Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Timcast"
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When this clears, Trump might take all 50 states....even California and Oregon. I don't think the average American fully grasps what's going on in their country. The Democrats, obsessed with their hatred of Trump, has turned to the Devil for help, to use an analogy. They've turned to extremist groups like BLM and Antifa who don't care about American politics, at all. They want to institute, in America, a system without politics, of complete control and they'll destroy everything that you own to get it. If you don't vote for Trump, as flawed an individual as he is, you're going to get WORSE than him. BLM and Antifa aren't going to stop just because the Democrats are in power. In fact, that's just another step in their process to power.
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I used to watch the NFL regularly. Then, when Colin refused to stand for the anthem, I quit watching. It felt like a purity test to me and I didn't like the implication or the divisiveness. As for the NBA, I find it astounding that a guy like LeBron James, net worth, 450 Million dollars, babbling on about how life isn't fair because he's black and then showing support for the Chinese, who treat their minorities, as part of the law of the country, like dirt. The man, and the league are a bunch of hypocrites. These pro athletes are the most fortunate people in the world and they act like that.
Hockey is my favourite sport and they've been rather quiet about this woke stuff although it pissed me off when Don Cherry was fired. If they go overtly woke, that's 60 years of loyalty to the NHL and the Toronto Maple Leafs that will no longer mean a thing.
I watch sports to relax. If I wanted to be told that I'm an evil person, I'd call the ex-wife. I'll let you guess how many times a year I call her.
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@sthubbins4038
I saw the videos.....all of them. I saw them fighting with security and then busting in. I saw Ashli Babbitt being shot by a Capital officer. I seen the footage of security opening doors for the "insurrectionists" and then watched them wander around the building, taking selfies.
What I didn't see were fires and wanton destruction all over Washington. I didn't see the National Guard or troops go in and arrest the "insurrectionists" and clear the Capitol Building. In fact, most were arrested AFTER the "insurrection" was over.
Your "MAGA" supporters have ONE bad incident. That's 1, one more than ZERO, and that's all that people, like you, talk about. Portland had 131 days, IN A ROW, of rioting. That's just one city!!!!!! There were riots in Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles, Provost, Chicago, Detroit, Louisville, St. Louis, Dallas, Atlanta, Washington DC, New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Bakersfield, Boston, Columbus, Denver, Des Moines......do I have to go on??? There's LOTS more and all in one night!!!!
"Yeah but..but....insurrection". You're delusional.
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@gabepizza
The media is, by proxy, slamming all those who are fighting the virus. Jim Acosta, going on about lack of PPE's and masks and that he heard if from "un-named" administrators is slamming FEMA and Army Corps of Engineers, all the top medical people like Dr. Fauci and Dr. Brix. It's not only asking why Trump didn't act sooner. It's asking why the good Doctors didn't use their influence and expertise to expose the lack of caring from Trump.
Why didn't Acosta frame his questions differently. He could have NAMED an administrator that was having problems getting needed material and asked what this guy should do to help in acquiring things that is needed. Challenge the president to offer solutions. Trump said that they had the needed equipment. Have him show the chain of procurement and how it works. Ask the president, POLITELY, what department this administrator should contact. Instead, he leaves the impression that he never did talk to any administrator and this entire dialogue was engineered by Jim Acosta as vehicle of denigration, bereft of facts and unfounded allegations. If Trump would have come through, Acosta would have done a good turn by helping people in dire need. If Trump had failed in any capacity, Acosta would have shown where Trump was failing. No conjecture. No vague allegations but a real time line of events.
However, Acosta would NEVER do that because if Trump came through, THAT would counter the news picture that Acosta was trying to paint. It's not about the news or the facts, it's political theatre and that has nothing to do with being a Trump supporter or not. Acosta is a journalist...not the opposition party.
You can apply that same weakness to almost all the MSM.
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@Fact Checker
Are you saying that, in another 8 weeks, it will be 40 million dead? That's the logical and mathematical conclusion of exponential growth.
There will be more deaths, but it won't be exponential. It's impossible. Pandemics run a course. It always has throughout history. Once enough people, a percentage of the population, have been exposed to the disease, in a given area, the new infected cases decrease dramatically.
The flattening of the curve is designed, not to decrease overall exposure, but to spread that exposure over a longer period of time so hospitals aren't driven to over capacity. That's what would have caused higher death rates. So far, the US has been very successful at keeping cases below the capacity line and flattening the curve.
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@igen vagy nem
When I was going to school, starting in the fifties and ending in the early seventies, parents paid little attention to what was going on in our schools. My parents hardly knew my teacher and would visit once maybe twice in a school year. I think my generation, I know that I did, acted in the same way. We thought that they were being taught, like we were, the basics, math, English, history and the rest and that, in our public schools, there was no such thing as indoctrination. There wasn't when I was in school and started when my kids were there but it wasn't that prevalent, yet. Participation awards seemed stupid but harmless. It was at the turn of the century that it really started. These are the ones in primary school, then, that are now in their twenties and are the hotheads in universities now.
It wasn't that their parents didn't care. I don't think a lot of them didn't realise that this kind of thing was even possible. There's been no precedence in American schools of this type of thing. We were ALL naive in how dangerous this could become. It was way beyond our comprehension where this could lead to. If you tried to tell me, in 1984, that this was going to happening today, I wouldn't have believed you. I mean, hundreds of genders.....that's crazy, and everyone alive back then would have said the same thing. We under estimated how stupid people could actually be.
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@lordzallen
At this moment, in the US, the Christian fundamentalists are NOT rigging the court system. The possibility might be there but it's not happening these days. The threat, RIGHT NOW, is the leftist, Socialist ideology, that doesn't believe in evidence or a fair trial. In fact, our judicial system, came from a Christian heritage, of personal responsibility and accountability.
You're inventing a threat that doesn't exist to rationalise a threat that does. It's as if you're deflecting as a way to somehow support leftist views. This is the result of a law, Title 9, that the left supports and the conservative, largely religious right, abhors.
Stick to the problem and quit trying to accuse others of what a certain group is doing.
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@Arctc-zh6rg
Dave Rubin, Blaire White, black Republicans are right wing but they're NOT extremists. They believe in conservative principles, which is a set of ideas which has nothing to do with skin colour or identity. They believe in personal responsibility, hard work, individual sovereignty and a winning attitude in life.
To suggest that they can't have a set of beliefs, due to their group identity, you're the one assigning agency upon a person and taking away their ability to think, believe and act as individuals. That's the very think that we hate. We're individuals and we judge one another on the content of our character. Group identity means nothing. It's the left that would call someone, like Candace Owens, a porch m.....y, an Oreo, an Uncle Tom and worse. I find that despicable and it's not coming from the right. It's racist to deny individual agency and to malign those who would exercise their right to their own thoughts. Their not robots. They're human beings.
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@alexjoneswasright11
Except George was already complaining that he couldn't breathe, LONG before he was forced down. He told the police that he was claustrophobic and that he couldn't breathe. One officer assured him that they'd open the windows a bit and turn on the AC. When he went into the back seat of the police car, he started kicking and swinging, causing the police to back off. George sat up, feet on the street, and then said that he needed to lay down and that's what he did. That's when the police tried to cuff him and he resisted and he was held down and and started repeating that he couldn't breathe, something that he'd already SAID when he was still standing. The autopsy showed that he had over the lethal limits of Fentanyl in his system and that he died of hypoxia. The number one cause of death, in a Fentanyl overdose, is hypoxia.
The police could be accused of not recognising that George was having severe drug reaction, something that they're trained to spot and respond to but they didn't until it was too late...but they didn't murder him. In fact, George may well have died without any physical reaction with the police. There's even more to this story that shows that George was the architect of his own demise but I'm sure that you don't want to hear it.
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@daled8894
Funny how didn't mention the entire Russian collusion fiasco. What do you think that was all about. It was the Democrat claim that Trump had somehow committed election fraud. They spent 2 years and almost 35 million dollars, in their quest to prove it, and came out empty. Yet, Hillary, Schiff and others STILL hold onto that claim.
In fact, Hillary, Obama and other Democrats, claimed fraud in the the 2004 elections. They tried to discredit the voting machines. Sound familiar?
More to the point, Raquel Rodriques was just arrested, in Texas, using the mail-in voting system fraudulently, in the exact manner that Trump, and others, had said was possible under the mail-in voting system.
So don't pretend that this is a uniquely Trump thing. This has been going on for awhile and it's the Democrats that don't seem to be interested in improving the integrity of the election process. The rest of the free world is astounded at the idea of not using identification as a aid to maintain election integrity. In fact, I hold it to be condescending and arrogant to assume that minorities don't have access to obtaining an ID and it's racist to ask them to produce it. They're not children. They shouldn't be treated as such.
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As was pointed out, he was not the one that asked the customer to leave. Also, we have no idea what the customer said, if she threatened him or how serious the threats were. We have no idea of how much experience this manager has and whether this was his first confrontation of this type. You're basing an assessment on a very, VERY short video clip.
Since, you're engaging in personal experience as a call to authority, I'll do the same. I worked for 14 years as a bartender and though I'm in my late sixties and retired, I still get requests for my services on a part time level. This would indicate that my abilities, as a bartender, are respected. I'll tell you one thing, though. I hope that there's no video clip of my first confrontation with an irate customer. I know that it wasn't all that flattering on my part. I got over it and not all people do. It was a new experience in my professional life and it's not easy. That doesn't mean that your unease can't be overcome. I guarantee you that if you watched a clip of my first encounter and decided that this indicated a pushover, you'd be sorely mistaken. I mean that in both a figurative and physical manner. I've even had a customer claim that I had declined service because he was black. He didn't get far with that claim.
Even if that manager isn't suited for that job, and that's quite possible, that doesn't have a thing to do with the behaviour of the customer and how this is being turned into a racial incident. No dispute should be settled using the colour of a person's skin as the deciding factor, alone. The facts are the issue here and that's all that counts. Worse, I'd hate to think that a business should ALWAYS acquiesce to a customer's demands. That sounds like a recipe for fraud without consequence to me.
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@Alex-pt5no
Yet, Grosskreutz carried a weapon, in a riot, that he was in support of. He approached Kyle, with that weapon drawn, and pointed it at Kyle. That's when Grosskreutz was shot....ONLY then. Also, Kyle was NOT a vigilante. He was there to PROTECT businesses and to offer medical aid to ANYONE that needed it. He put out a fire and this brought on the ire of the rioters, particularly Rosenbaum, who said he would kill Kyle if he caught him alone. He was on his way to help put out another fire when Rosenbaum chased him down and tried to grab his gun. A man, who threatened to kill him, was grabbing at his gun. What would any reasonable person assume would happen if Rosenbaum had actually succeeded taking that gun away from him? Any reasonable person would assume that Rosenbaum would use that gun to carry out his previous threats.
Kyle, among others, should not have had to be there that night, but their town was being burned by rioters and looters and the elected officials were doing NOTHING to protect the community. So, what do you do when criminals are destroying everything that you own and the people that you've elected to protect you, turn their backs on you? Do you turn tail and run? That's exactly what the German people did when the Brownshirts smashed windows, set fires and threatened people. Their government did nothing and they acquiesced to one of the most murderous groups of ideologues in human history. In Kenosha, they smashed windows, set fires and threatened people. The local governments, city, state and even Federal governments did NOTHING and you want the people of the Kenosha area to back down and let the rioters destroy their town. That strategy worked really well in Germany. (deep sarcasm) Had only the people of Germany stood against the Brownshirts....but they were cowards. Their cowardice ended in over 50 million deaths before that ideological base was finished.
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No one is saying NOT to defend yourself. That's a lot different than burning, looting, smashing random heads because you're angry. If you want to DO something, talk to your local politicians, tell them that you won't vote for them if they don't strongly object to what's happening. In the case of the nursing homes, it doesn't matter if you live in Nebraska or New York, get the information on it and TELL everyone you know about it. Hand of leaflets in front of political offices, colleges campuses, shopping malls and street corners. You go at it with a shotgun, they'll send the militias with machine guns. Use your brain NOT you muscle because, in the end, it will be the smartest that wins and they're winning right now because they're using their brains through relentless propaganda. Do it better than they do.
Acting like a meathead will only be fodder for their propaganda and you will LOSE. WE WILL LOSE.
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@DM-dk7js
You don't get it? I'll explain it to you. The Capitol Building is HUGE. People can't even SEE the people on the other side of the building. So, the violence took place on ONE side and the people on the other side didn't KNOW that it was happening. For some reason, the security on the other side of the building of the violence, opened doors and let people in. They just LET THEM IN. Other people, like Ray Epps, were telling to attack the building and was THERE when it started. For some reason, he was not arrested, even though he spent one day on the FBI wanted list. However, Alex Jones, who was never went into the building and was telling people to not go in, was arrested. One video showed a cop saying that he didn't approve but supported their right to protest.
One person's charges were dropped because video evidence showed that a police officer opened the door for him. If security allows you into a building, you can't be charged with trespassing.
Anyone that took part in actual violence or was inciting violence, they should be charged. I repeat....anyone who took part in violence or incited violence, they should, most definitely, be charged. If they just walked in, through doors that were opened by security and no violence evident, they should be dismissed on a case by case basis.
Those doors should never have been opened by security and why they would open them is truly mystifying.
I'll agree with you on this. If those cops did what is alleged, they should be charged. We also have to find out why they did this. Did they do it because they agreed with the protesters or did they get orders TELLING them to open the doors. If so, who was it that told them to do that and what was their intent. No matter whether your Republican or Democrat, we have to know what went on, FULLY and not just to punish or exonerate people.
If this was a partial set up by a group who were supposed to be in charge of security, we must find out about it.....because next time, it could be YOU that is arrested for something you didn't do at the machinations of a corrupt government.
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I'm going to argue against Tim on his claim that social media is the cause of the woke culture. Socialism has been growing for decades in our universities. Those academic socialists didn't call themselves woke, of course. However, they cultivated a culture that would lead to what we now call progressive woke. The socialist academics would only appoint those to academic posts who were avowed radical socialists. They would recommend them to educational positions in primary schools, who in turn, when they got the power, would only hire fellow socialists to teach or become part of the administration. That's when they had the ability to shape the minds of the young into their socialist philosophy. It's how Hitler shaped the minds of the youth of Germany. Get them when they're young so when they become adults, they become fervent foot soldiers for the cause.
Who are the most constant and influential users of social media? The young. They're on it all the time and when they use social media, they're drawn to those who share the values that they've been taught in school. The same ones that were taught by these socialist academics for over a generation. The academics know that to control the populace they have to control the media. They've done it in the legacy media, in Hollywood and in the personnel departments of our large businesses, changing the name to "Human Resources" It all started in the hallowed halls of higher education. Had these people not existed, there would be no woke culture. Social media is there new propaganda tool and it's been very effective.
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@jerrybumstead2654
Drugs for kids, when I was in school was unheard of. They just didn't exist. As for the authority part, culturally, life was so much different back then.
Right from early childhood, we were exposed to a much stricter set of rules and a more regimented lifestyle. This was the norm, no matter where you went. Prayer before and after each meal. If you're sitting in a highchair, mom reached over and held your hands down while the prayer was being said. This was expected. Everyone did it. The little ones were actually proud to do the things that the older ones were doing. At evening meal, there was also a Bible reading and you were expected to sit still, quietly and listen. This wasn't just at my home, either. It happened everywhere I went. By the time a kid went to school, sitting still and standing in line was nothing. Our classes were quiet. If you stepped out of line, you got the strap. I got it lots of times. No big deal.
In spite of this strictness, we had way more freedom that kids do now. We were out, at the neighbours, riding bikes, we never told our parents what we were up to. No helicoptering parents. We played hockey, soccer and baseball with no supervision. Fishing and swimming, building forts...but be home in time for meals or you didn't eat. I remember being blocks away and hearing my mother yelling my name to come home at 7 and 8 years old. You had the freedom but don't screw up. You got in trouble with the a neighbouring adult and he cuffed you across the head, you don't tell your dad. He'd cuff you a couple more times and tell you to stop being a troublemaker.
I was talking about this with my siblings a couple of weeks ago. We all agreed that life was a LOT more fun for us than for kids these days. Not even a close comparison.
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Dylan L
The United States has a population of 335 million people and have 72,000 deaths. Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the UK have a combined population of 322 million people, 13 million LESS than the US and have over 115,000 deaths, almost 45,000 MORE than the US.
So, the US isn't doing more poorly than others. In fact, per capita, the US is doing better in the death count than the next five countries, other than Germany, which is way down.
Things aren't as simple as you make them out to be.
