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  77.  @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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  95.  @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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  102.  @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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  116.  GoldenState  The thing is that there are those who criticise Trump as a knee jerk reaction. The same ones that bragged about providing money to build a fence for border security at the Mexican border are calling him "racist" for wanting to build a wall for security. The inconsistency has reached the point of being ridiculous. Trump has just signed a prison reform bill with support from a great many Democrats but the MSM hardly reports on it. Trump signs into place an initiative to get involved in a UN effort to help women entrepreneurs around the world and MSM say nothing because it doesn't fit their "misogynist" narrative of the guy. MSM has hardly even mentioned his 800 million dollar economic opportunity zone initiative because that flies in the face of their "racist" claims. However, he gives the college football champs pizza and hamburgers, they act as if he poisoned them. They refuse to give him any credit for stopping the nuclear testing by the North Koreans and either ignore it or spin it so as to denigrate the guy. That's why the strong defence that his defenders are showing him. If they don't MSM would drown him in their hate. That doesn't mean he's always right, though. He has made proposals to cut SS and Medicare. I don't like that. I'm nervous about his support of the new government claims in Venezuela, as well, and worry that he may get involved militarily in their political mess. I don't like that idea at all. Trump shoots off at the mouth and will say the most embarrassing things. We all know that but we also know that he's been the most accessible president in modern history so we put up with his bombastic rhetoric. Guys like Acosta and Lemon just criticise continuously and can't even formulate a question to ask the president that isn't couched in a criticism or an attempt to trap him in some kind of inconsistency. Acosta could have the president's ear but he wastes his time attacking instead of asking. MSM wants to demonise the man and don't care about the issues and will use anyone to tear the guy apart. The prime example of this are how they treated the Covington kids. They could care less about what really happened. They saw an opportunity to use them against Trump and the consequences to those boys didn't matter. MSM has disgraced itself in how they report the news around Trump. A little honesty is all we ask for and they refuse to provide it.
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  137.  @popweaselcrunch  The point is, there should be no secrets kept between children and ANYONE that's directed at the parents of those teachers. Also, that song, by Dolly Parton, that was banned was NOT at the insistence of parents. It was the principle of the school that told the kids that they couldn't sing it in a pageant. Not parent motivated at all and that's what this video and discussion is about. Keeping information from parents. I can also counter with a school board that told their marching band that they couldn't sing the hymn "How Great Thou Art" So banning doesn't just come from "conservatives" There are standards that they try to maintain because they are dealing with CHILDREN. Have you seen the pictures in the book "Gender Queer"? If I showed those pictures to a kid at the local splash pad, they'd arrest me. I won't even describe what those pictures showed. It's not appropriate for minor children. Another book meant for 7 and 8 year old kids is called "Not My Idea". This book shows a contract that implies that white people made a pact with the Devil to gain land, riches and power. It's being held by a being that has a cloven hoof and a tail. It's in the schools. It's CLEARLY a divisive idea, meant to make white kids feel guilty and defensive and any minority children react with resentment and anger. There is also a part where a 7 year old calls her mother a liar. Why is it necessary to tell 7 year old kids that their parents could be liars? Could that not cause a rift between a child and their parents? I don't want this being read to my children and I'M NOT RELIGIOUS AT ALL. I repeat. I'm NOT religious. So quit assuming what people think or believe based on your narrative of a certain demographic. That's an assumption built on your own biases and it sucks. Once again......I'm NOT religious.
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  181. 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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  201.  @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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  234.  @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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  370.  Network Search  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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  588. @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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  619.  @Viewaholicinfinity  What are you talking about? I just said that it was one of the dumbest things that Trump supporters could ever have done. Over 50,000 people were in Washington to take part in that protest march. Had they wanted to they could have ripped that building apart with their bare hands. That wasn't the plan for that day...at all. Think about it. Trump's followers are 2nd Amendment supporters. They're the "gun nuts" the open/carry advocates, "from my cold dead hands"...that's the favourite saying. Yet, NOT one of them thought to take their guns with them? They left them at home? What kind of insurrectionist revolutionaries don't bring guns along? They were just a bunch that were pissed off and got carried away. About 300 of them out of tens of thousands. One guy arrested was even an Antifa supporter who had been arrested at a BLM riot in Utah....but most were just the dummies of the huge crowd and you'll get them anywhere. Some of them were let in the side doors by security. I don't know WHAT that was about. You could see little old ladies wandering around inside, even honouring the velvet ropes for the tourists. They sure looked like scary insurrectionists....LOL. It was stupid move but the Democrats are blowing it all out of proportion....and deep down you know that's true. Look at how they went on about Brian Sicknick, claiming he was killed by the rioters with a fire extinguisher and giving him a heroes funeral. He sounded like a good guy but he died of a stroke....and you believed all their nonsense. Come on, man!!!!
