't stopped talking about him, especially the MSM, which has been quite open in their hatred of him. They've out and out lied about things he's said. Example....It was claimed he called immigrants animals, when it was clear he was talking about an extremely violent street gang. They had to have known but they didn't care. They knew that a lot of people only read the headlines and that's all that will stick in their memories. Even you'd be upset at that kind of reporting if it was about you. And so what if Fox has supported him? They've also criticised him and Trump called them out, too.
A dictator doesn't hold mid-term elections. He doesn't allow impeachment processes. He does what Assad did in Syria. He calls out his army and starts arresting his opponents. Next year there will be an election with an opposing party and everything. What kind of failure of a dictator will allow that? Dictators don't have elections.
Also, it hasn't been fully established yet that he withheld funds in lieu of an investigation. That's what these hearings are about. A conclusion before the hearings are complete would make this a kangaroo court with Trump as the victim. So that entire statement is bogus until all evidence has been presented.
As for the mob rule claim. They didn't attempt to STOP the proceedings. They felt that they should be included. Mob rule would have insisted that the investigation stop. Cease and desist under threat of retaliation. They just wanted it to be known that they felt it unfair that only one side was allowed to see and hear what was going on and that only selected news was allowed to get out. Besides, wasn't it Maxine Waters would urged her followers to confront Republican legislators? Where was the backlash from the DNC for that?
He didn't lose the last election, either. He won the electoral vote and that makes him the president, whether you like it or not. US elections have always been that way. They tried for 2 years to get him on collusion and they had NOTHING.
He trashed NATO? NO. He said that NATO should pay its fair share in that treaty. They seem to want all the benefits of being protected from the Russians but didn't want to pay. An overwhelming majority of NATO countries weren't paying what was agreed upon. Why wouldn't the leader of the country that was paying say something about it.
I get that you don't like Trump. Your diatribe of "lying, perverted, vile, vulgar and hateful SOB" makes it quite clear how much you HATE the guy. However, it would appear that this hate is forcing you to literally see red at the mere mention of his name. Making assessments through the lens of hate puts you in a state of mind where only the hate shines through and any logic or reason is put to the side. You don't have to like the guy but you shouldn't allow your hate to be the only venue of reason when discussing issues around his presidency.
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H Smith
They never said that he'd be locked up by now if he wasn't the president. What they said and Mueller said, was that they went into the investigation with the idea that a sitting president could NOT be prosecuted. That's a subtle difference that people do not want to understand or admit to.
I have repeatedly asked people to show me exactly how he obstructed justice. I have yet to hear or see any definitive evidence given. The closest they've come is conspiracy to obstruct justice and even that would be difficult to prove in court. In fact, Trump allowed the release of over 1 million documents, allowed hundreds of witnesses to testify and never, ONCE, used executive privilege to stop any testimony or block any document to not be examined by the Mueller team.
More than that, why is it that impeachment proceedings haven't been brought up a long time ago. Adam Schiff has stated that he has definitive proof of Russian collusion.....proof that he's never given that I've ever heard.
So, my challenge to you is for you to reference actual proof that show obstruction. The proof that these prosecutors have that would prompt them to write that Trump would be in jail if he wasn't president. You see, until that is done, until he is prosecuted in a court of law, Trump is innocent.....innocent until proven guilty. According to you, that should happen in 2020 or 2024. What are you going to say, then, if it doesn't happen.
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@daisysfield5456
Already the NY Times, Wapo and NBC had to make retractions concerning this story. Also, why isn't the media telling us that this part of the laptop is a lie? That Giuliani is lying about the laptop is something that you've concocted, from no evidence, because you don't like Giuliani or the implications of what it might mean if the story is true.
And it hasn't been years. The story came out last summer about the laptop being found. Ever since last summer, most of big tech has been censoring this article from the New York Post so no one could even talk about it, especially Facebook and Twitter. Imagine censoring the story about Nixon and Watergate. That would've been an outrage and rightfully so. This NY Post article, about the laptop, comes out and within days the story is being suppressed by big tech oligarchs. No real curiosity, no intrepid journalist trying to find out the truth of the matter. They all just ignored it.
Also there were more than just the crack pipe. There were also pictures of underage girls on the laptop. Hunter was living the life of an addict, something that he admitted to on national television. Then he lied on a firearms form about BEING an addict and then the gun that he bought, illegally, was disposed of in a public dumpster, another illegal act.