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@Gary Miller
Why would Americans vote against a president who is at the helm of the best economic climate in decades? That doesn't even make sense. He negotiated a stop to nuclear and missile testing in North Korea. That's great news. He initiated prison reform and the first step program. Something that's been needed for a long time. He instituted an economic plan for depressed zones and it's been great for those who'd take advantage of it. Black unemployment, right now, is at its lowest in history. IN HISTORY!!! Also, the gap between white and black unemployment is at its lowest in history. He's the first president that has taken on the Chinese juggernaut, who've been flooding western stores with cheap products using production methods which include worker abuse, no quality control, no pollution standards, theft of intellectual property and just plain bullying of vulnerable markets. Finally, some one has had the man parts to do something about it.
So the man isn't the most sophisticated man around. He's boorish and a braggart and has a penchant for saying the wrong things but he's getting things done. If only the Democrats would try to cooperate, even a little bit, the US would be even be in a better position economically and socially. Trump's biggest hurdle has been his fellow Americans, the Democrats, the far left and the MSM. They've fought him every step of the way and it's the worst treatment of a sitting president in history.
And you're not helping. Get rid of the Democrats and convince them that they'd better reform and become a party that cares for the citizens of the US and their country.
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@Arctc-zh6rg
Almost everyone of those black schools are in the inner city and in cities that have been controlled by a Democrat governments for YEARS. It's the Republicans, the right wing, that are advocating for school choice and the left, the Democrats that are solidly against school choice. They're telling those black parents that they MUST go to the school that has been built for them, no matter how bad that school could be. So it's Democrats that are telling those parents to shut up and do as you're told.
Also, have you listened to Candace Owens? She's a bad role model, for the black community, of someone who's supposed to shut up. Beside, that's not what she's saying. You're putting words in her mouth that aren't there. She's saying to quit thinking like a victim. Quit being silent and demanding things from others because the record shows that they're NOT GOING TO GIVE IT TO YOU. Most of the impoverished inner city have been Democrat run for decades.....the party that supposed to help them and nothing ever changes. The reason is simple. NO ONE is going to help you. You have to help yourself. The capability is there. What's needed is the desire and the left keeps sucking that desire out of the black community with their promises of "hope and change". It's a false promise.
I've already said it. Asians have the most affluent demographic house hold wealth. They do it through hard work. It can be done. Black doctors, nurses, truck drives, tradesmen, lawyers, lab techs, writers, police officers are doing it all the time. They work hard and they make a good life for themselves. They don't feel sorry for themselves about how much harder it is for them. They're going to do it in SPITE of the difficulty. One thing is certain, it's not going to happen, waiting in front of TV set for the government to do it for you. It didn't work 50 years ago, or 40 years ago or 25 years ago and it's not going to work today.
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@troyhenry6111
That's the big out. "It's happening in colleges". You have the shows, invite people of ALL ages, and then tell everyone that it's NOT happening IN the schools. Just like the time they took kids to a drag show, parents and teachers, and there was a sign there that said "It's not going to lick itself". Primary school age children were in attendance along with teachers and parents. It didn't happen at school.
Why are these drag queens asked to read, anyway? In all the years that I went to school, I've NEVER had outsiders come to class and read to us. It didn't happen with my kids, either. So why drag queens? Why not mailmen, accountants, police officers or carpenters? There's a reason why they're bringing in drag queens to read. Its an introduction to a lifestyle that they would NEVER be exposed to otherwise.....what some would call "grooming". You start small and you build on it. It's incremental. They're not bringing in burlesque performers to read, in full regalia. There's a reason why it's drag queens.
Even the possibility should make you recoil in horror and support the laws prohibiting it. However, I hear TOO many people fighting those laws with "It's NOT happening". All that does is allow some ideologues, in schools, to be able to do those things and then saying that there's no law against it.
It's just NOT necessary. PERIOD.
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@musashi939
I know. We should do NOTHING. If reports from France say that they've had success with those drugs, why listen? That would be stupid. Even the good doctor, standing with him, has said that it's worth looking into but pay no attention to the guy. DO NOTHING. Don't see if there's something to it. Just dismiss it because.....you know....reasons.
I don't know if it works or not but tell you what, if I were sick and that's ALL there was, I'm taking it and hope for the best. You can grouse all you want, in the sick bed beside me, but I'm still going for it. When there's nothing yesterday, a glimmer of hope today is better than what I had yesterday. If you can't see that, I really have to question why that would be. Are you always that pessimistic about everything or is this your own personal gripe about Trump? Easy to do when you're not sick, though, isn't it?
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My adopted niece spent 2 years in a hospital, waiting for a kidney transplant. Her kidney problems are the result of abuse from her drug addicted mother, who neared starved her to death when she was 3 years old. She finally got her kidney when she was 15.
However, she's had rejection issues and it's been a struggle ever since, but that didn't stop her. She's now in her mid twenties, married and a mother, even though the doctors told her that child birth might kill her. Her little boy is now one year old and my niece refused to let her husband get up and tend to the baby in the middle of the night, in spite of her health issues. She gets up cheerfully, smiling and singing softly to her little one, saying that her husband works 50 to 60 hours a week and needs the rest.
When I hear a full grown man, who has the world by its privates, carry on about hard times, I can't help but grit my teeth. He couldn't spend a day in my niece's shoes. No respect for people like him.
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@gunnart1305
Yes, but he's said that IF he was Italian, he would have followed him. However, he wasn't Italian so he never did follow him.
My dad grew up in war time Holland about 20 miles from the German border. That made him one of the good guys. He's told me of how he and his brother, hid in a ditch, in fear and awe, at the back of the family farm and watched German troops file past for a couple of hours. They hid because they were afraid. My dad is certain that had he been born 20 miles to the east of the German border, in Germany, he would have patted the backs of the German soldiers on their way to invade Holland, goose stepping alongside of them and dreaming of the day that he, too could be marching with them.
That artificial line on the map made a huge difference on how he saw the world at the time. That's what Churchill was talking about. Most people don't realise that they would likely have been Nazis had they been born in Germany and were alive during the Nazi era. We like to think that we're that intrinsically good that we'd have resisted the lure of Hitler but if we believe that, we're fooling ourselves.
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@gjc7993
Nothing wrong with being rich. It's when you believe that you're socially and intellectually superior when you give yourself permission to treat the others like inferiors. That those inferiors lack the capacity to lead productive and "safe" lives. That's when they become dangerous.
Leftist elites showed that disdain in the 2016 elections with the way they looked down their noses at those living in "flyover" USA. The deplorables, hillbillies that can barely read or write....racists, homophobes, sexist troglodytes who must be led and not left to their own devices. "White people have to learn "this". White people have to do "that". Dirty little Walmart shoppers.
That's NOT a Republican attitude. Bill Maher summed it up when he said that Middle Americans are jealous of people like him and want to be like those like him.....the elitist left wing. No conservative is included in those ranks. They're ridiculed and laughed at and when they do become rich, they're called greedy and ruthless, unlike the rich left, the woke elitists of the big cities and Hollywood. Forever preaching at the rest of America, telling them how to speak, think, act and denigrating everything that the "deplorables" value. Things like individual freedom, hard work, respect, and the value of family.
I was once a left wing liberal, but I've found that something has changed. I can't treat others the way that they do. I don't think ordinary people are deplorables and I refuse to treat them that way.
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@MeMeWeWeWe
You've not been following the news, have you. People, who come up to you, get into your face, telling you to quit doing something, when all you're doing is your job, you'd have every reason to be afraid of what he's going to do next. Crime is a huge problem in the US and delivery drivers are quite often targeted by thieves. How are you to know if these guys weren't going to mug you and punch you in the face or worse?
If you're going to act the idiot, intimidating ordinary people, be prepared for the consequences. Someone will panic, maybe because of past experience, and defends himself. The poor guy was just doing his job.
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@supervastgut1568
He really was. He was arrested under suspicion of being in the Dutch underground. They sent him to Westerbork because it was only a few miles from where he lived and it was convenient. They started to round up prisoners to load the train and he was among them. A guard recognised him and took him out of the line. He was sent to the POW camp, in Texel, a week later and spent the rest of the war, imprisoned there. There's a big story around that camp, too. My brother went with him, years later, for his first trip back to Texel. While there, he met another ex-POW, who just happened to be revisiting for his first time. The guy recognised my uncle and apparently they had quite a long talk about their time there.
My family has a lot of war stories and everyone, concerning the Nazis, were bad ones. The Nazis were hated with a passion and still are in Holland.
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@GeorgeMonet
He wants, as I do, for the local governments, to do their job. Call in the National guard, arrest the rioters and prosecute them. THAT'S the way to end this violence. When you're doing 5 to 10, you're not out rioting, are you?
He's railed against the local DAs releasing the rioters non-stop. That's our problem, right now. Democrat District Attorneys, Mayors, Governors and MSM, who have been sympathetic to the rioting, is what has to change. It's one of the reasons that Tim is voting Republican for the first time in his life.
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@avery5415
In some ways, we all are. However, I was a strange little kid. By the time I was 10, I'd read every one of the Encyclopedia Americana, at the back of my class, cover to cover, multiple times. I went to a Christian primary school, so I had learned early that there were conflicting ideas in the world so I had to reconcile between what I was being taught and what I was learning on my own. Incredibly, those Christian teachers encouraged my reading and even allowed me to leave the schoolyard twice a week to go to our local library to check out books. Most people didn't have that voracious appetite to learn things like I did and I think that it has a lot to do with wanting to know all the information available before arriving at any decisions on a topic. I found it frustrating, back then, that my friends and siblings, didn't care to do the same and would support ideas without any real knowledge of the topic that they were talking about.
Still, I do find that I can get stuck in a rut about some things, so I guess it's understandable that others would as well. No one likes to hear that they may be wrong and some will never admit it, no matter what the evidence.
Once you realise how information should be processed, as it appears that you have, it's difficult to turn back. Human weakness does get in the way, I know. That's the one thing the left will not realise. It's not the weakness in others that should be your prime concern....It's the weaknesses that lie within you.
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@asherif3893
Venezuela is worse. Does that automatically mean that Cuba has a good system? I rather doubt it. It's nice that they can all read but if the material that they're ALLOWED to read is limited, of what use is it? Reading has value only if you have the freedom to follow that gift where ever it might take you, to develop your interests and passions to enhance the quality of your life.
If Cuba is SO wonderful, how come there aren't there hundreds of makeshift boats, overcrowded with "dreamers" heading TOWARDS Cuba, instead of leaving it? Why are there 1.5 million Cubans living in Florida and hardly, if any, American living in Cuba? Why aren't Venezuelans leaving the horrors of their country and flocking to Cuba? It's because they all know that there are lots of places where the freedom and quality of life is much higher in other, democratic and capitalist countries.
That's the one thing that socialist apologists will not respond to. Why is the tide of immigrants always flowing towards the Capitalist countries and NOT the other way around? Socialists are always saying how horrible capitalists countries are but they're not migrating, in droves or by the millions, towards these socialist countries. That, in itself, has to show that maybe socialism isn't as great as claimed. That those who live under the safety net of capitalism, will only complain about capitalism but aren't passionate enough to actually go to their "Utopian" promised land. I think it's the complaining that drives them. Pessimistic people who bitch about everything but know, deep down, that they're not going to change even if they went to the socialist paradise.
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@WhyNotTruth
Yet, all the riots across the country....the burning, looting, violence, throwing bottles, fireworks, Molotov Cocktails and the call to overthrow the government is ignored in this article and by YOU. Riots in LA, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas, Provost, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Kenosha, St. Louis, Austen, Dallas, Louisville, Chicago, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Pittsburgh, Lancaster, Philadelphia, Rochester, Buffalo, Washington, Atlanta..... I'm getting tired because there's lots more. That's THIS YEAR. They bully people in restaurants, they walk down suburban streets, yelling at people in their homes, they block traffic, beat on the cars of ordinary people.
You sir are a bald faced ideological liar and you could care less about the end of violence. You just want the violence directed at your favourite target.
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@WhyNotTruth
So, you're denying all the left wing violence in ALL the cities that I just mentioned? Are you denying the 100 nights, in a row, in Portland Oregon, the total destruction of city blocks in Minneapolis, the 25 businesses that were totally destroyed in Kenosha, the bulling of people in restaurants, the tearing down of statues, the thousands of injuries to police officers, the wanton murder of David Dorn during looting, the killing of 8 year old Secoriea Turner, in Atlanta by rioters, the execution style murder attempt of 2 police officers in LA, all in the last 3 months? I could write a book just relating all the incidents that were violent over that time.
Are you seriously going to tell me that right wing violence has outpaced this over the last 3 months? It's happening RIGHT NOW, and over the last 3 months and you're posting things that are going back into the 1990s. I'm talking about today.
Do you acknowledge that this violence is happening, RIGHT NOW, and it's being done by the left?
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@MaverickCadaverick
Quit deflecting. I underwent circumcision, due to infection, when I was 6 years old. It's such a trivial operation and, for me, a welcome relief from the pain of infection. A few days later I inspected the area, noticed that it now looked a LITTLE differently, shrugged my shoulders and thought nothing more of it......UNTIL I ran into people like you wailing
"You've been mutilated!!!!! How horrible!!!!!" Thanks for being offended for me but it has been such a non-issue that you actually make me laugh.
Circumcision is WAY different than life altering drugs, some of which may need to be taken for the rest of your life and the amputation of breasts, genitals, ovaries to be replaced by weird reconstruction procedures which also include consequences that may last a lifetime.
60 years later, I can confidently say that my circumcision has had NO negative consequences, and I mean none, zip and zero, since a couple of days after the operation. That is except for the people, like YOU, who keep telling me that I'm grotesque. I'm not.
So lets get back to the REAL issue here and quit trying to change the subject.
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@lumendelsol
Social media was only parroting what the MSM was feeding them. It's the MSM that's the problem. I know lots of people that don't know a thing about the facts about Rittenhouse and they got that information from MSNBC, CNN and others. When you call them on it, that's their defence. "I saw it on the news last night." Then they'll tell you that you've been watching FOX or QANON types and then they go on social media and tell the world what the Washington Post has printed or what Don Lemon is saying. They actually believe this stuff because they just can't believe that these sources would lie.
Ana Kasparian, of the Young Turks, is a prime example. She thought that Kyle crossed state lines with a gun. She thought that Kyle was chasing Rosenbaum. She didn't even know that Kyle was being attacked by a guy with a skateboard. WHY? Because the MSM told her these things. Now she's watching the trial and is surprised that the MSM has ignored what the rest of us....ON SOCIAL MEDIA, as well, have known all along and how little she actually knew about the events surrounding that day.
I will say that the Big Tech companies are complicit as well, in the obfuscation and censorship of the facts. However, there are sources, if you're interested in the truth, all over social media and the internet. That's the rub. It's whether you're driven to know facts, that's how one finds the truth. It's the commitment to integrity that counts. MSM and Big Tech do not have that commitment.
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@LucasCanDrum
I've been following a YouTuber name Patricia Dickson. She grew up in an all Black neighbourhood, I think in Tennessee and knew very few white folk. She did alright in high school but didn't know what to do after graduating. She announced to her family that she was joining the Air Force. Did that drive them crazy. They told her that white folk hated blacks and that they'd torment and discriminate against her. That they'd make her life SO miserable that she'd come crawling home first chance she got.
She didn't listen and joined anyway. After that, every time she went home for a visit, they'd grill her and she'd tell them she really like it. They called her a liar. When her nephew started asking her about life in the military, her sister told her to quit lying to him before she ruined the nephew's life. She finally decided not to talk about her life in the Air Force at home anymore.
She took classes and when she finally got out of the service, she went to college on a GI Bill. She found a good job and eventually went to England for a year to work because she loved English history and wanted to see it firsthand. She then moved to California until she got sick of the politics and went to Texas and she's made a good life for herself. Nothing spectacular but something to be proud of.
You see, she didn't buy into the "everyone hates us" mentality. Even they did, that wouldn't have stopped her because she believed in herself. Yet, her own family and friends fought her every step of the way. How many of them stayed right where they were because of this same pressure. "Oreo" and "Uncle Tom" aren't just insults. They're a way to excuse your own failures and to blame it on others.
There's a reason that Asian families have the highest household earnings in the US. It's their culture and work ethic and determination, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the imagined "inequality" that you're talking about. They do it and those who treat them badly can get lost.
You can't do anything about what others feel about you. However, you can do something about how you feel about yourself. Don't let the naysayers hold you down. If you do.....that's YOUR fault.
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@thebladeofchaos
In April the caseload was just close to 30 thousand per day, with a death rate of just over 2000 deaths. NOW, the case load is 70 thousand per day with just over 800 deaths per day. That's over 2 times the cases with less than 1/2 the deaths. So the danger, when the disease was new and unknown was almost 3 times as dangerous as it is now, yet many are still in a panic.
WHO and the UN has stated, repeatedly, that lockdowns may cause the deaths of tens of millions due to starvation. That abject poverty levels, around the world, has doubled since March and will continue to increase if lockdowns are strictly enforced. That means even MORE starvation, causing deaths and life altering physical damage, especially for children, who may never recover from the ill effects of severe malnutrition.