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  699.  @outermarker5801  Are you kidding me. All the right does is wave American flags, sing the American anthem and get upset when people won't stand for that anthem or refuse to recite the pledge of allegiance. Burning the American flag is a grievous sin to the conservative. That's what I mean by patriotism and loyalty. It's directed at the union of states that we call the United States. To show patriotism and loyalty to America is paramount to the right wing conservatives. So, they had different ideas on who the speaker should be. What does that have to do with patriotism? That has to do with competence and who individuals believed would be better suited to be the speaker. Sometimes a question, like that is quite clear and sometimes it isn't. What that has to do with patriotism is beyond me. Republicans embarrassing themselves. They're not the ones who are claiming that men can get pregnant and called the killing of a black man by 5 black police officers "white supremacy". They're not the ones supporting the placement of books like "Gender Queer" in school libraries....books that have illustrations and depictions of explicit sexual acts in them. They're not the ones who supported the BLM and Antifa riots and who didn't say a WORD when 8 year old Secoriea Turner was shot and killed by "peaceful protests" in Atlanta. A little black girl MURDERED by a group that they supported and they feel NO embarrassment over it. Even the term "peaceful protests" should embarrass them. Over 25 people dead, thousands wounded, billions of dollars in damage in cities all across the United States and they just kept repeating the "mostly peaceful protests" mantra. Then they kept on repeating the phrase by Trump of "good people on both sides" and intentionally ignoring what he said in the SAME sentence about white supremacists. You don't find those things embarrassing? I'm not going to say that the Republicans don't EVER embarrass themselves. They most surely do but to make it all about one party is not only naive. It's almost being intentionally obtuse. Don't trust ANY politicians. NONE!!!! That means Republicans too as well as Democrats. If you don't you'll find yourself being unable or unwilling to even define what a woman is. Now, THAT'S embarrassing.
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  716.  @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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  754.  @bobbykiefer4306  The free market can't regulate itself no more than a free society. Both are run by human beings and if history has taught us anything...people are corrupt. The market has to operate under the rule of law just like everyone else. You can't be free without the law and the law has to be based on certain guideline which are enshrined in the Constitution. Freedom isn't just being free of the tyranny of the government. It's also being free of the tyranny of your fellow citizens. That includes your neighbour, your spouse, fellow workers, your boss, the bankers and corporate bigwigs. Everyone of them is beholden to the Constitution. That means we can live our lives under the auspices of that Constitution, the way that we want to live. That means you cannot deprive anyone of their rights, not just by allowing them free speech and the rest but also by not stealing what belongs to them or intentionally causing them any type of harm be it physical or otherwise. The free market system still insists that you operate under the law. The banks were taking part in scheme that had to fail and they all knew it. That's the harm that I referred to and it infringed on the freedom of the average American. They stole from ordinary people. They corrupted the free market system. Corruption always infringes on human rights. That's why a government should never be involved in business...like socialists advocate for. The government is made up of people and history shows that people are notoriously corrupt. Just like we have separation of church and state, we also should have separation of the economy and state. That doesn't mean that there's no regulation. That means that we allow both the church and the market to operate within the confines of the higher power...the Constitution, so the rights of individuals aren't trampled.