Are you starting to get the picture? Of the two, Giuliani is the more believable, by far....unless you're that dogmatically vested that you wouldn't believe it no matter what.
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@olrikparlez3152
So, you don't care if the MSM lies to you. You don't care about the truth. You'd rather bow to the cognitive bias that the MSM spews out than vett what they tell you. In fact, you'd rather do that than even SEE that I included Fox in that vetting process. NO WAY. You're all about the tribe. My side vs yours. You realise that when the MSM lies about something, they're lying to YOU. They have that little respect for you and you take it.
Once again. IT'S NOT ABOUT FOX NEWS OR CNN OR MSNBC OR THE WASHINGTON POST. Can you get that??? It's about the truth and you find that on your own and you never, EVER, allow any one person tell you what the truth is, blindly and without question. The truth doesn't take sides. It stands alone.
When you get that.....when the average person gets that, maybe the divide in the country will end. As long as we have people like you, yammering away about how Fox or CNN or whoever, are liars and evil, the United States will be in a mess.
The truth....that's what's important. Nothing else.
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@wheniwasyourage4418
I'm giving to believe that you don't even know any Republicans, happy, sad or otherwise.
I watched a video, the other day, about people entering a stadium for a Trump rally. Across the street were a large group of protesters. They were screaming profanities and insults continuously, especially at any American of Africa descent, who was going to listen to Trump speak. Not ONE person, going into the Trump rally, paid them any mind. They just talked to one another and ignored the blue in the face, screaming protesters.
Finally, a media commentator went over to the protesters to talk with them. That didn't go well. They didn't want to talk to her. They snubbed her, walked away and emoted snide remarks in her direction. Finally, an African American protester started to talk to her. He was adamant that those Trumpsters were racist and that he would be physically and verbally attacked if he went into the stadium. She talked him into going over and talking to some of those waiting in line. He told them that he wouldn't be safe inside that stadium and every one of them assured him that he'd have no problem, including some African Americans, who told him that this wasn't their first Trump rally. People hugged him, shook his hand, invited him in as their personal guest but there was NO way he was going in.
He finally went back across the street with the media person and he was in for a shock. He was yelled at, insulted and jeered and finally someone poured a drink over him and the girl with the mike. They treated him FAR worse than any Trump supporter did.
So, who do you think would be the happier? The ones that smiled, shook your hand, hugged you and extended a personal invitation....OR......the ones that insulted, made jeering remarks and poured a drink over you?
Like I said....you don't know any Republicans. You've a narrative and that narrative tells you what to think.
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@theworld6710
You haven't explained WHY it's ridiculous. Repeating the same thing over and over isn't evidence of why an idea has no merit. You have to back it up.
One thing is evidently ridiculous. Allowing what's going on, in those cities, with NO plan to help them, solves nothing. It doesn't help the homeless, the crime that inevitably comes, or the average citizen who has to navigate the tragedy on those streets. Doing nothing is WORSE than his proposal and that's all that you're offering.
If I throw a plastic straw on the street, I could be charged. These unfortunates aren't just spreading garbage everywhere, they're openly defecating and urinating everywhere. There are discarded needles everywhere, car windows are smashed, stores looted, ordinary people are threatened, businesses are closing and you, just like EVERY politician in those cities have absolutely NOTHING to alleviate the problem. You guys are the problem....more so than those on streets.
All you do is criticise those who offer solutions and then sit on your hands and do *NOTHING*.
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@outermarker5801
I never defended Trump ONCE. I said not to trust politicians. You say that Trump is corrupt....you bet but what about Joe Biden? The entire Democrat party, the Washington Bureaucracy and the media covered up the laptop story. They said stuff about Russian disinformation, THE NEXT DAY, that was their big investigation and then big tech platforms wouldn't even allow you to share the NY Post articles about it. Talk about collusion to rig an election. Joe Biden bragged about withholding 1 Billion dollars, in aid to Ukraine, unless they fired a special prosecutor and they ignore it completely. It's on VIDEO, ffs, and not a word about it, yet when Trump just asks about it, just asked about it, no money mentioned, they impeach him. I've showed people the video of Biden bragging about it and they get mad at ME....as if I something did some kind of video editing wizardry to make the video. Half the friggen scandals about Trump were just made up. He was supposed to have called immigrants "animals". Made up. He sent "stormtroopers" to Portland to protect a Federal Office...made up. He defended white supremacists in Charlottesville....also made up. So corruption runs both ways.