People think that the economy is only important to the rich. It's important to everyone. People die from the effects of a bad economy.
The cure, I'm referring to lockdowns, is worse than the disease.
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If you've ever raised children, you'd know that children are filled with rage. The 2 year old will scream, hold his breath, try to beat you, whatever's necessary to get their way. Parents that try to placate that rage, raise those children to continue to use rage as their weapon to achieve their goals, usually but not always. Parents who refuse to capitulate to that rage, will raise those children, usually and not always, to realise that achievements are earned and not given by demand.
If temper tantrums work as an 18 month child, it will continue to be used until that strategy fails or the child rages to the point of over the top violence. We're getting to that point now.
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@kathycoleman4648
I work as a bartender, Kathy. You just don't say anything, out loud, that might even SOUND that you might approve of something that Trump has done. Someone will go completely off the rails and the anger and bitterness is frightening. I'm Canadian as well and I don't get it. He's not even our president.
This guy drove up and down the streets, in our town, with NY plates, flying a Trump flag, and you wouldn't believe the horrific vitriol. "If he comes in here, I'll show him what's up." Some of the guys said they'd beat him to a pulp and the women said they'd scratch his eyes out. It was incredible....and scary. Some of us just looked at each other and shook our heads, quietly, in dismay. In Canada. I thought we were tolerant people. Maybe we're not as wonderful as we like to think we are.
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@galiyam1
Do you know what's hurting his presidency? The Democrat hatred of him and their reaction to losing the last election. The country was doing great until Covid hit and, true to form, the worst hit places were Democrat run states, both by the disease and economically. Texas and Florida have 30 million MORE people, combined, than New York, yet have over 10,000 more deaths. This is the state where Covid patients were put in nursing homes and Cuomo refuses to talk about it when asked. NY City has checkpoints at city exits. 500,000 people have left, most of them for good, eroding the tax base and it would appear that NY will have a 30 billion dollar shortfall this year. Mayor DeBlasio has threatened to increase taxes on those who remain, ensuring even more people leaving and is now talking about wealth redistribution. They've had riots, excuse me, "peaceful protests" where stores were looted and property damaged. The streets are empty, businesses boarded up and covered in graffiti. The Mayor took the homeless, out of shelters and have put them up in high end hotels at 175 bucks a night....13,000 of them. These addicts and mentally impaired people are wandering the streets, threatening people, urinating in public, passing out where ever they happen to be, even though they have rooms that you and I can't afford to live in. 1 billion dollars in funding have been taken away from the police force and even though 1/2 billion people have left the city, violent crime has doubled. Even so, the mayor has seen fit to assign 27 police officers to protect a BLM street painting, which he had commissioned at tax payer expense.
......and Trump is a bad president? Democrat city Portland has had 100 days of continuous riots. LA and San Francisco are in a dystopian mess, with homelessness, exorbitant rents and taxes, electrical blackouts and have even talked about taxing people that have left the state for ten years, AFTER they've left. They've just voted to repeal the state Civil Right's Act, their state version of the Federal Act that Martin Luther King worked so hard to put in place. Downtown Minneapolis has been destroyed. Their Democrat city council has voted to abolish the police force and then hired a private security firm to protect themselves. Kenosha has 3 days of intense riots, refusing help, from Trump, until people were killed. Chicago has had ongoing riots. Louisville has had BLM extorting money from small businesses demanding they buy 1/3 of their supplies from Black owned businesses or pay them 1.5% of their revenue.
Do you know what the common thread here is? They're ALL Democrat led cities....yet Trump is a bad president. I can go on if you like. These aren't the only cities in a dystopian nightmare but you're going to vote for the Democrats and expand this chaos to a national level. GREAT THINKING!!!!!!!
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@A_Jeff
You're contradicting yourself. If Canada needed the pipeline to get their products to a better port, they've lost out. The pipeline, to a better port, doesn't exist, Biden stopped it. That means that they're not drilling for more because they can't get it to markets. Thousands of oil workers, in Alberta and Saskatchewan, are now sitting at home because the Keystone project was scrapped. These are workers that would have had high paying jobs but no pipeline so no point in drilling for oil. That also impacts all the peripheral workers. Truck drivers to get products to drilling sites. Secondary manufacturing to build the trucks and products needed to drill for the oil. Service industries lose high paying oil riggers as customers. This is a huge industry in western Canada.
Then there's the oil refineries in Louisiana which would directly employ hundreds of people of high paying jobs. Then the dock workers who load the oil tankards and all those who service the refineries and docks. The pipeline will also need servicing which will keep more skilled workers in jobs.
The oil industry is a labour intensive business which needs highly skilled workers who make great money. This isn't like a guy whittling whistles to sell at a fair. This is a big industry. There's a reason why the Arab states are so rich. We, in Canada and the US, could grab a piece of their pie but Biden and company don't want it. They just decide that they don't want it and with a stroke of the pen, thousands are out of work. It doesn't cost Biden or the Democrats one red cent but the ordinary worker, as usual, pays the price. That's what blows me away. The Democrats just don't care about the little guy.
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@bLackmarketRadio
The 2 people I know, had the virus. They had all the symptoms, exactly as described. As for how much is written down, mistakenly as the virus, we don't know and neither you or I can ever say what the number is.
What I can tell you is that every epidemic in history runs it course. Even the really bad ones, like the Black Death, Smallpox, Malaria, typhoid, the Spanish flu and others, they all fizzled out. They have to or the human race would have been wiped out by now. That's always been the standard course of an epidemic. If you can control the number of cases so the hospitals aren't overwhelmed, you can save a lot of lives. We've done that and that phase of fighting the disease is done. Now we have to get back to normal, understanding that there will be more cases. What's happening now, is pure politics where one side wants to open and the other is using the crisis for their own ideological agenda. That's what we have to fight, we meaning, the average person.
Advancing conspiracy theories, that can never be proven, doesn't help a thing. This isn't even an overly dangerous disease when compared to the great epidemics of history. The media is just pushing bad news for ratings. They just love a good crisis. If they don't have one, they'll make it up. Don't let them do it because they're the ones that are the problem, not the big conspiracies. Media loves ratings and a crisis gets that for them.
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@bLackmarketRadio
Of course they're paying me. Now you're starting to sound exactly like the flat earthers that I've talked to online.
I never ONCE said that they weren't including non Covids as Covids. I said that we have NO idea how prevalent that it is. There is no way for you or me to know this. This might work just great in a country like the US, where hospitals are private and run like businesses and they see an opportunity to get government funds. However, in the countries that have socialised health care, like EVERY country in Europe, it makes no difference. They already get that money from the government because it's government owned and run and no one makes a profit off it. Yet, their numbers, per capita, are HIGHER than the US numbers. Italy, France, Spain and the UK are all in that category.
So, to say that this is a big factor, worldwide, is looking at it through a myopic American lens. There are also countries where healthcare is poor and people don't have access to medical care. How many of them are getting the disease and can't get to a doctor and never get counted. What about countries that deflate the numbers to look good? The US situation is just one facet of this crisis.
The disease exists. Instead of going off on a suspicion that you can't prove in a substantial way, start pressuring your local politician to start easing off on the restrictions. Don't go all squirrelly with accusations and overt threats. Just let it be known that if they don't start to ease off, you won't vote for them come election time. Politicians want votes, especially Democrats. Saying that some guy on the internet is getting paid to say things puts you in the category of people to laugh at. Don't be that guy.
We're on the same side. I WANT the restrictions eased. I want it badly. I just don't go off all half cocked with theories. I see it as a political ploy by Democrats, in an attempt to make Republicans look like greedy capitalists and they'd love nothing more than a total economic collapse and a huge death count so to pin the blame on Republicans.
I repeat. I WANT TO END THE LOCKDOWN. It's what I've been saying all along. The curve has been flattened. Let's acknowledge it and let's GET BACK TO WORK.
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@mchristine2007
You see, I didn't know anything about this cop's past so all I did was take in his message. I'm sure the vast majority of those who saw his video, feel the same. To me, this is exactly how I felt about how frustrating it must be have this deal with today's attitudes towards the police. Now, I have to think about the person and the message is lost. In other words, you've just told everyone, intentionally or not, to not to listen to this message, not because it's true or not, but because the messenger has faults. This will harm any future police voice in the future, whether the guy has faults or not, on this topic.
You've made this about the person, not about the message. THAT'S my objection. 2+2=4, no matter who says it. You're confusing truth with personality and it's done more harm than good and it could only add to the animosity that so many people already feel about the police. I'm sure that wasn't your intention but that is the outcome.
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@ericlazenby5984
You want them to show BEFORE the crime? Are you seriously that foolish? And they don't ALL laugh in your face, either. That's your own bigotry coming through which says all people, in a specific group, are exactly the same. Identity politics....the bane of modern society.
My ex-wife, and my kids, went away for the evening and while she was gone, someone broke in and robbed them. Not only her stuff, but the kids bicycles, laptops, cameras and other valuable. The police didn't laugh at them. They went to pawnshops in all the surrounding towns and even got some of the stuff back and a person was arrested.
I worked as a bartender for years. Every time I needed the police because of violent patrons, they were always helpful. They even had a police car parked outside a waitresses home because an extremely violent patron threatened her. They didn't laugh.
Years later my son was killed in a tragic accident. 2 officers came to my door to inform me of the tragedy and one of them stayed with me and talked for almost 2 hours until I was ready to meet with family and friends. Then he gave me a ride to where I had to go. They didn't laugh. They showed nothing but sympathy and understanding.
You're making broad statements to suit your own bitterness and hatred. It's unfair and shows a weak mind. If there are cops who do behave inappropriately, complain about them so they either forced to change their ways or are fired. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. They're defunding police in big cities all over the US and violent crime has increased by leaps and bounds. Over 200% in New York alone. Violent crime has been on the way down until this new police hatred started. Now it's returning.
Everyone one of those 200% more, in New York, thank you for making that violent altercation possible by your lack of support of the police.
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@roddawg2847
Baloney. Cuba "traded" with the Soviet Union until it collapsed. That spelled the end of the near free oil that the Soviets were providing for them. Now they're getting oil from Venezuela but the collapse of the Soviet Union was incredibly difficult for the Cuban people.
I'm Canadian. 1,100,000 Canadians went to Cuba, as tourists, in 2018. The US didn't stop the tourism trade. On top of that, tourists came from Europe and even Russia. The US didn't stop them either.
Also, Cuba trades with all kinds of countries....once again, Canada being its largest trading partner. Other partners are China, Spain, The Netherlands, France.....
https://www.worldstopexports.com/cubas-top-10-exports/
No embargoes on those countries. The only trade embargo is with the US where American companies are not to do business in Cuba. That's it.
It might surprise you to know that the United States is NOT the centre of the universe. The biggest problem with the economy and the poverty of the Cuban people is that it's a command economy, where the state runs everything. It's the most inefficient way there is to run a country. Free the people and let them start their own enterprises and create wealth that the rest of the world will want and trade for. That's how you create wealth and a decent standard of life.
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@madmisobroth1361
I see all the people slaughtered EVERY year by drunk drivers. Yet, we still allow the sale of alcohol. Broken families, abuse, bankruptcies, fetal alcohol syndrome, homelessness.....and they still sell the poison. I don't get it.
You see....you can apply your logic to everything. I started shooting when I was 14 years old. I'm 69 today and I still go hunting for duck, deer, rabbit, partridge and more. I'm involved in different environmental groups and gun safety programs. I've never known ANYONE who ever went of a shooting spree.
I grew up in the country, miles from any police station. It would take at least half an hour for any police officer to arrive in case of an emergency. What were we to do, my neighbours included, if we were faced with a crazed individual who wanted to do us harm? Are we to just wait for help from the police, through no fault of their own, who may not get there for 40 minutes or longer? We have to rely on ourselves and now YOU want to take that away from us. And now, with the defund the police initiatives and some even wanting to abolish the police, who's going to protect YOU. Time for YOU to step up and take care of yourself, if it's necessary....or would you rather die than protect yourself.
Our guns are our tools, for protection and recreation. Don't lump me with those nutbars that lose their minds. It's no different than those who destroy and kill others due to irresponsible alcohol use. In fact, MORE people have their lives destroyed by alcohol. We accept that it's the fault of the individual when he kills someone driving while intoxicated, yet for some reason, when it's a gun, it's the fault of the collective. You can't have it both ways.
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@QUALITY KHANTENT
Yet, blacks had always voted Republican until the 1930s. Always!!!!! The Democrats were the party that fought to keep slavery, started the KKK and created and supported the Jim Crow laws. Then FDR came along and Blacks, reluctantly, voted Democrat because his New Deal which really helped them. However, even into the late sixties, many Democrats were still pro segregation. "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" was uttered by Democrat Governor, George Wallace in the early sixties, in my lifetime. That was supported, NOT by the Republicans, but by top Democrats. It was LBJ's war on poverty that got the blacks to fully support the Democrats, in spite of the southern Democrats like Wallace and others, called the Dixiecrats.
Things change and if the economy starts to favour Black and Hispanic communities, many will vote with their wallets, not through tradition. It's what prompted them to leave the Republicans in the first place and it could bring them back again, as well.
"Trump will NEVER be president". They were all SO sure. Like my mother said....NEVER say never.
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First, I'm 68 years old and my fight is reduced to being a cheerleader and one that dispenses solid information. Second, I live in Canada, where we have a leftist problems but they're nothing to what they have in the US. Third, I live in a small town, a real small town, in a rural area, and our biggest complaint is about big city, Covid infected interlopers coming to our town to get services denied to them in the big city. I know a couple of our small town business owners who demand ID and if they're not locals, get out.
Almost everyone I know is either on the fence on BLM and Antifa or think that they're out of their minds.
So the only way I can fight is election time and to support the Americans that appear to be on the front lines right now.
If they come to our area, and they won't, because small town folk won't let it happen, I'll be there, in spite of my infirmities and old age.
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@Asghaad
Actually, the US has the highest numbers because it is the 3rd most populated country in the world. We can't trust the numbers from China and India is difficult to gauge due to extreme poverty in many locations and the lack of medical facilities to those poor, although I'd say that they still don't seem to be doing that badly....yet.
The best metric to use would be by per capita. If you did that, the US is 10th in cases and 11th in deaths. Simply put there are 10 countries, had they the same population as the US, that would have a higher death rate, some over 50% higher, or at about the 240,000 death mark. You can't compare Belgium, pop. 11,460,000 to the US with a population of 331,000,000 and say that the US has more deaths therefore it is worse than Belgium. Belgium has about 300 more deaths per million than the US.
In fact, you'd have to total the populations of almost 10 European nations to equal that of the US and then you'd find that those countries have a higher total than the US.
Using only the totals of each country, as a metric, is highly misleading.
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It won't do any good to protest. In fact, it'll likely do more harm. If one thing happens, one fire, one broken nose, one police line breached, one fight with BLM, the MSM will spin it, 24/7, into a white supremacist insurrection. They'll invoke Trump, maybe have a fake funeral for a guy who died of a stroke, and blow it so out of proportion that ordinary folk will be horrified and condemn those who did protest.
The left are winning the propaganda war. I don't know how to turn it into our favour but I know that protests will only hurt us. The good news is that a lot of people have been red-pilled over this. This is how we win. One step at a time.
If he's acquitted and cities burn, those who've changed their minds and believe he's innocent now, will condemn them. That will be another step towards ending this horrific ideology that's behind it all.
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@dirtyburtysgraffcafe5030
This was the sixties and we lived in the country. This type of thing wasn't even on the radar at the time. I do know that he left home in his late teens and moved to the city. I later heard that he was living as a woman, not as a drag queen, but dressing and acting as a woman. He had it rough, even as a very small child, not just through disapproval of his mannerisms but he was even a very unhappy baby, according to his brother, crying for hours on end, concerning both the parents and his doctor. I'd say that he was the rarity, nothing like the legions of trans kids in school today who are caught up in an ideology, not a physical reality the he was stuck in. In fact, I believe that the trans ideologues are doing this kid, and those like him, a grave injustice, using their rare and unique issues to further and force their own ideological agenda on society at the expense of the ones suffering from true dysphoria.
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@Capneon
Apparently, they ARE allowing crime to happen in the poorer neighbourhoods because of the social pressure to defund the police AND the consequences to officers if they run into dangerous situations. That's NOT progress. That's correct. However, if those same officers concentrate MORE on suburban areas and arrests, for petty crimes, go up and violent crimes go down, that's NOT progress either. Why? Because it comes at the expense of poor neighbourhoods, mostly minorities, who now don't have the coverage that they deserve and what the suburbanites are getting.