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  778. @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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  790.  @burny6666  I'm not trying to start a debate. You said she was a liar. You must have a reason for saying this and I'm assuming that you know what that reason is. All I'm doing is asking for an example. You must have one or else why would you call her a liar. Hiding behind the current consensus argument shows me that you're just parroting what what others have claimed and you've never questioned it. You're suffering from a logical fallacy. I could go through one hundred things that she said and prove everyone of them to be true and I've still not proved that she's not a liar. The reason for that is quite simple. It could be the 101st thing that was said that was the lie or the 110th or the 150th. I could never be satisfied that I looked deep enough. I'd have to examine EVERYTHING that she's ever said to prove that she's not a liar and that's impossible. That's why one is assumed innocent until proven guilty. You don't and quite often can never prove innocence. You can only prove guilt. I would say that to claim that she's a liar, you have the evidence. That's logical and the correct way to prove allegations. If you can't do it or refuse to do it, I have to question why and one possibility is that you don't have the evidence. Also, I'd lay money on it that everyone on the planet has lied at one point so your claim is one that carries no value. It could only carry real value if she openly and brazenly said something that she knew was false and then double down on that falsehood. Has she ever done that? If yes, show me how it's a lie and that she knew that it was a lie. If you can't prove it to me, you can't prove it to yourself and your claim is invalid.
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  868.  @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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  899. NoneOfTheAbove 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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  915.  @brianchampney7077  Yes, there are natural barriers that are nearly impossible to cross. Barriers like deep canyons and sheer cliffs. They made better barriers than any wall that we could build. These barriers have always been a major concern to invading armies. It stops them almost dead in their tracks unless they can find an passage through them and that's exactly where defending armies will be waiting for them. But that's not where they are trying to cross. There are large areas of open desert that are secluded enough that migrants can avoid detection. The border there are barely detectable and it's basically a stroll into the US or a jump over a page wire fence of the type that used on a typical farm. However, these deserts are dangerous and people are dying of exposure trying to cross them. These are the areas that need a barrier to discourage these migrants. They need a wall so as to halt the migrants long enough for the border agents to arrive after they've been informed by the drones and the cameras placed on the top of the wall. It's not just the wall....it's all of it working together. What's easier to cross? An open field or an open field with an 18 foot wall in the middle. Only the most obtuse would say it makes no difference. So you truly believe that there are only pot mules? One gram of high end heroin is worth 200 dollars or more. There are 1000 grams to a kilo and anyone can easily carry 5 kilo. That's about 25 pounds. Get out your calculator and you'll see that 100 mules can carry a lot heroin or cocaine. Just because they use trucks now, that may not be the case in the future, especially if they devise newer and better equipment to stop it and the risks become too high. Back packing mules will always be a possibility and it's naive to think that it isn't being used right now. Find better and more effective ways to stop the big shipments and they'll surely revert to the small ways.
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  931.  @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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  943.  @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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  979. @JRG2733 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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  980.  @loudharley6926  The claim is that the Russians had dirt of Hillary and Trump Jr. went to find out what it was. So what was this dirt? The fact is that no one really knows what went on at that meeting and whatever it was, we don't know if there was a deal struck or not. What we know is one thing. They had a meeting. The Mueller Report turned up nothing. So, the entire thing was let go.....except by those who insist that they DO know. As for Flynn? Yeah, he was in a mess but there's more to it than we know. Wait till the Durham report comes out. This is beating a dead horse. It's no different than the media going on about the Covington Kids, in spite of the video footage that shows that those kids did nothing. Their only crime was that some of them were wearing MAGA hats. Wear that hat and you MUST be guilty. They still haven't proved a thing about Russian collusion. Adam Schiff said over and over that he had proof but nothing. The released transcripts showed that not one of them had any proof, in spite of what they said on TV. This is all about one thing. This is the Democrat dismay that Trump actually beat them. They can't believe it happened. They blame the Russians. They blame the electoral college system. They blame racism. They blame the gullibility of the hillbillies of "fly over" America. They blame everything but where the fault really lies. The Democrat party. They ran a terrible campaign and it's their arrogance that was their undoing. You'd think that 3 years of investigations they'd be able to remove Trump from office and they still can't do it.