It's not that you have to trust the politicians you vote for, at all. They're all corrupt. What you do is vote for the one that you can trust the most of the 2 bad ones. If you have an entire machine dedicated to the overthrow of one person and that's ALL they offer....I'm not voting for them. Biden didn't even campaign. We had no idea what he stood for except we gotta get rid of Trump. What kind of platform is that? Now look at the mess we're in. A huge deficit, inflation especially high food prices and shortages, banks going bankrupt, a war in Ukraine, a botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, an energy sector that's down almost 20% in production. I could go on and on and I'm not even counting the scandals surrounding his son and brother. Over 100 questionable bank transactions reported but not investigated. If you or I had 2 or 3 of them reported we'd have the FBI, the DHS, the DEA and the IRS down our necks but not Biden.
So get over this idea that you can trust politicians. You can't. You make a trade-off hoping, that the one that you vote for, will do better for the country than the other while they're lining their pockets. That's the reality of politics.
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@b0hd3n
I agree. He does have an obligation to bring the country back together. However, the Democrats will NOT let that happen. They're letting their hatred for Trump get in the way of mounting a good Democratic platform and it's causing them to make some terrible decisions.
I'm saying this as a guy that normally leans centre left politically. As soon as the last election campaign started, I was appalled, not by Trump, but by the attitudes of the Democrats, especially Hillary. I expect MY party to be the party of ethics and high morals. That's why I expect them to make an apology when they're wrong. That's takes personal courage and self awareness but that's not who they are, anymore.
One example of the issues, concerning the Democrats, that I'll never get. Why could Obama build a fence and barriers and make a speech about strong border security and he's applauded. However, when Trump says the same thing, except the fences are a stronger wall, suddenly he and the Republicans are racists. I don't get why Obama and the Dems weren't racist but Trump is over the exact same attitude on an issue, the difference is only the 3 short years between their saying it. The Dems are actually lying now. Bald faced lies and they have to know it but they do it anyway. I expect Trump to behave like Trump but I the Dems are doing the utmost best to be better at being dishonest than Trump. The Dems are going to lose the next elections if they don't smarten up and lose big.
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@sleazyneezy
Italy, France, Spain and the UK have 90 million less people than the US. GET THAT!!!! 90 million LESS people. Yet they have, in total, 138,000 deaths.
Again. 90 million less.......7000 MORE deaths. You'd have to add the populations of the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden and Norway and you'd still be short 20 million people in total population. Also, you'd have another 30 thousand MORE deaths.
Could it be that ALL you see is Trump, Trump, TRUUMMPP!!!!!? Could there be other factors involved?
When you look at problems through a single lens, you'll never solve it. In your case, all you do is create anger and division.
OH.....just in case you're wondering, I have the data to back this up. If you want to see it, ask. I don't expect you to ask but I'll put it out there. If you do, you'll be there first in the dozens that I've challenged.
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Hot Chen
The United States has a population of 335 million people. Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the UK have a combined population of 322 million people. That's 13 million people less.
Yet, the United States has 45 thousand FEWER deaths than these countries COMBINED. Should these leaders also be name responsible for the 116 thousand deaths in their countries?
Of course not!!!!! It's a disease and lots were saying it was like the flu, back in February, including the Democrats. In fact, the Democrats were more concerned with impeachment when Trump formed a task force and limited travel with China. On Feb. 4th, Trump talked about it in the State of the Union address, the one that Pelosi ripped up. Democrats still going on about impeachment and not ONE word about the virus that Trump was saying might be a problem. Debates between Biden and Sanders.....still not a word. On the 24th of Feb., 2 days after Trump asked for 2.5 billion to help fight the virus, Pelosi was in Chinatown, hugging people and telling people it was ok to be out and about.
I could fill a book with MSM and Democrats treating it like the flu....and I don't blame them for those deaths. Why???? Because no one knew this was going to happen. YOU didn't know on Feb. 1st.
Stop playing politics. It's stupid and it's childish and it a great way to show how your heart if filled with hate.
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