You might call that progress but it's not when one segment of the population isn't being served so that another gets extra service. It doesn't say whether petty crimes has increased but it does say that arrests have and you can attribute that to officers, who still want to do their jobs, but can't where it counts the most. I don't see that as progress. Also, if petty crime is up, in the suburbs, that's not progress, either.
No matter how you slice it, the new ideas of policing has not helped at all.
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@justinkirschenman2232
Automation is near the threat that many think it is. 150 years ago, almost everyone worked in agriculture in one capacity or another. When the industrial age started, people were going on about automation then as well. In England, the Luddites were going around protesting and even destroying mills because they believed that they were taking away their jobs and way of life. Automation will change things but they don't have to hurt us, no more than the industrial revolution hurt the people of the 19th Century.
The lockdown has become political and it's the Democrats that are doing everything they can to keep us locked down as long as they can. It's the Republicans that are opening up the Red states and Trump has said, over and over, that we have to get back to work. The best way to get back to work is to let your politicians, especially the Democrats, know that you can guarantee that you won't vote for them come election time, if they don't start to ease restrictions. Another is to let everyone you know that the curve has been flattened and explain about the natural progressions of epidemics and avoid the conspiracy theories. Just facts. It's all about appearing sensible.
As for vaccinations, you don't have to get one if you don't want to. There will be enough with acquired immunity through having it, natural immunity and those who do get vaccinated, for the herd immunity to have a positive effect. The more that get vaccinated, the better, though.
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@steffansmith3601
I've worked as a bartender for years. I've had to tell people that they've had enough and they've lost it. I've had beer bottles, ash trays, chairs and glasses thrown at me. I've been sucker punched, had my eye gouged, been spit on and pushed. People have threatened to shoot me, blow me up, have their friends beat me up and have ME charged. Why? Because I've told them that they've had enough and it's time to go home.
Do you really think that people like this are going to behave like adults when approached by a police officer? You have a "blue" bigotry where the citizen is always in the right and the cop is wrong.
I wouldn't want that job for nothing. Not only do they have to deal with the worst of society, they have to listen to people like you who, in a knee jerk response, malign them continuously. Just pure hate. There are cops who are jerks. There are cops that are great guys. Judge each one as individuals because no matter what, cops, some kind of security, is here to stay. Either learn to live with them or spend your life bitching about it.
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@LetsReinharder
" Who said I advocated for giving up?"
YOU did.
"If you still believe that America is worth saving, you yourself are equally lost."
You're telling me that the Titanic is sinking and it's time to abandon ship and stop rearranging deck chairs.
Do you know who else thinks that the US is lost? Antifa, BLM, the "intellectuals" in our universities.....that's who. They want to burn the entire nation down and build their Utopia from our ashes.
The answer is simple. STOP VOTING FOR THE SAME LAMEBRAINS THAT YOU'VE ALWAYS VOTED FOR!!! That includes both Democrats and Republicans. If they don't ascribe to the things that made the country great, tell them you're not voting for them and the DON'T VOTE FOR THEM.
In my lifetime, I've watched the US go from a strong nation, that fought for equal rights for its citizens to a nation, that allowed Marxist ideologues take over our schools and media....basically our entire culture, even our churches. It's time to take BACK that culture. If they can do it....so can we. We can beat them at their own game and we can do it through determination, hard work and strong moral courage. Strong moral beliefs are the one thing that the left doesn't have. If we want to beat them, we have to stick by our convictions and advocate for truth and individual rights, as outlined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. If they were worth fighting for 50 years ago, they're still worth fighting for today.
All you're doing is advocating for more chaos and we don't need that...AT ALL.
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@tabbyreed8925
Think about this. Trump has taken on China and wants the manufacturing to come back to the US. China has hardly ANY environmental laws. Their air is among the worst in the world. There are no labour laws, quality control is near non-existent and human rights are horrific, think Muslim re-education camps.
What would be better? Making all our goods in a country that has NO real environmental standards or in the US, where we have them and can control them. If Trump loses, the manufacturing will go back to China and there goes the environment, especially the air quality. Also, in spite of pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, the US has made the best progress in emissions of all industrial countries over the last 2 years. He may have ended some of the EPA rules but most companies, that operate in the US are still doing their best to do it right because it is good marketing strategy and good for business.
He's and anti-immigrant that's married to an immigrant. A little contradictory. Also, the US is STILL the number one destination for legal immigrants. He has no problem with it but he does want a better control system so not just anyone can come and it's nowhere NEAR as stringent as immigration laws in countries like Japan or South Korea and you NEVER hear complaints about those 2 countries.
Funny how Trump isn't a good man because he cheats on his wife but Biden is just fine even though he's cheated on his wife, even been accused of forcible sexual assault. They kind of cancel each other out on that metric, if you ask me.
The only thing that I don't like about him is his tendency to be a loudmouth and a braggart but we all can't be perfect.
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@Alex-pt5no
He worked in that state. In fact, Kyle worked in Kenosha THAT day. He was asked to help protect a business that had been severely damaged in rioting the night before. He was 17, old enough to join the military and handle a gun. So, if there was an illegal procurement of a gun, it's a minor offence at best.
He offered medical aid to rioters, who were suffering from a tear gas attack. He put out a fire, set by rioters, and one of the rioters threatened to kill him if he had the chance. He later chased Kyle, and after a gunshot went off, Rosenbaum, the guy that had threatened to kill him, yelled out "F..... you" and lunged for and tried to grab the gun. Kyle, assumed that Rosenbaum was going to follow through with the threat to kill him, shot him. Anyone would do the same, including YOU.
Also, if Kyle shouldn't have been there, neither should have those rioters. Riots are unsafe by nature of their existence. So the argument that he shouldn't be there doesn't wash. Not one of those figures should have been there, by that logic. They ALL placed themselves in a dangerous situation but only some of them threatened to kill someone and that was NOT Kyle Rittenhouse.
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@TheVideomaker2341
Trump disdain for the Constitution? He's allowed the states to handle pandemic issues because the Constitution says that it's a state issue. He's not sent troops to stop rioting because, once again, it's a state issue. He did send agents to protect a Federal Courthouse, but a Federal building is Federal jurisdiction, as provided by the Constitution. Saying that he has disdain for the Constitution is easy to say but the Constitution says that Americans have the right to PEACEFUL assembly and it's the Democrats are the ones defending the rioting, looting and arson.
Also, the radical left are going on and on about colonialism and when Trump wants to end the occupation of foreign soil by American troops, guys like him say that it's good to do that. Really? If it's wrong, you don't do it. Trump isn't a fan of warmongering and never has been. He's hasn't started a new conflict in his tenure as president, not like Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Reagan. He's stated for decades that the US should get out of these continuous conflicts and now he's trying to do it. We're sick of continuous fighting. Now we have to fight Americans in the street.
The only ones who seem to support non-violence is Trump and his supporters.
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@biggusdickus7611
I watched the entire video, AGAIN, just to be sure I didn't miss anything.
He didn't say that he allows CNN influence all his decisions. He said that he had his doubts about Ivermectin and he didn't want people to use him to claim that he took horse dewormer and he was pretty sure that they would. Then he said, LOUD AND CLEAR, that he took Ivermectin. He didn't allow CNN to influence him. HE TOOK IT.
He took it and he told the world that he did. Now the world can claim anything they want because he's told the entire world that he took Ivermectin, the "horse dewormer". He made a derogatory joke about Don Lemon, too. He's heard all the negative stuff, evaluated it, told us all about his doubts, said screw it and HE TOOK IT, ANYWAY. Then he told us that he did.
You're just being contrary. If you still want to carry on the way you are, you'll now have to give me a timestamp, from this video to back up your claim because I'm not watching it a third time to please you.
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@A_Jeff
He's not allowed to talk about his own case. If he does, he's in trouble with the judge. Think about that. If the judge is corrupt, or doesn't care, and judges can be corrupt, Trump isn't allowed to say a thing in his defence. In this country, we're allowed a fair trial, to defend ourselves as we see fit and if there are issues with the way the court is being handled, any defendant should be able to point it out. That would include YOU.
Your angle has NOTHING to do with fair. It's all about your hatred of one person. If it was happening to you, you'd be whining just like Trump is now. However, like I just said. You don't care about rights or being fair. You hate Trump and that's what makes it alright. It's how every corrupt, authoritarian government has operated. They pick a target, convince the people that this target must be stopped using ANY means necessary. Once the people have been properly indoctrinated, they'll gladly give up those rights, thinking that this will never be applied to them. Say hello to Fascism....and you're TOO blind to see it.
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The huge rift in the United States was constructed by the media. What happened in Washington, yesterday, was the result of the manipulations of the MSM. If you want to see a movie that is an allegory of this, watch "The Caine Mutiny" and especially pay attention to the officer, played by Fred MacMurray, and how he manipulated the crew members, of the Caine, to mutiny against their captain. He was accused, at the end of the movie, of doing it to fulfill his dreams of becoming a famous writer.
The MSM is doing the same, to fill their need for sensationalist news, and to placate the needs of their corporate overlords.
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The first thing I did, when the CNN news story showed up on my facebook page, was to check around for "C-o-n-f-i-r-m-a-t-i-o-n". Something I always do when I hear a news story. It took me 10 minutes to find the long version of the Covington tape and almost 2 hours to watch it.
Then I went back to facebook and posted a link to that site and stated that the CNN story wasn't true. You should have read some of the comments. They didn't have to watch that video. They knew the truth. Others claimed to have watched it but, by their comments, there was no way it was true. One person, who did watch it, said those kids shouldn't have been there in the first place. Another person, sneeringly, suggested that I had that big an ego that I would think that I knew better than professional journalists.
I don't care what CNN says. They saw that long version of events just like I did and likely before I did and, just like the people that I talked to on Facebook, they didn't care. They had the narrative that they liked and wanted to hear and that's what they were going to tell people. They deserve to lose that lawsuit.
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@illbeyourmonster3591
You've completely misinterpreted what I've said. I'm saying that their personality type is such that they don't even understand how this could be happening. The cows have to be milked, that roof has to be shingled, that customer is looking for a new home, that's what they're doing and thinking about every waking moment. When they get together, they talk about their jobs, their businesses and how one's line of work leads into someone else's line of work. They're surprised and a little disdainful of those who don't look at a productive life the same way they do.
When left wingers get together, the topic will always regress into complaining about the productive people, the conservatives. However, they don't see the products that the conservative types are producing. They see the fruits of their labour, the money that they're earning as a reward. That reward is the source of envy for the leftie. They sit and commiserate with one another and then plot how to fight the right wing, after all, they have the time to do just that, not like the right winger, who's too busy producing to sit around and be envious of others.
It's not that they can't be bothered. It's that they're too busy to fully comprehend the danger until it could be too late. The individualistic drive is their greatest strength but can also be a weakness in that this drive leaves them with no time to see what is going on outside of the immediate problems of everyday life. The left becomes a part of the collective because they're too lazy to be an individual. The individualist is too busy with life to even think about collective ideologies.
It's the nature of the conservative. However, threaten the success of their personal goals and achievements and they'll be quite the formidable opponent.
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@CD-vb9fi
"perhaps that is why one never shows up"
No, that's not why at all. A Saint isn't going to show up because, no such person exists or group of people exists. So I'm not going to wait around, waiting for the impossible to happen. Like I said, I want to deal with the problems, NOW, not until a Saviour comes. That's not only lazy but naive as one can get. It's how losers respond to a life that's unfair. I acknowledge the unfairness, accept it because there has NEVER been a place, country or society that has been perfect. You show the perfect place and leadership and I'll show you to be wrong.
I want the wars in the Middle East to stop NOW!!!!! Not when perfection arrives or Utopia is established in the US. It's NOT going to happen. Till then, I'll do the best that I can, in the moment, and work towards being the best that I can be and part of that is doing what I can, RIGHT NOW, to make things better. I vote to end the wars, to battle the virus in a practical manner, end critical race theories, the pointless riots, to institute a better education system. I'm not going to wait for that "pie in the sky" saint to come along. That's for children. We can still end the wars, even with a corrupt president. I'm not going to insist that one of the conditions to end them is a saint for a president.
I can't believe that someone would even think that way. If the wars could end now, why not end them? It's stupid to wait for Utopia.
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@CD-vb9fi
So the war continues while you wait for the saint to arrive. The riots go on, people starve due to the lockdowns, others are persecuted under the guise of racial equality and on and on.....all because you want me to sit around and wait for this hypothetical saint to reveal himself. Sort of like all those saints that have come to power in all the countries around the world. Funny how you never named one of those saints in one of those Utopian countries I asked you for.
You're living in a dream world, waiting for someone, who may not ever come, while you let the horrors go on because you'll only try to stop the horrors if your president is perfect in every way. If the president isn't perfect, you'll not even try to end the wars, the persecution, the awful things that are happening. You'd rather see them go on and accept the fact that you may have to work with someone who is imperfect. All the victims thank you for your efforts, you self righteous hypocrite.
Once again, name the saint, in any country in history. You can't.
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I understand being angry about this but the cops do not interpret the law. They're there to uphold the law, no matter what. If the law is unconstitutional, then it is up to the person arrested to go to court and bring his case to a judge for trial and a decision on the merits. There is a process to follow. If an officer is given a command that is clearly unlawful, like shooting a jaywalker, then he has the right to refuse. In the case of someone who is violating a law, that has no victim, the police can arrest the person and even advise the person being arrested on how to fight it, if that officer believes the law to be unjust. In this case, a police officer is not the judge. He's a servant of the people, under the mandate of his superiors.
Having said this, I'm going to call this one of the stupidest arrests that I've heard of in awhile. It should be thrown out of court and whoever ordered the arrest should be dealt with.
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YouTubeDweller8008
NO.....I grew up in Canada and everyone that I know, who are financially secure, grew up here. I get how growing up in a 3rd world country is going to stop you. I know how radical socialist policies can stifle human creativity and how they HATE anyone who shows success through financial gain.
However, I also know people, in Canada, who have the attitude that it can't be done and I know for a fact that there are Americans that feel that way, too. American inner cities are filled with them. Funny thing is, all those that I know with that attitude have earned no more money than I have, at least not at first. They just gave up, drank and pissed it all away.
I've not inherited a penny. Every cent, that I have, I worked for and saved. America isn't the only country where one can succeed. It can be done in many other countries, too.
When you accept defeat, you no longer fight.
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YouTubeDweller8008
That's exactly it. We have to live in a free country in order to be successful and that's where I'm talking from. This video is from the US and I will bet you that a lot of those who are attacking Ivanka Trump live in the US. That's the myth that they want us to believe....that we can't do it on our own. Our education system is filled with those types and our governments, both here in Canada and the US are ever rapidly taking those freedoms away from us.
That's why I'm so insistent that we can do it in our 2 countries. It's because of the socialist types, and there's a lot of them in both our countries, who deny that it's possible. They want everything to be run by the government and the more that happens, the more our freedoms erode away. Lose that freedom, the freedom that we had through our recent history, the worse it will become for those who want to work for our success. There's one thing that I know. We live in the greatest countries that this planet has ever seen and we're destroying them with our "there outta be a law" mentality and it's all in the name of a false sense of safety and security.
I've been to Cuba. I know how impossible it is for those unfortunate people and there's only one reason for it. It's government control of every aspect of their lives. We will end up that way, just like Venezuela did. The once great state of California is being led down that path by the elites of big tech, celebrities, academics and bureaucrats. It's happening here in Canada, too but we can't give up. It's becoming harder and harder to do but we can still turn it around. However, if we quit working for personal success and insist that our government has to look after us, we will lose it all.
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@Aim54Delta
You make some good points but it doesn't deter from the fact that anyone can become a millionaire. In fact, I think that you've proved it. However, financial success isn't just about a bloated bank account. I'm retired, fairly well off but nowhere near a millionaire. It took hard work and recognising opportunities and making wise decisions. I don't count myself as being anywhere close to being a failure. In fact, I've made bad decisions, lost everything and then built it back up. Had I averted those bad decisions, I might well be a millionaire but that was never important to me.
However, we do have a culture that's conducive to failure. The worst is the victim mentality but there are others. We seem to be in times where success must be instant. The brand new car, the big house, great vacations, a pool in the back yard, all the best toys. Those things didn't matter to me. I bought a small house, used cars, put off those great vacations till I retired, didn't bother with a pool or buy any of the nice toys that so many that I worked with wanted so badly. I stayed away from excess drinking, the drugs, all the vices that people seem to live for. I'm not saint but I know where to draw the line and I would not give up my future for a great time today.
Sacrifice when you're young and the odds are that you won't be a millionaire but you will have a good life. I see those who had the same opportunities that I had and are now senior citizens with not a cent to their names. They're now living for their government pension and spend the last 2 weeks of every month looking forward to pension day. I didn't want to live that way and all it took was the will to not have it happen. Could it happen? Of course. Our economy could collapse but that's out of my hands. I can only do what I can.