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  987.  @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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  1024.  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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  1036.  @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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  1065.  HMR B  He didn't say the issue was solved. He said that there has been a negotiated halt to missile and nuclear testing and there was. There was no claim that all issues between them were now resolved. That's simply not true. Trump is a bombastic character and says a lot of stupid things. That doesn't negate the fact that he's gotten further with the North Koreans than any American president in over 65 years. Things are far from perfect and he basically said that in this interview but things are better now than they were a year ago. That's what is important. Like it or not, Trump is a large part of the easing of tensions in that area and both South Korea and Japan are breathing a lot easier now than a year ago when missiles were setting off air raid sirens in Japan and S. Korea. His saying that he'd own the shutdown wasn't the end of the deal or that he'd lost. He shut the government down, just like he said he would and they negotiated further after he reopened the government. So, he wasn't defeated in that discussion. If he'd been defeated, there would not have been a shutdown and subsequent negotiations. He still building sections of the wall where the border patrols feel it's most needed. After discussion with the patrol leaders and engineers, he found that there are natural barriers that wouldn't need to have walls. This is wild country that a person from a country like the Netherlands couldn't even imagine. It's that wild that there are people dying trying to cross into the US from exposure and lack of water. It's not like a hike in the countryside of Drenthe or Friesland, where my family is originally from.
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  1066.  @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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  1189.  @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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  1204.  @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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  1240.  @APirateNamedJohn  It's not that argument at all. The argument is this. The Democrats have enacted policies with all kinds of housing and property and environmental restrictions. This has increased housing and energy costs to the point that the average person can barely cope. Small businesses started to lose money and left causing unemployment and an even larger population living under the poverty line. Liberal drug enforcement and needle exchange programs and the good weather attracted addicts and the lack of care for those with mental issues filled the streets with homeless people. Then, with all those issues, they decided that California should now become a sanctuary state. With rents averaging over 2000 bucks a month, they've invited people, with no money, no skills and no prospects to come live in their state. Since the millions that have come aren't going to find work in small towns, they go to the larger cities where housing costs are the highest. This puts even more pressure on housing, increasing rents and putting even more people on the streets. High welfare rates burden the tax base to the bursting point so more small businesses and even big ones feel the pinch and are deciding to leave the state. It's a spiralling situation and the state is doing nothing to stop it. And the California billionaires sit in their mansions and blame everyone else for the policies that they support and shame others into voting for. People are dying on the streets and they vote for a no-straw ban. They believe that they're showing empathy but what they're really doing is placating the guilt they feel for their own good fortune by their displays of virtue and concern....and it's helping no one. Go for a virtual drive through the big cities and see the failures. It's sad that a state that is so rich, squanders it on feel good policies.
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  1244.  @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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  1246.  @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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  1322.  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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  1337.  @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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  1338.  @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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  1349.  @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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  1353.  @evanwest4751  You really can't see that the person that is about to throw a tomato is the violent one? Honestly? Are you also going to try and tell me that if he does throw a tomato at someone, that the security team that forcibly escorts him out and off to jail are also the violent ones, not the tomato thrower. If I had a tomato and was about to throw it at your mother, would you be the violent one if you tried to stop me? REALLY? You have a funny way at looking at violence. The guy throwing the tomato is the victim and the person that tries to prevent it from happening is the violent one. That's a brand new form of justice. There is no law that says she has to have a given amount of press conferences per year. That's totally up to the president and his press secretary. Besides, who'd want to hold a press conference these days. Most of the reporters aren't asking questions. They're making accusations. Many of them are just variations of "Have you stopped beating your wife?" type of questions. It gets rather tiring after awhile. As for Trump being accessible, try twitter. He's on there all the time. She lied about Comey and she admitted it. In the history of mankind, I've never heard of a person that was perfect. I doubt that Sanders will be the first one. I know that our leaders are going to things that aren't right. I don't judge on that alone. I judge the body of work. Judging with perfection as a standard, would mean that I could demonise everyone. It would be an impossible standard.