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@Jirodyne
IF they did any one of those things, would they admit to it, or would they say that since one aspect of those accusations are false, that makes the entire line of accusations false. The accusations are all tied to one another, in affect making it one accusation in totality. Therefore, if any part of that narrative is false, it renders the entire thing false.
Which brings me back to where I was before. If they did spy on him, they'd NEVER admit it. They'd deny every part of the accusatory narrative hoping to muddy the truth of what really happened. Even admitting to one aspect of it would be a scandalous admission. The only way for them to go is to give a blanket statement and deny the accusation, smugly saying that they weren't trying to get him off the air and avoid the spying aspect altogether.
I once worked with a guy and he had spent years in and out of jail before he straightened his life around. He said the first rule of the guilty was simply to "Deny, deny and then deny again". You start out with a denial and you deny while the penitentiary door is being slammed shut behind you.
If you don't think that they'd play these games, you're as naive as they come.
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@mosaif_mudawi
First of all, Mohammed the Prophet, was a military leader. That doesn't exactly say "peace" as the military is used as a violent arm for many purposes, including imposing peace. Mohammed took his military and used them to spread Islam all through the Arabian Peninsula.
After he died, the new leaders took that army and expanded into the greater Middle East. First the Sassanid Empire, which they defeated and then onto the Byzantine Empire in which they weren't quite as successful. But they turned towards Egypt and then North Africa. When the were done that, they jumped into Spain, winning numerous battles until they controlled the entire Iberian Peninsula. However, that wasn't enough. They crossed the Pyrenees, into France, and were defeated at Tours by Charles Martel and retreated into Spain. They also attacked Malta and Sicily and even sacked Rome. Muslim armies then went into Central Asia, where the nations of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Takikistan and others now exist and headed east into Pakistan. They eventually made it into India, Afghanistan and western China, defeating the rulers there. The Mogul invasion of India was particularly brutal.
Still that wasn't enough. The Ottoman Turks took on the Byzantine Empire and eventually defeated them and transformed the entire region to Islam. However, that wasn't enough. They took on the Austrians and made it all the way into southern Poland and to the gates of Vienna before being turned back.
I doubt that I'm being overly hyperbolic when I say that any religion that depends of wars, to expand their faith, isn't was I would call peaceful. Even today, the Middle East has been a trouble spot for wars, with Islamic nations calling for the destruction of Israel and Islamic factions fighting in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, a proxy war between Shia and Sunni Islamic sects led by Saudi Arabia and Iran. If you think that this is peaceful, I'd hate to see what your definition of warlike would mean.
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I don't like Trump all that much, either. That's a personality thing. Would I vote for him. Not a problem. My personal opinion of him has nothing to do with how well he's doing his job.
I worked with a guy who had the personality of scorpion. I didn't like being around him but he was the best at his job that I ever worked with. When everything was tallied up, the good and the bad, I would still pick him to work with. I wished he wasn't such a low life, at times, but overall, I endorsed him as a co-worker.
That's where I am about Trump. He has bad points, like everyone else, but the good things he's done, as president, FAR outweigh those bad points.
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@sleepisthecousinofdeath7395
I've never stated my stance on abortion so you shouldn't be assigning my position for me without having any indication on where I stand. I didn't realise that I was supposed to give my position. I just thought that you're playing word games in an attempt to baffle brains with BS.
Pro life advocates place a high value on life, even in the womb. They stand for life, except in extreme circumstances, killing only when necessary, like in a war, for self protection or in the womb when extreme circumstances threatens the life of the mother. It doesn't mean that they're "pro killing" in those extreme circumstances. It, especially, means that they strongly disapprove of abortion as a means of contraception or so the mother can rid themselves of an inconvenient child. Pro life doesn't see a child as inconvenient or unwanted....EVER. Only pro abortion advocates see a child in that manner
Now, you can assume that I'm anti abortion. I refuse to kill anyone out of convenience, to maintain a lifestyle, for financial gain or a hatred of others, including a child who's still residing in the womb because I don't like children. If one is responsible for their actions, they will accept what comes their way and make the best of it. If you don't like to take responsibility for your actions, you do whatever's necessary to rid yourself of the results of irresponsible actions and then tell yourself that you did nothing wrong.
One loves their neighbour or their child. The other feels that this neighbour, this life growing in their womb, will never feel any love from their mother...that they're incapable of sacrificing to express love of their own child. It's an admission that unconditional love is NOT a part of their lives and they will not allow that child to live if it gets in their way. If they hate their own progeny that much, who else could they rationalise their hate against.
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@madmisobroth1361
Then why should I have rights that you don't? We're all equal. I think that you'd be surprised at just how many of your friends and neighbours have a hand gun, just in case something does happen. It's not something that you'd advertise, considering how some people, in the cities feel but, speaking for me, I'd rather keep a gun, on the quiet, than spend a lifetime regretting that I didn't have it when I needed it the most. I hate that it's needed but I'm not going to let that dislike cloud my common sense or my emotions. That's exactly what those horrific mass shootings do. They affect an emotional response and as important as emotions are, they should never rule you, especially when your life, or the lives of those you care about, could be snuffed out by someone whose emotions are ruled by greed, anger and resentment. That would elicit an emotional response that could really destroy any future that you have.
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@WhyNotTruth
Actual evidence? Then why aren't you talking about the violence and intimidation in ALL the cities that I mentioned. I'm quite willing to condemn any violence that a right wing group would commit and I do, quite vehemently, but you turn a blind eye to the violence, committed by the left over the last 3 months.
Those are facts that YOU have chosen to ignore. So, it's now up to you. I've condemned right wing violence in the strongest terms possible.
Will you condemn the violence, all the looting, burning, the smashed windows, the throwing of bottles, fireworks, Molotov cocktails, the intimidation of people in restaurants? Do you condemn this or are you just going to slink away and hide?
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@beejcarson
I didn't vote for Trump but I did agree with the tax cuts. However, I didn't agree with the tax cuts if you weren't going to dig into the bureaucratic monster that we have, especially in Washington, FIRST. He put the cart before the horse, so to speak. The bureaucracy has become a self feeding monster, creating work for itself that doesn't even exist. It has become, what is known in economics, a sick company. Trump cut taxes and then let a great deal of the bureaucracy remain in place. It's not going to work if your goal is to cut the deficit. However, it did wonders for the economy, which was going great until Covid struck.
All that includes the elected politicians. This isn't a party issue. It's an issue, in BOTH parties, of politicians working for their own best interests, instead of doing what they're supposed to be doing. The biggest reason for this is that the average person just wants to vote on election day and be done with it. They're not interested in politics on the local level, ensuring that the person that they primary to go to Washington is one that has their best interests at heart. They see a familiar name and party and put the X next to it.
Joe Biden has really put the nation on a bad path. Our deficit is spiralling out of control and it's going to spell disaster over the long haul. The only question is....are we going to handle that disaster on our own terms or are we going to let it happen and THEN try to solve it.
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@beejcarson
European nations tried the heavy taxation route in the sixties and seventies. My family is originally from the Netherlands and I remember some of the tax stories that they told me about. Great Britain was in dire financial straits until Margaret Thatcher led with some draconian measures to get it under control.
"I'll tax the street
(If you try to sit, sit) I'll tax your seat
(If you get too cold, cold) I'll tax the heat
(If you take a walk, walk) I'll tax your feet"
It sums up how the public felt about the taxes in Britain at the time.
Also, I reject the idea that because the Republicans don't act responsibly with our tax money, that automatically means that the Democrats will do so. I'm saying that they've BOTH done it and I've said it in my last comment when I said that we have to primary our candidates so we get the ones in place to that we need come election time. That's what I meant when I said that people check the familiar name instead of taking the time to see what they're all about.
It's the overblown bureaucracy and politicians of BOTH stripes are a party to it and taking advantage of it.
California has the highest taxes by far of all the states. Yet, homelessness is a HUGE problem, real estate and rents are skyrocketing, they have rolling brown outs, the public schools are in terrible shape and for the first time in California history, the population has gone down. Their answer? More taxes. Over taxation was a major contributor to the downfall of the Roman Empire. It handcuffs the individual so what little money he does have must go to life basics. Go back and read the words to the ditty I gave in the first paragraph. It's debilitating to the very soul of a nation.
The Democrats aren't solving anything when by increasing spending exponentially they increase taxes the same way. The spending will go the way of spending in California. Nowhere. It'll lines the pockets of bureaucrats, who are the unelected of government and their cronies. California cannot go on like this and the country will face the same problems if they follow their lead.
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@kjkitty777
What's bizarre is that a biological male can claim to be a female and then force HIS way into a female competition, taking away a young teenage females right to compete on an equal footing with her peers.
There is a reason why men and women, as they begin to reach adulthood have been placed into male and female designated sporting events. The male of our species has a physical advantage, which is biologically driven, over the female, in athletics. If this wasn't so, females would be breaking all kinds of sports records even if they weren't competing directly against the males. That's NOT happening.
That's why I'm saying that this is ideological and that when this ends up in a court of law, we have entered Bizzaro world. That has NOTHING to do with normal transgenders. This has to do with reality and the only reason that this is even in court is due to an ideological segment of society that is wilfully distorting reality. There are transgenders who do not adhere to this nonsense, Blaire White just to name one.
I find it appalling that these young teenage girls are being cheated in this way. Any human being in possession of a sense of integrity would feel that way. These young men should be ashamed of themselves....and I say men because, in this case, we are dealing with young men. Their feelings of gender identity does not change the reality of their biology no matter how much they want it to.
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@kjkitty777
In this case it does matter. The entire case depends on acknowledging that these transgender athletes are biologically male. For that judge to tell the lawyers of those girls, I mean the REAL girls (see how easily it can become confusing), to not use the correct biological terms in their gender description, is to tacitly ignore the reality of the biology. Once the biology is ignored, the science ignored, what are you left with. It certainly isn't logic or science. It's an ideology, no different than any other ideology that refuses to accept the reality of demonstrable facts. This isn't about misgendering. That just muddies up the water. We need basic facts and these 2 are biologically male and should, during this trial, be identified as such in deference to biological fact. It's unfortunate that some find that fact offensive but offense doesn't change those facts. If words are to have any meaning, it must be clearly defined in a court of law in ways that is clear to all, both traditionally and in fact.
Also, had you seen the pictures of those two transgender males, while running that race, you'd see why they, most definitely, had the advantage of the other girls. It's no accident that they came in 1/2 in that race and set state records. If you'd watched your daughter lose a chance at a scholarship and see the look of pain on her face because she felt cheated out of that chance, you might see this a little differently.
That any of this is taking up precious court time is ridiculous. It, most definitely, has become Bizarro world.
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Why weren't there any journalists investigating the coronavirus back in January? Where were all the news specials, talking to epidemic specialists, trying to get in touch with sources in Wuhan, asking members of the CDC what a new coronavirus could be capable of?
Do you know what they were reporting on? IMPEACHMENT. MORE IMPEACHMENT, and then when that was all done.....MORE IMPEACHMENT. CNN, MSNBC, all of them, on and on about ONE THING. IMPEACHMENT, over and over and OVER again.
It's a huge failure of our media. When a huge pandemic was threatening the world, they were full focus on their ideological obsessions and their hatred of the president. The media's job is too inform us of world events and they, quite actively, ignored what was happening in China in favour of their of obsession with Donald Trump.
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Next week, it will have been 47 years since I married, what I thought, was a wonderful woman. After years of being fooled by her nice sounding words, her pretty face, the hollow sounds of endearments, I finally realised that she wasn't what she claimed to be. I could have kept my head in the sand, not acknowledged my mistake but I chose to wake up.....FINALLY.
Now, I'm not happy about the way that a lot of those people voted but I'm not going to rag on them for finally waking up. We need their help to get rid of these establishment despots. We'll have to keep an eye on them, to make sure that they're sincere about their intentions, but for now, we've no choice but to enlist them in our fight against the autocratic establishment. The more that join the fight, the greater our chances of beating them.
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@RichardCranium321
But he DID talk to another doctor and he didn't talk to Joe's doctor. He never said that at all. He talked to another doctor because talking to your doctor is NOT the same as listening to your doctor. Anyone can be hesitant. You're a damn fool if you trust implicitly anything the "expert" says.
I had a friend, who collapsed at home and couldn't get up. His wife rushed him to emergency and the doctors there couldn't find anything wrong even though the guy had no use of his legs. They told him to go home. His wife refused and said she wanted another doctor to see him. A doctor happened to come in, starting his shift, listened to his symptoms and decided that he had Guilain Barre Syndrome and had him taken, immediately, to a facility that could handle his symptoms. He almost died.
Had my friend LISTENED to those doctors, the same type of doctor that told Tim to "sleep it off", he'd be dead, right now. It was due to his wife, refusing to take him home and ANOTHER doctor, that he's still with us today.
Talk to your doctor NOT worship your doctor. Having doubts could save your life.
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@nickgarris2971
And yet, we just saw a news story, covered by an ABC news outlet, that shows kids walking out of class because they're sick of being bullied by these furries. Not FOX but ABC. Are they lying, too? What about those kids? All liars?
I was disbelieving, at first. Recently, I was talking to a woman who told me that her daughter, who was in high school, was complaining about the same thing. I expressed doubt but I wasn't going to call her, or her daughter, a pair of liars either. That's never my default. I remember Bill Maher laughing at and mocking Dennis Prager when he said that they were putting feminine products in men's washrooms. Turns out that was true, as well.
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@Bjjboxing
Life definition: the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
So a fetus is inorganic? That would be weird. It has the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity and continual change and those qualities can be stopped, implying death. So how does that make a fetus inorganic? As long as an entity has those capacities, it is life and alive, and when those capacities begin, that's when life starts. That's science.
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No, Tim. It's not about the mob. This is the post-modernist ideology, an offshoot of Marxism, that divides society into identity groups based on victim status. Blacks and natives are low on the victim hierarchy and white males are at the top, the despicable oppressors. These kids represent those oppressors perfectly. They're white, fairly affluent, meaning privileged, Christian and they support the top representative of oppression, Donald Trump. This was their crime and this is why they hate them. Post-modernism sees everything through the lens of victimhood where They, whether they realise it or not, are under the spell of post-modernist ideology and they are compelled to react in this manner.
It doesn't matter what the blacks or those natives said or did, it will never be as bad as the existence of those high school kids. Had one of the black Israelites or natives, punched that kid, started kicking him when he was down and put him in the hospital, they would have been justified. For some, it that kid had died.....good. If you think I'm being hyperbolic, look at the threats. Post-modernism, that branch of Marxism, depends on mob mentality and revolution and that's why your fears of a civil war are justified.
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The reason that "Uncle Tom" is a slur is because the Democrats, at the time, didn't want the black slaves to have a hero. They kept it up, after emancipation, once again, to vilify a heroic Black slave, who would rather die than give away the whereabouts of 2 runaway slaves. I, for the LIFE of me, can't see how this makes the term "Uncle Tom" an ethnic slur. He stood up against the villainous slave holder, Simon Legree, and was whipped to death for it. The left and the Democrats don't want a hard working, Black man who would give his life for what he believes in.
Uncle Tom was 10 TIMES the hero that George Floyd was by any metric you want to use. The left doesn't want you to know that. Please, any time you hear that term used, in a derogatory manner, please set the guy straight. The left should not be allowed to get away with that kind of lie.
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@reaper_exd7498
Unbelievable. I went to the correct video and it's YOU that's misinterpreting what he said.
Tim was reading from an article about the charges against Chauvin in which it said that "holding the knee on the neck is inherently dangerous". He called it fake news, later showing how this was part of police training. He said that he believed that the rioting was successful in instilling that false belief on the average American citizen and then, facetiously congratulated them on the success of that tactic. He was worried, however, that this type of pressure and that the protests, that are happening already, might have an effect on the trial, just like the riots, protests and the media portrayals, last summer, have had an effect on public opinion all along. He called it "scary". He was afraid that they'd bend to the violent pressure of BLM and others.
You can't understand context. That's your problem. You used a left wing media tactic. You pointed out a snippet of the video and declared it to be the meat of the message. That's incredibly misleading.
You'd better watch that video again and listen a little more carefully, this time. He wasn't praising BLM riots. He was afraid that the riots might not allow a fair trail because it may frighten people into submission.
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@TheJeffL
Check this out from The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It talks about "whiteness" and the things that indicate white culture. It's one of the most racist things that I've ever seen.
Beer ads? People were upset because a beer company was using an influencer, whose followers average 16 years old, to sell beer. People to young to drink and they even admitted that they were looking for a future customer base. To make it worse, it was an influencer who was encouraging minors to undergo drug treatment and surgery to validate their transgender existence.....pandering to the big pharma medical industrial complex. Actually aiming at kids. Yeah....normal people find this appalling.