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  1356.  @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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  1362.  @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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  1382. @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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  1386.  @stuffthetunic  In other words, collusion is so vague that you can't prove a conspiracy but we have to believe that it exists. Also, this idea they were guilty but too smart to get caught isn't evidence. It's almost like saying that their ability to cover up collusion is proof that collusion happened. Trump never removed sanctions that Obama set in place over the Crimean invasion. He allowed weapons sales to the Ukraine that Russia didn't want and Trump bombed Russian sites in Syria, something Obama refused to do. He also expelled 60 Russian diplomats in March 2017. So it hasn't all been rosy between Trump and Putin. Simply saying that Trump benefited from Russian meddling in the election, isn't proof of some sort of deal. There is no way to know how much Trump meddled or whether he even benefited at all. They may have meddled but how can you measure its effectiveness. I believed that Trump was going to win the presidency for reasons that would have had nothing to do with meddling. Hillary was a bad candidate. People were angry at her for seemingly cheating Bernie out of becoming the Democrat candidate and she would consistently call a large segment of the country deplorables and that white men have to do this and white people have to do that. There was an obvious bias against middle America and people knew it and felt it. Whites make up nearly 65 percent of the American population and you don't win votes by calling a large segment of the population names. It doesn't work. She alienated a lot of people. The people in the "flyover" states didn't like to be characterised as uneducated hillbillies. Presidents have different methods when dealing with other countries. Obama appeared to be less favourable to Israel than most presidents. It was just his way. Trump also tried a different way of dealing with North Korea. Until very recently, it seemed to be working. Changes in policies from one president to another is expected. It's why new parties are elected and it doesn't mean that they were in collusion. For 2 years, all we heard about was how Trump was a traitor and how the evidence of collusion with Russia would put him in jail. Now, collusion isn't a crime. If it wasn't a crime, what were they investigating. Obstruction? Why would Trump obstruct an investigation into a non crime? In fact, Barr repeatedly said that Trump had been fully cooperative throughout the entire investigation. He was frustrated but who wouldn't be. You would have been frustrated had you been called a traitor 24/7 by the major networks and the opposition. That's human nature.
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  1413.  @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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  1430.  @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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  1496.  @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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  1498.  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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  1535.  @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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  1548.  @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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  1564.  @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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  1583.  @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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  1587.  @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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  1588.  @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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  1590.  @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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  1656.  @LifeLifemoreAbundantly  McCarthy went after people who attended Socialist meetings when they were in college back in the thirties, just out of curiosities. Just to be questioned was enough to get you fired and blacklisted. Anyone who was in the merchant marine or who was unloading ships could be investigated and over 3000 longshoremen and seamen lost their jobs due to his unlawful investigations. People were imprisoned and later released because their rights had been infringed and evidence was proved either false of manipulated. The man operated in the same manner as Joseph Stalin. The reason we oppose Communism is partly because of the idea of centralised government and that if you question the edicts of the state, you must be the enemy. In Communism there is only one way to think or believe. Our free system resists that idea and as long as we don't infringe upon the rights of others, we can act and believe as we please, even if we find it repugnant and potentially damaging. We should NEVER have arrests made on flimsy charges and our tactics should NEVER be comparable to the tactics of Stalin. If we're going to act like him, we may as well BE communists. We have a system of law that places the individual as the sovereign entity....NOT the state. McCarthy took the power as the representative of the state and ignored the sovereignty of the individual. That's the communist and authoritarian way. It's NOT what we value in the west. That doesn't mean we shouldn't fight against Communism because we should. We should fight it because we want to be better than they are. McCarthy wasn't that. He was the flip side of Stalin. Just as ruthless and he could care less about the rights of the individual.
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  1716.  @MaggiesNight  If Trump hadn't cleared the path, we still wouldn't have the vaccine approved and 150 million people would NOT be vaccinated. The FDA would still be following the old protocols and might still be on phase 1 or 2 of the testing procedures. I never said that others weren't working. In fact, for Trump to clear the path, they have to be working. It was against the law for them to go against the old procedures and would have left them open to lawsuits if something did go wrong. However, Trump felt that some of the procedures could be done at the same time instead of one at a time. Surely, you're smart enough to see how this is a time saver. Trump deserves credit for his role in making this time saving protocol available. NOT Biden. He had nothing to do with it. He inherited it and he can't take credit for new FDA protocols that Trump put into place. It's not that difficult a concept. The only reason that you can't see it is due to your lack of emotional control. You're letting your hatred of Trump rule your brain and it's not allowing you to understand it. I don't understand how anyone would allow someone else control their logic and thoughts. I wouldn't allow it. Not EVER. I don't care who it is. I don't judge based on emotion. I judge on facts and logic. If Trump cleared the path....YOUR words....that enabled others to do their job in a more efficient and time saving manner, he deserves credit for it. I don't think he deserves credit for putting the country into such overwhelming debt. That is scary and could have terrible consequences in the future. See how that works? Trump helped to put the country into a serious debt situation. I don't like that. Trump cleared the path for the FDA to more efficiently move along the testing procedure for a new vaccine. I DO like that. I can like and dislike different things that Trump has done. That's different than liking or disliking those things because of a precondition of emotions that forces me to judge based on my "feelings". Not like you do. You judge base of your "feeling" of hatred and it's forcing you to think illogically.