Complaining about the president? You've GOTTA be kidding. I've never heard complaining about the president like I did in my 75 years of life, in the years that Trump was president. It was non-stop on EVERY DAMN NETWORK AND NEWSPAPER. He was Hitler, the anti-Christ, a racist, a crook, was going to start WW3, was a broke billionaire, grabbing women by the hoo-hoo and on and on. He threw fish food in the water.....what a disgrace he was. "Good people on both sides" manipulated and lied about that. He call immigrants "animals" another BS story. It was nuts.
Christmas? Who cares. Boohooing about everything? THAT'S YOU. You're here everyday complaining about EVERYTHING that's being said. How can anyone be so self unaware?
You are what you're accusing others of being. You're on multiple comment threads, always bitching about something and you use multiple names, thinking that no one is catching on. You have to be the worst troll on the internet.
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You don't know what it's bad in Italy, Tim? Maybe it's because the mayor of Florence said that travel restrictions to China was racist and said people should hug a Chinese tourist if they saw one to show that they loved Asians. That, in spite of the fact that the first 2 cases were a Chinese couple from Wuhan, China. That was Feb 1st.
At the same time, in New York, Mayor Bill De Blasio and his own staff said that New Yorkers should go out and have a good time and go to the Chinese New Year's Parade on Feb 9th. De Blasio kept that kind of talk up until March 11th, until members of his staff threatened to resign if he didn't stop. I wonder how many infected American tourist came back to New York, in the week before that parade, and attended that parade. If 25 was the number, that would have been enough.
That's why, along with those feminists in Spain, the virus took off in Italy, Spain and the New York area. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out.
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@adriangutierrez848
Oh shut-up!!!! Trump is an A-hole but, right now, he's much better than the Democrats. They're the ones that called the riots in LA, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kenosha, Atlanta, Louisville, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Richmond, Philadelphia, New York, Buffalo, Rochester.....there's dozens more, "peaceful protests". Over 30 people dead in BLM inspired riots, a group that the Democrats endorse, and all you can say is "Trump has done more than God".
You're so blinded by TDS that you've lost all sense of logic and reason.
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My parents came to this country with nothing. No bank account, no property.....nothing. They didn't own the cot that they slept on, the table they had breakfast on, even the plates they ate off didn't belong to them. They lived in a one room shack with no running water.
They worked hard, my dad working 3 jobs at the same time and my mom raising 7 kids and worked a large garden and small orchard so we'd have inexpensive but decent food. Now, my dad has some money and he's enjoying the fruits of his hard work.
Anyone of those blacks could have done that and many did just that. Larry Elder talks about how hard his father worked and Candace Owens talks about her grandparents and their work ethic. The left and those who want handouts HATE them. They hate them because they have pride and a strong sense of ethics. The ones that want reparations have no pride or work ethic and reparations won't help them one bit. They don't know how to live responsibly and many will end up in bankruptcy.
What really galls me is that my dad, who's now 89, will have his tax money paying 25 year old children who've never worked a day in their pathetic lives. I'll never forget my dad's reaction when told, for religious reasons, to quit a job and if he had financial problems, they'd help him out. My dad told him that, as long as he was able bodied, he'd eat the grass out on the lawn before he'd take a handout. These parasites would NEVER understand that.
I suppose this comment will be deleted but I had to get this off my chest.
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Yedolf
There is no proof other than having one of the worst voting systems in the world. Voter ID is racist. Sending out ballots, through the mail, to everyone. Changing voting procedures without going through state legislators, which is against the law. All I gotta do is find out who never votes, call down my relatives from Canada, and let them vote Republican. They don't have to show ID. That's racist. All I need is one person, some crackhead from the Bay area, give him 20 bucks per vote and drive him from one precinct to another to vote.
It's insane and it's no wonder people call our voting process a sham. Yet, when Georgia tried to fix their election process so it was more secure, it was Jim Crow 2.0. The last election was the 3rd election in this century, that's been disputed. Bush's narrow win was called a fraudulent election win. Trump's win was fraudulent with many Democrats calling him a fake president and the last one was disputed by Trump. That's 2 claims by Democrats and one by Republicans. That's HALF the elections this century.
Fix the damned election process so it we won't have this mess.....but we can't because it's raycist or some other stupid claim. Every other country can do it but the US can't.
Of course, none of this will sink through that thick skull of yours.
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I'm going to tell you something about being Canadian and having the most powerful country, the world juggernaut, as your only neighbour, Tim. Everything that happens, in the US, affects us. The president, the Congress, the economy......everything. We're HUGE trading partners, in the summer, we're overrun by American tourists. In the winter, we go to the US to get away from the snow. If you thrive, we thrive. If you go down the toilet, we're right behind you. When the fires were burning in California and Oregon, we were advised to stay indoors due to the horrific air quality.
So....YES, we are concerned with American politics.....and that bozo, from the University of Waterloo, is just that.... a BOZO. Only the most insane and corrupt individual would wish that kind of harm on a neighbour and as a Canadian, I'm calling the man a disgrace.
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@settame1
For sure. These hospitals that are supposedly not treating vaccinated people are being hypocritical. They still treat drug overdoses and gunshot wounds, even if the victim is in a gang. These are all the result of personal decisions. If you're husband fell ill with Covid and was refused treatment, I'm thinking a lawsuit would be in order.
I'd prefer it if everyone was vaccinated but it's not up to me, you OR the government. It's up to each one of us.
As for your kids, as of Sept 14th, only 412 kids, under 18, have died of Covid. Out of 680,000 Covid deaths in the US, only 412 children have died. During that same time, about 1500 kids, 14 and under, have been killed in car accidents. In other words, your kids are in greater danger on a short drive to the store than they are from Covid. Yet, I'll bet hardly any on these vaccine "mandaters" give a second thought to that danger to their kids as they're strapping them into their car seat.
Vaccinate your kids when it makes sense.
That's my advice for what it's worth. I don't see the sense in it now.
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@paulsweeney2959
When teachers, or specifically, the public education system, feel that it is their duty to teach morality, they've overstepped their mandate. Our education system was built to teach our young the technical life skills or reading and mathematics, NOT on what the children should believe.
When a teacher sits up all night with a sick student, when he/she spends their lives crying over the death on MY child....then they are co-parents.....MAYBE. They are public servants, no more. My brother, who is a teacher and a strong Christian, who taught in the public school system, would NEVER and HAS never imposed his personal beliefs on his students. That's not his job. A teacher can give a helping hand, if needed, but to assume the role of the parent is more than presumptive. It's an arrogance that should never be the accepted policy of our education system.
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@SHrepairs
I'm Canadian and we have a socialised healthcare system and we flattened the curve by doing EXACTLY the same things as the Americans did. What we don't have, and that's what the controversy is now in the US, is a polarised political atmosphere where progressive and Democrat controlled state governments are imposing Draconian rules, under threat of arrest, on the average citizen. We don't have snitch lines, we can mow our lawns, buy grass seed and paint and we don't have drones flying around telling us to disperse and go inside. That's what Democrat state governments are doing and Republican state governments are NOT doing. In fact, socialised health care is the dream of Democrats. Also, there are health care worker laid off in areas where the virus hasn't been a big problem due to lockdowns is their state that won't allow medical activity other than extreme emergencies and Covid related cases.
I have friends and relatives in the US and they're the ones telling me this, online.
You're obviously being driven by a hatred of free economies. I don't know where you're from but I will tell you that Canada, in spite of it's socialised health care system has a free economy. I've even ran a small business and have many friends and family members who own their own business and love it. That's capitalism....and it's the freedom to be the person that you want to be instead of being controlled from above. I'm perplexed by anyone that would want control to come from anywhere but within. I don't like a big government, the ultimate corporation, controlling everything that I do.
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In 1970, in Quebec, a group called the FLQ, kidnapped a British diplomat, James Cross and local politician, Pierre Laporte. The FLQ was organised in small cells of 5 and 6 members where only 1 person would know the identity of 1 person of another cell. Pierre Laporte was executed. The Canadian government instituted the War Measures Act, only used twice before, WW1 and 2. In the end, 16 people were found to involved in the kidnappings.
Small cells, that's how they were organised.
To add, the arrests of the FLQ members spelled the end of years of letter bombs in Quebec and the end of the FLQ.
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@dtklamf7457
I'm retired now but I spent 16 years in the bar business, 7 of them in a strip joint. The atmosphere, in a bar, is a lot different than working at a warehouse or factory. Bar fights are a part of the culture and I've been in my share of them.
However, when I worked in other types of businesses, things were different. You don't handle conflicts in the same way. Also, that guy WAS held accountable. He lost his job over it and the other guy was still working there, he didn't have to deal with that jerk anymore, he didn't have to worry about the law and other employees knew that the company wouldn't tolerate that kind of behaviour, so it cut the chances of it happening again, way down.
It was all good for him.
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@codycarr4544
Without a doubt. Our school systems find the seeds of discontent, envy, resentment and sexual angst and nurture them, using them as tools to create young activists. They downplay personal responsibility and hard work and encourage collectivism, identity association and rage at the perceived inequities of life.
It can only end in mental anguish, broken families, addictions, poor health, crime, narcissism, feelings of helplessness and nihilism and outbursts of rage and violence. You see it everywhere. We have a generation that's focused on fixing the world and not themselves and neither the world or themselves are benefiting from it.
As Voltaire once wrote....Cultivate your own garden. If we all do that, the world will look after itself.
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@thebladeofchaos
You forget the exact figures and then throw out these percentages like they should be taken seriously. If you're going to throw out those numbers, which suggests that almost EVERYONE is going to have life long effects from the disease, you'd better back them up. Especially, when you consider that many are asymptomatic or don't even have any symptoms.
I stand by my death numbers and you appear to agree with me. However, I can prove it.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Look at the graphs. Cases in mid April was around 80,000 per day at 8,000 deaths. Yesterday, the case count was over 500,000, or 1/2 million cases around the world and the death rate is down and is just over 7,000 per day.
Worse, you completely ignore the horrific effects of extreme poverty, malnutrition and starvation. This will be worse than the Covid and people are allowing fear to justify what could be the greatest tragedy in human history. But as long as we can stay safe....that's what's important, right? That is, if the lockdowns even have a great effect.
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@thebladeofchaos
I've always have at least 3 months worth of supplies on hand. You don't need as much as you'd think, either. Once it's there, you replace as you go. Maybe, it's because I grew up and live in Canada, where the winters can be quite harsh. When I was growing up, on a small farm, we ate from our garden and the animals we raised. I remember being snowed in for weeks and we never worried about food or supplies. I kept it up into my adulthood although I live in a small town now. I can't understand why people aren't ready, just in case. When people were fighting for toilet paper, back in March, I had enough to do me till the end of summer and now I have enough to do me till March. It's like a savings account....but I guess a lot of people don't have that either.
I'm 70 years old. I didn't work hard all my life to be afraid to die when I retire. I'm not going to take stupid chances but I'm not going to live in fear either. A little common sense would do the world some good, especially right now.
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@jacobvanveit3437
As a citizen of my country, I would NEVER pledge allegiance to any one party or candidate. That leaves me open to being fooled by that party or candidate. Blind loyalty is just that.....BLIND. I always look at the good and bad of every candidate. It would be insane not to. Remember, every conman finds their greatest success to the those he can get to blindly believe him.
I'll not be the receiver of anyone's BS. However, I do support Trump. I thought he did a good job, by and large, in his first term. It wasn't perfect but it was better than most, if not all, of the presidents in my lifetime and I'm 70 years old. I have to remember that he's 76 years old and that if he runs for president, he'll be in his eighties when he's done. I don't want another senile man in the White House, like we have now. He may still be sharp as a tack at 82, my dad's 91 and he's still smarter than most I know, but it's still something to consider.
Another thing, Tim has been quite vocal on the insanity of the Democrats. He'd never vote for them the way that they are now. That doesn't mean that he has to like Trump. That's simplistic thinking. Personally, I'd rather see DeSantis as president but that may not be happening right away.
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Tim, you're wrong about the Canadian dollar and economy. When I was growing up, both were on par with the United States. From 1952 (the year that I was born) to 1978, our dollars were almost even every year, sometimes a little higher, other times a little lower. In 1978, the Canadian dollar went down to .87 cents to the American dollar in 2 years. After that it went slowly down to almost .70 cents to the American dollar. When I was in my late teens and early twenties, Americans and Canadians were crossing the borders and spending their money on par. We were the 2 most prosperous countries in the world. This all changed, in Canada, due to the policies of another Trudeau. It was a disaster for Canada and the United States. Suddenly, the auto and steel industry fell apart and cities like Detroit, Gary, Pittsburgh in the United States and Windsor, Hamilton, Sudbury and Sydney declined because of free trade which saw both our economies failing in favour of countries like Japan.
Our politicians gave it all away.....both American and Canadian. Trump can remember those times and he's trying to get it back.
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If AOC's message was about how Puerto Ricans had to deal with poor conditions, that's one thing. However, it would appear that AOC did NOTHING to help her own grandmother, the least that she could have done, under the circumstances. She allowed her mother to live, as a victim, and then used her grandmother's victimhood to score political points and then plead the she was only pointing out the travails of OTHER Puerto Ricans.
The first to come to one's aid, during times of trouble, should be family members. AOC, thoughtlessly, used her grandmother's dilemma for a personal agenda. What she should have done is helped her grandmother and then went to other Puerto Ricans, who didn't have the privilege of having family in the Congress of the United States making 174,000 bucks a year, and revealed THEIR plight. Then this controversy would not be in place.
Like I said, she's thoughtless which strongly implies selfishness.
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When you do, you'll be playing right into their hands. The media will accuse YOU of violence and then say how dangerous conservatives are.
What we have to do is call it out and demand that the law takes care of it. Demand that the media, CNN and MSNBC, start reporting on these incidents and denouncing that violence. If it's a Bernie supporter that's doing the attacking, demand that Bernie denounce it. Tell him, the media and the Democrats, that if they don't do something to stop it, you'll never vote for them again. Turn our individual voices into a chorus of indignation and denunciation of political violence, so loud, that they can't ignore it. Because if we return violence with violence, the media will use it against us. We have to outsmart them and it should be easy. They're NOT THAT SMART.
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@justinkirschenman2232
First of all, that war is over. Obama pulled out all the troops in 2011 and there was a big press conference is Washington about it. The next day, the VERY NEXT DAY, the Iraqi president flies home and starts arresting Sunni leaders. That's not the fault of anyone but that president, Nouri al-Maliki. He didn't have to do that but the hatred the Shia and Sunni have for one another is what started the conflict in both Syria and Iraq right now. ISIS, Sunni Muslims, are fighting against the Shia president, Assad, because they believe that the Shias are heretics and they've felt that way for a thousand years.
Then Obama got them right back into it and ISIS has been behaving horrifically ever since. Would you seriously expect Trump to get out, right away, when ISIS was there murdering innocent people? He had to finish them off. Now, they're pretty well defeated and their leader is gone. Trump said it again when he announced his death. He want's the troops out. It doesn't happen overnight and thank God that it didn't. That murderous ISIS leader would still be torturing and killing innocents, like the Mueller girl, who was kidnapped in front of refugee hospital and horrifically abused by ISIS. She was there to help refugees and those butchers did that to her and all you can do is dredge up something that happened 17 years ago...the WMD lead to that earlier war.
You're too angry and bitter to assess this rationally. If the troops are out in 6 months, are you going to come back to this thread and admit that maybe you were wrong? I'd be surprised if you do.
I don't know if it will happen but if Trump says he wants to do it, then I'll support that intention. He says that he's ready to do it now and we'll see what happens. I'm not about to lose my mind over it because of the way things happened. In fact, his earlier announcement about leaving, might have induced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to think that he was safe and wasn't as careful as he had been.
Lighten up a little.
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@justinkirschenman2232
The war was essentially over in 2011. Here is that announcement when Obama was preparing to pull the last of the troops out of Iraq, some 5000 troops, way down from the some 150,000 a few years earlier.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/world/middleeast/president-obama-announces-end-of-war-in-iraq.html
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R40682.pdf
However, that's when the Iraqi president amped up his assault on Sunni and it looked as if Al Qaeda was going to resurface and ISIS started to form. That war in Iraq was over and Obama even stated that the US would be leaving a stable country. He didn't screw it up. The Iraqis did that themselves.
Now Trump is going to leave but he wasn't just going to dump and run before the job was done. Also, your statement on how the US was helping ISIS, against Russia, makes no sense. How is killing their leader helping ISIS? That's as illogical as it come.
The situation in Iraq and Syria is complex with Al Qaeda, Al-Nusra, Syrian rebels, Syrian loyalists to Assad, Kurds, Turks, Shia Iraqis, ISIS all fighting one another. I'm sure I missed a few. The original invasion was a mistake but to leave when Obama wanted would have been a mistake as well. The Iraqis could have settled into making a stable country back then, but they didn't want to. Sunni and Shia hate each other. That's what's behind the war in Syria, Yemen and Iraq. It's behind all the posturing between Iran and Saudi Arabia as well.
It looks as if ISIS is defeated and now is the time to get out. Not in 2011, not in 2016, but now when ISIS is gone. The fact is, if the fighting continues in those countries, it won't be because that's what Trump wants. It'll be because of Shia/Sunni hatred of one another.....a hatred that's been there for over 1000 years. Shia have pilgrimaged to Karbala for all that time, some 10 million a year and rivals Mecca as a holy site. This is the shrine that ISIS had vowed to destroy because they see it as a sacrilege. Karbala was the site of a huge battle between Shia and Sunni in 680. That's how long they've been at each other.
Please understand the hatred these people have for one another. Shia even believe that the final battle will be between those 2 factions and it will be the defeat of the Sunni and the beginning of their Caliphate. That's how deep this rivalry runs.
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@TheRichie213
He sent strikes to aid in the fight against ISIS. ISIS established a zone that covered Syria and Iraq. This was, in essence, no longer Syria but the new Islamic Caliphate that ISIS had won militarily....a new country. Syria, itself, was fighting ISIS as well.
Also, your "banker" war makes no sense, either. Bankers could make just as much money by lending to build infrastructure around the world.
What difference does it make to a banker if a country borrows to build a new highway, sewer system or to buy a few tanks. You still go into debt.
Why is it that you refuse to acknowledge the enmity between Sunni and Shia that has lasted for over 1000 years? Also, if the banks are the reason for wars, why is it that wars have been fought for thousands of years long before banks even existed. Are you actually claiming that Genghis Khan was sent by the Mongol banks to conquer all of central Asia and China? The most primitive of peoples fought with their neighbours. That's human nature and in fact, we're living in a time where a person is the safest from being a war casualty in our history. We have a bloody past but it's getting better but that doesn't figure into your personal hatred against your own perceived enemy and carrying on your own battle against them.
It's not banks that cause war. It's human nature.
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@justinkirschenman2232
First of all, this article doesn't state whether the tainted test kits were discovered in the field or as a part of an in house quality control check. That makes a difference. Also, to say that this is still happening requires proof. It also implies that there is no quality control whatsoever in this industry, even from the new companies that have gotten into new testing kits.
Also, I've watch numerous press conferences. The press was continuously haranguing Trump, at first, for the lack of tests and that initially they weren't that good. Trump has acknowledged it. Then why, when testing is approaching 10 million, aren't the press haranguing him about these test tainted with Covid viruses. I've NEVER heard that and it would be a good one to go after him for.
Why would I trust these people to make the vaccines? Maybe, it's because it's not only these people that are working on the vaccines. There are labs all over the world working on them. Different labs, everywhere. It's just not American suppliers. The US is a big country but it's not the centre of the universe. Also, why would you trust any drug you take that these people make? Why would you trust the food you eat that these people produce? Bad food can kill you, too.
It's a poor argument and you prove it every time you go to the grocery store or drug store.
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@steffansmith3601
I shouldn't have to talk about criminal cops no more than I should have to talk about criminal postal worker, electricians or street cleaners. If a cop commits a criminal act, that cop is a criminal and should be dealt with....like the cop that killed George Floyd. He's facing murder charges. If a jaywalker gets beaten up by a cop, a hypothetical situation, that cop is committing a criminal act, and he should be prosecuted. That's common sense.
However, what you're doing is painting them all with the same brush. When that cop killed Floyd, ALL cops are guilty. Prosecute them all with the indictment of public opinion. Now, when a guy passes out drunk, after driving to a Wendy's, he has the right to resist arrest, steal a weapon from the cop and fire it at them and be let go. That drunk driver, on probation for domestic and physical child abuse, put the lives of average Americans in danger, but the cops that tried to arrest him to discourage that type of behaviour are fired and prosecuted.
That's "blue" bigotry. The Rule of Law applies to everyone.....even cops who will still be cops no matter what you call them or organise them.
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Skye325
You're describing the specifics of the ideology. It wouldn't work in a lot of the places of the world if you're bent on instituting a socialist regime. For example, in Thailand, they wouldn't go on about white people because the perceived seat of power aren't white. Marxist groups might demonise the central Thai because they're the biggest and most powerful ethnic group. They would use the Thai as their CRT cudgel to enact Socialism, just like the left does to the whites here in North America. Marxism goes after the perceived power group. In the Soviet Union, it was a class war. In the US, a class war wouldn't work, so they adapted Marxism to go after, what they see as the American power base.....white people. That's why so many of the woke are white. It really has nothing to do with being white. It's about identifying a power base and, in the US, white people are the obvious target. However, it can get even more convoluted than that. If a person is black and is standing against them, that person will be perceived as part of the power base and would be seen as being a part of the power structure called "whiteness". You don't have to be white. All you have to do is be seen as being part of those in power. Asians were labeled "white adjacent" due to their economic success. It's a power struggle and they need an enemy. Anyone will do so long as they can rile enough people to cause mayhem.
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@Bjjboxing
My dog was on the voter list. MY DOG....George Haveman. I lived in a town of 1800. If there was a guy named George Haveman in my town, I would have known him. I knew everyone. I did have a dog named George. When I went to vote, the woman handing out the ballots, asked who this George Haveman was, in puzzlement. My family was the only one with that last name in our town and she knew them all.
The point is, if this can happen in a town where everyone KNOWS everyone else, what could be happening in a city of millions? You're dreaming and naive if you think differently.
For 200 years people, who thought it important to vote, would get in their cars, saddle up their horses, hitch up the wagon and vote. Bars were closed, employers were forced to allow their workers time off to vote and it worked. Now suddenly, we add a brand new process that has a huge potential to be subverted. If it's important to you, go to the voting sites and do the way it's always been done.
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@tabbyreed8925
You missed the point entirely. Trump was putting tariffs on the products made in China. That evened up the price difference and it was working. The steel industry was coming back, among others. That's why the economy was doing so well, before Covid. China HATED what Trump was doing and so did a lot of the big multinationals. What with the bad wages, bad environmental, quality and labour standards and the opportunity for graft for multinational executives, Washington bureaucrats and politicians, it's no wonder they HATE Trump. They've got the major news networks on board because they're ALSO owned by big multinationals. The minute Trump announced his bid for presidency, the racism allegations started. They HAD to beat him. If he was successful at bringing the trade deficit to a positive state for the US, they would lose their gravy train.
The elimination of tariffs is what started the trade deficit in the first place. Now, the big companies could produce offshore and sell here, until the country was bled dry, but the elites would be just fine. They don't care about you and me. Trump has been against it for YEARS now. 25 years ago, he was complaining about it. The reason why he does it is simple. He's in the hotel and casino business and was doing a national TV show. He's not dependent on cheap labour like the multinationals are.
The elites have done a great job convincing everyone that they're socialists and that they care for us. They don't. They want money, power and control and Trump, even though he's a class jerk, is spoiling their plans. Worse, he now trying to get troops out of the Middle East and brokering peace deals there. That's a big hit for the military industrial complex. Another reason to hate him. The Democrats were hating on Bush when he went into Iraq but as soon as they got into power, they supported the Arab Spring and the Middle East conflicts really expanded. Right now they're opposing withdrawal. The same party, the same PEOPLE, that called the Bush Iraq war illegal, now want to stay there. There are American soldiers in Afghanistan that weren't even born yet on 9/11, yet the Democrats want to stay on.
They're pulling the wool over your eyes, over all our eyes and too many are letting them do it.
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It was NOT Covid that started this spiral. It was the world reaction to Covid that caused it. I said, right at the beginning, that this was going to lead to terrible consequences if we carried it too far and no one would listen.....but then again, who the hell am I.
This was also predicted by the WEF. However, they predicted it because they supported and orchestrated the reaction to the pandemic. A few months after the pandemic started, Klaus Schwab released his book "Covid-19. The Great Reset". He'd already had the scenario worked out long before the pandemic started. When it became real, it was easy to set the wheels into motion. The printing of money to finance the Covid policies and then the vaunted recovery in Canada and the United States made it worse. Biden's energy policies added to it. Biden campaigned on the Great Reset, lauded by the WEF. Trudeau has been a big supporter of that organisation. Now, the Netherlands is intentionally setting policies that will take land away from farmers to rethink the food system and to re-purpose land use. Sri Lanka already put those same policies in place that the Netherlands are proposing and they had a net loss of 30% of their agricultural production and the nation is in chaos. Mark Rutte, the Dutch PM has even said that these policies are a part of the WEF agenda. I could go on and on about it.
But, we can't force people to listen and we're going to be stuck with it. Hard times ahead people. REAL hard times.
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@sthubbins4038
When they talk about the Mainstream media, they're talking about the bulk of it. CNN, MSNBC, PBS, ABC, CBS, the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, the over 80% that are openly against the elected president and make no bones about their position. That's who wouldn't report on something like this. It had to come from neutral or right wing sources. It's ALL negativity. "Those ships will NEVER be ready. Don't believe it". "Hydroxychloroquine is a false hope. Don't believe it"
Nothing works for them. Everything is in vain. Better we make sure that airlines comply with new emissions laws that we need RIGHT now.
I think Trump is a braggart and I have a hard time listening to him but he's has an excellent team behind him and he's been praising everyone that's trying their best, even Cuomo and Gavin Newsom. He even thanked Maddow for her praise for some of the workers. He didn't have to do that but she just spit in his face, anyway.
These people are just getting in the way. If you're not helping, then shut up. If you're criticising EVERYTHING, then you hurting everyone. Fortunately, Trump doesn't listen and is encouraging his team to keep up the good work because I don't see a lot from the MSM that's helping. A lot of complaining.....that's all.
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I'm not sure that I understand your reasoning. Those who oppose abortion believe life begins at conception when a brand new, identifiable entity is created. From that moment on, that entity is a growing living being. They believe that killing that living being, weeks after conception is NO different than killing a five year old, a teenager or a 30 year old woman.
They're upset when a 30 year old woman is killed. They're upset when a 30 week old living human being, in the womb, is killed as well. As upset as when George Floyd was killed last year. Yet, there are no riots, burned out buildings or lootings. The abortion clinic bombings are loudly condemned by all major anti-abortion groups and has NO widespread support.
So, when you stick with the topic of abortions, there are some, you call them the right, that get upset when you kill a living human in the womb, and some, you call them the left, who support the idea of killing a living human in the womb. I'm not seeing how they're the same.
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@TheJeffL
Which party seems to be doing something about it? Ron DeSantis, a Republican, just signed into law that makes squatting nearly impossible. Why aren't Democrat governors advocating an end to it. I find it difficult to blame Republicans, when it's a Republican governor who's doing something about it, NOT a Democrat. I will blame the party that does NOTHING and I don't care which party that it is. The Democrats are the same party that declared Martha's Vineyard a sanctuary community and then summarily forced illegal migrants off their island.
They're a bunch of phonies, pretending to be virtuous and kind but only when they can get others to be kind by proxy.
As for your think tank theory, YOU are the one that's the predictable one. No matter WHAT the topic, you take the opposite stance....EVERY time. I have yet to hear you agree with anything that's ever been said on one of Tim Pool's videoss. This is why I say that you could care less about the people that own the homes that squatters take over, until it's YOU that comes home and there's someone living in your home. Then, like the hypocrites living in Martha's Vineyard, you'll say that they gotta go.
You're a reactionary troll and a hypocrite.
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MSM, Big Tech, the Corporate elite, the bureaucratic swamp and all the lobbyists hate Trump for one reason. He's taking on China. They hate it. They love putting their manufacturing facilities in China, a country that has no environmental laws, poor labour laws, poor safety protocols, poor quality standards and low wages. These elites are making HUGE profits working in China and getting kickbacks which the American investigators can't track. That's money that Chinese officials and companies that can be placed in numbered accounts in any of the countries that allow those bank accounts to exist. They're losing the goose that's laying the golden egg and they hate it.
That's why the minute that Trump announced his bid for the presidency, he became a racist. It's why we have all the twisted stories, intentionally misleading framed narratives, the emphasis on hate and systemic racism. It's all money driven and people can't see that these elites are manipulating the narrative with their social justice tropes. They need to turn people into ideologues. Ideologues don't question what they're being told.
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Those who are crafting the ideology, THEY are the Marxists. The lunatics, that are screaming and defacing property, are the foot soldiers. They believe the orthodoxy from above, 2 plus 2 equals 5, and they MUST support it, no matter what and they get angry when challenged. Of course, the lunatics don't know what they believe, they just do because that's what they've been told to believe by the ideological overlords, who send them out to do their dirty work for them. Create chaos, disruption and finally destruction which their leaders hope will turn into revolution.
That's what Tim doesn't get.
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Protesters are like members of a deck of cards.
Each protester has the Constitutional right to peacefully assemble to bring their grievances to bear. However, when someone, who is a part of that assembly, throws a brick at a window, your assembly is no longer peaceful. Like the 5 of Clubs. It's a part of a deck of cards that's useful in a game of poker. However, if 1 or 2 of the cards have a big "X" painted on the back, that deck of cards is no longer useful. It doesn't matter that the 5 of Clubs wasn't marked, the deck has been rendered useless.
It's the same with a peaceful assembly. Once violence is used, your assembly is no longer peaceful. Your personal intentions are irrelevant to the assembly's peacefulness just like the 5 of Clubs is now irrelevant to the usefulness of the deck of cards.
The mature person realises that the assembly is no longer peaceful and goes home to show their objection to the use of force in a good cause. The leaders of the protests do the same and then tell everyone that these assemblies were no longer peaceful and they don't approve of the violence. They announce that they will go out again the following day and anyone, who wants to peacefully protest, is welcome to join. However, if you start trouble, all peaceful protesters will, once again, go home and leave you to deal with the authorities by yourself.
That's how these "peaceful" assemblies should be organised. Until they are, they're NOT peaceful assemblies. They're just a marked deck of cards.
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@DM-dk7js
Did you even watch the video? Maybe you should. They're a loosely organised group with cells all over North America and Europe. They originated in the early thirties, in Germany, as the German Communist Party's answer to the Nazi Brown Shirts. They dispersed after Hitler took power, going underground or leaving the country. Antifa is short for the German “Antifascistischer" which is Antifascist in English. In fact, East Germany called the Berlin Wall the “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” meaning that they believed everyone on the other side of that wall is a fascist. That was in 1961, over thirty years after Antifascistischer was formed. Read, Antifa member's Mark Bray's, book "Antifa. The Antifa Handbook".
They're a Marxist revolutionary group, cleverly hiding behind their name by claiming that their against Fascists and white supremacists yet they're one of the most violent groups in America, attacking ordinary citizens, setting fires to buildings and vehicles, throwing Molotov Cocktails and even killing people. They've openly declared their aim to destroy the system and begin a new Marxist type order. They were behind over 120 consecutive days of demonstrations, firebombings, attacks on citizens and police and even killings in Portland Oregon in 2020.
They're definitely a domestic terrorist group. It's just that they have the protection of the Democrat Party, even though Antifa has rejected the Democrat party as a viable way to power. That's how they've been able to carry on their violent antics. The Democrats are using them as pawns and they don't mind because they know if the Democrats turned on them, most would be in jail.
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My nephew is a fairly well known musician in the Northwest. He was on the road and ate at a fairly busy tavern and gave them an excellent review, saying that they were extremely friendly, the place was spotless, the food excellent and the prices were great. The next thing he knew, his website and Facebook page were inundated with posts on how he was a sexist, a misogynist and that no one should ever buy his music or go to his shows. Apparently, there was a dispute between the owner and a female employee, not sure what it was, and she accused the owner of being abusive.
My nephew knew nothing of this. All he saw was a decent meal and a great place to eat, the only time that he'd ever been there. Now, he had to explain himself and then they wanted an apology, which he refused to do.
This is our future folks, unless we do something about it.....right now.
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@JKLZREFAN
You're defending the Nazis and pretending that they're the ones on the right side of history. I'm saying that they're not and providing evidence of a nation that we're not appreciative, one bit, on what the Nazis did to them. That heavily implies that they were NOT such good guys. You don't like to hear it, that's your problem.
Also, if Hitler was only trying to unite all Germans, why did he take over ALL of Czechoslovakia. They're not Germans. The Allies allowed that but were assured that there would be no war. Remember Chamberlain?
Why did the Germans take over as much of Poland as possible? Why not just the areas where the Germans lived? Why arrange to have Poland completely crushed?
Again I ask, if Hitler wasn't an expansionist, why would he invade Denmark, Norway and Holland? 3 countries that he wasn't at war with and he invaded them. There is no way that you can rationalise it.