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  1767.  @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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  1778.  @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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  1780.  @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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  1781. @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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  1813.  @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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  1845.  @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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  1847.  @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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  1893.  @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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  1916.  @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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  1923.  @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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  1932.  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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  1954. @Fred Freddy The strange thing is I was prepared for the lockdown because of the things that Trump was saying and doing. He put together a task force to deal with in mid-January 2020. Soon after, in instituted travel restrictions to China. He offered to send a team to Wuhan, from the CDC, to assist China which the Chinese government flatly refused. He talked about it in the State of the Union Address saying they were trying to cooperate with China to fight this thing if necessary. He then restricted travel to Europe. And what did the Democrats do. They called his task force a club of old white men. They said the travel ban to China was xenophobic, Pelosi went hugging people and inviting them to Chinatown to prove how un-xenophobic she was. Cuomo and De Blasio told everyone to live like normal and don't forget to go the Chinese New Year's Day parade, to prove how un-xenophobic THEY were. Pelosi ripped up the State of the Union Address saying it was ALL lies and then Bided told everyone that travel bans didn't work. Trump did say that this thing could just go away and he was wrong about that but he was speculating about the future. So I thought that he might be saying that but he's doing things that says he's been aware that there could be a problem. So I stocked up enough for at least 3 months and when the big toilet paper panic hit, I was sitting comfy. People are so filled with Trump hate that they weren't paying attention and they got caught and then they blamed everyone else for their own lack of preparedness. You have to take responsibility for yourself too and quit waiting for people to tell you what to do after the crisis hits. Its too late, then.
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  2039.  @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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  2058.  @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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  2064.  @b0hd3n  Trump's divisive tactics? Wear a MAGA hat on campus. Let's see what that gets you. Look at those Covington kids. They didn't do a thing. Black Israelites started yelling racial and homophobic slurs their way but it was the left and left wing media that vilified them, saying that THEY surrounded the native guy and started taunting them. They had to shut their school down for a week because of the threats and vitriol thrown at them. Democrat and left wing speakers can go where ever they like and you never see these protesters screaming and threatening them. They don't stand and chant inane slogans to drown out speakers but let a right wing speaker try to have a live engagement. The left wing loses their minds. You have professors in college saying all kinds of racist rhetoric against whites and it's acceptable including threats of genocide and that white's breeding is morally unacceptable. Obama puts up fences and barriers along the Mexican border and crickets. He makes speeches saying we have to control our southern border and that's just fine. Republicans agree with him. Suddenly Trump says it and it's immoral and he's a racist. They lied when he said immigrants were animals. They glossed right over when those pictures of children in cages were proven to have taken during Obama's presidency and tried everything to say that this was all Trump's fault. Antifa threatens everyone and you NEVER hear the Dems or left wing media say a thing about them or condemn their violence. Antifa actually beat up 2 marines of Hispanic heritage, calling them all kinds of Latino slurs and it didn't even make the news. Kathy Griffin holds up a severed head of Trump but that's just a joke. Madonna says that she dreams of blowing up the White House but not biggie. A 12 year old kid is picked on by his teacher and class mates because of his hat but...you know, the little brat had it coming to him. Just this week, an immigrant from Togo, in Washington DC, was attacked by 2 guys, while on a walk because he was wearing a MAGA hat. I could go on and on. Trump says a lot of ridiculous things but don't go pretending that this is ALL his fault. The Dems and the left wing media have been relentless in their hatred of Trump and they either look the other way when Democrat supporters commit violent acts or actually condone it. I mean, doesn't Nicholas Sandmann have a punchable face? That's your peaceful and tolerant Democrats and the left. Every word of what I said is true.....and you know it. Your hatred of Trump will either excuse it or condone it or you'll turn it into that childish argument of "He started it". If Trump is causing division it's only because the left and the Democrats are allowing it.
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