Just like saying that standing, jam packed in cattle cars, for an 1100 km trip, which would have taken, at least, 15 hours, is normal. You're grasping at straws to hold onto your belief system.
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@mikehardy2712
What did you expect to happen when Trump took over? Did you expect that within 2 years that we'd ALL have yachts and private jets? Or just the opposite? What he did was open the economy so everyone had a chance to improve their lives. Giving people money is useless. It devalues what you have. Your wealth only has value if it's built on creating it. For me, as a relatively poor person if compared to the "oligarchs, to be able to create wealth, I need the opportunity and freedom to work and create a life that brings value and it has to apply to everyone.
My dad came to this country with nothing, no job and unable to speak the language. Now, he's a millionaire. It didn't happen overnight. It took hard work, being smart with what he had and having the freedom to do, financially, the things that brought him that success. He's not an oligarch, but he's a success.
I'm doing the same. I don't think I'll be as successful as my dad was, but I'm not as driven as he was, either. That's MY doing. I don't care if someone is rich. What I care about is having the freedom, which gives me the opportunity, to make my own fortune, even if it doesn't compare with the fortune an oligarch might have. The minute I start looking at the piles of others with envy, that's the day my own success stops. That's why the commandment "thou shalt not covet" is so important to personal and social success. Be concerned with freedom.....that's it. Everything else will fall into place, if you have the freedom to make your own way in life. That's what Trump is trying to bring to the table. The government doesn't DO FOR the working class. It ensures that every worker has the freedom to make the decision that can bring personal and financial success their way. My dad did it working as a labourer in a shoe factory while operating a small farm. A worker. It wasn't easy but looking back, he'd have it no other way.
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I didn't watch the rally because I can't stand listening to Trump speak. However, there's no way in hell, I'd vote Democrat. Not as long as they keep acting the way that they've been acting. The Democrats have lost it. They're not even an option as far as I'm concerned. It has nothing to do with personality. It's all about what they're supporting, the tearing down of statues, the defunding of police, the support for "peaceful" protests, the erasing of history, the cancel culture, the obsession with racism....the list goes on and on.
Every day, when I watch the news, it's like I'm watching a reenactment of "1984". I hate feeling like Winston Smith.
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@jiveturkey2875
Tim does reference Newsguard, frequently but he's also said that they may not always correct in their assessments. Tim covers a variety of topics every day and I would imagine it takes long hours to find something of interest, read it, find other sources, assess everything he's read and then give a conclusion. The problem with MSM is that they've allowed their "news" to become opinion pieces. "60 Minutes" type programming, the cutting edge stuff of 40 years ago, doesn't exist anymore. Tim will give alternative insights to what they're saying and gives you a way to check for yourself if you're so inclined and you should be.
Never, trust one source. That's been something I've believed for years but these days, it's a put down if you questioned the left leaning MSM news. "Sounds like Fox" or "Breitbart news....PFFFT" and their ears turn off. It doesn't matter that your information may have come from elsewhere. I've had people call me a "Trumpster" and then dismiss everything I say based on their slur, even though I'm not a supporter of Trump.
That's the battle we're fighting these days and it's causing a horrible divide in society. Tim is fighting it as well, the best he can. He's growing but he started as a single person, no money or real influence. He's done well because he offers something the big guys don't, including Fox, in case that's an issue. He trying to show objectivity and that you don't have to regurgitate what you're being told. He's telling us to figure it out for ourselves. Is he right all the time on specific issues? Of course not. Who is? However, the tools to find out the facts should always remain the same. A healthy scepticism is indispensable to a free society. Without it, we become bots.
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He was afraid that he was going to be arrested and put in jail. He wasn't afraid that he was going to be killed and he had no problem with violence. I know that because the cop was down, crawling to get away and this asshole aimed and shot him in the head.
Over 1,00,000 people get stopped for traffic violations every day. What made him think that he was the one that was going to be killed? That 1 in a million? If they wanted to kill him, why didn't they just pull their guns and blast him right off? They didn't want to kill him. In fact, those cops have been doing routine stops all day, all week, ALL YEAR, and they hadn't killed anyone. If cops are so dangerous, how come they haven't got you yet, anyway?
You're making a stupid assertion and I'm being stupid by just talking to someone as full as crap as you are....and you are full of crap.
You're a paranoid delusional nut and you should get some help.
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@ephraimwinslow
They THINK that they're being righteous. The socialist causes sound SO nice, so fair....how can it NOT be righteous. They can't understand the old axiom "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". It becomes worse when someone tries to point out the unintended consequences of those good intentions. They take it as a personal affront, as if you're accusing them of being evil, when quite often they're not evil. They're just misinformed and believe that if you don't believe in their just and fair causes, you must be the one responsible for things not working out. That causes them to just dig their heels in harder and it makes things even worse.
They cannot believe that their good intentions, as an example, could be the cause of the homeless problem in San Francisco. How could that be? Their intentions are SO noble. It has to be those who, like me, think that these policies are the problem and who point out, greedy jerks that we are, that throwing our tax money at it, makes things worse, not better.
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@PvtFlowers
Yes, I have. It was called "The Children of God" at the time although they've re-invented themselves many times over the years. This was in Daytona Beach in 1972. They tried to recruit me and when I resisted, using the Bible as evidence against their claims they stopped the conversation, instantly. They all took on a very stubborn and angry expression, gathered their stuff and left.
As the weeks went by, they were on the beach and boardwalk, looking for new recruits all the time. However, if I approached the group, because I knew the person that they were talking to, they would automatically gather their stuff and leave. I found out later, from a guy who they did recruit but left, that they were all instructed NOT to talk to me. I thought it was hilarious at the time....I was only 19.....the cult phenomenon was just starting to hit the news at the time, culminating in the Jimmy Jones killings and I wasn't familiar with it at the time.
The one thing in common with "The Children of God" and guys like the one shown in the video, is their anger and the impossibility of discussing disagreements with them. Both groups refuse to discuss, investigate or fact check. If someone proves them wrong, they get angry and leave and will refuse to accept the evidence that shows their errors. The next time you hear from them, they'll still be using the same arguments that were proven wrong. I've found the same thing with flat earthers, birthers, chemtrail believers, truthers and more. They don't care about the facts. All they know is their fear, their hatred and their loyalty to their cause. If that's not a cult, then it's as close to being one as it can get.
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@hamie7624
Some one should have told the people of Gaza that when crossing into Israel, in the wee hours of the morning, and butchering over 1200 teens and young adults at a music festival, has consequences. That dragging men, women and children out of their beds and slaughtering, s-x abusing and kidnapping them is an outright act of war.
They don't do those things and then expect nothing to happen.
Population of Gaza at the end of 2022 was 2,000,000. At the end of 2024 it was 2,100,000.....and increase of 100,000 people. That's some lousy "jen o siding". In 15 years, at that rate, they would have "jen o sided" up to 3,00,000 people. How are you going to fit them all in?
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@imaginarymask
It really wasn't much of a tribulation. I did something stupid. I put in my time for it. When I got out, I went looking for a job and got one. There are all kinds of reasons why someone won't hire someone and I, quite stupidly, added another reason to not hire me. Actions have consequences and I found that out.
The big problem is, they don't tell kids that in school. Not ever. It seems that tribulation and oppression is the centre piece of education now. They don't tell you to make the right decisions. Stay in school. Don't get pregnant or cause a pregnancy until you're in a committed relationship. Don't break the law. Work hard and appreciate the opportunities that you do get instead of lamenting over the things that are out of reach. Do those things and you've increased your chances of having a good life. These days that's controversial but in reality, it's just common sense.
So many people, that I know, have had it so much harder than what I did. Some things couldn't be helped. Physical, mental and environmental limitations that are a LOT harder to overcome than my criminal record. In spite of my "tribulations", which kinda makes me chuckle, I've had a good life. However, if I was put in front of a classroom filled with kids, today and they'd find all kinds of reasons to put me down. As far as I'm concerned, when they do that, they're putting themselves down.
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@imaginarymask
The world is full of silly and unfair things. As long as I'm not being ripped off, it's our of my control. I've never felt inferior and the people that I worked with all seemed to like working with me.....except the ones who thought they were being treated unfairly, quite often the lazy, and no one liked working with them.
My point is that we do coddle them now. "it's not their fault. They're oppressed". I'm not oppressed. I have a great life. Since I've retired, I've been to Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Nova Scotia and the Netherlands. I'm making plans to go to the Cayman Islands with friends in December and hope to take a tour of Europe in 2025. Life is great. I loved my jobs, working in a shoe factory, scrapyard, construction, bartending and finally at a paper mill. Tough jobs but I got satisfaction from doing it and it's given me the opportunity to have a good retired life.
I appreciate what I have and that's what's wrong with our society today. They appreciate nothing. Everything is oppression and not fair and I deserve. You destroy your own life, feeling that way, MORE than any criminal record ever could. People, who feel that way, are their own worst enemy. We live in a wonderful country and we're destroying it with our never ending whinging and envy. Accept the limitations of life and work around it with dignity and honesty. You only got one shot at life. Don't spend it wishing it away.
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@RobertMorgan
Actually, that marriage broke up when I was 36. It sucked, big time but do you know what? It was still better than had I not got married. It didn't seem so at the time but in retrospect, I don't regret it at all. One thing is certain, I'd rather be married at 23, even if it ultimately failed, then be crying because my parents won't let me live at home, anymore. I was building something of value, that would last. I never remarried and I'm happy with that as well and I now have 3 great grandchildren that I'm taking camping on my sister's property on a river. Fishing, swimming, canoeing, sitting around a fire, life couldn't be better.
Don't let life scare you. Take it by the horns and build something, a life that you love. If you're lucky enough to have a decently long life, you'll look back and be glad that you did it that way. I've learned that life isn't about success and failure but how you deal with it.
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@diomedes7971
Had I landed on the beaches of Normandy, there would have been nothing fearless about it. I would have been terrified.
However, I'm not conflating any sacrifices that I might have made with those landing at Normandy. What I'm saying is that if those guys could sacrifice their lives and body parts, I should be able to sacrifice a paltry scholarship or anything else that isn't life threatening. Those soldiers set the benchmark, paid the ultimate sacrifice, so we could have the right to stand for our rights in other and more mundane matters. If anything, it's disrespectful to the memory of those lost lives, if you're too afraid of losing a job or a scholarship for standing up for what's right. That's true disrespect. It's like saying that their sacrifice doesn't matter. You're going to bend the knee to authoritarianism, anyway, so eff their sacrifice.
The female athletes have 2 choices. Either stand up and say that this isn't fair and they won't take it......OR.....keep their mouth shut, do what they're told and, in the process, ruin women's college and high school sports. And if they lose their scholarship because the coach is filling his team with trans athletes, it's their own doing. Most scholarships are on a yearly basis and they could be kicked off the team and out of school the following year anyway.
Keeping our mouths shut is how we got into this mess in the first place and this is only the start. Authoritarians will force you to do their bidding because that's what they do. If you don't stand up for yourself, no one else will and you'll reap exactly what you've sown.
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@LordDarshdan
It has NEVER been their country. Before it was Israel, Britain controlled it. They took it from the Turks after WW1, who had it for almost 400 years. Before that it was the Mamelukes, from Egypt, who ran it. Before them it was the Mongols, Before that the Kurds and Crusaders fought over it. The Byzantines and the Romans and the Greeks, under Alexander the Great. That region hasn't been independent since before the birth of Jesus and that was when...guess who....the Jews had their Kingdom there. All through those years, for the last 1400 years, the land was shared by Muslims, Coptic Christians and Jews.
That area has been contested for 2000 years and it's still that way. Even Muslims know that this has been the homeland of the Jews but as far as they're concerned, the Jews corrupted the true faith. Had the Jew become Muslims and returned to the Levant, as such, they'd have gladly accepted them. It's all about religion. Muslims don't like the Jews, of any other faith, and the Jews were escaping the pogroms against them that the world inflicted upon them for hundreds of year.....especially after what the Nazis did.
They could live with the Jews, but they want control. They want their religion to rule. That's what is at the heart of the conflict. Islam must rule.
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@codyray3344
They didn't identify it as a new disease until Jan 7th. Before that all they knew was that a few people were coming down with pneumonia type symptoms. It wasn't until the 7th that they had isolated the virus and confirmed that it was something new. At that time there weren't a lot of victims and the Chinese government was downplaying, actually denying, how bad it was.
Taiwan is one of the few countries that openly dislikes China and they can bring solid measures against the disease without having to listen to internal yelping about racism. As an example, when Trump restricted flights, Biden calling it xenophobic. In Taiwan, they don't care about that nonsense. They, universally, hate socialism, not like here in America, where there is a HUGE socialist movement and they're using racism as a weapon against our traditional freedoms. Taiwan doesn't have the issues with identity politics that we do in the west and it does them well. It's not the millstone around their neck like it is here.
Also, the Taiwanese don't trust the Chinese, AT ALL. They're like Hong Kong, in that they know first hand how deceitful the Chinese government can be. Not like the pie-in-the-sky, ain't socialism wonderful crap we have to listen to in the west.
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@WannaKnowAll
The problem are the all the stories that are being revealed on improprieties in the election. 30 years ago, if there were just a couple of these stories, the media would have been all over it, every journalist wanting to be the one to uncover the big story. Now, they dismiss it, without even questioning it. No investigation, nothing. Hundreds, maybe thousands of stories about issues, especially with the mail-in ballots. Why aren't they investigating? Why didn't they show the terrible riots? What is going on with the MSM?
I know that they're owned by big multinational companies. The same companies, whose executives were hurt by Trump's trade war with China. Could that be the issue? Also, if they're not reporting on these things, why would that be? Is there something to hide and the elites won't allow them to talk about it?
I've never, in all my 70 years, seen the media behave this way. They're supposed to report the news, not suppress it or create it.
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I don't see any point in dwelling on the mistakes of the past. I'd rather make plans on what I'm going to do in the future. I can't change the past but I can change the future.
I always have extra supplies on hand. Not prepper, years of stuff type of supplies, but enough to last at least 4 to 6 weeks. When it looked as if this COULD be serious, the first week of February or so, I started to buy extra stuff every time I went shopping. Not bags and bags of it, but a couple of cans of beans, a couple bags of pasta or rice, cans of soup and tomatoes, dried soup mix and other sundries. Just 5 or 6 items extra every time I was at the store. Didn't take long and my larder had plenty, enough to last well into a 3rd month. Now, all I do is replace what I've eaten or used. No panic buying, no fighting in the stores, no worrying, because I've prepared myself and I took it seriously enough to see the possibility of a crisis.
That's what a doer does. The complainer whines about the past, blames others, waits until the last minute and then is in a panic because he/she is doing what they've always done. NOTHING......and then they gaze into the past to look for someone to blame and complain about. They don't realise that their attitude is the problem, not politicians, whether they be liberals or conservatives, but their own shortsightedness. I can't imagine being in a panic over toilet paper. It's the dumbest thing that I've heard.....yet it's real and the ones in a panic are supposed to be adults.
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@ConvictedFelonTrump8647
Of course. The party of 2A, the gun toting conservatives, had a 3 hour revolution where NO ONE brought their guns. No right wing militias, no chain of command, they break into the building, wander about, take selfies and then they go HOME. Really, REALLY scary. No other place in the entire country saw those MAGA riots or insurrectionists, only at the Capitol building in Washington.
It was nothing like the BLM riots. That was nation wide, in over 100 cities. People were murdered, thousands had to go to hospitals to have injuries treated, Billions of dollars in damages, insurance companies were refusing to pay for those damages. People lost their homes, businesses and their jobs and do you know where the worst of the damages happened. In the black communities that the rioters said that they were protecting by people who openly said that they wanted to tear the country down and said that they HATED America.
So don't give me this BS about ONE FRIGGEN DAY. These revolutionaries are targeting the entire country and they've spent YEARS rioting and destroying almost every major city in the country. Look at the "student" protesters who were just arrested. Over half of them aren't students. They are there on behalf of their agenda. "Death to America" and using the war in Gaza as their excuse to do just that.
You're either one of them or you're as naive as it gets.
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In Canada, in the sixties, a French separatist group, calling themselves the FLQ, operated in the same manner. They were divided into 5 man cells, with only one of them knowing a member of another cell. They were all fighting for the same cause but they only associated, outside their cell, through one person. That person would be in contact with 2 or 3 cells, who's contact member would be in contact with 2 or 3 other cells, to form a network, which could be called together in an emergency. This was how the October Crisis played out in 1970. The FLQ were known for mailbox bombs and the movement climaxed with the October Crisis in which they kidnapped 2 politicians, one British, and murdering the other one. The arrest of 16 of them, who were involvement directly or peripherally, in the kidnappings and murder, ended the activities of the FLQ.
As a matter of interest, the FLQ was also Marxist in nature. Some of them, when arrested, wanted to be allowed to go to Cuba and they went.
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